Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (usually known as Andy) and Detective Sergeant (later Detective Inspector) Peter Pascoe are two fictional Yorkshire detectives featuring in a series of novels by Reginald Hill that became a BBC television series, also named Dalziel and Pascoe. Look up Yorkshire in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Reginald Hill (born in 1936 at West Hartlepool in County Durham) is a British crime writer. ... BBC Television is a service of the British Broadcasting Corporation which began in 1932. ... Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. ...

Characters

In the tradition of apparently mismatched detective duos, the characters are divided by attitude, class and generation.

Andrew "Andy" Dalziel (pronounced [diːˈɛl]) is a fat Detective Superintendent, who likes to get the job done. He is a hard-talking, politically incorrect person, who is known to wind up suspects (and his colleagues) and crack jokes at what others would consider inappropriate moments. Dalziel prefers the old school way of policing, which goes against everything Peter Pascoe is about, although he is a progressive in other ways. In recent episodes Dalziel has had to face up to his unhealthy lifestyle eating eggs and bacon and drinking beer and smoking chainly. In some episodes he suffers severe health lapses like heart problems or over weight. This chart shows concisely the most common way in which the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) is applied to represent the English language. ... Fats consist of a wide group of compounds that are generally soluble in organic solvents and largely insoluble in water. ... The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of all British Police forces to which plain clothes detectives belong. ... Political correctness is the alteration of language to redress real or alleged injustices and discrimination or to avoid offense. ... An egg is an ovum produced by a female animal for reproduction, often prepared as food. ... Look up bacon in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A selection of bottled beers A selection of cask beers Beer is the worlds oldest[1] and most popular[2] alcoholic beverage, selling more than 133 billion liters (35 billion gallons) per year - producing total global revenues of $331. ... Chain smoking is the practice of lighting a new cigarette for personal consumption immediately after one that is finished, sometimes using the finished cigarette to light the next one. ...

Peter Pascoe is somewhat the polar opposite of his partner Dalziel. He is polite and professional, a university-educated Detective Inspector. He has healtier lifestyle than Dalziel. He runs and jokes and eats vegetables. He doesn't smoke tobacco. In the fifth TV series Pascoe separated from his wife Ellie, with whom he has a daughter. The split came about because of his dedication to his job, rather than to his family. He faced the prospect of his wife and daughter going to live in the United States. The Criminal Investigation Department (CID) is the branch of all British Police forces to which plain clothes detectives belong. ... Vegetables on a market Vegetable is a nutritional and culinary term denoting any part of a plant that is commonly consumed by humans as food, but is not regarded as a culinary fruit, nut, herb, spice, or grain. ... Species Nicotiana acuminata Nicotiana alata Nicotiana attenuata Nicotiana benthamiana Nicotiana clevelandii Nicotiana excelsior Nicotiana forgetiana Nicotiana glauca Nicotiana glutinosa Nicotiana langsdorffii Nicotiana longiflora Nicotiana obtusifolia Nicotiana paniculata Nicotiana plumbagifolia Nicotiana quadrivalvis Nicotiana repanda Nicotiana rustica Nicotianasuaveolens Nicotiana sylvestris Nicotiana tabacum Nicotiana tomentosa Ref: ITIS 30562 as of August 26, 2005...

The novels

The first Dalziel and Pascoe novel was A Clubbable Woman (1970). The series now runs to 19 full-length novels and four short stories. 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday. ...

• A Clubbable Woman (1970)
• An Advancement of Learning (1971)
• Ruling Passion (1973)
• An April Shroud (1975)
• A Pinch of Snuff (1978)
• A Killing Kindness (1980)
• Deadheads (1983)
• Exit Lines (1984)
• Child's Play (1987)
• Underworld (1988)
• Bones and Silence (1990)
• One Small Step (novella) (1990)
• Recalled to Life (1992)
• Pictures of Perfection (1994)
• The Wood Beyond (1995)
• Asking for the Moon (short stories) (1996)
• On Beulah Height (1998)
• Arms and the Women (1999)
• Dialogues of the Dead (2002)
• Death's Jest-Book (2003)
• Good Morning Midnight (2004)
• The Death of Dalziel (2007)

One Small Step is included in Asking for the Moon.

Hill's mysteries often break with storytelling tradition. The novels employ various structural tricks, such as presenting parts of the story in non-chronological order, or alternating with sections from a novel supposedly written by Peter's wife, Ellie Pascoe (nee Soper). The novella One Small Step is even set in the future and deals with the detectives investigating a murder on the moon. In another departure from the norm, the duo do not always "get their man", with at least one novel ending with the villain getting away and another strongly implying that what Dalziel and Pascoe dismiss as a series of unrelated accidents actually included at least one undetected instance of murder.

TV series

• The novel A Pinch Of Snuff was filmed for a three-part 1993 ITV serial starring the comedy duo Gareth Hale and Norman Pace as Pascoe and Dalziel respectively. Christopher Fairbank was cast as DS Wield. The serial appears to have been an attempt to replicate the success of another such duo, Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie in Jeeves and Wooster, but Reginald Hill was not happy with the adaptation, and it remained a one-off.

• Main article is Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC Television Series). A more successful series of adaptations began on the BBC in March 1996 with an adaptation of the first novel A Clubbable Woman. Produced by BBC Birmingham, it starred Warren Clarke as Dalziel, Colin Buchanan as Pascoe and David Royle as DS Edgar Wield. Susannah Corbett appeared as Ellie in the first full series later that year. Later seasons introduced Jo-Anne Stockham as DC Shirley Novello,Keeley Forsyth as DC Carrie Harris, Katy Cavanagh as DS Dawn Milligan and Jennifer James as DC Kim Spicer, the latter characters swiftly nicknamed "Ivor","Bomber" "Spike" and "Posh" by Dalziel, never one to let the most obvious joke pass him by. So far, 11 seasons of the show have been released. The show has won much critical acclaim from newspapers such as The Daily Express and The Sunday Times.The TV and novel continuities are separate, therefore both Ellie and Wield still appear in the most recent books despite having been written out of the TV series.

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External links

• Dalziel and Pascoe at the Internet Movie Database