Crimes of the Season contains novelisations of three episodes from Season 4.
Script Writers
1 Robert Banks Stewart
2 Brian Finch
3 Rod Beacham
Television Details1 Robert Banks Stewart
2 Brian Finch
3 Rod Beacham
50 Minutes / BBC1 / Colour
11/10/85 The Last Interview 1
25/10/85 What Dreams May Come? 2
08/11/85 Return of the Ice Maiden 3
Archive Details / DVD Releases
All three of the episodes novelised in Crimes of the Season have been released on Region 2 DVD in the UK as part of the Series 4 DVD set (Amazon.co.uk / Amazon.com / HMV.com).
Bergerac: Crimes of the SeasonTHINGS HOT UP ON JERSEY...
Sergeant Jim Bergerac knows all about the kind of money to be found in beautiful Jersey — his former father-in-law is, after all, one of the richest men in the Channel Islands — and he knows that where there's money there's often trouble. This year is set to be no exception, with blackmail, murder and forgery all looming darkly on the hoilday horizon.
Publisher Granada Format Paperback Publication Date 1985
ISBN 0-586-06815-5 Original Price £1.95 Country UK
ISBN 0-586-06815-5 Original Price £1.95 Country UK
Bergerac: Crimes of the Season
Publisher Chivers Press Format Hardback Publication Date 1986
ISBN 0-745-10379-0 Original Price UNKNOWN Country UK
ISBN 0-745-10379-0 Original Price UNKNOWN Country UK
General Notes
- Bergerac was a popular 1980s and early-1990s police series set on the island of Jersey and which starred John Nettles as Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective with the Bureau des Etrangers.
- Crimes of the Season contains novelisations of three episodes from Season 4, however only What Dreams May Come? is of interest here. From this episode on the series would occasionally stray into rather more adventurous material than was usual for the highly-popular crime series. This included a number of episodes that crossed the line into supernatural territory, and several others which strayed into areas usually reserved for psychological dramas and action series.
Of the telefantasy episodes, What Dreams May Come? featured a black covern, the memorable Christmas Special Fires in the Fall (26/12/86) included a mysterious arsonist dressed as a monk, and The Dig (28/01/90) involved an ancient artefact which had a Viking curse placed upon it.
Other episodes of interest (although not telefantasy based) include The Deadly Virus (31/01/87) in which animal rights activists released a monkey infected with the lethal Marburg virus, Poison (21/02/87) which saw the strange deaths of a number of people connected with the local Masonic Lodge, and Under Wraps (25/02/90) in which a group of extortionists had acquired a vial of anthrax. - Andrew Saville is a pen-name of Andrew Taylor. None of the novelised episodes are titled within the book, and on the copyright page What Dreams May Come? is incorrectly called What Dreams.
