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 - Great British DramaI love this show. I think this ranks right up there with Prime Suspect. The show is engaging and well acted. I agree with other reviews the price for this is ridiculous! Over a year ago I got a region free player from Amazon. In spite of the horrible exchange rate at the moment,it is still cheaper for me to order most British dvd's from Amazon UK. As for the player, it as more then paid for it's self. Rating: - "Wire in the Blood ... Complete Fifth Season (2007) ... Koch Vision (2008)"Koch Vision presents "WIRE IN THE BLOOD: COMPLETE FIFTH SEASON" (Released: July & August 2007) (345 mins/Color) (Dolby Digital) --- Wire In The Blood is an ITV television series, based on characters created by Val McDermid, which teams a university clinical psychologist, Dr. Anthony "Tony" Valentine Hill (Robson Green), with a tough female Detective Inspector, originally Carol Jordan (Hermione Norris) but replaced by Detective Inspector Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib) from series four onwards. Only the first two episodes of the first series, "Mermaids Singing" and "Shadows Rising", are based on McDermid's books, the rest having been written by others. However, the second episode of series four, "Torment", is an adaptation of McDermid's novel "The Torment of Others" --- The series has appeared in America on the cable channel BBC America, in Australia on the public channel ABC, in France on NT1, in Germany on ZDF, in Brazil on HBO and in South-East Asia on the cable channel the Hallmark Channel -- (From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia) Under the production staff of: Peter Hoar - Director Paul Whitington - Director Richard Standeven - Director Phil Leach - Producer Sandra Jobling - Executive Producer Alan Whiting - Screenwriter Niall Leonard - Screenwriter TITLE & ORIGINAL DATE AIRED: DISC ONE: "THE COLOUR OF AMBER" (11 July 2007) Dr Tony Hill (Robson Green) and DI Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib) are in a race against time when a young girl is seen being snatched by a man in a car. DISC TWO: "NOCEBO" (18 July 2007) A teenage girl and a young boy are found dead and they appear to have been victims of a ritual killing. Alex (Simone Lahbib) is upset by the lack of care shown by their bereaved families as she's having problems of her own with her son Ben. DISC THREE: "THE NAMES OF ANGELS" (25 July 2007) Tony is faced with a series of deadly puzzles when a killer rapes and strangles young female victims in Bradfield. He chooses to dress and identify them as young women he killed several years before in Europe. DISC FOUR: "ANYTHING YOU CAN DO" (1 August 2007) The murder of an elderly woman, suffocated in her own home, seems too deliberately staged to be an accident or robbery. the cast includes: Robson Green ... Dr. Tony Hill Simone Lahbib ... DI Alex Fielding Mark Letheren ... DS Kevin Geoffries Mark Penfold ... Dr. Ashley Vernon Emma Handy ... DC Paula McIntyre BIOS: 1. Robson Green Date of Birth: 18 December 1964 - Hexham, Northumberland, England, UK Date of Death: Still Living 2. Simone Lahbib Date of Birth: 6 February 1965 - Stirling, Scotland, UK Date of Death: Still Living Great job by Koch Vision --- looking forward to more high quality titles from the BBC Collection film market --- order your copy now from Amazon or Koch Vision where there are plenty of copies available on DVD, stay tuned once again for top notch releases --- where they are experts in releasing long forgotten films and treasures to the collector. Total Time: 345 mins on DVD ~ Koch Vision KOC-6539 ~ (7/08/2008) Rating: - great show but one episode missing from 5th seasonI really like this original and clever show. I have a question though - where is a first episode of the fifth season? It was shot in Texas and was about american soldier with PTSD. BBC site gives a full description of the Episode One: Prayer of the Bone . Why the season called full if one episode is missing? If anyone knows the answer I would be very interested to know. Rating: - ReneeEnjoyed this product very much. I enjoyed the increasing involment between DI Fielding and the lead character. The chemistry is increasing the longer they spend together. I also liked that we got to see a little more of DI Fielding's personal life in this chapter. Rating: - Only 4 of the 5 episodes included in this setJust so you know!!! Episode One: Prayer of the Bone, was considered a "special" and is not included in the Season 5 Set. It is scheduled to be released as a separate DVD on August 5th 2008. Each episode is about 83 minutes in length. This is a quality series that seems to improve each year as the character delvelopment matures. ~ ~ SEASON 5 EPISODES ~ ~ Episode One: Prayer of the Bone In the season premiere, Dr. Tony Hill (Robson Green) finds himself a fish out of water when he's invited to Texas as an expert witness in a case where an Iraq combat veteran has confessed to brutally slaughtering his wife and two young children. His defense team claims that he's suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, but the prosecution asks Tony, who met with the soldier in the UK, to join them in disproving that claim. Alone in a strange country, surrounded by hostile lawyers and police, Tony finds himself at the center of a death penalty case with competing legal and political interests. He's insulted, threatened, framed, and physically attacked while the case takes a strange turn. Everyone seems to have a vested interest in the case - everyone except the suspect, who strangely seems determined to die. Episode Two: The Color of Amber When a woman sees a young girl being snatched by a man in a car, DI Alex Fielding (Simone Lahbib) fears they may only have hours to get her back alive. Since only one percent of the victims in abduction cases survive beyond a day, new ACC James Morrison (Christopher Colquhoun) reacts by calling an Amber alert, which floods the media with public pleas for information. He also pulls Tony in to help with profiling likely abductors. Episode Three: Nocebo Alex investigates the murder of a teenage girl and a young boy, who bear signs of ritual killings. The trail leads to a property tycoon who'll stop at nothing to get the rent, a preacher whose healing activities involve animal sacrifice, and a self-styled artist whose works not only depict violence, but are painted in blood. Tony puzzles over what the killer might want to gain and why. Is this religion? And is it one killer or two, with one suspect the acolyte of another? Episode Four: The Names of Angels Two women are found raped and strangled, wearing the clothing of victims killed years earlier in Europe. Is the killer boasting to police about past crimes, leaving bodies where they can easily be found? And why is he choosing victims from the business world? As Tony tries to unravel the deadly puzzle, he's confronted by an unpleasant distraction - an 18-year-old released killer turns up on his doorstep. Episode Five: Anything You Can Do When a vulnerable elderly woman is suffocated in her home, Alex and Tony suspect Bernard Kelly (Ian Peck), a security guard who has a dysfunctional relationship with his mother and was seen at the scene of the crime by several witnesses. But when the killings escalate, it appears to be the work of more than one murderer. Could the deaths be connected to the sudden return of Tony's old hero, respected psychologist Jonathan Goode? . . .
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