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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780764008726
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 0764008722
Label: Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer: Starz / Anchor Bay
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Starz / Anchor Bay
Release Date: March 07, 2000
Running Time: 360 minutes
Sales Rank: 9531
Studio: Starz / Anchor Bay
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
The first run of Touching Evil in 1999 established this British franchise as a dark, modern noir police series, an almost airless world of gloomy offices bereft of overhead lighting and viewed through a haze of dust and smoke. It's the flip side of British TV's other great cop show, Prime Suspect, but it hums with incisive writing, sharply etched characters, and dramatic intensity, the qualities that make both shows riveting. Robson Green stars as Dave Creegan, the haunted, tightly wrapped investigator whose forehead scar is a constant reminder of his near-death experience. In Touching Evil 2 the Organized and Serial Crime Unit (a fictional police division roughly equivalent to the American FBI) investigates three new cases: a flamboyant serial killer whose murders continue after he's been captured, a wave of relief workers found dead and wrapped in white shrouds, and a baby-broker with ties to a notorious ring of pedophiles. What gives the series its grit is the toll each case takes on the cops. Creegan's confidence is shattered when a miscalculation leaves a girl dead and that misstep haunts him to the devastating series finale. His partner Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker) finds the line between her personal life and her cases blur, and junior squad member Mark Rivers (Shaun Dingwell) goes through a tormenting trial by fire--and trial under fire--to prove his courage and his competence to the unit and to himself. Police stories have rarely been more frank or uncompromising. --Sean Axmaker
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating: - If this were a book, it would be a "page turner".
Once you start, you can't stop watching.
I watched the USA Network version of Touching Evil before I knew the BBC version ever existed. I enjoyed USA's Touching Evil greatly. But the BBC version is phenomenal. I'm hooked. 5 stars.
Rating: - great second season
Since I'm a fan of misteries and detective series, I got the first box of this serie and I loved so much that I got the second and third seasons as fast as I could. This box (second season) is just great as the first, with Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green) amazing you again and again. I'm also a great fan of Robson Green and he is fabulous in this character. A great buy.
Rating: - Wonderful, tense
It isn't often in the US that we get the kind of quality that is usual on the BBC, ITV or other independent productions. The British seem to care more about their productions than we do.
I have all 3 seasons of TE. Each episode makes me wonder how writers could come up with such orignial scripts. The scripts are personal, as though the writers asked themselves what they would do if they were in the same position.
Robson Green is fantastic as the tortured Dave Creegan. ... Read More
Rating:  - The second go-around is less satisfying, but still solid.
What is it about Robson Green that makes him so compelling? Is it his piercing blue eyes, or the sense that, no matter how inscrutable his expression, there's so much more going on inside his head that we're not privy to? Green is in no way what one might consider a Hollywood-type leading man--he appears small, his hairline is receding, and he's not conventionally handsome--but the man commands the screen like nobody's business.
I found "Touching Evil" to be a fantastic series, so when "TE ... Read More
Rating: - Superb Mystery
Hollywood should go after Robson Greene. He is a star in the truest sense. I have seen several of his British movies and he has an on-screen presence that should be nurtured for American audiences. The Touching Evil series is as good as it gets in mystery series. The emotions are enhanced by great acting and thought provoking story lines. I can only hope the BBC keeps sending them our way.
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