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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9781578077083
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 1578077087
Label: Wgbh Boston
Manufacturer: Wgbh Boston
Number Of Items: 3
Publisher: Wgbh Boston
Release Date: June 26, 2001
Running Time: 360 minutes
Sales Rank: 40418
Studio: Wgbh Boston
Theatrical Release Date: 1998
Editorial Review:
Description:
Robson Green (Reckless) stars as the smart, sexy, brash, and slightly mysterious Detective Inspector Dave Creegan in these three gripping and gritty mysteries that follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit.
Maverick police detective Creegan is the newest member of London’s Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society. Along with his stalwart partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Creegan squares off against some of England’s most dangerous criminals–a serial murderer of children, a killer intent on murdering hospital patients, and a cyber-criminal who lures young Web-surfers with a gothic fantasy game and manipulates them into committing violent crimes.
Amazon.com:
This three-volume set captures a police force totally unlike the ones U.S. television and film audiences regularly see. Gone are the gunshots and widespread violence that afflict characters on NYPD Blue and Homicide. This dark British miniseries has an unflinching focus on the pensive, slightly spooked but always confident Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green). Of course the caseload isn't entirely alien to a pop culture audience, weaned as it is on crime novels and American television-style plots. There's an aging geneticist who is possessed by an odd infatuation--apparently not a sexual one--with children, keeping them penned in an all-white room while watching them on a remote video cam, and other deviants just interesting enough to capture extended interest. Touching Evil's pacing is intricately slow, such that evidence gathering can be seen from an inchworm-like perspective (showing tweezers extracting a single hair, for example). Green's role is structured like Fox Mulder and other U.S. television creations. Moody and a bit inscrutable, Creegan comes to the Organized and Serial Crime Unit after a long sabbatical, triggered (no pun, really!) by his getting shot in the head. Rather than give up police work after meeting with the bullet, however, he recommits to the job, treating cases as if they're his personal obsession. And they are. Creegan violates all the conventions his American TV-cop counterparts break in their unbridled passion to solve crimes, but he does it with unforced and unhurried relish. The plots in each of these episodes are singular, allowing the story lines to develop like good mysteries, even driving the viewer to suspect that Creegan's passions are leading him waywardly away from the cases. Shot with mostly stoic camera angles, the show's energy changes significantly when Creegan's heart begins to pound, the camera catches in halted visuals, and the drama builds and builds until, well, until it avoids resolution time and again, much to the viewer's delight. --Andrew Bartlett
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Two out of three
4 stars for the program.
1 star for DVD features.
"Touching Evil" is the story of Detective Inspector Dave Creegan (Robson Green) who returns to the Organized and Serial Crime (OSC) Unit after recovering from a bullet wound to the head. Creegan's injury as changed him in unpredictable ways but his boss wants him back because he is a genius at getting into the mind of serial killers. Creegan and his partner, D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker), investigate the most serious crimes ... Read More
Rating:  - In The Caress of Touching Evil
Ten beyond darkness. I've set up the first episode of 'Touching Evil 1 - The Lost Boys' - in my player. I'll probably watch the opening credits by eleven pm to see who Inspector Dave Creegan is. I've left one city - Twin Peaks - waking up somewhere in England for something that I've already decided has to be the next step beyond where I was yesterday. I'm sure that this series has something to do with my life or I wouldn't have been brought to it?
'Touching Evil 1's lead character - ... Read More
Rating: - Another amasing British series
As great as Wire in the Blood. Robson Green is also amazing in the police detective Creegan character. Another British series that focuses on the psychological side of characters in a superb way, catching you atention so quickly that you can see one episode after the other with no brake. This first Touching Evel episodes grabed my interest so quickly that I will buy the next two.
Rating: - cant... stop... watching.
this is the best cop drama i haver seen, it's dark with out beeing depresing, and totaly involving.
Rating: - I Liked It Very Much
I rarely watch American TV anymore because of the chance to see crime drama at it's best like the "Touching Evil" series. I have epals that I share my favs with and visa-versa. The "Touching Evil" series was recommended by an epal because of it's intelligent drama. I rented it, for the lowest price, of course, just in case it wasn't worth the cash. I really liked it.
I do have my favorite episodes, though. The first episode, "The Lost Boys" of the series and the first episode in ... Read More
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