The Enigma Files
| The Enigma Files | |
|---|---|
 Opening titles | |
| Genre | Police procedural |
| Starring | Tom Adams Sharon Maughan Carole Nimmons Duggie Brown |
| Theme music composer | Anthony Isaac |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 15 |
| Production | |
| Production location | London |
| Running time | 50 minutes |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC2 |
| Release | 15 April 1980 |
The Enigma Files is a British television police procedural that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
Plot summary
The series was a police procedural, written by Derek Ingrey, about a police officer who has been sidelined from regular duties and, having been placed in charge of a records and evidence unit, has begun to specialise in investigating unsolved crimes.
Regular cast and characters
- Tom Adams as Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis
- Sharon Maughan as Kate Burton, the unit administrator (first eight episodes only)
- Carole Nimmons as Sue Maxwell, the unit administrator (last seven episodes only)
- Duggie Brown as Phil Strong, a laboratory technician
Video release
There are no known releases on Video Tape or DVD.
Other media
A tie-in book of the series, written by Christine Sparks, was published by the BBC in June 1980 (ISBN 0563177705 / ISBN 978-0-563-17770-8).
See also
The investigation of "Cold Cases" became a theme for several detective dramas and reality series some two decades later, including:
- Cold Squad, CAN / CTV, 1998
- Cold Case Files, USA / A&E, 1999 (true cases)
- Waking the Dead, UK / BBC One, 2000
- New Tricks, UK / BBC One, 2003
- Cold Case, USA / CBS, 2003
- Solved, USA / ID, 2008 (true cases)
- Zettai Reido, Japan / Fuji Television, 2010
- Cold Justice, USA / TNT, 2013 (true cases)
- To Catch a Killer, CAN / OWN, 2014 (true cases)
- Signal, South Korea / tvN, 2016
- Signal, Japan / Fuji TV, 2018
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