McDonald & Dodds

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2024
Season 4
3 episodes

Crime/detective
Thriller

Summary

Return of the crime drama featuring the mismatched detective duo. Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia star.

Episode 2: Jinxy Sings the Blues

Summary

When Ian Andrews gets on at his usual stop, nothing is out of the ordinary, but when his bus pulls into the station, he is dead. Despite it being the busiest route of the day, there isn't a single eyewitness to his death, and the detectives face a mammoth challenge, with their only clue a ticket stub for a local arts and culture festival. Crime drama, starring Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia

Review

David Brown

Those who aren’t yet fans of this perky whodunnit have, I can only assume, mistaken the bland appearance of DS Dodds (Jason Watkins) for the tone of the show at large. He is, after all, a one-man colour swatch of every shade of beige. But drab this series is not — in fact, on a channel where Vera is about to hang up her handcuffs and Midsomer Murders has journeyed beyond parody, DCI McDonald (Tala Gouveia) and her oddball sidekick have, in my humble opinion, become the queen and king of the leisurely two-hour crime drama.

Theirs is a winningly sparky partnership: she with her thrusters permanently on full, he in the slipstream snagging himself on seemingly minor details that’ll eventually prove key. Though at the start of this fourth series, it seems neither will need that 120-minute run-time, what with the guilty party (yes, that is Pixie Lott) facing arrest in the opening scene. But when a woman is subsequently found shot dead at a rented flat in Bath, it quickly becomes apparent that the case file can’t be closed just yet.

How to watch

Next showing

There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show. But it is available via the streaming provider below.

Streaming

ITVX

Details

Released on

2024-07-28

Languages

English

Formats

Colour

Credits

Cast

rolenameDS DoddsJason WatkinsDCI Lauren McDonaldTala GouveiaChief Supt Mary OrmondClaire SkinnerDC Samuel GoldieCharlie ChambersDC LeeBhavik C PankhaniaGeraldine Bridget DeVereSophia MylesClarence AdderlyHugh QuarshieHilary McLeanCharley WebbGreg DeVereWill YoungLittle RobertZaquis RiddickIan AndrewsJared GarfieldSteven GreenEnzo Squillino JrNicolas OlayinkaRilwan Abiola OwokoniranJinxy JonesRobert GoodmanDr HeskethDon GallagherFred TurnerRoy SmilesSteven HallBill BlackwoodJoe DavisSimon MarkeyPaul WrightMatthew WynnBrian WatsonMichael HoweSingerMelanie Marshall

Crew

rolenameWriterRobert MurphyExecutive producerRobert MurphyDirectorSamantha HarrieProducerJoseph ShrubbExecutive producerDamien TimmerExecutive producerPreethi Mavahalli

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Episode 3

Wedding Fever

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Episode 2

Jinxy Sings the Blues

Summary

When Ian Andrews gets on at his usual stop, nothing is out of the ordinary, but when his bus pulls into the station, he is dead. Despite it being the busiest route of the day, there isn't a single eyewitness to his death, and the detectives face a mammoth challenge, with their only clue a ticket stub for a local arts and culture festival. Crime drama, starring Jason Watkins and Tala Gouveia

Review

David Brown

Those who aren’t yet fans of this perky whodunnit have, I can only assume, mistaken the bland appearance of DS Dodds (Jason Watkins) for the tone of the show at large. He is, after all, a one-man colour swatch of every shade of beige. But drab this series is not — in fact, on a channel where Vera is about to hang up her handcuffs and Midsomer Murders has journeyed beyond parody, DCI McDonald (Tala Gouveia) and her oddball sidekick have, in my humble opinion, become the queen and king of the leisurely two-hour crime drama.

Theirs is a winningly sparky partnership: she with her thrusters permanently on full, he in the slipstream snagging himself on seemingly minor details that’ll eventually prove key. Though at the start of this fourth series, it seems neither will need that 120-minute run-time, what with the guilty party (yes, that is Pixie Lott) facing arrest in the opening scene. But when a woman is subsequently found shot dead at a rented flat in Bath, it quickly becomes apparent that the case file can’t be closed just yet.

How to watch

Next showing

There are no live broadcasts scheduled for this show. But it is available via the streaming provider below.

Streaming
- ITVX
Details

Released on

2024-07-28

Languages

English

Formats

Colour

Credits

Cast

rolenameDS DoddsJason WatkinsDCI Lauren McDonaldTala GouveiaChief Supt Mary OrmondClaire SkinnerDC Samuel GoldieCharlie ChambersDC LeeBhavik C PankhaniaGeraldine Bridget DeVereSophia MylesClarence AdderlyHugh QuarshieHilary McLeanCharley WebbGreg DeVereWill YoungLittle RobertZaquis RiddickIan AndrewsJared GarfieldSteven GreenEnzo Squillino JrNicolas OlayinkaRilwan Abiola OwokoniranJinxy JonesRobert GoodmanDr HeskethDon GallagherFred TurnerRoy SmilesSteven HallBill BlackwoodJoe DavisSimon MarkeyPaul WrightMatthew WynnBrian WatsonMichael HoweSingerMelanie Marshall

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Crew

rolenameWriterRobert MurphyExecutive producerRobert MurphyDirectorSamantha HarrieProducerJoseph ShrubbExecutive producerDamien TimmerExecutive producerPreethi Mavahalli

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Episode 1

The Rule of Three

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Episode 1

The Rule of 3

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Review

David Brown

For many of us, a commute to work on public transport merely feels like a slow death. But for Ian Andrews, the daily bus ride he takes each morning is about to turn properly fatal when he’s killed in transit. Yet despite his journey being on the busiest route in the city, there are no eyewitnesses to his untimely death.

It’s a proper headscratcher of an investigation for DCI McDonald and DS Dodds and one with links not just to the streets of Bath, but also to the birthplace of Blues in the Mississippi Delta, thanks to the inclusion on the suspect list of a US history professor and “bluesologist” played by the ever-reliable Hugh Quarshie.

And after last week’s quizzing of Pixie Lott in the series opener, we now witness another pop star receiving police attention in the form of Will Young, seen here as a skin-crawlingly creepy auctioneer. What ought we to expect next? Steps accused of joint enterprise?

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7.5/10