Does anyone remember A Mind To Kill starring Philip Madoc as the Welsh detective Noel Bain? It was quite good and quite funny as well. As sort of Welsh version of Taggart. I remember one particular episode where a mentally deranged son shoved a rolled up newspaper down his dad's throat.
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Marky B
name='Marky B']Does anyone remember A Mind To Kill starring Philip Madoc as the Welsh detective Noel Bain? It was quite good and quite funny as well. As sort of Welsh version of Taggart. I remember one particular episode where a mentally deranged son shoved a rolled up newspaper down his dad's throat.
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Marky B
It was one of Madoc's best recent leading roles
Yes! A fine detective series with the great Madoc as velvet voiced and mercurial Chief Inspector Noel Bain.
Interesting quirky mysteries and a bit of personal drama for Noel, his family and colleagues.
Made for Welsh TV between 94 and 2002 but shown on Five way back - I'd love to see them again.
Towards the end - when his student daughter grew up and became a DC in her dad's squad it did get a bit silly!
Apparantly pretty successful in USA where it rotated with Midsomer and Morse on PSB - shamefully little known here...
It was an excellent series. The opening episode sold it for me.
Hippie Dave has some copies of this programme, an excellent series
Weren't most of the episodes shot in both English and Welsh? I enjoyed what I saw of it but it certainly deserved much more publicity and a better slot than it got.
I concur with you all, a very enjoyable series.
I would love to see "A Mind To Kill" again, but my memory of it was that the setting was unremittingly bleak - always raining, horrible bus stations (Newport I think), unlike "Taggart" which became like an advert for the Scottish Tourist Board, with it's sunshine, countryside and gentrified Glasgow. Does anyone remember another Channel 5 import, "Halifax fp" starring Rebecca Gibney, set in Australia I think (haven't seen that for years, either).
Yes I watched episode 1 the other night, was great, hope to get all of them along the way.
I have eight episodes of this excellent series and I would dearly love to get the rest.
If anyone can help I do have a lot to trade.
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