Ridley
Retired Detective Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.
- Metascore57
- 2022-2024
- 2 seasons
- PBS Distribution
- Suspense, Drama
Retired Detective Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2022
Episode 1
The Peaceful Garden
Sun, Aug 28, 2022 90 mins
Retired early 18 months ago after a nervous breakdown due to the loss of his wife and daughter in a house fire, former detective inspector Alex Ridley enjoys his new home in desolation, and is a pianist and singer in a jazz club he co-owns. The is brought back in as a consultant. His former colleague Carol Farman was promoted to detective inspector in is place, but can't cope with her first murder case.[A sheep farmer owning half the village, at home, leaving widow and wife plus a dodgy farmhand. The chief reluctantly agrees to reengage Ridley as consultant, given his experience with some suspects, and he solves the case.
Episode 2
Hospitality
Sun, Sep 4, 2022 90 mins
When the body of a young woman is found buried in a shallow grave, Ridley discovers that she was leading a secret double life.
Episode 3
Swansong
Sun, Sep 4, 2022 90 mins
Ridley privately accepts to help jazz singer Eve Marbury, who returned from Chicago for a family funeral, searching for her brother who went missing 40 years ago as a kid. Shortly after, Ridley is asked as consultant with the murder of a woman which appears to be connected to the case, as Julie Conway was the surprise heir of a derelict cottage, instead of the family of wealthy Jed Varnham. Ridley trails the missing brother to record store owner and radio DJ Ray Trevice, car junk yard owner Tony Alderford and car mechanic Duncan Darwin, who puts Ridley on the trail of a crucial child abuse cover-up.
Episode 4
The Numbered Days
Sun, Sep 4, 2022 90 mins
Ridley and Carol are called out to investigate the death of a man after a fall from his balcony.
