Manhunt

I got confused last night searching for it on catchup with there being two series. Would it ruin it if I watched the documentary first? I wasn’t sure if I should watch the latest series as I’m on my own at the moment. It’s been recommended several times now so I must watch it.

Nice too to see Jack Shepherd in a cameo as Sutton senior. I shouldn't have been shocked at old he looked - he's going on 81 but that's the thing about TV now. Old series on ITV3 and Britbox where you can watch Wycliffe which was first broadcast in 1993.

We watched both and thought Matin Clunes was brilliant in them and should get an award for the quality of his acting . The whole thing seemed expertly done . We particularly liked the very natural scenes at home with his wife.

We watched it at the weekend. Like others have said I was never a MC fan till these two Manhunt series except as Mr Chips. I feel he has done a great service to the real Colin Sutton.

What an awful reign of terror. I hope the victims and their families haven't felt this drama inappropriate in any way. Terrible how it took so long and all the mistakes.
It was a good drama but terrible that it was a true story.

Excellent series, I missed series One so watched all episodes in an afternoon before watching series Two. I’m saved all episodes to watch in one go this afternoon and found pasts very exciting despite knowing that the man got caught. I thought Martin Clunes was very good as the chief detective. I do wonder how close to reality it was and will enjoy watching the follow up documentary to see,

GillT57

This was a well acted and produced drama and MC was excellent. It was good at showing the tedious, boring hours and hours involved in a police operation, it is not all zoom and crash as some dramas portray it. So sorry for your trauma silverlining, what a horror for your family, and I think it is accepted that there were many more victims.

So true. I worked in police admin for many years and I've worked on all too many murder investigations. Usually crime programmes are so unrealistic, although maybe good entertainment, but this one was very true to life.

DiscoDancer1975

What was the first series?

Thank you?

www.itv.com/hub/manhunt/2a5386a0001

What was the first series?

How did I miss this? I thought it was a repeat of the first series, so I didn't bother watching it, now I realise it's a new one altogether. Must catch up with it on ITV Player.

I thought the first series was very good, although terribly sad being a reconstruction of actual events, which took place where I lived at the time of the murders. Marin Clunes was very good in the role of the detective, that I do remember.

I really enjoyed these two series. I know it's a trope of all cop dramas that you have to have tension and disagreement between senior officers but these cases are true stories.

In Night Stalker, the long-time SIO was so wedded to breaking the case through DNA that he wouldn't look at any other way of solving the crime. His ego came before efficiency. I loved Sutton's subtle but firm insistence that they try different approaches.

One-by-one different members of the team expressed their doubts and concerns about how things had been handled.

Delroy Grant would have been arrested years before had they considered the burglary aspect. That and data entry errors meant Grant was in the system but HOLMES didn't flag him up as a potential suspect. So, yes, I agree with you Sarnia.

Thanks Gill.

2 excellent series. What disturbed me in both the Levi Bellfield and the Night Stalker programmes were the mistakes made by the police which could have ended both reigns of terror earlier and saved lives. Police are human, I appreciate that, but how hard it must be for families of the most recent victims to hear that some error resulted in the perpetrator slipping through the net and killing their loved one.

silverlining48

Think there is a programme this week with the real life Detective involved.

I watched the programme on ITV hub featuring the real life detective and others involved at the time. It followed immediately after the end of the dramatised version. Martin Clunes and the actual detective were very similar in appearance.

This was a well acted and produced drama and MC was excellent. It was good at showing the tedious, boring hours and hours involved in a police operation, it is not all zoom and crash as some dramas portray it. So sorry for your trauma silverlining, what a horror for your family, and I think it is accepted that there were many more victims.

Think there is a programme this week with the real life Detective involved.

I started watching this and thought should i? Being on my own now it felt a bit scarey. But i enjoyed it in the end especially the process of how the police nowadays deal with these kind of cases. MC i found quite attractive in a geeky kinda way, he came across as being a very kind person and the sort of man who could sort out anything.

I thought it was very good .Martin Clunes was excellent. His wife, Phillippa Braithwaite, is the executive producer of the series and the same on Doc Martin.Tgey seem to work well together.

Both are on BritBox minus the ads. ITV seems to put current serials on at the same time a general showing.

Thankyou silverlining48.

Oh so very sorry Sweetpeasue, that’s dreadful.
At least your mum wasn’t there, if that’s a tiny consolation.

My mum's bungalow was broken into and lots stolen while she was 2 weeks away from death by Pancreatic cancer in a hospice. I don't know how she'd have fared if she'd been home. She never found out.

Thank you sweetpeasue. Yes it a was terrible trauma, and a very hard watch.

Oh silverlining48 that's despicable I'm so sorry. Your poor mum! These evil people should never be let out of prison again. It's not only the victim but the widespread affect on the family too. If mistakes hadn't been made many victims could have been saved. Why do we, as a society, place older people so far down the list of priorities in so many areas? Even in health, physical and mental they(we) are overlooked. It does make me angry. So very sorry silverlining48

My poor mum was almost certainly a victim. He took more than her life savings, he stole her peace of mind and her dementia progressed so fast she ended up in a locked psychiatric unit.