Created by : Reginald Hill(1936-2012)
created these two rough, gruff,no nonsense, Yorkshire detectives.
First Appeared in print.:1996.
First radio appearance :No acted version yet, but there have been radio readings of some of the novels, done by Philip Jackson.
Partner/Sidekick :
Colin Buchanan, the cultured DI Peter Pascoe on tv.Arch Enemies : Ordinary folk. Hill, the creator, makes the stories very realistic by having "normal" folk as the criminals in his storylines, adding to the realism.
Setting/Location : Yorkshire based.
Tv connections : The tv series has been very popular on BBC tv with Warren Clarke
as the grumpy, belching, Dalziel (pronounced "Dee- el"),and Colin Buchanan(above) as Pascoe. The series is currently being repeated on the Drama channel, but was originally screened on the early 1990s.
(1947-2014)
Warren Clarke as grumpy, boozy, fag-smoking DS Andy Dalziel.
Clarke plays the part brilliantly on tv , as the dinosaur detective, who's not much into theory and conjecture, but believes in hard facts -and using his fists ! Dalziel is fat, lazy, and has an old-fashioned attitude towards women - making him the ideal foil for the better educated Pascoe. The vulgar, loud, rude, heavy-drinking Dalziel is a complete contrast to his intellectual sidekick detective , Peter Pascoe.
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