Burnside

Back with a Vengeance

2000
Ended
Drama · Crime
~1h / ep
1 season
7.0/10

Burnside is a British television police procedural drama, broadcast on ITV in 2000. The series, a spin-off from ITV's long-running police drama The Bill, focused on DCI Frank Burnside, formerly a detective at Sun Hill and now working for the National Crime Squad. Burnside ran for one series of six episodes, structured as three two-part stories.

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Latest: Season 1 · 2000

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Having built his reputation on good detective work, combined with his unique approaches, Burnside is back on familiar form heading a crack unit in the National Crime Squad, Britain's equivalent of the FBI.

E1. Back with a Vengence (1)
Jul 7, 2000 · 50m
As a member of the National Crime Squad with a new team under him, Burnside investigates illegal firearms and settles an old score.
E2. Back with a Vengence (2)
Jul 14, 2000 · 50m
Following the massacre at the burger bar in Margate, Burnside closes in on Billy Holden, but must reach him before the Yardies do.
E3. Exposed (1)
Jul 21, 2000 · 50m
Women are being murdered, and Burnside and his team must find the connection between the killings before the murderer strikes again.
E4. Exposed (2)
Jul 28, 2000 · 50m
Burnside reluctantly allows DC Sam Phillips to act as bait to try to catch the serial killer. But she gets more involved than she should...
E5. Trial By Fire (1)
Aug 4, 2000 · 50m
When a trial ends in disaster, Burnside's informant is threatened. Meanwhile, Dave and Sam investigate a gangland murder.
E6. Trial By Fire (2)
Aug 10, 2000 · 50m
The Russian mafia money has arrived and Vickers is on an all-time high, blissfully unaware that Burnside is hell bent on revenge for the murder of Tony Shotton.