Cracker(TV show/series, 1993-1995)

Name: Cracker
Genre: Crime, Drama
Released: 1993
Rating: 3.2

TV-14

| 1h per episode | Genres: Crime, Drama

Scripted Reality in 3 seasons with 23 episodes

Rating: 3.2/5 (with 48 votes)

Cracker is a British crime drama series produced by Granada Television for ITV, created and principally written by Jimmy McGovern. Set in Manchester, the series follows a criminal psychologist (or "cracker"), Dr Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald, played by Robbie Coltrane, who works with the Greater Manchester Police (GMP) to help them solve crimes. The show consists of three series, originally broadcast from 1993 to 1995. A 100-minute special set in Hong Kong followed in 1996 and another two-hour story in 2006. The show won the British Academy Television Award for Best Drama Series in 1995 and 1996, and Coltrane received the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in three consecutive years (1994 to 1996). ()

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About Cracker

The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

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Cracker Seasons and Episodes

10/22/1995Season 3 - 7 episodes

#1 | 10/22/1995Brotherly Love (1)

4.0/5 (with 3 votes)

A Catholic father-of-four is arrested after a prostitute is found murdered, but he denies the crime. Beck returns from sick leave to work alongside Penhaligon, who is privately convinced that Beck raped her but has no forensic evidence. While Fitz faces a family tragedy, a second prostitute is attacked while the chief suspect is still in custody.

#2 | 10/23/1995Brotherly Love (2)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An identical murder takes place while David Harvey is in custody. Fitz visits his priest brother Michael and accuses him of murder, while Maggie Harvey demands that her husband is released.

#3 | 10/29/1995Brotherly Love (3)

4.5/5 (with 1 vote)

After another prostitute is slain, Fitz comes to believe that David Harvey's wife Maggie is the killer, in spite of vehement protesting by the police and his brother, Father Michael.

#4 | 11/06/1995Best Boys (1)

4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Bill Nash smiles at Stuart Grady, and, in those few seconds, changes the course of their lives and inadvertently turns them both to murder. Meanwhile, on the domestic front, Judith finally rebels.

#5 | 11/13/1995Best Boys (2)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Fitz is pitched against Grady and Nash, whose relationship is now spinning dangerously out of control.

#6 | 11/20/1995True Romance (1)

4.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Fitz privately advises a patient who seems to be having problems with her husband. Fitz's advice, for which he charges her £50, leads her to conclude that she should leave him.

#7 | 11/27/1995True Romance (2)

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Fitz is asking DCI Wise to replace him with Irene as the killer may stop killing if she realises she is not getting the shrink's undivided attention. Irene agrees to change, but finds the nature of the job, and the pictures of her dead students too much to stomach and goes missing.

10/10/1994Season 2 - 9 episodes

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09/27/1993Season 1 - 7 episodes

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10/28/1996Specials - 4 episodes

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Additional Information

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Plays in: Manchester

Made by: Granada Television

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 9 languages: Bosnian (BS), Czech (CS), German (DE), English (EN), Finnish (FI), French (FR), Romanian (RO), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Ended

First episode released on: 09/27/1993

Last episode released on: 11/27/1995

Cast: Robbie Coltrane, Geraldine Somerville

Creator: Jimmy McGovern

Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):

"Fitz"

Keywords: self-destruction, manchester, criminal consultant, psychologist, northern england

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Cracker(TV show/series, 1993-1995)

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