Dirk Gently(TV show/series, 2012)

Name: Dirk Gently
Genre: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama
Released: 2012
Rating: 3.5

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| 1h per episode | Genres: Action & Adventure, Comedy, Science-Fiction & Fantasy, Drama

Scripted Reality in 1 season with 3 episodes

Rating: 3.5/5 (with 33 votes)

Dirk Gently is a British comic science fiction detective television series based on characters from the novel Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams. The series was created by Howard Overman and stars Stephen Mangan as holistic detective Dirk Gently and Darren Boyd as his sidekick Richard MacDuff. Recurring actors include Helen Baxendale as MacDuff's girlfriend Susan Harmison, Jason Watkins as Dirk's nemesis DI Gilks and Lisa Jackson as Dirk's receptionist Janice Pearce. Unlike most detective series Dirk Gently features broadly comic touches and even some science fiction themes such as time travel and artificial intelligence. Dirk Gently operates his Holistic Detective Agency based on the "fundamental interconnectedness of all things", which relies on random chance methods to uncover connections between seemingly-unrelated cases. He claims... ()

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About Dirk Gently

Detective Dirk Gently operates based on the fundamental interconnectedness of all things.

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Dirk Gently Seasons and Episodes

03/05/2012Series 1 - 3 episodes

#1 | 03/05/2012Episode 1

4.1/5 (with 5 votes)

Dirk's client David Edwards is found dead after claiming that the Pentagon are out to kill him. His widow hires Dirk to catch the murderer, telling him that her husband was working on top secret computer software which could spell danger if it fell into the wrong hands. Dirk believes there is a connection with his other client, Emma Reynolds' philandering husband Oliver, obsessed with the fact that his horoscopes keep coming true. Having shown that the horoscopes are a fraud Dirk sets out to find the real reason for Edwards' murder.

#2 | 03/12/2012Episode 2

4.3/5 (with 4 votes)

Accompanied by MacDuff, Dirk returns to St Cedd's Institute of Science and Technology, Cambridge, from which he had been expelled for cheating, as his former mentor Professor Jericho has asked for his help in guarding Elaine, a sophisticated robot named after his daughter, used in his research into artificial intelligence. When Elaine is stolen, Dirk investigates seeing Jericho's colleague Emelda as the prime suspect. MacDuff meanwhile is tempted to leave Dirk's agency as his girlfriend, Susan, has applied for a job in Cambridge.

#3 | 03/19/2012Episode 3

4.2/5 (with 3 votes)

Dirk is in the frame when two of his former clients are killed and plans to skip the country though he is waylaid when Melinda Fulstone asks him to identify her stalker - actually Dirk himself conducting an experiment. Dirk believes the murderer is Robbie Glover, whom he accidentally had convicted for killing his own brother - particularly when Robbie tries to strangle him. But soon Dirk works out that Robbie has been framed and that there is somebody nearer home with a grievance against him.

12/16/2010Specials - 1 episode

Additional Information

Official websites:

www.bbc.co.uk

Production country: United Kingdom (UK)

Based on: "Dirk Gently series" (find it on Amazon)

Made by: ITV Studios, The Welded Tandem Picture Company

Original language: English (EN)

Spoken languages: English (EN)

Translated into 8 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Bosnian (BS), German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Italian (IT), Russian (RU), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)

Status: Canceled

First episode released on: 03/05/2012

Last episode released on: 03/19/2012

Cast: Stephen Mangan, Darren Boyd, Helen Baxendale, Jason Watkins, Lisa Jackson, Doreen Mantle, Alisha Bailey

Creator: Douglas Adams, Howard Overman

Directors: Tom Shankland, Damon Thomas

Screenwriter: Howard Overman, Jamie Mathieson, Matt Jones

Composer: Daniel Pemberton

Keywords: detective, supernatural, time travel

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