Murder Investigation Team
Format	Detective
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	12
Production
Running time	90 min. per episode
Broadcast
Original channel	ITV
Original run	3 May 2003 – 25 February 2005

Murder Investigation Team is a British police drama series produced by the ITV network as a spin-off from the long running series, The Bill. It debuted on 3 May 2003, and received a second series. It is based around the investigations of a London Murder Investigation Team. It is similar to the American series CSI:, CSI: Miami and CSI: NY

The MIT abbreviation was removed from the international broadcasts to avoid confusion with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The first series was filmed with the working title Think Murder

[edit] Cast

[edit] Main Characters

• Michael McKell as DS Trevor Hands
• Samantha Spiro as DI Vivien Friend
• Lindsey Coulson as DS/DI Rosie MacManus
• Diane Parish as DC Eva Sharpe
• Richard Hope as DS Danny Purvis
• Howard Ward as DS Jim Daws
• Richard Hew as Dr. John Cornell
• Steven Pacey as DCI Malcolm Savage
• Vincenzo Pellegrino as Dr. Fergus Gallagher
• Joe Shaw as DC Scott Granger
• Andrew Somerville as DC Patrick Lincoln
• Will Mellor as DC Jed Griffiths
• Meera Syal as DCI Anita Wishart
• Abhin Galeya as DC Simon Tait
• Hugh Sachs as Dr. Charles Renfield
• Jason Barnett as CSE Ed-O (Possibly short for Eddie Olosunje)

[edit] Also Featuring

• Lisa Maxwell as DI Samantha Nixon (1 episode)
• Tony O'Callaghan as Sergeant Matthew Boyden (1 episode)
• Nicola Alexis as PC Ruby Buxton (1 episode)
• Roberta Taylor as Inspector Gina Gold (1 episode)

Cyril Nri was credited for playing Superintendent Adam Okaro in the first episode, but did not appear. Bernie Nolan was credited for playing Sergeant Sheelagh Murphey, but did not appear.

[edit] Connections with The Bill

The series is a spin-off from the long running series The Bill and the first episode featured the team investigating the drive-by shooting of one of The Bill's popular characters, Sgt. Matt Boyden. Several members of The Bill's cast also appeared in the episode.

DC Eva Sharpe (Diane Parish) joined the show for series 2, transferring from The Bill.

[edit] Production

There were eight one-hour episodes in the first series. Produced by Tom Cotter, the series starred Samantha Spiro, Lindsey Coulson, Richard Hope and Steven Pacey, with guest appearances from Gary Kemp (of Spandau Ballet) and Paul Bown (who previously appeared from 1987 to 1993 with Emma Wray and Liza Tarbuck in the ITV sitcom called Watching).

A second series consisting of four 90-minute episodes was commissioned and filmed, and although the series was shown in Australia in February 2005, its UK broadcast was delayed until July 2005.

Like The Bill, it was filmed in the London Borough of Greenwich and locations included the Former Woolwich campus of the University of Greenwich.

In September 2005, The Sun reported that ITV would not be commissioning another series.^[1]

[edit] Name

The name of Murder Investigation Team was filmed under the working name of Think Murder. The name of the first season was MIT: Murder Investigation Team.

[edit] References

1. ^ "News round-up (18/9/05". http://thebillbios.co.uk/news/news_17-09-05.htm. Retrieved 2007-07-02. 

[edit] External links

• Murder Investigation Team at the Internet Movie Database
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