Cracker

1993–1995 · Ended · 3 seasons · 23 episodes · Crime, Drama · United Kingdom

Creator Jimmy McGovern · Channel ITV1 · Starring Robbie Coltrane, Geraldine Somerville, Lorcan Cranitch

I drink too much, I smoke too much, I gamble too much. I *am* too much.

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

7 episodes · October 1995 – November 1995
  1. Episode 1: 1. Brotherly Love (1)October 22, 1995 · 60 min
    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. Episode 2: 2. Brotherly Love (2)October 23, 1995 · 60 min
    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. Episode 3: 3. Brotherly Love (3)October 29, 1995 · 60 min
    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. Episode 4: 4. Best Boys (1)November 6, 1995 · 60 min
    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. Episode 5: 5. Best Boys (2)November 13, 1995 · 60 min
    Fitz is pitched against Grady and Nash, whose relationship is now spinning dangerously out of control.
  6. Episode 6: 6. True Romance (1)November 20, 1995 · 60 min
    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.
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  1. Episode 7: 7. True Romance (2)November 27, 1995 · 60 min
    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.

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EPISODE LENGTH
60 minutes
FIRST AIRED
September 27, 1993
LAST AIRED
November 27, 1995
PRODUCTION COMPANY
Granada Television

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