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DCI Banks

TV·2010–2016·5 seasons, 32 episodes·ITV1·Drama, Crime·1h·7.9

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No-nonsense Yorkshire detective Alan Banks (Stephen Tompkinson) tackles each new case with the weary professionalism of a man who has seen too much. Watch him doggedly decipher the clues in the gruesome murders on his patch.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01DCI Banks S03E02Wednesday's Child (2)S03E02 · 8.6Campbell admits to kerb crawling but claims to have met Kyle in the arcade by chance and sent him home whilst the dead boy is named as Andre Petri, who died of a heroin overdose and lived near the Heaths. His sister tells Annie that she was amazed how flush he was and it turns out that the arcade was the recruiting ground for under-age drug dealers. Banks suspects the leader is Chivers, a cab driver with previous convictions, who has disappeared with a female accomplice but Helen believes that Katy is not so innocent and is involved with Chivers to get Paul to pay a ransom which he will share with her. Annie shadows Paul as he delivers the money but loses him. Eventually Banks catches up with Chivers and finds that things are not as they first appeared to be.
  2. 02DCI Banks S03E04Piece of My Heart (2)S03E04 · 8.6Banks learns that Jack Barber arrested Martin for John Gaunt's manslaughter when he was a constable but Jack denies forcing a confession. However he visits Martin to demand the hand-over of a tape the group buried. With Annie off the case for personal reasons Banks and Helen visit the band, who are planning to reform and hear that Ian Bassett was due to give Matt an interview before he was murdered. Banks finds that both Jack and the band members close ranks when he mentions the tape, especially after Martin kills himself having given the tape to David Hornby, The police discover that the Crystal Kiss's moment has gone and that the killer was desperate to make money for a very dubious reunion, something which also involved Jack Barber. At the same time Banks' private life suffers upheaval when his daughter Tracy turns up unannounced, having dropped out of college.
  3. 03DCI Banks S01E02Aftermath (2)S01E02 · 8.5DCI Banks suspects Lucy Payne of complicity in the rape and murder of four women and the disappearance of the fifth. DS Cabbot is more interested in investigating the now-suspicious death of her husband. The revelation of Lucy's true identity complicates matters.

Castfull cast & details

Stephen TompkinsonStephen TompkinsonAlan BanksJack DeamJack DeamDC Ken BlackstoneAndrea LoweAndrea LoweAnnie CabbotCaroline CatzCaroline CatzHelen MortonLorraine BurroughsLorraine BurroughsDS Winsome JackmanSamuel AndersonSamuel AndersonVinceShaun DingwallShaun DingwallChief Superintendent Colin AndersonShaun DooleyShaun DooleySteve Richards

Episodes by season

Season01Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode8Episodes2010–11Aired 8.3Season avg
  1. S01E01DCI Banks S01E01Aftermath (1)September 27, 2010 8.3Police officers respond to a domestic disturbance call and find a grisly crime scene. DCI Alan Banks has found the home of a serial rapist a
  2. S01E02DCI Banks S01E02Season's bestAftermath (2)October 4, 2010 8.5DCI Banks suspects Lucy Payne of complicity in the rape and murder of four women and the disappearance of the fifth. DS Cabbot is more inter
  3. S01E03DCI Banks S01E03Playing with Fire (1)September 16, 2011 8.2In the first episode, DCI Alan Banks is taken to a canal where there has been a fatal fire. The crime is far from straightforward, and as an
  4. S01E04DCI Banks S01E04Playing with Fire (2)September 23, 2011 8.3In the first episode, DCI Alan Banks is taken to a canal where there has been a fatal fire. The crime is far from straightforward, and as an
  5. S01E05DCI Banks S01E05Friend of the Devil (1)September 30, 2011 8.0DCI Banks assigns DS Cabbot as SIO when the mutilated body of a woman is found on the Yorkshire Moors, while he investigates the murder of a
  6. S01E06DCI Banks S01E06Friend of the Devil (2)October 7, 2011 8.5DC Templeton's body is discovered, and Annie becomes convinced that the murder is connected to that of Lucy Payne. The suspect in the Daniel
  7. S01E07DCI Banks S01E07Cold is the Grave (1)October 14, 2011 8.3An armed robbery ends up taking a much darker twist after the culprit is brutally murdered in his own home. Before DCI Banks can start to un
  8. S01E08DCI Banks S01E08Cold is the Grave (2)October 21, 2011 8.3Emily Rydell has apparently been brutally beaten to death and DCI Banks quickly ends up being in the middle of a murder investigation with m

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2012Aired 8.2Season avg
  1. S02E01DCI Banks S02E01Strange Affair (1)October 10, 2012 8.3DCI Banks receives a disturbing phone message from his estranged brother Roy and heads to Harrogate to find him. Meanwhile at a murder scene
  2. S02E02DCI Banks S02E02Season's bestStrange Affair (2)October 17, 2012 8.5Banks visits his childhood home to break the news of Roy's death, and his parents plead with him to find out what happened. Defying Morton,
  3. S02E03DCI Banks S02E03Dry Bones That Dream (1)October 24, 2012 8.2A professional hitman bursts into the luxurious family home of accountant Keith Rothwell and shoots him in cold blood. Banks is instantly st
  4. S02E04DCI Banks S02E04Dry Bones That Dream (2)October 31, 2012 8.3With Pamela Jefferies in a coma following her vicious attack, Banks becomes more determined to find Rothwell's killer. Convinced a vital clu
  5. S02E05DCI Banks S02E05Innocent Graves (1)November 7, 2012 8.3Frustrated that a number of cases have been knocked back by the Crown Prosecution Service, Banks and the team are called on to investigate t
  6. S02E06DCI Banks S02E06Innocent Graves (2)November 8, 2012 7.7The collapse of Owen Pierce's trial has left the case wide open and there's still a killer on the loose, but Banks remains determined to bui

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2014Aired 8.4Season avg
  1. S03E01DCI Banks S03E01Wednesday's Child (1)February 3, 2014 8.411-year old Kyle Heath escapes a couple claiming to be social workers who try to force him into their car but next day his mother Katy tells
  2. S03E02DCI Banks S03E02Season's bestWednesday's Child (2)February 10, 2014 8.6Campbell admits to kerb crawling but claims to have met Kyle in the arcade by chance and sent him home whilst the dead boy is named as Andre
  3. S03E03DCI Banks S03E03Piece of My Heart (1)February 17, 2014 8.4Campbell admits to kerb crawling but claims to have met Kyle in the arcade by chance and sent him home whilst the dead boy is named as Andre
  4. S03E04DCI Banks S03E04Piece of My Heart (2)February 24, 2014 8.6Banks learns that Jack Barber arrested Martin for John Gaunt's manslaughter when he was a constable but Jack denies forcing a confession. Ho
  5. S03E05DCI Banks S03E05Bad Boy (1)March 3, 2014 8.4Club DJ Richard Martin is run off the road and subsequently shot in the head, leaving the perpetrators to dispose of his body and his car, a
  6. S03E06DCI Banks S03E06Bad Boy (2)March 10, 2014 8.0Following the disastrous raid Helen is suspended but she tells Banks that her colleague Trethowan reentered the house after the event, leadi

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season04Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2015Aired 7.5Season avg
  1. S04E01DCI Banks S04E01What Will Survive (1)March 4, 2015 7.5After the unidentified body of a woman is found on some waste ground, the team find themselves becoming involved in the world of vice in a t
  2. S04E02DCI Banks S04E02Season's bestWhat Will Survive (2)March 11, 2015 7.9The officers are dismayed to learn the arson attack on the Osgoods' house has injured Michael and killed his son Robbie, and local bully Gar
  3. S04E03DCI Banks S04E03Buried (1)March 18, 2015 7.5A husband and daughter find it hard to deal with their grief after the body of wife and mother Anaan Kamel is discovered washed up by an und
  4. S04E04DCI Banks S04E04Buried (2)March 25, 2015 7.5Geoff has become a marked man and Banks decides to put both him and his daughter Evie under watch at an anonymous hotel whilst he increases
  5. S04E05DCI Banks S04E05Ghosts (1)April 1, 2015 7.5When the body of student Josh Tate is found dumped in a ravine, the investigation into his stabbing uncovers a very different man to the qui
  6. S04E06DCI Banks S04E06Ghosts (2)April 8, 2015 7.4Helen is determined to try and win back Banks's approval as they attempt to discover the true identity of student Josh's murderer and stop h

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season05Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode6Episodes2016Aired 7.1Season avg
  1. S05E01DCI Banks S05E01To Burn in Every Drop of Blood (1)August 31, 2016 7.0The crime drama series returns with the first episode of a two-part story. When a victim of a frenzied attack is found in the woods with his
  2. S05E02DCI Banks S05E02Season's bestTo Burn in Every Drop of Blood (2)September 7, 2016 7.3The post mortem into the daughter of crime boss Steve Richards reveals that her death isn't a simple suicide – could someone else have been
  3. S05E03DCI Banks S05E03A Little Bit of Heart (1)September 14, 2016 7.0Xun Li, a hard-working and devoted husband, makes a speech at a rally for Lanternlight – a charity supporting Chinese nationals like himself
  4. S05E04DCI Banks S05E04A Little Bit of Heart (2)September 21, 2016 7.3The murder of Xun Li hits the team hard. This case is more complicated than they first thought, and it's not necessarily connected to the ki
  5. S05E05DCI Banks S05E05Undertow (1)September 28, 2016 6.9Banks and the team begin the painful job of finding out exactly who was responsible for the incident that has affected all their lives.Follo
  6. S05E06DCI Banks S05E06Undertow (2)October 5, 2016 7.0Having been thrust into a dark place from where it looks like there is no coming back, Banks' mission to solve Annie's murder is made all th

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