A Pinch of Snuff | |
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Genre | Crime drama |
Created by | Reginald Hill |
Written by | Robin Chapman |
Directed by | Sandy Johnson |
Starring | Gareth Hale Norman Pace Christopher Fairbank Freddie Jones John McGlynn Malcolm Storry John Woodvine |
Composer | John E. Keane |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 3 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE. |
Production | |
Executive producer | Keith Richardson |
Producer | Emma Hayter |
Cinematography | Sean Van Hales |
Editor | Janey Walklin |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | Yorkshire Television |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 9 April 23 April 1994 | –
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A Pinch of Snuff is a British television crime drama miniseries, consisting of three fifty-minute episodes, that broadcast on ITV network from 9 to 23 April 1994.[1] The series, adapted from the 1978 novel of the same name by author Reginald Hill, was the first Dalziel and Pascoe adaptation for TV, arriving two years before the more widely known BBC adaptation that followed in 1996. In this miniseries, the characters of Dalziel and Pascoe were played by comedians Gareth Hale and Norman Pace, with Christopher Fairbank as loyal sidekick Edgar Wield, and Malcolm Storry as Insp. Ray Crabtree.[2]