Dangerfield (TV series)

Dangerfield
Genre	Medical drama Police procedural
Starring	Nigel Le Vaillant Nigel Havers Nadim Sawalha Bill Wallis Amanda Redman Fiona Victory George Irving Michael Melia Jane Gurnett Nicola Cowper Julian Kay Lisa Faulkner Tamzin Malleson Sean Maguire Tim Vincent Marcia Warren
Theme music composer	Nigel Hess Simon Chamberlain Ray Russell
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	6
No. of episodes	62 (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 producers	Chris Parr Tony Virgo Julian Murphy Julia Ouston Richard Langridge
Producers	Adrian Bate Peter Wolfes Beverley Dartnall
Running time	50 minutes
Production companies	BBC Pebble Mill Productions BBC Birmingham
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	27 January 1995 (1995-01-27) – 19 November 1999 (1999-11-19)
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Dangerfield is a British television medical drama series, first broadcast on BBC One, which described the activities of small-town doctor and police surgeon Paul Dangerfield, played by Nigel Le Vaillant. The series places particular emphasis on Dangerfield's constant struggle to manage the conflicting demands of his two jobs, to come to terms with the death of his wife Celia in a car accident a few years earlier, and to bring up his two initially teenaged, but later grown up, children, Alison and Marty. Six series of the programme were produced, broadcasting from 27 January 1995 until 19 November 1999. After Le Vaillant left the role in 1997, Dr. Jonathan Paige, played by Nigel Havers, became the new central character, after previously appearing in the final two episodes of Le Vaillant's tenure. The BBC decided to end the series in November 1999 when Havers announced his decision to quit. The BBC felt viewers would not find the series credible if the main character was changed for a second time.^[1]

The show, like a number of other BBC dramas of the 1980s and 1990s, also featured a number of borderline fantasy episodes. These included "Tricks", "Angel" and "Haunted". The TV trailers for Dangerfield were heavily parodied by The Fast Show, in which the character was called Monkfish and would appear as a tough uncompromising Doctor, Policeman, vet and even as an interior designer – with titles mixed in with other BBC shows of the time. The show was mainly filmed in Warwick, Warwickshire,^[2] with some scenes being filmed in neighbouring Leamington Spa. The first two series have since been released on DVD. Dangerfield is regularly shown on UKTV Channels – Alibi & Drama

The Title theme music, and incidental music, are by Nigel Hess.

In Series 1, Episodes 1, 2 and 3 the piano music that Dangerfield hears when he thinks of his wife, or looks at her piano, is from the Adagio movement of the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Dimitri Shostakovich.