Nice Guy Eddie (TV series)

Nice Guy Eddie
Genre	Detective
Created by	Johanne McAndrew Elliot Hope
Directed by	Alan Macmillan Douglas Mackinnon Morag McKinnon
Starring	Ricky Tomlinson Tom Ellis Rachel Davies Elizabeth Spriggs John Henshaw Christine Tremarco Stephanie Waring
Composer	Martin Phipps
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	7 (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	Robert Cooper Carol Ann Docherty
Producers	Colin McKeown Paddy Higson
Cinematography	Peter Fearon
Editors	David Spiers Andrew McClelland Stephen Singleton
Running time	60—90 minutes
Production company	BBC Northern Ireland
Original release
Network	BBC1
Release	14 June 2001 (2001-06-14) – 21 July 2002 (2002-07-21)
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Nice Guy Eddie is a British television detective drama series, created by Elliot Hope and Johanne McAndrew, and principally written by the latter, which was first broadcast on BBC1 on 14 June 2001, in the form of a 90-minute pilot.^[1] Later commissioned into a six-part series, Nice Guy Eddie follows the exploit of a Liverpool-based bumbling private detective, Eddie McMullen, played by Ricky Tomlinson, whose life is turned upside down by the arrival of Frank Bennett (Tom Ellis), who turns up on his doorstep claiming to be his son.^[2]

Notably, the role of Eddie McMullen was written specifically for Tomlinson, becoming his first leading role in a television drama series.^[3] For the series, a real life private investigator based in Liverpool, Tony Smith, acted as a script consultant, to ensure the stories were as close to life as possible.^[3] Despite attracting moderate ratings, only seven episodes (including the pilot) were produced; subsequently, the BBC decided against recommissioning the show for a second series. The series has yet to be released on DVD.