Amanda Burton wasn't the first actor to play Helen West. Juliet Stevenson was in the 1999 BBC adaptation of the Frances Fyfield book Trial By Fire. Here's a brief summary I found on a website:Trial by Fire served as the unofficial pilot film for the Helen West mystery series, based on the novels by Frances Fyfield. Moving from London to the supposed tranquility of the suburbs, prosecutor Helen West (Juliet Stevenson) and her police-chief boyfriend, Geoffrey Bailey (Jim Carter), don't find very much peace and quiet. In fact, things are almost as bad as in the big city, what with spousal abuse, kleptomania, and murder running amok. Much against her will, Helen is drawn into the intrigues of her new murder -- and by extension, so is Geoffrey, who totally disagrees with Helen's deductions.
Another Frances Fyfield book, The Blind Date, was adapted for TV by LWT in 2000.
Here's another brief summary I found on a site:
Undercover detective Lucy Kennedy (Zara Turner) faces frustration while attempting to unravel the mystery surrounding the murder of her sister. Disheartened, she leaves the police force, only to become entangled in a terrifying dating agency scandal.
The Deputy starred Warren Clarke, David Tennant, Dervla Kirwan, and Jack Dee. Here's a summary I found:
Warren Clarke stars as Bob Galway, a fictional Deputy Prime Minister and Birmingham MP, in a funny, wry, fast-paced and sexy drama. The Deputy explores Bob Galway's life and work in the House of Commons and how it impacts on his personal life. Bob's a man of the people - opinionated, principled and pragmatic. Surrounded by inefficient, highly-sexed private secretaries, a beleaguered Bob strives to protect his reputation, his career and his conscience as he tries to outsmart his adversaries in the cut and thrust world of Westminster. Making life increasingly difficult for him are Stephen Sharples (Jack Dee), a self-seeking career politician, and Terri Leonard (Dervla Kirwan), the Prime Minister's astute and sharp-witted director of communications. Behind the scenes, his all-knowing, all-seeing principal private secretary keeps him out of trouble. Back at home, his constituency agent and his radical thinking school-teacher wife help to keep his feet on the ground. Bob is a man plagued with guilt. He has promised to help one member of his constituency gain compensation for the death of her boyfriend, but fears he will let her down. The Prime Minister is out of the country, leaving Prime Minister's Questions in his hands, which under normal circumstances would be a straightforward matter. However, his private secretaries seem incapable of arming him with the relevant paperwork.
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