The Enigma Files

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The Enigma Files
Genre	Detective
Format	Drama
Starring	Tom Adams Sharon Maughan Duggie Brown
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	15
Production
Location(s)	London
Running time	50 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	BBC
Picture format	576i (SDTV)
Original airing	15 April 1980

The Enigma Files was a British television detective drama that ran for one series in 1980.

Contents 1 Plot Summary 2 Regular Cast and Characters 3 Similar Series 4 Video Release 5 Other Media 6 External links

[edit] Plot Summary

The series was a police procedural drama, written by Derek Ingrey, about a Police Officer who has been sidelined from regular duties and, having been placed in charge of a records / evidence unit, started specialising in investigating unsolved crimes.

[edit] Regular Cast and Characters

• Tom Adams as Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis
• Sharon Maughan as Kate Burton, the unit Administrator
• Duggie Brown as Phil Strong, a Laboratory Technician

[edit] Similar Series

The investigation of "Cold Cases" became a theme for several detective dramas some two decades later, including:

• Cold Squad, CAN / CTV, 1998
• Waking the Dead, UK / BBC, 2000
• New Tricks, UK / BBC, 2003
• Cold Case, US / CBS, 2003

[edit] Video Release

There are no known releases on Video Tape or DVD.

[edit] Other Media

A tie-in book of the series, written by Christine Sparks was published by the BBC in June 1980 (ISBN-10: 0563177705 / ISBN-13: 978-0563177708).

[edit] External links

• The Enigma Files at the Internet Movie Database