Quick Overview

The Emmy®-winning crime series seen on PBS

“A perfect marriage of astoundingly talented actress and brilliantly conceived character” –USA Today

“Riveting” –The Boston Globe

Oscar® winner Helen Mirren is Detective Jane Tennison, “one of the great character creations of our time” (The Washington Post), in a series that won more than 20 major international awards and raised the bar for police dramas.

Tenacious, driven, and deeply flawed, Tennison rises through the ranks of Britain’s Metropolitan Police, solving horrific crimes while battling office sexism and her own demons. “Rare is the drama that works so well on two levels: as a crackling whodunit and as a finely tuned character study of a strong but insecure woman trying to prove herself in a man’s world” (Time).

Seen on Masterpiece Theatre and Mystery! and created by crime writer Lynda La Plante, Prime Suspect features some of Britain’s biggest stars, including Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient), Tom Wilkinson (Michael Clayton), Zoë Wanamaker (Poirot), David Thewlis (Harry Potter), Mark Strong (Sherlock Holmes), Ciarán Hinds (Jane Eyre), Tom Bell (Reilly: Ace of Spies), and Jonny Lee Miller (Trainspotting).

Main Features:

Actors: Helen Mirren, Frank Finlay, Tom Bell
Format: Box set, Color, NTSC, Widescreen
Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo)
Subtitles: English
Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
Number of discs: 9
Studio: Acorn Media
DVD Release Date: September 7, 2010
Run Time: 1500 minutes