David Tennant lusts, Morrissey schemes, and someone's dead in the ball pit. Camp.
8.060 minSeason 1 • Episode 6
LatestOn the morning of Shyanne and Steve's wedding, Ripley finally tells Natalie that he knows about her affair with Carlisle. But is their marriage over for good? Carlisle turns up at the ceremony to arrest Ripley for murder - but Ripley confronts him over the small matter of his compromising affair with the suspect's wife! Besides, Ripley is not prepared to go down for a murder he did not commit. Ripley sets out to do right by his family, while clinging on to his lifelong dream of joining the big players.
Ripley Holden is a small-time entrepreneur desperate to make it big with his new state-of-the-art amusement arcade. The opening extravaganza is overshadowed by the find of a dead body on the premises. DI Carlisle is called in and quickly finds he has more on his mind than murder, when he falls in love with Ripley's long-suffering wife.
Acting
David Tennant's smoldering, repressed detective is unhinged in the best way.
Direction
Characters burst into lip-synced musical numbers like it's perfectly normal.
Production
Seedy arcade glamour meets working-class opera—Blackpool never looked this neon.
Creator
Peter Bowker
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
David Tennant and Sarah Parish began their real-life relationship on this set, making Carlisle and Natalie's affair almost uncomfortably authentic.
Pre-dating 'Glee' and 'Crazy Ex-Girlfriend,' this was British TV's bizarre, underseen pioneer of the musical-drama hybrid.
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