Product Details

• Actors: Robson Green, Nicola Walker, Michael Feast, Shaun Dingwall, Mary Cunningham
• Directors: Alex Pillai, Bill Eagles, David Moore, Julian Jarrold, Marc Munden
• Writers: Mike Cullen
• Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
• Language: English
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 3
• Studio: Wgbh / Pbs
• VHS Release Date: June 26, 2001
• Run Time: 360 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00005JHC4
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #362,473 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Robson Green (Reckless) stars as the smart, sexy, brash, and slightly mysterious Detective Inspector Dave Creegan in these three gripping and gritty mysteries that follow the exploits of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit.

Maverick police detective Creegan is the newest member of London’s Organized and Serial Crime Unit (OSC), an elite, rapid-response crime squad. The OSC uses their diverse crime-fighting skills to bring justice to society. Along with his stalwart partner D.I. Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker, Four Weddings and a Funeral), Creegan squares off against some of England’s most dangerous criminals–a serial murderer of children, a killer intent on murdering hospital patients, and a cyber-criminal who lures young Web-surfers with a gothic fantasy game and manipulates them into committing violent crimes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

21 of 23 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best thing on TV in years., February 9, 1999

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Curtis G (Surf City USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Touching Evil [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Flipping through the channels late one night, I happened across a particularly dark, yet compelling show that I discovered was a 4-episode British television program (aired on PBS' Mystery) called Touching Evil. The show, and the lead character, Inspector Dave Creegan (played by Robson Green), sucked me in immediately. With his piering blue eyes and slightly bemused manner, Creegan is at once haunting and haunted.

We follow Creegan and the OSC, a fictional serial crimes unit, as they investigate various bizarre crimes. Touching Evil is only structurally similar to your standard crime drama, going so much deeper in regards to characters and their quirks. Throughout the course of the series, we watch one investigator's life fall apart just as Creegan's is coming back together.

Touching Evil is dark, moody, and irresistible; it's like nothing else on television. And it's the best thing I've seen on TV in years.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Intense, Brooding, Chilling Mysteries, August 5, 2004

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G P Padillo "paolo" (Portland, ME United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Touching Evil 1 Boxed Set (The Lost Boys/To Death and Back/What Amathus Wants) (DVD)

Without doubt the Touching Evil series is, along with Prime Suspect, Wire in the Blood (also with Robson), one of the finest mysteries ever developed for television. Once again British television leaves its Stateside counterpart in the dust when it comes to creating a well-reasoned, educated yet infinitely watchable "who-done-it?"

Robson Green's Creegan has a intensity that is deeply affecting and eminently watchable. Just shy of being over-the-edge, Creegan is instantly likeable yet worrisome; like an old friend whom one is justifiably concerned about. Yet he's not so "out there" that we find it difficult to identify with him. Quite the opposite.

Nicola Walker is his perfect partner, D.I. Taylor. Like the best entertainment, Touching Evil isn't a one man show and while the major burden may fall to Robson, he is surrounded with a rich and varied supporting ensemble with a genuinely stand out performance from Shuan Dingwell as D.C. Rivers.

I'm glad to see Season 1 finally making it to DVD! Dare I wish for "Touching Evil IV?"

p.

8 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very Absorbing, June 15, 1999

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Stephanie A. Mack "stephmack" (Kansas City, Missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Touching Evil [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This is one of the best mystery series I have seen. It's moody and dark and has an excellent storyline. I was hooked from the beginning. I loved Robson Green in Reckless and this shows he can certainly carry off a drama as well. The thing I really liked about this series is that you really felt like you knew a bit about the characters and their quirks. Also, you got the impression of something dark and sinister going on w/o actually seeing blood and gore. American television could certainly use a few lessons!