Prime Suspect

The Prime Suspect – Complete Collection box set contains 9 discs and includes all episodes from the award-winning show's 7 series. Alongside Tom Bell, Helen Mirren stars in the cop drama series as the hard-edged, chain-smoking Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison; she is later promoted to Detective Superintendent. In addition to dealing with the gritty day-to-day cases Tennison has to solve--involving serial killers, rapists and child abusers--the drama also delves into her personal battles, including her marriage problems and struggle with alcoholism. As an on-going sub-plot, Prime Suspect raises the issue of sexual discrimination in the workforce, as Tennison faces the enduring battle of forging a career in this very male-dominated profession. Created by Lynda La Plante, the show was first broadcast in 1991.

The Prime Suspect 1 - 5 Collection box set contains 7 discs and includes all episodes from the award-winning show's first 5 series. Alongside Tom Bell, Helen Mirren stars in the cop drama series as the hard-edged, chain-smoking Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison; she is later promoted to Detective Superintendent. In addition to dealing with the gritty day-to-day cases Tennison has to solve--involving serial killers, rapists and child abusers--the drama also delves into her personal battles, including her marriage problems and struggle with alcoholism. As an on-going sub-plot, Prime Suspect raises the issue of sexual discrimination in the workforce, as Tennison faces the enduring battle of forging a career in this very male-dominated profession. Created by Lynda La Plante, the show was first broadcast in 1991.

Prime Suspect 7 - The Final Act is the gripping season finale to one of TV's best-loved detective dramas. The seventh series centres on Jane Tennison (Helen Mirren, "Calendar Girls"; "Gosford Park"), a high ranking detective whose life starts to unravel when she is faced with retirement and the imminent death of her father. Over-worked and emotionally vulnerable, Tennison commits professional suicide by befriending the witness in a murder investigation and turns to the bottle to drown her sorrows.