It's 1966, and when a young woman is found murdered in an idyllic coastal village in Northumberland, Gently and Bacchus find themselves investigating a family with unimaginable secrets.

Initially it appears that the woman's estranged husband, Alan Charlton, father of their enigmatic young daughter Agnes, is responsible for the killing. Then they meet the child's uncle, Darren Paige.

With a rogue reporter, Max Osgood, desperate to get an exclusive story on the family, the police have their work cut out.

As Gently and Bacchus investigate the disturbed family, they discover an alarming truth.

In an added complication, Bacchus is having marriage problems and becomes jealous of Gently when he realises how close the older man has become to his wife, Lisa, and toddler Leigh-Ann.

George Gently is played by Martin Shaw, Bacchus by Lee Ingleby, Alan Charlton by Daniel Cassey, Agnes by Natalie Garner, Darren Paige by Shaun Dooley, Max Osgood by Paul Kaye and Lisa by Melanie Clark Pullen.

Episode 2 – Peace And Love

The year is 1966 and the football World Cup has come to England, in the second episode of the crime drama starring Martin Shaw as old-school detective Inspector George Gently, written by Jimmy Gardner.

With the USSR due to play at Roker Park and the fear of the "Reds under the bed" exemplified by the upcoming Polaris submarine landing at the nearby Jarrow docks, tensions are running high.

CND protestors, led by radical students from Durham University, are the last thing the police need when the world media is on their doorstep awaiting the upcoming football match.

Gently and Bacchus investigate the murder of well-known left-wing academic Fraser Barratt, found dead in the docks after a CND rally which he had led with his colleague, lecturer Mallory Brown.

This takes them onto the Durham University campus – an ancient temple of learning struggling to come to terms with the varied influx of students from the working class to brash, radical academics. Here they meet university caretaker and ex-army officer Charles Hoxton as well as sexually forward-thinking students Elizabeth Higgs and Adriana Doyle.

Sexual and social rebellion is in the air and, to the young and optimistic, these forces seem inevitable and unstoppable. Bacchus is horrified yet fascinated by the promiscuity on display. Gently more shrewdly recognises that liberation is not always an unmixed blessing...

Martin Shaw plays George Gently, Lee Ingleby plays John Bacchus, Emun Elliott plays Fraser Barratt, Sarah Lancashire plays Mallory Brown, Warren Clarke plays Charles Hoxton, Kerrie Hayes plays Elizabeth Higgs and Myanna Buring plays Adriana Doyle.

Inspector George Gently is simulcast on the BBC HD channel – the BBC's High Definition channel, available through Freesat 108, Freeview 50, Sky 143 and Virgin 108.

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Episode Guide for Series 3: BBC’s Inspector George Gently starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby

BBC’s police series set in the 1960’s

Starring Martin Shaw and Lee Ingleby

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Inspector George Gently