The Enigma Files is a British television

British television

Public television broadcasting started in the United Kingdom in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of...

 detective drama

Drama

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 that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.

Plot summary

The series was a police procedural drama, written by Derek Ingrey, about a Police Officer who has been sidelined from regular duties and, having been placed in charge of a records / evidence unit, started specialising in investigating unsolved crimes.

Regular Cast and Characters

• Tom Adams
  Tom Adams (actor)
  Tom Adams is an English actor with roles in horror and mystery films, and several TV shows.He starred as Charles Vine in Licensed to Kill and the sequels Where the Bullets Fly and Somebody's Stolen Our Russian Spy .His television credits include General...
  
   as Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis
• Sharon Maughan
  Sharon Maughan
  Sharon Maughan is a British actress.-Life and career:Maughan was born in Kirkby, Liverpool, one of five siblings in an Irish Catholic family...
  
   as Kate Burton, the unit Administrator (first eight episodes only)
• Carole Nimmons as Sue Maxwell, the unit Administrator (last seven episodes only)
• Duggie Brown
  Duggie Brown
  Duggie Brown is an English comedian and actor. He is the brother of the late Coronation Street actress Lynne Perrie ....
  
   as Phil Strong, a Laboratory Technician

Similar Series

The investigation of "Cold Cases" became a theme for several detective dramas some two decades later, including:

• Cold Squad
  Cold Squad
  Cold Squad is a Canadian police procedural television series first broadcast in 1998 that followed the investigations of a part of the Vancouver Police Department Homicide Division tasked with solving cold cases, the titular Cold Squad, as led by Sergeant Ali McCormick .The cast of Cold Squad was...
  
  , CAN / CTV, 1998
• Cold Case Files
  Cold Case Files
  Cold Case Files is documentary television series on the cable channel A&E Network hosted by Bill Kurtis that documents the investigation of various long-unsolved murders through the use of modern forensic science , and criminal psychology, in addition to recent breakthroughs in the...
  
  , USA / A&E, 1999 (true cases)
• Waking the Dead
  Waking the Dead (TV series)
  Waking the Dead is a British television police procedural crime drama series produced by the BBC featuring a fictional Cold Case Unit comprising CID police officers, a psychological profiler and a forensic scientist. A pilot episode aired in September 2000 and there have been a total of nine series...
  
  , UK / BBC, 2000
• New Tricks, UK / BBC, 2003
• Cold Case, US / CBS, 2003

Other media

A tie-in book of the series, written by Christine Sparks, was published by the BBC in June 1980 (ISBN 0563177705 / ISBN 978-0563177708).