10.0/10 1 votes#1 - Episode 8
Season 3 Episode 8 - Aired 5/21/2010
DCI Gene Hunt and his team are investigating a diamond heist following the murder of three London gang members. But DI Alex Drake is distracted and, with encouragement from DCI Jim Keats, she decides to pursue her own investigation to the bitter end - did Gene Hunt murder Sam Tyler? When Gene discovers that Alex has gone, he races after her leaving Ray Carling, Chris Skelton and Shaz Granger to plan an ambitious sting operation. As Gene desperately tries to reach Alex before she discovers the truth, Chris, Shaz and Ray's world completely falls apart. It's time for Alex and the rest of the team to find out the truth about Gene Hunt...
Director: David Drury
Writer: Matthew Graham
9.0/10 1 votes#2 - Episode 1
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 4/2/2010
Alex soon realises she has not returned home after all, and wakes up in 1983. Gene is on the run, and DCI Jim Keats has arrived from Complaints to investigate CID following the shooting. Newly-promoted DI Ray Carling leads an investigation into the kidnapping of a young girl, and sets up a sting operation. Alex decides that she will have to discover the truth about Gene if she is ever to get back to her own time.
Director: David Drury
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.8/10 4 votes#3 - Spiders
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 6/16/2003
MI5's mainframe has been hacked into. But Tom and his team think they have found a lead in the form of an I.T. teacher, so Zoe is sent undercover to get close to him and find out his secrets. Will they be able to stop the culprit before the inner sanctum is breached and every agents' identity revealed?
Director: Rob Bailey
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.5/10 4 votes#4 - Episode 8
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 4/10/2007
Sam learns that an operation is to be conducted on him in 2006 to try and revive him from his coma. However, he believes that to return to the twenty-first century, he has to betray his colleagues in 1973 - but can he regard them as real or imagined?
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.1/10 19 votes#5 - The Overlords
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 12/14/2015
An alien presence arrives on Earth with the intention to end all suffering and guide humanity into a utopia. But when the aliens refuse to reveal their appearance, some wonder if this dream is instead a nightmare.
Director: Nick Hurran
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 1 votes#6 - Picture Perfect
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 3/9/2004
Mickey Bricks and his team of con artists decide to dabble in the world of art this week, when they set up an elaborate scam to swindle a greedy gallery owner, by faking an early Mondrian painting.
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 8 votes#7 - Episode 1
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 1/9/2006
After a car accident in 2006, Sam Tyler was up in 1973. Sam's 21st Century attitudes make him a fish out of water in this world of clunky technology and old fashioned policing. And nothing seems more alien than his new boss, DCI Gene Hunt, who believes in gut instinct and, all too often, sheer brute force. Then Sam discovers a connection between a murder in 1973 and the kidnapper in 2006. Could solving this case be the key to getting home?
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 6 votes#8 - Episode 4
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 1/30/2006
Gene believes that local gangster Stephen Warren and the police can co-exist and that the streets are safer as a result. But Sam knows that in the future, dodgy deals like this will irrevocably change the relationship between the public and the police. Whilst Gene lays a ghost to rest, Sam sets to work on convincing his new partner, but is distracted when he meets his mother as a young woman.
Director: John McKay
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 5 votes#9 - Episode 1
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 2/13/2007
Tyler has visions of someone disrupting his life support system in 2006, and encounters who he thinks is the same assailant in 1973, running a gambling syndicate and protection racket. Recognising the man as a killer he failed to stop in the future, Tyler is prepared to go to any lengths to make sure his life is not threatened and the man doesn't kill his original victim.
Director: S.J. Clarkson
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 4 votes#10 - Episode 5
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/20/2007
The team investigates the abduction of a young woman and her daughter, who are being held prisoner by somebody who wishes the team to release a prisoner arrested on a murder charge a year ago. At the same time, Sam faces a life or death situation in 2006 when he thinks he has accidentally been given an overdose. As the deadline draws closer, Sam collapses into a deeper coma, leaving his colleagues to tackle the mystery on their own (Albeit using some of his earlier suggestions).
Director: Andrew Gunn
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 5 votes#11 - One Good Turn (2)
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 6/13/2011
Jackson uncovers the dark secrets of a novelist's holiday in Russia. He takes the journalist on a journey to redemption, and helps the wife and the dominatrix of a comatose crook with their own controversial bid for freedom. He also says goodbye to his daughter, Marlee.
Director: N/A
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 1 votes#12 - Flodden
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 10/18/2020
Henry invades France, leaving a pregnant Catherine to defend England from Scottish king, James IV. Let the Battle of Flodden commence…
Director: Chanya Button
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 1 votes#13 - Faith
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 11/22/2020
A new religion is rising, as is tension in court. Katherine must stop Henry's dangerous paranoia from turning friends into enemies.
Director: Rebecca Gatward
Writer: Matthew Graham
8.0/10 1 votes#14 - Peace
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 11/29/2020
As Henry loses himself to madness, the stakes have never been higher for Katherine - her husband has become a threat to her life.
Director: Rebecca Gatward
Writer: Matthew Graham
- 7.6/10 5 votes
#15 - One Good Turn (1)
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 6/12/2011
Jackson helps a crime novelist who is caught up in a road rage incident whilst hunting down the killer of a drowned Russian girl. His daughter's imminent move to New Zealand sends him to Yorkshire to visit his past.
Director: N/A
Writer: Matthew Graham
7.5/10 16 votes#16 - The Deceivers
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/15/2015
Now living in a golden age of peace, some humans begin to notice changes in their children that lead them to question the aliens' motivations.
Director: Nick Hurran
Writer: Matthew Graham
7.4/10 5 votes#17 - Episode 8
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 2/27/2006
Sam is finally accepting of this world - until he comes face to face with his 29 year-old dad, Vic. Vic Tyler is a small time gambler who unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a murder enquiry. As Sam moves to protect his father, he embarks upon an emotional journey, piecing together a childhood memory and uncovering an uncomfortable truth that will change him forever.
Director: John Alexander
Writer: Matthew Graham
7.3/10 7 votes#18 - Episode 2
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 1/16/2006
Sam decides he has to embrace this world - for now. But then he discovers Gene is planning to plant evidence to secure the conviction of Kim Trent, an elusive criminal. Shocked by Gene's attitude to crime-solving, Sam releases Trent. But when a young woman gets caught in the crossfire as a result of Trent being freed, Sam is forced to question his methods. Can he and Gene put aside their differences and find the evidence to nail Trent?
Director: Bharat Nalluri
Writer: Matthew Graham
7.1/10 51 votes#19 - The Almost People (2)
Season 6 Episode 6 - Aired 5/28/2011
As the solar storm rages, Jennifer, a Ganger driven mad by the memories of being "decommissioned", is seeking revenge, as the time-travelling drama continues. She can remember every excruciating second of every "execution" and is determined that the humans will pay. And she isn't just talking war; she's talking revolution. As the crumbling factory fills with toxic fumes and drips lethal acid, the "Originals" wait desperately for the shuttle from the Mainland to rescue them. But Jennifer has other ideas. Can the Doctor convince the terrified factory workers to embrace their own humanity and work together with their Gangers to overcome a monster of their own making?
Director: Julian Simpson
Writer: Matthew Graham
7.0/10 1 votes#20 - Confessions
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 4/5/2005
The gang are on the verge of completing a job but Albert's gone AWOL. When he finally appears it's all too late because 'the mark' has pulled out - but Albert has a new plan.
Director: Otto Bathurst
Writer: Matthew Graham
7.0/10 1 votes#21 - Deja Vu
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 2/7/2008
DI Alex Drake is taken hostage and shot, and wakes up in a brothel... in 1981. Rescued in a police raid, she quickly recognises DCI Gene Hunt and his team from detailed reports made by DCI Sam Tyler about his own trip to 1973. Gene is determined to address London's growing drugs problem, and has targeted city playboy Edward Markham as the brains behind the operation. Alex suspects Arthur Layton, the man who kidnapped her in 2008. Could Layton be the key to her return to her own time?
Director: Jonny Campbell
Writer: Matthew Graham
7.0/10 5 votes#22 - Episode 6
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 2/13/2006
When his mother's voice bleeds through from 2006 and he hears her say goodbye to him, Sam is desperate - he's alive and determined to make himself heard. But then the call comes in that a man has taken people hostage at the Manchester Gazette and is intent on killing them at 2pm - the same time Sam's machine will be switched off. Could stopping the hostage-taker be a way of staying alive?
Director: John Alexander
Writer: Matthew Graham
7.0/10 15 votes#23 - The Children
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/16/2015
A new age dawns as children begin to exhibit advanced abilities. But what does this mean for the future of humanity?
Director: Nick Hurran
Writer: Matthew Graham
6.9/10 7 votes#24 - Episode 3
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 1/23/2006
When Sam responds to a fatal stabbing at Crester's Textiles he's shocked to discover that it's the converted mill where he lives in 2006. Sam sets up a forensic investigation but Gene already has a hunch about the murderer. Sam believes he has to stop Gene from sending an innocent man down for life. But does he have more to learn about this world than he thinks?
Director: John McKay
Writer: Matthew Graham
6.9/10 49 votes#25 - The Rebel Flesh (1)
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 5/21/2011
A solar tsunami sends the TARDIS hurtling towards a futuristic factory on Earth, where human doppelgangers are used to mine dangerous acid, as the time-travelling adventures continue. A second wave hits and the "Gangers" separate. They can remember every second of their "original's" life and feel every emotion they've ever experienced. But are these memories stolen or have they been bequeathed? Are the Gangers merely faulty machinery that must be shut down or are they living, breathing, sentient beings? Can the Doctor convince the terrified humans to accept these "almost people" and prevent an all-out civil war before the factory explodes?
Director: Julian Simpson
Writer: Matthew Graham
The Best Episodes Written By Matthew Graham
Every TV Episode Written by Matthew Graham Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters
Matthew Graham Ratings Summary
The best episode written by Matthew Graham is "Episode 8", rated 10/10 from 1 user votes. It was "directed by David Drury". "Episode 8" aired on 5/21/2010 and is rated 1.0 point(s) higher than their second highest rated, "Episode 1".