• Air date: 29 Apr '98 6 episodes
      Touching Evil is a British television drama serial, which began airing in 1997. It was produced by United Productions for Anglia Television, and screened on the ITV network. The first series consists of six fifty-minute episodes. It was created by Paul Abbott, and written by Abbott with Russell T Davies. The serial was very popular, and led to two sequel serials in 1998 and 1999, although these were not written by Abbott or Davies. The star is popular actor Robson Green, playing a police officer, DCI Dave Creegan, whose injuries after a shooting leaves him with strange abilities to sense criminals. Touching Evil III was co-produced by Green's own independent production company, Coastal Productions. Green's co-star was Nicola Walker, playing Creegan's colleague DI Susan Taylor.
  • List of Episodes (6)
    • 1. Scalping (1)

      29 Apr '98
      Kidnapper-murderer whose fatal fascination with young women leaves Creegan with a new scar to bear.
    • 2. Scalping (2)

      30 Apr '98
      Although the brutal serial killer Emerson is locked in custody, a new murder suggests the OSC might be looking for a copy-cat or an accomplice. The OSC are forced to turn to Emerson himself for help and he names a trivial, but bone-chilling price.
    • 3. War Relief (1)

      07 May '98
      A profoundly disturbed relief worker whose nightmares of atrocities committed in Bosnia impel him to erase the memories of fellow aides—permanently.
    • 4. War Relief (2)

      14 May '98
      Traumatised serial killer Jim Keller has escaped and is widening his scope of victims to include anyone who gets in his way. The OSC must find him and stop him before he kills again and DC Mark Rivers, determined to put past mistakes behind him, finds his own life in danger as he tries to persuade Keller to end the carnage.
    • 5. Paedophile Ring (1)

      21 May '98
      DI Creegan finds himself attracted to a woman who is arrested for the abduction of a child she claims was coerced from her in a baby-brokering scheme. As the OSC inquiry finds leads towards a major international paedophile ring, DI Taylor and DC Rivers pose as a childless couple in a sting to nab the ringleaders.
    • 6. Paedophile Ring (2)

      28 May '98
      DI Creegan faces a personal crisis when his daughter and ex-wife are threatened by a tormented father who torches their house. Distraught father, Michael Hawkins, blames Creegan for his daughter's death. Meanwhile, DI Taylor goes undercover to a kids-for-sale orphanage in Albania, putting her job on the line when she rescues a child from a hellhole in Albania as the OSC comes closer to catching the paedophiles.