Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1368 in DVD
• Released on: 2008-05-19
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6
• Running time: 750 minutes

DVD Description
This set includes two DVDs featuring all Series 6 six stories:

"Superintendent A***hole from London, and D.I. Jordan, another a***hole. Top of the morning to you..."

Despite Detective Superintendent Boyd’s mood swings the Cold Case Unit are still in business. Psychological profiler Dr. Grace Foley, Detectives Spencer Jordan and Stella Goodman welcome new pathologist Dr. Eve Lockhart as the team takes on more gripping cases.

Story 1: Wren Boys
Boyd and his team re-investigate the mysterious death of a badly beaten teenage boy who drowned 16 years ago in a concrete pit.

Story 2: Deus Ex Machina
When Khaled Ahmad goes on hunger strike in the UK, Boyd and the Cold Case team are racing against time to find a 19th-century skull. At the same time, MI6 are keen for Boyd to re-investigate the murder of an Iraqi dissident.

Story 3: The Fall
A mummified, sexually conjoined couple fall from a concealed office during the renovation of a city bank. The discovery awakens a fraudulent scandal buried in the city of London around the time of Black Wednesday.

Story 4: Mask of Sanity
A man is released from a psychiatric unit, but is he still a danger to society?

Story 5: Double Bind
A horticultural tip leads the team into a new investigation.

Story 6: Yahrzeit
The team dig deep to unearth secrets buried for over 60 years.

Stars: Trevor Eve as Peter Boyd, Sue Johnston as Grace, Tara FitzGerald as Eve, Wil Johnson as Spencer Jordan, Félicité Du Jeu as Stella.

Synopsis
A stylish, contemporary thriller series. Chief Inspector Boyd and his team are back to reopen the file of more cold cases in this EMMY award-winning drama. Series Six sees Boyd and his team delve deep into the culture and traditions of Irish Travellers to investigate the mysterious death of a young boy drowned in a concrete pit.

Customer Reviews

one of the best series ever
The 2007 series of Waking The Dead is one of the best ever done. The crime stories are really good and attention graping from minute one. I like that the over agressiveness of Boyd is reduced and more humour is re-introduced. The new cast is great and adds new dimensions to the team. The old cast is perfect as ever. In short: 5 stars

Great ... Ready for Series 7

Love this show. Only get the first 3 seasons in the States and since my DVD player is Region Free (with a little help) I've ordered all the other series from Amazon UK. Absolutely fabulous production that leaves the US spin-offs in a trash heap behind.

Counting the days until Series 7 is released.

Farewell, Boyd, you will be missed
Please, don't get me wrong, I'm not suggesting, that Boyd is dead, far from that. But Waking the Dead is dead, or dying at the very least. Usually I do not like writing negative reviews, with some exceptions, it's just I could hardly believe my own eyes reading the other reviews. So this is a different opinion for a change.

I loved Waking the Dead, I really did. I still miss Mel, I miss Frankie even more. But that is not the problem. All those "ritual killings", well, that's a question of taste, I think, personally, I never like them, as they are usually robbed of any human motivation. But even that is not the point. Trouble is, that when I start to watch a detective series, I expect some interesting case with some really interesting investigation, with one find leading to some ideas, etc. Here we get more and more of Hollywood-type blockbuster wannabe, which I hate. But then, there are plenty of people who think that even Bones season 2 is good, though it has reduced to half stupid comedy half nonsense with no forensics at all. Anyway, I would have given Waking the Dead series 6 three stars, it still has it's moments, if not for that horror somewhere at the middle. I swear, all of you have seen something like this in a zillion films. A HYPER cliche situation: No1 is an intended victim at gunpoint, No2 is the one who holds the gun (hand shaking, tears streaming, oh, the actor's profession is really tragic sometimes, it seems) and No3 trying to talk No2 out of it. A variation: only No1 and No2 available, both with guns, talking, ant the conversation is never less silly than the previous one. OH. I almost wanted to hide under the table of embarrassment.

So: some adventures, some running and screaming, some gore, lukewarm or even dull cases, almost no investigating, almost no forensics. Everything else depends on what you like (or don't like).

Sorry, but that's my verdict: Waking the Dead is dead with no chance of resurrection. Rest in peace.