TV Series
- The novel A Pinch Of Snuff was filmed for a three-part 1993 ITV serial starring the comedy duo Gareth Hale as Dalziel and Norman Pace as Pascoe. Christopher Fairbank was cast as DS Wield. Reginald Hill was not happy with the adaptation, and it remained a one-off.
- A more successful series of adaptations began on the BBC in March 1996 with an adaptation of the first novel A Clubbable Woman. Produced by BBC Birmingham, it starred Warren Clarke as Dalziel, Colin Buchanan as Pascoe, David Royle as DS Edgar Wield ("Wieldy") and Susannah Corbett as Ellie Pascoe. Later series introduced Jo-Anne Stockham as DC Shirley Novello, Keeley Forsyth as DC Carrie Harris, Katy Cavanagh as DS Dawn Milligan and Jennifer James as DC Kim Spicer, the latter characters swiftly nicknamed "Ivor", "Bomber", "Spike" and "Posh" by Dalziel. 12 seasons of the show have been produced. The show has won much critical acclaim from newspapers such as The Daily Express and The Sunday Times. The TV and novel continuities are separate, so both Ellie and Wield still appear in the most recent books despite having been written out of the TV series.
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