Crimewatch: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Help us solve some of the UK's biggest cases. Join the team for dramatic reconstructions, CCTV footage and our wanted faces. Your call could be all it takes to put an offender behind bars. Crimewatch (formerly Crimewatch UK) is a long-running and high-profile British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. The programme was originally broadcast once a month on BBC One, although in more recent years the programme has more usually been broadcast roughly once every two months. It was announced on 15 October 2008 that the BBC would move the production of shows such as Crimewatch to studios in Cardiff. The show was first broadcast on 7 June 1984, and is based on the German TV show Aktenzeichen XY … ungelöst (which translates as File Reference XY … Unsolved). It was first presented by Nick Ross and Sue Cook. When Cook left in 1995, she was replaced by Jill Dando. After Dando's murder in April 1999, Fiona Bruce took over. Kirsty Young, Sonali Shah and Martin Bayfield currently front the show; following the departures of Ross and Bruce in 2007, Rav Wilding in December 2011 and Matthew Amroliwala in March 2015.

Series details

• Title: Crimewatch
• Format: Documentary
• Language: English
• Genres: Crime
• Premiere date: 1984-06-07
• Final broadcast date listed: 2017-03-20
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 47 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 4023

Cast and credited roles

• Nick Ross — Presenter
• Sue Cook — Presenter
• Jill Dando — Presenter
• Martin Bayfield — Martin Bayfield
• Jeremy Vine — Jeremy Vine
• Tina Daheley — Tina Daheley
• Kirsty Young — Kirsty Young
• Sonali Shah — Sonali Shah
• Sophie Raworth — Sophie Raworth
• Jason Mohammad — Jason Mohammad
• David Hatcher — David Hatcher
• Fiona Bruce — Fiona Bruce

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1984-06-07; final listed air date 1984-12-20.
• Season 2: premiered 1985-01-21; final listed air date 1985-12-12.
• Season 3: premiered 1986-01-30; final listed air date 1986-12-18.
• Season 4: premiered 1987-01-29; final listed air date 1987-12-08.
• Season 5: premiered 1988-01-12; final listed air date 1988-12-08.
• Season 6: premiered 1989-01-12; final listed air date 1989-12-07.
• Season 7: premiered 1990-01-18; final listed air date 1990-12-06.
• Season 8: premiered 1991-01-17; final listed air date 1991-12-05.
• Season 9: premiered 1992-01-23; final listed air date 1992-12-10.
• Season 10: premiered 1993-01-21; final listed air date 1993-12-09.
• Season 11: premiered 1994-01-20; final listed air date 1994-12-02.
• Season 12: premiered 1995-01-19; final listed air date 1995-12-13.
• Season 16: premiered 1996-01-25; final listed air date 1996-12-10.
• Season 17: premiered 1997-01-14; final listed air date 1997-12-16.
• Season 18: premiered 1998-01-27; final listed air date 1998-12-15.
• Season 19: premiered 1999-01-26; final listed air date 1999-12-14.
• Season 32: premiered 2015-12-14; final listed air date 2015-12-14.
• Season 33: premiered 2016-02-08; final listed air date 2016-03-10; episode order: 4.
• Season 34: premiered 2016-09-05; final listed air date 2017-03-20; episode order: 4.

Source and licence

Adapted from Crimewatch on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.