The Enigma Files

The Enigma Files
Opening titles
Genre	Police procedural
Starring	Tom Adams Sharon Maughan Carole Nimmons Duggie Brown
Theme music composer	Anthony Isaac
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	15
Production
Production location	London
Running time	50 minutes
Original release
Network	BBC2
Release	15 April 1980 (1980-04-15)

The Enigma Files is a British television police procedural that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.

Plot summary

The series was a police procedural, written by Derek Ingrey, about a police officer who has been sidelined from regular duties and, having been placed in charge of a records and evidence unit, has begun to specialise in investigating unsolved crimes.

Regular cast and characters

• Tom Adams as Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis
• Sharon Maughan as Kate Burton, the unit administrator (first eight episodes only)
• Carole Nimmons as Sue Maxwell, the unit administrator (last seven episodes only)
• Duggie Brown as Phil Strong, a laboratory technician

Video release

There are no known releases on Video Tape or DVD.

Other media

A tie-in book of the series, written by Christine Sparks, was published by the BBC in June 1980 (ISBN 0563177705 / ISBN 978-0-563-17770-8).

See also

The investigation of "Cold Cases" became a theme for several detective dramas and reality series some two decades later, including:

• Cold Squad, CAN / CTV, 1998
• Cold Case Files, USA / A&E, 1999 (true cases)
• Waking the Dead, UK / BBC One, 2000
• New Tricks, UK / BBC One, 2003
• Cold Case, USA / CBS, 2003
• Solved, USA / ID, 2008 (true cases)
• Zettai Reido, Japan / Fuji Television, 2010
• Cold Justice, USA / TNT, 2013 (true cases)
• To Catch a Killer, CAN / OWN, 2014 (true cases)
• Signal, South Korea / tvN, 2016
• Signal, Japan / Fuji TV, 2018

External links

• The Enigma Files at IMDb