Burnside is a British

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 television

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 police procedural

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 drama, broadcast on ITV

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 in 2000. The series, a spin-off

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 from ITV's long-running police drama The Bill

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, focused on DCI

Chief inspector

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 Frank Burnside, formerly a detective at Sun Hill and now working for the National Crime Squad

National Crime Squad

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 (NCS). Burnside ran for one series of six episodes, structured as three two-part stories.

Characters

The lead character was the eponymous Detective Chief Inspector

Chief inspector

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 Frank Burnside who had appeared in The Bill

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almost from its beginning. Burnside disappeared in mysterious circumstances in 1993 and returned briefly five years later, when it was revealed that he had been working undercover. The main secondary characters were Detective Sergeant

Sergeant

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 Dave Summers (Justin Pierre

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) and Detective Constable

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 Sam Phillips (Zoe Eeles). Burnside's NCS team also included the minor characters of DC Pete Moss (John White) and DC Chris Gibson (Paul Gilmore). In addition, several recurring characters appeared throughout the series: Paul Nicholas

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 played Ronnie "The Razor" Buchan, a former London gangster and Burnside's nemesis. Tony Selby

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 played Jim Summers, the father of Dave Summers and Burnside's former boss. Shane Richie

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 played Burnside's regular informant, Tony Shotton.

List of episodes

#	Title	Writer	Director	Viewers (in millions)	Original Airdate

DVD's

DVD release name	Episodes	Years of Series	UK Release Date (Region 2)	North American Release Date (Region 1)	Australian Release Date (Region 4)	Worldwide (Region 0)
Burnside - The Complete Series	1-6	2000	N/A	N/A	18 August 2009	N/A

Books

Book	Year Published	Cover Photo	Notes
Burnside: The Secret Files	17 July 2000	A Picture of Christopher Ellison and a checker band 3 quarters of the way down.	Paperback

External links

• Burnside official website (archived by the Internet Archive
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  on December 6, 2000)