Lazarus and Dingwall — Season 1, Episode 2: What Happened to the Gerbil?
Comedy • 25 min • 1 season, 6 episodes • ★ 7.5/10
Episode synopsis
The Really Serious Crimes squad are called in when a stuntman is killed on a film set. The actor holding the gun claims he's innocent, but in show business, everyone has a motive.
About Lazarus and Dingwall
Lazarus and Dingwall is a British sitcom starring Stephen Frost and Mark Dingwall as two inept detectives in a pastiche of police dramas. The programme ran for six episodes on BBC Two from 1 February 1 to 8 March 1991. Steve Lazarus and Mark Dingwall are a somewhat unconventional duo in the more than slightly unconventional sector of Really Serious Crimes. Their chief is both eccentric and incompetent, and everyone else is equally oddball, from desk worker and the object of Dingwall's affections, Beverly Armitage, to the plainclothes duo. However, despite their somewhat unique approach, what the department seems to come up trumps more often than not.