<P> In August 2007, the BBC announced its intention to stop production of The Inspector Lynley Mysteries . Fans of the series mounted a campaign to save the series with a petition and contacts to the BBC, but to no avail . All six series have since been released on DVD, distributed by Acorn Media UK . </P> <P> All episodes from the first two series and two from the third are based on novels by the American writer Elizabeth George, though the plots and characters are often significantly altered . Later episodes are original stories for television based on her characters . The theme music for the series was composed by Debbie Wiseman . The first episode, A Great Deliverance, was broadcast on 12 and 13 March 2001, becoming the only two - part episode throughout the series run . It was also based on the inaugural Inspector Lynley novel . The first full series began broadcasting on 8 April 2002, with the first episode based on and named after the third novel, Well - Schooled in Murder . The first eleven episodes were based on, and named after, the eleven Inspector Lynley novels published from 1988 to 2001, beginning with the inaugural novel A Great Deliverance, but subsequently departing from the print sequence . Eight more novels have since been published as of 2015 . </P> <P> Exterior shots of Lynley and Havers' base were filmed at the Bircham Dyson Bell solicitors offices on Broadway, central London . The first episode of series five was notable for being shot in Dungeness in Kent . In the first episode, Lynley drove a Peugeot 607; whereas in both series one and two he drove a Jensen Interceptor; and in later episodes a Bristol 410 . Despite the frequently recurring remark in PBS Mystery! presenter Diana Rigg's introductions to the series that Lynley "is the one with the Bentley", he never drove a Bentley on TV . He does, however, drive one in the George novels . In the pilot episode, the character of Helen Clyde was played by Emma Fielding . She was later portrayed by Lesley Vickerage from series one through three (from series three she and Lynley had married and she was thus known as Helen Lynley) and by Catherine Russell in series five . </P> <Ul> <Li> Nathaniel Parker as Detective Inspector Thomas Lynley </Li> <Li> Sharon Small as Detective Sergeant Barbara Havers </Li> <Li> Emma Fielding as Helen Clyde (Pilot) </Li> <Li> Lesley Vickerage as Helen Clyde (Series 1 - 2) / Helen Lynley (Series 3) </Li> <Li> Catherine Russell as Helen Lynley (Series 5) </Li> <Li> Paul Hickey as Forensic Patholgist Lafferty (Series 4 - 6) </Li> <Li> Shaun Parkes as Detective Constable Winston Nkata (Series 5 - 6) </Li> </Ul>

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