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Murder Investigation Team: Series 1

8 episodes Premiered May 2, 2003 Updated Oct 30, 2026
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Season 1 Episodes

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S1·E1 Mytharc

Moving Targets

May 3, 2003 · 49 min

Sgt Matt Boyden of The Bill and an unidentified black man are both murdered in a drive-by shooting. The gunman makes a speedy getaway leaving the police with no idea which man was

S1·E2 Mytharc

Daddy's Little Girl

May 10, 2003 · 49 min

DI Vivien Friend investigates the murder of a young woman whose remains have been found preserved in a concrete tomb at a demolition site. The only clues to her identity are a heal

S1·E3 Mytharc

Rubbish

May 17, 2003 · 49 min

Emotions of the Murder Investigation Team run high when the dismembered body of a small child is found on a Thames rubbish barge. A painstaking search through layers of decaying ru

S1·E4 Core

Reading, Writing and Gangbanging

May 24, 2003 · 49 min

The Murder Investigation Team are called out to a double murder on a run down housing estate. A middle-aged teacher, Martin Ramsey, has been pushed from his third floor window, and

S1·E5 Core

Red Heads

May 31, 2003 · 49 min

When the body of Penny Wake, a young red-haired housewife, is found in undergrowth by a couple out jogging, DI Friend and the Murder Investigation Team are called in to investigate

S1·E6 Core

Lambs to the Slaughter

Jun 7, 2003 · 49 min

When a convicted paedophile, Barry Morton, is bludgeoned to death in his own home it looks like the work of vigilantes. The Murder Investigation Team's most promising lead in the e

S1·E7 Mytharc

Models and Millionaires

Jun 14, 2003 · 49 min

Natasha McKay is the woman with everything - a glamorous modelling career and a rich property developer for a husband. But when her disfigured body washes up on the banks of the Th

S1·E8 Mytharc

The Bigger the Lie

Jun 21, 2003 · 49 min

Tensions run high in the Bangladeshi Community when the body of journalist Ellen Merrick is found dead in a disused shop in the local market place. Witnesses are reluctant to come

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