''Crime Limited'' was a
BBC television
BBC Television is a service of the BBC. The corporation has operated a public broadcast television service in the United Kingdom, under the terms of a royal charter, since 1927. It produced television programmes from its own studios from 193 ...
series that was a spin-off from the BBC's ''
Crimewatch
''Crimewatch'' (formerly ''Crimewatch UK'') is a British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. The programme was or ...
''. The first series aired on
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's flagship network and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, p ...
over ten episodes in 1992 and was presented by
Nick Ross
Nicholas David Ross (born 7 August 1947) is a British radio and television presenter. During the 1980s and 1990s he was one of the most ubiquitous of British broadcasters but is best known for hosting the BBC TV programme ''Crimewatch'', whic ...
and
Sue Cook
Sue Cook (born Susan Lorraine Thomas, 30 March 1949) is a British television presenter and author. She is best known for co-presenting (with Nick Ross) the BBC One factual crime show ''Crimewatch'' from 1984 until 1995.
Early life
Sue Cook ...
. A second series ran in 1993 and a third series ran in 1994.
[Crime Limited, 1993.](_blank)
BBC Genome. Retrieved 16 September 2017.["Choice", Peter Waymark, ''The Times'', 5 August 1993, p. 39. Retrieved 16 September 2017.]
History
First aired on 28 April 1992, ''Crime Limited'' was the second
spin-off from ''
Crimewatch
''Crimewatch'' (formerly ''Crimewatch UK'') is a British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. The programme was or ...
'', described by producers as "a new ten-part series that takes the cameras behind the scenes of crime."
Presented by
Nick Ross
Nicholas David Ross (born 7 August 1947) is a British radio and television presenter. During the 1980s and 1990s he was one of the most ubiquitous of British broadcasters but is best known for hosting the BBC TV programme ''Crimewatch'', whic ...
and
Sue Cook
Sue Cook (born Susan Lorraine Thomas, 30 March 1949) is a British television presenter and author. She is best known for co-presenting (with Nick Ross) the BBC One factual crime show ''Crimewatch'' from 1984 until 1995.
Early life
Sue Cook ...
, the series includes features and reports that Ross described as "
eing unable toform part of our appeal for information". Ross commented that, "''Crime Limited'' gives us the chance to go into these stories. Some are exciting, some are reassuring and some are frankly funny. Some, we hope, will help to limit crime." Cook left ''Crime Limited'' after the first series, leaving Ross as the sole presenter for two further series, which aired in 1993 and 1994.
The producers were Linda Cleeve and John Fothergill and it was edited by Nikki Cheetham.
Crime Limited, 1992.
BBC Genome. Retrieved 16 September 2017. Its most infamous episode featured a prosecution-biased dramatization of the Florence Jackson murder case of 1992, whose outcome was later exposed as a miscarriage of justice
A miscarriage of justice occurs when a grossly unfair outcome occurs in a criminal procedure, criminal or civil procedure, civil proceeding, such as the conviction and punishment of a person for a crime they actual innocence, did not commit. Mis ...
.
Transmissions
See also
* ''Crimewatch
''Crimewatch'' (formerly ''Crimewatch UK'') is a British television programme produced by the BBC, that reconstructs major unsolved crimes in order to gain information from the public which may assist in solving the case. The programme was or ...
''
References
External links
*
1990s British crime television series
1992 British television series debuts
1994 British television series endings
BBC crime television shows
Limited
English-language television shows
Investigative documentary television series
{{BBC-tv-prog-stub