''In Suspicious Circumstances'' is a British

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drama television series produced by

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for

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between 3 June 1991 and 11 October 1996. Re-enactments of historical crimes were introduced by

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. Granada's Head of Factual Drama Ian McBride described the show as revisiting "an atmospheric past as Edward Woodward intrigues the viewer by walking through period sets and examining the unknown quirks of a crime gone by." In 1996, several writers accused the show of plagiarism. However, Granada executives claimed that their researchers had used the same source materials as the claimants. Of the 21 claims of

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which were heard in court, four were upheld and the rest dismissed.

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published a tie-in book featuring 11 true cases of infamous crimes from the 1870s to the 1980s. On 12 November 2022,

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began repeating the series on Saturday evenings.

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