"Sea of Souls" (2004) TV series 2004-????

Creator:

David Kane

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4

Release Date:

2 February 2004 (UK)

Genre:

Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot:

A group of faculty and staff at a Glasgow university studies the paranormal.

Plot Keywords:

Supernatural

Awards:

2 wins & 1 nomination

Cast

Bill Paterson	...	Dr. Douglas Monaghan (20 episodes, 2004-2007)
Dawn Steele	...	Justine McManus (12 episodes, 2005-2006)
Iain Robertson	...	Craig Stevenson (12 episodes, 2005-2006)

Runtime:

120 min (7 episodes) (Series 1-2 and 4) | 59 min (6 episodes) (Series 3)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Company:

British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Trivia:

All the stories in Seasons 1, 2 and 4 were two hours long, shown as two one-hour episodes on consecutive days of successive weeks. Those in Season 3 were one hour long, one episode per story.

Quotes:

Andrew Gemmill: Guns don't make me nervous - it's the bullets I don't like.

Surprisingly good!

To go into details about what this series is about may put off potential viewers, so I won't. Essentially, it focuses on the work of a small group of academics at a small department in a university in Glasgow. The stories are told as 2-part, self-contained movies, and are about the people and the mysteries that this department investigate - unexplained behaviour, such as the sharing of experiences by identical twins who have been brought up apart.

Some Scottish drama has been excellent - remember 'Takin' Over The Asylum'? - and whilst 'Sea Of Souls' may not be anywhere in this league, it is good, and it's worth tuning in. However, if you are a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic, you may find this show annoying. For me, I felt that the skeptical view was well represented, and the real absence of explanations, or neat conclusions to each story served the subject matter particularly well.