Seasons & episodes
S0 · E1Vera, Farewell Pet 2025-01-03 · 46 min
Documentary examining the appeal of ITV's detective drama, Vera, as it comes to an end after 13 years. Brenda Blethyn reflects on her time as DCI Vera Stanhope, and talks about the camaraderie and joy of working on the show. Featuring interviews from key cast members - David Leon (DS Joe Ashworth), Jon Morrison (DC Kenny Lockhart), the directors, crew, and author Ann Cleeves, Vera's creator.
S0 · E2The Rising Tide - Christmas Special 2023 2023-12-26 · 89 min
The apparent suicide of a disgraced television personality sees Vera heading to Holy Island to look into the case.
S1 · E1Hidden Depths 2011-05-01 · 90 min
After two young people are killed in the same way - placed in water and surrounded by flowers - DCI Vera Stanhope knows that she must catch the murderer before they strike again. Aided by her team, especially her trusted right-hand man Sgt Joe Ashworth, she unpicks the complex and dysfunctional relationships amongst a group of bird-watching friends. As the friends' loyalty turns to betrayal, Vera finds that a small act of teenage blackmail and an illicit affair may have driven someone to kill.
S1 · E2Telling Tales 2011-05-08 · 90 min
After Jeanie Long commits suicide, evidence comes to light exonerating her for the murder of teenager Abigail Mantel 11 years earlier. DCI Vera Stanhope and her team set out to retrospectively solve the killing, delving into the secrets and lies of a small community which still feels the repercussions of Abigail's death. Then the case takes an violent and unexpected turn - can Vera use her skill and instinct to find the truth and lay ghosts to rest?
S1 · E3The Crow Trap 2011-05-15 · 90 min
When a woman is murdered in the remote Northumbrian countryside, DCI Vera Stanhope is led back to a place from her past. As she and her team investigate, they uncover shadowy liaisons, conflicting sympathies and hidden injustices.
S1 · E4Little Lazarus 2011-05-22 · 90 min
Last in the series of the detective drama based on the novels by Ann Cleeves. DI Vera Stanhope rescues a young boy from a freezing pond after he escapes from a violent attack which left his mother dead. As Vera and her team investigate what happened to the child, they unravel a web of deadly secrets and discover a murderous sequence of events set in motion by power, money and a mother's love. Although she is usually awkward and uninterested around children, Vera finds a kindred spirit in the boy, and begins to realise that the key to the investigation may lie hidden in his memory.
S2 · E1The Ghost Position 2012-04-22 · 90 min
Vera's reunion with her first-ever sergeant, Stuart Macken, occurs under tragic circumstances when his house is petrol-bombed. Stuart is badly burned by the attack and his 18-year-old daughter Stella is left fighting for her life in intensive care. Vera is shocked to see that Stuart is a shadow of the man she knew 20 years before and, when her investigation uncovers unpleasant revelations about his personal life, she is faced with some long-buried memories of her own.
S2 · E2Silent Voices 2012-04-29 · 90 min
Vera investigates the case of a murdered social worked named Jenny Lister, who was universally considered to have been principled and popular. However, in an overworked and understaffed social work system, a notorious case involving the death of a child seems to hold the key to solving the killing. As Vera pursues the truth, she discovers the real secret at the heart of Jenny's death - and the killer who will stop at nothing to keep it hidden
S2 · E3A Certain Samaritan 2012-05-20 · 90 min
DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the murder of 29-year-old Niall Coulter. With those closest to Niall intent upon obscuring the truth, it is not until the body of a drug dealer is found washed up on a Northumberland beach that the dreadful truth begins to emerge about Niall's past. While coping with revelations from her own past, Vera sifts through evidence of the grief, love and addiction that characterised Niall's life and deduces that his murderer acted through selfless and unrequited love.
S2 · E4Sandancers 2012-06-03 · 90 min
DCI Vera Stanhope and DS Joe Ashworth investigate a suspicious death in an army barracks. Although the scene has been made to look like a suicide, Vera quickly establishes that Staff Sgt 'Dev' Deverson was murdered. Sensing a connection to a soldier named Ollie who was killed in Afghanistan, Vera interviews Dev's loyal comrades and Ollie's grieving family, exposing a deeply concealed trauma at the heart of the crime.
S3 · E1Castles in the Air 2013-08-25 · 90 min
DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the brutal murder of a young physiotherapist gunned down at a luxury country retreat.
S3 · E2Poster Child 2013-09-01 · 90 min
DCI Vera Stanhope and her team must race against time to track down the killer of a respected surgeon and save his abducted teenage daughters.
S3 · E3Young Gods 2013-09-08 · 90 min
DCI Vera Stanhope delves into the tangled past of extreme sports fanatic, Gideon Frane, when he plunges from a Northumberland cliff top in a ball of flames.
S3 · E4Prodigal Son 2013-09-15 · 90 min
Vera and her team investigate the fatal stabbing of an ex-Met police officer outside a busy Newcastle nightclub.
S4 · E1On Harbour Street 2014-04-27 · 90 min
Investigating a mysterious death, DCI Vera Stanhope finds herself in a quiet coastal town with clues that keep revolving around one street.
S4 · E2Protected 2014-05-04 · 90 min
Vera unearths a 30-year-old mystery when the son of a prominent local family is found brutally murdered on the sands of a seaside resort.
S4 · E3The Deer Hunters 2014-05-11 · 90 min
When a suspected poacher is found dead from a gunshot wound, Vera must unearth the real truth behind his return to the Northumberland moors.
S4 · E4Death of a Family Man 2014-05-18 · 90 min
DCI Vera Stanhope investigates the mysterious death of a businessman found floating in the water under the Gateshead Millennium Bridge.
S5 · E1Changing Tides 2015-04-05 · 90 min
Vera takes a look into a suspicious fire that rips through a holiday park on the Northumberland coast. Three cabins are destroyed and the body of a woman is discovered inside inside one of them.
S5 · E2Old Wounds 2015-04-12 · 90 min
Following the discovery of the remains of a teenage girl half-buried in a Northumberland wood, Vera and her team end up looking into a thirty-year old mystery.
S5 · E3Muddy Waters 2015-04-19 · 90 min
Vera investigates the death of an unidentified man dredged up from a slurry pit on a remote Northumberland farm.
S5 · E4Shadows in the Sky 2015-04-26 · 90 min
A dock worker plunges from the roof of a multistory car park whilst picking up daughter from her school prom and everything points to foul play.
S6 · E1Dark Road 2016-01-31 · 90 min
The body of a woman is found on the bleak Northumberland moors.
S6 · E2Tuesday's Child 2016-02-07 · 90 min
The detective investigates the discovery of a young man's body in an area notorious for illicit teenage gatherings, the corpse wrapped in plastic sheeting and having received a blow to the head.