6.6 /10 1 Votes
4.8/10 TV Country of origin United Kingdom No. of series 1 Final episode date 7 April 1990 Number of seasons 1 | 8.5/10 IMDb Developed by Ranald Graham Original language(s) English First episode date 13 January 1990 Network ITV Number of episodes 13 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Genre Action
Crime
Mystery
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Yellowthread Street is a 1990 ITV police drama about detectives of the Royal Hong Kong Police developed and produced by Ranald Graham based on the novels by William Leonard Marshall.
Contents
In the Yellowthread Street series, the detectives of the Yellowthread Street police station in fictitious Hong Bay, Hong Kong -- DCI Harry Feiffer, a European born and raised in Hong Kong; Senior Inspector Christopher O'Yee, half-Chinese, half-Caucasian American, and all neurotic; and the ever-bickering team of Inspectors Auden and Spencer -- attempt to find the rational basis for inexplicable and seemingly bizarre crimes. For example, in 1988's Out of Nowhere, DCI Feiffer must figure out why in the pre-dawn hours, four people in a plate-glass-filled van with Chinese opera blaring out the tape deck were driving on the wrong side of a deserted motorway, miles from the nearest on-ramp, before dying in a violent collision with an oncoming lorry. And why, moments before the collision, did one of the passengers shoot the van driver?
Thirteen fifty-minute episodes were made.
Cast members included: Ray Lonnen, Bruce Payne, Robert Taylor, Tzi Ma, Mark McGann and Catherine Neilson. Tetchie Agbayani appeared in one episode.
Yellowthread Street Novels
Cast
Reception
The series was well received by most, however one reviewer opined that "its chiefest goal seemed to have been to explore just how very badly a dramatization can corrupt and befoul the ideas and characters of a book" On the other hand, many viewers celebrated the new technology involved with the production, including the fact that this was one of the first British TV series to use stereo sound as opposed to mono, and was the cause of many teenagers to plug in hi-fi speakers to their TVs for this reason alone.