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How I missed this series when it was shown first time round in 1999, I'll never know. But that's me all over. It took me over thirty years to watch It's a Wonderful Life and realise it's the best film of all time. Ultraviolet is probably the best British sci-fi series of all time. This DVD contains all six episodes, Habeus Corpus, In Nomine Patris, Sub Judice, Mea Culpa, Terra Incognita and Persona Non Grata, and is a must for fans of both the vampire myth, and a good detective story. This will please them on both counts.
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Father Pearse Harmon (Philip Quast – another favourite actor of mine) is a man of God, the only one in CIB who has a religious view of vampires, and life and death, but he is uncompromising in his attitude to their destruction, even when it might involve the killing of children (We learn it was he who 'killed' Angie March's husband and daughter). That is, until he is diagnosed with non-Hodgkins lymphona, and is offered the chance eternal life by the uber vampire 'John Doe' (Corin Redgrave, giving a great turn as a morally ambiguous vampire).
© Sally Quilford
