CinemaOSSeries · 1995 · 1 Season

Oliver's Travels

An eccentric professor and a policewoman pursue criminals and find love.

60%(4)IMDbAction & AdventureMysteryComedyDrama

Oliver is a middle-aged lecturer in Comparative Religion, with a passion for trivia, crosswords, and anagrams, and a very strange sense of humour. Having been fired from the University of the Rhondda Valley, and with no family ties, he decides to set off on a quest to find 'Aristotle', a setter of crosswords. He teams up with WPC Diane Priest, who has just been suspended for asking too many questions about a local murder that seems to implicate the Chief Constable. Pursued by 'The Man with No Name', the unlikely duo visit Shrewsbury, North Yorkshire, Durham, Hadrian's Wall, and Kirkleven in the Scottish highlands on their journey to find 'Aristotle' in the Orkney Isles.

Created byAlan Plater

Play
Status
Ended
Language
EN
First aired
June 11, 1995
Last aired
July 9, 1995
Seasons
1
Episodes
5
Network
PBSBBC One Wales

Season 1

Episodes

No episodes found for this season.

Featuring

Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring
Alan Bates

Alan Bates

Oliver

Sinéad Cusack

Sinéad Cusack

WPC Diane Priest

Creative team
Created by
Alan Plater
Showrunner
Ruth Caleb
Ray Townsend
Produced by
David Cunliffe

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