GRANTCHESTER
CRIME / DRAMA / MYSTERY
UNITED KINGDOM
2014-2025
GRANTCHESTER is a British ITV detective drama set in the 1950s in the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester. The show first featured Anglican vicar Sidney Chambers (James Norton), and subsequently vicar William Davenport (Tom Brittney). GRANTCHESTER consists of 54 episodes of 45 minutes.
STORY: In the Cambridgeshire village of Grantchester during the 1950s, Anglican vicar and former Scots Guards officer Sidney Chambers (James Norton), and subsequently his successor Will Davenport (Tom Brittney), work with the overworked Detective Inspector Geordie Keating (Robson Green) to forge an unlikely partnership in solving crimes. Keating's gruff, methodical approach to policing complements Chambers' more intuitive techniques of coaxing information from witnesses and suspects.
GAY COUPLE STORYLINE: Daniel (Olivier Dimsdale) is a photographer living in Grantchester. As Daniel begins a relationship with the Grantchester's parish curate Leonard Finch (Al Weaver), he becomes more and more involved in the life at the vicarage, even though he's not religious. Eventually both the vicar Will Davenport and the vicarage's housekeeper Mrs. Chapman come to consider Daniel to be part of the family.
Leonard Finch (Al Weaver) & Daniel Marlowe (Oliver Dimsdale)
AL WEAVER (2014-2023) January 3, 1981, Bolton, UK
OLIVER DIMSDALE (2016-2023) October 28, 1972, Aylesbury, UK
SPECIAL: This sub-plot deals with Leonard Finch's homosexuality before decriminalisation of male homosexual behaviour in England and Wales (1967).
AWARDS: ‘GRANTCHESTER’ 2 nominations.
7.9 IMDB
