Detectorists
- TV sitcom
- BBC Four / BBC Two
- 2014 - 2022
- 20 episodes (3 series)
Sitcom about metal detecting enthusiasts. Stars Mackenzie Crook and Toby Jones. Also features Rachael Stirling, Gerard Horan, Pearce Quigley, Divian Ladwa, Laura Checkley and more.
- Series 2, Christmas Special repeated Sunday at 10pm on U&Gold
Streaming rank this week: 268
Episode menu
Series 3, Episode 5
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 6th December 2017
- Time
- 10pm
- Channel
- BBC Four
- Length
- 30 minutes
Cast & crew
| Mackenzie Crook | Andy Stone |
| Toby Jones | Lance Stater |
| Rachael Stirling | Becky |
| Simon Farnaby | Art |
| Paul Casar | Paul |
| Diana Rigg | Veronica |
| Alexa Davies | Kate |
| Rebecca Callard | Toni |
| Asa James Wallace | Stanley |
| Dan Tetsell | Foreman Steve |
| Ben Langley | Solar Bloke |
| Dan Phillips | Builder |
| Mackenzie Crook | Writer |
| Andrew Ellard | Story Producer |
| Mackenzie Crook | Director |
| Gill Isles | Producer |
| Lisa Thomas | Executive Producer |
| Alan Marke | Executive Producer |
| Jim Reid | Executive Producer |
| Alex Moody | Executive Producer |
| Colin Fair | Editor |
| Sam Harley (as Samantha Harley) | Production Designer |
| Catherine Willis | Casting Director |
| Mattias Nyberg | Director of Photography |
| Jackie Vernon | Costume Designer |
| Anne Oldham | Make-up Designer |
| Johnny Flynn | Composer |
| Dan Michaelson | Composer |
| Gareth Tandy | 1st Assistant Director |
Video
Stephen Fry or Sandy Toksvig?
Who is the best host of QI? Andy and Lance consider...
Featuring: Mackenzie Crook (Andy Stone) & Toby Jones (Lance Stater).
Press
"Life is too cynical," wrote Paul Weller in the Jam's Tales from the Riverbank, yearning to return to the pastel fields of his youth, both life and death "carried in this stream". The same romanticism, that dream of Arcady, powers this meditative, even transcendent series, which tonight finds Lance and Andy attempting, "like environmental ninjas", to save a beloved tree from culling. The penultimate episode of a show that yields hidden treasures galore.
Ali Catterall, The Guardian, 6th December 2017