The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. Independent Television (generally known as ITV) is a public service network of British commercial television broadcasters set up under the Independent Peter Davison (born Peter Moffett 13 April 1951 is an English Actor, best known for his roles as Tristan Farnon in the television version of Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies is the central character in a series of comic novels by Leslie Thomas and a TV series The Last Detective made for The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this, the first consisting of three episodes plus a pilot, the second and the third series both consisted of four normal episodes and the fourth series increased the run to five episodes and the duration of each individual episode to ninety minutes as opposed to the previous seventy minute format. As of 2008 this series had seventeen episodes in total. The series follows Detective Constable "Dangerous" Davies" who is seen as a joke by his colleagues but is committed to his work. As the series progresses, his reputation improves with his colleagues and his ex-wife, Julie. The series is based on the Dangerous Davies series of novels written by Leslie Thomas. Leslie Thomas, OBE (born March 22, 1931, in Newport, Monmouthshire, Wales) is a British author