Product Description Complete second series about the maverick judge, played by Martin Shaw, who has made it to the High Court without the help of the old boys' network and who struggles against an overly-bureaucratic system in his search for justice and truth. In this series a call girl is murdered and an Arab Sheikh is in the frame but the government wants it kept quiet; a young man with learning disabilities is charged with murder but there's no evidence; an old lover rekindles her interest in Deed but it's soon apparent that she needs a judge more than a lover and a child's parents go against his wishes and put him through a heart transplant and he dies on the slab. Episodes are: ◆Political Expediency ◆Abuse of Power ◆Nobody's Fool ◆Everyone’s Child From Amazon.co.uk Martin Shaw’s Judge John Deed is proving to be a reliable ratings winner for the BBC. And it’s not too tricky to see why. The set-up is simple. Shaw’s title character is a senior, experienced Judge who presides over an assortment of cases in his court room. Behind the scenes though, he’s a crusader of sorts, battling it out with the establishment, right through to members of the Cabinet. Deed is a man, of course, who’s not averse to a few problems of his own in his private life, not least with the opposite sex, and when you mix all of these factors together, it seems like a good, solid, reliable cocktail for an hour of drama. What lifts it above that though is Shaw’s superb performance as Judge John Deed. To be fair, he’s given some questionably far-fetched material to work with across the duration of this second series (all the episodes of which are collected on this double DVD set), but he nonetheless remains magnetic when he hits his stride, and Judge John Deed as a result is rightly enjoying its fair share of success. You won’t always agree with Judge John Deed, and at times, you’re likely to find yourself outright perplexed. But never, ever, less than entertained. Recommended. --Jon Foster