Death in Paradise

A brilliant but idiosyncratic British detective and his resourceful local team solve baffling murder mysteries on the fictional Caribbean island of Saint-Marie.

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Comedy
Crime
Drama
Mystery
Created By

Robert Thorogood

First Aired on

Oct 25, 2011

14 seaons till Mar 28, 2025

Popularity: 120.4944
279 votes
Networks
(GB)
Production

Red Planet Pictures (GB)Atlantique Productions (FR)Kudos (GB)BBC (GB)

Status: Returning Series

In Production

Last episode: Episode 8

Seasons & episodes

Total 14 seasons, 112 episodes

Specials

Aired

5 Episodes
  • Episode 1Christmas Special89 min

    A wealthy shipping magnate is found dead at a Christmas party. Things get stranger when a man in London receives a mysterious Christmas card connected to the victim’s death.

  • Episode 2Christmas Special 2022: The Death Ghost88 min

    Christmas in Saint Marie takes a spooky turn this year when an old case of Selwyn's comes back to haunt him following the murder of a true crime podcaster on the hunt for a missing child. Marlon is forced to spend the night in a haunted house and Darlene takes a hard look at her life choices. And after a chance encounter in an airport car park, could love finally be in the air for Neville Parker?

  • Episode 3Christmas Special 2023: It's Behind You89 min

    When a CEO falls to his death one night, things take an even stranger turn when his house guest mysteriously vanishes, prompting her fiancé to fly out on a rescue mission.

  • Episode 4Remember... Death in Paradise18 min

    Don Warrington and Tony Jordan Remember... Death in Paradise: For over ten years and more than 100 episodes, Death in Paradise has delivered fans an irresistible cocktail of sun, sea and sin - demonstrating through a succession of murder mysteries that the ugly side of human nature is ever present, even in the beautiful setting of the Caribbean. Watching over events from the very start and overseeing the activities of the show’s changing cast of leading detective inspectors has been Police Commissioner Selwyn Patterson, played by the much-loved actor Don Warrington. Here, Don joins forces with acclaimed TV writer and producer of Death in Paradise Tony Jordan to look back on the show’s origins, share some stories from behind the scenes and discuss what it is - beside the beaches and blue skies - that has made the series such an enduring hit.

  • Episode 7Christmas Special 202489 min

    Londoner Mervin Wilson ruffles some feathers as he clashes with the island’s way of life. But he quickly sinks his teeth into one of the team's most puzzling murder cases yet: three men, all unconnected apart from the fact that they’re dressed as Santa Claus, and seemingly all shot with the exact same gun at the exact same time. As Mervin wrangles this impossible murder, his colleagues struggle with their new boss’s unusual working methods. And Dwayne’s Christmas with his father doesn’t exactly go to plan…

Crew & Team

Amy Rodriguez

Executive Producer

Danielle Scott-Haughton

Executive Producer

Sue Howells

Producer

Tim Key

Executive Producer

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