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Oliver's Travels

TV Show1995•50dk•star6.0(4)•trending_up4
Action & AdventureMysteryComedyDrama
Creator:Alan Plater

Oliver is a middle-aged lecturer in Comparative Religion, with a passion for trivia, crosswords, and anagrams, and a very strange sense of humour. Having been fired from the University of the Rhondda Valley, and with no family ties, he decides to set off on a quest to find 'Aristotle', a setter of crosswords. He teams up with WPC Diane Priest, who has just been suspended for asking too many questions about a local murder that seems to implicate the Chief Constable. Pursued by 'The Man with No Name', the unlikely duo visit Shrewsbury, North Yorkshire, Durham, Hadrian's Wall, and Kirkleven in the Scottish highlands on their journey to find 'Aristotle' in the Orkney Isles.

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StatusEnded
First AiredJune 11, 1995
Last AiredJuly 9, 1995
Episode Runtime50dk
Seasons1
Episodes5
TypeMiniseries
Origin CountryUnited Kingdom
Original LanguageEnglish
Spoken LanguagesEnglish

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PBS
BBC One Wales
Do We Look Like That?
Last Episode

S1 E5 • 7/9/1995

Do We Look Like That?

Oliver and Diane find Aristotle's home but are too late to meet Aristotle. But then who is doing the current crosswords? Michael manages to get a long incriminating fax to his mother that wraps up the case, and the persistent Mr. Baxter has a final surprise.

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Oliver's Travels (1995)