Wallander

8:30pm – Sunday, December 2 on ABC1

Anna Westin (Maimie McCoy), a childhood friend of Wallander’s daughter Linda (Jeany Spark), goes missing shortly after visiting Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) and begging for his help.

Meanwhile, a religious fanatic – Jannek Langas (Paul Andrew Williams) – seems to be responsible for the murder of an elderly woman whose burnt body is found in a shallow grave in the woods.

The investigation into the woman’s death and Anna’s disappearance leads Wallander into a world of religious mania.

When the connection between Westin and Langas is found, Wallander and Linda fear for Anna’s safety.

It’s a race against the clock as Wallander goes after the murderer before he strikes again.

8:30pm – Sunday, November 25 on ABC1

In The Dogs of Riga, the corpses of two Latvian men are discovered on a life raft in Ystad harbour. Covered in Russian mafia tattoos, they’ve been tortured and brutally murdered.

When the dead men are identified as Eastern European criminals, Latvian police detective Karlis Liepa joins Wallander and his team to investigate the case.

However, when Karlis is murdered in an equally brutal fashion on his return to his homeland, Wallander feels it is his duty to investigate further so travels across the Baltic Sea to Latvia.

Thrown into a cold, alien world of police surveillance and lies, Wallander struggles to judge which of Karlis’s colleagues he can trust. He finds himself turning to his only ally: Karlis’s widow, Baiba, as they join forces to locate Karlis’s missing case notes. During their search, Wallander and Baiba become entangled in a web of corruption with no one to trust but each other.

8:30pm – Sunday, November 18 on ABC1

The award-winning drama starring Kenneth Branagh returns for a third series with three thrilling investigations set in Sweden and Latvia.

Kurt Wallander moves into a dream home with his girlfriend, Vanya. It’s a new start for both of them. But Wallander’s happiness is cut painfully short when his dog unearths a skeleton buried under a fruit tree in the back garden. Wallander tries to keep his life on track by getting the case solved as quickly as possible, but his first suspicions lead him in the wrong direction and into a very dangerous situation for himself and his colleagues.

As the same time, a disembodied arm is found washed up on the beach at Ystad. It belonged to a young girl who either jumped off the ferry from Poland, or was pushed.

Wallander finds himself having to investigate two tragic cases: one a shadowy murder that happened long ago; the other looks like it might be the first in a series.

8:30pm – Sunday, July 15 on ABC1

After killing a man in the line of duty, Inspector Kurt Wallander finds himself sinking into depression. He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend, a solicitor, approaches him to investigate the recent death of his father in a car accident. He believes it was no accident.

Wallander dismisses his friend’s suspicions at first, but when his friend explains that the keys to the vehicle were found outside the car, he is lured to look further into it.

Later Wallander learns his friend has been found dead – a possible suicide – and he returns to work to head what may be now a double murder case.

8:30pm – Sunday, July 8 on ABC1

Brilliant, sensitive detective Kurt Wallander answers a routine call to an isolated farmhouse and discovers a bloodbath.

An old man has been tortured and beaten to death and his wife beside him is barely alive. As her life slips slowly away, she whispers to Wallander a word that sounds like ‘foreigners’.

When the word is leaked to the press, it causes an outbreak of racist reprisals against migrants in Ystad.

8:30pm – Sunday, July 1 on ABC1

Swedish detective Kurt Wallander must track a killer who always seems to be one step ahead, following Wallander as much as Wallander is following him.

Three young friends are shot in the woods while on an elaborate Midsummer’s Eve picnic.

Shortly after, one of Wallander’s colleagues is found murdered, also shot – at his home at close range.

As details of his colleague’s personal life emerge, Wallander wonders how well he really knew him. He seems to have been involved with the youths at the picnic, but it’s not clear how.

An hysterical mother of one of the three slain youths has a postcard with what seems to be her daughter’s handwriting on, but is it.

A meticulous killer moves in and picks off others before Wallander can smoke him out.

8:30pm – Sunday, June 24 on ABC1

The death of a man from a heart attack and the apparently unrelated murder of a taxicab driver lead sensitive and brilliant detective Kurt Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) to a conspiracy that stretches far beyond the borders of Sweden.

A man’s body is found at a cash machine and later two girls confess to the murder of the cab driver and show no remorse whatsoever.

The incidents appear to have nothing in common, but as Wallander delves deeper, he unravels a more complicated plot involving cyber-terrorists.

8:30pm – Sunday, June 17 on ABC1

Kurt Wallander (Kenneth Branagh) is a flawed, but deeply human detective, for whom each murder case he works on is personal.

Based on the hugely popular Henning Mankell books, and set in the beautiful but severe Swedish landscape, this series follows the sensitive, brilliant Wallander, who tries, unsuccessfully, to balance his policing life with his family commitments.

Trouble is, he stops at nothing to get to the bottom of each case and his dedication takes a heavy toll on him personally.

In this episode, a young woman burns herself to death in front of him. Later a former politician is found murdered, the first of a series of similar brutal slayings.

Wallander must find the link.

8:30pm – Friday, January 13 on Seven

- SEASON FINALE

On the season final of WALLANDER, when Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly bird-watcher, he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder: a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles.

When another man is reported missing, once again Wallander’s life is on hold as he works tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders. Gradually, he comes to realise that he is on the trail of a serial killer bent on revenge.

Meanwhile, he becomes close to one of the key suspects.

WALLANDER stars KENNETH BRANAGH as Kurt Wallander, SARAH SMART as Anne-Brit Hoglund, JEANY SPARK as Linda Wallander, TOM HILDDLESTON as Martinsson and DAVID WARNER as Povel Wallander, with special guests Saskia Reeves, Dudley Sutton and Phyllis Logan.

8:30pm – Friday, January 6 on Seven

After killing a man in the line of duty, Wallander finds himself spiralling into depression.

He has just decided to leave the police when an old friend, Sten Torstensson, a solicitor, approaches him to investigate the recent death of his father in a car accident. At first, Kurt dismisses his friend’s suspicions about the accident as unlikely, but Sten explains that the keys to the vehicle were found outside the car, raising Wallander’s suspicions.

A report explains that the keys had fallen from the ignition, something that could never have happened if his father had smashed the car while driving. Sten begs him to look into the case but, as interested as he might be, Wallander is still fragile and dismisses the case.

Wallander later learns that his solicitor friend has been found dead – a possible suicide – and realises that he was wrong not to listen. Against his better judgement, a troubled Wallander returns to work to head what may now have become a double murder case.

An enigmatic big-business tycoon who hides behind tight security seems to be the common denominator in the two deaths…

WALLANDER stars KENNETH BRANAGH as Kurt Wallander, SARAH SMART as Anne-Brit Hoglund, JEANY SPARK as Linda Wallander, TOM HILDDLESTON as Martinsson and DAVID WARNER as Povel Wallander, with special guests Rupert Graves and Angela Thorne.