Luther (Series 1-3) - 6-DVD Box Set ( Luther - Series One, Two & Three )

Luther (Series 1-3) - 6-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Luther - Series One, Two & Three
Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
English ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
United Kingdom ( PAL/Region 2&4 )

Running Time:
812 min

Aspect Ratio:
Anamorphic Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Anamorphic Widescreen
Box Set
Interactive Menu
Multi-DVD Set
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2010 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Sam Miller
Brian Kirk

Written By:
Neil Cross

Actors:
Idris Elba ..... DCI John Luther (17 episodes, 2010-2015)
Warren Brown ..... DS Justin Ripley (15 episodes, 2010-2013)
Dermot Crowley ..... DSU Martin Schenk / ... (12 episodes, 2010-2013)
Michael Smiley ..... Benny Silver / ... (11 episodes, 2010-2013)
Ruth Wilson ..... Alice Morgan (10 episodes, 2010-2013)
Paul McGann ..... Mark North (9 episodes, 2010-2011)
Nikki Amuka-Bird ..... DCI Erin Gray / ... (8 episodes, 2011-2013)
Steven Mackintosh ..... DCI Ian Reed (7 episodes, 2010)
Saskia Reeves ..... DSU Rose Teller (7 episodes, 2010)
Indira Varma ..... Zoe Luther (7 episodes, 2010)
Carmen Kelly ..... Luther's PA (7 episodes, 2011-2013)

Synopsis:

John Luther is a maverick detective working for London's Serious Crime Unit in this gripping, intelligent and hard hitting drama. Luther is a dedicated policeman, an inspired maker of conections and a whirlwind genious. He is dazzling, obsessive and sometimes dangerous in the violence of his fixations. This collection features all three explosive series which sees Idris Elba play the lead role superbly and features an excellent supporting cast, including Ruth Wilson, Warren Brown and Steven Mackintosh.

Season 1
Episode #1.1 S1, Ep1 7 Oct. 2010
After a 7 month suspension, DCI John Luther returns to duty. With the assistance of DS Justin Ripley, he investigates a home invasion that resulted in the murders of Douglas and Laura Morgan who were found by their daughter Alice. After questioning her, Luther is convinced that she killed her parents and as much as tells her so. He has no physical evidence however and the police have not been able to find the gun. Alice is highly intelligent and is quite prepared to play psychological games with him. Luther meanwhile tries to repair his relationship with his wife Zoe ...
Episode #1.2 S1, Ep2 24 Oct. 2010
Mark claims he threw the first punch, so Luther is released. He blames Alice for setting him up and she rapidly becomes an irritating, patronizing stalker. Meanwhile, a sniper is killing police officers all over London and ex-marine Owen Lynch, wounded in Afghanistan, and whose father Terry, another ex-soldier, is in jail for killing a police man, sends Luther's office a video tape claiming responsibility. Luther believes the father has ordered the son to do it to get his case re-examined but Terry refuses to call his boy off. Luther stages a television interview ...
Episode #1.3 S1, Ep3 31 Oct. 2010
John Luther is on the trail of a satanic occult killer who kidnaps a woman but leaves her baby in the living room. Things get harder when a man accuses Luther of attacking him. Things take a grisly turn when the woman is found.
Episode #1.4 S1, Ep4 7 Nov. 2010
Three women, last seen walking home alone at night, have been murdered in five weeks. The killer, Graham Shand, removes a necklace from the latest corpse to give his unfaithful wife Linda for her birthday before striking again. He is a failed taxi driver with a virility problem and Luther eventually traps him - after spotting the tell-tale necklace on Linda - with the aid of undercover decoy Layla, though it is Linda who has the last word. Elsewhere, Alice, still running free despite being a prime suspect, kills Henry Madsen to 'save' Luther.
Episode #1.5 S1, Ep5 14 Nov. 2010
Art dealer's wife Jessica Carrodus is abducted by vicious Daniel Sugarman and two accomplices for some unique diamonds - which she has swallowed. Her husband is given a duplicate cache to stall Sugarman but the drop is bungled. Luther's colleague Ian Reed learns the identity of one of the accomplices,Tom,whom he rings and persuades him to help Jessica escape but Sugarman kills them both and takes the diamonds. In a final shoot-out Sugarman is shot dead by Reed,who admits to Luther he knew the robbery would take place but not that Jessica would die. Reed also kills Zoe...
Episode #1.6 S1, Ep6 21 Nov. 2010
With his fingerprints on the gun that killed Zoe, Luther is a prime suspect and goes on the run. Only his sergeant, Justin Ripley, believes he is innocent. Luther hides out with Alice who, along with the loyal Justin, helps him to steal and get rid of the tell-tale gun. Justin is also suspended after shouting a warning to Luther when Reed meets him one-to-one but hopes to provoke him into action so that a sniper, positioned on the roof, will shoot him. Luther and Alice also persuade Mark of his innocence and send him to the police station where he takes the diamonds -...
Season 2
Episode #2.1 S2, Ep1 29 Sep. 2011
Alice is now in a mental institution and Luther,after a failed suicide attempt,returns to work having been cleared of killing Zoe. Assisted by the loyal Justin he joins a team headed by Superintendant Schenk hunting a masked serial killer. Luther pursues a suspect,failed art student Cameron Pell,who escapes after attacking him and later phones to say he wants to emulate the Victorian killer Spring-Heel Jack. Luther also agrees to help Caroline Jones,widow of a man he once arrested,to stop her young daughter Jenny from appearing in hard core sex films and kidnaps the ...
Episode #2.2 S2, Ep2 6 Oct. 2011
Pell abducts and tortures Justin,who keeps himself alive by flattering the killer's vanity and manages to free himself and escape whilst Pell is out planning his climactic outrage,which Luther and the team,by speaking to Pell's former associates,are able to stop. Procuress Baba,who claims to 'own' Jenny Jones,forces Luther to stop police witness Andrei Kolchak from giving evidence against her crooked grandson Toby - causing Luther to bring Jenny to stay with him for her own protection. Earlier that night he has had a visit from Alice,who has escaped from her ...
Episode #2.3 S2, Ep3 13 Oct. 2011
Luther leaves Jenny in his flat to investigate an incident at a service station where a man with a baseball bat killed one motorist,maimed another and destroyed their cars. From CCTV footage it appears that he was rolling dice to select victims. The same man later enters an office disguised as a motor-cycle courier and kills five more people before Luther arrests him though in custody he refuses to speak. As Luther returns home to find that Jenny has killed Toby Kent after his attempted rape of her the dice man's exact double prepares another outrage.
Episode #2.4 S2, Ep4 20 Oct. 2011
Luther and Jenny dispose of Kent's body and give Baba cause to believe that he was actually killed by her other henchman Frank. To ensure that there will be no reprisals he threatens her with the ultimate weapon of revenge - Alice. Meanwhile the second dice man murders four people on the subway and Luther deduces that the two killers are twins,competing to see who can claim the most victims. With this in mind he plays on the vanity of his prisoner,Robert Millberry,to help him net his brother Nick,leading Luther into a showdown with Nick Milberry.
Season 3
Episode #3.1 S3, Ep1 3 Sep. 2013
Emily Hammond is killed in her flat by a fetishist who makes up and wigs her corpse,the slaying recalling the murders thirty years earlier by a serial killer the Shoreditch Creeper,who had connections with Emily's house. At the same time Ripley is introduced by embittered Erin Gray to creepy,'unretired' superintendent Stark, anxious to nail Luther for killing people who eluded justice and taking the law into his own hands. Stark and Gray put a wire on Ripley as he and Luther investigate the apparently ritual murder of obscene Internet troll Jared Cass. Prime suspect ...
Episode #3.2 S3, Ep2 9 Jul. 2013
Luther investigates the Lanes' murders, noting that Dani has been made up in the same way as Emily. He also discovers that Ronnie Holland, who headed the Shoreditch Creeper case, has died in suspicious circumstances. Aware of Ripley's involvement with Erin Gray he confronts her and tells her not to use the sergeant in any vendetta against him. Luther discovers that Holland was obsessed with a former murderer William Carney, now debilitated and in a care home. Furthermore Carney has been receiving regular visits from a mysterious man called Paul Ellis. From speaking to...
Episode #3.3 S3, Ep3 16 Jul. 2013
Still dishing for dirt on Luther the desperate Gray and Stark visit Mary, suggesting that Luther killed his wife. However Gray begins to sense that Stark is getting out of control in his desire for revenge and confides in Ripley. Meanwhile a young couple are saved from an attack by thugs by a mysterious man who shoots two of the assailants dead. Both of the dead pair are convicted killers and later another man who had been charged with murder is found hanged. Through a website Luther discovers the perpetrator to be Tom Marwood, taking revenge on killers freed by the ...
Episode #3.4 S3, Ep4 23 Jul. 2013
Luther discovers Ripley's corpse and is charged with his murder by Stark and Gray, but whilst in transit the police car is attacked and Luther is rescued by Alice Morgan. After Marwood goes on the rampage at Mary's flat Superintendent Schenk is aware that he killed Ripley and Mary is taken to a hideaway by Stark and Gray, though Gray starts to sense that Strk wants to reel Luther in for a confrontation.

A crime drama series starring Idris Elba as a near-genius murder detective whose brilliant mind can't always save him from the dangerous violence of his passions.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 25 February, 2015.