THE RETURN of the inhaler-wielding, glove-toting, Shakespeare-spouting fop DCI George Bulman, still played by DON HENDERSON. Now stationed in Manchester, still paired with DS Derek Willis (DENNIS BLANCH), our man was juggling the pressure of working unfamiliar Northern beats and socialising with unfamiliar Northern sassy colleagues such as FIONA MOLLISON and FRANCES TOMELTY. Format was duly ripped up after two years to send Bulman back to London, now in the employ of MARK MCMANUS, before being ripped up again to send Bulman into, er, BULMAN.