Prime Suspect

Prime Suspect
Prime Suspect title
Genre	Police procedural
Created by	Lynda La Plante
Starring	Helen Mirren
Composer	Stephen Warbeck
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	7
No. of episodes	15 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	100 minutes
Production companies	Granada Television/ITV Productions WGBH Boston/Masterpiece Mystery
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	7 April 1991 (1991-04-07) – 22 October 2006 (2006-10-22)
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Prime Suspect is a British police procedural television series devised by Lynda La Plante. It stars Helen Mirren as Jane Tennison, one of the first female Detective Chief Inspectors in Greater London's Metropolitan Police Service, who rises to the rank of Detective Superintendent while confronting institutionalised sexism within the police force.