# Ultraviolet - The Complete Series 1998

Ultraviolet is a 1998 British television series written and directed by Joe Ahearne and starring Jack Davenport , Susannah Harker , Idris Elba , and Philip Quast . The music was composed and performed by Sue Hewitt. The programme was produced by World Productions for Channel 4 . In the near future, threats to stability like global warming , has caused vampires to attempt covert domination of the earth. Detective Sergeant Michael Colefield ( Jack Davenport ) discovers that his best friend Jack ( Stephen Moyer ) has gone missing on the night before his wedding. Investigating Jack's disappearance leads Michael into the path of a secret paramilitary vampire-hunting organization supported by the British government and the Vatican. Michael learns that Jack has become a vampire. Michael remains devoted to his friend and abhors the brutal methods used by the organization's agents – including Vaughn Rice ( Idris Elba ) – until he realizes that Jack is lying about his situation and that the vampire hunters are correct in their assessment of the vampires. He allows himself to be recruited by the organization, but he hopes to find a middle ground. Over the course of the series, Michael and the organization investigate vampire-related activity, often involving medical experimentation. Individual cases involve a woman who may be pregnant with a vampire fetus, a vampire test subject with synthetic blood, and the outbreak of a disease related to vampirism. The vampires are organized, and…

- Kind: TV
- Year: 1998
- By: Joe Ahearne
- Genres: Horror, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ultraviolet-the-complete-series-1998)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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