
Happy Valley is a dark, funny, multi-layered thriller revolving around the personal and professional life of Catherine, a dedicated, experienced, hard-working copper. She is also a bereaved mother who looks after her orphaned grandchild.
First Aired: 4/29/2014
Languages: English
Created by: Sally Wainwright
Type: Scripted
Companies: Red Production Company, Lookout Point, BBC Worldwide Productions
Countries: United Kingdom

Catherine is a no-nonsense police sergeant who heads up a team of officers in a rural Yorkshire valley. When a staged kidnapping spirals out of control turning into a brutal series of crimes, Catherine finds herself involved in something significantly bigger than her rank, but unknowingly close to home


When Catherine discovers the remains of a gangland murder victim in a drained reservoir, it sparks a chain of events that leads her straight back to Tommy Lee Royce. Her grandson, Ryan, is now sixteen and has ideas of his own about the kind of relationship he wants to have with the man Catherine refuses to acknowledge as his father, leaving Catherine's sister Clare caught in the middle. In another part of the valley, a local pharmacist gets in over his head when a neighbour is arrested.
Tommy Lee Royce

Sarah Lancashire
Catherine Cawood

Siobhan Finneran
Clare Cartwright

James Norton
Tommy Lee Royce
Rhys Connah
Ryan Cawood

Charlie Murphy
Ann Gallagher

Shane Zaza
Shafiq Shah

George Costigan
Nevison Gallagher

Rick Warden
Insp Mike Taylor

Vincent Franklin
DSU Andy Shepherd

Mollie Winnard
Joanna Hepworth

Mark Stanley
Rob Hepworth

Amit Shah
Faisal Bhatti
2 episodes
2001
2026