Dracaena Reflexa

The Enigma Files is a British television police procedural that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.

The series was a police procedural, written by Derek Ingrey, about a police officer who has been sidelined from regular duties and, having been placed in charge of a records and evidence unit, has begun to specialise in investigating unsolved crimes.

• Tom Adams as Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis
• Sharon Maughan as Kate Burton, the unit administrator (first eight episodes only)
• Carole Nimmons as Sue Maxwell, the unit administrator (last seven episodes only)
• Duggie Brown as Phil Strong, a laboratory technician

There are no known releases on Video Tape or DVD.

A tie-in book of the series, written by Christine Sparks, was published by the BBC in June 1980 (ISBN 0563177705 / ISBN 978-0-563-17770-8).

The investigation of "Cold Cases" became a theme for several detective dramas and reality series some two decades later, including:

• Cold Squad, CAN / CTV, 1998
• Cold Case Files, USA / A&E, 1999 (true cases)
• Waking the Dead, UK / BBC One, 2000
• New Tricks, UK / BBC One, 2003
• Cold Case, USA / CBS, 2003
• Solved, USA / ID, 2008 (true cases)
• Zettai Reido, Japan / Fuji Television, 2010
• Cold Justice, USA / TNT, 2013 (true cases)
• To Catch a Killer, CAN / OWN, 2014 (true cases)
• Signal, South Korea / tvN, 2016
• Signal, Japan / Fuji TV, 2018

• The Enigma Files at IMDb