In the quiet North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield a policeman's lot is often a very happy one. So found PC Nicholas Rhea whose colourful and warm-hearted stories of his countryside beat in the 1960s are the inspiration behind the enormously popular television drama, 'Heartbeat'.
Though they have both opted for careers far from the city smoke, even amidst the rural calm of the North York Moors the lives of PC Nick Rowan and his doctor wife Kate are never less than eventful. Both are continually on call, whether it be from an irate Claude Jeremiah Greengrass, furious that a ruthless local bigwig has taken a pot shot at him and his dog Alfred, or from a woman about to give birth on a snow-bound farm, a woman whose violent ex-convict husband - not the father of her child - is steadily making his way through the frozen countryside towards her . . .
