Danny Dyer's Deadliest Men

Seasons

2008

6.6

Danny Dyer interviews Britains most notorious gangsters and hard men showing a quick look into their individual lives.

Episode List

S1 • E1

Stephen French

Danny meets Stephen French, a former gangster nicknamed 'The Devil', who grew up in a Liverpool blighted by the Toxteth riots of 1981, and became one of the country's leading underworld operators.

S1 • E2

Nigel Ely

On this occasion Danny meets Nigel 'Spud' Ely, a former SAS soldier who worked undercover in Northern Ireland, engaged in hand-to-hand fighting in the Falklands.

S1 • E3

Vic Dark

Danny interviews Vic Dark, a man who spent 19 years in prison for a series of crimes including armed robbery, stabbing and shooting.

S1 • E4

Sam "Skelly" McCrory

Danny interviews Sam 'Skelly' McCrory, an openly gay former skinhead who, along with Johnny 'Mad Dog' Adair, became one of the most notorious members of the Ulster Defence Association.

S1 • E5

Barrington Patterson

Danny visits Coventry to meet Barrington Patterson. ex Birmingham City hooligan now a mixed martial artist and doorman.

S1 • E6

Peter Bleksley

Danny discovers what it is like to combat organised crime as he talks to Peter Bleksley, formerly a detective who worked undercover with CID and SO10.

S1 • E7

Dominic Negus

Boxer Dominic Negus, notorious for once headbutting Olympic champion Audley Harrison during a bout at Wembley, talks to Danny about his upbringing in Bethnal Green.

S1 • E8

Bradley Welsh

Danny Dyer meets Bradley Welsh, a legend on the streets among football hooligans who was running his own gang of 200 young Hibernian fans at the age of 14, and had been arrested seven times by the time he turned 15.