Jim Ryan is a fictional character portrayed by John Alderton in the TV series Heartbeat.
In the first episode they appeared in, titled The Enemy Within (season 7), they were 57 years old.
They appear in 1 episodes out of a total of 372 aired
Episodes1
The Enemy Within
episode S7.E21 february 1998Oscar Blaketon gets a visit from Jim Ryan, his sergeant from the war in the Far East who has recently lost his wife. He enjoys seeing his old friend, but he gets worried about him, when Ryan sees a couple of biology students, Jill and Kathy, with a Japanese camera at the Aidensfield Arms and goes completely mad. Greengrass buys a herd of sheep from his friend Charlie Blunkett, but when the sheep turns out to be stolen, Greengrass wants his money back. Only Blunkett suddenly remembers nothing about any sheep and Greengrass must resort to drastic means to clear his good name.
