Rosemary & Thyme: The Complete Series
Acorn Media (2003)
TV Series  /  Crime, Mystery
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054961870493
IMDB   7.6
18 hr 30 mins UK / English
DVD  Region 1   NR (Not Rated)
Felicity Kendal
Pam Ferris
Ryan Philpott
Daisy Dunlop
Pam Ferris Laura Thyme
Felicity Kendal Rosemary Boxer
Ryan Philpott Matthew Thyme
Graham McTavish D.I. Taylor
Matyelok Gibbs Mrs Potts
Chris Larkin Pete Farmer
Ian Burfield Dave Reynolds
Steve Toussaint D.I. Scott
Andy Rashleigh D.I. Flannery
Christopher Villiers Doctor Whittaker
Michael Cochrane Franklin Danvers
Adam Kotz Vicar
Stephen Boxer Julian Marchant
Abigail Cruttenden Patsy Connolly
James Weber Brown Paul Dunne
Director
Tom Clegg
Simon Langton
Brian Farnham
Producer Brian Eastman
Peter Hider
Writer Clive Exton
Stephen Gallagher
Simon Brett
Cinematography Paul Englefield
Musician Christopher Gunning

Meet Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two amateur green-fingered sleuths who came together through a mutual love of plants and troubled social lives. Together they start a new life as a gardening business, tackling horticultural problems for anybody who requires help. Mystery however is never very far behind them, and as soon as they start a new assignment they soon discover plots and conspiracies in-between the herbaceous borders. Nevertheless the dynamic and inquisitive duo tries to solve the murderous goings on, whilst dealing with problems a little closer to their profession. Welcome to the world of Rosemary and Thyme.
Episodes
Series 1 Disc 1
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 49 mins    8/31/2003  1.  And No Birds Sing
Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two plant and flower lovers, meet and hit it off while searching for the cause of two mysterious accidents concerning a very poisonous plant.
Director:  Brian Farnham  Writer:  Clive Exton 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 49 mins    9/5/2003  2.  Arabica And The Early Spider
Work on restoring the gardens at a country home is interrupted when two skeletons are dug up in the process.
Director:  Tom Clegg  Writer:  Clive Exton 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 49 mins    9/12/2003  3.  The Language Of Flowers
When the rich widow hiring Rosemary and Thyme to restore a garden and waterfall is murdered, a gardening book written by her late husband may hold the key to the solution.
Director:  Brian Farham  Writer:  Simon Brett  / Peter Spence 
Series 1 Disc 2
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 49 mins    9/19/2003  4.  Sweet Angelica
Rosemary and Laura are working to restore lawns at an exclusive boarding school when a body turns up.
Director:  Brian Farham  Writer:  David Joss Buckley 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 49 mins    9/26/2003  5.  A Simple Plot
Laura and Rosemary investigate the seemingly accidental death of an old friend who ran an urban garden plot being eyed by a developer.
Director:  Tom Clegg  Writer:  Chris Fewtrell 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 50 mins    10/3/2003  6.  The Tree Of Death
The girls are restoring a churchyard and cemetery in time for a Medieval festival when an unpopular villager is murdered with an arrow through the chest.
Director:  Brian Farham  Writer:  Simon Brett  / Peter Spence 
Series 2 Disc 1
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 32 mins    10/3/2004  7.  The Memory Of Water
While working on restoring an Elizabethan garden, Rosemary witnesses the owner's cousin commit suicide only to later see him alive and well at an open-air market.
Director:  Brian Farnham  Writer:  Stephen Gallagher 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    10/8/2004  8.  Orpheus In The Undergrowth
While creating a memorial garden and helping to solve a murder, Laura tries to repair her relationship with her estranged daughter following her divorce.
Director:  Simon Langton  /  Brian Farnham  Writer:  Stephen Gallagher  / David Joss Buckley 
Series 2 Disc 2
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    10/15/2004  9.  They Understand Me In Paris
While on assignment to restore an old garden on the French Riviera, Rosemary and Laura find time to solve another murder.
Director:  Simon Langton  /  Brian Farnham  Writer:  Clive Exton  / David Joss Buckley 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 46 mins    10/22/2004  10.  The Invisible Worm
While restoring a rose garden at an elite prep school, Rosemary and Laura discover the body of a teacher harpooned in the heart.
Director:  Simon Langton  /  Brian Farnham  Writer:  Clive Exton  /  Guy Andrews 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    10/29/2004  11.  The Gongoozlers
Quinnie Dorell, hostess of a TV gardening show, fills in for Rosemary, who is sidelined with a broken leg, in solving the murder of an investigative reporter.
Director:  Simon Langton  Writer:  Clive Exton  /  Guy Andrews 
Series 2 Disc 3
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    11/5/2004  12.  The Italian Rapscallion
Bending over backwards to prepare an Italian restaurant for its grand opening, Laura and Rosemary play investigators when an English private detective is murdered. Blackmail, scandal and much more are revealed as the mystery is solved.
Director:  Simon Langton  /  Brian Farnham  Writer:  Clive Exton 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    December 2004  13.  Swords Into Ploughshares
Laura is distressed to hear that Rosemary was shot dead while working at Engleton Park; but finds a very lively corpse at the home Rosemary's mother. Bodies, motives, suspects and clues pile up around an archaeological mystery.
Director:  Brian Farnham  / Gwennan Sage  Writer:  Clive Exton  / Chris Fewtrell 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    12/18/2004  14.  Up The Garden Path
Investigating a disease that is attacking the competing gardens of a small town, Rosemary and Thyme are put in the middle of murder involving revenge and whole lot of competition.
Director:  Simon Langton  / Gwennan Sage  Writer:  Peter Spence  / Chris Fewtrell 
Series 3 Disc 1
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    1/21/2006  15.  In A Monastery Garden
While Rosemary and Laura revive an old herb garden for an upcoming royal visit, a young girl is murdered, revealing a darker history of the town that goes beyond the gardens.
Director:  Simon Langton  Writer:  Peter Spence 
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    1/28/2006  16.  Seeds Of Time
The house of a respected, long-dead botanist becomes sought after because it's believed to contain seeds of a now-extinct plant that may offer a cure for malaria.
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    2/4/2006  17.  Agua Cadaver
An old flame of Rosemary's, a noted scholar of Spanish Islamic history, contracts with the girls to help him restore an old Moorish garden on his estate in Spain but murder and suicide prove to be distractions.
Director:  Brian Farham 
Guest starring:  Francine Morgan (Mrs Lawson), Dorian MacDonald (Ben Blackton), Joe Dunlop (Bride's Father), Rod Culbertson (Chef), Philip Brook (Lawson), Dick Brannick (Horace), Niky Wardley (Daisy), Peter Vollebregt (CID detective), Brian Shelley (Lydecker), Eluned Jone
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    2/11/2006  18.  Three Legs Good
Rosemary and Laura work on re-planting the historic Regent's Park garden, filled with its colorful flowers and an array of permanent visitors. But hidden amongst these frequenters of the park are many secrets soon to be revealed, all mysteriously connected to a three-legged dog.
Series 3 Disc 2
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    2/18/2006  19.  The Gooseberry Bush
While building a memorial garden the girls discover the body of a well-known artist and womanizer and an abandoned baby.
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    7/30/2007  20.  Racquet Espanol
Rosemary and Laura and Laura's son Matthew head to Spain where Matthew will participate in a tennis competition while Rosemary and Laura create a trophy garden. In the midst of their trip, a fellow tennis player is murdered leaving the gardeners with a mystery to solve.
    Seen it: Yes   0 hr 47 mins    8/6/2007  21.  Enter Two Gardeners
The girls are contracted to do the landscaping for a traditional amateur theatrical, but when members of the cast are murdered, Laura is forced to don greasepaint.
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 10 mins    8/4/2008  22.  The Cup Of Silence
A famous columnist is murdered while Rosemary and Laura rid a hotel's vineyard of pestering weeds. Strapped for cash with no land-rover, the gardeners pull out all the stops in an attempt to kill the weeds without breaking their backs.
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/26/2005  23.  Racquet Espanol
Laura's son, Matthew, and his friends are on their annual tennis holiday at a beautiful tennis camp owned by former champion Ray Parfitt in southern Spain where Laura and Rosemary are creating a trophy garden for his Pro-Am tennis tournament. When one of the players is found dead after a night out everyone assumes it was a drunken accident but the girls suspect foul play. In the neighbouring village of Mijas, Rosemary rediscovers the thrill of riding motor scooters, while Laura finds the local bullring a mysterious and threatening place. The value of property proves to be the driving force for evil in this idyllic, sun-drenched resort.
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    11/19/2005  24.  Enter Two Gardeners
Rosemary's cousin, Charles, is performing with an amateur dramatic group and she and Laura have been brought along to prepare the garden of the open-air theatre in time for opening night. When one of the actors accidentally shoots himself during rehearsal and the police discover the gun wasn't loaded with blanks, it appears there's a murderer in their midst. Will the play go without a hitch or is someone out to sabotage it?
Director:  Brian Farham 
Guest starring:  Francine Morgan (Mrs Lawson), Dorian MacDonald (Ben Blackton), Joe Dunlop (Bride's Father), Rod Culbertson (Chef), Philip Brook (Lawson), Dick Brannick (Horace), Niky Wardley (Daisy), Peter Vollebregt (CID detective), Brian Shelley (Lydecker), Eluned Jone
    Seen it: Yes   1 hr 0 mins    12/28/2005  25.  The Cup of Silence
English vineyards are growing in reputation in the global wine market, so Laura and Rosemary are excited to be invited to the Crickle Valley vineyard. There they find that weeds are choking this year's crop and the gardeners have trouble finding a horticultural solution to the massive problem. Events turn sinister when a visiting wine columnist dies in mysterious circumstances. Brothers Ben and Stuart, who run the vineyard and hotel respectively, are at odds over the future of the property - a rivalry made worse by the murder of Ben's girlfriend. Cunning detective work by Rosemary and Laura not only unmasks the killer, but ensures this year's vintage of Crickle Valley wines finally makes it into the bottles.
Edition Details
Series Rosemary & Thyme
Distributor Acorn Media
Release Date 10/4/2011
Screen Ratio Widescreen (1.85:1)
Audio Tracks Stereo [English]
No. of Discs/Tapes 7
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