| Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Series 2 | |||||
| Acorn Media (1996) | |||||
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| Patricia Routledge | Hetty Wainthropp | |
| Dominic Monaghan | Geoffrey Shawcross | |
| Derek Bennett | ||
| Derek Benfield | Robert Wainthropp | |
| Suzanne Maddock | Janet Frazer | |
| John Graham-Davies | D.C.I. Adams | |
| Dominic Monaghan | Geoffrey | |
| Derek Benfield | Robert | |
| Chris Barrie | Gordon Brittas | |
| Ronald Pickup | Lester Rose | |
| Matyelok Gibbs | Grace Todd | |
| Ian Kelly | Rev. Peter Hodgkin | |
| Joan Sims | Adele McCarthy | |
| Matthew Scurfield | Oliver Hardiman | |
| Margot Leicester | Annie Mosscrop | |
| Linda Broughton | Mrs Garbet | |
| Joanna Dickens | Elsie Jackman | |
| Peter Gunn | Bryan | |
| Matthew Mills | Steve |
| Director |
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| Producer |
Carol Parks
Jo Wright |
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| Writer |
John Bowen
Jeremy Paul |
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| Cinematography |
Ian Punter
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| Musician |
Nigel Hess
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Move over, Miss Marple! Television's newest sleuth, Hetty Wainthropp, has arrived! Armed with little more than her pocketbook and her prodigious common sense, the Lancashire housewife-turned-gumshoe has proved that she can easily match wits with the best of themeven if she has to take the bus to get to the scene of the crime. With her teenage sidekick, Geoffrey, and her doting hubby, Robert, how can she go wrong? The series is based on characters from the David Cook novel, Missing Persons. It was turned into a two-hour movie/pilot by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1990. It starred Patricia Routledge as Hetty and John Graham-Davies as DCI Adams. The pilot movie was aired, but ITV decided not to pick up a series. Six years later, the BBC bought the TV rights to Cook's novel, and 'Hetty Wainthropp Investigates' was born. Co-starring in the series are Derek Benfield, from 'Rumpole of the Bailey,' and Dominic Monaghan, whom you may recognize from the 'Lord o |
| Disc 01 | ||
| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 11/29/1996 1. Poison Pen | ||
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Helga Allowby, a self-described spinster, has been accused of sending noxious poison pen letters to the residents of her village–and she wants Hetty to prove her innocence. Hoping to penetrate the mistrust that pervades the village, Hetty goes undercover as Tara Hall, a visiting painter. When Hetty turns up next on the mailing list, she suspects that Miss Allowby is guilty of bad penmanship.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 12/6/1996 2. Lost Chords | ||
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Hetty is called in to investigate when one by one, the contestants in the Blainthorp Muiscal Festival lose their voices. The sponsor of the festival, Oliver Hardiman wants the mystery solved but Hetty only has five days.She finds herself caught up in a battle between rival pharmacists who may be using their skills to harm the finalists.
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| Disc 02 | ||
| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 12/13/1996 3. Not All There (Runaways) | ||
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Hetty is called in by the Mayor of Titterslow to look for his daughter who has runaway. She has learning difficulties and the Mayor and his wife want the matter of her disappearance to be kept very quiet. Hetty discovers that she left with her boyfriend, Bernard, who also has learning difficulties and that they were making their way to a country hotel.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 12/20/1996 4. The Astral Plane | ||
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Hetty gets mystical as she investigates Maurika Rome, a spiritualist suspected of using séances and blackmail to prey on the savings of the recently widowed. When Hetty goes undercover and invents a late husband she wishes to contact, she begins to wonder if Mrs. Rome isn't the real thing–until a woman claiming to be her ""late husband's"" illegitimate daughter shows up demanding money. Geoffrey's secret romance with Rome's daughter, Sara, threatens to undermine Hetty's carefully laid trap–and nearly causes him to quit the agency.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 1/3/1997 5. A Rose by Any Other Name | ||
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The children of well-to-do widow Gillian Snape are worried that her photographer-fiancé Lester Rose is marrying her for her money, and hire Hetty to investigate Rose's past. With Geoffrey's help, Hetty learns that Rose is a gambler and a gigolo with several previous identities. Surprising facts revealed by two women from his past and Hetty's tense undercover visit to his studio expose a somewhat less thorny side of the man. Still, is he the marrying kind?
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 50 mins 1/10/1997 6. Woman of the Year | ||
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Hetty goes undercover to a women's shelter in a confidential location–and where no man may enter. Detective Chief Inspector Adams suspects that the shelter's security has been severely compromised by an inside informer. Hetty's quest to find the leak opens her eyes to the terrifying realities of spousal abuse, and results in a gripping conclusion as she leads the women in defending their sanctuary against a violent motorcycle gang.
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