Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1989)
- Genre
- drama, crime
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 4 seasons, 28 episodes
- Rated
- TV-G
- Rating
- 7.3 of 10 from 20 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A middle-aged housewife in 1990s England solves local mysteries with her husband and a young lodger. She uses common sense and everyday knowledge to outwit the police and criminals.
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What happens
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a British crime drama television series, starring Patricia Routledge as the title character, Henrietta "Hetty" Wainthropp, that aired for four series between 3 January 1996 and 4 September 1998 on BBC One. The series, spawned from a pilot episode entitled "Missing Persons" aired by ITV in 1990, was co-created by writers David Cook and John Bowen, co-starred Derek Benfield as Hetty's patient husband Robert, and Dominic Monaghan as her assistant and lodger Geoffrey Shawcross. It marked Monaghan's acting debut. Other co-stars in the series include John Graham Davies as local chief of police DCI Adams; Suzanne Maddock as Janet Fraser, a feisty young auto mechanic; and Frank Mills as Robert's brother Frank. In the United States, episodes have broadcast as part of PBS's anthology series Mystery!. A parody of the series, entitled Wetty Hainthropp Investigates (episode name: "Wetty Hainthropp Looks into It"), aired on 12 March 1999 as part of the Comic Relief telethon, starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters and Duncan Preston. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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