Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1989)

Genre

drama, crime

Country

United Kingdom

Length

4 seasons, 27 episodes

Rated

TV-G

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

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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