Murder Most English

Season 11977

1970s detective series based on the Flaxborough novels by Colin Watson. Starring Anton Rodgers as Detective Inspector Purbright and Christopher Timothy as Detective Sergeant Love, the series pays tribute to a long-gone England of heavy tweed jackets, dial telephones, typewriter ribbons and good old-fashioned investigation and deduction.

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7 Episodes

E01 Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1

Mr. Hopjoy, a traveling salesman, has disappeared - to the relief of many husbands, the rage of innumerable creditors and the alarm of two mystery men from London, who know him as a spy. Is he dead? Chief Inspector Purbright investigates.

May 8, 1977

E02 Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1

After solving the mystery of the missing Hopjoy, Chief Inspector Purbright turns his attention to a "lonely hearts" killer, whose next victim might be the fragile-seeming Miss Teatime. But she's deceptive.

May 15, 1977

E03 Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2

Miss Teatime and her mysterious suitor both get an unexpected comeuppance, but will the former escape being murdered? As Chief Inspector Purbright appreciatively notices, she's tougher than she looks.

May 22, 1977

E04 The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1

Several otherwise reputable sexagenarian Flaxborough men seem to be under the influence of a potent aphrodisiac in a series of assaults on local women.

May 29, 1977

E05 The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2

Purbright traces the drug affecting the male senior citizens in Flaxborough to either a herb supplement or an experimental prescription drug.

June 5, 1977

E06 Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1

After the death of Harold Carobleat, his wife is shocked to find that he has left his estate to a neighbor who is subsequently found electrocuted.

June 12, 1977

E07 Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2

When a third member of the quintet of prominent Flaxborough citizens is murdered, Purbright uncovers the covert prostitution ring behind them.

June 19, 1977

Murder Most English

E01 Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1

E02 Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1

E03 Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2

E04 The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1

E05 The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2

E06 Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1

E07 Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2

Memories of the Alhambra

It's Okay to Not Be Okay

I Am Not a Robot

Her Private Life

Happiness

Noble, My Love

Itaewon Class

While You Were Sleeping

Angel's Last Mission: Love

A Love So Beautiful

Weightlifting Fairy Kim Bok-joo

Business Proposal

Go Ahead

My Runway

100 Days My Prince

Goblin

Andi Mack

The Seven Deadly Sins

My Hero Academia

Descendants of the Sun

E01 Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1

E02 Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1

E03 Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2

E04 The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1

E05 The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2

E06 Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1

E07 Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2