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Original Air Date—2 August 1987
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Original Air Date—9 August 1987
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Original Air Date—16 August 1987
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Original Air Date—23 August 1987
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Original Air Date—19 June 1988
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Original Air Date—26 June 1988
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Original Air Date—3 July 1988
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Original Air Date—23 September 1988
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Original Air Date—30 September 1988
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Original Air Date—7 October 1988
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Original Air Date—23 December 1988
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Original Air Date—22 October 1989
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Original Air Date—29 October 1989
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Original Air Date—5 November 1989
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Original Air Date—12 November 1989
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Original Air Date—19 November 1989
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Original Air Date—26 November 1989
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Original Air Date—17 December 1989
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Original Air Date—30 September 1990
During a massive outdoor music festival, a girl is murdered. Could the enigmatic rock star Zeno be involved in any way? |
Original Air Date—7 October 1990
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Original Air Date—14 October 1990
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Original Air Date—21 October 1990
On the eve of a wedding the best man is murdered, and at a similar time there is a serious car crash with two victims. Wexford thinks the two things are somehow connected, but how? |
Original Air Date—28 October 1990
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Original Air Date—4 November 1990
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Original Air Date—11 November 1990
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Original Air Date—18 November 1990
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Original Air Date—24 December 1990
When a world-famous flautist is murdered Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. He becomes obsessed with proving that she is an imposter, even getting permission to travel as far afield as the USA and France to do so. |
Original Air Date—29 September 1991
Wexford's first ever successful murder case comes back to haunt him when a vicar starts to rake up the past. Was the man hanged on Wexford's evidence actually innocent? |
Original Air Date—6 October 1991
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Original Air Date—13 October 1991
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Original Air Date—20 October 1991
Wexford collapses from overwork so is put on a month's leave. Instead of resting though, he decides to go and visit Mike, who is seconded to London. Although he should be resting, Wexford's dreams have drawn him towards Mike's case of a young murdered girl left lying in a vault, and a strong connection to the baby adoption business. |
Original Air Date—27 October 1991
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Original Air Date—3 November 1991
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Original Air Date—10 November 1991
Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field. Mrs. Parsons led an extremely uneventful life, being a lay preacher, but Inspector Wexford is intrigued when he is looking through her belongings and fine a number of expensive antique books all inscribed 'From Doon to Minna'.Who is Doon? |
Original Air Date—17 November 1991
Although Mr. Parsons is under the impression that he and his wife knew nobody in Kingsmarkham it turns out that Margaret had two school acquaintances in the town, Helen Missal and Fabia Quadrant, who are now both married to very wealthy men. Wexford assumes that one of these men is Doon, and was having an affair with the victim, but appearances can be deceptive... |
Original Air Date—24 November 1991
Inspector Wexford is confronted with a murder in a vegetarian family and wonders how many kinds of mushrooms there are. |
Original Air Date—1 December 1991
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Original Air Date—26 December 1991
When Wexford and Burden go on a holiday to France together with their wives, they meet an alluring English couple. Reg becomes transfixed by the wife, and is shocked when he gets back home to hear she has been kidnapped. |
Original Air Date—27 September 1992
Having attended a police conference in China Wexford joins a group of British tourists in Hong Kong including former barrister Adam Knighton and his wife Adela, not the most loving of couples. on return to Kingsmarkham he learns that Mrs. Knighton, who lived nearby,was murdered in an apparent robbery. Burden suspects that an ex-con with a grudge against Mr. Knighton may be responsible but draws blanks. Wexford is convinced that the death is linked to something that happened in China and interrogates the holidaying party. |
Original Air Date—18 October 1992
Tom Peterlee, a member of a large family who live in three adjoining cottages, is murdered. Eva, his mother is quite cavalier in reaction to his death in Wexford's opinion and other family members are no more helpful. Heather, his widow, seems dumb with grief and his brother and meek sister-in-law are similarly evasive. Family friend Carol is more forthcoming, providing Heather with an alibi, but Wexford is sure one of the Peterlees is a killer. Burden has problems of his own when his daughter starts dating a married man and a series of ramraids in Kingsmarkham add to Wexford's problems. |
Original Air Date—1 November 1992
When a 92-year old lady dies, Reg becomes suspicious that there was more to it than old age, and begins an investigation into the slightly sinister elderly retired community surrounding her. |
Original Air Date—15 November 1992
When an off-duty DS Martin tries to be a hero during a bank robbery, not only does he get shot dead, but it also triggers a chain of events involving murders and deceit. |
Original Air Date—22 November 1992
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Original Air Date—27 December 1992
John Creevey has recently separated from his wife Jennifer and is still obsessed with her and Peter Mullin, the new man in her life. Many years ago his sister Cherry had been murdered and her fiancé, Mark Simms, now John's best friend, had been the prime suspect. When the police reopen the case and Simms is again under suspicion, John begins to doubt his friend's innocence, until Mark tells him of sordid details about Cherry's promiscuous past - and her relationship with Peter Mullin. When John discovers a series of coded messages hidden beneath a railway bridge, he throws himself into solving them, as a way of taking his mind off Jennifer. He believes that he has uncovered the communications of a gang of terrorists, not realising that it is just schoolboys at rival public schools, playing at being spies. To punish Peter Mullin for breaking up his marriage, and wrongly suspecting that he may have killed Cherry, he plants a code message for the "terrorists", ordering them to "eliminate" Peter. In doing so he unwittingly sets in motion a chilling meeting between Peter Mullin and one of the schoolboys, Charles Mabledene, which reveals some very unsavoury things about Mullin's feelings towards young boys... |
Original Air Date—2 September 1994
Stephen Whalby loves the moor. When a series of senseless murders of young women invades his beloved moor, he becomes intrigued...and a suspect. |
Original Air Date—9 September 1994
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Original Air Date—16 September 1994
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Original Air Date—24 March 1995
When wealthy middle-aged divorcée Alice Fielding, marries a handsome younger man, her best friend Nesta, who has fallen on hard times, begins to resent her. |
Original Air Date—31 March 1995
Alice is concerned at Nesta's sudden disappearance, particularly in view of veiled comments Nesta had made about a mysterious man friend. She traces Nesta's mail to a seedy hotel in Brighton, where she is told that Nesta has been and gone and that 'Mr. Drage' took her belongings. She is unconvinced and Andrew is annoyed by her apparent obsession but they reconcile and attend the opening of the by-pass. Further revelations about Nesta's hasty departure cause Alice to believe she was murdered and when Alice goes down with a virus she wonders if the killer is after her too. She is unhappy at the whispered conversations between Andrew and the Polish au pair, who is in possession of a letter from Nesta post-marked 'Orphington'. |
Original Air Date—7 April 1995
SPOILER. REVEALS ENDING. Still not wholly well,Alice is told by Harry,her doctor,that Nesta had an affair with Andrew, which the latter hotly denies,saying he resisted her clumsy advances. He claims that Harry is jealous because he wanted Alice and he bars him from the house.Alice matches the writing on the envelope from Orphington to Andrew's type-writer and sees him as her poisoner,though he explains it is a standard type-script. She panics, fleeing from the house to see Harry,who tells her about Nesta's real fate. He was the 'Mr. Drage' who met Nesta in the Brighton hotel for casual sex and Nesta hated Alice, because she wanted Andrew whilst Harry was in love with Alice. The disappearance was part of a plot to ultimately split the Fieldings but Nesta, who was ill, died suddenly before it could be seen through. Despite what she was once told,Alice is pregnant, hence the sickness and fainting. Andrew is wholly innocent of trying to kill her and Harry lets her return to him before committing suicide. |
Original Air Date—21 April 1995
When she was a young girl on the island of Majorca Petra Summerton was traumatised by the events of the Summer when her beloved older brother Piers and his cousin Rosario, to whom he was getting married, disappeared. Now she is middle-aged Petra still finds it hard to get over the situation. |
Original Air Date—28 April 1995
Petra is now happy with a man called Will Harvey but still wonders as to the fate of Piers. Then out of the blue he turns up along with his wife Rosario, but are they who they claim to be or is there a more sinister reason for their 'return', after all these years have gone by? |
Original Air Date—1 January 1996
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Original Air Date—26 January 1996
Inspector Wexford is approached by his black doctor with the request to track down his daughter. Then the body of a young black girl who has been murdered turns up... |
Original Air Date—9 February 1996
Chief Inspector Wexford and Insp. Burden continue the investigation of Melanie Akande's disappearance and the death of the last person to have seen her alive, employment counselor, Annette Bystock. While they find the man who broke into Bystock's house, he claims that the door was unlocked - and she was dead - when he got there. When they find the body of a young black woman, they believe they have found Melanie but have in fact made a terrible mistake leading Dr. and Mrs. Akande to accuse the police of racism. The young woman, only 17 years old, was beaten to death but yet another murder of a black woman deepens the mystery. |
Original Air Date—????
Mrs. Johnson, the school crossing guard, is recovering in hospital but in a semi-comatose state and has no recollection as to what has happened. Wexford does learn from her that the unidentified dead teenager had recently asked her for directions to the job center. There are several possible leads. The burglar's girlfriend seems to be living beyond her means: Mrs. Khouri is known as a difficult employer who can't keep her servants and Wexford wonders if the unidentified girl might have worked for her; and then there are the silent phone calls Wexford keeps receiving. Wexford also cannot help but remember the question at the town hall from the young woman who asked what to do if you had a rapist in the family. Somehow, the Chief Inspector knows it all fits together. |
Original Air Date—8 March 1996
A lonely divorcée becomes involved with a neighbor whose wife and her lover carried out a suicide pact. |
Original Air Date—15 March 1996
Unaware that Bob and Magdalene are the adulterers who murdered their spouses and faked the suicide pact, Susan offers her neighbour comfort, which he pretends to accept in order to find out how much she knows. However, whilst her son is on holiday with his father she does some sleuthing which links him with Magdalene. He comes after her and she is rescued by an unlikely saviour. |
Original Air Date—22 March 1996
Two-part story set in the 1950s. Five women are murdered, but were they all killed by the same man? |
Original Air Date—29 March 1996
Inspector Masters remains convinced that Sarah Quinn's murder is the work of someone other that the suspected serial killer they've arrested. Quinn may have been leading a secret life and may have been meeting a man when she was killed. His sense of the woman and of the case seem correct when he's approached by John Stockton who claims to be the man she was to meet the night she died. He also realizes that her marriage was not the ideal it was made out to be. |
Season 10, Episode 1: The DoubleOriginal Air Date—3 January 1997
Two identical women, one virginal and good and the other sexy and seductive, vie for the affections of a young stockbroker, |
Original Air Date—17 January 1997
Nicholas Hawthorne is a young engineering graduate looking for a job in boat building. Then job-hunting becomes the least of his concerns when a family friend is murdered and it becomes aparent that his father has a secret. |
Original Air Date—24 January 1997
Nick Hawthorne's attempted suicide leaves him badly injured and in hospital. He remains the police's number one suspect in the case. Nicholas Hawthorne continues to conduct his own investigation assisted by his new friend Annabel Lynes. When Nicholas finds documents in Julius' office indicating that his now dead wife was going to sell her part of the business, Annabel is convinced that Julius is behind the murder. She has her own interests in the case however. Although Julius Sorensen learns the identity of his wife's killer, he is blackmailed into keeping quiet. |
Original Air Date—7 February 1997
When her brother-in-law William Symonds dies, May Thrace returns to her home town after a 20 year absence to attend his funeral. She is not there, as she makes quite plain, to visit her now widowed sister June. The two have been estranged for a long-time and have not seen or spoke to one another since their mother's funeral 7 years before. Even as children, they bickered constantly and May always felt that June was her parents', especially her father's, favorite. May and William were once engaged but that soon came to an end when William met and eventually married June. May attempted suicide as a result of her broken heart. June would very much like to reconcile with May and asks her to come and live with her. |
Original Air Date—14 February 1997
Having reconciled their differences, May agrees to June's suggestion that they live together. From all appearances, May seems to have forgotten, or is at least willing to overlook, that June married her one true love. As May settles into the village however, she forms a close attachment to June's friend John Dyson and soon the two are lovers. As June realizes that her own relationship with John will come to an end, she becomes unhappier in their living arrangement and actually asks May to move out. While May seems to take it all quite calmly, it is only because everything is going just according to plan. |
Season 10, Episode 6: ThornappleOriginal Air Date—31 January 1997
Twelve-year-old James lives with his parents and sister. He has a scientific mind and a load of jars, all containing poisons which he has manufactured from plants in the garden - his favourite being Thornapple. When cousin Mirabel and her baby come to stay, James is captivated by Mirabel, who has been rejected by her boyfriend. Mirabel's aunt June, who had also rejected her, suddenly puts her into her good books again, but when June dies, supposedly of gastric complications and leaving Mirabel a large sum of money, James has his doubts as to the true cause of death. |
Season 10, Episode 7: Front SeatOriginal Air Date—21 February 1997
Back in her childhood hometown, Cecily Branksome finds that a park bench in her father's honor has been replaced by one placed there in memory of Rupert Moore, a reputed murderer. To get even, she decides to out the man's mistress, the woman he killed his wife for. It had all happened long ago and her husband begs her to drop the whole thing, but she insists on going on. Aided by an old friend, Arnold Cottle, her pursuit turns to obsession. Little does she know the true story of Rupert Moore and his lover. |
Original Air Date—15 August 1997
A middle-aged man is still haunted by a love affair from his youth which almost ended in murder. |
Original Air Date—2 June 1998
When Guy and Leonora meet again after several years, Guy finds that his love for her has not changed. When they were teenagers, they were madly in love, involving themselves in ever more serious pranks. When one of their friends is killed however, she decides she doesn't want to see him anymore. Having met again, Guy's obsession begins to grow. They agree to have lunch every Saturday and they speak on the phone every day, but for Guy, it isn't enough. For Leonora, Guy is suffocating and she doesn't want the same intense relationship as him. When she tells him that she is in love someone she met some years before at university and that they are going to be married, he explodes in anger. |
Original Air Date—9 June 1998
Guy's obsession continues to grow and he convinces himself that it is those around around Leonora who have turned her against him. When he and his on-again\off-again girlfriend Celeste bump into Leonora and her fiancée William, his insecurities come to the fore. As his own fantasies grow, he finds himself accused by Lenora's mother of trying to kill her son. Turns out she had it right. |
Original Air Date—16 June 1998
Invited to Leonora and William's for dinner, Guy goes mad when he learns that they will be moving to Manchester and attacks William. He's subsequently surprised when Leonora asks him to spend a Saturday with her but is aghast when owing to a mis-communication, his friend Danny tells him of the hit he has arranged on Rachel. When Leonora fails to appear for their lunch on Saturday, he realizes it was all a ploy. Drifting in and pout of fantasy, he decides to seek a final revenge. |
Original Air Date—8 November 1998
The Kingsmarkham police are busy trying to keep the peace between the bailiffs and a group of angry anti-roads protesters who have taken residence in a nearby wood to prevent a bypass from being built. Suddenly Wexford finds himself personally involved in a case much closer to home when a group calling itself "Sacred Globe" takes five people hostage - and one of them is Wexford's wife, Dora. |
Original Air Date—9 November 1998
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Original Air Date—24 December 1998
Della Galway has just started a new job and and is quite pleased with her new flat. It's is a quiet, low-crime neighborhood and the landlady is as security conscious as she is. The only problem is the the rent is a bit high so she advertises for a roommate at work. Rosamund has just split up with her live-in boyfriend and decides to move in with Della. The two couldn't be more different however with free spirit Rosamund unable to understand Della's near fanaticism about locking doors and windows. It all comes to a head when Rosamund brings her new boyfriend home late one night. |
Original Air Date—31 December 1998
During World War II a London teenager, Jenny, is sent to spend the summer in the countryside where she will be safe. Staying with relatives she has not seen since she was a young child is initially daunting, but they are basically a kind family and they treat her well. One of her uncles is serving in North Africa and his very pretty wife is clearly unhappy. As events unfold, Jenny learns that she is having an affair. Jenny herself is at a age where romance is important and she develops a crush on a recuperating RAF pilot. As these complex relationships develop, tragedy ensues. |
Original Air Date—3 May 1999
Quiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what she seems. |
Original Air Date—6 August 1999
When Richard was 8 years old, he disappeared for several hours leading to panic at home and a frantic search by the police. When he turns up unhurt everything is fine until he mentions he went for a ride with a man in his car. His mother assumes he was molested, even though there is no physical evidence to corroborate that. By the time he is 18, Richard is haunted by those events, even though he still remembers nothing. When he visits the site where his troubles all began and sees a young boy playing there, he invites the lad to go for a ride in his car. Slowly, he begins to recall the events of that fateful day |
Season 12, Episode 1: Harm DoneOriginal Air Date—11 October 2000
DCI Reg Wexford and DI Mike Burden have their hands full. A teenage girl disappears for three days after having accepted a lift from a middle-aged woman. She is apparently unharmed but her parents are convinced she must have been molested. Then a second girl disappears under virtually the same circumstances. At the same time, a 3 year-old disappears from her bedroom just as a 72 year-old pedophile is released into the community. The police are satisfied that he had nothing to do with her abduction, but that doesn't prevent parents in the working class community from assuming that he isn't. Two murders however keep them busy as they try to decipher all of the information they are acquiring. |
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