Season 3    Episode 8
January 23, 1998    50m    TV-G
Hetty is approached by Hansi, a German gentleman whose golden years have been hampered by a painstaking search for his sister, whom he lost contact with during World War II.

However, Hetty passes the case off to Geoffrey and Janet, when it comes to light that this is not the only pain Hansi has been suffering. Someone at his retirement community has been making pointed references to Nazism at Hansi, something he had never been a part of. The person is going so far as to deface Hansi's garden in the shape of a Swastika.

Hetty goes undercover as a potential tenant of the retirement community, where she comes into contact with characters that seem to come right out of the mystery novel she's reading: a regimental romantic, a frail woman who has remained alone since her fiance's death in the war, among others. All seem to have motives for harming Hansi.

Geoffrey and Janet find Hansi's nephew, only to find that he is ashamed of his uncle's German heritage and prefers to continue hiding.

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Directed By
Jim Goddard
Written By
Philip Martin
Cast of Helping Hansi
  • Patricia RoutledgeHetty Wainthropp
  • Dominic MonaghanGeoffrey Shawcross
  • Derek BenfieldRobert Wainthropp
  • Suzanne MaddockJanet Fraser
  • Richard PascoHansi Bauer
  • Wanda VenthamMargaret Balshaw
  • Sara StewartMrs Laura Swinbank
  • Jean AndersonAlice Marsden
  • Madeleine MoffatRachel McIver
  • Cynthia GrenvilleFreda Jones
  • James TaylorCyril Sopwith
  • Richard ConwayRonald Eames
  • Alan ThompsonTed Eddison
  • Michael TroughtonHarry Sholton
  • Shenagh GovanBrenda Shotton
  • Muriel LawfordMyra
  • Penny LeatherbarrowShirley Sholton
  • Leader HawkinsTudor Wallace
  • Nick MalinowskiClive Reynolds
  • Roger GraingerGarth
  • Frank MillsFrank Wainthropp
  • Jack TannerSimon Diggle

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