Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle

Miniseries

TV-14

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

Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1
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Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1Mr. 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.
Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1
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Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1After 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.
Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2
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Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2Miss 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.
The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1
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The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1Several otherwise reputable sexagenarian Flaxborough men seem to be under the influence of a potent aphrodisiac in a series of assaults on local women.
The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2
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The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2Purbright traces the drug affecting the male senior citizens in Flaxborough to either a herb supplement or an experimental prescription drug.
Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1
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Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1After 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.
Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2
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Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2When a third member of the quintet of prominent Flaxborough citizens is murdered, Purbright uncovers the covert prostitution ring behind them.