Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

1996
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

7.6 | TV-G | en | Drama

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

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Seasons & Episodes

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EP6  For Love Nor Money
Sep. 04,1998
For Love Nor Money

Robert's brother Frank comes to stay, and brings Hetty the case of a missing Victorian school ma'am.

EP5  Blood Relations
Aug. 21,1998
Blood Relations

Hetty goes to visit a long lost cousin in a small fishing village near Whitby. She soon finds a client - an elderly lady who is being troubled by mysterious sounds of a dog barking. Meanwhile back home Robert plans an exposé on a local building firm - but are his facts correct - and Janet is having problems with an obnoxious neighbour who won't take no for an answer.

EP4  Mind Over Muscle
Aug. 14,1998
Mind Over Muscle

Hetty sends Geoffrey undercover when it comes to light that the owner of a local gym and fitness centre may be supplying people with dangerous anabolic steroids.

EP3  Digging for Dirt
Aug. 07,1998
Digging for Dirt

A reclusive senior is holding up a real estate deal by refusing to leave her condemned apartment building. Hetty is offered a fabulous bribe when she discovers something suspicious about the structure.

EP2  Family Values
Jul. 31,1998
Family Values

Robert goes undercover to help Hetty solve a case of stolen property involving a suspicious drowning. Posing as a wheelchair-bound millionaire, with Geoffrey along for the ride as his chauffeur, he finds himself at the scene of the "accident" in the company of a questionable character.

EP1  Something to Treasure
Jul. 24,1998
Something to Treasure

Missing gems and precious metals drive a mining community to madness as Hetty searches for buried treasure stashed by a miner killed in a cave-in. Hot on the trail of the lost loot, Geoffrey, too, is caught in an underground accident.

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7.6 | TV-G | en | Drama , Crime | More Info
Released: 1996-01-03 | Released Producted By: BBC , Country: United Kingdom Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:
Synopsis

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

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Cast

Patricia Routledge , Dominic Monaghan , Derek Benfield

Director

Malcolm Dalton

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Reviews

jamcguigan Everything works in this show- the acting, the story, the pace, the directing...As others have said, it is comforting and engaging. I love Patricia and her chemistry with all co-actors( including "Keeping"); she has a special talent.Absolutely a treasure. They so should have been allowed to make more episodes
bigverybadtom Not being a fan of "Keeping Up Appearances", I purposely picked the video series out of the library because I thought the stars of that series might be better off in this one, which was produced after the other show. Unfortunately, while it wasn't silly like the other show, it wasn't very good either.The premise does evoke the stars' former show. They are an older married couple, with one problem: the wife is not legally eligible for a government pension because she had not been employed long enough, so she takes a job at a post office to fill in her missing working time. In doing so, she spots a teenage boy swiping a charity box and a suspicious couple cashing two welfare checks. She gets the box back and finds out how the couple were cashing a fraudulently-obtained check. She gets the idea into her head of being a private detective, over her husband's objections.The show doesn't try for comedy, but it is slow-moving and dull, and the wife bullies her husband as she did in their former show. I was hoping for better. I didn't get it here.
kclarke5 I first saw this program when it appeared on the PBS "Mystery" series. I keep asking for more. Patricia Routledge surely shows that she's quite adept at performing in a mystery program as well as in comedies. I wonder if she (Hetty Wainthropp) ever investigated amurder in any of these programs. I'm sure she'd do quite well. I know Patricia Routledge did an audio recording of some of these programs, but don't know where I can purchase them in the USA. If anyone can tell me, please contact kclarke5@juno.com. Let's hope PBS gets on the stick and rebroadcasts some of these programs, especially in Kansas City Public Television!
SunHill-2 Gently amusing, occasionally dramatic, quirky English TV series which features a cast of peerless players who you will soon find warming your heart each week. Recommended as a stress reliever for all sitcom weary viewers and potential travellers to England. 10 out of 10 rating given by this viewer.