Murder Most English ·Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
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.
- Created By
- First Aired on
May 08, 1977
- Popularity: 5.542
- 2 votes
- Networks
- (GB)
- Status: Ended
Show Ended
1 seaons till Jun 19, 1977
Last episode: Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2
Seasons & episodes
Total 1 seasons, 7 episodes
Miniseries
Aired
Episode 1Hopjoy Was Here: Part 150 min
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.
Episode 2Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 150 min
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.
Episode 3Lonelyheart 4122: Part 250 min
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.
Episode 4The Flaxborough Crab: Part 150 min
Several otherwise reputable sexagenarian Flaxborough men seem to be under the influence of a potent aphrodisiac in a series of assaults on local women.
Episode 5The Flaxborough Crab: Part 250 min
Purbright traces the drug affecting the male senior citizens in Flaxborough to either a herb supplement or an experimental prescription drug.
