HETTY WAINTHROPP INVESTIGATES: THE COMPLETE FIRST SERIES

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• Release Year: 1996
• Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
• Plot: Life as a private detective begins at 60 for sprightly Lancashire housewife Hetty Wainthropp (Patricia Routledge, Keeping Up Appearances). Her newly retired husband, Robert (Derek Benfield, Rumpole of the Bailey), thinks she ought to be winding down with him, but Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. Finding an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey Shawcross (Dominic Monaghan, The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Hetty sets up her own detective agency, puts her sensible pumps to the pavement, and proves she has what it takes to be a gumshoe of distinction. ; Includes two episodes not seen on Mystery!
• Cast: Patricia Routledge, Dominic Monaghan, Derek Benfield, John Graham-Davies, Suzanne Maddock, Frank Mills, Wanda Ventham, Alan Rothwell, Wayne Foskett, Rebecca Lamb, Fine Time Fontayne, Krysia Pepper, Christopher Wilkinson, Daphne Oxenford, David Martin, Brian Baines, Sam Davies, John Glenister, Robert Tronson, John Bowen, David Cook
• Director: John Glenister
• Runtime: 5:19
• Company: BBC Video, Acorn Media
• Media Format: Series