Rent Hetty Wainthropp Investigates (1996 - 1998)
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- General info
- Synopsis:
- Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a UK crime drama/comedy that follows Hetty (Patricia Routledge), her husband Robert (Derek Benfield) and their lodger and Hetty's assistant Geoffrey (Dominic Monaghan). The series revolves around Hetty and Geoffrey investigating various different crimes, each of varying levels of severity. The two amateur detectives get involved in many crimes that require their involvement with the police, specifically DCI Adams (John Graham Davies) as they attempt to find justice in rural England while Hetty tries to maintain her relationship with Robert.
- Actors:
- Patricia Routledge, Derek Benfield, Dominic Monaghan, John Graham-Davies, Lill Roughley, Lesley Dunlop, Sue Johnston, Norman Mills, Carol Noakes, Paul Slack, Darren Tighe, Ronnie Stevens, Robert Perkins, Paul Popplewell, Damian Myerscough, Linda Broughton, Shirley Vaughan, Neil Finnighan, Barbara Keogh, Alicya Eyo
- Directors:
- Michael Vardy, Roger Bamford, Jim Goddard, John Glenister, Robert Tronson, Daivid Giles, David Giles, Don Leaver
- Producers:
- Carol Parks
- Voiced By:
- Alan Rothwell
- Creators:
- John Bowen, David Cook
- Writers:
- John Bowen, David Cook, Philip Martin, Brian Finch, Peter Gibbs, Jeremy Paul
- Studio:
- Acorn Media
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Classics, TV Comedies, TV Crimes, TV Dramas, TV Mysteries
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Reviews (1) of Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Gentle mysteries - Hetty Wainthropp Investigates review by BN
Patricia Routledge has just turned 60 and works in a post office. Astonishing to realise that in the 80s wives didn't qualify for OAP pensions so she was going to have to wait until Derek Benfield (as husband Robert) qualified to get it at 65!!
In her first encounter with Dominic Monaghan playing a teenager named Geoffrey she has some sympathy for his plight of almost homelessness and both realise they like to solve mysteries so she establishes a Detective Agency with Geoffrey's help.
Cute, quite curious little mysteries; engrossing, I got myself the box set and love periodically watching the episodes.
Lots of well known British actors turn up in it.
John Graham Davies provides light relief as DCI Adams the policeman she often goes to, for info and assistance.
4 series, 1996-1998 on BBC.
Inviting theme tune by Nigel Hess.
Try it.
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