Colin Watson
Director
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle (1977)
Miniseries
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle (often referred to simply as Murder Most English) is a seven-part British detective miniseries based on Colin Watson's Flaxborough novel series. While Martin Lisemore receives billing on all episodes, he died midway through filming, and was replaced by Bill Sellars, who refused credit. Flaxborough, near the sea, near the countryside, seems such a nice town, so quiet, so charming. But underneath its placid surface, all kinds of scandalous things go on.
Released May 8, 1977
Episode 50 min
14+
Keywords: imdb.red-herring, imdb.detective-sergeant, imdb.detective, imdb.murder, imdb.whodunit, imdb.based-on-novel
Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S1E1 - Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1
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.
May 8, 1977, midnight
S1E2 - Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1
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.
May 15, 1977, midnight
S1E3 - Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2
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.
May 22, 1977, midnight
S1E4 - The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1
Several otherwise reputable sexagenarian Flaxborough men seem to be under the influence of a potent aphrodisiac in a series of assaults on local women.
May 29, 1977, midnight
S1E5 - The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2
Purbright traces the drug affecting the male senior citizens in Flaxborough to either a herb supplement or an experimental prescription drug.
June 5, 1977, midnight
S1E6 - Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1
After 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.
June 12, 1977, midnight
S1E7 - Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2
When a third member of the quintet of prominent Flaxborough citizens is murdered, Purbright uncovers the covert prostitution ring behind them.
June 19, 1977, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 50 min.
Season Runtime: 50 min.
Released: May 8, 1977
Last Air Date: June 19, 1977, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-14 / 14+
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