
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Miniseries
19777 episodes
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.
Episodes
- E1
Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1
1977-05-08 · 47m
Travelling salesman Hopjoy 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? Purbright investigates.
- E2
Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2 / Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1
1977-05-15 · 50m
After solving the mystery of the missing Hopjoy, Purbright turns his attention to a 'lonely hearts' killer, whose next victim might be the fragile-seeming Miss Teatime. But she's deceptive.
- E3
Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2
1977-05-22 · 50m
Miss Teatime and her mysterious suitor both get an unexpected comeuppance, but will the former escape being murdered? As Purbright appreciatively notices, she's tougher than she looks.
- E4
The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1
1977-05-29 · 48m
Several otherwise reputable sexagenarian Flaxborough men seem to be under the influence of a potent aphrodisiac in a series of assaults on local women.
- E5
The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2
1977-06-05 · 49m
Purbright traces the drug affecting the male senior citizens in Flaxborough to either a herb supplement or an experimental prescription drug.
- E6
Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1
1977-06-12 · 48m
After the death of Harold Carobleat, his wife Helen is shocked to find that he's left his estate to a neighbour who is subsequently found electrocuted.
- E7
Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2
1977-06-19 · 51m
When a third member of the quintet of prominent citizens is murdered, Purbright uncovers the covert prostitution ring behind them.
