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Murder Most English (1977)
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.
Murder Most English: Season 1 - 7 Episode s
1x1 - Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1
May 8, 1977
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.
1x2 - Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1
May 15, 1977
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.
1x3 - Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2
May 22, 1977
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.
1x4 - The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1
May 29, 1977
Several otherwise reputable sexagenarian Flaxborough men seem to be under the influence of a potent aphrodisiac in a series of assaults on local women.
1x5 - The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2
June 5, 1977
Purbright traces the drug affecting the male senior citizens in Flaxborough to either a herb supplement or an experimental prescription drug.
1x6 - Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1
June 12, 1977
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.
1x7 - Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2
June 19, 1977
When a third member of the quintet of prominent Flaxborough citizens is murdered, Purbright uncovers the covert prostitution ring behind them.
Murder Most English: 1 Season
Actors in Murder Most English
Anton Rodgers
Detective Inspector Purbright
Christopher Timothy
Detective Sergeant Love
John Comer
Sergeant Malley
Moray Watson
Chief Constable Chubb
Brenda Bruce
Lucilla Teatime
James Grout
Jonas Bradlaw
John Normington
Gordon Periam
Peter Sallis
Rodney Gloss
Caroline Blakiston
Mrs. Helen Carobleat
Antony Carrick
Dr. Rupert Hillyard
Lynn Farleigh
Doreen Periam
Michael Robbins
Pumphrey