Murder Most English

Total Seasons :1Total Episodes : 7

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.

Episodes(7)

Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1

1. 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.

Air Date : 1977-05-08

Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1

2. 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.

Air Date : 1977-05-15

Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2

3. 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.

Air Date : 1977-05-22

The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1

4. 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.

Air Date : 1977-05-29

The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2