Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Seasons

1995

7.6

TV-PG

Hetty wakes on her 60th birthday and decides to become a private investigator. With assistance from a teenager called Geoffrey and her husband Robert, combined with her own common sense, Hetty is confident she can solve any case.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Bearded Lady

A spunky sextegeneration and her teenage runaway assistant join forces to form their own detective agency and investigate the death of an elderly pensioner.

S1 • E2

Eye Witness

A deaf-mute young man out bird-watching watches a couple necking in a car, but amusement turns to horror when he witnesses a murder.

S1 • E3

Fingers

While vacationing in Tuscany Hetty is hired by a local restaurateur whose son has been kidnapped, possibly by Mafioso who have been mailing him the boy's fingers.

S1 • E4

Widdershins

When Robert's uncle and childhood hero commits suicide by hanging himself in his home, Hetty investigates and finds witchcraft may be involved.

S1 • E5

A High Profile

A desperate mother hires Hetty to locate her schizophrenic son who has disappeared and is off his medication.

S1 • E6

Safe as Houses

The foster mother of a runaway teenage mother and her infant son hires Hetty to locate the girl and find out if she's the serial arsonist who's been plaguing the area.