Shakespeare & Hathaway: Private Investigators

Seasons

2018

7.6

TV-PG

An oddball couple of private detectives named Luella Shakespeare and Frank Hathaway investigate crime in Stratford-upon-Avon.

Episode List

S1 • E1

O Brave New World

Frank Hathaway finds an unlikely partner in Lu Shakespeare when the pair try to catch a killer and clear Lu's name.

S1 • E2

The Chimes at Midnight

Frank and Lu encounter hapless care assistants and spirited geriatrics when investigating a death at a care home.

S1 • E3

This Promised End

Frank and Lu race against the clock when an undertaker is given only 24 hours to live by two mysterious hitmen.

S1 • E4

This Rough Magic

Frank and Lu investigate mysterious goings-on when a woman dies in a magic trick gone gruesomely wrong.

S1 • E5

Toil and Trouble

Lu and Frank try to exonerate local criminal Billy after the mayor is murdered in the dead of night.

S1 • E6

Exit, Pursued by a Bear

Self-centred actress Sally Balthasar receives death threats after rewriting 'Romeo and Juliet' as a feminist tract and is poisoned on stage. Cast and crew benefit from her absence, including director Roman Randall, who worked with Sally in a soap with a similar poison plot-line, and his lover, understudy Belle Roehampton. Somebody wants Sally off the stage, and Luella and Frank must find out who.

S1 • E7

The Fairest Show Means Most Deceit

Frank is sceptical when an American, Martin Mariner, shows up, claiming to be his uncle. Meanwhile Frank and Luella are asked by shop-owners Diana and Leon Tarsich to prove that their cash-strapped employee Lola is faking an injury claim against them. Then Diana is murdered and Martin is a prime suspect. In proving his innocence, Frank also gets to clear up another mystery.

S1 • E8

The Chameleon's Dish

Student Hamish Kingly tells the detectives that he has had a premonition of a murder at the retreat run by his mother Sandra and step-father Rex so they sign on for the weekend. Hamish's therapist Polly Rattle arrives, demanding her daughter Lily, Hamish's ex-girlfriend, leaves immediately and when Polly is murdered Hamish is arrested. In addition to being in a feud with Sandra and Rex Polly had been having an affair with another student Uzomu but by delving into Hamish's past Luella and Frank unmask the killer.

S1 • E9

The Rascal Cook

Volatile Len Tekler, owner of the Hiverna restaurant, complains of culinary sabotage, designed to give him a bad review by food critic Paulina Stainton. When the restaurant is closed by health inspectors Tekler suspects rival chef Trevor Cordiss but then Tekler is found dead. Paulina has an old grudge against him but she provides a link from the past which helps to crack the case.

S1 • E10

Ill Met by Moonlight

On the eve of an Autumn charity ball Lady Tanya Bede discovers that her rebellious daughter Mia has disappeared along with a priceless necklace she intends to wear at the ball. A ransom note implies that Mia has been kidnapped and suspicion falls on spurned boyfriend Dimitri. However CCTV footage from a pawn-shop and a drunken admission from Lady Tanya suggests otherwise.