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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 1
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates - Series 1
Stars: Patricia RoutledgeSummary: The first series from the television programme concerning the adventures of a Northern pensioner who wakes up on her 60th birthday and decides to become a PI.
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Mystery buffs will find Hetty Wainthropp to be delightful and uniquely entertaining company. Hetty has just turned 60, but she is not about to "ride serene into the evening tide," as her doting husband so poetically puts it. "I'm not 60 and I never will be," Hetty proclaims. "I'm not a senior citizen." Hetty wants to matter, so she gets a job at her local Lancashire post office. But that wouldn't make for much of a miniseries. Before you can say "cheeky monkey," she has involved herself in a deadly case of pension-fund fraud, and made a splash on the front pages as a "Super Gran Sleuth." The redoubtable Patricia Routledge, best known as Hyacinth Bucket on the beloved Keeping Up Appearances), does lovely work as Hetty, who first appeared in David Cook's 1986 novel, Missing Persons(Cook co-wrote the six first-season episodes contained here). Hetty is not as quaint as Miss Marple, nor her cases as seamy as Jane Tennison's Prime Suspectmysteries. She is a formidable character in her own right, opening her own private detective agency, and recruiting a 17-year-old shoplifter (Dominic Monaghan from the Lord of the Ringstrilogy) to be her "devoted sidekick." A rogue cop, a roving arsonist, and other unsavory characters are no match for the woman who won't rest until things add up. As one police inspector grudgingly admits, "She's an extraordinary woman. She's no Miss Marple, but..." But, indeed. --Donald Liebenson
| Main Language: | English |
| Region: | Region 0 |
| Special Features: | Cast Filmographies, Interview With Patricia Routledge, Picture Gallery |
| Release Date: | October 11, 2004 |
| Runtime: | 325 minutes |
| Certification: | |
| Catalogue Number: | A V 9337 |
| Keywords: | Two, General, Mystery, Series, Investigates, Tv, Drama, Thriller, Discs, Whodunnit, Hetty, Wainthropp |
| Genre: | Drama |
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