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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a British crime drama television series, starring Patricia Routledge as the title character, Henrietta "Hetty" Wainthropp, that aired for four series between 3 January 1996 and 4 September 1998 on BBC One. The series, spawned from a pilot episode entitled "Missing Persons" aired by ITV in 1990, was co-created by writers David Cook and John Bowen, co-starred Derek Benfield as Hetty's patient husband Robert, and Dominic Monaghan as her assistant and lodger Geoffrey Shawcross. It marked Monaghan’s acting debut.

Other co-stars in the series include John Graham Davies as local chief of police DCI Adams; Suzanne Maddock as Janet Frazer, a feisty young auto mechanic; and Frank Mills as Robert's brother Frank. In the United States, episodes have broadcast as part of PBS's anthology series Mystery!. A parody of the series, entitled Wetty Hainthropp Investigates, aired on 12 March 1999 as part of the Comic Relief telethon starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters and Duncan Preston.

Production

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is based on characters from the novel Missing Persons (1986) by David Cook, who co-wrote the episodes with John Bowen. The incidents in Cook's novel were inspired by his own mother's experiences. Prior to the pilot going into production, Patricia Routledge read the story Missing Persons for BBC Radio 4's A Book At Bedtime in February 1987.

In 1990 ITV broadcast a feature-length pilot, Missing Persons, featuring Tony Melody as Robert Wainthropp and Garry Halliday as Geoffrey Shawcross, but ITV opted not to pursue a series. The storyline of this episode is ignored in the subsequent BBC series, with the first episode establishing Hetty as a detective in her first case and meeting Geoffrey for the first time. The characterization of Hetty was altered considerably for the series from the pilot. The 'original' Hetty was blonde and far more 'theatrical' in her manner. Additionally, the pilot character lived in considerably better circumstances than the home seen in the series.

The BBC series was filmed primarily in Burnley, Darwen, Blackburn, Rossendale, Bolton and other locations in Lancashire.

The music for the series was composed by Nigel Hess, the cornet solo was performed by Phillip McCann and in 1997 the title track was awarded the Ivor Novello Award for best television theme.

The BBC series was popular with viewers, but no further episodes were commissioned after 1998. In 2008 Patricia Routledge said in an interview that the cast and crew had been told by the BBC at the end of the fourth series that a fifth series would be commissioned, but it never was. In 2017 Suzanne Maddock shared her memories of making Hetty Wainthropp Investigates in a 45-minute interview for "The Bill Podcast" and explained how she felt disappointed for the fans of the series that they did not get to see a proper conclusion to the series.

Synopsis

Hetty Wainthropp is a retired working-class woman from Darwen in North West England, who has a knack for jumping to conclusions and solving crimes of varying bafflement which often are too minor to concern the police. Although on occasion her husband offers assistance, he more often than not tends to the home while Hetty gads about the countryside with young Geoffrey in search of resolution and justice. In many episodes Hetty seeks the help and advice of DCI Adams of the local constabulary.

Cast

• Patricia Routledge as Henrietta "Hetty" Wainthropp
• Derek Benfield as Robert Wainthropp
• Dominic Monaghan as Geoffrey Shawcross
• John Graham Davies as DCI Adams
• Suzanne Maddock as Janet Frazer
• Frank Mills as Frank Wainthropp

Episodes

Pilot (1990)

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Series 1 (1996)

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Series 2 (1996–1997)

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Series 3 (1997–1998)

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Series 4 (1998)

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DVDs

All four series have been released on DVD in the United Kingdom and United States by Acorn Media. In Australia, the series was released by Madman Films. In Belgium and the Netherlands, the series was released by Lime-Lights Pictures.

DVD Name	Release Date
	Region 1	Region 2	Region 4
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: Missing Persons	29 March 2005	9 May 2005	Шаблон:N/A
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: The Complete First Series	7 September 2004	11 October 2004	31 October 2007
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: The Complete Second Series	9 August 2005	22 January 2007	9 April 2008
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: The Complete Third Series	31 January 2006	5 March 2007	9 July 2008
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: The Complete Fourth Series	27 June 2006	10 September 2007	8 October 2008
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: The Complete Collection	4 September 2007	7 January 2008	20 October 2009
Hetty Wainthropp Investigates: The Complete Collection - Remastered	Шаблон:N/a	14 August 2017	Шаблон:N/a

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