Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle - Miniseries
1 - Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1
Air Date: May 8, 1977
Travelling salesman Hopjoy 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? Purbright investigates.
2 - Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2 / Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1
Air Date: May 15, 1977
After solving the mystery of the missing Hopjoy, Purbright turns his attention to a 'lonely hearts' killer, whose next victim might be the fragile-seeming Miss Teatime. But she's deceptive.
3 - Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2
Air Date: May 22, 1977
Miss Teatime and her mysterious suitor both get an unexpected comeuppance, but will the former escape being murdered? As Purbright appreciatively notices, she's tougher than she looks.
4 - The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1
Air Date: May 29, 1977
Several otherwise reputable sexagenarian Flaxborough men seem to be under the influence of a potent aphrodisiac in a series of assaults on local women.
5 - The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2
Air Date: June 5, 1977
Purbright traces the drug affecting the male senior citizens in Flaxborough to either a herb supplement or an experimental prescription drug.
6 - Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1
Air Date: June 12, 1977
After the death of Harold Carobleat, his wife Helen is shocked to find that he's left his estate to a neighbour who is subsequently found electrocuted.
7 - Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2
Air Date: June 19, 1977
When a third member of the quintet of prominent citizens is murdered, Purbright uncovers the covert prostitution ring behind them.