Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
4 seasons · 27 episodes
S4 E1Something to Treasure
Jul 24, 199850 min
Missing gems and precious metals drive a mining community to madness as Hetty searches for buried treasure stashed by a miner killed in a cave-in. Hot on the trail of the lost loot, Geoffrey, too, is caught in an underground accident.
S4 E2Family Values
Jul 31, 199850 min
Robert goes undercover to help Hetty solve a case of stolen property involving a suspicious drowning. Posing as a wheelchair-bound millionaire, with Geoffrey along for the ride as his chauffeur, he finds himself at the scene of the "acciden
S4 E3Digging for Dirt
Aug 7, 199850 min
A reclusive senior is holding up a real estate deal by refusing to leave her condemned apartment building. Hetty is offered a fabulous bribe when she discovers something suspicious about the structure.
S4 E4Mind Over Muscle
Aug 14, 199850 min
Hetty sends Geoffrey undercover when it comes to light that the owner of a local gym and fitness centre may be supplying people with dangerous anabolic steroids.
S4 E5Blood Relations
Aug 21, 199850 min
Hetty goes to visit a long lost cousin in a small fishing village near Whitby. She soon finds a client - an elderly lady who is being troubled by mysterious sounds of a dog barking. Meanwhile back home Robert plans an exposé on a local buil
S4 E6For Love Nor Money
Sep 4, 199850 min
Robert's brother Frank comes to stay, and brings Hetty the case of a missing Victorian school ma'am.
Patricia Routledge
Hetty Wainthropp
Dominic Monaghan
Geoffrey Shawcross
Derek Benfield
Robert Wainthropp
John Graham Davies
D.C.I. Adams
Suzanne Maddock
Janet Fraser
Frank Mills
Frank Wainthropp
Brian Baines
Vicar
Daphne Oxenford
Mrs. Willoughby
Alan Rothwell
Dr. Fisher (voice)
David Martin
Boy in Arcade
Rebecca Lamb
Magda
Sam Davies
Sid Patten
