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Product Description Patricia Routledge stars as Hetty Wainthropp in this BBC drama series. Hetty wakes on her 60th birthday and decides to become a private investigator. With assistance from a teenager called Geoffrey who she caught shoplifting and her husband Robert, combined with her own common sense, Hetty is confident she can solve any case. In 'The Bearded Lady' Hetty is busy setting up her detective agency. When investigating the death of a homeless person, Hetty and Geoffrey find they are stumbling upon a greater mystery. Anxious parents contact Hetty in the episode 'Eye Witness' when they believe their profoudly deaf son is missing. 'Fingers' sees Hetty keeping an eye on the family in England of the owner of her holiday hotel in Italy. They are being threatened and Hetty intends to find out by whom. Hetty and husband Robert investigate the alleged suicide of a former professional footballer in 'Widdershins'. 'High Profile' sees Hetty searching for Michael, a boy with learning difficulties. In 'Safe As Houses' Hetty is hired to find an old friend's foster daughter and investigates a series of arson attacks. From .co.uk 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 Suspect mysteries. 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 Rings trilogy) 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
J**O
Light hearted and entertaining and not too violent
Hetty Wainthropp investigates is a very entertaining drama about a pensioner who decides to become a private investigator. Hetty apprehends a thief at a post office but instead of handing him over to the police gets him to follow a homeless couple with a stolen pension book to a disused factory where a body is later found. From that moment on Hetty and Geoffrey become Private Detectives much to the dismay of her husband Robert. Their adventures and cases take them around the North and vary from finding missing persons to the classic case of two youths making residents lives a misery but nothing-that-can-be-proved in law. The pair are greatly assisted by a plain clothes policeman who assists them whenever he can and who later needs their help after an 'incident' involving a nurse. Overall it is a very light hearted and entertaining show.
T**A
Perfect! Every proper crime lover should add this pearl ...
The one and only Patricia Routledge - And now she is a private eye ; Fabulous series !Every proper PE needs an assistent - Sherlock and Watson, Poirot and Hastings, - and now Mrs.Wainthropp and Shawcross . Perfect !Every proper crime lover should add this pearl of a series to their library - especially if you are already a fan of this lady.Mrs.W turns 60 and becomes a pensionar , which she finds boring .She lies awake one night, very pleased with herself after catching a shoplifter and solving the mystery that followed. She declares to her husband ( who does his best to try and sleep ;) ) , that she has found herself, found her calling i life.Good stories, well made plots , great actors ! And everything with a twinkle :)
R**N
Pity the full set was so expensive. This is ...
Pity the full set was so expensive. This is a slightly unusual series in which a retired lady, her husband and young assistant (useful because he is the one with the transport - a motor scooter.) start up a detective agency. It has a lovely brass band music score which ably suggests the Yorkshire scenery.
R**A
You will love this series!
I bought this series because I watched it when it first came out and its as good as ever.I am a great fan of Patricia Routledge she is in a class of her own and whatever the role she is brilliant!Shame the rest of the series was so expensive!
V**T
Three Stars
I bought this as I like Patricia Routledge as an actress ,I was not disappointed .
M**G
Great
She is the best actress I have ever watched
A**M
Four Stars
Pity there were no subtitles
M**N
Five Stars
all good
