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(Change Layout)Hetty Wainthropp Investigates  
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Series 3
No Pic Released On: March 05, 2007
Region: 2
Production Company: Acorn Media

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The third series from the television programme concerning the adventures of the Northern pensioner turned PI.

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Series 2
Released On: March 06, 2006
Region: 2
Production Company: Acorn Media

Description:
The second series from the television programme concerning the adventures of the Northern pensioner turned PI.

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The Complete 3rd Series
Released On: January 31, 2006
Region: 1
Production Company: Acorn Media

Description:
Nine new adventuresifor theiunstoppable housewife-turned-detective.

The Wainthropp Detective Agency is bustling. No longer the new kid on the crime-fighting block, late-blooming gumshoe Hetty Wainthropp (Patricia Routledge, Keeping Up Appearances) gets the really tough jobs that require a head and a heart. Her uncanny ability to blend in with her surroundings brings her into contact with people from all walks of life, from marauding hooligans to high-society brides in these nine new cases, solved with the help of her trusty young assistant, Geoffrey (Dominic Monaghan, ABC's Lost) and devoted husband, Robert (Derek Benfield).

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The Complete 2nd Series
Released On: August 09, 2005
Region: 1
Production Company: Acorn Media

Description:
The BBC's Most Unlikely Sleuth

Armed with a fully loaded handbag of common sense and intuition, the world's shrewdest, nosiest, and most unlikely private detective returns in her quest to take the mystery out of northern England. Hetty Wainthropp, the Lancashire housewife-turned-gumshoe (Patricia Routledge, Keeping Up Appearances) stars in six new adventures that bring her face to face with the most mysterious, perplexing, and unsavory characters of her young career. Still by her side are devoted husband Robert (Derek Benfield, Rumpole of the Bailey) and teenager Geoffrey Shawcross (Dominic Monaghan, The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Lost), who's become an able-bodies investigating sidekick to Lancashire's "super-gran sleuth."

Includes two episodes not seen on the PBS Mystery! broadcast.

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Missing Persons
Released On: May 09, 2005
Region: 2
Production Company: Acorn Media

Description:
Patricia Routledge stars as Hetty Wainthrope in the pilot episode of the BBC detective drama.

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Series 1
Released On: October 11, 2004
Region: 2
Production Company: Acorn Media

Description:
Hetty Wainthropp, a sprightly, intelligent pensioner looking for a new challenge, wakes on her 60th birthday and decides to become a private investigator. Armed with just her handbag and lots of gritty northern common sense, she proves she can easily outwit the best of them. Although she has to walk, take the bus or sometimes borrow a scooter to get to the crime scene, with sidekick Geoffrey - a teenager she caught shoplifting - husband Robert and her steely determination, how can she fail?

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The Complete 1st Series
Released On: September 07, 2004
Region: 1
Production Company: Acorn Media

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Plain-spoken, cardigan clad, andivery keen oniuncovering crime.

Life as a private detective begins at 60 for sprightly Lancashire housewife Hetty Wainthropp (Patricia Routledge, Keeping Up Appearances). Her newly retired husband, Robert (Derek Benfield, Rumpole of the Bailey), thinks she out to be winding down with him, but Hetty takes a job to make ends meet and accidentally discovers her natural gift for sleuthing. Finding an eager sidekick in destitute teenager Geoffrey Shawcross (Dominic Monaghan, The Lord of the Rings trilogy), Hetty sets up her own detective agency, puts her sensible pumps to the pavement, and proves she has what it takes to be a gumshoe of distinction.

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