The Bearded Lady
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1996
A spunky sexagenarian and her teenage runaway assistant join forces to form their own detective agency and investigate the death of an elderly pensioner.
Episode: 1x01 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1996
A spunky sexagenarian and her teenage runaway assistant join forces to form their own detective agency and investigate the death of an elderly pensioner.
Episode: 1x02 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1996
A deaf-mute young man out bird-watching watches a couple necking in a car, but amusement turns to horror when he witnesses a murder.
Episode: 1x03 | Airdate: Jan 17, 1996
While vacationing in Tuscany Hetty is hired by a local restaurateur whose son has been kidnapped, possibly by Mafioso who have been mailing him the boy's fingers.
Episode: 1x04 | Airdate: Jan 24, 1996
When Robert's uncle and childhood hero commits suicide by hanging himself in his home, Hetty investigates and finds witchcraft may be involved.
Episode: 1x05 | Airdate: Jan 31, 1996
A desperate mother hires Hetty to locate her schizophrenic son who has disappeared and is off his medication.
Episode: 1x06 | Airdate: Feb 7, 1996
The foster mother of a runaway teenage mother and her infant son hires Hetty to locate the girl and find out if she's the serial arsonist who's been plaguing the area.
Episode: 2x01 | Airdate: Nov 29, 1996
When a malicious poison pen writer targets both new and old residents of a small village, the prime suspect hires Hetty to find the real writer.
Episode: 2x02 | Airdate: Dec 6, 1996
Blainthorp Village's Golden Voice competition is a tradition, but someone is systematically eliminating the contestants.
Episode: 2x03 | Airdate: Dec 13, 1996
When the mentally challenged daughter of a local mayor runs away from the institution she lives in with her challenged boyfriend, they come across a dead body.
Episode: 2x04 | Airdate: Dec 20, 1996
The daughter of an elderly, recently widowed woman feels that her mother is being bilked by a phony spiritualist and hires Hetty to expose her.
Episode: 2x05 | Airdate: Jan 3, 1997
The family of a recently widowed older woman suspect the man she's involved with is a fortune hunter, so they hire Hetty to expose him.
Episode: 2x06 | Airdate: Jan 10, 1997
Hetty goes undercover as a battered wife in an isolated shelter after an abused woman is accidentally killed fleeing her husband under questionable circumstances.
Episode: 3x01 | Airdate: Nov 28, 1997
DCI Adams recruits Hetty to pose as the Irish sister of a local woman who is being preyed upon by a teenage thief and vandal.
Episode: 3x02 | Airdate: Dec 5, 1997
A well-to-do woman hires Hetty to find out why her soon-to-be-married daughter is being stalked and photographed by a stranger in the village.
Episode: 3x03 | Airdate: Dec 12, 1997
After a series of muggings of Indian restaurant owners, Hetty is recruited by a community elder to solve the crimes.
Episode: 3x04 | Airdate: Dec 19, 1997
A woman distracted by her cell phone inadvertently causes a fender bender, but the other driver is so overcome by road rage she assaults her.
Episode: 3x05 | Airdate: Jan 2, 1998
When her niece's son is framed for possession of an ecstasy tablet, Hetty goes undercover in his school as a cafeteria worker to clear him.
Episode: 3x06 | Airdate: Jan 9, 1998
A friend of Hetty's asks her to represent her and try to recover her money when a furniture shop goes bankrupt, but there's more here than meets the eye.
Episode: 3x07 | Airdate: Jan 16, 1998
While in hospital for routine surgery, Hetty is able to help DCI Adams with a rash of home robberies of patients and a false rape allegation against the inspector.
Episode: 3x08 | Airdate: Jan 23, 1998
Hetty goes undercover in a posh retirement condo in order to find out who is harassing German immigrant Hansi Bauer into selling his share.
Episode: 3x09 | Airdate: Jan 30, 1998
A self-taught expert in antique clocks is being stalked because of a clock in his possession and calls on Hetty for help.
Episode: 4x01 | Airdate: Jul 24, 1998
The widow of a miner hires Hetty to discover his treasure map showing where valuable gemstones he stole from the mine owners are hidden.
Episode: 4x02 | Airdate: Jul 31, 1998
After his invalid brother drowns in his remote garden pond, Tom Carter hires Hetty to investigate his housekeeper, whom he suspects of larceny.
Episode: 4x03 | Airdate: Aug 7, 1998
An elderly woman ignores eviction notices for the condemned apartment building she lives in as she hopes to prove that it was not built to code.
Episode: 4x04 | Airdate: Aug 14, 1998
After the husband of Hetty's hairdresser is beaten badly in a pub bathroom by the owner of a fitness center, a total stranger, Hetty's hired to investigate.
Episode: 4x05 | Airdate: Aug 21, 1998
While visiting a cousin whom she hasn't seen in years, Hetty investigates an elderly woman's complaints of a ghostly dog while Robert works to expose a home repair fraud.
Episode: 4x06 | Airdate: Sep 4, 1998
Hetty's brother-in-law Frank asks Hetty to search for his lady friend's daughter, who has disappeared.
Episode: S01 Special | Airdate: May 30, 1990 (90 min)
Hetty Wainthropp, a lady of a certain age, visits childhood friend Edith and discovers that her husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. This gives her a taste for detection, and she decides to set up a private detective agency.