Murder Most Horrid - Episode Guide

The local planning officer's head has been set in concrete by three hooded men in full view of 13 people on a 49 bus; overnight, WPC Softly is mysteriously promoted to Inspector to head up the investigation.

Brazilian au pair Maria arrives to work for parliamentary candidate and businessman Maurice and his wife Lydia. Soon Maria discovers a cocktail of intrigue that has fatal results.

Fading soap star Judy Talent is in the West End whodunit The Catflap, with a cast who would gladly murder one another.

Quantum physicist Rita Proops is made redundant but manages to carry on her research in her garage.

Children's TV presenter Bunty Breslaw becomes insanely jealous of her young colleague, Colin.

A tale of suburban doppelgangers. Mrs Hat follows a trail that leads to a luxury bath oil, geraniums, and murder.

Tina Mellish is a woman at end of her tether. During a suicide attempt in an hotel bedroom, Tina encounters an international hit woman planning to bump off a local businessman.

Hairdresser Denise Cunningham is taken hostage by a fleeing bankrobber who forces her to drive him to Scotland. Over the course of their journey they begin to develop a friendship.

When old Dr Adams dies, Maud masquerades as his long lost son to become a doctor in Victorian England. Then the real son reappears, and Maud must somehow get rid of him.

75-year-old Lily goes to stay with her daughter Jocasta and her husband Tom. Tom has just been made redundant and the couple are short of money so Jocasta plots to murder Lily for her inheritance.

Travel and cookery writer Verity Hodge finds a corner of France that nobody else has written about or visited. Her best-selling book, 'Mangez Merveillac', changes all that forever - with murderous consequences.

In 1960s East End London, getaway driver Ray and his nightclub singer fiancée Vikki are all set to give up life of crime when a fatal explosion forces Vikki to become a killer.

Dark comedy drama. Super efficient PA Sally Fairfax witnesses a murder in the office.

Black comic drama. Television doctor Kate Marshall faces a moral dilemma.

An abattoir worker holidaying in South America unwittingly becomes mixed up in a plan to stage an execution live on TV.

On the eve of an election, the leader of the opposition and his wife discover a body under their kitchen floor.

A former gangland boss is taken in for questioning about the murder of a policeman and suffers the dubious interviewing techniques of sergeants Hodge and Cole.

The Grim Reaper faces an existence of infinite agony unless she can rescue her failing reputation.

Sisters Lily and Iris are the most colourful characters in the poor village of Skinton. The secret of their plumpness during post war rationing is a full freezer. When it breaks down the repairman arouses fatal passions.

Tracy and Karen seem an unlikely team to set sail on the Jules Verne round the world yacht race. When their boat capsizes, they are forced to reflect on the months preceding their voyage, with fatal results.

WPC Barbara Greaves is bored with law-abiding village life so CID's Neil Brown transforms her into Whoopi Stone, madame and gangster, to go undercover to trap drug barons. But how far is she prepared to go?

Harriet Snellgrove is obsessed with the police and dreams of being arrested. Well-known for her ludicrous confessions, she finally goes one step too far. Will she be believed?

When TV obituaries producer Jill Tanner is faced wth her department being axed, she makes the most of chance encounter wth faded rock star Zack Mitchell, creating his media death and boosting his record sales

Secondary school mealtime supervisor Tiffany Drapes loves head teacher Gloria, but her affections are drawn to games teacher Evangeline: Tiffany eliminates the competition.