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Murder Most Horrid

All Episodes 1991 - 1999

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  • 1991-11-14T21:00:00Z
  • 30m
  • 11h 53m (24 episodes)
  • Paul Smith
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Comedy, Drama, Crime, Mystery
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!

24 episodes

Series Premiere

1991-11-14T21:00:00Z

1x01 The Case of the Missing

Series Premiere

1x01 The Case of the Missing

  • 1991-11-14T21:00:00Z29m

A traffic WPC is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly straight forward murder case, which gradually becomes more complex and mysterious.

1991-11-21T21:00:00Z

1x02 The Girl from Ipanema

1x02 The Girl from Ipanema

  • 1991-11-21T21:00:00Z30m

When housekeeper Maria arrives at the house of MP Howling and his wife Lydia, she doesn't quite find things the way she expected. But one day, Maria witnesses a violent attack on Lydia by her husband and things start to take a turn for the better.

1991-11-28T21:00:00Z

1x03 He Died a Death

1x03 He Died a Death

  • 1991-11-28T21:00:00Z30m

Backstage at a London theatre, rivalry turns into suspicion, when one of the cast is murdered during a performance.

1991-12-05T21:00:00Z

1x04 A Determined Woman

1x04 A Determined Woman

  • 1991-12-05T21:00:00Z30m

Scientist Rita Proops brings her equipment home to start working on the ultimate invention - the time machine. But this causes friction at home with disastrous results.

1991-12-12T21:00:00Z

1x05 Murder at Tea Time

1x05 Murder at Tea Time

  • 1991-12-12T21:00:00Z30m

Bunty is a successful children's television presenter, an expert in sticky-back plastic and a favourite with the young viewers of 'Write Away.' However, when her younger co-presenter is asked to pose for a wax modelling session at Madame Tussauds, jealousy arises off camera - and Bunty decides to put her young rival in his place!

Season Finale

1991-12-19T21:00:00Z

1x06 Mrs Hat and Mrs Red

Season Finale

1x06 Mrs Hat and Mrs Red

  • 1991-12-19T21:00:00Z29m

Mrs Hat is shocked when she bumps into her doppelganger, and ends up following her home. She finds herself literally stepping into her shoes and taking over her luxurious lifestyle.

Season Premiere

1994-03-03T21:00:00Z

2x01 Overkill

Season Premiere

2x01 Overkill

  • 1994-03-03T21:00:00Z29m

Tina Mellish is a failure on the point of suicide. Carmela Vezza is a hired assassin on a mission to kill. What use could they be to each other?

1994-03-10T21:00:00Z

2x02 Lady Luck

2x02 Lady Luck

  • 1994-03-10T21:00:00Z30m

Hairdresser Denise Cunningham has just got through to her local radio station and won two free tickets to America, when she is taken hostage by a bank robber.

1994-03-17T21:00:00Z

2x03 A Severe Case of Death

2x03 A Severe Case of Death

  • 1994-03-17T21:00:00Z29m

Maude Jenkins's struggle to become a doctor in nineteenth-century England involves lust, intrigue, a sex change and cigars.

1994-03-24T21:00:00Z

2x04 We All Hate Granny

2x04 We All Hate Granny

  • 1994-03-24T21:00:00Z29m

Tom has just lost his job, and Jocasta is finding the children a trial, but soon Granny will be dead, so everything will be fine.

1994-03-31T20:00:00Z

2x05 Mangez Merveillac

2x05 Mangez Merveillac

  • 1994-03-31T20:00:00Z29m

Travel & cookery writer Verity Hodge finds the one corner of France that nobody has written about or visited. But her best selling book Mangez Merveillac changes all that forever with fatal results.

Season Finale

1994-04-07T20:00:00Z

2x06 Smashing Bird

Season Finale

2x06 Smashing Bird

  • 1994-04-07T20:00:00Z30m

Getaway driver Ray and his nightclub singing fiancée Vicky are set to give up a life of crime when a fatal explosion forces Vicky to become a killer. He is killed after a job goes horribly wrong, and the rest of the gang give her a choice: she can help avenge Ray's death, or become their cook.

Season Premiere

1996-05-10T20:00:00Z

3x01 Girl Friday

Season Premiere

3x01 Girl Friday

  • 1996-05-10T20:00:00Z29m

Sally Fairfax is a personal assistant to the smarmy philandering Harvey Stafford. Her devotion is severely tested when she returns to the office late one night and finds herself party to a murder.

1996-05-17T20:00:00Z

3x02 A Life or Death Operation

3x02 A Life or Death Operation

  • 1996-05-17T20:00:00Z30m

Ms. Kate Marshall (Dawn French), a brilliant surgeon, tries to murder the wife of a former patient who died when the woman confronts her with accusations that she was negligent during surgery. Kate runs the woman over with her vehicle... several times. As luck would have it, the woman doesn't die and is brought to St. Theodore's as a victim. Kate also has a television show and the case becomes a prime topic on the show, much to Kate's dismay.

1996-05-24T20:00:00Z

3x03 Dying Live

3x03 Dying Live

  • 1996-05-24T20:00:00Z30m

When Daisy Talwinning, an abattoir worker sacked because she can't bring herself to kill the cute animals, goes on holiday to Panador in South America, she gets caught up in a case of mistaken identity, just as a rebel leader is about to be executed - the officials think she is the executioner.

1996-05-31T20:00:00Z

3x04 The Body Politic

3x04 The Body Politic

  • 1996-05-31T20:00:00Z30m

Leader of the opposition Jerry Bryce and his wife Linda are getting ready to move to No 10, when they discover three rather grisly obstacles under the kitchen floor on the eve of the General Election.

1996-06-07T20:00:00Z

3x05 Confess

3x05 Confess

  • 1996-06-07T20:00:00Z30m

When former gangland boss Frank Foster is brought in for questioning about the murder of a policeman, he's interrogated by Sgt Hodge and Sgt Cole, both intent on promotion.

Season Finale

1996-06-14T20:00:00Z

3x06 Dead on Time

Season Finale

3x06 Dead on Time

  • 1996-06-14T20:00:00Z30m

The Angel of Death, who is a not-very-Grim Reaper, is given a deadly ultimatum: deliver some souls or be sentenced to a life in Hell.

Season Premiere

1999-02-19T21:00:00Z

4x01 Frozen

Season Premiere

4x01 Frozen

  • 1999-02-19T21:00:00Z30m

Faced with post-war rationing in the impoverished village of Skinton, sisters Lily and Iris share a secret supply of cakes stored in their freezer. But when the appliance breaks down, the arrival of a repairman leads to murder.

1999-02-26T21:00:00Z

4x02 Going Solo

4x02 Going Solo

  • 1999-02-26T21:00:00Z30m

Tracy Phillips and Karen Sullivan seem an unlikely team to set sail together on a round-the-world yacht race, and they do indeed prove to be ill-matched. Then they capsize.

1999-03-05T21:00:00Z

4x03 Whoopi Stone

4x03 Whoopi Stone

  • 1999-03-05T21:00:00Z30m

WPC Barbara Greaves is a speed cop and bored housewife. A CDI officer offers her the challenge to bring three American drug barons to justice.

1999-03-19T21:00:00Z

4x04 Confessions of a Murderer

4x04 Confessions of a Murderer

  • 1999-03-19T21:00:00Z30m

TV crime show addict Harriet Snellgrove dreams of being arrested herself, and is a regular visitor to Nuttley police station to confess to almost every crime committed in the area, but she is never believed. But will the police's repeated rejections lead her to actually commit murder?

1999-03-26T21:00:00Z

4x05 Elvis, Jesus and Zack

4x05 Elvis, Jesus and Zack

  • 1999-03-26T21:00:00Z30m

A TV producer fakes the death of a faded rock star in order to save her obituaries department.

Season Finale

1999-04-02T20:00:00Z

4x06 Dinner at Tiffany's

Season Finale

4x06 Dinner at Tiffany's

  • 1999-04-02T20:00:00Z30m

School mealtime supervisor Tiffany Drapes loves her job. This is in part because she is in love with Gloria, the alcoholic, gambling headmistress. But so is games teacher Evangeline....

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