Watch Mystery! Season 18 Episode 5: Hetty Wainthropp: Safe as Houses

Whodunits, courtroom dramas and suspense tales make up this often brilliant anthology. It features adaptations of tales by myriad classic mystery writers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to Dick Francis and John Mortimer, with such notable figures as Sherlock Holmes, Hercule Poirot, Miss Marple, Adam Dalgliesh, Inspector Morse and Rumpole of (more…)

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Season 18, Episode 5 Hetty Wainthropp: Safe as Houses

First Aired: October 30, 1997

In "Safe as Houses," a longtime friend of Hetty's begs her to locate her troubled foster child, who may be responsible for a rash of neighborhood fires. Hetty: Patricia Routledge. Alice: Jane Lowe. Chrissie: Emma Cunniffe. Stanley: Alan Partington.

Guest Cast

Amanda Walker Miss Apthwaite

Dominic Monaghan Geoffrey

Alan Partington Stanley

Jane Lowe Alice

Derek Benfield Robert

Patricia Routledge Hetty

Emma Cunniffe Chrissie

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Premiered: February 5, 1980
Rating: TV-PG
Premise: Whodunits, courtroom dramas and suspense tales make up this often brilliant anthology. It features adaptations of tales by myriad classic mystery writers, from Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie to Dick Francis and John Mortimer, with such notable figu… (more)

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