Watch Mystery! Season 21 Episode 8: Hetty Wainthropp: Digging for Dirt

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 21, Episode 8 Hetty Wainthropp: Digging for Dirt

First Aired: November 30, 2000

Hetty Wainthropp (Patricia Routledge) is "Digging for Dirt" when an elderly widow (Jean Heywood) refuses to leave her condemned public-housing apartment. "The smell of corruption is very pungent," Hetty tells her assistant, Geoffrey (Dominic Shawcross). But this case isn't the only thing on Geoffrey's mind---his girlfriend, Janet (Suzanne Maddock), has taken in a male lodger. Gordon Gregson: Keith Barron. Brian Weston: Geoffrey Lesley.

Guest Cast

Dominic Monaghan Geoffrey Shawcross

Derek Benfield Robert Wainthropp

Vida Warwick Lillian Cardwell

Keith Barron Gordon Gregson

Geoffrey Lesley Brian Weston

Jacki Webb Stella Cardwell

Ian Curtis Adrian Atherton

Jean Heywood Enid Weston

Philip Martin Brown Philip Hoskins

Patricia Routledge Hetty Wainthropp

Suzanne Maddock Janet Fraser

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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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