Watch Mystery! Season 19 Episode 21: Hetty Winthropp: The Posion Pen

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 19, Episode 21 Hetty Winthropp: The Posion Pen

First Aired: May 6, 1999

Tweedy Hetty Wainthropp (Patricia Routledge) poses as an artist to find the writer of “Poison Pen” letters in a picturesque Lancashire village. Miss Allowby: Sue Johnston. Robert: Derek Benfield. Geoffrey: Dominic Monaghan. Mr. Cullimore: Ronnie Stevens.

Guest Cast

Ian Kershaw Kev Haycroft

Derek Benfield Robert Wainthropp

Alison Swann Mandy Salthouse

John Pickles Jim Pacey

Stephen Tomlin John Winterton

Sue Johnston Helga Allowby

John Graham Davies DCI Adams

Susan Porrett Joyce Parmby

Colin Meredith Harold Skimmer

Barbara Keogh Beryl Pacey

Dominic Monaghan Geoffrey Shawcross

Ronnie Stevens Mr. Cullimore

Olivia Jardith Mrs. Fairbrother

Kate Rutter Janet Bransby

Linda Broughton Mrs. Garbet

Nicola Barnfield Geraldine Harrow

Patricia Routledge Hetty Wainthropp

Jennifer Hennessy Cheryl Wright

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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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