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Alleyn Mysteries Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
6 Episodes 1990 - 1993
Episode 0
Artists in Crime
Thu, Jan 1, 2004107 mins
After an artist's model dies in a suspicious incident, the aristocratic Detective Chief Inspector Alleyn and his down-to-earth assistant Inspector Fox, investigate. Matters get complicated with a houseful of suspects, blackmail, another death, and Alleyn's growing attraction to the painter Agatha Troy.
Episode 1
A Man Lay Dead
98 mins
While looking into the theft of several precious artifacts, Alleyn is called to investigate a murder of Charles Rankin at a gathering that includes Agatha Troy, his girlfriend. Rankin had brought a precious dagger to the event. Complicating things further is that Troy is close to these people and resents some of Alleyn's questioning. A parallel and inter-related crime for Alleyn is to identify the art thieves.
Episode 2
The Nursing Home Murder
99 mins
Sir Derek O'Callaghan is receiving death threats because of the position he takes as member of the House of Lords. He is taken to a nursing home with pains and dies during an operation - a death that is found to be murder. Alleyn investigates. Was it the nurse O'Callaghan used and rejected (and who was also in the operating room)? The doctor who loves her (and led the surgery)? Those threatening his life?
Episode 3
Final Curtain
98 mins
Agatha Troy is enlisted by Thomas Ancred to paint a portrait of his father, an egotistical, ham of a Shakespearean actor in time for the old man's seventy-fifth birthday. The noted thespian lives in a lavish, gothic-style mansion and takes great delight in disobeying his doctor's orders by indulging in rich food and alcohol and offending his grown children by taking on a seemingly not-very-bright peroxide blonde of an actress fifty years his junior as his mistress. Besides Thomas' wife Milamant, who acts as his caregiver, Sir Henry has four middle-aged daughters and numerous grandchildren, all of whom form a most dysfunctional family, always bickering and jockeying for position in the old man's will, which he regularly rewrites depending on his latest whim. He becomes furious when Agatha's portrait of him as Macbeth, his most celebrated role, is vandalized, and he spitefully rewrites his will for what will be one last time.
Episode 4
Death at the Bar
98 mins
After an evening of darts and vintage brandy, a distinguished, although amorous, barrister succumbs to rigor mortis in a cozy pub. Every witness swears that the freak accident was caused by a dart that punctured the victim's finger. But to Inspector Roderick Alleyn, the "accident" is really a clever case of murder and everyone in the bar has a motive!
Episode 5
Death in a White Tie
98 mins
Inspector Alleyn enlists the help of his friend Lord Robert "Bunchy" Gospell to uncover a society blackmailer. After Lord Robert is killed, a murder hunt follows among the world of titled heiresses, gamblers and adulterers.