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7 Episodes 2023 - 2024
Episode 0
58 mins
4 houses are broken into in one night, but nothing is stolen and the only evidence left behind is a small pile of ash. The station faces a review. Margo and Kelby babysit "Rishi Sunak", a sausage roll thief; who ate the evidence for lunch.
Episode 1
Thu, Apr 4, 202458 mins
Steam train enthusiast Humphrey and Esther are standing in for players on a heritage railway murder mystery trip rehearsal for the Shipton Abbot Players, organized by station secretary Margo. After the train slows to enter a tunnel, the plotted victim is found actually murdered: stabbed in the back, but there is no blood at the scene. He had recently moved to Shipton Abbot after inheriting a house, but Humphrey and Esther initially find no details of his past life. The only suspects are the other four players, one of whom is married to the train driver, the later and his fireman. Humphrey' must discover who the victim was and his connection with the suspects before Superintendent Woods moves the investigation to the Devon Police central hub. Meanwhile, Martha is concerned about her mother's on-line dating and who she is going to meet.

Episode 2
Thu, Apr 11, 202457 mins
Ep 2, and it's not a murder, but Humphrey and Martha have a big i'view with a social worker (re adoption), and Barbara Flynn is playing with a new app to get a date -- and bags Peter Davison. In the station the team are grappling with some small incidents, (a fire, a car crash, and a mugging), that seem to be linked to an amateur . . .what, fortune teller, sooth-sayer? She even links Humphrey to his old nanny. There is a new character (DS's daughter) and Martha and the DS have a night out, which leads to a hangover cure the next morning. The mugging incident leads them to a breakthrough, when they find that a stolen item (a medal) is likely worth a six-figure sum.

Episode 3
Thu, Apr 4, 202457 mins
A man overboard is called in from one of the fishing boats, Maisie Morgan appears to have fallen from the deck of her fishing boat, but conflicing evidence, and sons, suggests theres more to the story. Margo faces a painful past.

Episode 4
Thu, Apr 11, 202458 mins
When a priest at a Catholic boarding school goes missing, Humphrey's team explores a connection between his disappearance and an ancient local legend.

Episode 5
Thu, Apr 18, 202458 mins
On a moor outside of Shipton Abbott, a woman is found with an arrow in her back and no sign of who might have shot her.

Episode 6
Thu, Apr 25, 202457 mins
It's finally Humphrey and Martha's wedding day - what could possibly go wrong? Other than a museum heist, cyber crime and an unexpected arrival.
