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8 Episodes 1989 - 1989
Episode 1
55 mins
Campion and Lugg agree to help a prominent British family protect the Gryth Chalice from a gang of thieves and cutthroats. In addition to the flesh and blood threats, an aunt dies after being cursed by the village witch and Lugg is attacked by a monster in the woods.
Episode 2
54 mins
After capturing the neighborhood witch in the act of haunting a woodland glade, Campion learns the name of the gang leader who is trying to steal the Gyrth's chalice. Campion is captured and imprisoned in a stable with a murderous horse while the gang readies to assault the Gyrth's stronghold.
Episode 3
53 mins
Campion is asked to investigate a disappearance.
Episode 4
53 mins
Campion is convinced that the murderer is part of the Faraday household.
Episode 5
54 mins
Campion receives an enigmatic anonymous letter alerting him to the death of a old schoolmate, nicknamed "The Pig" who bullied and hazed him when he was younger. Three months later he is recruited by Sir Leo Pursuivant to help him investigate the murder of a man who was planning an unpopular development project in the area. Someone evidently pushed a heavy concrete urn from an upper balcony which fell onto his head. The corpse looks like "The Pig" or a close relative, but the investigation is thwarted when the body mysteriously disappears.
Episode 6
54 mins
Campion investigates the murder of 'Pig' Peters.
Episode 7
54 mins
Campion is invited by Belle, respected widow of late painter John Lafcadio,to attend an unusual ceremony. It is an annual event at which one painting at a time, left unseen at the time of the artist's death, is unveiled. Ill-mannered painter Tommy Dacre upsets the event, insulting dotty old Donna Beatrice, as former Lafcadio model and revealing he has brought a new fiancee home, to the chagrin of his old girlfriend, Lafcadio's granddaughter Linda. The lights go out and when they are turned on again Dacre is dead. Max Fustian, a supercilious art dealer, admits to the killing but no arrests are made for lack of proof. After Dacre's art works gradually disappear, there is a second murder of alcoholic picture restorer Claire Potter in her studio in Belle's garden.
Episode 8
55 mins
Claire Potter proves to have been poisoned and, on the day of her death, had taken in a wood block from Max Fustian for cleaning, as well as a mysterious parcel, the second of its kind. Campion starts to surmise that both the victims were killed because they were engaged in faking Lafcadio paintings for the unveiling ceremonies, since he had no outstanding output when he died. In unmasking the killer Campion accepts an invitation that almost leads to his own demise.