Five Red Herrings
Solve the mystery with Lord Peter Wimsey, based on the book by Dorothy L Sayers.
- 1975-1975
- 1 season
- Masterpiece Theatre
- Suspense
Solve the mystery with Lord Peter Wimsey, based on the book by Dorothy L Sayers.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 1975
Episode 1
Episode #1.1
Sun, Dec 19, 1976 49 mins
An obnoxious painter in southern Scotland succeeds in alienating everyone around him and later his lifeless body is found at the base of a seaside cliff. Although it appears the fall may have been accidental Lord Peter thinks it may be murder.
Episode 2
Episode #1.2
Sun, Dec 26, 1976 50 mins
When a police search of the minnoch area yields no flake white paint, which is on Campbell's pallette and landscape, Wimsey draws the logical conclusion that the painting was done elsewhere and the body dumped there in order to give the appearance of an accident. With six resident artists in the small Scottish community Wimsey concludes that one is the murderer and the other five red herrings. The case is further complicated by the lack of a credible alibi on the part of any of the suspects.
Episode 3
Episode #1.3
Sun, Jan 2, 1977 50 mins
Some of Wimsey's five red herrings who were formerly missing now surface and a key witness comes forward, A Biblical quote becomes a key piece of evidence in Lord Peter's search for the murderer of misanthropic, almost universally-disliked artist Campbell.
Episode 4
Episode #1.4
Sun, Jan 9, 1977 49 mins
Farren resurfaces and is questioned by Wimsey, who re-enacts the elaborate circumstances of Campbell's murder accompanied by the local police and one of the suspects in hopes of discovering the identity of the murderer.
