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Season 1

(1987)

Overview

Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers which chronicle the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey and Harriet Vane unfolds in a realm of romance and intrigue.

Cast

Edward Petherbridge as Peter Wimsey
Edward Petherbridge

as Peter Wimsey

Harriet Walter as Harriet Vane
Harriet Walter

as Harriet Vane

Richard Morant as Bunter
Richard Morant

as Bunter

Episodes

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March 25, 1987

Harriet Vane, a crime writer, is charged with poisoning Philip Boyes, her former lover, with arsenic. The evidence agai…

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March 31, 1987

Lord Peter asks Miss Murchison to go undercover has a secretary at Norman Urquhart's law firm. She learns he was illegi…

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April 7, 1987

Lord Peter asks his secretary Miss Climpson to find out what Urquhart's nurse Miss Booth knows. Faking a seance Miss Bo…

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April 14, 1987

While on a walking tour of the West Country, Harriet stumbles on the body of a bearded man with his throat cut on a roc…

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April 21, 1987

Mrs. Weldon says she intended to marry dancer Paul Alexis and believes he was murdered. Lord Peter tells journalist Sal…

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April 28, 1987

Old Pollock tells the police he sold Paul Alexis 300 gold sovereigns. Lord Peter and Harriet attempt to deal with his i…

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May 5, 1987

Peter and Harriet solve Paul Alexis coded letter and learn he was plotting to restore the monarchy to Russia. However h…

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May 12, 1987

Harriet Vane attends a reunion at her Oxford College and is asked by the Warden to investigate a series of poison pen n…

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May 18, 1987

Harriet Vane continues her research into the odd goings on her old college. She is attacked and knocked unconscious whi…

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May 26, 1987

The prowler evades Harriet but leaves hairpin. Peter is asked to look over the evidence but Harriet is left flat when h…