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This quirky comedy, drama, investigative series see's Hetty Wainthrop (Patricia Routledge), a sprightly Lancashire pensioner, keeping old age at arms length by setting up her own Private Detective agency.

Her devoted sidekick Geoffrey Shawcross (Dominic Monaghan) was a teenage shoplifter whom she 'manipulated' to transport her around the region on the back of his scooter.

Episodes:

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Keywords:

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Detective

Additional Information:

(UK) (4 Star)

Cast (unconfirmed):

Patricia Routledge	.... Hetty Wainthropp
Dominic Monaghan	.... Geoffrey, Geoffrey Shawcross
Derek Benfield	.... Robert, Robert Wainthropp
John Graham-Davies	.... D.C.I. Adams
Suzanne Maddock	.... Janet, Janet Frazer
Frank Mills	.... Frank Wainthropp
Wanda Ventham	.... Margaret Balshaw
Brian Baines	.... Rev. Pettigrew, Vicar
Sam Davies	.... Mr. Patten, Sid Patten
Wayne Foskett	.... Russ Halliwell
Fine Time Fontayne	.... Graham Skully
Daphne Oxenford	.... Mayoress, Mrs. Willoughby
Terence Budd	.... Ken Kavanagh
John Bleasdale	.... Bell
Rachel Ambler	.... Shirley
Carl Cieka	.... Ivan Pejic
Jean Anderson	.... Alice Marsden
Johnny Allan	.... Joe Cranham
Bruce Byron	.... Joe Doolan
Richard Conway	.... Ronald Eames

Directors (unconfirmed):

Robert Tronson
David Giles
John Glenister
Jim Goddard
Roger Bamford
Mike Vardy
Don Leaver

Writers (unconfirmed):

John Bowen
David Cook
Philip Martin
Peter Gibbs
Brian Finch
Jeremy Paul

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