Monster
2004 · Animation · Drama
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TV series / 1977
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Episode directors
Ronald Wilson
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle (often referred to simply as Murder Most English) is a seven-part British detective miniseries based on Colin Watson's Flaxborough novel series. While Martin Lisemore receives billing on all episodes, he died midway through filming, and was replaced by Bill Sellars, who refused credit. Flaxborough, near the sea, near the countryside, seems such a nice town, so quiet, so charming. But underneath its placid surface, all kinds of scandalous things …
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Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle (often referred to simply as Murder Most English) is a seven-part British detective miniseries based on Colin Watson's Flaxborough novel series. While Martin Lisemore receives billing on all episodes, he died midway through filming, and was replaced by Bill Sellars, who refused credit.
Flaxborough, near the sea, near the countryside, seems such a nice town, so quiet, so charming. But underneath its placid surface, all kinds of scandalous things go on.
The seasons
Season 1
Miniseries
Season details
Flaxborough, near the sea, near the countryside, seems such a nice town, so quiet, so charming. But underneath its placid surface, all kinds of scandalous things go on.
Cast
Anton RodgersDI Walter Purbright
Christopher TimothyDS Sydney Love
Moray WatsonChief Constable Chubb
John ComerSergeant Malley
Brenda BruceLucilla Teatime
John CarsonRex · Jack
Peter SallisRodney Gloss
James GroutJonas Bradlaw
John NormingtonGordon Periam
Caroline BlakistonMrs Helen Carobleat
Lynn FarleighDoreen Periam
Derek WaringDr Meadow
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Antony CarrickDr Rupert Hillyard
Michael RobbinsPumphrey
Gary WatsonRoss
Milton JohnsGeorge Lintz
Gillian MartellSylvia Staunch
Lesley DunlopEileen
John TordoffWarlock
Adam BarehamCurate
Erin GeraghtyHotel Maid
Christopher BenjaminTozer
John BryansBarraclough
Christopher DriscollPolice Constable
Barbara BoltonMiriam Cork
Lynn DearthBernadette Croll
Stephanie ColeSister Horton
John RapleyHenry Spain
Elizabeth StewartMrs Spain
Betty EnglandLillian Bannister
Doyle RichmondMr Cambridge
Brian PoyserAssistant Bank Manager
Sarah GrazebrookWaitress
Barbara HicksBertha Pollock
Tenniel EvansAlderman Stephen Winge
Betty HardyMrs Grope
Daphne HeardMrs Crunkinghorn
Shirley CheritonBrenda Sweeting
Ruth TrouncerMrs Meadow
Sheila FayMrs Pasquith
Stanley LeborDr Heinemann
Ivor RobertsDr Thompson
Basil DignamLawyer Scorpe
Patrick NewellEric Brennan
Barbara FlynnPauline Sutton
Maurice QuickMaddox
Patsy RowlandsMrs McGreavey
Leslie SandsWalter Grope
Alec SabinDr Bruce
Ken WynneBrother Joe
Jeffrey SegalTed House
Hector RossMarcus Gwill
Janet MichaelMrs Poole
Gwendolyn WattsMrs Shooter
Eileen ErskineMrs Chubb
John AlkinBen
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