Paul Smith
Director
Murder Most Horrid (1991)
Season 3
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another she is involved with murder - either committing the crime herself or even getting bumped off herself!
Released Nov. 14, 1991
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Keywords: tmdb.dark-comedy, tmdb.anthology, tmdb.murder-mystery, imdb.murder, imdb.british-comedy, imdb.dark-comedy, imdb.1990s + 5 more, imdb.actress-playing-multiple-roles, imdb.satire, imdb.parody, imdb.satire-comedy, imdb.parody-comedy
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Network: BBC Two
Country: United Kingdom
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Girl Friday
Sally Fairfax is a personal assistant to the smarmy philandering Harvey Stafford. Her devotion is severely tested when she returns to the office late one night and finds herself party to a murder.
May 10, 1996, midnight
S3E2 - A Life or Death Operation
Ms. Kate Marshall (Dawn French), a brilliant surgeon, tries to murder the wife of a former patient who died when the woman confronts her with accusations that she was negligent during surgery. Kate runs the woman over with her vehicle... several times. As luck would have it, the woman doesn't die and is brought to St. Theodore's as a victim. Kate also has a television show and the case becomes a prime topic on the show, much to Kate's dismay.
May 17, 1996, midnight
S3E3 - Dying Live
When Daisy Talwinning, an abattoir worker sacked because she can't bring herself to kill the cute animals, goes on holiday to Panador in South America, she gets caught up in a case of mistaken identity, just as a rebel leader is about to be executed - the officials think she is the executioner.
May 24, 1996, midnight
S3E4 - The Body Politic
Leader of the opposition Jerry Bryce and his wife Linda are getting ready to move to No 10, when they discover three rather grisly obstacles under the kitchen floor on the eve of the General Election.
May 31, 1996, midnight
S3E5 - Confess
When former gangland boss Frank Foster is brought in for questioning about the murder of a policeman, he's interrogated by Sgt Hodge and Sgt Cole, both intent on promotion.
June 7, 1996, midnight
S3E6 - Dead on Time
The Angel of Death, who is a not-very-Grim Reaper, is given a deadly ultimatum: deliver some souls or be sentenced to a life in Hell.
June 14, 1996, midnight
Network: BBC Two
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 720 min.
Released: Nov. 14, 1991
Last Air Date: April 2, 1999, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: 15
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