The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

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The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries
No. of series 2
No. of episodes 9
Release
Original network BBC1
Original release 23 December 1990 –
29 August 1994

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries is a British detective television series adapted from nine of the novels by Dame Ngaio Marsh about Roderick Alleyn. The pilot episode was shown in 1990, and two series followed, in 1993 and 1994.

In the pilot episode Detective Chief Inspector Alleyn was played by Simon Williams, William Simons played Alleyn's righthand man and "Dr Watson" Detective Inspector Fox, and Belinda Lang starred as the painter Agatha Troy, Alleyn's love interest. Simon Williams was unavailable after the pilot was made, so while Simons and Lang reprised their original roles, the lead character was played by Patrick Malahide in the remaining episodes.

The BBC made nine episodes in all, each based on a separate novel. The eight episodes starring Patrick Malahide are available on DVD in the USA and UK (with a 2012 release of the full series on DVD from Acorn Media UK containing the pilot episode). An Australian DVD set has all nine episodes.

Episodes

For each episode this list shows both the year the source novel was published and the date of first broadcast (in the UK).

Episode # Title Directed by Written by Original airdate
1 "Artists in Crime" Silvio Narizzano T.R. Bowen 23 December 1990
2 "A Man Lay Dead" Sarah Pia Anderson Barbara Machin 18 April 1993
3 "The Nursing Home Murder" Silvio Narizzano Kevin Laffan 25 April 1993
4 "Final Curtain" Martyn Friend Barbara Machin
Hugh Leonard
2 May 1993
5 "Death at the Bar" Michael Winterbottom Alfred Shaughnessy 9 May 1993
6 "Death in a White Tie" John Woods Ken Jones 16 May 1993
7 "Hand in Glove" Martyn Friend Ken Jones 10 January 1994
8 "Dead Water" John Woods T.R. Bowen 1 April 1994
9 "Scales of Justice" Jim Goddard Cyril Williams 29 August 1994

References