Miniseries

1. Hopjoy Was Here: Part 1

Mr. Hopjoy, a traveling salesman, has disappeared - to the relief of many husbands, the rage of innumerable creditors and the alarm of two mystery men from London, who know him as a spy. Is he dead? Chief Inspector Purbright investigates.

1977-05-08 • 50 min

2. Hopjoy Was Here: Part 2/Lonelyheart 4122: Part 1

After solving the mystery of the missing Hopjoy, Chief Inspector Purbright turns his attention to a "lonely hearts" killer, whose next victim might be the fragile-seeming Miss Teatime. But she's deceptive.

1977-05-15 • 50 min

3. Lonelyheart 4122: Part 2

Miss Teatime and her mysterious suitor both get an unexpected comeuppance, but will the former escape being murdered? As Chief Inspector Purbright appreciatively notices, she's tougher than she looks.

1977-05-22 • 50 min

4. The Flaxborough Crab: Part 1

Several otherwise reputable sexagenarian Flaxborough men seem to be under the influence of a potent aphrodisiac in a series of assaults on local women.

1977-05-29 • 50 min

5. The Flaxborough Crab: Part 2

Purbright traces the drug affecting the male senior citizens in Flaxborough to either a herb supplement or an experimental prescription drug.

1977-06-05 • 50 min

6. Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 1

After the death of Harold Carobleat, his wife is shocked to find that he has left his estate to a neighbor who is subsequently found electrocuted.

1977-06-12 • 50 min

7. Coffin Scarcely Used: Part 2

When a third member of the quintet of prominent Flaxborough citizens is murdered, Purbright uncovers the covert prostitution ring behind them.

1977-06-19 • 50 min