Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates
Genre	Cozy crime
Created by	David Cook and John Bowen
Starring	Patricia Routledge Derek Benfield Dominic Monaghan John Graham Davies Suzanne Maddock Frank Mills
Composer	Nigel Hess
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	28 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producer	Michael Wearing
Producer	Carol Parks
Cinematography	John McGlashan
Editor	Malcolm Banthorpe
Running time	104 minutes (Pilot) 75 minutes (S01E01) 50 minutes (S01E02—)
Production companies	BBC TV Productions, Yorkshire Television (pilot)
Original release
Network	ITV (Pilot) BBC1 (Series)
Release	3 January 1996 (1996-01-03) – 4 September 1998 (1998-09-04)
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Hetty Wainthropp Investigates is a British crime drama television series, starring Patricia Routledge as the title character, Henrietta "Hetty" Wainthropp,^[1] that aired for four series between 3 January 1996 and 4 September 1998 on BBC One. The series, spawned from a pilot episode entitled "Missing Persons" aired by ITV in 1990, was co-created by writers David Cook and John Bowen, co-starred Derek Benfield as Hetty's patient husband Robert, and Dominic Monaghan as her assistant and lodger Geoffrey Shawcross. It marked Monaghan’s acting debut.

Other co-stars in the series include John Graham Davies as local chief of police DCI Adams; Suzanne Maddock as Janet Frazer, a feisty young auto mechanic; and Frank Mills as Robert's brother Frank. In the United States, episodes have broadcast as part of PBS's anthology series Mystery!. A parody of the series, entitled Wetty Hainthropp Investigates, aired on 12 March 1999 as part of the Comic Relief telethon starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters and Duncan Preston.