Dorothy L. Sayer's amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates and solves murder cases.
Network
BBC One
Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
First Aired
1975-07-23
Last Aired
1975-08-13
Ian Carmichael
Lord Peter Wimsey
1. Part 1
Wimsey and his butler, Bunter arrive at the Galloway Hills of Scotland for a quiet holiday. Wimsey intends to spend his time fishing, and Bunter that of painting. However they discover a corpse and they turn to investigating this mysterious death.
2. Part 2
1975-07-30
50m
An artist is discovered dead at the bottom of a cliff, the police think it might be an accident, but Wimsey thinks otherwise, it is a murder.
3. Part 3
1975-08-06
Six suspects have been identified. However Wimsey knows only one committed the murder. he sets out to eliminate the "Five Red Herrings".
4. Part 4
Wimsey reconstructs the murder to demonstrate how the crime was committed. The murderer is thereby forced to confess and brings the case to a final conclusion.
