Missing Persons
6.5
“The debut of the popular sleuth”
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
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Cast
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Patricia Routledge
Hetty Wainthrop
Known for
Keeping Up Appearances
To Sir, with Love
Tony Melody
Robert Wainthrop
Known for
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Yanks
David Cook
Derek Bennett
Jimmy Jewel
Frank Cross
Known for
The Krays
Keith Richardson
Jean Heywood
Edith Cross
Known for
Billy Elliot
All Creatures Great and Small
Gary Waldhorn
Bernard Shawcrose
Known for
The Vicar of Dibley
Brideshead Revisited
Gary Halliday
Geoffrey Shawcross
Also in
Run
Out of the Darkness
Ram John Holder
Chalky White
Known for
Song for Marion
Your Christmas or Mine?
Jean Kent
Phillida Meadowhite
Known for
The Browning Version
The Prince and the Showgirl
Janet Allen
Mrs. Lilium
Also in
Lipstick and Blood
Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy
Derek Bennett Director · David Cook Screenplay David Snell Composer
First release May 30, 1990 · Produced in United Kingdom
Production
Yorkshire Television
Production
United Kingdom
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
United Kingdom · May 30, 1990
TV · aired on ITV
No release date listed for United States.
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