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- Inspecteur Wexford (The Ruth Rendell Mysteries) est une série télévisée britannique en 84 épisodes de 55 à 120 minutes, créée d'après les romans de Ruth Rendell et diffusée entre le 2 août 1987 et le 11 octobre 2000 sur ITV. En France, la série a été diffusée à partir de 1998 sur France 3. (fr)
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is a British television crime drama series, produced by TVS and later by its successor Meridian Broadcasting, in association with Blue Heaven Productions, for broadcast on the ITV network. Twelve series were broadcast on ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000. Created by renowned author Ruth Rendell, the first six series focused entirely on her main literary character, Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, played by George Baker. Repeat airings of these series changed the programme's title to The Inspector Wexford Mysteries. However, later series shifted focus to other short stories previously written by Rendell, with Wexford featuring in only three further stories, in 1996, 1998 and 2000. When broadcast, these three stories were broadcast under the title Inspector Wexford. In some cases stories were expanded from Rendell's original material or elements from a number of stories were woven together into one episode. A smaller number of episodes were based on Rendell's full-length novels, such as The Strawberry Tree starring Simon Ward, Going Wrong starring James Callis, A Case of Coincidence starring Keith Barron and Ronald Pickup, Front Seat starring Janet Suzman, and The Lake of Darkness starring Jerome Flynn. A total of fifty-five episodes featured Inspector Wexford, alongside his wife Dora (Louie Ramsay) and his assistant DI Mike Burden (Christopher Ravenscroft). A total of twenty-nine episodes focused on other characters. The first six series were released on VHS, but have never been released on DVD due to licensing rights issues with The Walt Disney Company, who owns Television South's back catalogue of programming. Series seven to twelve have since been released on DVD as a Best Of box set, omitting four episodes. (en)
- The Ruth Rendell Mysteries is een Britse TV-detectiveserie gemaakt voor ITV door Television South en Meridian Television (in samenwerking met Blue Heaven Productions). De eerste vertoning was op 2 augustus 1987, de laatste aflevering werd voor het eerst vertoond op 11 oktober 2000. (nl)
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- Unaware that her neighbour Bob and widow Magdalene are the adulterers who murdered their spouses and faked the suicide pact, Susan offers Bob comfort, which he pretends to accept in order to find out how much she knows. (en)
- Angela Hathall is murdered, but Wexford can find no motive and no suspect. Maybe she picked up a stranger who killed her? The line Wexford follows alienates not just his colleagues, including Mike Burden, but his wife, too. (en)
- Wexford copes with two abductions of teen-aged girls, the disappearance of a three-year-old from her bedroom, and the return of a paroled paedophile to the town. (en)
- A man's obsession with his estranged wife hits boiling point when the investigation into his sister's murder is re-opened. (en)
- Wexford's first ever successful murder case comes back to haunt him when a vicar starts to rake up the past. Was the man hanged on Wexford's evidence actually innocent? (en)
- When Piers and Rosario turn up out of the blue, Petra begins to question them over their whereabouts. (en)
- The investigation leads to Eddie Brannel, a mentally handicapped childhood friend of Sara's, and although he admits to the other killings, he denies killing her. (en)
- Invited to Leonora and William's for dinner, Guy goes mad when he learns that they will be moving to Manchester and attacks William. (en)
- Richard Brazier has a mental block about his abduction as an eight-year-old and is haunted by what may or may not have happened. (en)
- An ecology writer finds himself under suspicion of murder after an artist he meets on the moors is found murdered. (en)
- When Wexford and Burden go on a holiday to France together with their wives, they meet an alluring English couple. Reg becomes transfixed by the wife, and is shocked when he gets back home to hear she has been kidnapped. (en)
- A divorcée, who refuses to partake of neighbourhood gossip, becomes involved with a neighbour whose wife and her lover appear to have carried out a suicide pact. (en)
- A young housewife begins to wonder at whatever happened to her brother and cousin, who disappeared in Majorca several years ago. (en)
- Wexford joins forces with a bridegroom when his best man is killed at the stag party. And Charlie Hatton's death is only the first in a string of murders which seem to be about cheating husbands, loose women and gangsters. (en)
- Wexford investigates when the dead body of a middle aged woman is found - but there are very few clues to the woman's life, let alone those that might lead to her killer. (en)
- Quiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what she seems. (en)
- A sixteen-year-old girl is angered when her father brings home a new woman shortly after her mother's death, and swears revenge. (en)
- Wexford investigates a complex case involving the disappearance of a Nigerian doctor's daughter, which is only made more complicated when the last person to see her alive is found murdered. (en)
- After four attractive women are found strangled in and around the local river, the free-spirited wife of a London doctor is killed while on an extramarital assignation. (en)
- Margaret Parsons, a fairly ordinary housewife who, with her water board official husband Ron, has recently moved to Kingsmarkham, is found murdered in a field. Mrs. Parsons led an extremely uneventful life, being a lay preacher, but Inspector Wexford is intrigued when he is looking through her belongings and finds a number of expensive antique books all inscribed 'From Doon to Minna'. Who is Doon? (en)
- When a world-famous flautist is murdered, Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. He becomes obsessed with proving that she is an imposter, even getting permission to travel as far afield as the USA and France to do so. (en)
- A middle-aged man is still haunted by a love affair from his youth which almost ended in murder. (en)
- After accepting her sister's offer of reconciliation, May realises June had been having an affair whilst her husband was alive. She grows close to this man, John, and tells him about what happened. (en)
- A bright young teenage girl is 'farmed out' to relatives in the rural West Country during the Battle of Britain, and makes many astute observations about life there. (en)
- Wexford investigates the disappearance of John Lawrence, a five-year-old boy. After he goes missing, mad, taunting letters begin to arrive, involving another child who vanished, Stella Rivers. (en)
- Gwen Robson, a middle-aged housewife who may have been a blackmailer, is found garotted in the car park of a suburban shopping mall. Wexford is no sooner on the case than a car bomb goes off and all but kills him, putting him in hospital. This leaves Mike Burden with the task of solving the case, but does he go off on the wrong scent? Is Wexford's analysis any better, though? (en)
- A successful businessman runs into his old girlfriend. Although she treats him politely, his rekindled feelings to her border on nothing less than obsession. (en)
- Prim businesswoman Della Galway has a compulsive penchant for double-locking doors - but her new roommate is careless about security. (en)
- Two identical women, one virginal and touch-me-not and the other sexy and seductive, vie for the affections of a young stockbroker. (en)
- At Christmas, Wexford and Burden are called to the Kingsmarkham Hospital. A baby has been stolen from her pram and another baby left behind in her place, and it seems that the mother of the stolen child may also be in danger. (en)
- Tom Peterlee, a member of a large family who live in three adjoining cottages, is murdered. His mother Eva is, in Wexford's opinion, quite cavalier in reaction to his death, and other family members are no more helpful. Heather, his widow, seems dumb with grief, and his brother and meek sister-in-law are similarly evasive. Family friend Carol is more forthcoming, providing Heather with an alibi, but Wexford is sure that one of the Peterlees is the killer. Burden has problems of his own when his daughter starts dating a married man, and a series of ram-raids in Kingsmarkham add to Wexford's problems. (en)
- Wexford investigates when a young German girl mysteriously disappears from outside a pub, and a group of environmentalist stage a sit in to prevent a bypass from being built through a forest. (en)
- Wexford finds he is dealing with a very nasty case when nature-loving Elizabeth Nightingale is murdered on one of her nightly walks through the woods around Myfleet Manor. (en)
- When a second body is found, the police's suspicion of Steven continues to grow, despite his psychological issues. (en)
- Guy's obsession with his old girlfriend Leonora grows and he becomes convinced that someone close to her is poisoning her against him. (en)
- After a lifetime of sibling rivalry, in which their father favoured the clever and pretty June, May attends her brother-in-law's funeral. Many years before, May attempted suicide when June took May's fiancé. (en)
- Wexford collapses from overwork so is put on a month's leave. Instead of resting though, he decides to go and visit Mike, who is seconded to London. Although he should be resting, Wexford's dreams have drawn him towards Mike's case of a young murdered girl left lying in a vault, and a strong connection to the baby adoption business. (en)
- With his best witness still comatose, Wexford deduces that the unidentified dead girl was an abused servant, so he seeks the truth in the homes of the well-to-do. (en)
- Nick, a recent college graduate, believes he loves Emma, the wife of his father's former friend, but Nick does not know that she's been having an affair with his father. Emma is then murdered. (en)
- Wexford's wife Dora is released by the terrorists, but young Roxanne is found dead, and young Ryan has apparently defected to the terrorists. (en)
- When an off-duty DS Martin tries to be a hero during a bank robbery, not only does he get shot, but it also triggers a chain of events involving murders and deceit. (en)
- Inspector Wexford is confronted with a murder in a vegetarian family and wonders how many kinds of mushrooms there are. (en)
- Nesta's affair with Andrew comes to light, and Alice begins to suspect that the letters she received have been faked. (en)
- Rodney Williams disappears and then his body is found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery. (en)
- Having attended a police conference in China, Wexford joins a group of British tourists in Hong Kong including former barrister Adam Knighton and his wife Adela — not the most loving of couples. On return to Kingsmarkham he learns that Mrs. Knighton, who lived nearby, was murdered in an apparent robbery. Burden suspects that an ex-con with a grudge against Mr. Knighton may be responsible, but draws blanks. Wexford is convinced that the death is linked to something that happened in China and interrogates the holidaying party. (en)
- A third woman is found dead, but Stephen thinks he can finally identify the suspect he saw on the moor that day. (en)
- The police make Nick's father their prime suspect in Emma's murder, and he makes a suicide attempt, ending up in a coma. Nick and Annabel conduct their own investigation. (en)
- Further revelations about Nesta's private life begin to emerge, leading Alice to believe her friend has been murdered. (en)
- A Florist, struggling in the recession, disappears without a trace the night before she is due to leave her house and business. She was mildly opposed to the recent marriage of her close friend Alice to Andrew Fielding. (en)
- When Cecily Branksome retires back to her home town over her husband's objections, she becomes involved with her boorish old boyfriend and a 30-year-old murder. (en)
- When a 92-year old lady dies, Wexford becomes suspicious that there was more to it than old age, and begins an investigation into the slightly sinister elderly retired community surrounding her. (en)
- A 12-year-old boy is dazzled when his older cousin comes to stay, but is suspicious when her aunt unexpectedly dies and leaves her a large sum of money in her will. (en)
- The Kingsmarkham rock festival is going smoothly until the disfigured body of a local girl, thought to be living in London, is found in a nearby quarry. Wexford investigates the links between a charismatic singer and a young woman gone bad. (en)
- Wexford arrests his burglary suspect, but a routine search of his house uncovers a body, which he suspects may be that of Dr. Akande's missing daughter. (en)
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