Inspector Alleyn.
The BBC TV series from the 1990s. For the pilot episode, Simon Williams played the title role. For the regular series, Inspector Alleyn was played by Patrick Malahide.
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- StarsWilliam SimonsPatrick MalahideBelinda LangDrawing on her love of theatre and art, New Zealand author Ngaio Marsh created elegant crime-puzzlers full of quirky characters with hidden agendas, all brought meticulously to life in this BBC series.
- DirectorSilvio NarizzanoStarsSimon WilliamsBelinda LangWilliam SimonsAfter an artist's model dies in a suspicious incident, the aristocratic Detective Chief Inspector Alleyn and his down-to-earth assistant Inspector Fox, investigate. Matters get complicated with a houseful of suspects, blackmail, another death, and Alleyn's growing attraction to the painter Agatha Troy.
- DirectorSarah Pia AndersonStarsMartin CarrollMichael FeastRobert ReynoldsAlleyn cancels his holiday with Troy to investigate a murder connected to a stolen chalice, but he's called when a second murder occurs at uncle's estate.
- DirectorSilvio NarizzanoStarsDavid SibleyJohn BennettIan AbeysekeraA member of Parliament who has taken controversial stands on Palestine and A-bomb development is murdered during a routine appendectomy.
- DirectorMartyn FriendStarsPatrick MalahideMichael ElwynDavid CaryAn egotistical Shakespearean ham actor gathers his dysfunctional extended family in his mansion on his 75th birthday for the reading of his will.
- DirectorMichael WinterbottomStarsAlan GilchristPaul BrookePaul BigleyDuring a display of dart throwing in a Cornish pub a man's hand is impaled by a dart, and he dies shortly afterward from cyanide although no one can explain how.
- DirectorJohn WoodsStarsPatrick MalahideHarold InnocentCharles KayInspector Alleyn enlists the help of his friend Lord Robert "Bunchy" Gospell to uncover a society blackmailer. After Lord Robert is killed, a murder hunt follows among the world of titled heiresses, gamblers and adulterers.
- DirectorMartyn FriendStarsWilliam SimonsDominic SnowdonSandy WelchA divorced and disliked man living in a nobleman's estate is found in a sewer ditch after someone rolled a concrete pipe on his head.
- DirectorJohn WoodsStarsEwen BremnerJane LapotaireEleanor DavidAlleyn's old French teacher, the landlord of an idyllic Scottish island is receiving death threats because she's blocking its development as a health spa.
- DirectorJim GoddardStarsChristopher NortheyDenis LillFrederick TrevesThe publication of a war hero's memoirs and his dispute with a neighboring fisherman about poaching leads to a murder.