About this season
Comedienne Dawn French tackles dark, tongue-in-cheek thrillers as her various characters embark on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another, she is involved with murder — either committing the crime or even getting bumped off herself!
Episodes (6)
1. Girl Friday
Aired 10 May 1996 • 29 min
Sally Fairfax is a personal assistant to the smarmy philandering Harvey Stafford. Her devotion is severely tested when she returns to the office late one night and finds herself party to a murder.
2. A Life or Death Operation
Aired 17 May 1996 • 30 min
Brilliant surgeon and TV host Kate Marshall tries to murder the wife of a patient who died when the woman accuses her of negligence. Kate runs her over... several times. But, as luck would have it, the woman doesn't die and is brought to St Theodore's as a victim. Further, the case becomes a prime topic on Kate's show, much to her dismay.
3. Dying Live
Aired 24 May 1996 • 30 min
When Daisy Talwinning, an abattoir worker sacked because she can't bring herself to kill the cute animals, goes on holiday to Panador in South America, she gets caught up in a case of mistaken identity, just as a rebel leader is about to be executed - the officials think she is the executioner.
4. The Body Politic
Aired 31 May 1996 • 30 min
Leader of the opposition Jerry Bryce and his wife Linda are getting ready to move to No 10, when they discover three rather grisly obstacles under the kitchen floor on the eve of the General Election.
5. Confess
Aired 7 June 1996 • 30 min
When former gangland boss Frank Foster is brought in for questioning about the murder of a policeman, he's interrogated by Sgt Hodge and Sgt Cole, both intent on promotion.
6. Dead on Time
Aired 14 June 1996 • 30 min
The Angel of Death, who is a not-very-Grim Reaper, is given a deadly ultimatum: deliver some souls or be sentenced to a life in Hell.