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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!
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Checked Jul 22, 2026
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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!
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Episode 1
Tina Mellish is a failure on the point of suicide. Carmela Vezza is a hired assassin on a mission to kill. What use could they be to each other?
Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Steven MoffatGuest stars Dawn French, Amanda Donohoe, Peter Vaughan, Colin Salmon, Emma Amos, Geoffrey McGivern, Mark Chapman, June Ellis
Episode 2
Hairdresser Denise Cunningham has just got through to her local radio station and won two free tickets to America, when she is taken hostage by a bank robber.
Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Terry Kyan, Paul SmithGuest stars Dawn French, Sean Gallagher, Jo Dow, Ann Bryson, Colin Wyatt, Bill Moody, Caroline Waldron
Episode 3
Maude Jenkins's struggle to become a doctor in nineteenth-century England involves lust, intrigue, a sex change and cigars.
Directed by Marcus MortimerWritten by Chris EnglandGuest stars Dawn French, John Fortune, Timothy West, James Saxon, Georgina Hale, Jonathan Cecil, Lucy Benjamin, Soo Drouet
Episode 4
Tom has just lost his job, and Jocasta is finding the children a trial, but soon Granny will be dead, so everything will be fine.
Directed by Dewi HumphreysWritten by James HendrieGuest stars Dawn French, Victoria Wicks, James Fleet, Lindsay Payne, Jessica Payne, Paul Mark Elliott, Peter Geeves, Terence Donovan
Episode 5
Travel & cookery writer Verity Hodge finds the one corner of France that nobody has written about or visited. But her best selling book Mangez Merveillac changes all that forever with fatal results.
Directed by Bob SpiersWritten by Ian Hislop, Nick NewmanGuest stars Dawn French, Patricia Hayes, Kevin McNally, Jane Booker, Clarke Peters, Philip Jackson, Olivier Pierre, Karen Ascoe
Episode 6
Getaway driver Ray and his nightclub singing fiancée Vicky are set to give up a life of crime when a fatal explosion forces Vicky to become a killer. He is killed after a job goes horribly wrong, and the rest of the gang give her a choice: she can help avenge Ray's death, or become their cook.
Directed by Dewi HumphreysWritten by Jon CanterGuest stars Dawn French, Hywel Bennett, Mark McGann, Ray Winstone, David Bamber, Philip Martin Brown, Michael Elphick, John Benfield
Episode information updated Jul 24, 2026
Bill PatersonChief Inspector
Timothy SpallPathologist
Peter BlandEditor
Stephen FrostSgt Dawkins
Gary LovePC Williams
Kate WilliamsWoman on Bus
David BarberBoy on Bus
BBC TwoUnited Kingdom
BBCUnited Kingdom
