Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
- TV comedy drama
- BBC One / U&Alibi
- 2018 - 2022
- 40 episodes (4 series)
Comedy drama about an oddball pair of private detectives. Stars Mark Benton, Jo Joyner, Patrick Walshe McBride, Amber Aga, Tomos Eames and more.
- Due to return for Series 5
- Series 2, Episode 4 repeated Friday at 9pm on U&Alibi
- Streaming rank this week: 2,137
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Series 2, Episode 3 - This Cursed Hand
Further details
Failed actor Harold Hamworthy has a penchant for mischief and hogging the limelight, but when he absconds with Sebastian's tourists during a Shakespearean ghost walk, something finally upstages him - in the form of a dismembered human hand.
Harold finds himself in hot water when sinister figures Alek and Dimitri try to snatch the hand, but he manages to give them the slip. Meanwhile, Lu and Frank are hired to find missing multimillionaire, Pavel Kusk, by his wife, Anastasia.
Frank has a hunch that Pavel could be in the opulent Hotel Philomel; undercover as a bellboy, Sebastian investigates, to discover Pavel Kusk murdered - and missing a hand. With the two incidents linked, and the violent thugs hunting for Harold, Sebastian and the hand, it's a race against the clock to crack the case - who killed Pavel Kusk, and why?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Wednesday 27th February 2019
- Time
- 2:15pm
- Channel
- BBC One
- Length
- 45 minutes
Cast & crew
Mark Benton | Frank Hathaway |
Jo Joyner | Luella Shakespeare |
Patrick Walshe McBride | Sebastian Brudenell |
Amber Aga | DI Marlowe |
Asheq Akhtar | Ajay Matharu |
David Calder | Harold Hamworthy |
Paul Moriarty | Pavel / Petrov Kusk |
Kristian Phillips | Alek Hodzic |
Carol Royle | Anastasia Kusk |
Adam Wittek | Dimitri Kapel |
Paul Matthew Thompson | Story Consultant |
Jude Tindall | Story Consultant |
David Semple | Writer |
Paul Gibson | Director |
Ella Kelly | Producer |
Will Trotter | Executive Producer |
Fiona Black | Line Producer |
Neil Irvine | Script Producer |
Stephen Killick | Editor |
Nick Turner | Production Designer |
John Cannon | Casting Director |
Rachelle Williams-Parker | Casting Director |
Claire Collins | Costume Designer |
Helen Smith | Make-up Designer |
Debbie Wiseman | Composer |
Joe May | Director of Photography |
James Mountain | 1st Assistant Director |