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 1, Episode 5 repeated Saturday at 8pm on U&Alibi
Streaming rank this week: 1,513
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Series 2, Episode 9 - The Envious Court
Further details
When Runningbrook Tennis Club's owner Frederick Greenwood, new beau of Lu's mother Genevieve, receives a death threat, he hires Frank and a reluctant Lu to find the culprit and go undercover as potential new members. Lu, preoccupied with revision for her impending PI exam, takes an immediate dislike to Frederick.
With staff security codes incriminating surly gardener Adam Oldknow, bitter ex-tennis pro Rose Lin, and ladies' man club captain Orlan Rowlands, our detectives have their work cut out for them. But when the club's mascot costume is found stabbed with a ransom note demanding £100,000, and Orlan is poisoned during the club's Battle of the Sexes match, the case takes a turn for the deadly.
Will the blackmailer be discovered, and at what cost for Lu? Will she make her exam in time and finally qualify as a PI?
Broadcast details
- Date
- Thursday 7th March 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 |
| Julia Deakin | Genevieve Shakespeare |
| Mike Grady | Adam Oldknow |
| Looby Mills | Celia Greenwood |
| Jemma Moore | Rose Lin |
| Julian Moore-Cooke | Orland Rowlands |
| Simon Shepherd | Frederick Greenwood |
| Kit Lambert | Writer |
| Paul Matthew Thompson | Story Consultant |
| Jude Tindall | Story Consultant |
| 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 |