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The series featured French in a different starring character role in each episode. Most parodied the thriller and murder mystery genres; each was written by different writers or writing teams, though several contributed multiple episodes across the four series. The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television that includes numerous, often-overlapping sub-genres. ... Sherlock Holmes, pipe-puffing hero of crime fiction, confers with his colleague Dr. Watson; together these characters popularized the genre. ...

Each episode of the series was completely different in storyline from all other episodes of the series.

Episodes

Series 1

• The Case of the Missing
• The Girl from Ipanema
• He Died a Death
• Determined Woman
• Murder at Tea Time
• Mrs. Hat and Mrs. Red

Series 2

• Overkill
• Lady Luck
• A Severe Case of Death
• We All Hate Granny
• Mangez Merveillac
• Smashing Bird

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Series 3

• Girl Friday
• A Life or Death Operation
• Dying Live
• The Body Politic
• Confess
• Dead on Time

Series 4

• Frozen
• Going Solo
• Whoopi Stone
• Confessions of a Murderer
• Elvis, Jesus and Zack
• Dinner at Tiffany's

Notable guest stars

• Jane Asher (The Girl from Ipanema)
• David Bamber (Smashing Bird)
• Frances Barber (Dinner at Tiffany's)
• Thelma Barlow (Dinner at Tiffany's)
• David Battley (Frozen)
• Lucy Benjamin (A Severe Case of Death)
• Hywel Bennett (Smashing Bird)
• John Bird (A Life or Death Operation)
• Hugh Bonneville (Confessions of a Murderer)
• Jane Booker (Mangez Merveillac)
• Jim Broadbent (Determined Woman)
• Philip Martin Brown (Smashing Bird)
• Ann Bryson (Lady Luck)
• Kathy Burke (Determined Woman)
• Jim Carter (Mrs. Hat and Mrs. Red), (Dying Live), (Going Solo)
• Amanda Donohoe (Overkill)
• Minnie Driver (Confess)
• James Fleet (We All Hate Granny)
• Dexter Fletcher (Murder at Tea Time)
• Jamie Foreman (Whoopi Stone)
• Brigit Forsyth (A Life or Death Operation)
• John Fortune (A Severe Case of Death)
• Sean Gallagher (Lady Luck)
• Graeme Garden (Confessions of a Murderer)
• Nigel Havers (Girl Friday)
• Sean Hughes (Elvis, Jesus and Zack)
• Philip Jackson (Mangez Merveillac), (Confessions of a Murderer)
• Martin Jarvis (The Girl from Ipanema)
• Sarah Lancashire (Going Solo)
• Chris Langham (Elvis, Jesus and Zack)
• Hugh Laurie (The Body Politic)
• Helen Lederer (Dying Live)
• Roger Lloyd Pack (Confess)
• Mark McGann (Smashing Bird)
• Kevin McNally (He Died a Death), (Mangez Merveillac)
• Geraldine McNulty (Murder at Tea Time), (Girl Friday), (Dinner at Tiffany's)
• Sophie Okonedo (Dead on Time)
• Paul Reynolds (Elvis, Jesus and Zack)
• Clive Russell (Confess)
• Colin Salmon (Overkill)
• Joanna Scanlan (Frozen)
• Peter Serafinowicz (Dinner at Tiffany's)
• Timothy Spall (The Case of the Missing)
• John Thomson (Dying Live)
• Peter Vaughan (Overkill)
• Danny Webb (Dead on Time)
• Timothy West (A Severe Case of Death)
• Victoria Wicks (We All Hate Granny)
• Ray Winstone (Smashing Bird)
• Jake Wood (Elvis, Jesus and Zack)

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External links

• Murder Most Horrid at the Internet Movie Database
• Murder Most Horrid - BBC Comedy Guide