Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling three series from our site being released this week.
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The Bletchley Circle
Season Two
Based on the lives of four extraordinary and brilliant women with the ability to break codes, a skill honed during World War II when they worked undercover at Bletchley Park, site of the United Kingdom's main decryption establishment, the women use their code-breaking skills to solve crimes in post-war London.
Two feature-length episodes are included in this season set:
"Blood on Their Hands" opens with former Bletchley Park girl Alice Merren in prison awaiting trial for the murder of eminent scientist John Richards. Jean stands behind her innocence and tries to reunite the circle in an attempt to help one of their own. Lucy is now getting on well in a clerical job at Scotland Yard and keeping her head down, and Millie is working as a German translator. Susan is reluctant to get involved after her experience with the twisted serial killer Malcolm Crowley and the danger it posed to her family.
"Uncustomed Goods" finds Millie branching out into what she believes to be a harmless sideline of dealing in uncustomed goods. This endeavor leads to her being kidnapped and held in a seedy hotel by some gangsters. On discovering this, Alice goes to Jean and Lucy to help. The girls start to investigate in order to save their friend and, as they do so, uncover a much darker, hidden world of crime.
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Midsomer Murders
Series 8
Welcome to England's most murderous county …
Eight mysteries (now with SDH subtitles) are included in this set, in their original UK broadcast order:
• Things That Go Bump in the Night — A series of grisly murders casts suspicion on local spiritualists.
• Dead in the Water — Barnaby and Scott investigate a murder at the Midsomer Regatta.
• Orchis Fatalis — In an orchid-mad village, someone would kill to own a rare specimen.
• Bantling Boy — A man's bequest of his champion thoroughbred to four villagers leads to murder.
• Second Sight — A mysterious death brings the detectives to Midsomer Mere, where villagers claim psychic powers.
• Hidden Depths — An oenophile gets killed by a combination of catapult, croquet, and Chateau Lafite.
• Sauce for the Goose — After a visitor dies at a relish factory, the detectives investigate the local food wars.
• Midsomer Rhapsody — Barnaby links a local composer with odd events that crescendo to a killer coda.
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Midsomer Murders
Series 9
Eight mysteries (now with SDH subtitles) are included in this set, in their original UK broadcast order:
• The House in the Woods — A young couple dies on a property that's rumored to be haunted.
• Dead Letters — The mother of a former festival queen drowns herself during Oak Apple Week. But is it really suicide?
• Vixen's Run — A thrice-married baronet keels over dead, leaving an estate worth killing for.
• Down Among the Dead Men — An accountant's slaying leads Barnaby and Jones on a trail of blackmail.
• Four Funerals and a Wedding — An age-old battle of the sexes turns deadly at the Skimmington Fayre.
• Country Matters — A mysterious man turns up murdered on the proposed site of a contentious new supermarket.
• Death in Chorus — The tenor of Midsomer Worthy's choir is killed prior to a big competition.
• Last Year's Model — Barnaby has second thoughts about a woman's guilt as she goes on trial for murder.
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Ripper Street
Season Two
The job of preventing Whitechapel from descending into hell has never been harder for Inspector Reid and his loyal deputies. As the century enters its final decade, society teeters on the brink of moral collapse and nowhere are the bloated British Empire's problems felt more keenly than in its dark heart: the East End of London. The memory of Jack the ripper may have faded but the Whitechapel streets he walked are more dangerous than ever.
Though canceled by BBC after this second season, Amazon has acquired the series and will produce a third season.
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