Rosemary & Thyme

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Rosemary & Thyme
(DVD cover)
Format	Crime fiction
Run time	60 minutes
Creator(s)	Tom Clegg, Brian Farnham
Starring	Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris
Channel	ITV1
Production company	Carnival Films
Air dates	31 August 2003 – 22 February 2006
No. of episodes	22

Felicity Kendal (left) and Pam Ferris.

Rosemary & Thyme is a British television series that stars Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV1 in 2003, and the third series ended in early 2006. On 12 May 2006, ITV announced that the third series was the last.

The show is a mixture of gardening and detective investigation as the green-fingered sleuths delve into the world of crime, solving the various mysteries that happen to follow them around the country — and in other countries as well.

1 Title
2 Episode list
3 Novels
4 International Broadcasters
5 External links

[edit] Title

The title of the series is taken from the old English poem "Scarborough Fayre", later made famous in the song "Scarborough Fair" by Simon and Garfunkel from their album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary and Thyme. The title borrows from the first two lines: "Are you going to Scarborough Fair / Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme...".

[edit] Episode list

[edit] Series 1 (2003)

"And No Birds Sing"
"Arabica and the Early Spider"
"The Language of Flowers"
"Sweet Angelica"
"A Simple Plot"
"The Tree of Death"

[edit] Series 2 (2004)

"The Memory of Water" (feature length episode)
"Orpheus in the Undergrowth"
"They Understand Me In Paris"
"The Invisible Worm"
"The Gongoozlers"
"The Italian Rapscallion"
"Swords Into Ploughshares"
"Up The Garden Path"

[edit] Series 3 (2006)

"The Cup of Silence" (feature length episode)
"In A Monastery Garden"
"Seeds of Time"
"Agua Cadaver"
"Three Legs Good"
"The Gooseberry Bush"
"Racquet Espanol"
"Enter Two Gardeners"

The final two episodes have not yet been broadcast on ITV and there is no news on when these last ever episodes will be shown; rumour has it that they may be left to the Xmas 2006 ITV1 Line-up.

[edit] Novels

Three novels, written by series creator Brian Eastman and based on episodes of the series, have been published in Britain by Allison and Busby, and in Australia by Hardie Grant Books. These novels are:

1. And No Birds Sing (first published in 2004, and based on the pilot episode)

2. The Tree of Death (first published in 2005, and based on the final episode of Series 1)

3. Memory of Water (first published in 2006, and based on the first episode of Series 2)