The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries

The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries is a British detective television series adapted from nine of the Roderick Alleyn novels by Dame Ngaio Marsh. It originally aired between 1990 and 1994.

In the pilot episode Detective Chief Inspector Alleyn was played by Simon Williams. William Simons played Alleyn's righthand man and "Dr. Watson" figure, Detective Inspector Fox, and Belinda Lang starred as the painter Agatha Troy, Alleyn's love interest.

Williams was unavailable after the first series was made, so whilst Simons and Lang reprised their original roles, the lead character was henceforth played by Patrick Malahide.

The BBC made nine episodes in all, each based on a separate novel. The eight episodes featuring Malahide are available on DVD in the USA and UK. An Australian set has all nine episodes.

Episodes

The figures in parentheses indicate the original publication year of each novel and the date on which each adaptation was first aired. Only the first two Malahide episodes are in order of publication.

• Artists in Crime (1938 - 23 December 1990)
• Series One
• A Man Lay Dead (1934 - 18 April 1993)
• The Nursing Home Murder (1935 - 25 April 1993)
• Final Curtain (1947 - 2 May 1993)
• Death at the Bar (1939 - 9 May 1993)
• Death in a White Tie (1938 - 16 May 1993)
• Series Two
• Hand in Glove (1962 - 10 January 1994)
• Dead Water (1964 - 1 April 1994)
• Scales of Justice (1958 - 29 August 1994)

References

• The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries at the Internet Movie Database