Box set: Wycliffe Complete Collection
Includes Season 1-5
Wycliffe - Season 1 (1994)
Genre Drama
Studio BFS Entertainment
Series Wycliffe
Movie Release Date 1994
Country UK
Language English
Running Time 390 mins
Format DVD
Color Color
IMDb Rating 6.7
Cast
Jack Shepherd Det. Supt. Charles Wycliffe
Helen Masters DI Lucy Lane
Jimmy Yuill DI Doug Kersey
Lynn Farleigh
Cristian Solimeno
Aaron Harris
Adam Barker
Tim Wylton Franks
Crew
Director Ferdinand Fairfax
Plot
Wycliffe is based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. The series is set in Cornwall, with each episode dealing with a murder investigation. In the early series, the stories are adapted from Burley's books and are in classic whodunit style, often with quirky characters and plot elements. In later seasons the tone becomes more naturalistic and there is more emphasis on internal politics within the police.

First DVD includes "Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death" a TV Movie from the year before the TV Series started, with diffrent actors in the roles of Lane and Kersey.
Episodes
Disc 01:
1 Wycliffe and the Cycle of Death
When Penzance bookseller Matthew Glyn is found murdered Wycliffe uncovers a far from happy family situation. One of his brothers, Alfred, is a recluse who has not spoken to him for years, whilst another brother, Maurice, was involved in a dispute over ancestral land with the dead man. Their sister Sara cannot be trusted to tell the truth and Matthew's wife disappeared years earlier in apparently mysterious circumstances. And then another member of the family is killed. . .
2 The Four Jacks
A young female archaeology student is found naked in bed with gunshot wounds, and lies in a critical condition in hospital. As surgeons try to save her life, Wycliffe digs into the life of a famous novelist, who claims his life is at risk. Then a man is shot dead while walking his dog on the beach, and Wycliffe is under pressure to act quickly if he is to prevent another murder.
3 The Dead Flautist
When the body of an amateur flautist, Tony Miller, shot by his own gun, is found on the secluded estate of Lord & Lady Bottrell, it is assumed that he killed himself. But Wycliffe senses there is more to the case than first meets the eye. As he unravels the dead man's last days, another mystery is revealed - the disappearance of a maid from the Bottrell household. Family feuds and illicit relationships are uncovered - and then another body is found.
4 The Scapegoat
A Cornish undertaker suddenly disappears. The missing man's body is found, washed up on the rocks, and a murder inquiry begins. A link is suspected between the undertaker's death and a strange local summer ritual, and the mystery ends with a figure strapped to a burning wheel plunging over the cliffs.
Disc 02:
5 The Tangled Web
Wycliffe is brought in when an elderly bedridden woman is found dead, her body locked in a freezer, and a pregnant teenager, Hilda Clemo, from a bizarre family vanishes from her Cornish village. As fears for her safety grow, Wycliffe questions the family, whose feuding uncovers some dark secrets. Wycliffe has to unpick the tangled web of intrigue and greed.
6 The Last Rites
When the Reverend Jordan arrives at the village church, he discovers the partially clothed body of Jessica Dobell, the church cleaner, spreadeagled below the cross. A satanic cult is thought to be behind the gruesome death, but Wycliffe believes responsibility lies elsewhere. There is an air of violent hatred in the village, not all of it directed towards the dead woman.
7 Wycliffe and the Pea-Green Boat
When a fishing-boat owner, Harry Tremaine, is killed in the explosion of his fishing boat, suspicion falls on the man's son, who stands to inherit everything, but Wycliffe remains unconvinced. There's also a local developer who wants to build a marina on the quayside Tremaine owned; Tremaine's partner has been having an affair with his wife; and there is a mysterious recipient of £500 in cash from Tremaine on the first day of every month.
Personal Details
Seen It Yes
Collection Status In Collection
Owner Marit
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Edition Details
Format DVD
Region Region 4
Release Country Australia
TV System PAL
No. of Disks/Tapes 2
Packaging Keep Case
Screen Ratio Fullscreen (4:3)
Audio Tracks ENGLISH: Dolby Digital Stereo