"Rosemary & Thyme"
The Invisible Worm (2004)

Director:

Simon Langton

Writer:

Guy Andrews (written by)

TV Series:

"Rosemary & Thyme" (2003)

Original Air Date:

22 October 2004 (Season 2, Episode 4)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

Plot:

Stagford Lodge Preparatory School ask Rosemary and Laura to restore the failing garden. The geography teacher is found dead in the undergrowth...

Plot Keywords:

Murder | Murder Mystery | Business | Curiosity | Friends

Cast

Felicity Kendal	...	Rosemary Boxer
Pam Ferris	...	Laura Thyme
Anthony Andrews	...	Richard Oakley
Amanda Elwes	...	Eleanor Marshall
Claire Price	...	Miss Wells
Julian Firth	...	Quentin Marshall
Charlie Beall	...	Crispin Marshall
Will Adamsdale	...	Simon Todd
Eric Carte	...	Noel
Rachel Power	...	Inspector Harrap
Emmanuel Ighodaro	...	Sergeant Ojora
Jamie Reid	...	Ruddock
Harry Francis	...	Growse

Stylish, very British mystery with touches of humor...

FELICITY KENDAL and PAM FERRIS are the snoopy gardeners who uncover a dead body in the rose garden and promptly go about solving another crime. ANTHONY ANDREWS has fun with the role of a schoolmaster who refers to his pupils as "little maggots" who can't be left alone for a second lest they turn the classroom into a riot zone.

It's all prettily photographed in English countryside settings that look awfully inviting in color, but the style is so British and everyone talks in that clipped British manner that had me searching for the caption feature after the first five minutes.

It's one of those mysteries that isn't that hard to follow but the characters are pretty thinly developed and the whole story just seems to be a contrivance that doesn't add up to much. Most enjoyable performer is ANTHONY ANDREWS who hams it up at every opportunity.

It's not Christie, but it's fun.