The Best Episodes Directed By Moira Armstrong

#1 - Buxton 1913

Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/4/1979

In 1913, eighteen year old Vera Brittain tries to convince her stuffy, Conservative parents to allow her to attend Oxford, while war looms on the horizon.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: N/A

#2 - Buxton 1914

Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/11/1979

Working hard at Oxford, Vera decides to contribute to the war effort by becoming a nurse, while Roland heads abroad to fight for his country.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: N/A

#3 - 1915

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/18/1979

As the war continues to rage, Vera receives devastating news from all sides, which forces her to reconsider her future.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: N/A

#4 - 1917

Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/25/1979

After another loss, Vera retreats into nursing, but the demands of her parents, and yet more tragedy, begin to overwhelm her.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: N/A

#5 - 1918

Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/2/1979

Vera returns to Oxford, where she strikes up a friendship with a fellow student, before beginning to concentrate on writing.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: N/A

#6 - Beyond the Grave

Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 2/5/2000

Unearthly happenings in and around a local museum create an atmosphere of terror.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: Douglas Watkinson

#7 - Blood Will Out

Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/19/1999

The sleepy village of Martyr Warren is invaded by quarrelsome New Age travellers, some of whom fall out with Hector Bridges, a local magistrate. The police are well aware of the tensions, but matters come to a head when Hector is found shot dead. It quickly appears that he was feared by almost everyone in sight, including his own family. And there is more to the travellers than meets the eye - one of them is a former British army officer who fought alongside Hector in the Falklands War... Then (as so often happens to Barnaby and Troy) another dead body is found, this time that of an old man at the travellers' camp.Meanwhile, Barnaby is not feeling in full fighting trim for murder investigations, as Joyce has put him on a strict diet to lose weight.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: Douglas Watkinson

#8 - Ordeal by Innocence

Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 9/30/2007

Old wounds are reopened for the Argyle family when a man suddenly turns up after being abroad and claims that the black sheep of the family could not have murdered its tyrannical matriarch.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: N/A

#9 - Other Points of the Compass

Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 10/29/1971

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: Alun Richards

#10 - Episode 5

Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 2/7/2010

Dorcas is fascinated by the wealthy recluse Mr Reppington. What is his true identity?

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: N/A

#11 - A Fly In The Ointment

Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 2/17/1972

Addle-brained Sir John Kendall and his dim-witted nephew devise a ludicrous plan to kill the King with a harmless ointment from phony astrologer.

Director: Moira Armstrong

Writer: N/A