The Best Episodes of Cadfael

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   8.3/10(328 votes)

   #1 - The Virgin in the Ice

   S2:E112/26/1995

   Cadfael's novice, Brother Oswin, is found close to death, babbling about a woman. When a nun is found raped, murdered and encased in the ice of a frozen stream, Oswin is accused of murder. Cadfael tracks the nun's companion, Ermina Hugonin, and sets out to prove Oswin's innocence.

   Director:Malcolm Mowbray

   Writer:Russell Lewis

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   Director:Malcolm Mowbray

   Writer:Russell Lewis
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   8.1/10(288 votes)

   #2 - The Devil's Novice

   S2:E28/18/1996

   A rich priest is found killed, and the finger of suspicion points to a new monk at Shrewsbury Abbey. Meanwhile, a civil war raging around England is piling political pressures on the Abbot. Cadfael investigates the murder and uncovers a tangled web of dishonesty and nepotism.

   Director:Herbert Wise

   Writer:Unknown

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   Director:Herbert Wise

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   8.0/10(351 votes)

   #3 - The Leper of St. Giles

   S1:E36/12/1994

   A great wedding is to take place at the Abbey, between a beautiful young girl and a powerful baron. But this is no love match, and when the baron disappears before the wedding, Cadfael is on the case.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   8.0/10(294 votes)

   #4 - A Morbid Taste for Bones

   S2:E38/25/1996

   The monks of Shrewsbury go to Wales to recover the bones of St. Winifred. But their attempted bribery of the Welsh puts them at odds with the local residents—and when the local landowner is found murdered, the monks are regarded as prime suspects.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Unknown

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   7.9/10(304 votes)

   #5 - Monk's Hood

   S1:E46/19/1994

   A rich landowner cuts his stepson out of his will to leave his fortune to Shrewsbury Abbey, and is found poisoned. When Cadfael is called in to investigate, he is shocked to find that the dead man's wife is his own childhood sweetheart, whom he has not seen for forty years.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Russell Lewis

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   Writer:Russell Lewis
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   7.9/10(248 votes)

   #6 - The Raven in the Foregate

   S3:E38/26/1997

   Cadfael is on a double murder hunt following the deaths of a pregnant girl and the priest who refused to take her confession.

   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Russell Lewis

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   Director:Ken Grieve

   Writer:Russell Lewis
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   7.9/10(215 votes)

   #7 - The Potter's Field

   S4:E212/23/1998

   A potter's wife dies suddenly, and he gives up his old life to enter the Abbey, but the other monks suspect him of having killed his wife. As Cadfael investigates the death he finds a curious web of jealousy, infidelity and suicide.

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   7.8/10(359 votes)

   #8 - The Sanctuary Sparrow

   S1:E26/5/1994

   When Shrewsbury's goldsmith is robbed and left for dead, the locals launch a witch-hunt. Pursued by the mob, the prime suspect, a young juggler who performed at the wedding of the goldsmith's son, seeks sanctuary at the Abbey. But as Cadfael investigates, a second body is found floating in the River Severn.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Russell Lewis

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   7.7/10(464 votes)

   #9 - One Corpse Too Many

   S1:E15/29/1994

   Brother Cadfael has settled down to a quiet religious life at Shrewsbury Abbey after an adventurous, and far from monastic, youth. But when he uncovers a murder, he turns detective to solve the crime.

   Director:Unknown

   Writer:Russell Lewis

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    7.7/10(253 votes)

    #10 - The Rose Rent

    S3:E18/12/1997

    The recently-widowed wife, Judith Perle, of a rich merchant becomes the object of interest for the men of Shrewsbury. But then a monk and one of her suitors are murdered.

    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.7/10(255 votes)

    #11 - St. Peter's Fair

    S3:E28/19/1997

    Cadfael puts Hugh Beringar to the test, and Hugh has to choose between loyalty to the king and friendship with Cadfael. Meanwhile, at the annual St. Peter's Fair in Shrewsbury, townspeople come into conflict with the Abbey's officers and with visiting merchants. A curfew is ordered, but not fully observed—then Cadfael finds he has a murder to solve.

    Director:Herbert Wise

    Writer:Russell Lewis

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    Writer:Russell Lewis
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    7.6/10(218 votes)

    #12 - The Holy Thief

    S4:E16/23/1998

    Dalny, a beautiful slave girl, is abducted from the Abbey—and the relics of St. Winifred are also spirited away, apparently by the same thief. Cadfael is commissioned to find them both.

    Director:Ken Grieve

    Writer:Unknown

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    7.6/10(224 votes)

    #13 - The Pilgrim of Hate

    S4:E312/28/1998

    The dead body of an elderly man is found hidden in a sack at the Abbey, and Cadfael believes he was murdered. The principal suspects are a group of pilgrims, who include two known thieves. Cadfael locks them up, in a bid to draw out the killer.

    Director:Ken Grieve

    Writer:Unknown

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