8.2/1070 votesLoading...#1 - Overkill
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 3/3/1994
Tina Mellish is a failure on the point of suicide. Carmela Vezza is a hired assassin on a mission to kill. What use could they be to each other?
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Steven Moffat
8.1/1052 votesLoading...#2 - Lady Luck
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 3/10/1994
Hairdresser Denise Cunningham has just got through to her local radio station and won two free tickets to America, when she is taken hostage by a bank robber.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
8.0/1058 votesLoading...#3 - Mrs Hat and Mrs Red
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/19/1991
Mrs Hat is shocked when she bumps into her doppelganger, and ends up following her home. She finds herself literally stepping into her shoes and taking over her luxurious lifestyle.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
8.0/1038 votesLoading...#4 - Dying Live
Season 3 Episode 3 - Aired 5/24/1996
When Daisy Talwinning, an abattoir worker sacked because she can't bring herself to kill the cute animals, goes on holiday to Panador in South America, she gets caught up in a case of mistaken identity, just as a rebel leader is about to be executed - the officials think she is the executioner.
Director: N/A
Writer: Steven Moffat
7.9/1032 votesLoading...#5 - Frozen
Season 4 Episode 1 - Aired 2/19/1999
Faced with post-war rationing in the impoverished village of Skinton, sisters Lily and Iris share a secret supply of cakes stored in their freezer. But when the appliance breaks down, the arrival of a repairman leads to murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.8/1062 votesLoading...#6 - A Determined Woman
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/5/1991
Scientist Rita Proops brings her equipment home to start working on the ultimate invention - the time machine. But this causes friction at home with disastrous results.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.6/1060 votesLoading...#7 - The Girl from Ipanema
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/21/1991
When housekeeper Maria arrives at the house of MP Howling and his wife Lydia, she doesn't quite find things the way she expected. But one day, Maria witnesses a violent attack on Lydia by her husband and things start to take a turn for the better.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
7.6/1049 votesLoading...#8 - Murder at Tea Time
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/12/1991
Bunty is a successful children's television presenter, an expert in sticky-back plastic and a favourite with the young viewers of 'Write Away.' However, when her younger co-presenter is asked to pose for a wax modelling session at Madame Tussauds, jealousy arises off camera - and Bunty decides to put her young rival in his place!
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
7.5/1043 votesLoading...#9 - We All Hate Granny
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 3/24/1994
Tom has just lost his job, and Jocasta is finding the children a trial, but soon Granny will be dead, so everything will be fine.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1038 votesLoading...#10 - Girl Friday
Season 3 Episode 1 - Aired 5/10/1996
Sally Fairfax is a personal assistant to the smarmy philandering Harvey Stafford. Her devotion is severely tested when she returns to the office late one night and finds herself party to a murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.5/1029 votesLoading...#11 - A Life or Death Operation
Season 3 Episode 2 - Aired 5/17/1996
Ms. Kate Marshall (Dawn French), a brilliant surgeon, tries to murder the wife of a former patient who died when the woman confronts her with accusations that she was negligent during surgery. Kate runs the woman over with her vehicle... several times. As luck would have it, the woman doesn't die and is brought to St. Theodore's as a victim. Kate also has a television show and the case becomes a prime topic on the show, much to Kate's dismay.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.4/1033 votesLoading...#12 - Dead on Time
Season 3 Episode 6 - Aired 6/14/1996
The Angel of Death, who is a not-very-Grim Reaper, is given a deadly ultimatum: deliver some souls or be sentenced to a life in Hell.
Director: N/A
Writer: Ian Hislop
7.3/1037 votesLoading...#13 - A Severe Case of Death
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 3/17/1994
Maude Jenkins's struggle to become a doctor in nineteenth-century England involves lust, intrigue, a sex change and cigars.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.3/1035 votesLoading...#14 - Confessions of a Murderer
Season 4 Episode 4 - Aired 3/19/1999
TV crime show addict Harriet Snellgrove dreams of being arrested herself, and is a regular visitor to Nuttley police station to confess to almost every crime committed in the area, but she is never believed. But will the police's repeated rejections lead her to actually commit murder?
Director: Edgar Wright
Writer: Ian Hislop
7.2/1046 votesLoading...#15 - Mangez Merveillac
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 3/31/1994
Travel & cookery writer Verity Hodge finds the one corner of France that nobody has written about or visited. But her best selling book Mangez Merveillac changes all that forever with fatal results.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Ian Hislop
7.2/1044 votesLoading...#16 - The Body Politic
Season 3 Episode 4 - Aired 5/31/1996
Leader of the opposition Jerry Bryce and his wife Linda are getting ready to move to No 10, when they discover three rather grisly obstacles under the kitchen floor on the eve of the General Election.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
7.2/1033 votesLoading...#18 - Elvis, Jesus and Zack
Season 4 Episode 5 - Aired 3/26/1999
A TV producer fakes the death of a faded rock star in order to save her obituaries department.
Director: Tony Dow
Writer: Steven Moffat
7.0/1026 votesLoading...#19 - Dinner at Tiffany's
Season 4 Episode 6 - Aired 4/2/1999
School mealtime supervisor Tiffany Drapes loves her job. This is in part because she is in love with Gloria, the alcoholic, gambling headmistress. But so is games teacher Evangeline....
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
6.9/1064 votesLoading...#20 - He Died a Death
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/28/1991
Backstage at a London theatre, rivalry turns into suspicion, when one of the cast is murdered during a performance.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: N/A
6.9/1030 votesLoading...#21 - Whoopi Stone
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 3/5/1999
WPC Barbara Greaves is a speed cop and bored housewife. A CDI officer offers her the challenge to bring three American drug barons to justice.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jon Canter
6.8/1037 votesLoading...#22 - Smashing Bird
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 4/7/1994
Getaway driver Ray and his nightclub singing fiancée Vicky are set to give up a life of crime when a fatal explosion forces Vicky to become a killer. He is killed after a job goes horribly wrong, and the rest of the gang give her a choice: she can help avenge Ray's death, or become their cook.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jon Canter
6.6/1037 votesLoading...#23 - Confess
Season 3 Episode 5 - Aired 6/7/1996
When former gangland boss Frank Foster is brought in for questioning about the murder of a policeman, he's interrogated by Sgt Hodge and Sgt Cole, both intent on promotion.
Director: N/A
Writer: Jon Canter
6.3/1064 votesLoading...#24 - The Case of the Missing
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/14/1991
A traffic WPC is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly straight forward murder case, which gradually becomes more complex and mysterious.
Director: Bob Spiers
Writer: Ian Hislop
The Best Episodes of Murder Most Horrid
Every episode of Murder Most Horrid ranked from best to worst. Let's dive into the Best Episodes of Murder Most Horrid!
A comedy that started in 1991 as a pilot, Murder Most Horrid stars Dawn French as various characters, as she embarks on a different mystery...
Genres:ComedyDramaCrimeMystery
Network:BBC Two
Best Episodes Summary
"Overkill" is the best rated episode of "Murder Most Horrid". It scored 8.2/10 based on 70 votes. Directed by Bob Spiers and written by Steven Moffat, it aired on 3/3/1994. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "Lady Luck".
