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The Best Episodes of Murder Most Horrid

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Comedienne Dawn French tackles dark, tongue-in-cheek thrillers as her various characters embark on a different mystery every episode. In one way or another, she is involved with murder — either committing the crime or even

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Murder Most Horrid Season 2 Episode 1 - Overkill
    8.4/10(85 votes)

    S2:E1

    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

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  2. Murder Most Horrid Season 2 Episode 2 - Lady Luck
    8.3/10(62 votes)

    S2:E2

    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
    Writers:Terry Kyan, Paul Smith

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  3. Murder Most Horrid Season 1 Episode 6 - Mrs Hat and Mrs Red
    7.9/10(71 votes)

    S1:E6

    Mrs Hat is shocked when she bumps into her doppelgänger, and ends up following her home. She finds herself literally stepping into her shoes and taking over her luxurious lifestyle.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:James Hendrie, Ian Brown

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  4. Murder Most Horrid Season 3 Episode 3 - Dying Live
    7.9/10(43 votes)

    S3:E3

    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:Dewi Humphreys
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  5. Murder Most Horrid Season 4 Episode 1 - Frozen
    7.8/10(39 votes)

    S4:E1

    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:Coky Giedroyc
    Writer:Nick Vivian

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  6. Murder Most Horrid Season 1 Episode 4 - A Determined Woman
    7.7/10(71 votes)

    S1:E4

    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:James Hendrie
    Writer:James Hendrie

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  7. Murder Most Horrid Season 1 Episode 2 - The Girl from Ipanema
    7.6/10(77 votes)

    S1:E2

    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
    Writers:Terry Kyan, Paul Smith

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  8. Murder Most Horrid Season 3 Episode 2 - A Life or Death Operation
    7.6/10(32 votes)

    S3:E2

    Brilliant surgeon and TV host Kate Marshall tries to murder the wife of a patient who died when the woman accuses her of negligence. Kate runs her over... several times. But, as luck would have it, the woman doesn't die and is brought to St Theodore's as a victim. Further, the case becomes a prime topic on Kate's show, much to her dismay.

    Director:Dewi Humphreys
    Writers:Mark Burton, John O'Farrell

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  9. Murder Most Horrid Season 1 Episode 5 - Murder at Tea Time
    7.5/10(60 votes)

    S1:E5

    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
    Writers:Graham Alborough, Jez Alborough

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  10. Murder Most Horrid Season 2 Episode 4 - We All Hate Granny
    7.5/10(49 votes)

    S2:E4

    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:Dewi Humphreys
    Writer:James Hendrie

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  11. Murder Most Horrid Season 3 Episode 1 - Girl Friday
    7.5/10(42 votes)

    S3:E1

    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:Dewi Humphreys
    Writer:Paul Smith

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  12. Murder Most Horrid Season 2 Episode 3 - A Severe Case of Death
    7.4/10(45 votes)

    S2:E3

    Maude Jenkins's struggle to become a doctor in nineteenth-century England involves lust, intrigue, a sex change and cigars.

    Director:Marcus Mortimer
    Writer:Chris England

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  13. Murder Most Horrid Season 3 Episode 6 - Dead on Time
    7.4/10(35 votes)

    S3:E6

    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:Ferdinand Fairfax
    Writers:Ian Hislop, Nick Newman

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  14. Murder Most Horrid Season 4 Episode 4 - Confessions of a Murderer
    7.4/10(40 votes)

    S4:E4

    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
    Writers:Ian Hislop, Nick Newman

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  15. Murder Most Horrid Season 4 Episode 2 - Going Solo
    7.3/10(31 votes)

    S4:E2

    Tracy Phillips and Karen Sullivan seem an unlikely team to set sail together on a round-the-world yacht race, and they do indeed prove to be ill-matched. Then they capsize.

    Director:Tony Dow
    Writer:Paul Smith

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  16. Murder Most Horrid Season 4 Episode 6 - Dinner at Tiffany's
    7.3/10(30 votes)

    S4:E6

    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:Dewi Humphreys
    Writer:Jonathan Harvey

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  17. Murder Most Horrid Season 2 Episode 5 - Mangez Merveillac
    7.2/10(52 votes)

    S2:E5

    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
    Writers:Ian Hislop, Nick Newman

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  18. Murder Most Horrid Season 3 Episode 4 - The Body Politic
    7.2/10(48 votes)

    S3:E4

    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:Ferdinand Fairfax
    Writer:Anthony Horowitz

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  19. Murder Most Horrid Season 1 Episode 3 - He Died a Death
    7.1/10(80 votes)

    S1:E3

    Backstage at a London theatre, rivalry turns into suspicion, when one of the cast is murdered during a performance.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Ian Hislop, Nick Newman

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  20. Murder Most Horrid Season 2 Episode 6 - Smashing Bird
    7.1/10(44 votes)

    S2:E6

    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:Dewi Humphreys
    Writer:Jon Canter

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  21. Murder Most Horrid Season 4 Episode 5 - Elvis, Jesus and Zack
    7.1/10(38 votes)

    S4:E5

    A TV producer fakes the death of a faded rock star in order to save her obituaries department.

    Director:Tony Dow
    Writer:Steven Moffat

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  22. Murder Most Horrid Season 4 Episode 3 - Whoopi Stone
    6.9/10(33 votes)

    S4:E3

    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:Coky Giedroyc
    Writer:Jon Canter

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  23. Murder Most Horrid Season 3 Episode 5 - Confess
    6.6/10(42 votes)

    S3:E5

    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:Coky Giedroyc
    Writer:Jon Canter

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  24. Murder Most Horrid Season 1 Episode 1 - The Case of the Missing
    6.3/10(90 votes)

    S1:E1

    A traffic WPC is suddenly put in charge of a seemingly straightforward murder case, which gradually becomes more complex and mysterious.

    Director:Bob Spiers
    Writers:Ian Hislop, Nick Newman

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Best Episodes Summary

"Overkill" is the best rated episode of "Murder Most Horrid". It scored 8.4/10 based on 85 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".