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The Worst Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
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    #1 - No More Dying Then: Part One

    S3:E1

    The Kingsmarkham police investigate the disappearance of John Lawrence, a five-year-old boy.Seven-and-a-half months after he goes missing, mad, taunting letters begin to arrive, and another child, Stella Rivers, vanishes.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #2 - No More Dying Then: Part Two

    S3:E2

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #3 - No More Dying Then: Part Three

    S3:E3

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #4 - A Sleeping Life: Part One

    S3:E4

    Wexford investigates when the dead body of a middle aged woman is found in a hedge - but there are no clues to the woman's identity, let alone any clues that might lead to her killer.

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    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Unknown
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    #5 - A Sleeping Life: Part Two

    S3:E5

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    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Unknown
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    S3:E6

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    Director:Bill Hays
    Writer:Unknown
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    #7 - Some Lie and Some Die: Part One

    S4:E1

    The Kingsmarkham rock festival is going smoothly until the disfigured body of of a local girl, thought to be living in London, is found in a nearby quarry. Wexford investigates the links between a charismatic singer and a young woman gone to the bad.

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    S4:E2

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    S4:E3

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    #10 - The Best Man to Die: Part One

    S4:E4

    Wexford joins forces with the bridegroom when his best man is killed at the stag party. And Charlie Hatton's death is only the first in a string of murders which seem to be about cheating husbands, loose women and gangsters.

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    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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    S4:E5

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    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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    S4:E6

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    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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    #13 - An Unkindness of Ravens: Part One

    S4:E7

    Rodney Williams disappears and then his body found in the woods. Wexford investigates and finds more than one mystery.

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    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Unknown
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    #14 - An Unkindness of Ravens: Part Two

    S4:E8

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    Director:John Gorrie
    Writer:Unknown
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    #15 - Put on by Cunning

    S4:E9

    When a world-famous flautist is murdered Wexford wonders if his recently returned daughter had anything to do with it. He becomes obsessed with proving that she is an imposter, even getting permission to travel as far afield as the USA and France to do so.

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown
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    #16 - The Speaker of Mandarin: Part One

    S6:E1

    Wexford is in China on a study tour of historic sites. To his amazement, he has psychic experiences, including a vision of the body of a Chinese nobleman dead for two thousand years. Wexford's tour party is made up of strangers, but he feels tense and claustrophobic among them. Then a young Chinese student drowns during the trip. On his return to England, Wexford is called to a murder scene, and the dead woman, who has been shot, was one of those with him on his Chinese trip. There is no obvious motive, and he decides to investigate all his fellow tourists, finding hidden greed, treachery, theft, and adultery.

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    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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    S6:E2

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    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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    S6:E3

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    Director:Herbert Wise
    Writer:Unknown
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    #19 - The Mouse in the Corner: Part One

    S6:E4

    Tom Peterlee, a member of a large family who live in three adjoining cottages, is murdered. Eva, his mother is quite cavalier in reaction to his death in Wexford's opinion and other family members are no more helpful. Heather, his widow, seems dumb with grief and his brother and meek sister-in-law are similarly evasive. Family friend Carol is more forthcoming, providing Heather with an alibi, but Wexford is sure one of the Peterlees is a killer. Burden has problems of his own when his daughter starts dating a married man and a series of ramraids in Kingsmarkham add to Wexford's problems.

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    Director:Rob Walker
    Writer:Unknown
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    S6:E5

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    Director:Rob Walker
    Writer:Unknown
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    #21 - An Unwanted Woman: Part One

    S6:E6

    Wexford investigates the killing of an elderly woman. Harry and Doreen Betts of Kingsmarkham are suspected of murdering their mother. But did they do it, or have they been framed?

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    S6:E7

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    #23 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part One

    S6:E8

    A Kingsmarkham police sergeant dies, carrying a replica gun he had taken from his young son... Then, one year later, Wexford is called to Tancred House, where Davina Flory and her family lie shot dead in a pool of blood. The only survivor is seventeen-year-old Daisy Flory. There are no other witnesses, and the two possible suspects have vanished into thin air. Then a blackmailer is found dangling from a tree... Wexford slowly uncovers a web of motives, greed, illicit sex, and revenge.

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    Director:Unknown
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    #24 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Two

    S6:E9

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    Director:Unknown
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    #25 - Kissing the Gunner's Daughter: Part Three

    S6:E10

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    Director:Unknown

Worst Episodes Summary

"No More Dying Then: Part One" is the worst rated episode of "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Unknown and written by Unknown, it aired on 10/22/1989. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "No More Dying Then: Part Two".