5.2/1096 votesLoading...#1 - The Double
Season 10 Episode 1 - Aired 1/3/1997
Lisa meets Zoe, who is as much like her as an identical twin, but entirely out of the common rut - and dramatic events ensue which change both their lives.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 5.7/1045 votesLoading...
#2 - Going Wrong: Part Two
Season 11 Episode 2 - Aired 6/9/1998
Part two. While attending a party with Celeste, Guy argues with Leonora's brother. He then asks Danny to kill him - but when he learns of an impending marriage, Guy realises he has targeted the wrong man.
Director: Matthew Evans
Writer: N/A
- 5.8/1043 votesLoading...
#3 - Going Wrong: Part Three
Season 11 Episode 3 - Aired 6/16/1998
Part three of three. After losing the fight with William, Guy decides to forget Leonora and make it up to Celeste, but a surprise invitation rekindles his old obsession and leads to tragedy.
Director: Matthew Evans
Writer: N/A
- 6.0/1069 votesLoading...
#4 - Vanity Dies Hard: Part Three
Season 8 Episode 3 - Aired 4/7/1995
Part three. The spinster's suspicions grow when her best friend mysteriously disappears, and as illness takes control she realises her ally was murdered.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.2/1066 votesLoading...
#5 - Going Wrong: Part One
Season 11 Episode 1 - Aired 6/2/1998
As a teenager, Guy Curran leads a street gang and for three years is the lover of Leonora, whose middle-class background is a world away from his own. Leonora's family disapprove of her boyfriend. As the years pass, they drift apart. Guy becomes a successful business man and Leonora goes to college and then gets her first job. When they meet again, Leonora says there is now someone else in her life, but Guy can't accept this. His obsession deepens and turns into a murderous madness...
Director: Matthew Evans
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1072 votesLoading...
#6 - Vanity Dies Hard: Part Two
Season 8 Episode 2 - Aired 3/31/1995
Part two of a moody whodunit from the pen of Britain's queen of crime fiction, starring Eleanor David as bride-to-be Alice Whittaker, whose marriage plans are thrown into turmoil by the disappearance of a close friend opposed to her impending nuptials. Disregarding assurances that there is nothing to worry about, Alice sets out to investigate - and soon uncovers evidence of foul play lurking just beneath the surface of local life.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.3/1077 votesLoading...
#7 - Front Seat
Season 10 Episode 7 - Aired 2/21/1997
Hugh and Cecily Branksome retire to the seaside town where they grew up. There they meet again Arnold Cottle, an old boyfriend of Cecily's. She goes to look for a public seat given to the town by her late father, who was a local alderman, and finds it was destroyed and later replaced by another seat given by a suspected murderer. With Arnold's help, she sets out to investigate the unsolved murder.
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/10134 votesLoading...
#8 - Master of the Moor: Part Three
Season 7 Episode 3 - Aired 9/16/1994
Conclusion. A secret hideaway from Stephen's childhood leads to him uncovering the identity of the Master of the Moor.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.4/10122 votesLoading...
#9 - Vanity Dies Hard: Part One
Season 8 Episode 1 - Aired 3/24/1995
Andrew Fielding, a good-looking young teacher, marries Alice Whittaker, a rich woman in her late thirties, more than ten years older than he is. All seems well until Alice introduces Andrew to Nesta Drage, her best friend, who quickly vanishes without trace. Meanwhile, Alice more and more doubts whether Andrew loves her - and if he is just a gold-digger, might he have something to do with Nesta's disappearance? Alice begins a search for Nesta - but Andrew does his best to tie his wife to the house.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.5/1018 votesLoading...
#10 - Simisola: Part One
Season 9 Episode 2 - Aired 1/26/1996
At first, this mystery seems to be a missing person case: Wexford's doctor asks for help in finding his daughter, Melanie Akande, a recent college graduate who disappeared after going to her local unemployment office to find a job. The Akandes are an immigrant family from Nigeria, living in a rural area where only a handful of black people live. The woman who handled Melanie's case at the unemployment office, also young and black, is found murdered a few days later. Could the disappearance and the murder be connected? Wexford begins to face up to subtly racist attitudes.
Director: Jim Goddard
Writer: Alan Plater
- 6.6/1052 votesLoading...
#11 - Road Rage: Part Two
Season 11 Episode 5 - Aired 11/9/1998
A girl's badly decomposed body is found, and cabdriver Stanley Trotter is suspected of murder.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1014 votesLoading...
#12 - The Mouse in the Corner: Part Two
Season 6 Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1992
No description available
Director: Rob Walker
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10345 votesLoading...
#13 - Master of the Moor: Part One
Season 7 Episode 1 - Aired 9/2/1994
Stephen Whalby is a young man living on the edge of the Moor, where since childhood he has spent most of his time alone. A string of young women, all with fair hair, are killed on the Moor, and suddenly Stephen finds himself the principal police suspect.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/10136 votesLoading...
#14 - Master of the Moor: Part Two
Season 7 Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1994
Part two of three. Stephen's passion for the moor fuels the detective's suspicions, as his neglected wife is driven into the arms of danger.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.7/1029 votesLoading...
#15 - The Strawberry Tree: Part One
Season 8 Episode 4 - Aired 4/21/1995
Petra Summers is an attractive middle-aged woman with a past - and her past life is beginning to come back to haunt her. When Petra Sunderton's elder brother Piers falls in love with their Spanish cousin Rosario, the consequences are far-reaching.
Director: Herbert Wise
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10110 votesLoading...
#16 - The Secret House of Death: Part Two
Season 9 Episode 6 - Aired 3/15/1996
Part two of two. Susan Townsend finds herself in danger as details of the double killing begin to emerge.
Director: Jim Goddard
Writer: N/A
- 6.8/10111 votesLoading...
#17 - Road Rage: Part One
Season 11 Episode 4 - Aired 11/8/1998
A Kingsmarkham bypass is planned which will take congestion and air pollution out of the town but put tarmac and heavy traffic through a stretch of much-loved countryside. Feelings are running high on both sides. An attractive young German tourist has disappeared, and when her decomposing body is found it is not clear whether the crime is part of a conspiracy or sex-related. Wexford is about to become a grandfather and is struggling to cope with family life and to do his job at the same time. Meanwhile, Dora Wexford has joined the anti-bypass campaign. The murder case continues, and the anti-bypass campaign escalates. People begin to be kidnapped, and this is linked to a militant group of environmental extremists. Under pressure on all fronts, Wexford keeps his cool (even when his wife is kidnapped on the day his daughter gives birth) and pursues the law-breakers to the bitter end.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1039 votesLoading...
#18 - Wolf to the Slaughter: Part Two
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 9/9/1987
No description available
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Clive Exton
- 6.9/1040 votesLoading...
#19 - Wolf to the Slaughter: Part Three
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 8/16/1987
No description available
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Clive Exton
- 6.9/1087 votesLoading...
#20 - The Lake of Darkness
Season 11 Episode 8 - Aired 5/3/1999
Quiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what she seems.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 6.9/1017 votesLoading...
#21 - The Fallen Curtain
Season 11 Episode 9 - Aired 8/6/1999
Richard Brazier has a mental block about his abduction as an eight year old and is haunted by what may or may not have happened.
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1038 votesLoading...
#22 - Wolf to the Slaughter: Part Four
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 8/23/1987
No description available
Director: John Howard Davies
Writer: Clive Exton
- 7.0/1058 votesLoading...
- 7.0/1025 votesLoading...
#24 - Some Lie and Some Die: Part Two
Season 4 Episode 2 - Aired 10/7/1990
No description available
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: Matthew Jacobs
- 7.0/1024 votesLoading...
#25 - Some Lie and Some Die: Part Three
Season 4 Episode 3 - Aired 10/14/1990
No description available
Director: Sandy Johnson
Writer: Matthew Jacobs
The Worst Episodes of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
Every episode of The Ruth Rendell Mysteries ranked from worst to best. Explore 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.
Genres:DramaMystery
Network:ITV1
Worst Episodes Summary
"The Double" is the worst rated episode of "The Ruth Rendell Mysteries". It scored 5.2/10 based on 96 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 1/3/1997. This episode scored 0.5 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Going Wrong: Part Two".