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Wycliffe is a British television series, based on W. J. Burley's novels about Detective Superintendent Charles Wycliffe. It was produced by HTV and broadcast on the ITV Network, following a pilot episode on 7 August

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Wycliffe Season 2 Episode 4 - Lost Contact
    9.0/10(98 votes)

    #1 - Lost Contact

    S2:E4

    When a man's virtually unidentifiable body is washed ashore, Wycliffe is baffled when two separate women claim it is that of their missing husbands.

    Director:Patrick Lau
    Writer:Isabelle Grey

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  2. Wycliffe Season 4 Episode 3 - On Account
    9.0/10(84 votes)

    #2 - On Account

    S4:E3

    Wycliffe and Kersey exchange strong words as they investigate a disturbing case involving the contamination of jars of baby food in a local supermarket by a blackmailer. Meanwhile, the disciplinary enquiry into Wycliffe's team continues to run its course.

    Director:David Innes Edwards
    Writer:Kevin Clarke

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  3. Wycliffe Season 4 Episode 6 - Bad Blood
    9.0/10(87 votes)

    #3 - Bad Blood

    S4:E6

    A couple facing eviction from their tied cottage are suspected of murder when the landowner is suddenly killed. Wycliffe must act quickly to identify the killer before locals take the law into their own hands.

    Director:Alan Wareing
    Writer:Scott Cherry

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  4. Wycliffe Season 2 Episode 1 - All for Love
    8.0/10(111 votes)

    #4 - All for Love

    S2:E1

    A hunt for John Bonetti, an escaped prisoner from HMP Bodmin, takes a dramatic twist after the discovery of a body. Wycliffe and his team race against time to recapture him.

    Director:Martyn Friend
    Writer:Steve Trafford

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  5. Wycliffe Season 2 Episode 5 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #5 - Four and Twenty Blackbirds

    S2:E5

    When a farmer goes missing, leaving his sheep and house unattended, the local police call in Wycliffe. Discoveries of arson and bloodstains lead the team into a farming community struggling to survive.

    Director:Steve Goldie
    Writer:Julian Jones

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  6. Wycliffe Season 2 Episode 7 - Wild Oats
    8.0/10(107 votes)

    #6 - Wild Oats

    S2:E7

    When an attempt is made to steal a headless skeleton from an archaelogical dig, Wycliffe discovers an estate steeped in archaic values. The identification of the skeleton unsettles the land-owning Rawle family, whose days of sovereignty in the community are fading.

    Director:Michael Owen Morris
    Writer:Patrick Harkins

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  7. Wycliffe Season 3 Episode 1 - Dead on Arrival
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #7 - Dead on Arrival

    S3:E1

    An abandoned lorry with five corpses at the ferry terminal and a man on the run bring Wycliffe's silver wedding anniversary celebration, which their children have laid on as a surprise, to an abrupt halt.

    Director:Michael Owen Morris
    Writer:Steve Trafford

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  8. Wycliffe Season 3 Episode 2 - Number of the Beast
    8.0/10(97 votes)

    #8 - Number of the Beast

    S3:E2

    When unexplained killings rock the Bodmin community, locals become convinced that the "beast" is back.

    Director:Michael Owen Morris
    Writer:Jonathan Rich

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  9. Wycliffe Season 3 Episode 3 - Slave of Duty
    8.0/10(88 votes)

    #9 - Slave of Duty

    S3:E3

    A dead man found buried under a pile of 100-year old wood provides an intriguing case.

    Director:David Innes Edwards
    Writer:Jonathan Rich

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  10. Wycliffe Season 3 Episode 5 - Crazy for You
    8.0/10(87 votes)

    #10 - Crazy for You

    S3:E5

    A psychiatrist's wife is murdered in a seemingly unprovoked attack. Wycliffe finds that proving a motive can be harder than catching a killer.

    Director:Martyn Friend
    Writer:Tom Needham

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  11. Wycliffe Season 4 Episode 2 - Close to Home
    8.0/10(79 votes)

    #11 - Close to Home

    S4:E2

    A petty criminal turns into a killer. A man is stabbed to death in a pub car park by a stranger. As Wycliffe investigates, the victim turns out not to be the upstanding businessman he seemed to be.

    Director:David Innes Edwards
    Writer:Isabelle Grey

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  12. Wycliffe Season 4 Episode 4 - Lone Voyager
    8.0/10(86 votes)

    #12 - Lone Voyager

    S4:E4

    Wycliffe probes the disappearance of a lone yachtswoman, whose boat is discovered scuttled on the seabed.

    Director:Michael Brayshaw
    Writer:Phil O'Shea

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  13. Wycliffe Season 4 Episode 5 - Seen a Ghost
    8.0/10(91 votes)

    #13 - Seen a Ghost

    S4:E5

    A dark family secret comes to light when a girl deliberately runs over a woman on a pedestrian crossing. The results of the enquiry board are revealed.

    Director:Michael Brayshaw
    Writer:Isabelle Grey

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  14. Wycliffe Season 4 Episode 7 - To Sup with the Devil
    8.0/10(84 votes)

    #14 - To Sup with the Devil

    S4:E7

    When a local pub landlord is bludgeoned to death, Wycliffe can find few people with a good word to say about him. A police informant points the finger at the victims' former wife and her new husband, but when DI Lane mishandles the situation, Wycliffe and Kersey are forced to stage a dramatic rescue.

    Director:Graeme Harper
    Writer:Carolyn Sally Jones

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  15. Wycliffe Season 4 Episode 8 - Old Crimes, New Times
    8.0/10(72 votes)

    #15 - Old Crimes, New Times

    S4:E8

    Pursued by the press, under the spotlight of an internal investigation, and lacking support from his superiors, Wyclife's problems multiply when an old case resurfaces, and DCC Stevens seems out to prove Wycliffe is no longer up to the job.

    Director:Graeme Harper
    Writer:Arthur McKenzie

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  16. Wycliffe Season 5 Episode 5 - Scope
    8.0/10(67 votes)

    #16 - Scope

    S5:E5

    A Policeman is murdered and orders Wycliffe to avoid any scandal made difficult by the Officers wife was having an affair with another Officer.

    Director:Alan Wareing
    Writer:John Milne

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  17. Wycliffe Season 5 Episode 6 - Land's End
    8.0/10(79 votes)

    #17 - Land's End

    S5:E6

    Wycliffe is accused of taking bribes and is suspended.

    Director:Alan Wareing
    Writer:Kevin Clarke

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  18. Wycliffe Season 1 Episode 1 - The Four Jacks
    7.0/10(171 votes)

    #18 - The Four Jacks

    S1:E1

    A young female archaeology student is found naked in bed with gunshot wounds, and lies in a critical condition in hospital. As surgeons try to save her life, Wycliffe digs into the life of a famous novelist, who claims his life is at risk. Then a man is shot dead while walking his dog on the beach, and Wycliffe is under pressure to act quickly if he is to prevent another murder.

    Director:Ferdinand Fairfax
    Writer:Edward Canfor-Dumas

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  19. Wycliffe Season 1 Episode 2 - The Dead Flautist
    7.0/10(138 votes)

    #19 - The Dead Flautist

    S1:E2

    When the body of an amateur flautist, Tony Miller, shot by his own gun, is found on the secluded estate of Lord & Lady Bottrell, it is assumed that he killed himself. But Wycliffe senses there is more to the case than first meets the eye. As he unravels the dead man's last days, another mystery is revealed - the disappearance of a maid from the Bottrell household. Family feuds and illicit relationships are uncovered - and then another body is found.

    Director:Martyn Friend
    Writer:Steve Trafford

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  20. Wycliffe Season 1 Episode 3 - The Scapegoat
    7.0/10(125 votes)

    #20 - The Scapegoat

    S1:E3

    A Cornish undertaker suddenly disappears. The missing man's body is found, washed up on the rocks, and a murder inquiry begins. A link is suspected between the undertaker's death and a strange local summer ritual, and the mystery ends with a figure strapped to a burning wheel plunging over the cliffs.

    Director:Martyn Friend
    Writer:Russell Lewis

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  21. Wycliffe Season 1 Episode 4 - The Tangled Web
    7.0/10(108 votes)

    #21 - The Tangled Web

    S1:E4

    Wycliffe is brought in when an elderly bedridden woman is found dead, her body locked in a freezer, and a pregnant teenager, Hilda Clemo, from a bizarre family vanishes from her Cornish village. As fears for her safety grow, Wycliffe questions the family, whose feuding uncovers some dark secrets. Wycliffe has to unpick the tangled web of intrigue and greed.

    Director:Ferdinand Fairfax
    Writer:Andrew Holden

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  22. Wycliffe Season 1 Episode 5 - The Last Rites
    7.0/10(112 votes)

    #22 - The Last Rites

    S1:E5

    When the Reverend Jordan arrives at the village church, he discovers the partially clothed body of Jessica Dobell, the church cleaner, spreadeagled below the cross. A satanic cult is thought to be behind the gruesome death, but Wycliffe believes responsibility lies elsewhere. There is an air of violent hatred in the village, not all of it directed towards the dead woman.

    Director:A.J. Quinn
    Writer:Rob Heyland

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  23. Wycliffe Season 2 Episode 2 - The Trojan Horse
    7.0/10(99 votes)

    #23 - The Trojan Horse

    S2:E2

    Alex Keir is distraught when his wife Alison goes missing, but Wycliffe is sceptical of his grief, until a ransome note is found. The case of apparent kidnapping then takes a dramatic turn when Mrs Keir is found dead and smelling of alcohol at the wheel of a crashed car.

    Director:Patrick Lau
    Writer:Steve Trafford

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  24. Wycliffe Season 2 Episode 3 - Charades
    7.0/10(101 votes)

    #24 - Charades

    S2:E3

    Wycliffe and his team investigate the death of a man found blasted by a shotgun at a Cornish holiday home. They discover evidence of ill-feeling between the dead man and his brother-in-law.

    Director:Martyn Friend
    Writer:Jonathan Rich

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  25. Wycliffe Season 2 Episode 8 - Breaking Point
    7.0/10(98 votes)

    #25 - Breaking Point

    S2:E8

    Surfer Anne Carter is found in a deep coma when she is washed ashore. The assumption that she is a victim of afreak accident have to be revised when Wycliffe and his team investigate, and uncover a host of sinister facts and conspiracies. Their task is hindered by an obvious leak to the press, which puts DI Lane in a precarious position.

    Director:Michael Owen Morris
    Writer:Steve Trafford

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Best Episodes Summary

"Lost Contact" is the best rated episode of "Wycliffe". It scored 9/10 based on 98 votes. Directed by Patrick Lau and written by Isabelle Grey, it aired on 7/9/1995. This episode scored 0.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "On Account".