Father Brown
Father Brown
TV ShowEnded

Father Brown

6.8 / 10
1974
1 season
13 episodes
MysteryCrimeDrama

Based on the short stories by G. K. Chesterton, Father Brown is a Roman Catholic priest and amateur detective.

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Seasons

  • Ep 1

    1.The Hammer of God

    5.0
    26-09-197452m

    Lord of the manor Colonel James Bohun, a sadistic bully and chauvinistic womaniser, is widely loathed in his small English village. Despite being married, he openly flaunts his con...

  • Ep 2

    2.The Oracle of the Dog

    03-10-197451m

    Colonel Arthur Druce is unhappy with his son Harry for his frivolous behaviour and his daughter Janet for her choice of a French doctor as fiancé. He summons his lawyer and changes...

  • Ep 3

    3.The Curse of the Golden Cross

    10-10-197452m

    When American archaeologist Gerald Smaill uncovers a golden Byzantine cross in cave in Asia Minor, a disembodied voice threatens death. En route back to England via cruise, he rece...

  • Ep 4

    4.The Eye of Apollo

    17-10-197451m

    Aging, blind dowager Miss Dorothy Ammersly, an advocate of equality for women in the workplace, has consigned her fortune to her niece, successful businesswoman Pauline Stacey. Unf...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Three Tools of Death

    24-10-197452m

    Scottish noble Sir Aaron Armstrong is a reformed alcoholic who advocates temperance and hires dipsomaniac Patrick Royce as his secretary on condition he give up the sauce. When Arm...

  • Ep 6

    6.The Mirror of the Magistrate

    31-10-197452m

    Brilliant but controversial conservative jurist Sir Arthur Travers is found murdered by gunshot in his estate garden. As he was murdered outdoors, the police are unable to explain...

  • Ep 7

    7.The Dagger with Wings

    07-11-197452m

    Wealthy Essex landowner Augustus Aylmer confesses to Father Brown that fear of his impending death has caused him to dabble in the occult, enabled by John Strake, his adopted son....

  • Ep 8

    8.The Actor and the Alibi

    14-11-197451m

    Mundon Mandeville, who runs a reviled repertoire theatre troupe, is murdered inside a windowless room. Everyone has an alibi. Father Brown is there as a favour to Flambeau to consu...

  • Ep 9

    9.The Quick One

    21-11-197451m

    Cantankerous, xenophobic crank John Raggley, inclined to writing complaints and constricting the freedom of his pretty spinster daughter, is found in a local hotel bar with a knife...

  • Ep 10

    10.The Man with Two Beards

    28-11-197451m

    Father Brown is staying with an old friend, a former jewel thief who retired to beekeeping in the country. Someone has been using his m.o. to commit a rash of local robberies, and...

  • Ep 11

    11.The Head of Caesar

    05-12-197451m

    Christabel Carstairs has inherited the estate of her late, well-to-do father with the exception of his celebrated collection of Ancient Roman coins, which go to her elder brother....

  • Ep 12

    12.The Arrow of Heaven

    12-12-197451m

    A paranoid millionaire becomes obsessed with a priceless early Christian chalice and wins it at auction. He lives with it in an impervious citadel, but is killed by an arrow in the...

  • Ep 13

    13.The Secret Garden

    19-12-197451m

    Father Brown is staying at a beautiful French mansion with an assortment of red herrings when a decapitated body is discovered in its enclosed, inaccessible garden. Brown sorts thr...

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