Rosemary & Thyme is a British television cozy mystery thriller series starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003. The third series ended in August 2007. The theme is murder. Aug 31, 2003 With Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Ryan Philpott, Daisy Dunlop. Set amongst the stunning gardens of Europe, Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two professional gardeners, find themselves drawn into solving mysterious crimes.
by CountrySideCricket|created - 08 Apr 2017|updated - 09 Mar 2018| PublicThis list ranks all 22 of the episodes of three series of Rosemary and Thyme.
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1. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:The Invisible Worm(2004)
TV-PG|46 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
While restoring a rose garden at an elite prep school, Rosemary and Laura discover the body of a teacher harpooned in the heart.
Director:Simon Langton| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Anthony Andrews, Amanda Elwes
Votes:115
Series 2 Episode 4
2. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Enter Two Gardeners(2006)
TV-14|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
The girls are contracted to do the landscaping for a traditional amateur theatrical, but when members of the cast are murdered, Laura is forced to don greasepaint.
Director:Simon Langton| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, John Sackville, Rachel Pickup
Votes:84
Series 3 Episode 8
3. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:The Memory of Water(2004)
TV-PG|92 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
While working on restoring an Elizabethan garden, Rosemary witnesses the owner's cousin commit suicide only to later see him alive and well at an open-air market.
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Tom Beard, Carolyn Backhouse
Votes:130
Series 2 Episode 1
4. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:The Gongoozlers(2004)
TV-PG|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Quinnie Dorell, hostess of a TV gardening show, fills in for Rosemary, who is sidelined with a broken leg, in solving the murder of an investigative reporter.
Director:Simon Langton| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Belinda Lang, Crispin Bonham-Carter
Votes:115
Series 2 Episode 5
5. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:A Simple Plot(2003)
TV-PG|49 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Laura and Rosemary investigate the seemingly accidental death of an old friend who ran an urban garden plot being eyed by a developer.
Director:Tom Clegg| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Michael Siberry, Amelia Curtis
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Votes:115
Series 1 Episode 5
6. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Up the Garden Path(2004)
TV-PG|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Investigating a disease that is attacking the competing gardens of a small town, Rosemary and Thyme are put in the middle of murder involving revenge and whole lot of competition.
Director:Simon Langton| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Cassandra Holliday, Lucy Fleming
Votes:87
Series 2 Episode 8
7. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:The Cup of Silence(2005)
TV-14|70 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
A famous columnist is murdered while Rosemary and Laura rid a hotel's vineyard of pestering weeds. Strapped for cash with no land-rover, the gardeners pull out all the stops in an attempt to kill the weeds without breaking their backs.
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Robert Portal, Dorian MacDonald
Votes:94
Series 3 Episode 1
8. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:They Understand Me in Paris(2004)
TV-PG|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
While on assignment to restore an old garden on the French Riviera, Rosemary and Laura find time to solve another murder.
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Mel Martin, Michael Percival
Votes:114
Series 2 Episode 3
9. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Arabica and the Early Spider(2003)
TV-PG|49 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Work on restoring the gardens at a country home is interrupted when two skeletons are dug up in the process.
Director:Tom Clegg| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Abigail Cruttenden, Tilly Blackwood
Votes:131
Series 1 Episode 2
10. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:The Tree of Death(2003)
TV-PG|50 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
The girls are restoring a churchyard and cemetery in time for a Medieval festival when an unpopular villager is murdered with an arrow through the chest.
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Michael Cochrane, Victoria Scarborough
Votes:120
Series 1 Episode 6
11. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:And No Birds Sing(2003)
TV-PG|49 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme, two plant and flower lovers, meet and hit it off while searching for the cause of two mysterious accidents concerning a very poisonous plant.
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Kate Gartside, Matyelok Gibbs
Votes:174
Series 1 Episode 1
12. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:The Italian Rapscallion(2004)
TV-PG|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Bending over backwards to prepare an Italian restaurant for its grand opening, Laura and Rosemary play investigators when an English private detective is murdered. Blackmail, scandal and much more are revealed as the mystery is solved.
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Suzanne Bertish, Richard Durden
Votes:104
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Series 2 Episode 6
13. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Three Legs Good(2006)
TV-14|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rosemary and Laura work on re-planting the historic Regent's Park garden, filled with its colorful flowers and an array of permanent visitors. But hidden amongst these frequenters of the .. See full summary »
Director:Simon Langton| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Daisy Dunlop, Tim Woodward
Votes:93
Series 3 Episode 5
14. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Orpheus in the Undergrowth(2004)
TV-PG|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
While creating a memorial garden and helping to solve a murder, Laura tries to repair her relationship with her estranged daughter following her divorce.
Director:Simon Langton| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Phyllida Law, Joanna David
Votes:111
Series 2 Episode 2
15. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:In a Monastery Garden(2006)
TV-14|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
While Rosemary and Laura revive an old herb garden for an upcoming royal visit, a young girl is murdered, revealing a darker history of the town that goes beyond the gardens.
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Michael Maloney, Kim Thomson
Votes:100
Series 3 Episode 2
16. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Seeds of Time(2006)
TV-14|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
The house of a respected, long-dead botanist becomes sought after because it's believed to contain seeds of a now-extinct plant that may offer a cure for malaria.
Director:Simon Langton| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Margaret Tyzack, Lucy Scott
Votes:94
Series 3 Episode 3
17. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Swords into Ploughshares(2004)
TV-PG|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Laura is distressed to hear that Rosemary was shot dead while working at Engleton Park; but finds a very lively corpse at the home Rosemary's mother. Bodies, motives, suspects and clues pile up around an archaeological mystery.
Director:Gwennan Sage| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Julian Wadham, Michael Carter
Votes:103
Series 2 Episode 7
18. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Agua Cadaver(2006)
TV-14|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
An old flame of Rosemary's, a noted scholar of Spanish Islamic history, contracts with the girls to help him restore an old Moorish garden on his estate in Spain but murder and suicide prove to be distractions.
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Martin Turner, Tracy Brabin
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Votes:96
Series 3 Episode 4
19. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:Racquet Espanol(2006)
TV-14|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rosemary and Laura and Laura's son Matthew head to Spain where Matthew will participate in a tennis competition while Rosemary and Laura create a trophy garden. In the midst of their trip, .. See full summary »
Director:Brian Farnham| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Ryan Philpott, Charles Daish
Votes:76
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Series 3 Episode 7
20. Rosemary & Thyme(2003–2006)
Episode:The Gooseberry Bush(2006)
TV-14|47 min|Crime, Drama, Mystery
While building a memorial garden the girls discover the body of a well-known artist and womanizer and an abandoned baby.
Director:Simon Langton| Stars:Felicity Kendal, Pam Ferris, Beatie Edney, Amanda Royle
Votes:88
Series 3 Episode 6
| Rosemary & Thyme | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Cozy mystery Crime thriller Suspense |
| Created by | Brian Eastman Clive Exton |
| Starring | Felicity Kendal Pam Ferris |
| Opening theme | Variation on 'Scarborough Fair' |
| Ending theme | idem |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 22 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Carnival Films / Granada Media |
| Running time | 20x60 minutes 1x90 minutes 1x120 minutes (including adverts) |
| Production company(s) | Carnival Films / Granada Media |
| Distributor | ITV Studios Global Entertainment |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format | 16:9 (576i) |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 31 August 2003 – 6 August 2007 |
Rosemary & Thyme is a British televisioncozy mystery thriller series starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris as gardening detectives Rosemary Boxer and Laura Thyme. The show began on ITV in 2003. The third series ended in August 2007. The theme is murder mysteries in the setting of professional gardening jobs. It was created by Brian Eastman to entertain his wife, Christabel Albery, who is an avid gardener. The show was directed by Brian Farnham (10 episodes, 2003–2006), Simon Langton (8 episodes, 2004–2006), and Tom Clegg (3 episodes, 2003). Clive Exton, who helped create the show,[1] contributed 10 of the 22 scripts.
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Plot[edit]
A cozy mystery series set in beautiful English and European gardens, Rosemary & Thyme features two women brought together by a sudden death who discover their shared love of the soil. Being gardeners means that they overhear secrets and dig up clues which lead them to handle floral problems, solve crimes and capture criminals.
Main characters[edit]
Rosemary And Thyme Season 1
Laura Thyme (Pam Ferris) of North Kensington is a former police officer and a member of 'The CADS' (The Coppers' Amateur Dramatic Society) until she had children (Matthew, a policeman and Helena, a sculptor). After twenty-seven years of marriage, her policeman husband abandoned her for a younger woman he met at work. The opening scene in the first show of the series depicts Laura leaving her home, selecting a rock from the path and hurling it through a window.
Rosemary Boxer (Felicity Kendal): Has a doctorate in plant pathology and was a University of Malmesburylecturer in applied horticulture[2] for eighteen years, before her academic position was suddenly and sneakily removed (which pushes her to punch her ex-boss, a former beau, who fired her underhandedly).Rosemary owns a 1980 Land Rover Series III which is somewhat dilapidated and has occasional breakdowns.
The series' title was taken from the English poem 'Scarborough Fayre'.
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While many guests starred, only two people (other than Kendal and Ferris) have appeared in more than one episode, Ryan Philpott and Daisy Dunlop, who appeared as Laura Thyme's children Matthew and Helena.
Episodes[edit]
Series 1 (2003)[edit]
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Original air date | Viewers[3] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 'And No Birds Sing' | Clive Exton | Brian Farnham | 31 August 2003 [49 minutes] | 11.11 | |
| Rosemary Boxer, an expert botanist, is hired by an old friend to investigate why trees in the grounds of their home are becoming diseased. While at the hotel she is staying at, Rosemary befriends Laura Thyme, a former police officer who is staying at the hotel, after leaving her home upon learning that her husband abandoned her for a younger woman. Seeking to forget her husband, Laura willingly agrees to help Rosemary solve her botany problem, but plants soon are the least of their concern when a murder occurs.. | ||||||
| 2 | 'Arabica and the Early Spider' | Clive Exton | Tom Clegg | 5 September 2003 [49 minutes] | 8.00 | |
| Rosemary and Laura, having become close friends and opting to work together, find themselves enlisted by an ageing rock star, Nev Connolly, who wishes for the grounds of his newly-bought mansion, Compton Lacey, to be renovated. Shortly after they start work, disaster strikes when the singer is found dead, and the mystery is added to by the emergence of a skeleton of a horse near to the grounds. The pair quickly begin to wonder what is going on, and soon discover a past rivalry is rearing its head once more.. | ||||||
| 3 | 'The Language of Flowers' | Clive Exton Isabelle Grey | Tom Clegg | 12 September 2003 [49 minutes] | 7.01 | |
| The two gardeners find themselves travelling to a mansion-turned-health spa, owned by the Caldecott family, to help restore a grand water cascade with the spa's grounds. Stumped by the long-decayed mechanics of the feature, Rosemary and Laura soon realise that all is not well when a member of the Caldecotts is murdered and suspect the motive has family ties to it.. | ||||||
| 4 | 'Sweet Angelica' | David Joss Buckley | Brian Farnham | 19 September 2003 [49 minutes] | 6.94 | |
| While trying to uncover the source of a disease that has crept up in the lawn of a special language college, Rosemary and Laura are shocked when they find the body of one of the college's student at the side of the road. When another student turns up dead on the college grounds, and a ceremonial knife is found in her possession, the two gardeners discover that the second victim was highly religious and knew something about the killer.. | ||||||
| 5 | 'A Simple Plot' | Chris Fewtrell | Tom Clegg | 26 September 2003 [49 minutes] | 6.51 | |
| On their next job, Rosemary introduces Laura to a close friend - a blind professor, who seeks help on his allotment plot. Flowers are dying at random and suspicion is directed at the nearby building site as the cause. Shortly after a meeting with other plot owners in the allotments, the professor dies in what appears to be an accident, until the gardeners discover that someone cleverly used his means of getting around to kill him. As they try to work out who wanted him dead, Rosemary is surprised to learn that the professor left her with a notable fortune in his will.. | ||||||
| 6 | 'The Tree of Death' | Peter Spence Simon Brett | Brian Farnham | 3 October 2003 [50 minutes] | 7.25 | |
| While restoring a churchyard for an upcoming fayre for a local vicar, whom Rosemary and Laura befriend, the pair are shocked to come across the body of a local man next to an ancient yew tree where they are working. The suspects are many for the man's murder, in which he was impaled by an arrow, leaving the gardners no choice but to save the day.. | ||||||
Series 2 (2004)[edit]
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Original air date | Viewers[3] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7 | 'The Memory of Water' | Stephen Gallagher | Brian Farnham | 3 October 2004 [93 minutes] | 7.08 | |
Whilst restoring a walled garden at Lyvedon Manor, aided by ex-cons from a local prison, Rosemary and Laura initially think the body of a man found in a river is that of owner's mysterious cousin. But when the cousin is seen alive, the two gardeners are left puzzled as to whose body it was that was found.. Note: A number of the players are named after characters in the Sexton Blake canon. | ||||||
| 8 | 'Orpheus in the Undergrowth' | David Joss Buckley | Simon Langton | 8 October 2004 [47 minutes] | 6.81 | |
| Laura and Rosemary are called upon by an old friend to help create a memorial garden in Notting Hill, based around the tale of Orpheus and Eurydice. As the pair begin work on the garden, Laura's daughter Helena arrives and mistakenly blames her mother for the breakup of her marriage. But Laura is forced to put aside efforts to correct her daughter, when the a recovering alcoholic dies in mysterious circumstances.. | ||||||
| 9 | 'They Understand Me in Paris' | Clive Exton | Brian Farnham | 15 October 2004 [47 minutes] | 6.27 | |
| At Villa Glavany, in the French Riviera, Rosemary and Laura are helping their friend Dorothy prepare the villa's 150-year-old gardens for a public opening, despite opposition from her neighbour, James Pretty, who will stop at nothing to ensure that this will not happen. The pair find themselves wondering if murder might be something he would do, when Dorothy's husband is discovered dead in the villa's living room.. | ||||||
| 10 | 'The Invisible Worm' | Guy Andrews | Simon Langton | 22 October 2004 [47 minutes] | 6.22 | |
| With roses dying in their beds at Stagford Lodge Preparatory School, classics master, Richard Oakley, calls upon Rosemary and Laura to help resolve the problem. Their arrival coincides with a mysterious ritual being held before the last day of term, in which a member of staff causes mischief while dressed as the Stag. However, things turn sour when Simon Todd, the geography master, is found dead in some undergrowth the next day, killed by a harpoon fired from the headmaster's prized harpoon gun. The sleuthing gardeners soon find themselves wondering what the motive was for Simon's murder.. | ||||||
| 11 | 'The Gongoozlers' | Clive Exton | Simon Langton | 29 October 2004 [47 minutes] | 6.18 | |
| Hoping to boost the ratings of Gaving Patterson's failing TV garden makeover programme, Quinnie Dorell, a famous round-the-world yacht sailor, is roped in to present the show. Due to her fear of heights, Rosemary, who is on the grounds the show is being shot on alongside her friend Laura, is asked to take Quinnie's place to present an overview of recent developments from some scaffolding, but disaster strikes when a loose bolt causes her to plummet to the ground. Suspecting it's no accident, Laura recruits Qunnie's help to investigate what happened, and it's not long before the theft of Rosemary's laptop is compounded by the sudden electrocution of a visiting journalist and a fiery car crash.. | ||||||
| 12 | 'The Italian Rapscallion' | Clive Exton | Brian Farnham | 5 November 2004 [47 minutes] | 5.84 | |
| Travelling to the Ligurian Coast in Italy, Rosemary and Laura offer to help their old friend Emma Standish prepare her new restaurant for its grand opening. But when a tour around the famous Giardini Tremonti comes to an abrupt end with Laura finding the body of Janice Alexander, an English private detective and former colleague, bludgeoned to death with a rock in the shruberry, the gardeners find many flamboyant personalities to make solving the mystery difficult. Then Sir Basil Slavinksi is found dead, after being pushed of the cliff by his garden. | ||||||
| 13 | 'Swords into Ploughshares' | Chris Fewtrell | Gwennan Sage | 12 November 2004 [47 minutes] | 6.11 | |
| Laura is stunned to find Rosemary alive and at her mother's, after a news report announced that she had been shot dead in Engleton Park. It quickly transpires that the body found by the police was that of Rosemary's undergraduate friend, Gemma Jackson, an archaeologist who had posed as her to gain access to the grounds of the Park. While offering to help Lord Engleton determine why plants on his estate are in bad health, the pair also attempt to work out what brought Gemma to Engleton Park and soon discover that she had begun to suspect someone was illegally buying artefacts from dig sites.. | ||||||
| 14 | 'Up the Garden Path' | Peter Spence | Simon Langton | 18 December 2004 [47 minutes] | 7.52 | |
| When gardens in the village of Rowfield are struck by a mysterious blight, Rosemary and Laura find themselves hired by a member of the Rowfield Garden Open Day scheme to rectify the problem. While trying to sort out the problem, the gardeners are shocked when they find the body of Donald Westward under a collapsed branch, with his garden savaged. They soon discover he was seriously disliked by many in the village, and have a wealth of suspects, including an unfriendly gardener and a couple who don't quite fit in with the rest of the village.. | ||||||
Series 3 (2005-07)[edit]
| # | Title | Writer | Director | Original air date | Viewers[3] | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 'The Cup of Silence' | Stephen Gallagher | Brian Farnham | 23 December 2005 [70 minutes] | 5.77 | |
| Strapped for cash on their latest job and with no Land Rover, Rosemary and Laura pull out all the stops to try rid Woodley Court Hotel's vineyard of pestering weeds. But while trying to ensure that the latest crop is saved, the pair soon find themselves also investigating the murder of Angus Fairley, a famous critic and close friend of Rosemary's, who was visiting the area.. | ||||||
| 16 | 'In a Monastery Garden' | Peter Spence | Brian Farnham | 21 January 2006 [47 minutes] | 5.20 | |
| With a Royal visit planned for Wellminster Cathedral, Rosemary and Laura find themselves hired to help restore an old monastery garden at the cathedral in time for the visit, although not everyone is pleased by their presence. No sooner have they started, the body of the local custodian's step-daughter is found by the gardeners, who soon uncover secrets within the cathedral's tight-knit community, before another body is found within the garden's old well.. | ||||||
| 17 | 'Seeds of Time' | Clive Exton | Simon Langton | 28 January 2006 [47 minutes] | 5.05 | |
| In order to re-organize the seed collection of famous botanist, Edwin Pargeter, Rosemary and Laura are called in by the current generation of Pargeters to help with the task. Their task is daunting, and it's not helped when a mysterious Chilean man is found dead in the back garden of the Pargeters' house. As they try to work out who the man was, they soon discover that something in Edwin's seeds is quite valuable, and that someone is out to get them, no matter the cost.. | ||||||
| 18 | 'Agua Cadaver' | David Joss Buckley | Brian Farnham | 4 February 2006 [47 minutes] | 5.69 | |
| A noted scholar of Spanish Islamic History, and a former boyfriend of Rosemary, invites both her and Laura to his beautiful home in the hills of Southern Spain, so they can help to restore an old Moorish garden inspired by the Alhambra. While the pair try to find a source of water they need for the garden, they don't expect to find murder when they come across the body of a young woman in the hills, who had been pushed to her death.. | ||||||
| 19 | 'Three Legs Good' | Clive Exton | Simon Langton | 11 February 2006 [47 minutes] | 5.01 | |
| Rosemary and Laura are re-planting historic Regent's Park, which is hampered when they find plants being stolen shortly after being planted. While trying to determine who is stealing them, they soon find themselves dealing with a murder when an Eastern European doctor is found shot dead, while walking a three-legged dog. It's not long, before the pair unearth secrets in the park, and begin suspecting the doctor might not have been the intended victim, when his colleague, the dog's owner, is soon shot themselves.. | ||||||
| 20 | 'The Gooseberry Bush' | Clive Exton | Simon Langton | 18 February 2006 [47 minutes] | 5.48 | |
| While helping to create a memorial garden for a woman who intends to re-marry her former husband, Rosemary and Laura are surprised to find an abandoned baby under a gooseberry bush. While the pair wonder who the mother is as they get on with the garden, a gunshot soon leads them to the body of a noted artist, leaving them wondering if the murder and the abandoned child are possibly connected.. | ||||||
| 21 | 'Racquet Espanol' | David Joss Buckley | Brian Farnham | 30 July 2007 [47 minutes] | 5.39 | |
| While Rosemary and Laura are helping to do up a garden for a Spanish tennis camp that is holding a tournament, in which Laura's son is taking part, tragedy strikes when the body of one of the Pro-Am tournament players is discovered. Although the player is thought to have died in a drunken accident, the gardeners soon find evidence that they were murdered, especially when the player's wife is killed in an accident intended for someone else. The pair soon realise that something is not right within the tennis camp.. | ||||||
| 22 | 'Enter Two Gardeners' | Clive Exton | Simon Langton | 6 August 2007 [47 minutes] | 5.27 | |
| Rosemary is delighted to be working on the garden of an open-air theatre with Laura, as her cousin Charles is an actor preparing for his role in an amateur production. But during rehearsals, one of the actors is suddenly killed by a prop gun, which police discover had been loaded with live ammo instead of blanks. The two gardeners soon wonder if someone is out to sabotage the play, or whether there is another motive at work.. | ||||||
Finale[edit]
On 12 May 2006, ITV announced that the show was to be axed as part of a major refresh in ITV1's programming.[4] The final two episodes of series three ('Racquet Espanol' and 'Enter Two Gardeners') were not aired with the rest of the series during 2005-06. They were eventually broadcast in late July and early August 2007.
Because of the outdoor nature of the show and the brevity of the British summer, it became the practice to set two episodes of each series in overseas locations. Two stories were already ready for shooting in Portugal when changes in production personnel caused delays. By the time that shooting was rescheduled, some actors were otherwise committed, and the ITV Network Centre was left with no option but to cancel filming for a fourth series.
Novels[edit]
Three novelisations, credited to series creator Brian Eastman and ghostwritten by crime writer Rebecca Tope, were published in Britain by Allison and Busby and in Australia by Hardie Grant Books:
- And No Birds Sing (published in 2004, based on the pilot episode)
- The Tree of Death (published in 2005, based on the final episode of Series 1)
- Memory of Water (published in 2006, based on the feature-length opening episode of Series 2)
Related media[edit]
Composed and conducted by Christopher Gunning, a CD of incidental music and the opening theme (performed by John Williams) from the first two series of Rosemary & Thyme.
'The Case of the Dead Wait', by Peter Lovesey (January 2007 Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine)
DVD releases
| DVD Name | Episodes | Release Date | Rating | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BBFC | ACB | |||||
| Series One | 6 | 14 June 2005 | 6 October 2003 | 2 April 2007[5] | ||
| Series Two | 8 | 28 February 2006 | 27 December 2004 | 2 June 2007[6] | ||
| Series Three | 8 | 6 February 2007 | 3 April 2006 | 4 August 2007[7] | ||
| The Complete Series | 22 | 5 February 2008 4 October 2011 (re-release) | 7 August 2006 4 July 2011 (re-release) | 3 November 2007[8] 5 May 2008 (slimline)[9] 6 March 2013 (re-release)[10] | ||
References[edit]
- ^[1]Archived 24 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine
- ^'ITV TV Shows'. Itv.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2010. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
- ^ abc'Top 30 Programmes'. BARB. 21 April 2013. Retrieved 4 May 2013.
- ^'ITV swings axe to revive channel'. BBC News. 12 May 2006. Retrieved 19 June 2016.
- ^'Rosemary And Thyme Series 1 on DVD'. dvdorchard.com.au. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^'Rosemary And Thyme Series 2 on DVD'. dvdorchard.com.au. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^'Rosemary And Thyme Series 3 on DVD'. dvdorchard.com.au. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^'Rosemary And Thyme Complete Series on DVD'. dvdorchard.com.au. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^'Rosemary And Thyme Complete Series Slimline on DVD'. dvdorchard.com.au. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
- ^'Rosemary And Thyme The Complete Collection on DVD'. dvdorchard.com.au. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 1 March 2015.
Why Was Rosemary And Thyme Cancelled
External links[edit]
- Rosemary & Thyme on IMDb
- Rosemary & Thyme at epguides.com
- Rosemary & Thyme at TV.com