Bunty and Mallory years · 2017–18

Series 6

10 episodes · 18 December 2017–12 January 2018. A spoiler-light orientation with direct access to every case file.

Orientation

What changes here?

The middle years balance self-contained cases with returning rivals and consequences for familiar characters.

S6 E118 December 2017

Sid returns for a Christmas mystery in which the theatre provides both comic business and the route to the truth.

S6 E22 January 2018

A locked-cottage death, a hostile newspaper story and Bunty's disappearance complete the Corven story begun in series five.

S6 E33 January 2018

Railway politics, a missing cleaner and the discovery that the victim drowned make the station much more than scenery.

S6 E44 January 2018

The case gives Bunty a painfully personal stake when her former nanny becomes vulnerable.

S6 E55 January 2018

Felicia and Sid return for a story in which personal loyalty is almost impossible to separate from espionage.

S6 E68 January 2018

Wartime collaboration, post-war displacement and a typed suicide note test Mallory's uneasy trust in Father Brown.

S6 E79 January 2018

Father Brown, Bunty and Mrs McCarthy enter the competition as the mystery circles back to an earlier dance-floor injury.

S6 E810 January 2018

The modified cat-o'-nine-tails turns a school mystery into a story about corporal punishment and protected authority.

S6 E911 January 2018

Bunty's skill on the course provides the sporting energy, while the Reeve family's structure hides the real motive.

S6 E1012 January 2018

Gloucester Cathedral, a poisoned priest and the Iron Crown of Lombardy close the series with a grand relic caper.