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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    undefined Season 2 Episode 5 - Who Dares, Sings
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    S2:E5

    Lovejoy and Jane have the job of fitting out a smart new restaurant being opened by Major Linden Walker, an old army friend of Tinker's. With the help of a former prison officer (one he knew on the inside) Lovejoy delivers the goods, only to find he has been gulled. Linden and Tinker's cabaret act Crime and Punishment makes its first and last appearance.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  2. undefined Season 9 Episode 4 - Down Among the Dead Men
    8.6/10(14 votes)

    S9:E4

    Barnaby and Jones investigate the shooting of a blackmailer, Martin Barrett. But he had so many victims, they are spoiled for choice for a suspect. Then one of his victims, Sir John Waverley, gets another demand. The trail leads them to the seaside and diving for treasure on an uncataloged wreck.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  3. undefined Season 10 Episode 5 - Death and Dust
    8.1/10(10 votes)

    S10:E5

    When Dr Alan Delaney is killed by a hit and run driver, Barnaby realises the real target was Delaney's senior partner, Dr James Kirkwood. Is the killer trying to prevent James from marrying beautiful divorcee Delyth Mostyn? And how is his death linked to £30,000 which is missing from the surgery accounts? Barnaby and Jones must travel to Snowdonia to unravel the truth.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  4. undefined Season 5 Episode 5 - Three Men and a Brittle Lady
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S5:E5

    Charlotte's former lover arrives from New York and invites her to live with him in Paris, but she turns him down.A forger cons Charlie Gimbert into buying some fake porcelain, but Lovejoy catches up with him. In doing so, he discovers a good artist.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  5. undefined Season 4 Episode 5 - Fly the Flag
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S4:E5

    A family struggling to pay death duties needs Lovejoy's help to raise the wind. Meanwhile, Beau Whittaker, working in a local parish church, finds a valuable old flag dating from the American War of Independence hidden behind a monument. A fierce battle quickly breaks out over the question of who is now the flag's true owner.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  6. undefined Season 6 Episode 7 - Breaking the Broker
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    S6:E7

    The police set up Tinker, so that they can get a favour from Lovejoy. They want him to check out an up-market pawnbroker who is suspected of receiving antiques stolen overseas.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  7. undefined Season 6 Episode 4 - Dumb Witness
    7.8/10(22 votes)

    S6:E4

    Poirot and Hastings are at Lake Windermere for an attempt on the world speed-boat record. An elderly widow is hurt by falling down stairs, then later killed by poisoning with phosphorus.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  8. undefined Season 5 Episode 6 - The Chocolate Box
    7.8/10(20 votes)

    S5:E6

    Poirot returns to Belgium for the first time since the Great War. There he revisits a twenty-year-old murder mystery that was never officially solved.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  9. undefined Season 5 Episode 4 - The Case of the Missing Will
    7.7/10(20 votes)

    S5:E4

    Poirot has to execute the final wishes of an old friend who has been killed.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  10. undefined Season 1 Episode 5 - Death in Disguise
    7.7/10(19 votes)

    S1:E5

    At a local New Age commune (fancifully called the Lodge of the Golden Windhorse) William Carter is found dead with a broken neck, lying at the bottom of a staircase. Barnaby and Troy have to decide whether the death was an accident or murder.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  11. undefined Season 1 Episode 4 - Faithful Unto Death
    7.5/10(19 votes)

    S1:E4

    A craft centre in the old mill at Morton Fendle is losing money. Several locals have invested in the business and believe they have been swindled by Alan Hollingsworth, the man behind it. When Hollingsworth's glamorous wife Simone goes missing, Barnaby believes she has been kidnapped and puts Hollingsworth under observation. However, Hollingsworth evades the police, carrying a bundle of cash, and a woman neighbour who follows him to his rendez-vous is killed in a bizarre road accident. Then Hollingsworth is found dead, and Simone turns up alive. Barnaby guesses she and a friend faked the kidnapping, but he can't prove it.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  12. undefined Season 3 Episode 4 - Beyond the Grave
    7.5/10(13 votes)

    S3:E4

    Unearthly happenings in and around a local museum create an atmosphere of terror.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  13. undefined Season 8 Episode 2 - Dead in the Water
    7.2/10(12 votes)

    S8:E2

    The Midsomer Regatta is halted by the discovery of the body of the chairman of the Midsomer Rowing Club floating at the finishing line.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  14. undefined Season 2 Episode 9 - Raise the Hispanic
    7.0/10(2 votes)

    S2:E9

    Amanda Peagram, a local landowner's daughter, is engaged to Roger Hall, and Lovejoy (on the instructions of Amanda's father) is furnishing a house with antiques for the couple. Unhappily, Amanda is not impressed, while Roger continues to play the field. At the wedding, Lovejoy overhears a row between Roger and Amanda's father and later finds Roger's body hidden in a suit of armour... but the body vanishes and nobody believes him. After the wedding, Roger is treated as a missing person. Lovejoy insists Roger is dead, but he can't produce the body - so he decides to investigate the murder and solve the mystery.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  15. undefined Season 3 Episode 3 - No Strings
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    S3:E3

    A band called The Hothouse Flowers is due to appear at a local charity gig, and their manager is an old friend of Tinker's. Before going away with Victoria on a little trip, Lovejoy gets Jane to agree to take in the Flowers. Then, though, the organizer of the planned gig runs off with the money. One of the band decides to sell his valuable antique harp to make good some of the shortfall, but before Lovejoy can arrrange the sale the harp also disappears.Lovejoy works his way up to proposing to Victoria, but she turns him down and goes back to South America.

    Director:N/A
    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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  16. undefined Season 2 Episode 4 - Blood Will Out
    6.4/10(16 votes)

    S2:E4

    The sleepy village of Martyr Warren is invaded by quarrelsome New Age travellers, some of whom fall out with Hector Bridges, a local magistrate. The police are well aware of the tensions, but matters come to a head when Hector is found shot dead. It quickly appears that he was feared by almost everyone in sight, including his own family. And there is more to the travellers than meets the eye - one of them is a former British army officer who fought alongside Hector in the Falklands War... Then (as so often happens to Barnaby and Troy) another dead body is found, this time that of an old man at the travellers' camp.Meanwhile, Barnaby is not feeling in full fighting trim for murder investigations, as Joyce has put him on a strict diet to lose weight.

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    Writer:Douglas Watkinson

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Douglas Watkinson Ratings Summary

"Who Dares, Sings" is the best rated episode written by Douglas Watkinson. It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by N/A. It aired on 2/3/1991 and is rated 0.4 points higher than their second-best episode, "Down Among the Dead Men".