A priest who'd rather solve murders than hear confessions? Now THAT'S Catholic guilt.
Season 1 • Episode 13
LatestFather Brown is called to investigate the beheading of a man, commited in a closed garden. Soon there seems to be some problems: How could the murderer get the body out of the garden? And how did the murderer get away? Soon after the first murder a head is discovered into the Seine. The solution to the murder is simple and brilliant.
Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.
Acting
Kenneth More's twinkly-eyed priest is pure British charm.
Writing
Chesterton's paradoxes adapted with surprising wit.
Costume
Seventies take on Edwardian England—questionable mustaches included.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kenneth More took the role specifically because he wanted lighter material after serious dramas, calling Father Brown 'the only cheerful man I've played.'
G.K. Chesterton's original stories were written 1901-1936; this 1974 adaptation strangely keeps the Edwardian setting while feeling unmistakably seventies in its pacing and sensibility.
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