Shakespeare & Hathaway - Private Investigators
(a Titles & Air Dates Guide)Last updated: Tue, 14 Oct 2025 -2:00
When Lu Shakespeare hires private detective Frank Hathaway to solve her fiance's murder, little does she realize that this is the birth of a dynamic new crime-fighting duo in the town of Stratford-upon-Avon.
Show Details:
Start date: Feb 2018
End date: ___ ____
Status: current show
Network(s): BBC One (UK) / Alibi (UK)
Run time: 45 min
Episodes: 50+ eps
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime/Mystery
End date: ___ ____
Status: current show
Network(s): BBC One (UK) / Alibi (UK)
Run time: 45 min
Episodes: 50+ eps
Genre(s): Comedy, Crime/Mystery
Credits:
- Mark Benton as Frank Hathaway
- Jo Joyner as Luella "Lu" Shakespeare
- Patrick Walshe McBride as Sebastian Brudenell [ 1-5 ]
- Tomos Eames as DS Joe Keeler [ 5-, recurring 1-4 ]
- Aruhan Galieva as Bea Gardiner [ 6- ]
- Darren Evans as Spider [ 1-2 & 4- ]
- Amber Aga as DI Christina Marlowe [ 1-2 ]
- Roberta Taylor as Gloria Fonteyn [ 1-3 ]
- Julia Deakin as Genevieve Shakespeare [ 1-2 ]
- Ciaran Griffiths as Billy "The Brick" Porter [ 1-2 ]
- Yasmin Kaur Barn as PC Viola Deacon [ 3-4 ]
recurring current:
recurring previous:
Episode list & details from:
TVmaze
| Episode # | Original Air Date |
Titles | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | |||
| 1. | 1-1 | 26 Feb 18 | O Brave New World (45 min) |
| 2. | 1-2 | 27 Feb 18 | The Chimes at Midnight (45 min) |
| 3. | 1-3 | 28 Feb 18 | This Promised End (45 min) |
| 4. | 1-4 | 01 Mar 18 | This Rough Magic (45 min) |
| 5. | 1-5 | 02 Mar 18 | Toil and Trouble (45 min) |
| 6. | 1-6 | 05 Mar 18 | Exit, Pursued by a Bear (45 min) |
| 7. | 1-7 | 06 Mar 18 | The Fairest Show Means Most Deceit (45 min) |
| 8. | 1-8 | 07 Mar 18 | The Chameleon's Dish (45 min) |
| 9. | 1-9 | 08 Mar 18 | The Rascal Cook (45 min) |
| 10. | 1-10 | 09 Mar 18 | Ill Met by Moonlight (45 min) |
| Season 2 | |||
| 11. | 2-1 | 25 Feb 19 | Outrageous Fortune (45 min) |
| 12. | 2-2 | 26 Feb 19 | The Play's the Thing (45 min) |
| 13. | 2-3 | 27 Feb 19 | This Cursed Hand (45 min) |
| 14. | 2-4 | 28 Feb 19 | Beware the Ides of March (45 min) |
| 15. | 2-5 | 01 Mar 19 | No More Cakes and Ale (45 min) |
| 16. | 2-6 | 04 Mar 19 | The Offered Fallacy (45 min) |
| 17. | 2-7 | 05 Mar 19 | Nothing Will Come of Nothing (45 min) |
| 18. | 2-8 | 06 Mar 19 | In My Memory Lock'd (45 min) |
| 19. | 2-9 | 07 Mar 19 | The Envious Court (45 min) |
| 20. | 2-10 | 08 Mar 19 | Too Cold for Hell (45 min) |
| Season 3 | |||
| 21. | 3-1 | 03 Feb 20 | How the Rogue Roar'd (45 min) |
| 22. | 3-2 | 04 Feb 20 | See Thyself, Devil! (45 min) |
| 23. | 3-3 | 05 Feb 20 | The Sticking Place (45 min) |
| 24. | 3-4 | 06 Feb 20 | A Serpent's Tooth (45 min) |
| 25. | 3-5 | 07 Feb 20 | Thy Fury Spent (45 min) |
| 26. | 3-6 | 10 Feb 20 | Reputation, Reputation, Reputation! (45 min) |
| 27. | 3-7 | 11 Feb 20 | Best Beware My Sting (45 min) |
| 28. | 3-8 | 12 Feb 20 | All That Glisters (45 min) |
| 29. | 3-9 | 13 Feb 20 | O Thou Invisible Spirit of Wine (45 min) |
| 30. | 3-10 | 14 Feb 20 | Teach Me, Dear Creature (45 min) |
| Season 4 | |||
| 31. | 4-1 | 14 Feb 22 | If It Be Man's Work (45 min) |
| 32. | 4-2 | 15 Feb 22 | If Music Be the Food of Love (45 min) |
| 33. | 4-3 | 16 Feb 22 | Too Much of Water (45 min) |
| 34. | 4-4 | 17 Feb 22 | Most Wicked Speed (45 min) |
| 35. | 4-5 | 18 Feb 22 | Hunger for Bread (45 min) |
| 36. | 4-6 | 21 Feb 22 | Die We Must (45 min) |
| 37. | 4-7 | 22 Feb 22 | Some Cupid Kills (45 min) |
| 38. | 4-8 | 23 Feb 22 | And Rarest Parts (45 min) |
| 39. | 4-9 | 24 Feb 22 | Time Decays (45 min) |
| Season 5 | |||
| 40. | 5-1 | 24 Sep 25 | Such a Mad Marriage Never Was Before |
| 41. | 5-2 | 01 Oct 25 | The Heavenly Harness'd Team |
| 42. | 5-3 | 08 Oct 25 | Destruction, Blood and Massacre |
| 43. | 5-4 | 15 Oct 25 | A Dark House |
| 44. | 5-5 | 22 Oct 25 | The Endeavour Of This Present Breath |
| 45. | 5-6 | 29 Oct 25 | As I Have Seen a Swan |
| 46. | 5-7 | 05 Nov 25 | An Honest Fellow |
| 47. | 5-8 | 12 Nov 25 | Be Not Afraid of Greatness |
| 48. | 5-9 | 19 Nov 25 | Daggers of the Mind |
| 49. | 5-10 | 26 Nov 25 | Such Sweet Sorrow |
| Specials | |||
| S04. | 4-0 | 16 Dec 22 | I No More Desire a Rose (45 min) |