The Witchfinder

6.629m20221 season

Comedy

A failing witchfinder transports a suspected witch across 1640s East Anglia to a trial that could change his fortunes forever.

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Cast

Tim Key

Gideon Bannister

Daisy May Cooper

Thomasine Gooch

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Episodes

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Episode 1

2022-03-08 · 29m

A failing witchfinder arrives in an East Anglian village in search of work. Desperate for wealth and fame, all he finds is an uncouth local woman accused of killing a pig.

Episode 2

2022-03-15 · 29m

Bannister must travel to Chelmsford with Thomasine to put on a show trial for the Witchfinder General.

Episode 3

2022-03-22 · 29m

Thomasine's interventions have taken them wildly off course and Bannister has to plot a route through Dedham Vale on foot.

Episode 4

2022-03-29 · 30m

Bannister fears Thomasine might not make it to Chelmsford alive and she's no good to him dead.

Episode 5

2022-04-05 · 30m

The Dedham ordeal has softened his hostility but when Bannister indulges Thomasine by letting her go for a swim, she is snatched and dragged away to a ransacked church.