Their landlady is murdered by smoke from a blocked chimney, yet her three kittens survived. Father Brown is set in the 1950s and follows the eponymous Roman Catholic priest as he solves crimes in the Cotswold village of Kembleford. A drunken drive home from a wedding lands two brothers in increasingly hot water, as they commit more and more serious crimes to hide their culpability in a hit-and-run. The circus returns to Kembleford and local waitress Laura is held to her promise given in jest the year before to marry the clown or the hypnotist. A nurse claims it is murder and is found dead the same afternoon, forcing Inspector Mallory to do more than his initial cursory investigation. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Having debuted in 2013, with a ninth series set to premiere next year, Father Brown is the third-longest-running daytime drama series on BBC TV. Reruns of series 8 are currently being aired on BBC One at 2.15 pm every day. When Disaster Strikes . A poisoned cat and the unmarked headstone of a baby buried in the garden, along with a German drug for morning sickness treatment that Quinton gave to his wife the previous year, provide the tragic answer. A "Convention of Merriment" fair of jesters, led by an ex-Chief Inspector, is in Kembleford, home of Uncle Mirth. She invites Father Brown to an awards ceremony at her home where she unveils an exact diorama of her mother's death, at the bottom of a staircase ten years previously, to the shocked guests including her father, the Chief Constable, and the detective who investigated at the time; hoping the death would be reinvestigated. Father Brown and Mrs. McCarthy visit the cottage hospital in the village of Standing where many of the children have been struck down by an outbreak of polio. Both Mallory and Father Brown suspect sabotage by one of the choristers and Mrs. McCarthy suspects a rival choir. Directed by When he regains consciousness, William is lying dead, a bloody knife is in Valentine's hand, and Inspector Mallory and Sgt Goodfellow break through the door, which had been wedged shut.