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* ShoutOut: Felix tells Winer that he landed in Great Slaughter by Loterature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents.
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*NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: GREAT SLAUGHTER?
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* AllWomenLoveShoes: In "Crimes and Miss Demeanours", Sister Boniface determines that the VictimOfTheWeek was killed with a [[ShoeSlap blow from a stiletto heeled shoe]]. Sister Boniface says that if they can find he shoe, their will probably still be trace evidence; regardless of how well the killer cleaned it. DI Gillespie suggests that the killer might have destroyed the shoes, but Ruth Penny snorts and tells that no woman would willingly get rid of a pair of designer stilettos.
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* AllWomenLoveShoes: In "Crimes and Miss Demeanours", Sister Boniface determines that the VictimOfTheWeek was killed with a [[ShoeSlap blow from a stiletto heeled shoe]]. Sister Boniface says that if they can find he the shoe, their there will probably still be trace evidence; evidence on it; regardless of how well the killer cleaned it. DI Gillespie suggests that the killer might have destroyed the shoes, but Ruth Penny snorts and tells him that no self-respecting woman would willingly get rid of a pair of designer stilettos.
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* BadHabits: Combined with DisguisedInDrag in "My Brother's Keeper", when Sister Reggie hides her brother Alfie, who is on the run from the police, in the convent by dressing him in a nun's habit.
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* AllWomenLoveShoes: In "Crimes and Miss Demeanours", Sister Boniface determines that the VictimOfTheWeek was killed with a [[ShoeSlap blow from a stiletto heeled shoe]]. Sister Boniface says that if they can find he shoe, their will probably still be trace evidence; regardless of how well the killer cleaned it. DI Gillespie suggests that the killer might have destroyed the shoes, but Ruth Penny snorts and tells that no woman would willingly get rid of a pair of designer stilettos.
* BadHabits: Combined with DisguisedInDrag in "My Brother's Keeper", when Sister Reggie hides her brother Alfie, who is on the run from the police, in the convent by dressing him in a nun's habit.
* BadHabits: Combined with DisguisedInDrag in "My Brother's Keeper", when Sister Reggie hides her brother Alfie, who is on the run from the police, in the convent by dressing him in a nun's habit.
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* DisqualificationInducedVictory: In "St George's Defence", Sister Boniface wins the chess tournament after her final opponent is disqualified for doping.
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* SmartPeoplePlayChess: Sister Boniface was a chess champion at university and in "St George's Defence" she enters (and wins) a chess tournament in order to investigate accusations against one of the players.
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* UnwittingPawn: In "St George's Defence", Evelyn Thurleigh doesn't realise that his "assistant" has been dosing him with experimental "smart drugs" and is horrified when he finds out - especially as the assistant turns out to have murdered the one person who did work it out.
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* {{Crossover}}: Series/FatherBrown appeared in a S1 episode of this show, and Sister Boniface is to make a guest appearance in S11 of the parent show. An unusual aspect to this is that while the shows share a [[TheVerse 'Verse]], ''Sister Boniface Mysteries'' is set about a decade later than ''Father Brown'', making her crossover into his show into a {{Prequel}}, or at least an {{Interquel}}.
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* NunsAreFunny: One of them also happens to be a pioneering forensic scientist and bona fide genius, but the nuns are every bit as eccentric and funny as the rest of the townsfolk.
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* BenevolentBoss: Although Chief Constable Lowsley occasionally comes across as CaptainOblivious, he has nothing but praise for the people working under him. He reserves his disdain for those from outside who would try to change the (highly effective) way they do things in Great Slaughter.
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* IChooseToStay: At the end of S1, Felix is offered the post at Scotland Yard that he wanted all along, but realising that his would-be boss is not a particularly nice person and he is already accepted in Great Slaughter, he decides to stay.
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* KickTheDog: In "Crimes and Miss Demeanours", DCI Winner establishes his {{Jerkass}} credentials by failing to treat Peggy as a member of the team and sending her to fetch him tea.
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* OverlyNarrowSuperlative: When Chief Constable Lowsley calls Peggy (as a genuine compliment) "the finest WPC in the county", Peggy immediately lampshades that she's the ''only'' WPC in the county.
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* FishOutOfWater: DS Livingstone, newly arrived from Barbados, who instead of being assigned to Scotland Yard as he expected, finds himself stuck in a rural backwater full of EccentricTownsfolk where the police are regularly assisted by a genius nun... and nobody there seems to find this at all unusual.
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* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: DI Gillespie has great respect for Sister Boniface's skills and rarely attempts to interfere with her access to cases.
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* NeverSuicide: This is a rock-solid rule of the series, resulting from showrunner Jude Tindall's brief association with ''Series/{{Casualty}}'' when she learned that whenever a suicide storyline appeared, there would be a spike in real-life suicides the next day. Since she didn't want to be responsible for that, any story pitch with a SuicideNotMurder twist is immediately rejected.
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** In "Queen of the Kitchen", the killer [plants poisonous belladonna berries atop a cake intending the poison the judge of a cooking competition.
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* UndercoverAsLovers: Sam and Ruth go undercover as lovers at a new age retreat in "The Shadow of Baron Battenburg". It leads them to admit their UnresolvedSexualTension but not to act on it, and Ruth is offered a job in London as a result of her story about the investigation and [[PutOnABus leaves at the end of the episode]].
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* TaintedTobacco: In "Scoop!", the murderer uses poisoned tobacco as half of the the murder weapon. Their cigarettes are laced with one half of a binary nerve agent. They exhale the tainted smoke over the victim, and when the victim applies the second half of the nerve agent--which has been added to her perfume--it completes the reaction and triggers the nerve agent.
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** In "Scoop!", the murderer uses poisoned tobacco as half of the the murder weapon. Their cigarettes are laced with one half of a binary nerve agent. They exhale the tainted smoke over the victim, and when the victim applies the second half of the nerve agent--which has been added to her perfume--it completes the reaction and triggers the nerveagent.agent.
** A poisoned cigar is the murder weapon in "The It Girl". The killer initially plans to inject the victim with poison, but upon finding the cigar injects it instead and makes a getaway before the victim finds and smokes it.
** In "Scoop!", the murderer uses poisoned tobacco as half of the the murder weapon. Their cigarettes are laced with one half of a binary nerve agent. They exhale the tainted smoke over the victim, and when the victim applies the second half of the nerve agent--which has been added to her perfume--it completes the reaction and triggers the nerve
** A poisoned cigar is the murder weapon in "The It Girl". The killer initially plans to inject the victim with poison, but upon finding the cigar injects it instead and makes a getaway before the victim finds and smokes it.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "Queen of the Kitchen", Prunella and James Gladwell are blatant caricatures of TV cooks Fanny and Johnny Cradock. In "Don't Try This at Home", while the presenters of the Series/BluePeter expy ''Jolly Roger'' are relatively generic (Danny Lemon is perhaps a ''little'' like John Noakes, but only a little), the editor Dinah Morgan is more obviously based on Biddy Baxter.
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "Queen of the Kitchen", Prunella and James Gladwell are blatant caricatures of TV cooks Fanny and Johnny Cradock. In "Don't Try This at Home", while the presenters of the Series/BluePeter expy ''Jolly Roger'' are relatively generic (Danny Lemon is perhaps a ''little'' like John Noakes, but only a little), the editor Dinah Morgan is more obviously based on Biddy Baxter. In "A Tight Squeeze", the film series ''Oh - Do Behave!'' is based on the Film/CarryOn series and there are recognisable caricatures of many of the regulars including Hattie Jacques, Kenneth Williams, Sidney James, Barbara Windsor and Bernard Bresslaw.
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* IDontLikeTheSoundOfThatPlace: After all, what do you ''imagine'' would happen in a village called Great Slaughter? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly]]. Outsiders sometimes lampshade that it's not a very appealing name. (The series is set in Gloucestershire where there are real villages called Upper and Lower Slaughter, but no Great Slaughter.)
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: After all, what do you imagine would happen in a village called Great Slaughter? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly]]. Outsiders sometimes lampshade that it's not a very appealing name. (The series is set in Gloucestershire where there are real villages called Upper and Lower Slaughter, but no Great Slaughter.)
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* ImpairmentShot: In "Queen of the Kitchen", the VictimOfTheWeek is poisoned with belladonna, and then asks the woman she is talking to what is wrong with her face. The camera the cuts to her POV, showing the woman's face twisting and deforming as the belladonna kicks in. The victim then accuses the woman of being a demon before [[FaceplantingInFood face-planting in a cake]].
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* ImpairmentShot: In "Queen of the Kitchen", the VictimOfTheWeek is poisoned with belladonna, and then asks the woman she is talking to what is wrong with her face. The camera the cuts to her POV, showing the woman's face twisting and deforming as the belladonna kicks in. The victim then accuses the woman of being a demon before [[FaceplantingInFood [[FaceplantingIntoFood face-planting in a cake]].
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Ex-soldier turned TV presenter Jono Hardy in "Don't Try This At Home", for whom abseiling is his TraumaButton. The whole episode could have been avoided if he'd been honest about it instead of botting it up.
* SmokescreenCrime: In "My Brother's Keeper", the killer steals a valuable painting from the gallery (and later plants it in Alfie Lynch's room as a FrameUp) to make it look like the painting was the actual target and Gerry Ardwell's murder was just collateral damage, when Ardwell was the real target all along.
* SmokescreenCrime: In "My Brother's Keeper", the killer steals a valuable painting from the gallery (and later plants it in Alfie Lynch's room as a FrameUp) to make it look like the painting was the actual target and Gerry Ardwell's murder was just collateral damage, when Ardwell was the real target all along.
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* SmokescreenCrime: In "My Brother's Keeper", the killer steals a valuable painting from the gallery (and later plants it in Alfie Lynch's room as a FrameUp) to make it look like the painting was the actual target and Gerry Ardwell's murder was just collateral damage, when Ardwell was the real target all along.
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* TyrantTakesTheHelm: In "Crimes and Miss Demeanours", Detective Chief Inspector Winner is sent from Scotland Yard to oversee the investigation and immediately rubs everyone in Great Slaughter up the wrong way with his abrasive attitude.
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* ShoeSlap: In "Crimes and Miss Demeanours", the VictimOfTheWeek is killed when she is struck with a stiletto-heeled shoe and the heel penetrates her medulla oblongata.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: After all, what do you imagine would happen in a village called Great Slaughter? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly]].
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: After all, what do you imagine would happen in a village called Great Slaughter? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly]]. Outsiders sometimes lampshade that it's not a very appealing name. (The series is set in Gloucestershire where there are real villages called Upper and Lower Slaughter, but no Great Slaughter.)
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* NoCelebritiesWereHarmed: In "Queen of the Kitchen", Prunella and James Gladwell are blatant caricatures of TV cooks Fanny and Johnny Cradock. In "Don't Try This at Home", while the presenters of the Series/BluePeter expy ''Jolly Roger'' are relatively generic (Danny Lemon is perhaps a ''little'' like John Noakes, but only a little), the editor Dinah Morgan is more obviously based on Biddy Baxter.
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* ShellShockedVeteran: Ex-soldier turned TV presenter Jono Hardy in "Don't Try This At Home", for whom abseiling is his TraumaButton. The whole episode could have been avoided if he'd been honest about it instead of botting it up.
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* ImagineSpot: Sister Boniface has one of these OnceAnEpisode. Sometimes it's just a fantasy, but often it leads her to some sort of breakthrough.
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* PungeonMaster: DI Gillespie and Sister Boniface are often seen laughing at each other's incredibly weak puns. DS Livingstone remains immune.
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* EvolvingCredits: When Miranda Raison left the show, the sequence with the newspaper remained in the opening credits, but the illustration of Ruth on the back of the paper was changed to one of Peggy, and it became Ami Metcalf's introduction instead.
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* NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: After all, what do you imagine would happen in a village called Great Slaughter? [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Exactly]].
* NonIndicativeName: Mrs Clam's Seaview Guesthouse does not have a sea view. In fact, Great Slaughter doesn't even appear to be near the coast.
* NonIndicativeName: Mrs Clam's Seaview Guesthouse does not have a sea view. In fact, Great Slaughter doesn't even appear to be near the coast.
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* ScienceHero: Sister Boniface is a nun and a forensic scientist with her own laboratory in the convent. While her knowledge of religion and esoterica occasionally comes into play, the main focus is on her application of science in solving the suspiciously high number of crimes in Great Slaughter.
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* TheUnintelligible: Tom Thomas speaks in a growl that is perfectly understood by locals but is unintelligible to outsiders - and to the viewer. When Felix has to question him as a witness, he takes Peggy along as translator.
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* DenserAndWackier: Downplayed, as it is still a murder mystery series played straight, though the show amps up the whimsicality a fair bit more than ''Father Brown''.
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* TheMole: In "Scoop!", Sister Boniface is called by DI Gillespie to the home of minister of defence, Charles Stratham, where guest Mary Sparkes was found dead at the bottom of a staircase. As the investigation proceeds, a missing secret document concerning Britain's next generation of nuclear missiles points to KGB involvement, and it becomes apparent that one of the guests may be a KGB agent.
* MurderByMistake: In "Queen of the Kitchen", the killer [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink plants poisonous belladonna berries atop a cake]] intending the poison the judge of a cooking competition. However, the contestant who made the cake spots that there are too many "blackcurrants" on the cake, pulls the extra ones off and eats them.
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* TheMole: In "Scoop!", Sister Boniface is called by DI Gillespie to the home of minister the Minister of defence, Defence, Charles Stratham, where guest Mary Sparkes was found dead at the bottom of a staircase. As the investigation proceeds, a missing secret document concerning Britain's next generation of nuclear missiles points to KGB involvement, and it becomes apparent that one of the guests may be a KGB agent.
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** In "Queen of the Kitchen", the killer [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink plants poisonous belladonna berries atop a cake]] intending the poison the judge of a cooking competition. However, the contestant who made the cake spots that there are too many "blackcurrants" on the cake, pulls the extra ones off and eatsthem.them.
** In "Sister Town", the murderer sabotages a plaque to to be unveiled by the visiting mayor of a German town. However, when the curtain cord designed to topple the plaque on the mayor's head proves stubborn, the local handyman gives it a firm yank and the plaque falls on him instead.
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** In "Sister Town", the murderer sabotages a plaque to to be unveiled by the visiting mayor of a German town. However, when the curtain cord designed to topple the plaque on the mayor's head proves stubborn, the local handyman gives it a firm yank and the plaque falls on him instead.
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* CordonBleughChef: In "Queen of the Kitchen", the hopelessly vague Dottie gets confused as to what recipe she is making in the cooking competition. The judge takes one bite and then asks why there are carrots in the banana cake.
