Following on from volume one Acorn bring us the final 8 episodes spread across four discs. Each volume (available separately) features four episodes, 2 to a disc, set in the 1920’s and filmed in an almost stage play like way with much use of videotaped interiors, the Father Brown series has real charm.

Volume 2 kicks off with episode 6 The Mirror of the Magistrate in which Father Brown believes an error has been made over the arrest of a man accused of killing a judge.  In The Dagger With Wings Father Brown has to deal with the black arts when a dead wealthy man’s sons start to die in mysterious ways.

The Actor and the Alibi (episode 8) opens up disc two of volume two and sees Brown teaming up with Flambeau to search for a missing girl who has joined a theatre company. Final episode of volume two is The Quick One in which a party of travelling salesmen hold the key to the murder of a crotchety old local trouble maker (played by Bernard Lee).

The four final episodes (9-13) are featured on volume three (again over two discs) The Man With Two Beards has Brown investigating the suspicious death of an old friend, whilst The Head of Caesar has Brown tangled up in a blackmail plot involving a young girl who has been stealing from her wealthy brother. The final disc features The Arrow of Heaven in which a wealthy art collector is murdered and finally The Secret Graden which finds Father Brown in Paris and finding murder at a dinner party.

Father Brown managed to attract a pretty high calibre of guest stars and these episodes include the likes of T.P. McKenna, David Swift, Michael Sheard, Rachel Gurney, David Saville, Penelope Horner, Maxwell Shaw, Christopher Benjamin, the great Bill Maynard in the Man With Two Beards, Megs Jenkins, David Lodge, Fabia Drake and Brian Croucher.

Extras on both these releases include an extensive G.K. Chesterton bibliography and biography as well as filmographies of Kenneth More and Dennis Burgess (who plays Flambeau).