JULY/AUGUST 2025
A winking skull, eccentric couples dancing, the rooftop swoon heard ’round the world. Viewers will shiver with delight when Edward Gorey’s iconic animated introduction to MASTERPIECE Mystery! returns to open new episodes of three favorite crime dramas. Samantha Bond returns as retired archeologist Judith Potts in a new season of The Marlow Murder Club. If you thought that Judith, dog walker Suzie Harris, and Vicar’s wife Becks Starling would return to their ordinary pastimes solving crossword puzzles, savoring teatime, and punting on the Thames, you were dead wrong! Instead, the trio are called back into action when the latest string of crimes occur within their idyllic English village. “Season 2 is three stories,” reveals Bond. “You’ve got a posh murder…. And then there’s a mystery set in a more modest bit of Marlow where one murder happens… and then another body is discovered and might there — or might not there — be a link? And the third one is at the sailing club.” Meanwhile in Cambridge, Professor T picks up six months after season 3 left off. Winter, Tempest and the rest of the team turn their attention to a dangerous crime wave. “There’s nothing out there quite like Professor T,” says Ben Miller, who plays enigmatic Professor Jasper Tempest. “The central enigma being the professor himself…a mystery I hope to investigate for many seasons to come.” And let’s not forget Unforgotten, the third MASTERPIECE Mystery! with season 6 beginning in August. Sinéad Keenan and Sanjeev Bhaskar return as partners DCI Jess James and DI Sunny Khan. When suspected human remains are discovered on Whitney Marsh, Jess and Sunny are called to the scene. How are an outspoken television commentator based in Ireland, an autistic man living with his mother in Kent, an Afghan training for his UK citizenship test, and a history lecturer and faculty head at a London University linked by their past? It’s for Jess, Sunny, and their team to unravel these connections and reveal who perpetrated a baffling cold case murder. If you missed any of the earlier seasons of these three MASTERPIECE Mystery! gems, you can watch them on PBS Passport. Premiering on Sunday, August 24, on WVPB: Professor T airs at 8:00 p.m., The Marlow Murder Club airs at 9:00 p.m., Unforgotten airs at 10:00 p.m.