Out today, Harry Wild episodes 1 and 2 in a new series of the top crime comedy TV show. Now available to stream online with Acorn TV and Amazon Prime Video. Starring Jane Seymour and Rohan Nedd.
Episodes in this six-part Acorn TV original series will release weekly. I’ve included details of the episodes available to watch online including series 1 and 2 and how to watch this top detective TV show for free!
For more top cosy crime TV including new shows for 2024, see my posts listed below.
Harry Wild TV Series
About: Literature professor Harriet “Harry” Wild (Jane Seymour) is adjusting to retirement when she’s mugged. While recovering at the home of her son (Kevin Ryan), a detective in the Dublin police, Harry gleans a clue for his current case. But when she’s rebuffed, Harry decides to solve the crime herself. Recruiting an unlikely young sidekick (Rohan Nedd), she finds a new path as a private investigator. IMDb rating: 7.2/10 (3.6K).
Main / recurring cast: Jane Seymour as Harry Wild, Rohan Nedd as Fergus Reid, Kevin Ryan as Charlie Wild, Rose O’Neill as Lola Wild, Amy Huberman as Orla Wild and Paul Tylak as Glenn Talbot.
Series 1
Released: April 2022.
Series 1 Episodes
- When Harry Met Fergus: Former literature professor Harriet “Harry” Wild is trying to adjust to retirement when she’s injured in a mugging. While recovering at the home of her son, senior detective Charlie, Harry looks at his files and realizes his latest investigation bears similarities to an obscure Elizabethan play. After Charlie dismisses her insights, she decides to find the killer—with aid from a surprising source.
- Samurai Plague Doctors Kill for Kicks: Due to their new notoriety, Harry and Fergus are approached by a woman desperate to find out how her husband died. Although reluctant to get involved, Harry’s interest is soon piqued. When she and Fergus uncover a deadly gambling operation, Harry turns over the evidence to Charlie, vowing to stay out of it. Unfortunately, the killers have other ideas.
- Mincemeat: When a body is pulled out of the river near Harry’s local pub, something about the dead man feels familiar to Harry. When she remembers how she knows him, she realizes she’s stumbled onto the ultimate misdirect. Harry and Fergus go undercover, with the assistance of Harry’s teenage granddaughter, Lola, to find the truth. Along the way, Harry starts to grow closer to Ray, Charlie’s boss and mentor.
- An Unhappy Happy Is a Dangerous Thing: Harry and Fergus agree to help a local loan shark known as Happy find out who murdered his employee; in return, Happy will cancel the sizeable debt owed by Fergus’s father. Harry notices links between the killing and Dostoevsky’s “Crime and Punishment,” which brings her to the attention of fledgling serial killer Billy Lund.
- A Corpse in My Soup: When a vomiting bug ruins a dinner party that Harry is attending, the cause is found to be a dead body in the well. With Charlie away, Harry becomes the prime suspect.
- Best Laid Schemes: A violent storm traps Harry, Fergus, and Lola in the local pub. Cut off from the outside world by flooded roads and downed phone lines, the trio are put in even more peril when they discover a kidnap victim in a car. After freeing the man, they realize the kidnapper must be one of the handful of strangers trapped in the pub with them.
- The Mystery of Granny Susan’s Fun Time Wig: When a wealthy matriarch is strangled to death during a video call with her horrified relatives, the woman’s daughter employs the services of the Wild/Reid Detective Agency. The agency being Fergus’s brainchild, Harry is as surprised as anyone to discover it exists but agrees to indulge him. Money seems to be the motive for the murder, but everyone who stands to inherit was on the call.
- No One Here Gets Out Alive: Zoe McCann is a recovering addict fighting each day to slay her demons. But when she is abducted only to wake up in a forest wearing a vintage ballgown, her sanity and resolve are pushed to the limit. Terrified that her unknown abductor will return, Zoe seeks out the help of Harry and Fergus. After When Zoe is kidnapped again, how far will they go to save her life?
*Watch Harry Wild online with Acorn TV and Prime Video from UK Amazon and US Amazon – Free Acorn TV trial available.
Series 2
Released: October 2023.
Series 2 Episodes
- Silence Dogood Did Bad: After Ray Tiernan, Harry’s ex and Charlie’s mentor, is murdered while running a secret investigation, Harry and Fergus will stop at nothing to unmask the killer.
- The Village Has Eyes: Harry and Fergus take on the case of a woman who has vanished from an Irish village that has a history of devil worship and sacrifice. Did the missing woman stumble onto something that led to her death? Or was she murdered by somebody closer to home?
- A Botox a Day Keeps the Mortician in Pay: The maid of honour is poisoned at a bachelorette party, even though others were sharing the same bottle of champagne. Harry and Fergus work to figure out how she was poisoned, but since everyone disliked her, narrowing down her killer is much harder.
- Orla Wild’s Wicked Wicked Ways: A face from Orla’s past begs for her assistance: Ben Finnegan is on the run from the police, framed for murder, and being hunted by a killer with a crossbow. The only person Orla can turn to is the last one she ever wants to ask for help… Harry.
- Professor Wild in the Library with the Revolver: Harry, Fergus, and Lola are invited to a murder-mystery party in a hotel on a secluded island. The fun quickly turns deadly as they realize a real murderer lurks among them, willing to kill everyone present.
- He Could’ve Been a Contender until They Chopped His Arms Off: The popular owner of Fergus’s boxing gym is found murdered in the Dublin Mountains. The gym was in debt, and the dead man had trouble with both his future wife and his ex-wife. Fergus asks Harry to help him find the killer.
*Watch Harry Wild online with Acorn TV and Prime Video from UK Amazon and US Amazon – Free Acorn TV trial available.
Series 3
Released: May 2024.
Series 3 Episodes so far
- Killing Me Softly with His Bad Pop Song: After Jamie D, lead singer of Hot Boy 4, plummets to his death, Harry’s granddaughter Lola feels certain it was murder and not suicide. She convinces Harry and Fergus to investigate for the sake of Jamie’s pregnant widow, the fans, and the music.
- Too Many Harrys Spoil the Murder: When a renowned chef’s girlfriend is brutally murdered, Harry and Fergus have to contend with a rival private detective, a gangster’s henchman, and an utterly baffling mystery. Meanwhile, Paula makes a life-changing announcement.
- Lights, Camera, Murder: The despotic director of a cheap, daytime Irish soap opera has his throat cut in the middle of a scene. Its under-pressure producer is desperate for Harry and Fergus to quickly find the culprit so filming can resume.
- The Man Who Murdered Himself: Harry and Fergus must figure out how a mystery writer could have shot himself in a locked panic room without a gun. Fellow P.I. Harry Benedict continues to inveigle his way into Harry’s life.
*Watch Harry Wild online with Acorn TV and Prime Video from UK Amazon and US Amazon – Free Acorn TV trial available.
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