#Kate phillips series#

Tim Chipping as DS Phelps (series 2– ), a harsh colleague of William's.Evan McCabe as Oliver Fitzroy (series 2– ), a new and untested detective, and the son of the police commissioner.Ian Pirie as Superintendent Monro (series 2– ), Stirling's successor.Nick Dunning as Superintendent Stirling (series 1), William's supervisor.Danny Midwinter as Frank Jenkins (series 1), William's assistant, a detective sergeant.Matthew Malone as Clarence Honeychurch (series 1), a police constable.

#Kate phillips series#

Simon Ludders as Mr Potts (series 1–2, guest series 3), a city coroner, who antagonises Eliza but later romantically pursues Ivy.

Stuart Martin as William 'Duke' Wellington, a detective inspector with the Metropolitan Police.

Andrew Gower as Rupert Parker (series 1), Eliza's friend and investor.

Kevin Doyle as Henry Scarlet (series 1), Eliza's father and William's mentor.

Ansu Kabia as Moses Valentine, a Jamaican British petty criminal whom Eliza frequently hires as an assistant, informant, or debt collector.Kate Phillips as Eliza Scarlet, an ambitious young woman who takes over her late father's detective agency.Moses is amused by Eliza's gumption, and they connect as outsiders to society. Eliza employs the services of a known criminal, Moses, much to William's annoyance. William and Eliza work on several cases together, though she is uncredited, causing disputes between them. To many people's surprise, however, Eliza is actually clever and feisty, which works in her favour. Born into a middle-class family, Eliza uses her appearance as a refined Victorian lady to her advantage when working on cases. Series writer and creator Rachael New took inspiration for Eliza's character from Elizabeth Bennet, the heroine of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice. Eliza and William bicker and argue constantly, but also share moments of subtle flirtation and care for each other deeply. Eliza lives with her housekeeper, Ivy, who helped raise her after Eliza's mother died (some time before the series begins). Rupert is the bachelor (and secretly gay) son of Mrs Parker, who owns Eliza's house, and relies on Eliza's advice to navigate his personal life. Though he is irritated by Eliza's detective aspirations, he cares for her and gradually begins to show respect for her skills.Įliza also befriends Rupert Parker, a wealthy man who loans her money for her agency as an investment. William once kissed Eliza following her mother's death, which he characterises as 'a chaste kiss', to her annoyance. As a result, William looked up to Henry as a mentor and father figure. Eliza's late father Henry saved William from the Glasgow streets as a child, and later mentored him through the police academy. William is known in the police force as 'The Duke' or simply 'Duke', a nickname referring to the Duke of Wellington. Struggling to build her reputation in the male-dominated world of crime-solving, she frequently calls on her old friend William Wellington, a gruff detective inspector of Scotland Yard, to help her acquire cases, though she often resorts to stealing case files from his office. Although marriage would appear to be her only option for financial security, Eliza resolves to continue her father's detective agency alone, working under his name. In Victorian London, 1882, Eliza Scarlet is left almost penniless when her father, Henry, unexpectedly dies. The show was later renewed for series three and four, with series three premiering on PBS on 8 January 2023. In Canada, it is available on CBC Gem.Ī second series was announced by PBS on 29 March 2021 and started airing on Alibi on 14 June 2022, while the PBS run started on 16 October 2022.

Miss Scarlet and The Duke was the first series that PBS purchased from, or co-produced with, a British channel other than the BBC, Channel 4, or ITV. The first series began broadcasting on Alibi on 31 March 2020 and premiered in the US on 17 January 2021, as part of PBS's Masterpiece anthology series. Miss Scarlet and The Duke is a British-American period crime television drama created by Rachael New, starring Kate Phillips and Stuart Martin as the title characters, two Victorian detectives.