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A family had an evening meal and then vanished into thin air.

The latest puzzle to confront DI Humphrey Goodman as he also tries to settle in Shipton Abbott.

The Colbert looks like a normal happy family with two young children. Humphrey is concerned because their are children involved.

A hit and run accident that happened at the day they disappeared turns out to be the main lead.

Meanwhile Humphrey is also shocked that Martha has rekindled a relationship with her ex. Archie Hughes was once engaged with Martha and has now become a junior partner in her cafe business. It means the cafe is up and running in a few days!

It looked like a mystery tailor made for Professor T. Although the police seemed to have kept a radio blackout over the missing family. Maybe they could had been located earlier.

Obviously there were parallels between Humphrey and Matthew Colbert. The cliffhanger ending was odd, what were everyone else looking at as the car rolled down?

Jamie Bamber joins the cast as the rather smarmy Archie. Phil Daniels overdoes the Devon accent. He should stick to cockney.

It's the final Hi-de Hi from Ruth Madoc who passed away several months before this episode aired.

I loved the main plot in this second episode of Beyond Paradise, which had a Mary Celeste feel to it. What happened to the family that disappeared a la Mary Celeste, we gradually learn piece by piece. This episode was Ruth Madoc's final role, and at the end we see the dedication to her, such a legendary actress.

Jamie Bamber, is introduced as Martha's business partner and erstwhile fiance, which rachets up the tension with Humprey somewhat. Humphrey's impulse buy of a houseboat was quite hilarious and sets the scene on the domestic front.

The series also explore the relationship between Martha and her mom Anna, so that's an extra layer.

My minor problem with this is the same as my problem with Midsomer Murders, which is once you watch it for awhile, you realise that there are no absolutely no people of colour than the murderee all the murderer roles. Other than that, it is just a piece of absolute dribble, so badly written, and the storyline is just dire. As a partner Humphrey is just horrible. If you think about how this episode runs, she has just come off a miscarriage and how many rounds of IVF that they are essentially broke and living with her mother, and then he goes and ignores the situation and buys a boat without considering or consulting her, that is clearly I wreck waiting to happen, but that's okay it's all just cutesy fun... not... If this was real life, Martha was up a creek on her own, without a partner.