The BEST episodes directed by Nicholas Renton

#1 - Trial and Punishment

The Musketeers - Season 2 - Episode 10

The Musketeers must risk everything to save France from Rochefort’s treacherous plan. While Porthos seeks to lure the Spanish spy-master to Paris to prove Rochefort’s betrayal to the King, Athos and d’Artagnan must save Constance from certain death. But will they be able to protect Aramis and the Queen before Rochefort gets to them? The fate of France and their closest comrades lies in the Musketeers’ hands.

#2 - Falling Darkness

Lewis - Season 4 - Episode 4

On Halloween night, a university friend of pathologist Laura Hobson is found staked through the heart. During their investigation, Lewis and Hathaway are approached by a medium who claims that they are in grave danger. The following day a student is murdered in the house that Hobson shared with her university friends, and a clue at the crime scene leads Lewis and Hathaway to a third victim. As the body count rises Lewis and Hathaway are forced to acknowledge that Hobson might know more about the deaths than she is letting on.

#3 - Radio Lochdubh

Hamish Macbeth - Season 2 - Episode 4

Hamish turns a deaf ear to the local pirate radio station which is having a remarkable influence on the town. But when the radio authority sends a defector van to close down transmission, he is caught up in a conflict of loyalties.

#4 - Old, Unhappy, Far Off Things

Lewis - Season 5 - Episode 1

Oxford's last all-female college is holding a reunion party to say goodbye to one of its most popular professors. After a guest is found murdered, Lewis believes the killing is connected to an attack that happened at the same building 10 years ago. He turns to his former DS, Alison McLennan, to help him with the case but it ends up taking a new twist after two more bodies turn up.

#5 - Death of a Hero

The Musketeers - Season 3 - Episode 6

It's the day of reckoning, as Grimaud vows to kill the Musketeers in a series of savage co-ordinated attacks and puts Feron to the ultimate test in his bid for power. The furious battle for survival sparks a series of revelations that threaten to destroy Paris. Before the day is out, a hero falls, there’s a traitor on the rise and the Musketeers will be changed forever.

#6 - No Man Is an Island

Hamish Macbeth - Season 2 - Episode 5

Personal crisis takes Hamish to a remote island from which he intends never to return. But he is not alone. Meanwhile, his absence from Lochdubh is keenly felt when his over-zealous replacement makes himself a nuisance.

#7 - The Accused

The Musketeers - Season 2 - Episode 9

The Musketeers must put their lives on the line when the Queen is accused of treason. They have no choice but to steal her away from the Palace to safety, while they search for evidence to prove that Rochefort is a Spanish spy. However it soon transpires that nobody is safe from Rochefort’s grasp, not even the King, with devastating consequences.

#8 - Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Agatha Christie's Marple - Season 4 - Episode 4

As the sole witness to a dying man's enigmatic last words, would-be young adventurer Bobby Attfield is determined to solve the riddle they posed, and forms an unlikely alliance with the beautiful socialite Frankie Derwent and visiting family friend Miss Marple (Julia McKenzie).

#9 - Entry Wounds (2)

Lewis - Season 8 - Episode 2

It soon becomes obvious that the case has everything to do with Alastair’s failure to save the life of a badly hurt teenager, Nabeel Sira, during surgery. The hospital staff have closed ranks and the boy’s parents are considering their options. A second murder then happens.

#10 - The Lochdubh Deluxe

Hamish Macbeth - Season 2 - Episode 6

A family feud at the funeral parlour comes to a head. It is suggested that space aliens have snatched a body from the local burial ground.

#11 - A Perfectly Simple Explanation

Hamish Macbeth - Season 2 - Episode 1

A hellfire sect leader sees the town as the new Gomorrah. Hamish's reputation is undermined and his tolerance stretched to the limit when he is denounced as the devil incarnate.

#12 - Wee Jock's Lament

Hamish Macbeth - Season 1 - Episode 5

A strange premonition, two escaped convicts on the run who injure Hamish's dog, Wee Jock, lead Hamish on a quest for revenge. TV John rounds up a posse to prevent Hamish from doing something he'll regret.

#13 - Entry Wounds (1)

Lewis - Season 8 - Episode 1

Hathaway has been promoted to Inspector after an extended break from the force, and Lewis is enjoying retired life until he's asked to team up with his old colleague again.

#14 - Fearful Symmetry

Lewis - Season 6 - Episode 3

Lewis and Hathaway investigate the murder of a baby-sitter, and uncover a swingers' network. The detectives must establish whether the girl's fate is connected to her time spent in a children's home, or whether she was an unintended victim.

#15 - Schism (1)

Silent Witness - Season 10 - Episode 9

Harry and Nikki are called out to a London dogs' home where the naked body of a teenage girl has been found, tortured to death. It becomes clear that a second girl is being held somewhere, the pathologists find themselves pulled into a world of violence, spies, extremism and cover-ups.

#16 - The Queen's Diamonds

The Musketeers - Season 3 - Episode 4

The future of the English monarchy rests on the Musketeers’ shoulders when Louis orders them to recover his sister the Queen of England’s missing crown jewels. It’s a daunting mission, made more complicated when they unmask the thief - the irrepressible Emile Bonnaire.

#17 - Gently Upside Down

Inspector George Gently - Season 4 - Episode 1

Gently and Bacchus investigate when a schoolgirl's body is discovered in a shallow grave.

#18 - Answering Fire (1)

Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 1

A suspected terrorist attack causes an explosion in a hotel where a government minister is staying, and an old friend of Sam's is at the scene. As Sam and her team delve deeper into the case, Sam also has to deal with her attempted rape.

#19 - Answering Fire (2)

Silent Witness - Season 7 - Episode 2

#20 - The Great Lochdubh Salt Robbery

Hamish Macbeth - Season 1 - Episode 1

Police constable Hamish Macbeth is baffled by two apparently unrelated mysteries: a huge quantity of table salt has been stolen from Rory Campbell's general store; and Geordie Robb, a local bully, is missing. Hamish outwits his superiors when he makes a connection between the two mysteries.

#21 - A Pillar of the Community

Hamish Macbeth - Season 1 - Episode 2

Newcomers to Lochdubh Vicky and Paul Jeffreys cause a stir: Vicky tries to put reluctant villagers back in touch with their Highland heritage, gradually alienating them. Hamish investigates when this unpopular, meddling newcomer, receives anonymous threats.

#22 - Schism (2)

Silent Witness - Season 10 - Episode 10

Harry and Nikki are called out to a London dogs' home where the naked body of a teenage girl has been found, tortured to death. It becomes clear that a second girl is being held somewhere, the pathologists find themselves pulled into a world of violence, spies, extremism and cover-ups.

#23 - Undertone (1)

Silent Witness - Season 17 - Episode 7

After the body of a pregnant Northern Irish girl is found, Nikki and Jack need to locate the baby that has been snatched from her womb. Thomas discovers the girl’s connections to a criminal underworld.

#24 - All That Glitters

Snatch - Season 1 - Episode 1

With debtors at his heels, Albert Hill, the son of imprisoned crime legend, Vic Hill, teams up with a mate to square his bills. After the pair scrapes together a sizable sum, they wager it all on a boxer, but a local mobster has his own man in the ring and designs on the match.

#25 - Badda Bling

Snatch - Season 1 - Episode 2

As Albert, Charlie and Billy process their windfall, footage of the heist goes viral and reaches the eyes of a dirty cop with old ties to the Hill family. In a new scheme set up by Vic, the trio goes on a diamond job for a 'businessman' who doesn't forgive mistakes.

#26 - Across the Pond

Snatch - Season 1 - Episode 4

Desperate to pay back Saul before time runs out, Albert, Charlie and their new ally fly to New York to fence the gold. But a careless mistake leaves them racing all over the city to salvage the deal. Billy and Lotti plot to free the safecracker from Sonny’s lair.

#27 - Going in Heavy

Snatch - Season 1 - Episode 3

With the clock ticking on their lives, Albert, Charlie and Billy plot to steal back Saul’s diamonds, cutting in Sonny's girl as a partner. To crack Sonny's safe, Albert must track down an old family friend. Fink follows clues in the heist footage back to Charlie.

#28 - Deferred Sentence

Hamish Macbeth - Season 3 - Episode 2

Holidaying alone oil the island of Laggan-Laggan, Hamish is drawn into a twenty-year old mystery which has poisoned the community. Why do the islanders shun Hamish's hosts, the Catholic priest, Father McPhail and his Protestant sparring partner, Enoch McDuff? Anxious to avoid being caught in their inter-dominational crossfire, Hamish pretends to be Jewish. He is intrigued by Laura McDuff's allegations concerning the mysterious death of her mother all those years ago, but is his interest in her simply that of a policeman Who Suspects foul play?

#29 - Destiny (2)

Hamish Macbeth - Season 3 - Episode 8

Kenneth and Ava have stolen the Stone of Destiny, and TV John is missing. Hamish, Isobel and a posse from Lochdubh embark on a death-defying trek across mountain and moorland in order to rescue their friend and save a treasured symbol of the nation's heritage. As adversity brings Hamish and Isobel closer together, myth begins to merge with reality and the ghosts of Scotland's past appear to help them on their way, but ultimately there's no salvation without sacrifice.

#30 - Destiny (1)

Hamish Macbeth - Season 3 - Episode 7

TV John's long-lost brother, the one-eyed, one-legged, one-armed Kenneth McIver, is Sprung from a South American gaol by millionaire Torquil Farquar McFarquar. Ex-patriate McFarquar has a passion for all things Scottish and has heard that Kenneth knows the whereabouts of the real Stone of Destiny, coronation stone of the ancient Scottish kings. Scenting a fortune in the offing, Kenneth sets off for Lochdubh, accompanied by mysterious hypnotist Ava Grimm. Meanwhile, TV John has had premonitions of the impending death of someone very close. How can the villagers convince him it's all in tile mind?

#31 - The Lochdubh Assassin

Hamish Macbeth - Season 3 - Episode 3

A gang of ruthless villains descends on Lochdubh, hot on the heels of young tearaway Frankie Bryce and his Aunty Jean, Isobel's best friend in Glasgow. Isobel brings them to Lachie Junior's funeral parlour where Lachie is happy to shelter them - especially once he claps eyes on Jean. Hamish, however, has a big problem. He knows Tam Flood and his henchmen are dangerous, but he can do nothing until they do something. Ignoring Hamish's warnings, TV John takes pre-emptive action, the villagers close ranks, and the old local legend of Wee MacPhee raises its ugly head.