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# The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency: Season 1

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Product Description No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (DVD) desertcart.com The lead hails from the U.S. and the creators come from the U.K., but The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency celebrates Botswana, "the finest place on God's Earth," as surely as a woman’s intuition. In his final directorial effort, Anthony Minghella joins forces with producer/co-writer Richard Curtis for the pilot, in which Precious Ramotswe (Grammy-winning singer Jill Scott) makes her debut. After her father dies, Mma Ramotswe sells his cows and opens an agency, because she "wants to do good." So, the "traditionally built woman" (in the words of Anthony McCall Smith, who wrote nine books about her) leases the old Gabarone post office, hires hyper-efficient secretary Grace Makutsi (Anika Noni Rose, Dreamgirls), and gets down to business. With sassy hairdresser BK (Desmond Dube) and smitten mechanic JLB Matekoni (Lucian Msamati) cheering her on, Mma Ramotswe becomes a combination detective/feminist icon, sharing "endless cups of red bush tea" with her clients, encouraging women to take charge of their lives, and tackling tricky cases involving missing persons, duplicitous daddies, dangerous dentists, and unfaithful spouses (MI-5's David Oyelowo plays one of them). Produced for the BBC/HBO and filmed in Africa, the first season eschews gunplay and profanity for a fresh take on the small-town mystery series. Like Agatha Christie's Marple, but with fewer dead bodies, Mma Ramotswe depends more on her wits than technology.In his author's diaries, McCall Smith reveals that "Minghella had long wanted to film my novels." Tim Fywell and Charles Sturridge (Brideshead Revisited) handle the remaining six episodes, while other distinguished guests include Prime Suspect's Colin Salmon as Ramotswe's ne'er-do-well ex-husband and Emmy nominee CCH Pounder as a mother searching for a lost son. Why Rose, who turns on a dime between comedy and tragedy, didn't also receive Emmy recognition, however, is the show's real mystery. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Review: Very enjoyable, lots of heart! - A lovely series! Good acting, and it gives a real feel for the people and culture of Botswana, as well as the landscape. I really wish they would make another season, as this one ended on a cliffhanger!
Review: Wish the entire series were available! A sweet break from harsh days. - I love the series. I love the books and I loved watching the series on DVDs. The language is wonderful. The characters are very well described and make you want to care about them. There’s humor and there’s purpose without being preachy truly lovely DVD.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN  | B0016Q2D1Q |
| Actors  | Jill Scott |
| Aspect Ratio  | 1.78:1 |
| Best Sellers Rank | #18,960 in Movies & TV ( See Top 100 in Movies & TV ) #764 in Mystery & Thrillers (Movies & TV) #2,146 in Comedy (Movies & TV) #2,718 in Drama DVDs |
| Customer Reviews | 4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,347) |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer  | No |
| Language  | English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Unqualified |
| MPAA rating  | PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) |
| Media Format  | Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen |
| Number of discs  | 3 |
| Product Dimensions  | 7.5 x 5.75 x 1.5 inches; 10.4 ounces |
| Release date  | September 8, 2009 |
| Run time  | 8 hours |
| Studio  | HBO Studios |
| Subtitles:  | English, French, Spanish |

## Product Details

- **Contributor:** Jill Scott
- **Format:** Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Dolby, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
- **Genre:** Mystery & Thrillers
- **Language:** English
- **Number Of Discs:** 3

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very enjoyable, lots of heart!
*by T***H on December 29, 2025*

A lovely series! Good acting, and it gives a real feel for the people and culture of Botswana, as well as the landscape. I really wish they would make another season, as this one ended on a cliffhanger!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Wish the entire series were available! A sweet break from harsh days.
*by M***R on October 12, 2025*

I love the series. I love the books and I loved watching the series on DVDs. The language is wonderful. The characters are very well described and make you want to care about them. There’s humor and there’s purpose without being preachy truly lovely DVD.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Next time you marry, let it be a kind man. Daddy
*by S***I on December 7, 2019*

Precious Ramotswe is deeply loved by her Daddy, a respected elder of their community. Precious taught look carefully, remember details, find ways to expose truth, and try to help people solve their problems. Alexander McCall Smith creates thus far 20 mysteries introducing the comfort of a cup of bush tea, the incense of thorn trees, the wide veld, colors of sunset, the surrogate family a neighborhood on Kgale Hill can offer a young woman. The freedom of knowing that you are loved allows Precious to embark on a self defined career much as Tiffany Dufu has done in real life, a career that never existed before helping others. The humor and affection in Smith's books is translated onto 3 discs including the Pilot of the series and 7 subsequent episodes, plus Bonus Features, held in a three part disc holder, encased in card slipcase, all embellished with lively photos and graphic colorful artwork from the series. Precious is like all people in the world, blind to things she does not want to see, and does not want to know especially about Note Makoti a trumpet player. As a detective Precious listens carefully to the questions she is asked by people who say they want their problems solved. And after she learns the truth, devises kind ways to resolve the difficulty without necessarily using the law, but generating justice in a satisfactory manner. The colors of Botswana are brilliant, the sweep of the land, animals, people, lively communities which are trying to survive against the challenge of weather, greed, muti (witchcraft), loneliness, betrayal, fear while searching for hope. Humorous introduction to Botswana, awash in diamonds mined by those who will die of respiratory failure like Obed Ramotswe the Daddy, due to breathing dust. We meet individuals like Grace Makutsi whose 97% score at the Botswana Secretarial College garners her the position of Secretary at the Number 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, garage owner JLB Matekoni who kindly repairs Mma Ramotswe's rickety pickup when it coughs and wheezes, and BK the neighboring hairdresser who Grace notices "acts more like a woman than a man." The books are cozy and delightful, the films stopped at episode 7 sadly enough and have not been resurrected. But this compilation of the available 2008 episodes introduces another culture with all the quirks and sorrows and joys of any group of friends, in village or town, finding itself in the 21st century. Acting is inspiring, comedy infectious, and the gentle ways Mma Ramotswe figures out how to resolve the difficulties ingenious. There is even some romance.

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