TY - ADVS AU - Bricknell,Timothy AU - McCall Smith,Alexander AU - Rose,Anika Noni AU - Scott,Jill ED - British Broadcasting Corporation. ED - Cinechicks (Firm) ED - Film Afrika Worldwide (Firm) ED - Home Box Office (Firm) ED - Mirage Enterprises. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) ED - Weinstein Company. TI - The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency SN - 1419883380 PY - 2009/// CY - [New York, NY], [Burbank, CA PB - Home Box Office, Warner Home Video, distributor] KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Botswana KW - Drama KW - Mechanics (Persons) KW - No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Imaginary organization) KW - Secretaries KW - Women detectives KW - Women-owned business enterprises KW - Detective and mystery television programs KW - Television series KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired N1 - Based on the novels by Alexander McCall Smith; Contains the pilot and all 6 episodes from the first season; Title from container; Disc 1; Pilot; The big bonanza --; disc 2; Poison; The boy with an African heart; Problems in moral philosophy --; disc 3; Beauty and integrity; A real Botswana diamond; Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati; Originally broadcast on BBC1 in 2009; TV-MA N2 - Follows Mma Ramotste, a recently bereaved woman, as she sets up the only woman-run Private Detective Agency in Botswana and her attempts to get it off the ground. She gets help from Mma Makutsi, her new secretary, and Mr. JLB Matekoni, the owner and super mechanic of the wonderful Speedy Motors. Mma Ramotste takes on cases, meets many new people who need her help - from a woman who thinks the man who has turned up at her door is not her father, to another lady who has a boyfriend who may or may not be faithful to her ER -