Premieres Sundays, Sept. 3 - Oct. 8, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV / PBS App
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Professor Jasper Tempest and the team untangle a series of knotty crimes ranging from an unexplained fire in a student block to the mystery of an entire family found dead in their home. Meanwhile, Professor T is dominated and perplexed by the women in his life, from his mother to the love of his life Christina, and his new therapist, Dr. Helena.
EPISODE GUIDE:
“Ring of Fire” premieres Sunday, Sept. 3 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV - A young woman is left badly burned after a fire in a student flat. When investigations show the victim was drugged and the fire was set, Professor T helps the police in a race against time to find who did it before they strike again.
![Tayla Kovacevic as Calvin, Barney White as Dan Winters, Barbara Verberg as Dina Rush](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/3d54dde/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1400x862+0+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F35%2Fba%2F80e485f04820ad376587f0d44a33%2Fpts2-sofiegheysens-day49-78.jpg)
“The Mask Murders” premieres Sunday, Sept. 10 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV - When a prominent couple is found murdered, the crime scene has uncanny parallels to another murder 15 years ago - is it a copycat killing or was the wrong man prosecuted? Professor T wants to help but he's laid up with appendicitis.
![Barney White as Dan Winters](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/90eb0ec/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1300x801+0+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fff%2Ffb%2Fa56cfc9d4729a14ee82f9fb7ad9a%2Fpts2-sofiegheysens-day56-71.jpg)
“The Family” premieres Sunday, Sept. 17 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV - Professor T is asked to decipher a macabre puzzle when a doctor and her family are found dead in a grisly tableau on their living room sofa, each having died by different means - but in what order and at whose hands?
![Frances De La Tour as Adelaide Tempest](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/7002178/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1300x801+0+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F44%2Fa0%2F5600640b4461a1786a6260e432e1%2Fprofessort2-20-04-2022-lc-lowdscf6747.jpg)
“DNA of a Murderer” premieres Sunday, Sept. 24, 2023 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV - An artisan baker is found dead after receiving death threats. Is it a case of revenge or is the killer closer to home? Professor T uses his criminological insight to help the police identify the murderer.
![Juliet Stevenson as Dr Helena Goldberg](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/43b943c/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1300x801+0+29/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F79%2F79%2F89cefbea46f0af96d9b1c627b40b%2Fprofessort2-29-04-2022-lc-high-dscf7871.jpg)
“The Trial” premieres Sunday, Oct. 1 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV - As a major trial gets underway, Professor T presents the case to his students--it involves a caretaker accused of shooting dead his rich employer. It seems an open and shut case, but the Professor turns expert witness to prove otherwise.
![Ben Miller as Professor T](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/c1c4e59/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1300x801+0+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2F1e%2Fee%2Fd98c8d054637b0baf010517c63e3%2Fprofessort2-20-04-2022-lc-lowdscf6767.jpg)
“Swansong” premieres Sunday, Oct. 8 at 8 p.m. on KPBS TV - After discovering the body of an undercover police officer in the trunk of a car, the CID team blunder into a Drugs Squad operation against a major trafficker that appears to implicate one of their closest colleagues.
![Juliet Aubrey as Christina Brand](https://cdn.kpbs.org/dims4/default/0728d92/2147483647/strip/true/crop/1300x801+0+0/resize/880x542!/quality/90/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fkpbs-brightspot.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com%2Fff%2Fd4%2F44ad07824efd8c6a12416f7dd98e%2Fprofessort2-20-04-2022-lc-lowdscf6973.jpg)