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ANTHOLOGY SERIES


ARMCHAIR THRILLER (Thames/Southern)

EPISODE GUIDE
Series devised by Andrew Brown Theme Music Andy Mackay Script Editors Robert Banks Stewart (all S1 episodes) Robert Holmes (S2 Thames episodes)

1.1 Rachel In Danger (4 episodes) tx 21.02.78 – 02.03.78 Starring Neville Jason Delia Low Stephen Greif Writer John Bowen Casting Elizabeth Sadler Producer Andrew Brown Director Waris Hussein
A little girl sets out to meet her father for the first time. The man has been killed by someone who has sinister plans.
Haven't seen this one ... but if it covers the same ground as The Eyes Have It it's almost certainly a winner.
1.2 A Dog's Ransom (6 episodes) tx 07.03.78 – 23.03.78 Starring Zena Walker Brian Stirner Benjamin Whitrow Writer John Bowen based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith Produced by Jacqueline Davis Director Donald McWhinnie
After abducting a dog the kidnapper asks for a ridiculous sum of money. The police get involved, and subsequently things get out of control.
Bowen looked back at his own work in an article in The Listener:

I was myself asked, by Thames Television, to make a six-part serial out of Patricia Highsmith's A Dog's Ransom, and did so. The script itself was well achieved - well acted, well directed; I was fond of it. But it didn't work as it would have done if I had made a two-hour play or film, because Ms Highsmith's method is very slowly to tighten a screw, while I, to conform with the form - six 24.5-minute episodes, with a break in the middle of each - had to manufacture a series of false climaxes all through the first half of the work; none of the tightening could carry over from Tuesday to Thursday to Tuesday again.

1.3 The Girl Who Walked Quickly (4 episodes) tx 28.03.78 – 06.04.78 Starring Denis Lawson (David Cooper) Phyllinda Nash (Liz) Clive Merrison (Godolt) Anna Nicholas (The Girl) Barry Stanton (Swift) John Gregg (Everly) Oliver Smith (1st Helper) Luke Hanson (2nd Helper) Margery Mason (Mrs. Cooper) Derek Benfield (Mr. Cooper) Writer Ray Jenkins Script Executive Joan Rodker Incidental Music Roger Webb Designer Robin Parker Producer Jacqueline Davis Director Brian Farnham
Political extremists kidnap and brainwash a man who is chosen to become an important tool in their campaign.
Ray Jenkins's credits include Circles of Deceit: Kalon (1996), The Chief, The Woman in White (1982), Juliet Bravo, The Outsiders, The Sweeney (Trap, I Want the Man), Target (Lady Luck, Set-Up), The Gentle Touch (Knife, Dany).
Brian Farnham's credits include BUGS, Heartbeat (Appearances, Heroes and Villains) The Chief, Poirot (The Adventure of the Italian Nobleman, Dead Man's Mirror, How Does Your Garden Grow?, Wasps' Nest) The Bill, The Agatha Christie Hour (The Girl in the Train, The Manhood of Edward Robinson), Hazell, Rumpole of the Bailey, Rock Follies of '77, Rock Follies.

1.4 Quiet as a Nun (6 episodes: The Tower/ The Chapel/ The Black Nun/ Witness and Wills/ Powers of Darkness/ Death and Decisions) tx 11.04.78 – 27.04.78 Starring Maria Aitken (Jemima Shore) Renée Asherson (Mother Ancilla) Brenda Bruce (Sister Elizabeth) Susan Engel (Sister Agnes) James Laurenson (Alexander Scarbek) Sylvia Coleridge (Sister Boniface) Doran Godwin (Sister Lucy) Margaret D'Arcy (Sister Clare) Linda Slater (Dodo) Sarah Webb (Margaret) Michele Wistanley (Blanche) David Burke Patsy Kensit (Tessa) Catrina Hylton (Mandy) James Appleby Writer Julia Jones based on a novel by Antonia Fraser Casting Director Keith Andrews Operational Supervisor John White Jones Lighting Director Andy Andrews VT Editor Fred Turner Sound Supervisor Peter Willcocks Senior Cameramen Albert Almond Peter Coombs Vision Control Alan James Vision Mixers Peter Boffin Peter Phillips Film Cameramen Ted Adcock Roy Pointer Film Recordists David Crozier Brian Rendle Film Editor John Plummer Film Dubbing Mixer Freddie Slade Location Manager Denver Thornton Graphic Designers Rob Page Ruth Bribram Make up Supervisor Sue Black Costumes Jan Rowell Floor Manager Peter Piddock Production Assistants Mary Hutchinson Sue Pethybridge Script Executive Joan Rodker Story Editor Robert Banks Stewart Incidental Music Roger Webb Designer Bill Palmer Producer Jacqueline Davis Director Moira Armstrong
When a nun dies under mysterious circumstances television star reporter Jemima Shore is asked to investigate.
Moira Armstrong's credits include Midsomer Murders (Beyond the Grave, Blood Will Out), The Inside Story (1988), Boon, Testament of Youth (1979), Hazell, Play of the Month: The Linden Tree (1974), Beryl's Lot, The Guardians, Budgie, Adam Adamant Lives!, Wednesday Play: Campaign for One (1965), R3.

1.5 The Limbo Connection (6 episodes) tx 02.05.78 – 18.05.78 Starring James Bolam (Mark Omney) Rosalind Ayres (Annabelle Fraser) Michael Culver (Dr Walcott Brown) Beatrix Lehmann (Blanche Terraine) Suzanne Bertish (Clare Omney) James Berwick (Colonel Forde) Georgine Anderson (Mrs Forde) Patricia Lawrence (Mrs Carson Clark) Graham Rowe (Mr Carson Clark) Tricia George (Melissa Carson Clark) Isabelle Amyes (Julie Villiers) Tony Mathews (George Beatty) Vass Anderson (Soames) Alan Ford (Bill) Yvonne Edgell (Margaret) Anton Phillips (Barman) William Moore (Landlord) Christopher Benjamin (DI Tarrant) Sam Sewell (DC Barnes) Peter Welch (Mechanic) Aimee Delamain (Mrs Franklyn) Arthur Blake (Mr Dyer) Frank Duncan (Announcer) Writer Philip Mackie based on a novel by Derry Quinn Script Executive Joan Rodker Music Denis King Designer David Marshall Producer Jacqueline Davis Director Robert Tronson
When journalist Clare Omney disappears her husband Mark is suspicious that the owner of a private clinic has something to do with it.
2.1 The Victim (6 episodes) tx 08.01.80 – 24.01.80 Starring John Shrapnel Alan Downer Writer Michael Ashe Producer Brenda Ennis Director Gareth Davies
Two villains kidnap Mr Craig's daughter.

2.2 Dead Man's Kit (4 episodes) tx 29.01.80 – 07.02.80 Starring Maurice Colbourne (Kobahl) Larry Lamb Cherie Lunghi Philip Locke Victoria Fairbrother William Russell Writer Tom McClenaghan Music Andy Roberts Producer Andrew Brown Director Colin Bucksey
A naval officer investigates the murder of one of his men.
Excellent stuff, probably the best of the lot!
2.3 Dying Day (4 episodes: Mr Skipling Is Sentenced to Death/ Mr Skipling Finds a Friend/ Mr Skipling Fights Back/ Mr Skipling's Day of Reckoning) tx 12.02.80 – 21.02.80 Starring Ian McKellen (Antony Skipling) Maurice Kaufmann (1st Interrogator) Prentis Hancock (2nd interrogator) David Howey (Foster) David Ryall (Lane) Patrick Malahide (Police Sgt) Michael Troughton (PC) Anton Phillips (Roger) Joan Scott (Senior Samaritan) Kathleen Worth (Cleaning Lady) Marc Zuber (Doctor) Kate Coleridge (Susie) Gwyneth Powell (Doris) Peter Childs (Sellars) Leonard Kavanagh (Man at Station) Alan Dudley (Estate Agent) Cyril Shaps (Mountjoy) Connie Merigold (Landlady) Hector Ross Sylvia Marriott (Customers) Writer John Bowen Casting Ann Fielden Studio Supervisor Peter Groome Lighting Ken Tester-Brown Sound Stan Lee Cameras Albert Almond Vision Control Paul Stripp Vision Mixer Nick Bigsby (2) Martin Perrett (4) Film Cameraman Raymond Sieman Film Recordist Basil Rootes Film Editor Ray Ball Location Manager Denver Thornton Costumes Jill Silverside Makeup Pauline Saunders Stage Manager Shirley Cleghorn Floor Manager Phillip Hill Production Assistant Paddy Dewey (2) Jill Watts (4) Executive Producer Joan Rodker Designer Norman Garwood Producer Brenda Ennis Director Robert Tronson
When Mr Skipling plays a cassette which was accidentally left by a casual acquaintance on board a train he finds that he is designed to be a murder victim.
Excellent conspiracy thriller (cf. Frantic etc) with a first-class, absorbing performance by McKellen, reminiscent of (and preceding) David McCallum in The Corvini Inheritance. The chap on his scooter, complete with helmet, conspicuous raincoat and odd social skills, is quite a sight. Is he paranoid or not? You're kept on the edge of your seat until the end!
2.4 Fear Of God (4 episodes: A Question of Gravity/ ?/ The Music Room/ Bang!) tx 26.02.80 – 06.03.80 Starring Bryan Marshall (Paul Marriott) Madeline Church (Nicola Clay) Alun Armstrong (Trahearne) Michael Watkins (Cyril) Garrick Hagon (Walters) Robert Austin (Stapleton) Madeline Hinde (Francesca Thornton) Michael Sheard (Col. Morgan) Chris Jenkinson (Larke) Anne Godley (Lady Diana) Steve Kelly (Electronic Man) Dave Cooper (PT instructor) Writer Troy Kennedy Martin based on a novel by Derry Quinn Casting Keith Andrews Studio Supervisor Dick Hibberd Lighting Ken Tester-Brown VTR Editor Camilla Keenan Sound Dick Bradford Cameras Peter Howell Vision Control Ian Jones Vision Mixer Peter Boffin Film Cameraman Ted Adcock Film Sound Basil Rootes Film Editor Beryl Wilkins Film Dubbing Mixer Terry Hill Location Manager Denver Thornton Costumes Stephanie Hawkes Makeup Gillian Wakeford Stage Manager Shirley Cleghorn Floor Manager Phillip Hill Production Assistants Isobel Neil Jill Watts Incidental Music Kenyon Emrys-Roberts Executice Producer Joan Rodker Designer Martyn Hebert Producer Brenda Ennis Director Robert Tronson When journalist Paul Marriot sets out to investigate the murder of a woman who was a member of a religious sect he is in for a lot of trouble.
Quite good, but not as powerful as it could have been. Derry Quinn wrote a supernatural Paul Temple episode (The Quick and the Dead) which covers similar territory. Another conspiracy thriller by Kennedy Martin (cf. The Visiting Fireman, Edge of Darkness etc) who evidently tried to breathe new life into a (sadly) short-lived cinematic genre.

2.5 High Tide (4 episodes) tx 11.03.80 – 20.03.80 Starring Ian McShane (Curtis) Kika Markham Terence Rigby Toby Salaman Michael McKevitt Wendy Morgan John Bird Writer Andrew Brown Casting Joyce Gallie Music Richard Hartley Photography Peter Jessop Operator John Mills Costumes Graham Williams Designer Judy Steele Art Director John White Editor Michael Hunt Dubbing Mixer Ken Scrivener Director Colin Bucksey
Peter Curtis is released from prison where he has served a stretch for killing the man who ran over his dog. When a stranger approaches Curtis he is keen to know what the dying man's final words were.

2.6 The Circe Complex (6 episodes) tx 25.03.80 – 10.04.80 Starring Alan David Michael Deeks Beth Morris Writer David Hopkins based on a novel by Desmond Corey Producer Brenda Ennis Director Robert D. Cardona
Val Foreman's husband Tom knows where 400,000 pounds worth of stolen jewels are stashed away – but how can he be freed from prison?

And now for something completely familiar ... the Who Killed Lamb syndrome!

The Chelsea Murders tx 30.12.81 Starring Dave King David Gant (Frank) Writer Jonathan Hales based on a novel by Lionel Davidson Director Derek Bennett
A Detective Inspector investigates a series of murders.
(I know what you’re thinking – but that’s all I could find.)
BEASTS (ATV)

EPISODE GUIDE
Writer Nigel Kneale Producer Nicholas Palmer

1.1 During Barty's Party tx 22.10.76 starring Anthony Bate Elizabeth Sellars, also Colin Bell, John Rhys-Davies, Denis Cleary, Pamela Moiseiwitsch (voices only) Senior Cameraman Roy Simper Vision Mixer Moyra Bird Vision Control John Crane VTR Editor John Hawkins Lighting Alistair Morrison Wardrobe Supervisor Sheelagh Killeen Make-Up Elizabeth Portsmouth Sound Roger Knight Designer Anthony Waller Director Don Taylor
1.2 Buddyboy tx 29.10.76 starring Martin Shaw Pamela Moiseiwitsch Wolfe Morris Peter Halliday Marianne Morris Stuart McGugan Denis Holmes Senior Cameraman Roy Simper Sound Henry Bird Lighting Alistair Morrison VTR Editor Peter Charles Floor Manager Ron Blanchard Vision Mixer Felicity Maton Vision Control Jim Reeves Wardrobe Supervisor Sheelagh Killeen Make-Up Elizabeth Portsmouth Designer Anthony Waller Music Derek Bourgeois Director Don Taylor
1.3 Baby tx 05.11.76 starring Jane Wymark Simon MacCorkingdale T P McKenna Norman Jones Shelagh Fraser Mark Dignam Lighting Pete Dyson Senior Cameraman Bill Brown Sound Director Bob Woodhouse Vision Mixer Carole Legg Vision Control Jim Reeves Senior Floor Manager Bill Goodall Production Assistant Dolores Shine VTR Editor Peter Charles Designer Richard Lake Director John Nelson Burton
1.4 What Big Eyes tx 12.11.76 Starring Patrick Magee Madge Ryan Michael Kitchen Gerald James Bill Dean Director Donald McWhinnie
1.5 The Dummy tx 19.11.76 Starring Bernard Horsfall Clive Swift Glyn Houston Thorley Walters Lillias Walker Patricia Haines Simon Oates Ian Thompson Ruby Head Michael Sheard George Malpas Director Don Leaver
1.6 Special Offer tx 26.11.76 Starring Pauline Quirke Geoffrey Bateman Wensley Pithey Ruth Goring Shirley Cheriton Herbert Norville Lynda Marchal Director Richard Bramall

DEAD OF NIGHT (BBC)

EPISODE GUIDE
Script Editor Louis Marks Producer Innes Lloyd

1.1 The Exorcism tx 05.11.72 (rpt 26.12.73) Starring Anna Cropper Sylvia Kay Clive Swift Edward Petherbridge Music Herbert Chappell Designer Judy Steele Writer/Director Don Taylor
Two couples experience a night of terror in a countryhouse.
UAAAAHH! Right up there with the best Thriller episodes and a landmark piece of television!
Note that this is done without flashbacks and without constructing a parallel universe. The budget is nil, sure, but the whole burden is put successfully on dialogue and acting. The scene in which Petherbridge spits is a triumph. There are impressive make up and sets at the end though.
If people don't like the ending that's fair. But does that make the rest of the play worthless? Not sure the critiscism which was brought forward hits the nail on the head: There seems to be an confusion of recipients in the real and the fictional world.

Nick Cooper (http://www.625.org.uk) provided the following details on Don Taylor (re-printed in Cornell/Day/Topping, Guinness Book of British Television, pp 415-6):

Born into a solid working-class background, Taylor studied at Oxford and joined the BBC in 1960. At the time, the old theatre-based practice of producers also directing and editing plays still held sway and it was in this multi-hatted capacity that – after episodes of Scotland Yard and an Arthur Swinson drama-documentary, The Road to Carey Street - Taylor produced N. J. Crisp's The Dark Man (1960) and David Turner's The Train Set (1961). Both appealed to Taylors left wing sensibilities, the first being a fable about racial prejudice set in a taxi firm, the latter about a factory owner desperate to buy a toy for his trainspotter son. Taylor than began to develop a group of writers he would direct almost exclusively over the next four years, Crisp, Turner, Hugh Whitemore and, especially, David Mercer, starting with Where the Difference Begins (1961). Sydney Newman's restructuring of the BBC drama department in 1963 was anathema to Taylor, and following artistic differences with Newman and James MacTaggart over two plays he directed under the new system (George Target's Workshop Limits and Whitemore's The Full Charter, both 1963, he was moved off new plays. As an olive branch, Newman offered Taylor the initial producership of Doctor Who, but the latter declined, directed Whitemore's Dan, Dan the Charity Man, and Mercer's And Did Those Feet? (both 1965) as a freelance and was then (he alleges in his book Days of Vision) effectively blacklisted from BBC drama. Moving back to the theatre, with occasional work for the BBC arts features department, he returned to drama in 1972 to direct his own play The Exorcism for Dead of Night. The Roses of Eyam (1973) and Dad (1976) followed, whilst Taylor also worked for ATV, directing Visitors and The Person Reponsible by his wife, Ellen Dryden, in 1974, and two plays in Nigel Kneale's Beasts series in 1976. Since then, with the exception of existing works such as Arthur Miller's The Crucible and Shakespeare's Two Gentlemen of Verona, all of Taylor's television work has been from his own scripts, including When the Actors Come, Flayed (both 1978), In Hiding (1980), and A Last Visitor for Mr Hugh Peter (1981). He has also directed his own translations of Sophocles in a 1986 BBC trilogy.
1.2 Return Flight tx 12.11.72 (rpt 24.02.74) Starring Peter Barkworth Dennis Lill Artro Morris Karin McCarthy Diana Fairfax Writer Robert Holmes Designer Paul Allen Senior Cameraman Frank Wilkins Director Rodney Bennett
Radio Times summary: When Captain Rolph reports a plane on a collision course to Ground Control they can find no trace of the mystery intruder. Did he imagine it, or was there an aircraft?
1.3 Bedtime tx 19.11.72 Starring Sarah Badel Neil Stacy Jim Smilie Jaqueline Pierce Terrence Hardiman Yutte Stensgard Writer Hugh Whitemore Designer John Wood Director Simon Langton
Radio Times summary: Victorian brass bedsteads are all the rage these days. Lorna and Geoffrey are delighted when they find one at a bargain price ... From the writer/director team that gave us Rebecca. Wotta loss.
1.4 Death Cancels All Debts tx 26.11.72 starring Sebastian Shaw Nora Swinburne David Baron Katya Wyeth Writer Peter Draper Designer Gerry Scott Senior Cameraman Rodney Taylor Director Brian Farnham
Radio Times summary: Powys Jubb, a world-famous writer, wakes up every morning at 4.20 when his bedroom clock stops ticking. He feels that at 4.20 one morning he will die.
Familiar-sounding stuff, reminiscent of a Basil Copper's short story "The Janissaries of Emilion" and almost definitely worth seeing. Alas ...
1.5 Smith tx 03.12.72 Starring John Castle (Michael) Stacey Tendeter (Anne) Gwen Taylor (Tessa) Peter Gilmore (Photographer) Writer Dorothy Allison Designer Walter Miller Senior Cameraman Harry Barclay Director Robert Knights
Radio Times summary: His name was Smith. It sounded so ordinary yet his crimes horrified and appalled the England of his day. When Jane Hornby, a journalist, looks into the story, she finds the past lives on in the present.
Sounds great, but there doesn't seem to be a Jane Hornby among the roles of the play. (Maybe Anne Hornby is more to the point.)
1.6 Two In The Morning tx 10.12.72 starring Peter Jeffrey Ralph Nossek John Nettleton Donald Douglas Judy Matheson Andrea Allan Writer Leo Lehman Designer Archie Clark Director Paul Annett
Radio Times summary: There are many legends from different parts of the world which tell of a man who meets his own double. The accounts vary wildly, but all agree on one thing ... the outcome can only be evil ...
1.7 A Woman Sobbing tx 17.12.72 Starring Anna Massey Ronald Hines Julian Holloway Tommy Boyle Writer John Bowen Film Cameraman Peter Sargent Designer David McKenzie Film Editor Mal Shaw-Jones Director Paul Ciappessoni
Radio Times summary: Jane and Frank Pullar have recently moved to a house in Sussex so that the children can grow up away from the dirt and rush of London. Soon jean starts hearing sounds at night from the attic. But there is no one there and only she can hear them.
Another top-notch entry – lots of it is timeless and still topical today. There is an intertextual reference to GASLIGHT.

Note: I am much indebted to Steve Rogers for researching cast and crew information. Please check out Steve's excellent Dead of Night entry in The Pictorial Compendium Vol I, No.1.
DIAL M FOR MURDER (BBC)

A hour-long successor to the Menace plays, from the same producer.

EPISODE GUIDE
Producer Jordan Lawrence

1.1 If You Knew Susie tx 20.05.74 Starring Elaine Stritch (Geneva) Sharon Mughan (Suzanna) Peter Blythe (The Man) John Quayle (Alex) Jay Neill (Michel) Neville Barber (Inspector Mace) Robert Lister (Police Constable) Writer John Peacock Director Gerald Blake
Radio Times summary: Susie has a past which she wishes to conceal. There is, however, a man who knows her secret and is determined to track her down.
1.2 Contract tx 27.05.74 Starring Ian Hendry (Stone) Catherine Schell (Helen) Robert Lang (Drew) Sheila Brennan (Eunice) Roland Curram (Jerome) David Nettheim (Leonidas) Robert Arnold (Sprague) Guido Adorni (Italian) Writer Roy Clarke Production Unit Manager Frank Pendlebury Production Assistant Derek Nelson Photography Peter Hall Sound Stan Nightingale Editor Clare Douglas Costumes Ken Morey Makeup Dawn Alcock Studio Lighting Robert Wright Studio Sound Colin Dixon Designer Sally Hulke Director Simon Langton
Radio Times summary: Two expert professional killers (sic) accept an impossible assignment. The end, of course, is murder.
1.3 The Vineyard tx 03.06.74 Writer Marc Brandel Director Gerald Blake
Radio Times summary: When Margot arrives at the Vineyard, it seems to be the end for Sophie. It could also, however, be the end for Margot.
1.04 The Voice tx 10.06.74 Starring Joanna Dunham (Jennifer Baker) Keith Barron (Evans) Philip Brack (Jim Baker) Harry Brooks Junior (Man) Sylva Langova (Counter Assistant) Annette Kerr (Waitress) Jenny Till (Paula) Imogen Claire (Girl At The Party) Stuart Saunders (Male Operator) Robert Lister (Policeman At The Station) Clifford Norgate (Male Supervisor) Kate Crutchley (Secretary) Ian Fairbairn (Mr Johnston) Stacy Davies (Detective Sergeant) Writer Ken Hughes Director Simon Langton
Radio Times summary: Jennifer is terrified by persistent telephone calls and she welcomes the help of the police.
1.05 Murder on Demand tx 17.06.74 Starring Dawn Addams (Sybil Willis) George Baker (Martin Willis) William Gaunt (Alex Ferguson) Jeffrey Segal (Palmer) Miranda Bell (Christine Finch) Marjorie Sommerville (Mrs Eldridge) Manning Wilson (Telephone Voice One) Gabriel Woolf (Telephone Voice Two) Writer Richard Harris Director Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
Radio Times summary: Martin faces financial ruin but his wife can easily rescue him ...
1.06 The Man in the Middle tx 24.06.74 Starring Ray McAnally (Sanford) Vladek Sheybal (Yerimenko) Richard Vernon (Chief) Jan Conrad (Gorek) Morgan Sheppard (Usher) Gabor Vernon (Escort) Constantin De Goguel (Driver) Frederick Schrecker (Victor) George Pravda (Gebhardt) Tommy Wright (Technician) Michael Wolf (Captain) Writer Roy Clarke Director Gilchrist Calder
Radio Times summary: A double agent is an enemy of both sides and a most unusual alliance conspires to eliminate him.
1.07 Dead Connection tx 01.07.74 Starring John Gregson (Detective Superintendent Price) Suzanne Neve (Anna Gordon) John Savident (Conrad) Tim Morand (Julian) Richard Cornish (Christopher) James Marcus (George) Dave Ellison (Ronnie) Alfred Maron (Telephone Engineer) Brian Vaughan (Inspector) John Quarmby (Police Doctor) Ian Stirling (Detective) Peter Hawkins (Sergeant Maclean) Terry Bale (Hotel Clerk) Bruce Boa (Vince Harrison) Michael Stainton (Taxi Driver) Melanie Jane (Telephonist) Writer Roger Longrigg Director Jonathan Alwyn
Radio Times summary: Detective Superintendent Price enlists the help of an attractive young widow. But two murderers are at the end of a telephone.
1.08 Whatever's Peter Playing At? tx 08.07.74 Starring Mary Peach (Linda Grady) Ronald Hines (Detective Chief Inspector Gill) Yvonne Bonnamy (Mary Nugent) Philip Bond (Simon Page) Ronald Fraser (Norman Nugent) Pip Holbind (Peter Grady) April Walker (June McCluskey) John Warner (Derek Hilton) Ray Marioni (Barman) Philip Jackson (Sergeant Randall) Nancy Nevinson (Anna) Frank Sieman (Guardi) Writer Julian Symons Director Moira Armstrong
Radio Times summary: At the last minute Peter cannot go to Elba with Linda, Mary and Norman. Apart from this being a very odd quartet, there is the puzzle of the package in the boat.
1.09 Both Hands Free tx 15.07.74 Starring Anna Cropper (Detective Chief Inspector Green) Fanny Rowe (Julia Ringway) Clive Morton (Sir James Avon) Richard Leech (Owen Ringway) Roy Holder (Detective Sergeant Harry Selby) Geoffrey Matthews (Paul McInnes) Anne Godley (Mary McInnes) Terence Wilton (Martin Reynolds) David Allister (Arthur Atha) Oscar Quitak (Paddock) Norman Scace (Chief Constable Blunt) Peter Dennis (Inspector Palmer) Michael Sheard (Police Doctor) Pat Quayle (Maid), Heather Bell (Christine Pompey) Writer John Gould Director Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
Radio Times summary:
1.10 Firing Point tx 29.07.74 Starring Charles Gray (Hugo Vardon) Patricia Donahue (Cath Hammill) Kathryn Leigh Scott (Melissa Vardon) Don Fellows (John Hammill) Jim Smilie (Larry Peters) Philip Friend (Range Officer) Richard Steele (Range Orderly) Victor Brooks (Butts Orderly) Raymond Mason (Marker) George Collis (First Schoolboy) Stuart Lock (Second Schoolboy) Anthony Dawes (English Captain) Paul Williamson (English Sub-Coach) Larry Cross (American Adjutant) Colin Thomas (Australian Orderly) Derek Tansley (English Coach) Lane Meddick (Range Superintendent) Joan Henley (Dowager) Tucker McGuire (American Woman) Alison McGuire (Australian Woman) Tony Ellis (Mario) Writer Roger Longrigg Director Mike Vardy
Radio Times summary: Hugo is a crack shot and anyone who looks like taking away Hugo's wife is an obvious target.
1.11 Should Anyone Answer tx 05.08.74 Starring George Cole (Pearce) Isabel Dean (Jean Browning) Donald Hewlett (Turner) Robert Hartley (Postman) Martin Terry (Policeman) Writer Peter J. Hammond Director Gerald Blake
Radio Times summary: When Jean Browning rents an expensive mews house, her chief consideration is the telephones. This seems a little odd - but there is a macabre reason.
1.12 Frame tx 12.08.74 Starring Patrick Macnee (Wag Frazer) Jennie Linden (Alison Frazer) Jeremy Clyde (Henry Frazer) John Collin (Sergeant Cassar) Peter Birrel (Crazio) Steven Zammit (Leli) Zara Jabel (Serafina) Jay Neill (Police Constable Grech) Writer James Andrew Hall Director Peter Moffatt
Radio Times summary: Alison and Wag Frazer finds life very pleasant on a Mediterranean island but Alison is worried about Henry. But who is Henry? And, more important, where is he?
1.13 Recording Angel tx 19.08.74 Starring Brenda Bruce (Beth) Valerie White (Rose) Norma West (Barbara) Robert Morris (Peter) Ann Morrish (Kate) David Daker (Tony) Simon Lack (James) Philip Voss (Inspector) Kathie O'Donoghue (Woman at the Flats), Leslie Southwick, Gareth Forbes, Tony Rayner (Policemen) Writer John Peacock Director Peter Graham Scott
Radio Times summary: Beth runs a private telephone answering service and takes a great interest in her clients. When one of them is in trouble, she feels bound to help. She isn't to know that she is involved with a ruthless murderer.

Note: I am much indebted to MATTHEW LEE for researching cast and crew information. Please check out Matthew's excellent Dial M for Murder entry on the Action TV website.

THE FRIGHTENERS (LWT)

EPISODE GUIDE

1.1 The School Man tx 14.05.72
1.2 Glad to be of Help tx 21.05.72
1.3 Have a Nice Time at the Zoo Darling tx 04.06.72
1.4 The Minder tx 07.07.72
1.5 Night of the Stag tx 14.07.72
1.6 Old Comrades tx 21.07.72
1.7 The Manipulators tx 28.07.72
1.8 The Disappearing Man tx 04.08.72
1.9 Firing Squad tx 11.08.72
1.10 Miss Mouse tx 25.08.72
1.11 The Treat tx 01.09.72
1.12 Bed and Breakfast tx 08.09.72
1.13 You Remind Me of Someone tx 23.09.72

A GHOST STORY FOR CHRISTMAS (BBC)

EPISODE GUIDE

1.1 The Stalls of Barchester tx 24.12.71 Writer/Director Lawrence Gordon Clark
2.1 A Warning to the Curious tx 24.12.72 Writer/Director Lawrence Gordon Clark
3.1 Lost Hearts tx 25.12.73 Writer Robin Chapman Director Lawrence Gordon Clark
4.1 The Treasure of Abbot Thomas tx 23.12.74 Writer John Bowen Director Lawrence Gordon Clark
5.1 The Ash Tree tx 23.12.75 Writer David Rudkin Director Lawrence Gordon Clark
6.1 The Signalman tx 22.12.76 Writer Andrew Davies Director Lawrence Gordon Clark
7.1 Stigma tx 28.12.77 Writer Clive Exton Director Lawrence Gordon Clark
8.1 The Ice House tx 25.12.78 Writer John Bowen Director Derek Lister

(See elsewhere: HH of Horror, HH of Mystery)

JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN (ITV)

EPISODE GUIDE

1.1 The New People tx 14.04.69 Starring Robert Reed Jennifer Hilary Patrick Allen Melissa Stribling Milo O'Shea Damien Thomas Robert Webber Writers Oscar Millard John Gould Story by Charles Beaumont Director Peter Sasdy
1.2 Somewhere in a Crowd tx 21.04.69 Starring David Hedison Ann Bell Jane Asher Tenniel Evans Writer Michael J Bird Director Alan Gibson
1.3 Matakitas Is Coming tx 28.04.69 Starring Vera Miles Dermot Walsh Leon Lissek Writer Robert Heverley Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg
1.4 Jane Brown's Body tx 05.05.69 Starring Stefanie Powers David Buck Alan MacNaughtan Lewis Fiander Writer Anthony Skene Story by Cornell Woolrich Director Alan Gibson
1.5 Do Me a Favour and Kill Me tx 12.05.69 Starring Joseph Cotten Judy Parfitt Douglas Wilmer David Warbeck Writer Stanley Miller Story by Frederick Rawlings Director Gerry O'Hara
1.6 Poor Butterfly tx 19.05.69 starring Chad Everett Edward Fox Bernard Lee Writer Jeremy Paul Story by William Abney Director Alan Gibson
1.7 The Madison Equation tx 02.06.69 starring Barbara Bel Geddes Allan Cuthbertson Paul Daneman Sue Lloyd Jack Hedley Richard Vernon Writer Michael J Bird Director Rex Firkin
1.8 Girl of My Dreams tx 09.06.69 starring Zena Walker Michael Callan David Langton Writers Robert Bloch Michael J Bird Story by Richard Matheson Director Peter Sasdy
1.9 The Last Visitor tx 16.06.69 starring Patty Duke Kay Walsh Geoffrey Bayldon Writer Alfred Shaugnessy Director Don Chaffey
1.10 Eve tx 23.06.69 starring Carol Lynley Dennis Waterman Michael Gough Peter Howell Writers Paul Wheeler Michael Ashe Story by John Collier Director Robert Stevens
1.11 The Indian Spirit Guide tx 30.06.69 starring Julie Harris Tom Adams Tracy Reed Writer Robert Bloch Director Roy Ward Baker
1.12 The Killing Bottle tx 09.07.69 starring Roddy McDowall Ingrid Brett Barry Evans William Marlowe Writer Julian Bond Story by L P Hartley Director John Gibson
1.13 Stranger in the Family tx 16.07.69 starring Anthony Corlan Janice Rule Maurice Kaufmann Gerald Sim Glynn Edwards Writer David Campton Director Peter Duffell
1.14 The Beckoning Fair One tx 23.07.69 starring Robert Lansing Gabrielle Drake John Fraser Writers William Woods John Gould Story by Oliver Onions Director Don Chaffey
1.15 One On an Island tx 30.07.69 starring Brandon de Wilde David Bauer Suzanna Leigh John Ronane Writer Oscar Millard Story by Donald E Westlake Director Noel Howard
1.16 Paper Dolls tx 03.01.70 starring Michael Tolan Nanette Newman John Welsh Edward Hardwicke Writer Oscar Millard Story by L P Davies Director James Hill
1.17 Miss Belle tx 08.05.70 starring George Maharis Barbara Jefford Writer Sarett Rudley Story by Charles Beaumont Director Robert Stevens

MENACE (BBC)

EPISODE GUIDE
Theme Music Don Harper Producer Jordan Lawrence

1.01 The Straight and Narrow tx 29.09.70 Starring Freddie Jones (Elystan Griffiths) Jane Hylton (Mona) Rachel Thomas (Mrs. Griffiths) David Garfield (Mr. Williams) Rosalind Lloyd (Cheryl) Seymour Green (Londoner) Margaret John (Sylvie) Talfryn Thomas (Waiter) Hubert Rees (Joe) John Bryans (Area Manager) Christopher Timothy (David) Michael Forrest (Stockbreeder) Artro Morris (Sergeant) Writer Alun Richards Director Joan Kemp-Welch
Radio Times summary: Mona accepts an invitation from farmer Elystan Griffiths to go back to his remote farm, where his mother seems to be sizing her up as a prospective daughter-in-law, but why does she hang on to a cleaver and who did those clothes belong to?
1.02 Good Morning, Yesterday! tx 06.10.70 Starring Roddy McMillan (Dan Britt) Madeline Christie (Aunt Margaret) Maggie London (Model) Tony Roper (Photographer) Julian Holloway (Peter Lovell) Harry Jones (Librarian) Phil McCall (Shopkeeper) Effie Morrison (Woman) Harry Webster (Father McNaffey) Winefride Madigan (Housekeeper) Joe Quigley (Window Cleaner) Anne Kristen (Bernadette Doyle) Bill McCabe (Britt's Neighbour) David Gallacher (Paper Boy) Phyllida Law (Mrs. Tetley) Norman Rough (Large Man) James Grant (Ben Hetherington) Beth Robens (Sweet Sam) W D Joss (Roadman) Alex Macavoy (Barman) Charles Carson (Presume) Jan Waters (Lady Dorriton) John Franklyn-Robbins (Lord Dorriton) Writer Edward Boyd Director James MacTaggart
Gist of Radio Times summaries: Fifteen years after serving on a jury which condemned John Smith for murder, Peter Lovell's aunt Margaret has a troubled conscience – Smith might have been innocent. Forced to investigate the possibility of Smith's innocence, Peter hires private detective Dan Britt. They tour Glasgow looking for evidence which is hard to come by, but someone is determined to stop any stirring of the dust, and Peter’s task suddenly becomes dangerous.
1.03 Crack-Up tx 13.10.70 Starring Lee Montague (The Man) Caroline Mortimer (Candy) Christopher Robbie (Bowen) Claire Nielson (Angela) Peter Baldwin (Bartender) Barry Keegan (O'Rourke) Shirley Cooklin (Jean Nagy), Joanne Tope (Clerk) Eric McCaine (Matthews) Robert Macleod (Gray) Writer Moris Farhi Director Philip Dudley
Radio Times summary: The man that Candy has brought home from a club is suffering from amnesia and is haunted by a nightmare that ends with a woman's scream. They discover that he is a Hungarian refugee, but as he uncovers his past he becomes more and more agitated about the bizarre events that are taking place. The curious object they find only adds to the mystery.
1.04 Inheritance tx 20.10.70 Starring Gwen Watford (Hilly) Beatrix Lehmann (Kate) Gerald Flood (Gerald) James Bree (Arnold Watson) Arthur White (Cullinane) Lockwood White (Doctor Cobb) Writer Jacques Gillies Director Peter Moffatt
Radio Times summary: Hilly and Gerald would, of course, be sad if their mother died. Their sorrow, however, would be lightened by the knowledge that they are joint heirs to the Parsloe estate.
1.05 The Millicent Sisters, Edward DeBruno And Ruth – Where are They Now? tx 27.10.70
Starring Sheila Hancock (Toni Patra) Peter Sallis (Sonny Waters) Megs Jenkins (Mrs. Pepper) Mark Kingston (Mark Patra) Raymond Barry, James Garrett (Domino Players) Michael Mulcaster, Bay White (Married Couple) Arthur Hewlett (Lomas Winstanley) Writer Roy Clarke Director Peter Moffatt
Gist of Radio Times summaries: "Mrs Pepper's the place for theatricals at rest" - ideal lodgings for Mark and Toni Patra, but there's something nasty in the house, and they stay longer than they had intended ...
... another someone at the top of the stairs? We will never know.
1.6 Man With A Mission tx 03.11.70 Starring Robert Lang (Michael Grant) Robert Urquhart (Frank Smith) Alethea Charlton (Alice Campbell) Clifton Jones (Lusaka) James Cossins (Controller) Michael Bates (Chief Supt. Shepherd) Heather Canning (Joan Grant) John Wentworth (Minister of State) Louis Mahoney (Lusaka's Secretary) John Humphry (Armstrong) Philip Anthony (Sgt. Clifford) James Drake (Blake) Valerie Bell (Woman Detective) John Scholes (Cipher Clerk) Patrick Connor (Special Branch Man) Alan Travell (Guard) John Caesar (Van Driver) Max Latimer (Special Branch Det.) Fred McNaughton (Special Branch Sgt.) Brian Vaughan (Special Branch Con.) Writer Patrick Alexander Film Photography Ray Henman Film Editor Alastair MacKay Studio Lighting John Summers Studio Sound Alan Edmonds Costumes Verena Coleman Makeup Angela Seyfang Script Editor Anthea Browne-Wilkinson Designer Chris Pemsel Director Raymond Menmuir
Secret Agent Michael Grant was briefed to take out dictator Lusaka - but the political climate has changed ...
Too bad that as far as the ending is concerned the writing is on the wall.
1.07 Killing Time tx 10.11.70 Starring George Cole (Douglas Willet) Annette Crosbie (Jean Crowe) Margery Withers (Nora Brazier) Paul Dawkins (Stan Brazier) Patrick Durkin (Ted Brazier) Barrie Cookson (Inspector Fielding) David Wood (Mr. Martin) Frederick Treves (1st Man in Pub) Gabriel Woolf (2nd Man in Pub) Myles Hoyle (Reporter) Veronica Ridge (Ted's Girlfriend) Derek Chafer (CID Man) Writer Hugh Whitemore Film Photography Ken Westbury Sound Dennis Panchen Film Editor Alastair MacKay Costumes June Wilson Makeup Maureen Winslade Script Editor Anthea Browne-Wilkinson Studio Lighting Dennis Channon Studio Sound Colin Dixon Designer Derek Dodd Director Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
A man who constantly lives on the edge suddenly goes berserk.
1.08 Trespasser tx 17.11.70 Starring Moira Redmond (Laurie) Gordon Jackson (Lander) Thorley Walters (Thatcher) Geraldine Newman (Pauline) Robin Askwith (Robbie Clay) Gerald Rowland (John Clay) Roberta Tovey (Annie Clay) Barbara Lott (Mrs Clay) Nick Brimble (Locksmith) David Quilter (Doctor) Writer Noel Robinson Director Gilchrist Calder
Radio Times summary:
1.09 Something Cries Out tx 24.11.70 Starring Hannah Gordon (Francesca) John Carson (Harry Selter) John Bailey (Dodimead) Ray Lonnen (Clint) Geoffrey Whitehead (Detective Sergeant Crown) Helen Lindsay (Marie-Jeanne) David Swift (Inspector Dundy) Guy Deghy (Schiff) Donald Hewlett (Robert Amro) Patricia Lawrence (Anna) Michael Guest (Police Constable Driver) Aimee Delamain (Aunt Pippa) Writer John Wiles Director Gareth Davies
Radio Times summary: Somebody is arranging evidence to prove that Harry Selter is a murderer. It could be any one of six people - or is there a seventh?
1.10 Nine Bean Rows tx 01.12.70 Starring Constance Cummings (Rose) Charles Gray (Micky) Peter Blythe (Herky) Fanny Rowe (Caroline) Michael Gothard (Pip) Norma West (Freya) Etain O'Dell (Rosannagh) Writer Hugo Charteris Director David Sullivan Proudfoot
Radio Times summary: Herky, ten years a mercenary in Africa, arrives at his mother's home in Ulster. She has remarried and Perky suspects that her new husband, Mick, has misused the money held in trust for his younger brother Pip and himself. He delivers an ultimatum: either he gets his money at once or he kills Mick. Can Mick and Pip deal with Herky before he carries out his threat?
1.11 Who's Been Sleeping in My Bed? tx 08.12.70 Starring Patrick Mower (The Man) Georgina Hale (The Girl) Sheila Fearn (The Woman) Tony Caunter (Delivery Man) Eve Pearce (Doreen Robins) Donald Morley (Mr. Gates) Nicholas McArdle (Police Constable Cox) Writer Martin Worth Director Peter Cregeen
Radio Times summary: A young couple lose their way and arrive at an unlocked, deserted farm house. Exploring the house, they find out various facts about the owners, named Cleaver. The girl insists on staying to discover more. Gradually events convince them that the house is not as empty as it seems: one of the Cleavers must still be on the farm. Then they find the grave ...
A predecessor to The Exorcism (Dead of Night) and Possession (Thriller). Probably priceless, but what’s the use?
1.12 The Elimination tx 15.12.70 Starring Derek Godfrey (X) Colin Gordon (Colonel) Ronald Gough (Davis) Wilfrid Carter (Civil Servant) Billy Murray (Luke) Sally James (Jane) Anthony Sagar (Raincoat I) Frederick Peisley (Clerk Of The Council) Alan MacNaughton (Benson) Paul Thompson (Peter) Marion Mathie (Mrs. Brown) Johnny Briggs (Clerk A) Tara Soppet (Young Girl) Barry Ashton (Clerk B) Harold Bennett (Elderly Man) Nicholas Bennett (Clerk C) Victor Brooks (Commissionaire One) Sally Adams (Senior Secretary) Sheila Kennedy (Miss Andrews) John Shorter (Raincoat II) Malcolm Rogers (Man Seven) Writer John Gould Director Christopher Hodson
Radio Times summary: When the strangers arrive without warning, the villagers are merely surprised - until they learn why they have come. The Colonel, one of the villagers photographed at the scene of a crime, wonders why the strangers are questioning everybody.
Sounds like an unfilmed Out of the Unknown-story.
1.13 The Innocent tx 22.12.70 Starring John Turner (The Artist) Rosemary Nichols (Susan) Hamilton Dyce (Prison Governor) John Glyn-Jones (Hepple) Robert Sansom (Regan) Garfield Morgan (Barnard) Richard Hurndall (Whiteacre) Christopher Burgess (George) Geoffrey Rose (Tallow) Ian McCulloch (Croxley) Jane Walker (Mrs. Croxley) Robert McBain (Wittering) Michael Godfrey (Police Superintendent Grant) Writer Arden Winch Director Gilchrist Calder Just released from prison, an artist inherits a dilapidated cottage. Tackling the task of renovation with Susan, he finds his life threatened. Why?

2.01 Judas Goat tx 22.03.73 Starring William Gaunt (Lord) Geoffrey Palmer (Major Ryder) Denise Buckley (Alison Ryder) Jackie Farrell (Van Driver) James Copeland (Craig) Michael Gambon (Ellis) Leslie Schofield (Henley) Godfrey James (Bowen) Malcolm Terris (Street) Garfield Morgan (Jarrett) Victor Winding (Newman) Writer Jeremy Burnham Director Gareth Davies
Gist of Radio Times summaries: Lord, sent to a lonely house in Scotland, finds he is not the only arrival. Together with five other urban executives he is set a number of endurance tests to find the man best suited for a seat on the board.
2.02 Pick Up tx 29.03.73 Starring Bryan Marshall (Mangham) June Barry (Sheffield) Dilys Laye (Carla) Leon Sinden (Batty) Brian McDermott (Drewer) Joyce Hemson (Cashier) Lockwood West (Old Man) Jimmy Gardner (Manservant) Writer Roy Clarke Director Christopher Hodson
Radio Times summary: When Mangham is offered a new job by his remote but powerful boss he has little idea of the danger involved. Mangham has searched outside the cottage for the intruder and can find nobody. But there was somebody - and there could be others. Mangham and those with him are trapped.
2.03 The Haunting tx 05.04.73 Starring Anthony Bate (Reverend Charles Carter) Marilyn Taylerson (Emma Carter) Kristine Howarth (Mrs. Braddock) Deena Martyn (Ethel) Tenniel Evans (Doctor Henderson) Charles Morgan (Archdeacon Ailsworth) Claire Faulconbridge (Sister Marie Therese) Kathleen Byron (Madame Ordine) Frank Lester (Workman) Michael Bangerter (Doctor Weisman) Writer Ken Hughes Director Gerald Blake
Radio Times summary:
2.04 The Sitting Tenant tx 12.04.73 Starring Hylda Barry (May Gull) Eric Lander (Harry Granger) Ann Morrish (Jenny Granger) Michael Raven (Young Boy) Clare Kelly (Betty) Guy Standeven (George Dutton) Pamela Saire (Cashier) Writer John Peacock Director Christopher Hodson
Radio Times summary: Old May lives all alone and has never heard of Harry who is on the run from the police. Harry manages to reach his flat - but his wife has a shock for him.
2.05 Valentine tx 19.04.73 Starring Norman Rodway (Tyndall) Mary Peach (Diana) Michael Hawkins (Tom) Sheila Ballantine (Polly) Brian Badcoe (Herew) Joanna Van Gyseghem (Rita) David Wood (Lennie) Shari Phillips (Frances) John Ringham (Chris) Nicholas Hoye (Greg) Patricia Hodge (Charmian) John Wentworth (Gourtay) James Appleby, Maurice Quick, Kenneth Thornett (Members Of The Bridge Club) Frank Sieman (Porter) Reginald Marsh (Orman) Steve Peters (Waiter) Jacqueline Blackmore (Maid) Peter Jesson (Marlow) Writer Leo Lehman Director Moira Armstrong
Radio Times summary: Tyndall, successful and assured, suddenly seems to be the target for an enemy. Someone is trying to discredit him in every possible way. It could even be a conspiracy.
2.06 Tom tx 26.04.73 Starring John Thaw (Don) Rowena Cooper (Liz) Aubrey Woods (Frank) Beth Ellis (Maggie) Pascal King (Chrissy) Claire Davenport (Barmaid) George Moon (Man At The Bar) Karin MacCarthy (WPC Lambert) Paul Humpoletz (Detective Sergeant Allen) John Moore (Tom) Kenneth Waller (Manager) Neil Hallett (Detective Inspector Wellesley) Polly Perkins, Myra (Pub Singers) Writer Ray Jenkins Director Raymond Menmuir
Radio Times summary: When their only daughter is threatened, both emotionally and physically, Liz and Don, by nature tolerant people, start a ruthless hunt for the person responsible.
2.07 Deliver Us From Evil tx 03.05.73 Starring John Gielgud (Frederick William Densham) Lewis Fiander (John Beste) Writer Hugh Whitemore Director David Sullivan Proudfoot
Radio Times summary: In answer to an advertisement, John Beste goes to Cornwall. The locked gate is disturbing, the dogs are alarming, but the Rectory and his prospective employer are quite outside his experience.
2.08 Comfortable Words tx 10.05.73 vs 17th May 1973 Starring Sheila Hancock (Rose) Michele Dotrice (Sharon) Renny Lister (Molly) Helena McCarthy (Mrs. Upwood) Sheila Fearn (Audrey) Brigid Erin Bates (Mary) Marguerite Young (Mrs. Clifton) Barrie Gosney (Jack) David Rintoul (Bill) Joan Ogden (Mrs. Ellis) Anne Irving (Client) Tom Criddle (Peter Sinclair) Natalie Kent (Mrs. Gumbold) Writer Fay Weldon Director Brian Lighthill
Radio Times summary: When Sharon first came to the house she felt instinctively that there was an unseen malignant presence waiting for her and her baby. And she was right.
2.09 The Solarium tx 17.05.73 vs 24th May 1973 Starring Georgia Brown (Ellen Foster) Sinead Cusack (Sylvia Terry) Terence Alexander (Gerald Foster) Mark Rogers (Harry Foster) Michael Burrell (Stephens) Margo Andrew (Bella) Peter Pratt (Singer) Writer Ken Taylor Director Simon Langton
Radio Times summary: Young Harry lives in a house of secrets. When he stumbles on part of the truth, the inevitable end is tragedy.
2.10 Boys and Girls Come Out to Play tx 24.05.73 vs. 31st May 1973 Starring Peter Jeffrey (Detective Inspector Sugden) Anne Kristen (Jennie) Sarah Sutton (Belinda) Samantha Reeves (Wendy) Robert Morris (Detective Constable Bolter) Maxine Gordon (Margie) Jay Neill (Police Constable) Lisa Daniely (Mrs. Brewer) Aubrey Danvers-Walker (Old Man) Audrey Muir (Schoolmistress) Writer James MacTaggart Director Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
Radio Times summary: Young Belinda's imagination is caught by the nursery rhyme. What seems to have escaped her is that it says "Come with a good will or not at all".

Note: I am much indebted to Matthew Lee for researching cast and crew information. Please check out Matthew's excellent Menace entry on the Action TV website.

ORSON WELLES‘ GREAT MYSTERIES

EPISODE GUIDE
(All transmission dates are those of Anglia)

1.01 Captain Rogers tx 06.07.74 Starring Alan Bennion (Parson) Maggie Fitzgerald (Phoebe) Donald Gee (George) Willoughby Goddard (Sir Thomas) Daphne Heard (Deborah Crabbe) Janet Key (Joan Mullet) Joseph O'Conor (Mullet) Donald Pleasence (Cawser) Colin Skeaping (Williams) Kevin Stoney (Surgeon Day)
1.02 The Leather Funnel tx 06.07.74 Writer David Ambrose (story by Arthur Conan Doyle) Director Alan Gibson
1.03 A Terribly Strange Bed tx 06.07.74 Writer Anthony Fowles (Wilkie Collins)
1.04 La Grande Breteche tx 06.07.74 Peter Cushing (Count Gerard De Merret) Susannah York
1.05 The Dinner Party tx 06.07.74 Joan Collins (Jane Blake) Anton Rodgers (Edmund Blake) Anthony Sharp (J.J. McGill)
1.06 Money to Burn tx 06.07.74 Starring Paul Antrim (Paul) Victor Buono (Sam Adelbert) Isabel Dean (Christine Kaye) Olga Georges-Picot (Louise Frosne) Bruce Lidington (Francesco) Glyn Owen (Det. Inspector Cumberland) Writer Michael Gilbert (Margery Allingham)
1.07 In the Confessional tx 06.07.74 Writer David Ambrose (Alice Scanlon Reach) Director Peter Sasdy
1.08 Unseen Alibi tx 06.07.74 Starring Dean Stockwell (Jerry)
1.09 Battle of Wits tx 06.07.74 Ian Bannen (Gregory Dean)
1.10 A Point of Law tx 06.07.74 Writer Donald Wilson (W. Somerset Maugham) Director Peter Sykes
1.11 The Monkey’s Paw tx 06.07.74
1.12 The Ingenious Reporter tx 06.07.74 Anthony Ainley (Lafarge) Geoffrey Bayldon (Magistrate) David Birney (Harry Langley) Eamonn Boyce (First Man) John Cater (Martell) Peter Madden (Judge) James Maxwell (Duperrey) James Mellor (Bucheron) Mia Nardi (Henriette) Ronald Radd (Leduc) Pam St. Clement (First Woman) Director Peter Sasdy
1.13 Death Of An Old-Fashioned Girl tx 06.07.74 Francesca Annis (Nicole Zachary) Stephan Chase (Paul Zachary) Jon Laurimore (Detective Inspector Roberts) John Le Mesurier (Sidney Goldsmith) Carol Lynley (Elizabeth Ann Zachary) Jack Shepherd (David Belcito) Anne Stallybrass (Janet Belcito) Director Alan Gibson
1.14 For Sale - Silence tx 06.07.74 Writer David Ambrose (Don Knowlton) Director Peter Sykes
1.15 The Inspiration of Mr. Budd tx 06.07.74 Writer Kenneth Jupp (Dorothy L Sayers)
1.16 An Affair of Honour tx 06.07.74
1.17 Farewell to the Faulkners tx 06.07.74 Writer Alun Richards (Miriam Allen de Ford)
1.18 The Power of Fear tx 06.07.74 Director Peter Sasdy
1.19 Where There Is a Will tx 06.07.74 Robert Cartland (Detective Superintendent Marker) Hannah Gordon (Phyllida Marjoram) Richard Johnson (Bruce Sexton) Sheila Raynor (Theresa Prentice) Norman Shelley (Colonel Delamere) Meadows White (Bowler) Writer Michael Gilbert (tbv)
1.20 A Time To Remember tx 06.07.74 Writer Kenneth Jupp (James Reach) Director Peter Sykes
1.21 Ice Storm tx 06.07.74
1.22 Come Into My Parlour tx 06.07.74 Writer Elaine Morgan (Gloria Amoury) Director Peter Sasdy
1.23 Compliments of the Season tx 06.07.74 Writer Donald Wilson (O. Henry)
1.24 Under Suspicion tx 06.07.74 Writer Anthony Fowles (Norman Edwards) Director Peter Sasdy
1.25 Trial for Murder tx 06.07.74 Writer David Lawrie (C. A. Collins & Charles Dickens) Director Peter Sykes
1.26 The Furnished Room tx 06.07.74 Writer David Ambrose (O. Henry)
OUT OF THE UNKNOWN/Colour (BBC)
Producer Alan Bromly

EPISODE GUIDE

3.1 Immortality Inc. tx 07.01.69 starring Charles Tingwell Robert MacLeod Writer Jack Pulman Story by Robert Sheckley Designer Philip Seddon Director Philip Dudley
3.2 Liar! 14.01.69 starring Ian Ogilvy Gerald Sim Writer David Campton Story by Isaac Asimov Designer Martin Johnson Director Gerald Blake
3.3 The Last Lonely Man 21.01.69 starring George Cole June Barry Pete Halliday Lillias Walker Stanley Meadows Writer Jeremy Paul Designer Richard Wilmont Director Douglas Camfield
3.4 Beach Head 28.01.69 starring Ed Bishop Helen Downing Robert Lee Writer Robert Muller Story by Clifford Simak Designer Tony Abbott Director James Cellan Jones
3.5 Something in the Cellar 04.02.69 starring Milo O'Shea June Ellis Murray Melvin Writer Donald Bull Designer John Wood Director Roger Jenkins
3.6 Random Quest 11.02.69 starring Keith Barron George Lee Tracy Reed Writer Owen Holder Story by John Wyndham Designer Roy Oxley Director Christopher Barry
3.7 The Naked Sun 18.02.69 starring Paul Maxwell Sheila Burrell David Collings Neil Hallett Ronald Leigh Hunt Frederick Jaeger Writer Robert Muller Story by Isaac Asimov Designer James Weatherup Director Rudolph Cartier
3.8 The Little Black Bag 25.02.69 starring Robert Dean James Chase Dennis Bowen Emrys Jones John Woodnutt Writer Julian Bond Story by C M Kornbluth Designer Barry Learoyd Director Eric Hills
3.9 1 + 1 = 1.5 04.03.69 starring Julia Lockwood Garfield Morgan Bernard Horsfall Bernard Holley Lynda Marchal Geoffrey Palmer Juan Moreno Writer Brian Hayles Designer Barry Learoyd Director Michael Ferguson
3.10 The Fosters 11.03.69 starring Alan Ross Anton Darby Bernard Hepton Kevin Stoney Writer Michael Ashe Designer Marilyn Taylor Director Philip Dudley
3.11 Target Generation 18.03.69 starring David Buck Ronald Lacey Suzan Farmer Writer Clive Exton Story by Clifford Simak Designer Tony Abbott Director Roger Jenkins
3.12 The Yellow Pill 25.03.69 starring Francis Matthews Angela Browne Glynn Edwards Writer Leon Griffiths Story by Rog Phillips Designer Roy Oxley Director Michael Ferguson
3.13 Get Off My Cloud 01.04.69 starring Peter Jeffrey Peter Barkworth Writer David Climie story by Peter Phillips Designer Raymond Cusick Director Peter Cregeen

All episodes were junked except The Last Lonely Man. A clip from Liar exists.

4.1 Taste of Evil tx 21.04.71 starring Maurice Roeves Peter Copley Jack Lambert Gerry Davis Writer John Wiles Designer Paul Allen Director Michael Ferguson
4.2 To Lay A Ghost tx 28.04.71 starring Iain Gregory Lesley Anne Down Peter Barkworth Walter Randall Writer Michael J Bird Designer Fanny Taylor Director Ken Hannam
4.3 This Body Is Mine tx 05.05.71 starring Jack Hedley John Carson Alethea Charlton Sonia Graham Writer John Tully Designer Sally Hulke Director Eric Hills
4.4 Deathday tx 12.05.71 starring Robert Lang Lynn Farleigh John Ronane Leslie Schofield Writer Brian Hayles Novel by Angus Hall Designer John Stout Director Raymond Menmuir
4.5 The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow tx 19.05.71 starring William Lucas Malcolm Tierney Pamela Salem Writer Eddie Boyd Designer David Spode Director Gerald Blake
4.6 Welcome Home tx 26.05.71 starring Anthony Ainley Bernard Brown Jennifer Hilary Gerald Sim Derek Benfield Writer Moris Farhi Designer Sally Hulke Director Eric Hills
4.7 The Last Witness tx 02.06.71 starring Anthony Bate Sheila Brennan Michael McStay Denise Buckley Writer Martin Worth Designer Chris Pemsel Director Michael Ferguson
Goes to show how valuable Hammer House of Mystery is. It gives us replacements for two junked episodes!
4.8 The Man in My Head tx 09.06.71 starring NN Writer John Wiles Designer Jeremy Davies Director Peter Cregeen
Shades of An Echo of Theresa here.
4.9 The Chopper tx 16.06.71 starring Patrick Troughton George Sweeney Writer Nigel Kneale Designer Tim Harvey Director Peter Cregeen
4.10 The Uninvited tx 23.06.71 starring John Nettleton June Ellis Brian Wilde Shirley Cain Geoffrey Palmer Writer Michael J Bird Designer John Burrowes Director Eric Hills
(see The Last Witness)
4.11 The Shattered Eye tx 30.06.71 starring Freddie Jones Richard Warwick Tessa Wyatt Writer David T Chantler Designer Chris Thompson Director Peter Hammond

All episodes were junked except To Lay a Ghost, This Body Is Mine, Deathday, Welcome Home, The Man in My Head.

SUNDAY/SATURDAY NIGHT THRILLER (LWT)

EPISODE GUIDE
Music Ron Grainer Producer Peter Cregeen

1.1 Dark Secret 1 tx 18.01.81
1.2 Dark Secret 2 tx 25.01.81
1.3 I Thought They Died Years Ago? tx 01.02.81
1.4 Blunt Instrument 1 tx 08.02.81
1.5 Blunt Instrument 2 tx 15.02.81
1.6 The Business of Murder 1 tx 22.02.81
1.7 The Business of Murder 2 tx 01.03.81

2.01 A Walk in the Dark tx 13.11.82 Starring Denis Quilley John Wheatley Valerie Holliman Writer Brian Finch Director Christopher Hodson
2.02 Strangled tx 20.11.82
2.03 A Gift of Tongues tx 27.11.82 Starring Anton Rodgers Annette Crosbie Larry Lamb John Forgeham Writer Anthony Skene Director Peter Cregeen
2.04 Where Is Betty Buchus? tx 04.12.82 Starring John Thaw Anna Cropper Simon Cadell Writer Roger Marshall Director Peter Cregeen
2.05 Broken Glass tx 11.12.82 Starring Bernard Hepton James Grout Amanda Kirby Writer James Andrew Hall Director Christopher Hodson
2.06 Grass tx 18.12.82 Starring Billy Murray Judy Geeson Jim Norton Anthony Carrick Ziggy Byfield Writer Edwin Pearce Director Paul Annett

SCORPION TALES (ATV)

EPISODE GUIDE

1.1 Easterman tx 29.04.78 Writer Ian Kennedy Martin Starring Trevor Howard Don Henderson
1.2 Killing tx 06.05.78 Starring Angela Down
1.3 The Great Albert tx 13.05.78
1.4 The Ghost in the Pale Blue Dress tx 20.05.78
1.5 Crimes of Persuasion tx 27.05.78
1.6 Truth or Consequence tx 12.08.78

SHADES OF DARKNESS (Granada)

EPISODE GUIDE

1.01 The Lady's Maid's Bell tx 27.05.83 Starring Joanna David Norma West Ian Collier Writer Ken Taylor b Edith Wharton Director John Glenister
1.02 The Intercessor tx 03.06.83 b May Sinclair
1.03 Feet Foremost tx 10.06.83 Starring Jeremy Kemp Joanna Van Gyseghem Peter Machin Heather Chasen Carol Royle Writer Alan Plater b L. P. Hartley Director Gordon Flemyng
1.04 Afterward tx 17.06.83
1.05 The Maze tx 24.06.83 Starring Francesca Annis James Bolam Sky McCaskill Writer Ken Taylor b C.H.B. Kitchin Director Peter Hammond
1.06 Seaton's Aunt tx 01.07.83
1.07 Bewitched tx 08.07.83 Starring Eileen Atkins Alfred Burke Ray Smith Gareth Thomas Alfred Lynch Writer Alan Plater b Edith Wharton Director John Gorrie
1.08 The Demon Lover tx 21.06.86
1.09 Agatha Christie's The Last Seance tx 27.09.86

SHADOWS OF FEAR (Thames)

EPISODE GUIDE
Producer John Kershaw

1.01 Did You Lock Up? tx 17.06.70 Writer Roger Marshall
1.02 Sugar and Spice tx 12.01.71 Writer John Kershaw
1.03 At Occupier's Risk tx 19.01.71
1.04 The Death Watcher tx 26.01.71 Writer Jacques Gillies
1.05 Repent at Leisure tx 02.02.71 Writer Roger Marshall
1.06 Return of Favours tx 09.02.71 Writer Jeremy Paul
1.07 The Lesser of Two tx 16.02.71 Writer Hugh d'Allenger
1.08 White Walls and Olive Green Carpets tx 23.02.71 Writer Hugh Leonard
1.09 Sour Grapes tx 02.03.71 Writer Roger Marshall
1.10 Come Into My Parlour tx 09.03.71 Writer Roger Marshall
1.11 The Party's Over tx 31.03.73

SQUARE MILE OF MURDER (BBC)

EPISODE GUIDE

1.1 The Sandyford Place Mystery tx 12.06.80
1.2 The Human Crocodile tx 19.06.80
1.3 A Kiss, A Fond Embrace 1 tx 26.06.80
1.4 A Kiss, A Fond Embrace 2 tx 03.07.80
1.5 The Trials of Oscar Slater 1 tx 10.07.80
1.6 The Trials of Oscar Slater 2 tx 17.07.80

SUPERNATURAL (BBC)

EPISODE GUIDE
Series created by Robert Muller Producer Pieter Rogers

1.01 Ghost of Venice tx 11.06.77 Writer Robert Muller Starring Robert Hardy () Sinead Cusack () Director Claude Whatham
1.02 Countess Ilona tx 18.06.77 Writer Robert Muller Starring Billie Whitelaw Ian Hendry John Fraser Edward Hardwicke Director Simon Langton
1.03 The Werewolf Reunion tx 25.06.77 Writer Robert Muller
1.04 Mr Nightingale tx 02.07.77 Writer Robert Muller Starring Jeremy Brett Lesley-Anne Down Director Alan Cooke
1.05 Lady Sybil tx 09.07.77 Writer Robert Muller Starring Denholm Elliott John Osbourne Kathleen Nesbitt Director Simon Langton
1.6 Viktoria tx 16.07.77 Starring Judy Cornwell (Margaret) Lewis Fiander (Paul) Catherine Schell (Theresa) Esmond Knight (Sir Charles) Mia Nadasi (Elizabeth /Viktoria) Norman Eshley (Edward) Susan Richards (Kati) Genevieve West (Young Viktoria) Gilda Cohen (Rosa) Writer Sue Lake Production Assistant Ann Faggetter Production Unit Manager Sheelagh Rees Incidental Music Paul Lewis Lighting Howard King Sound Mike Jones Costumes Robin Fraser-Paye Makeup Toni Chapman Designer Allan Anson Director Peter Sasdy
1.07 Night of the Marionettes tx 30.07.77 Writer Robert Muller Starring Gordon Jackson Kathleen Byron Vladek Sheybal Director Alan Cooke
1.08 Dorabella tx 06.08.77 Writer Robert Muller Starring Jeremy Clyde John Justin Ania Marson Director Simon Langton

Note: I am much indebted to Andrew Screen for researching cast and crew information. Please check out Andrew's excellent Supernatural entry on the Action TV website.

SUSPICION (ATV)

EPISODE GUIDE

1.1 Plain Jane tx 23.11.71
1.2 Off Season tx 30.11.71
1.3 I Can See Your Lips Move tx 07.12.71
1.4 I'll Go Along With That tx 14.12.71
1.5 No Case to Answer tx 21.12.71
1.6 Old Man's Hat tx 04.01.72
1.7 Reasonable Doubt tx 11.01.72
1.8 Nobby's Turn tx 18.01.72
1.9 The Resting Place tx 25.01.72

TALES OF UNEASE (LWT) (25m)

EPISODE GUIDE
Producer Paul Knight

1.01 Superstitious Ignorance tx 10.04.71
1.02 Ride, Ride tx 17.04.71 Writer Michael Hastings Starring Susan George
1.03 The Black Goddess tx 24.04.71
1.04 Bad Bad Jo Jo tx 01.05.71
1.05 It's Too Late Now tx 08.05.71 Writer Andrea Newman Starring Rachel Kempson
1.06 The Old Banger tx 15.05.71
1.07 Calculated Nightmare tx 22.05.71 Writer John Burke Starring Michael Culver John Stratton

WORLDS BEYOND (25m)

EPISODE GUIDE
Producer Alan Radnor Music Ian Stanley

1.01 Voice from the Gallows tx 10.10.86 Starring Connie Booth Darren McGavin James Aubrey James Hazeldine Writer Brian Clemens Director Sue Butterworth
1.02 Guardian of the Past tx 05.11.86 Starring Terence Alexander Edita Brychta Terrance Conder Paul Freeman Mary Tamm
1.03 Captain Randolph tx 08.01.87 Starring Meg Davies Richard LeParmentier Ann Turkel Stuart Wilson Philip Latham Writer Claude Harz Director John Jacobs
1.04 Serenade for Dead Lovers tx 15.01.87 Starring Jason Connery Nancy Travis
1.05 Suffer Little Children tx 22.01.87 Starring Jill Benedict Karen Black Blain Fairman Marjorie Yates Writer Richard Lewis Director Adrian Cooper
1.06 The Barrington Case tx 29.01.87 Starring Jill Bennett Natasha Richardson Nigel Stock Joris Stuyck Writer Marc Alexander Director John Jacobs
1.07 The Haunted Garden tx 05.02.87 Starring Judi Bowker Alex Hyde-White Rosemary Leach Moray Watson John Nettleton Writer Tony Williamson Director John Jacobs
1.08 The Black Tomb tx 12.02.87 Starring Rosalie Crutchley Max Hafler Anne Jackson Eli Wallach
1.09 The Eye of Yemanja tx 28.06.87 Starring
1.10 Undying Love tx 28.07.87 Starring Bernard Kay Anna Cropper Michael Jayston John Judd Producer Gordon L.T. Scott Director Robert Fuest
1.11 Oliver’s Ghost tx 19.04.88 Starring Denholm Elliott Ed Devereaux Janet Key Deborah Norton Valerie Colgan Garrick Hagon Writer Tony Williamson Director Chris Menaul
1.12 Reflections of Evil tx 26.07.88 Starring Ed Bishop Sheila Gish David Warner Valerie Holliman Writer Claude Harz Director Bob McIntosh
1.13 Home tx n.a. Starring Brenda Bruce Louise Fletcher Rachel Kempson Warren Clarke Writer/Director Chris Menaul
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