The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
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Special. Dead Lucky
First aired: 8/1/1987Martin Urban wins a lottery fortune. He intends to use the money philanthropically, but when he meets the beautiful Francesca and falls under her spell he is drawn into a quite different life. But will he commit murder for Francesca?
Director: Barbara Rennie
Guest star: Nicholas Farrell (Martin Urban), Thelma Whiteley (Martin's mother), Robert Austin (Cochrane), Harriet Bagnall (Francesca Brown), Charubala Chokshi (Mrs Bhavnai), Philip Davis (Finn), Robert Davis (VIII) (Adrian), Jacqui Docker (Ann Blake), Alexandra Eagle (Lindsay), William Gaminara (Tim Sage), Paula Jacobs (Mrs Gogarty), Peter Waddington (Norman), Ann Way (Lena Finn), Ann-Marie Gwatkin (Martin Urban's secretary), Carl Pizzie (Flower shop delivery boy), Honora Burke (Woman at Grafton Road)
Special. Gallowglass
First aired: 8/1/1993Sandor saves Joe, another teenager, from drowning, with the result that Joe looks on himself as Sandor's 'gallowglass', a kind of life-long servant. This leads on to the kidnapping of a girl called Nina, and then to murder.
Director: Tim Fywell
Guest star: Eryl Maynard (Receptionist), Charlotte Barker (Hairdresser), Harriet Owen (Jessica), Mariella Minnozzi (Maria), John McArdle (Paul Garnet), Nerys Hughes (Diana), Claire Hackett (Tilly), Pietro Genuardi (Colombo), Paul Rhys (Sandor), Arkie Whiteley (Nina), Michael Sheen (Joe), Gary Waldhorn (Ralph Apsoland), Richard Syms (Hotel Manager)
Special. An Affair in Mind
First aired: 8/8/1988A writer constructs a plot, as he has done many times before - but this is a real-life plan to murder his lover's husband.
Director: Colin Luke
Guest star: Stephen Dillane (Gray Harston), Amanda Donohoe (Druscilla Janus), Richard Hammatt (Tiny), June Ellis (Hotel Receptionist), Hilary Mason (Miss Platt), Kay Stonham (Isabel), Trevor Ray (Man at Party), Anne Lambton (Woman at Party), Christopher Downing (Bank Teller), Owen Brenman (Estate Agent), Mark Lambert (Francis), Joanna Phillips-Lane (Charmian), Jean-Laurent Cochet (Honore), Eve Garratt (Enid), Howard Cooke (Gardener), Tex Fuller (Jeremy Rawlings), Ben Robertson (Jones), Matthew Marsh (Detective Inspector Brodd), Christopher Stahl (Stapleton), Edmund Dring (Dr Finnegan), Maria Warner (RSPCA Receptionist), Rani Singh (Woman with Baby)
Special. A Dark Adapted Eye
First aired: 8/1/1994A Dark Adapted Eye is set in the 1960s. A young woman is anxious to understand the events which led to her aunt being hanged twenty years before. A story emerges of the sisters Vera and Eden, who cut a swathe of jealousy, murder and revenge, destroying their whole family.
This episode is based on the real-life crimes of Vera Hilyard, the last woman to be hanged in England before the abolition of the death penalty for murder.
Director: Tim Fywell
Guest star: Honeysuckle Weeks (Faith as a child), Polly Adams (Helen), Sophie Ward (Eden), Bernice Stegers (Vranni), Robin Ellis (John), Jason Durr (Jamie), Guy Witcher (Young Jamie), Celia Imrie (Vera), Helena Bonham Carter (Faith), Elaine Hallam (Woman at Trial), Polly Grant (Young Anne), Kelly Marcel (Young Vera), Susan Vidler (June Poole), Joanne Good (Shopper), Gemma Street (May Durham), Carol Holt (Shopper), Valerie Minifie (Shopper), Frazer Gilbert (Jamie, aged 5), Brian Hickey (Tony Pearman), Julius Grower (Jamie, aged 3), Ciaran Hinds (Paolo), Philip Childs (Registrar), Max Curtis (Third Baby Jamie), Jack Danger (Second Baby Jamie), Thomas Campbell-Todd (First Baby Jamie), Siobhan Burke (Judith), David Cann (Albert March), Jane Hollowood (Mrs March), Richard Syms (Revd Mr Morell), Randal Herley (General), Guy Faulkner (Young Francis), Rachel Bell (Mrs Morell), Emma Shaw (Josie Cambus), Paul Bentall (Gerald), Steven Mackintosh (Francis), William Gaminara (Andrew), Mark Brignal (Sergeant Morris), Pip Torrens (Chad), Sarah Hadland (Elsie), Emma Croft (Anne), Jane Galloway (II) (Adele March)
1. Wolf to the Slaughter, Part One
First aired: 8/2/1987One evening, someone messes up a love-nest on a side street in a small country town. The carpet is soaked with human blood, but there is no body to be found. Meanwhile, a beautiful, promiscuous woman goes missing - as does the bundle of cash she was carrying. But Wexford and Burden have different theories about the disappearance of the eccentric Anita Margolis.
Director: John Davies
Guest star: Deborah Poplett (Sheila Wexford), Ken Kitson (Sergeant Martin) , Kim Thomson (Linda Grover), Harriet Thorpe (Anita Margolis), Michael Stainton (Sergeant Camb), Mitzi Rogers (Mrs Anstey), Christopher Robbie (TV Commentator), Donald Hewlett (Russell Cawthorne), Hal Dyer (Mrs Cawthorne), Jim Dunk (Knobby Clark), Pamela Buckle (Mrs Grover), Rupert Bates (P C Bryant), Russell Hunter (Monkey Matthews), Daniel O'Brien (IV) (P C Gates), Jean Heywood (Mrs Penistan), Carmel McSharry (Ruby Branch), Robert Reynolds (D C Mark Drayton), Nicholas Gecks (Rupert Margolis)
2. Wolf to the Slaughter, Part Two
First aired: 8/9/1987One evening, someone messes up a love-nest on a side street in a small country town. The carpet is soaked with human blood, but there is no body to be found. Meanwhile, a beautiful, promiscuous woman goes missing - as does the bundle of cash she was carrying. But Wexford and Burden have different theories about the disappearance of the eccentric Anita Margolis.
3. Wolf to the Slaughter, Part Three
First aired: 8/16/1987One evening, someone messes up a love-nest on a side street in a small country town. The carpet is soaked with human blood, but there is no body to be found. Meanwhile, a beautiful, promiscuous woman goes missing - as does the bundle of cash she was carrying. But Wexford and Burden have different theories about the disappearance of the eccentric Anita Margolis.
4. Wolf to the Slaughter, Part Four
First aired: 8/23/1987One evening, someone messes up a love-nest on a side street in a small country town. The carpet is soaked with human blood, but there is no body to be found. Meanwhile, a beautiful, promiscuous woman goes missing - as does the bundle of cash she was carrying. But Wexford and Burden have different theories about the disappearance of the eccentric Anita Margolis.
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