The Local Affair – Part 2: A body in a wood, a host of local people and an American who all have conflicting stories, make Sam wish he was writing his children’s stories full-time.
Regular Cast: Martin Jarvis (Sam Harvey)
Guest Cast: Edward Peel (Sergeant Holiday), Judy Geeson (Becky Royce), Vivien Merchant (Isabel Black), Ed Bishop (Scott Douglas), David Collings (Doctor Tucker), Michael Culver (Ernest Clifford), William Marlowe (Giles Stafford), Robert Morris (Freddie Galbraid), John Abineri (Detective Superinentendent Hallam), Eric Mason (Leonard), Margaret John (Elaine Wigmore), Lynn Dalby (Jo Hathaway), Sandra Bryant (Rita Black), Miles Fothergill (Police Constable Mason), Susan Field, Richard Seager, Elizabeth Rider
Writer: Francis Durbridge / Director: Michael E. Briant
Airdate: 1 Mar 1980 on BBC One Two
Series: Breakaway Season 2 Episode 2
Show Info: In the first of two six part thrillers police inspector Sam Harvey investigates the brutal murder of his own parents.