In The Stranger, the opening episode of teen drama The Intruder, teenage sand pilot Arnold Haithwaite has a job guiding people across the estuary on the sands of Cumberland. He meets June Ellison who is spending her summer holidays in the area. However the arrival of a stranger looks set to upset Arnold’s whole world. Especially as the stranger also claims to be Arnold Haithwaite.
A mysterious air for the opening episode, Milton Johns as Sonny the stranger, always managed to project an air of creepiness when playing roles like these.
production details
UK / ITV – Granada / 1×25 minute episode / Broadcast Sunday 2 January 1972 at 5.35pm
Series: The Intruder Episode 1 of 8
Writers: Mervyn Haisman, Peter Plummer / Production Design: Peter Caldwell
cast
James Bate as Arnold Haithwaite
Jack Woolgar as Ernest Haithwaite
Milton Johns as Sonny
Sheila Ruskin as Jane Ellison
Simon Turner as Peter Ellison