Period thriller. A 1950’s seemingly respectable doctor is accused of murdering several of his elderly patients.
Broadcast as the first episode under the Sunday Premiere umbrella strand of TV Movies.
cast
Timothy West as Doctor John Bodkin Adams
Sylvia Coleridge as Mrs Grantley
Nigel Davenport as Superintendent Hannam
Stanley Dawson as Inspector Hugh
Jean Anderson as Mrs Langton-Jones
Gillian Raine as Matron
Lynne Miller as Young Nurse
Michael Malnick as Solicitor
Christopher Banks as Male Mourner
David Conville as After Dinner Speaker
Phillada Sewell as Mrs Parker
Anne Dyson as Mrs Smith
Roberta Hammond as Housekeeper
David Arlen as Brixton Warder
Tristram Jellinek as Geoffrey Lawrence
Dominic Guard as Lawrence’s Junior
James Villiers as Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller
James Walker as Mr Justice Devlin
Cyril Conway as Clerk of the Court
Rosalind Knight as Nurse Stronach
Venetia Barrett as Sister Mason-Ellis
Fanny Carby as Nurse Randall
Joan Henley as Mrs Morrell
Frederick Treves as Doctor Douthwaite
Nan Munro as Mrs Rippon
Julia McCarthy as Mrs Ford
Paul Beech as Voice of Coroner
production info
Writer: Richard Gordon
Music: Dudley Simpson
Producer: Innes Lloyd
Director: Richard Stroud
UK / BBC One / 1×75 minutes / Broadcast 12 October 1986
