Ransom For A Pretty Girl (BBC Thriller, Nike Arrighi)

In six part BBC Thriller Ransom For A Pretty Girl Princess Nadia (Nike Arrighi) is the teenage heiress to the Bilhardi millions. Trouble starts when she is kidnapped by a gang of Scottish crooks. It turns out that more than one group is interested in Nadia and her family are not that keen to pay the ransom.

Cast: Nike Arrighi (Nadia), James Cosmo (Charlie), James Copeland (Inspector McRoberts), John Wentworth (Jacques), David Bailie (Colonel Caron), Harry Walker (McBean), Julian Curry (Burroughs), William Dysart (Bobby Milne), Elizabeth Morgan (Sheila), Raymond Brody (Green), Terry Wale (Driver), Leon Thau (Passenger), Harry Littlewood (Hotel Manager), Richard Coe (Thompson), Michael Sheard (Shaw), Anthony Paul (Bruno)

Writer: Ian Stuart Black / Story Editor: Roger Parkes / Production Design: William McCrow / Producer: Alan Bromly / Director: Richard Martin

UK / BBC Two / 6×25 minute episodes / Broadcast 10 September – 15 October 1966

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• The Paradise Makers (BBC Thriller, Michael Bryant)

• Portrait Of Alison (BBC Crime, Patrick Barr)

• Girl In A Black Bikini (BBC-2 1967, John Barron, John Cater)

• Francis Durbridge Presents: A Man Called Harry Brent (BBC-2 1965, Gerald Harper)

• Francis Durbridge Presents: A Game of Murder (BBC-2 1966, Gerald Harper)

• Play For Today: The Bankrupt (BBC 1972, Joss Ackland)

• A Handful of Thieves (BBC One 1969, Helen Worth, Martin Ratcliffe)

• Hands Across the Sea (BBC, 1938, Nadine March, Nicholas Phipps)

• My Son Reuben (Thames 1975, Bernard Spear, Lila Kaye,)

• The Franchise Affair (BBC 1962, Rosalie Crutchley, Michael Aldridge)

• Hamlet at Elsinore (BBC 1964, Christopher Plummer, Robert Shaw)

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