Don’t Leave Me This Way (BBC-2 1993, Janet McTeer, Imelda Staunton)

Crime thriller Don’t Leave Me This Way followed two academics, Loretta and Bridget, who turn detective when their old school friend Sandra is killed in a car accident and they suspect foul play.

They find the officially recorded verdict of accidental death unacceptable. They begin to suspect that Sandra was mixed up in something shady when Loretta discovers a toy koala with £10,000 stuffed into it hidden in her flat by Sandra. They gradually build up a picture of what must have happened.

production details
UK / BBC2 / 1×95 minute episode / Broadcast 30 May 1993

Writer: Catherine Buchanan / Novel: Joan Smith / Music: Colin Towns / Production Design: Grant Hicks / Costumes: Monica Howe / Producers: Moira Williams, Charles Elton / Director: Stuart Orme

cast
JANET McTEER as Loretta Lawson
IMELDA STAUNTON as Bridget Bennet
REBECCA HALL as Lizzie Neil
IAN McNEICE as Oscar Ghilardi
BILL NIGHY as John Tracey
JOHN FORTUNE as George Saunders
PAMELA SALEM as Sandra Neil
HARRY DITSON as Tom Neil
JEROME FLYNN as Tony Fleming
PHILIP ANTHONY as Mr Koogan
RICHARD DEMPSEY as Felix Neil
JAMIE GLOVER as Paul Elvin
DENIS LILL as Steve Fleming
PETER LOVESTROM as Arthur Goodchild
DAVID BANNERMAN as Michael
LINDA HENRY as Janet Weir
RYNAGH O’GRADY as Viv Hicks
WILLIAM OSBORNE as Eric
ANTHONY PEDLEY as Chief Superintendant Allan
DENISE THOMAS as Diana
NEVILLE PHILLIPS as Doctor

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