Beast Must Die, The (Detective – BBC-1 1968 with Bernard Horsfall and Richard Hurndall)

Posted by By Paul Ashworth TV UK TV March 17, 2016

UK / BBC-1 / 1×60 minute episode / Broadcast 21 June 1968 black and white

Writers: Pip and Jane Baker / Novel:Nicholas Blake / Producer: Verity Lambert / Director: Tina Wakerell

Series: Detective / Season 2 Episode 6

Crime drama. A murder is investigated by dapper detective Nigel Strangeways.

cast
Bernard Horsfall as Nigel Strangeways
Richard Hurndall as General Shrivenham
Catherine Lacey as Mrs Rattery
Francis Matthews as George Rattery
Andrew Downie as Felix Lane
Jennifer Stirling as Merrett
Christine Finn as Violet Rattery
Claire Nielson as Lena Lawson
Simon Turner as Phil Rattery
Yvonne Gilan as Georgia Strangeways
Robert James as Chief Inspector Blount
Edgar Wreford as Carfax

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