A TALE OF TWO HAMLETS
First Broadcast: January 24, 2003
| Someone
is decimating the ancient Smythe-Webster family of Upper Walden, and the
bad blood between the villages of Upper and Lower Walden is renewed with
a vengeance. First, young heart-throb actor Larry Smith (alias Laurence Smythe-Webster) dies in an explosion at a publicity event for a new film. House of Satan is based on a book by a local writer, the late Ellis Bell of Lower Warden - a village whose inhabitants are referred to by its Vicar, the Reverend Simon Smythe-Webster, as "the weasels of the wild wood". |
| The next to die is Larry's uncle, House of Satan producer Frank Webster (Francis Smythe-Webster), electrocuted to death on his exercise bike. Finally, Barnaby's principal suspect, Danny Pinchel, the family's cook, is drowned in a large bowl of tomato soup... |
| Barnaby
realizes he is dealing with an historic grudge, and he enquires into the
family's antecedents.
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DCI
Tom Barnaby |
John
Nettles |
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DS
Gavin Troy |
Daniel
Casey |
|
Joyce
Barnaby |
Jane
Wymark |
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Dr.
George Bullard |
Barry
Jackson |
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Rupert
Smythe-Webster |
Ronald
Pickup |
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Wendy
Smythe-Webster |
Beth
Goddard |
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Simon
Smythe-Webster |
Christopher
Good |
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Laura
Smythe-Webster |
Phoebe
Nicholls |
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Frank
Webster |
Jonathan
Hyde |
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Larry
Smith |
Charlie
Beall |
|
Phil
Harrison |
Alex
Lowe |
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Danny
Pinchel |
Jo
Stone-Fewings |
|
Sarah
Proudie |
Anne
Reid |
|
Jack
Wilson |
Tim
Preece |
|
Darren |
Leo
Bill |
|
Murdoch |
Jack
Chissick |
|
Anne |
Rebecca
Johnson |
|
Helen |
Katy
Murphy |
|
Emily
Gasgoine |
Danielle
Tilley |
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Written
by |
Alan
Plater |
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Directed
by |
Peter
Smith |
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Produced
by |
Brian
True-May |