DARK AUTUMN
First Broadcast: September 16, 2001
| Postman
Dave Cutler is killed in the tiny hamlet of Goodman's land in his early
morning rounds. His young assistant Holly Reid finds him dead on the
green, his head merely hanging from his body after his throat was
drastically cut. Barnaby and Troy are helped on this case by the WPC,
Jay Nash, who helps give advice and information on the other villagers. A faint music was heard that morning by Holly, which is Barnaby's most helpful clue, but she has no idea what it was apart from that it may have came from a radio. It doesn't take long for them to work out that Cutler delivered more than just letters to some of the female villagers, and an angry husband or jealous lover could be on the books. |
| That very evening, a young woman's throat is slashed while she is taking a shortcut through the woods. Debbie Shortlands' body is found not long after her husband reports her missing from their cottage. Her death is very similar - but this time they find a small knife with a significant motif on the handle. Barnaby is far from fooled that this was the weapon, and believes it was placed there deliberately. |
| Other
villagers are questioned - like Louise and Owen August, Louise being one
of Dave's affairs and Owen, an author, not minding his wife being a keen
'entertainer'. Mary Yeatman is also questioned after she saw Dave Cutler
the morning he was killed. Her husband, Mike, is far from pleased and
once thumped Dave twice when discovering the affair between the postman
and his wife. And finally there is Simon Reason - separated from his
wife - whose bloodstained papers have been found blowing around on the
green, probably dropped by Debbie when she was killed. Debbie did work
for Simon - and her husband says she worked for some other 'tricky'
people. Barnaby and Troy's detective work is delayed when they are asked to join the team for an Aunt Sally match. Barnaby finds it a very good event - both for the case and himself!
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DCI
Tom Barnaby |
John
Nettles |
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DS
Gavin Troy |
Daniel
Casey |
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Joyce
Barnaby |
Jane
Wymark |
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Dr.
George Bullard |
Barry
Jackson |
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Owen
August |
Alan
Howard |
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Louise
August |
Celia
Imrie |
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WPC
Jay Nash |
Gillian
McKearney |
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Simon
Reason |
Nicky
Henson |
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Janet
Reason |
Kim
Thomson |
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Debbie
Shortlands |
Fleur
Bennett |
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Keith
Shortlands |
Adam
Blackwood |
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Mary
Yeatman |
Prue
Clarke |
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Mike
Yeatman |
Del
Henney |
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John
Field |
Robert
Glenister |
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Barbara
Judd |
Marian
McLoughlin |
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Ben
Barrow |
Morris
Perry |
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Dave
Cutler |
Rupert
Walz |
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Ade
Jessell |
Phillip
Whitchurch |
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Holly
Reid |
Kate
Maberly |
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Dog
Handler |
Peter
Whitear |
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Tammie |
Rachel
Woolrich |
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Priest |
Neville
Phillips |
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Screenplay
by |
Peter
J Hammond |
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Directed
by |
Jeremy
Silberston |
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Produced
by |
Brian
True-May |
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