WHO KILLED COCK ROBIN?
First Broadcast: September 9, 2001
| After
an evening out, Dr. Oliver Burgess carelessly crashes his car along as
well as a man. Unsure of what to do and still shocked, he runs to The
White Swan and gets the landlord to help. They agree to call Frank
Lightbourne to help remove the car and see if anyone has been killed. They are the only ones out at night, apart from nosey neighbour Mary Mohan who cannot help but take a few noisy peeks out of her cottage windows. Although Dr. Burgess is sure he has knocked someone down, the other two are not so sure. After suggesting it could have been the Irish man, who has recently moved into the village, they look inside his cottage but see no one. |
| Barnaby is told of that night's events by Bill Pitman, the landlord. He decides to take a look in the Irish man's cottage and after discovering the man's name is Sean O'Connell, stumbles across nothing, of course, but an old criminal acquaintance of his, Melvyn Stockard. Stockard now sees himself as the squire in the village. Barnaby also learns that Sean O'Connell is a horse whisperer. |
| After
visiting other peculiar villagers to shed some more light on O'Connell,
Barnaby and Troy find themselves on the scene when a man is pulled out
from the well. He is Robin Wooliscroft. Julia Stockard, Melvyn's
daughter, is about to be married to Chris Megson, and Noel Wooliscroft,
the dead man's father, is the best man. Bill tells Barnaby all of the affair in Newton Magna when Valerie Megson, Chris' mother, decided to run off with Robin to live in New Zealand. The whole village thought they fled off together - but Robin obviously never got onto the flight. Could Valerie's unpleasant husband, Joe have killed in anger, or even Robin's wife, Bridget? Or might Stockard be involved - after all, he was opposed to the wedding, but would he dare try and stop it going ahead?
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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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Melvyn
Stockard |
Larry
Lamb |
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Bubbles
Stockard |
Polly
Hemingway |
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Julie
Stockard |
Polly
Maberly |
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Frank
Lightbourne |
Mick
Ford |
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Bridget
Wooliscroft |
Linda
Marlowe |
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Robin
Wooliscroft |
Patrick
Drury |
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Noel
Wooliscroft |
Noah
Huntley |
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Mary
Mohan |
Jane
Lapotaire |
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Joe
Megson |
Malcolm
Storry |
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Valerie
Megson |
Gabrielle
Lloyd |
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Chris
Megson |
Mel
Raido |
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Jackie
Marsh |
George
Innes |
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Lily
Marsh |
Toni
Palmer |
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Dr.
Oliver Burgess |
Ian
McNeice |
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Francesca
Ward |
Yolanda
Vasquez |
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Sean
O'Connell |
Sean
McGinley |
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Bill
Pitman |
Robert
Oates |
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Reverend
Thorne |
Jonathan
Hackett |
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Screenplay
by |
Jeremy
Paul |
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Directed
by |
David
Tucker |
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Produced
by |
Brian
True-May |
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