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    Drama TV Shows - 1960s 2 Mins Read

    Night Train to Surbiton

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    6 x 25 minute episodes

    Buying a ticket for an evening train from Waterloo to Surbiton is not usually synonymous with being handed a passport to adventure, but it turns out that way for two city gentlemen, Guy Bretherton (Nicholas Parsons) and Matthew Pilbeam (Peter Jones).

    Slightly merry after a few drinks, they take the 8.20 one Friday evening and settle back in their compartment to contemplate a weekend of comfortable leisure. Guy, who is single and in his late 30s, is the managing director of a shipping company, and he is going to stay with Matthew, who is a member of Lloyd’s and happily married.

    As the two friends gather up their umbrellas and briefcases at Surbiton, one of the occupants of their compartment topples over and lies motionless on his side.

    They rush off to find a railway official, but when they return to the compartment with a guard the body has gone and they are indignantly chastised for playing childish pranks.

    They have no better luck with Matthew’s wife, Hester (Eleanor Summerfield) when they arrive home for dinner.

    But then Guy discovers he has absent-mindedly picked up the other man’s briefcase and it has a local address in it for a man called Martinez. So the two drive over and gradually become involved in a deepening mystery in which not only their own lives but the very survival of mankind are in danger.

    The six-episode serial was the work of scriptwriter John Chapman, who also wrote Hugh and I.

    Guy Bretherton
    Nicholas Parsons
    Matthew Pilbeam

    Peter Jones
    Hester Pilbeam
    Eleanor Summerfield
    Stella Craine
    Christine Finn
    Frobisher
    John G. Heller
    Mrs Banks
    Fabia Drake
    Ward
    John Bluthal
    The Voice
    Ernst Ulman
    Martinez
    David Grahame

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