Roy Marsden starred as Detective Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh in this Anglia Television adaptation of PD James’ best-selling novel, with John Vine as his young assistant, DS John Massingham
The seven episodes told a complicated story of murder and disappearance, set in a bleak Norfolk landscape.
Scotland Yard detective Dalgliesh – whose wife and baby recently died in childbirth – is first called to the forbidding Fens when a fun-loving 19-year-old girl is found strangled and sprawled over the back seat of an abandoned car in a clay pit. He returns again when Dr Edwin Lorrimer (Geoffrey Palmer) is found murdered in the regional forensic laboratory, known as Hoggatt’s.
Detective Chief Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh
Roy Marsden Dr Maxim Howarth
Barry Foster Dr Henry Kerrison
Ray Brooks Inspector Blakelock
Ivor Roberts DS John Massingham
John Vine Clifford Bradley
Andrew Ray Angela Foley
Brenda Blethyn DI Tom Doyle
Malcolm Terris Brenda Pridmore
Chloe Franks Stella Mawson (‘Star’)
Fiona Walker Paul Middlemass
Stephen Thorne Claire Easterbrook
Valerie Testa Domenica Howarth
Meg Davies Chief Superintendent Mercer
John Bryans Nell Kerrison
Annabelle Lanyon Dr Edwin Lorrimer
Geoffrey Palmer Miss Willard
Rhoda Lewis Mrs Pridmore
Kate Lansbury Anne Kerrison
Wendy Gifford Sue Bradley
Sheridan Ball Mrs Bidwell
Maryann Turner Sergeant Reynolds
Richard Foxton
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