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    Drama TV Shows - 1990s 3 Mins Read

    Original Sin

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    1 9 9 7 (UK)
    3 x 50 minute episodes

    Peverell Press – a respected publishing house with two hundred years of tradition, located in an elegant building called Innocent House on the banks of the Thames at Wapping – is taken over by new management. Gerard Etienne (James Wilby), the new yuppie Managing Director, wants to implement radical changes.

    Meanwhile, Scotland Yard’s Commander Adam Dalgleish (Roy Marsden) is approached by his poet friend Gabriel Dauntsey (Ian Bannen) – coincidentally a board member of Peverell Press – to look into an anonymous poison pen letter he has received, urging him to take his own life. They are interrupted when employees discover the body of one of the firm’s top editors, Sonya Clements, in the firm’s archives room.

    It has all of the hallmarks of suicide, and Dauntsey wonders if she, too, has been receiving letters.

    When Gerard Etienne is subsequently found dead in an upstairs room at the Peverell offices, Dalgleish and DI Kate Miskin (Lizzy McInnerny) arrive to investigate. They are joined by DI Daniel Aron (Tim Dutton) on his first day as a member of the team.

    While almost everyone at the firm may have had a reason to want him dead, Dalgliesh is convinced the reasons for Etienne’s death lie in his sinister past.

    After author Esme Carling (a cracking cameo from Sylvia Syms) is found floating in the Thames, Dalgleish re-questions the woman’s 11-year-old neighbour, who admits Esme wasn’t home the night Gerard Etienne was killed. Others who may have had reason to want him dead have equally shaky alibis.

    DI Daniel Aron finds a photo that links one of the Peverell Press employees to family deaths in Nazi concentration camps in World War II.

    Unlike the previous PD James adaptations starring Roy Marsden as Adam Dalgliesh (this was his ninth appearance in the role), which were all six-parters, Original Sin consisted of three episodes only.

    Commander Adam Dalgliesh
    Roy Marsden
    DI Kate Miskin
    Lizzy McInnerny
    DI Daniel Aron
    Tim Dutton
    Gabriel Dauntsey
    Ian Bannen
    Gerard Etienne
    James Wilby
    Claudia Etienne
    Cathryn Harrison
    Frances Peverell
    Amanda Root
    Esme Carling
    Sylvia Syms
    James de Witt
    Jonathan Coy
    Miss Blackett
    Carolyn Pickles
    Jean-Philippe Etienne
    Raymond Gérôme
    Mrs Demery
    Rowena Cooper
    Mandy Price
    Samantha Edmonds
    Declan Cartwright
    Eoin McCarthy
    Daisy Reed
    Brooke Kinsella
    Agnes Clements
    Gabrielle Lloyd
    Mrs Reed
    Vicky Murdock
    Mr Aron
    David de Keyser
    Rupert Farlow
    Jason Hall
    Dr Wardle
    David Dixon

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