Crime Story
Some of Britain's most notorious crimes, dramatized in this powerful series - exciting, moving, and surprising cases that demonstrate how truth can be stranger than fiction.
- Drama
- Year 1992 - 1993
- 1 Season
Some of Britain's most notorious crimes, dramatized in this powerful series - exciting, moving, and surprising cases that demonstrate how truth can be stranger than fiction.
- Year: 1992
E1 • A Question of Identity
Erwin van Haarlem (Bernard Hill) is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a mission to track down supporters of the dissident group, Chapter 77.
E2 • A Terrible Coldness
The thoroughly unpleasant tale of Graham Young, a convicted poisoner at the tender age of 14, is told in this intriguing edition of Crime Story starring Mark Womack and Christine Mackie.
E3 • All Good Friends - The Case of The Handless Corpse
A sinister case of intrigue, drugs and death. In 1979 two divers discovered the body of a young man in a flooded Lancashire quarry. The body was weighted down and both hands had been removed at the wrists.
E4 • Deadly Obsession
A story of jealousy and unrequited love which led to murder, based on the true story of Kathleen Calhaem, a respected business woman from Cheddar in Somerset. The murder was brutal and sinister involving battery and repeated stabbing.
E5 • Dear Roy Love Gillian
Gillian is a shy 16-year old who becomes a pen-friend to Roy, a young prisoner. Plans for their first meeting end in tragedy. Starring Tara Simpson, Lawrence Mullin and Julia Booth.
E6 • Gone Too Far: The Mystery of Mrs Muriel McKay
Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her home in Wimbledon on 29th December 1969 and her body was never found. The media was enlisted to try and help the police to find her. But the police blamed the media involvement for their failures.
E7 • The Britoil Affair
A cunning plan to defraud one of the world's largest oil companies of more than £20 million is the subject of this programme. This is a story of intrigue and provides a dramatic reconstruction of a case that captured Europe's headlines.
E8 • The Lady's Man
John Shrapnel and Mark McGann star in this dramatisation of one of the most intriguing crime stories in British criminal history. There is rivalry at Kirtleton Hall as two members of staff compete to rob the house, which results in a fatal shooting.
E9 • Wallpaper Warrior
Eddie Horner gave the appearance of being an average man. He worked at a wallpaper factory in the north of England, lived with his mother and had no criminal record. Yet only seven months later, as leader of a self-styled Workers Army.
E10 • When The Lies Run Out - The Ian Spiro Story
The story of British businessman Ian Spiro found dead in a Californian desert.
E11 • The White House Farm Murders
White House Farm holds a sinister secret, one of the most horrific crimes of the 1980's.
- Cast
Peter O'Brien
Det. Con. Coffee
Anne Reid
Muriel McKay
Ed Devereaux
Alick McKay
John Graham-Davies
Larry Lamb
Martin Oldfield
D.S. Roger Street
Dicken Ashworth
D.I. John Minors
Malcolm Tierney
D.C.S. Bill Smith
Barbara Dryhurst
Diane Dyer
Jimmi Harkishin
Arthur Hosein
Kulvinder Ghir
Nizam Hosein
