Murder Weekend
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Host
Co-hosts
Cast: see below
Broadcast
LWT / Mirageland for ITV, 18-20 August 1989 (5 episodes over 3 days)
Synopsis
Televised murder mystery weekend with five parts, where celebrities turned detective and viewers were invited to phone in and solve the murder themselves.
Trivia
Those episode titles in full:
- Dream of Monks A-Coughing: A Funeral's in the Offing
- Dream of Gulls A-Screeching: Heed the Parson's Preaching
- Dream of Toms A-Snarling: A Quarrel With Your Darling
- Dream of Vipers Hissing: Your Favourite Dog's Gone Missing
- Dream of Yaks A-Mooing: Sign of Your Undoing
The TV Times said the episode titles were taken from a nursery rhyme, "The Perpetual Pessimist".
Cast
| Detective | David Delve |
| Charles Lainston | Eric Allen |
| Henry Lainston | John Hudson |
| Thomas Lainston | Jason Salkey |
| Felicity Lainston | Caroline John |
| Camilla Lainston | Helen Fitzgerald |
| Steven Lainston | Roy Spencer |
| Terence Mather | Brian Hall |
| Judy Mather | Janet Hargreaves |
| Sandy Hargreaves | Kate Napier Brown |
| Policeman | Andrew Coombes |
| Policeman | Brian Pulman |
Inventor
Devised and written by Joy Swift, based on her original "murder mystery weekend" concept which she launched in 1981. Swift's Murder Weekends company is still going strong today and she was awarded the MBE for services to tourism in 2001.