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Detective: The Moving Toyshop

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Rupert Davies as Maigret introduces:
Professor Gervase Fen played by Richard Wordsworth in Edmund Crispin's "The Moving Toyshop", adapted by John Hopkins.

A poet finds a body in a toyshop. But when he returns with the police next morning, the body has disappeared... and so has the toyshop.

Contributors

Author:
Edmund Crispin
Adapted by:
John Hopkins
"Detective" theme music composed by:
John Addison
Incidental Music:
Max Harris
Script Editor:
Max Marquis
Script Editor:
John Gould
Designer:
Margaret Peacock
Producer:
David Goddard
Director:
Shaun Sutton
Maigret (introduction):
Rupert Davies
Richard Cadogan:
John Wood
Erwin Spode:
Brian Oulton
C.I.D. Sergeant:
Ivor Salter
Gervase Fen:
Richard Wordsworth
Grocer:
Philip Ray
Mrs Wheatley:
Enid Lindsey
Rosseter:
Derek Francis
Publican:
Christopher Hodge
George Sharman:
Philip Latham
Hoskins:
Nicholas Pennell
Sally Carstairs:
Suzan Farmer
Miss Winkworth:
Barbara Couper
Dr. Havering:
Graham Crowden
Shop assistant:
Sandra Barry
Miss Tardy:
Amy Dalby

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