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Detective: The Avenging Chance

BBC One
on BBC One London

A crime series.

This week: John Carson as Roger Sheringham investigates the case of
"The Avenging Chance"
by John Gould, based on a story by Anthony Berkeley.
Also starring Allan Cuthbertson, Jennifer Jayne, Marian Spencer, Tony Steedman.

This play is set in the West End of London in the nineteen-thirties. It appears that there are a large number of people who would be glad to see Sir William Anstruther dead. The question is who? Roger Sheringham is determined to find out. Unhappily he has hardly started his investigations when a tragedy, in which an innocent woman dies, takes place.

Contributors

Writer:
John Gould
Based on a story by:
Anthony Berkeley
Script editor:
Anthea Browne-Wilkinson
Designer:
Spencer Chapman
Producer:
Verity Lambert
Director:
Moira Armstrong
Sir William Anstruther:
Tony Steedman
Hall porter:
David J. Grahame
Delilah Bryce:
Jennifer Jayne
Mrs. Verreker Le Fleming:
Joyce Grant
Roger Sheringham:
John Carson
Lady Anstruther:
Marian Spencer
Parker:
Bella Emberg
Rupert Bryce:
Allan Cuthbertson
Graham Beresford:
John Franklyn-Robbins
Joan Beresford:
Geraldine Newman
Inspector Moresby:
Arthur Pentelow
Club servant:
James Appleby
Clerk in typewriter shop:
Steve Peters
Clerk in stationer's:
Jacqueline Blackmore
Source: Radio Times

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