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Sunday Premiere: The Good Doctor Bodkin Adams

on BBC One London

by Richard Gordon
Starring Timothy West as Dr John Bodkin Adams

In 1956 the ultra-respectable seaside resort of Eastbourne was shocked and disturbed when a local doctor, John Bodkin Adams, was arrested and charged with murdering one of his elderly patients.
Feature: page 4
(Ceefax subtitles)

Contributors

Writer:
Richard Gordon
Music composed and conducted by:
Dudley Simpson
Film Editor:
Ken Pearce
Designer:
Jane Martin
Photography:
Andrew Dunn
Producer:
Innes Lloyd
Director:
Richard Stroud
Dr John Bodkin Adams:
Timothy West
Matron:
Gillian Raine
Young nurse:
Lynne Miller
Mrs Grantley:
Sylvia Coleridge
Mrs Langton-Jones:
Jean Anderson
Solicitor:
Michael Malnick
Male mourner:
Christopher Banks
After dinner speaker:
David Conville
Mrs Parker:
Phillada Sewell
Mrs Smith:
Anne Dyson
Superintendent Hannam:
Nigel Davenport
Inspector Pugh:
Stanley Dawson
Housekeeper:
Roberta Hamond
Brixton warder:
David Arlen
Geoffrey Lawrence:
Tristram Jelunek
Lawrence's junior:
Dominic Guard
Sir Reginald Manningham-Buller:
James Villiers
Mr Justice Devlin:
James Walker
Clerk of the court:
Cyril Conway
Nurse Stronach:
Rosalind Knight
Sister Mason-Ellis:
Venetia Barrett
Nurse Randall:
Fanny Carby
Mrs Morrell:
Joan Henley
Dr Douthwaite:
Frederick Treves
Mrs Rippon:
Nan Munro
Mrs Ford:
Julia McCarthy
Voice of coroner:
Paul Beech

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