''The Danedyke Mystery'' is a 1979 British
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which originally aired on
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in 1979.
[Docherty & McGown p.132] A former police detective turned Anglican priest investigates strange goings on in the village of Danedyke St Mary.
Cast
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Michael Craig as Rev. Septimus Treloar
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Kenneth Colley
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as The Major
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Tessa Peake-Jones as Angela Horton
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John Rhys-Davies as Armchair
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Derek Thompson as Tom Richards
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Adrian Delaney as Russell Skingle
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Preston Lockwood as Dr. Henry Simmonds
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Peter Vaughan
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as Det. Insp. Burroughs
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Jeremy Child
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as Mary Crowle
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Leon Eagles
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as Olov Hellerstadt
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Bernard Latham as PC Skingle
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Robert Longden as Lionel Empson
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Simon Molloy
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as Det. Sgt. Trasker
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Lee Atkins
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as Choir boy
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Candace Hartley
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as Jenny
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Valerie Shute
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as Policewoman
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William Tarmey
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as Workman
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Teddy Turner as Warner Baxendale
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David Sumner
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as Narrator
References
Bibliography
* Mark J. Docherty & Alistair D. McGown. ''The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama - An Encyclopedia''. Bloomsbury Academic, 2003.
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