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TV ONLINE EPISODE GUIDE
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Director : Moira Armstrong Script : Adapted by Julia Morris Cast : Maria Aitken (Jemima Shore), Renée Asherson (Mother Ancilla), Brenda Bruce (Sister Elizabeth), David Burke (Tony Amyas, MP), James Laurenson (Alexander Sharbeck), Doran Goodwin (Sister Lucy), Margaret D'arcy (Sister Clare), Kate Binchy (Sister Edward), Linda Slater (Dodo), Sarah Webb (Margaret), Michelle Winstanley (Blanche), Patsy Kensit (Tessa), Catrina Hylton (Mandy), Mary Healey (Beatrice O'Dowd), James Appleby (Joe), Susan Engel (Sister Agnes) and Sylvia Coleridge (Sister Boniface). Synopsis : Television investigative reporter Jemima Shore investigates the mysterious and treacherous goings-on at her old school, The Convent Of The Blessed Eleanor, and the deadly apparition that the students live in fear of - "The Black Nun". Notes : This serial was originally transmitted 8:30pm to 9:00pm on ITV and was produced by Jacqueline Davis.
Director : Alan Grint Script : Philip Mackie Cast : Ken Hutchison, Donald Burton, Nigel Le Vaillant, Derek Smith, Fiona Victory, Norman Jones, Yasmin Pettigrew, Nicholas Cook, Steven Mann, Katrine Boorman, Harry Fielder and Alec Linstead. Synopsis : The first of a new series featuring Patricia Hodge as the investigative journalist who, tonight, stumbles over the slashed body of the girl in whose flat she was staying. Notes : This serial was originally transmitted 9:00pm to 10:00pm on ITV.
Director : Alan Grint Script : Philip Mackie Cast : Ken Hutchison, Fiona Victory, Donald Burton, Nigel Le Vaillant, Derek Smith, Norman Jones, Yasmin Pettigrew, Nicholas Cook, Steven Mann, Katrine Boorman, Steve Plytas and Terry Cowling. Synopsis : The final episode of A Splash Of Red in which the heroine invites all the murder suspects to the flat and unmasks the culprit in true Agatha Christie style.
Director : Alan Grint Script : Simon Brett Cast : Hugh Paddick, Brian Oulton, John Junkin, Anthea Holloway, Joan Heal, Stephen Jacobs, Bunny May, Stephen Riddle, Adian Hall, Constance Cummings and Hugh Burden. Synopsis : As she is leaving the Duchess of Montfort's flat, investigative television reporter Jemima is fired upon.
Director : Alan Grint Script : Gilly Fraser Cast : Anthony Steel, Don Henderson, Lysette Anthony, Alibe Parsons, Brian Cox, Lloyd Peters, Alan Haywood, Zoe Hendry, Patricia Maynard, Roger Walker, Debbie Arnold, Roy Plomley. Synopsis : The investigative television reporter finds herself mixed up with murder and mayhem on the set of a horror movie.
Director : Neville Green Script : Christopher Wicking Cast : Tom Baker (Doctor Norman Zeigler), Ian Hendry, John Salthouse, Gary Raymond, Tamara Steele, Bob Curtiss, William Cripps, Arnold Yarrow, Susan Tracy, Trevor Bowen, Paul Dadson, Eva Louise, Sarah Mortimer, Alan Turner. Synopsis : The fifth case for the television investigative reporter leads her into the world of psychiatry.
Director : Alan Grint Script : Anthony Skene Cast : George Colouris, Peter Sherwood, Malcolm Jamieson, Penny Dussek, Lindsay Heath, Stag Theodore, Norman Jones, Ben Howard, Graham Seed, Barbara Hyslop, John Rapley, Barbara Kinghorn. Synopsis : The investigative reporter brushes with a Greek tycoon and a little girl who sets traps in the woods.
Director : Robert Tronson Script : David Humphries Cast : Trevor Bowen, Lisa King, Phillip Martin Brown, David Milner, Tricia George, Bill Nighy, Donald Houston, Victoria Little, Elizabeth Counsell, Dave Cooper, Terence Mountin, Barrie Houghton. Synopsis : The high-flying television investigative report links a spy master to the murder of a model.
Director : Neville Green Script : Tim Aspinall Cast : Stratford Johns, Zena Walker, Stephen Yardley, Graham Seed, Voctor Winding, Michael Attwell, Maggie Ollerenshaw, Avril Clark, Michael Balfour, Billy Milton, Eammon Jones, Julia Drake, Ridgewell Hawkes, Richard Bonehill, Maggie Ryder, FIona McQuaid. Synopsis : The investigative reporter becomes involved in the mysterious disappearance of a romantic chef.
Director : Brian Farnham Script : Simon Brett Cast : Malcolm Stoddard, Billy Murray, Phil Rose, John Rolfe, Eddie Caswell, Ralph Nossek, Richenda Carey, Patrick Newell, Nicholas Le provost, Herbert Norville, Wendy Allnutt, Bob Sherman, John Kearney. Synopsis : Jemima rides in when another of her former lovers is involved with murder. This time he is the victim. Patricia Hodge plays the well-connected crime-buster faced with a corpse, a missing manuscript and malice among the literary set. Malcolm Stoddard is cast as an amorous author.
Director : Alan Grint Script : Gilly Fraser Cast : Alun Lewis, Garry Cooper, Karen Bowen, Ian Hendry, Alfie Curtis, Peter Lee-Wilson, Carole Hayman, Michael Fitzpatrick, Margaret Heald, Janine Lesley, Kathleen Worth, Della Finch. Synopsis : Covering an up-market fashion show, the redoubtable sleuth becomes involved with murder.
Director : Christopher Hodson Script : Peter Draper Cast : Larry Lamb, Paul Brooke, Derek Francis, Ian Hendry, Sheila Mitchell, John Biggerstaffe, Nicholas Amer, Kathleen Worth, Denis Carey, Lewis Shaw, Magda Miller, Margaret Heald, Preston Lockwood, Robert Tunbstall. Synopsis : Jemima attends a wine-tasting and finds herself mixed up in a case of murder.
Director : Neville Green Script : Sybil Macaulay Cast : Oliver Cotton, Patrick Newell, Alan curtis, Carole Bollard, Raymond Brody, Richard Earthy, Bernard Stone, Kathleen Worth, Norman Turkington, Jonny Lee Miller, Petrina Derrington, George Ballantine, Sylvia Barter, Philip Cook, Pat Gorman, Roger Kain. Synopsis : Jemima discovers that jogging can be both good and bad for the heart. Trying to trace the owner of a jacket she found in a park leads her to London's Waldorf Hotel. Notes : This episode attracted 9.9 million viewers and was ranked the third most popular programme of the week. |
 Spawned from the highly-successful Armchair Thriller series (Quiet As A Nun in 1978), Jemima Shore Investigates featured Patricia Hodge (as opposed to Maria Aitken in the pilot serial) in the title role, a television reporter, writer and presenter of Megalith Television's Jemima Shore Investigates programme. A determined woman with an inquiring mind, Jemima would often become embroiled in criminal activities amidst the upper classes, and found that her professional and personal lives very often became intertwined as an investigation ran through its paces.  The series, which ran to thirteen fifty-minute episodes, was highly entertaining and tightly-scripted, yet the premise of an upper-crust television presenter by day turned private investigator by night was a product of its time. Whilst Hodge was strong enough to sustain audience figures in the leading role, her supporting cast often left a great deal to be desired and the programme was occasionally let down by some surprisingly poor performances.  Matched only by the fact that the whodunnit element of the series, upon which a programme of this nature survived, hardly taxed viewers' deductive skills - apart, that is, from the opening two-parter A Splash Of Red, which could have been more appropriately called A Television Full Of Red Herrings. In essence, whilst the programme had the ability to carve out interesting and diverting tales of mystery and dastardly deeds, the element of suspense so keenly mastered during the Armchair Thriller pilot serial failed to translate itself into the series which followed in its wake. Certainly Antonia Fraser's novels featuring Jemima Shore (upon which the series was based) sold well as a result of the Thames series having been transmitted, so at any rate it made the party responsible for the character princely dividends. A notable and rare appearance by Tom Baker in one of the episodes raises the profile of this series slightly, as does contributions in the director's chair from Alan Grint and Brian Farnham. The series was exported worldwide, and was a popular late-evening fixture in Australia. The programme has never been commercially released in any format.
The series was based on characters written and created by Antonia Fraser. The series was produced by Tim Aspinall and story edited by Frances Heasman. The music was composed by Richard Hartley. Text © Matthew Lee, 2005.
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