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Director : Arthur Jones. Narrated by Frank Duncan. Script : Allan Prior Cast : Tony Matthews (Lord Lucan), Janet Key (Lady Lucan), Shelley Borkum, Sarah Ewing, Peter Wyatt, Jeffrey Hardy, Patrick Drury, Sheila Keith, Frieda Knorr, Constantin De Goguel, Mark Jones, Jeremy Hawk, John Lee, Paul Varney, Michelle Coleman, Lockwood West, Derrick Gilbert, Julian Fox and Reg Taylor. Synopsis : "Help me! I've … I've just escaped from … a murderer!". The most controversial unsolved crime of the 1970s, with a Peer of the Realm at the centre of the mystery. Notes : Episodes were originally transmitted 9:00pm to 10:00pm on BBC 2.
Director : Ben Rea. Narrated by Gavin Campbell. Script : John Elliot Cast : Marc Zuber (Akache, Captain Mahmud), Geoffrey Beevers, Virginia Stark, Ian Liston, Philip Voss, Vivien Heilbron, Souad Faress, Andy Pantelidou, Zienia Merton, Richard Wordsworth, Martin Wyldeck, Paul Seed, Karen Ford, Andrew MacLachlan, Janette Legge, Frederic Abbott, James Ottaway, Chuck Julian, Joseph Iles and Jay Neill. Synopsis : "Control tower? Thjs is Captain Martyr Mahmoud. If you don't send us fuel in the next half hour I shall start shooting hostages". In October 1977 a Lufthansa Boeing 737 took off from Palma, Majorca - destination Frankfurt. But not all the passengers were holidaymakers…
Director : John Bird. Narrated by Frank Duncan. Script : Hugh Connor Cast : Richard Pascoe (Philby), Thelma Whiteley, Steve Plytas, Lyndon Brook, Boris Isarov, Jerry Harte, John Lee, Peter Banks and Tony Jay. Synopsis : "Kim's had twenty years in the Service. He's done some brilliant work. Now I have to find out how much damage he's done … in case he does a bunk". Beirut, in the autumn of 1962, was the setting for the most unlikely de-briefing of the master spy's amazing career.
Director : Ben Rea. Narrated by Gavin Campbell. Script : Martin Worth Cast : Emrys James (Alfred Hinds), Barry Lowe, Morris Perry, Frank Seton, Charles Pemberton, Priscilla Morgan, Frank Jarvis, John Rolfe, Brian Oulton, Charles Morgan, Richard Mayes, Graham Weston, Jay Neill, Edward Brooks, Donald McDonald, Michael Graham Cox, Jim Mooney, William Fox, John Brierton, Vernon Hayden, Derek Young, Tom Jordan, Kate Thompson, Blaine Fairman, Eugene Boner, Donald Tandy, Stan Barnes, Victoria O'Reilly, Kay Jones, Peter Williams, Gerry Sullivan and Jack May. Synopsis : "Mr Hinds, any description of locks in Her Majesty's prisons comes under the Official Secrets Act. I cannot allow you to discuss this lock before the public". In the 1950s, press and public alike were thrilled and amused by the exploits of this master of escape. Scotland Yard saw it differently!
Director : John Bird. Narrated by Astley Jones. Script : Hugh Connor Cast : John Rowe (Jeremy Cartland), Derek Seaton, Robin Davies, Robert Glenister, Christopher Scott, Christopher Reeks, Robert Putt, Frank Duncan, Tosanne Wickes, John Bott, Alexander John, Harold Reese, Roger Booth, Elizabeth Bradley, Neville Barber, Lynn Dearth, Martin Wimbush, Paul Gregory, Christopher Banks, Tim Barlow and Lawrence Davidson. Synopsis : "The caravan was on fire. I went towards it, but I didn't see my father inside - so I went to the road and stopped a passing motorist…". In March 1973, John Cartland was returning through Southern France with his son, Jeremy, having collected a caravan he had bought in Spain. Just outside Pelissanne they decided to stop for the night, and pulled off the road into a clearing…
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Director : Ivor Dunkerton Script : Hugh Connor Cast : Mark Kingston (Donald Woods), Janet Suzman (Wendy Woods), Daniel Davies, Roger Alborough, Ken Barker, Melanie Edwards, Richard Beale, Tommy Buson, Elizabeth Jernigan, Adam Clarke, Paul Lockwood, Nikki Stoter, Peggy Phango, Gabrielle Blunt, Glyn Jones, Jacob Witkin, Frank Lazarus, Linda Liles, Simon Lack, Pamela Gluckman, Bill Pearson, Alto Kumalo, Christopher Asante, Louis Mahoney, Emmanuel Josiah and Reginald Jessup. Synopsis : "In Germany after the war people said they didn't know the persecution of Jews was going on. Here they couldn't have that excuse … because every day in his newspaper Donald told everyone what is going on in this country. And because a voice of dissent, a warning voice, is seen as a voice of treason, it's been very dangerous living here over the last few years". Donald Woods, outspoken editor of the Daily Despatch, was arrested at Johannesburg Airport in October 1977 while attempting to fly to New York to address the African-American Institute on the events surrounding the death in police custody of his friend, Steve Biko. The Minister of Police, James Kruger, personally signed his banning orders… The series was produced by Frank Cox. |
Whereas
the 1960s for BBC Television had seen its schedules plagued
with thriller serials boasting, to coin a Carlton Television
promotional phrase, "cool spies and private eyes", the 1970s
and early 1980s ushered in a plethora of period drama productions
and drama-documentary series which proved nicely diverting if largely
forgettable.
One such entry into the range of drama-documentary series, which have become long-since forgotten, Escape presented six notable factually-based stories of figures escaping justice by fair means or foul. The programme examined the stories of Lord Lucan, Kim Philby, Alfred Hinds, newspaper editor Donald Woods, the Cartland Murder and the plane hijack to Mogadishu. As much an investigation into the "whys-and-hows" of the escape as the ineptitude of the police forces of the day to make competent arrests, the serial proved nicely diverting in terms of reacquainting the British public with some of the more notable examples of Jack-the-Ripper-esque escapes from justice and the pursuit for these so-called "master criminals" thereafter. The series was narrated by Frank Duncan, Gavin Campbell and Astley Jones for producer Frank Cox, with directorial contributions from Cox, Ben Rea, John Bird and Ivor Dunkerton. Performances in support of this documentary style of drama production came from Tony Matthews, Janet Key, Marc Zuber, Geoffrey Beevers, Richard Pascoe, Emrys Jones, John Rowe, Robert Glenister, Mark Kingston and Janet Suzman. The series was not globally exported, and its commercial realisation was limited to a television tie-in book, Escape, written by Richard Deacon and published shortly before the transmission of the third episode. Text © Matthew Lee, 2004. |