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- From cold, rock-strewn moors to comfortable suburban estates, award-winning writer Ruth Rendell explores the dark fissures between friends and family members that motivate murder.
- This powerful series of programmes features dramatic reconstructions of some of Britian's most notorious crimes - a collection of cases which are exciting, moving and surprising, each demonstrating how truth can be stranger than fiction.
- This film follows a courageous woman's journey from servitude in England to the harsh life of Outport Newfoundland. Along the way she endures many hardships, including attempted rape and being abandoned by the father of her child.
- 1987–20003hTV-147.6 (70)TV EpisodeWhen an off-duty DS Martin tries to be a hero during a bank robbery, not only does he get shot dead, but it also triggers a chain of events involving murders and deceit.
- A couple's cunning plan to defraud one of the world's largest oil companies of more than £20 million, by transferring money from the British company's accounts into accounts at a Swiss bank.
- Wexford's new Nigerian doctor reports his 22 year old daughter missing and the last person known to have seen her is found murdered.
- 1987–20001hTV-147.0 (99)TV EpisodeAfter four attractive women are found strangled in and around the local river, the free-spirited wife of a London doctor is killed while on an extramarital assignation.
- 1987–20002hTV-146.8 (109)TV EpisodeA lonely divorcée becomes involved with a neighbor whose wife and her lover carried out a suicide pact.
- 1987–20002hTV-147.1 (81)TV EpisodeA recent college graduate believes he loves the wife of his father's former friend, but young Nicholas does not know that she's having an affair with his father.
- 1987–20001hTV-146.7 (342)TV EpisodeStephen Whalby loves the moor. When a series of senseless murders of young women invades his beloved moor, he becomes intrigued...and a suspect.
- A bright young teenage girl is 'farmed out' to relatives in the rural West Country during the Battle of Britain and makes many astute observations about life there.
- 1987–20001hTV-146.7 (29)TV EpisodeWhen she was a young girl on the island of Majorca Petra Summerton was traumatised by the events of the Summer when her beloved older brother Piers and his cousin Rosario, to whom he was getting married, disappeared. Now she is middle-aged Petra still finds it hard to get over the situation.
- A successful businessman runs into his old girlfriend. Although she treats him politely, his rekindled feelings to her border on nothing less than obsession.
- 1987–20001h 40mTV-147.4 (25)TV EpisodeJohn Creevey has recently separated from his wife Jennifer and is still obsessed with her and Peter Mullin, the new man in her life. Many years ago his sister Cherry had been murdered and her fiancé, Mark Simms, now John's best friend, had been the prime suspect. When the police reopen the case and Simms is again under suspicion, John begins to doubt his friend's innocence, until Mark tells him of sordid details about Cherry's promiscuous past - and her relationship with Peter Mullin. When John discovers a series of coded messages hidden beneath a railway bridge, he throws himself into solving them, as a way of taking his mind off Jennifer. He believes that he has uncovered the communications of a gang of terrorists, not realising that it is just schoolboys at rival public schools, playing at being spies. To punish Peter Mullin for breaking up his marriage, and wrongly suspecting that he may have killed Cherry, he plants a coded message for the "terrorists", ordering them to "eliminate" Peter. In doing so he unwittingly sets in motion a chilling meeting between Peter Mullin and one of the schoolboys, Charles Mabledene, which reveals some very unsavoury things about Mullin's feelings towards young boys...
- A young German girl mysteriously disappears from outside a pub and a group of environmentalist stage a sit in to prevent a bypass from being built through a forest.
- 1987–200052mTV-146.9 (87)TV EpisodeQuiet accountant Martin wins the lottery, but things take a turn for the worse when he meets Francesca, who is not what she seems.
- When Cecily Branksome retires back to her old home town over her husband's objections she becomes involved with her boorish old boyfriend and a 30 year old murder.
- Richard Brazier has a mental block about his abduction as an eight year old and is haunted by what may or may not have happened.
- A middle-aged man is still haunted by a love affair from his youth which almost ended in murder.
- Two identical women, one virginal and good and the other sexy and seductive, vie for the affections of a young stockbroker,
- After a lifetime of sibling rivalry, mousy May accepts an invitation from her recently-widowed younger sister June, to live with her in her elegant home.
- Twelve-year-old James lives with his parents and sister. He has a scientific mind and a load of jars, all containing poisons which he has manufactured from plants in the garden - his favourite being Thornapple. When cousin Mirabel and her baby come to stay, James is captivated by Mirabel, who has been rejected by her boyfriend. Mirabel's aunt June, who had also rejected her, suddenly puts her into her good books again, but when June dies, supposedly of gastric complications and leaving Mirabel a large sum of money, James has his doubts as to the true cause of death.
- 1987–20003hTV-146.5 (119)TV EpisodeWhen wealthy middle-aged divorcée Alice Fielding, marries a handsome younger man, her best friend Nesta, who has fallen on hard times, begins to resent her.
- Prim businesswoman Della Galway has a compulsive penchant for double-locking doors but her new roommate is careless about security.
- Erwin van Haarlem is a man of mystery. Living in London in 1986 and ostensibly a Dutch art dealer, he is in fact spying for Czechoslovakia with a mission to track down supporters of the dissident group, Chapter 77.