TV Tuesday: Middle Class Murder 1939
Eighty-five years, ago, today, the TV Movie Middle-Class Murder aired in the UK on the BBC. Written by Bruce Hamilton and Diana Hamilton, it was produced by Michael Barry. It starred Andrew Osborn (Tim Kennedy), D.A. Clarke-Smith, John Valentine, Grizelda Hervey, Marguerite Young (Esther Kennedy), Robert Rendel, Anthony Hawtrey, Pamela Sharp, Lawrence Hanray, Lewis Stringer, Roddy Hughes, John Turnbull & Paul Chesterton. Based on Bruce Hamilton’s novel of the same name, it is a lost film.
Tim Kennedy, a country dentist, has decided to get rid of Esther, his wife who, after an accident, has become an invalid. But, things are not as easy as it seems… Things will go very wrong indeed.
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January 10, 2024 at 9:52 AM
Lulu: “Wow, that’s a long-ago TV movie all right!”
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January 10, 2024 at 2:59 PM
Yes, it was Lulu. Older than us, put together.
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January 10, 2024 at 6:25 PM
Sounds very dark indeed!
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January 10, 2024 at 7:24 PM
Shame it didn’t survive.
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January 12, 2024 at 8:38 PM
What a shame it’s lost
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January 13, 2024 at 10:45 AM
The BBC has lost or destroyed a lot. Early Doctor Who is mostly gone.
That being said, Hollywood has its own share of lost films.
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January 13, 2024 at 11:56 AM
Wow even I’m not old enough to have seen this 🙂
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January 31, 2024 at 11:02 PM
I hate when things get lost like this. I mentioned a TV movie in yesterday’s post about the song Melt With You… it was called The Day After…do you remember it? It frightened the shit out of me…about nuclear war…in the eighties.
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February 2, 2024 at 12:53 AM
I remember watching it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After
JoBeth Williams, Jason Robards…directed by Nicholas Meyer. I don’t remember Modern English’s song I Melt With You being in that TV movie, tho…
It was a startling movie.
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February 2, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Oh it wasn’t in that movie…sorry…I was talking about songs that had to do with nuclear war…and Melt With You was…and I named that movie and another movie also about it.
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February 2, 2024 at 3:07 PM
Ah! LOL!
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February 1, 2024 at 4:56 PM
Funny, we still never manage to lose movies like Hots Shots Part Deux.
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February 2, 2024 at 1:13 AM
The Brits have trouble keeping their s*** together. They nearly destroyed early Doctor Who.
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