THE RUTH RENDELL MYSTERIES

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• Release Year: 1987
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
• Plot: The psychological crime dramas as seen on public television; ; 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. Talented casts bring Rendell's unforgettable characters to life in four complex stories of suspense.; ; Master of The Moor - 154 mins.; Since boyhood, Stephen Whalby (Colin Firth) has sought solitude on the wild, windy moor. But his taciturn ways and familiarity with the wilderness make him the prime suspect in a series of shocking murders.; ; Vanity Dies Hard - 155 mins.; After her best friend disappears, Alice Fielding (Eleanor David) begins to suspect foul play, perhaps even murder. And the killer may have targeted Alice herself as the next victim.; ; The Secret House of Death - 103 mins.; Newly divorced Susan Townsend (Amanda Redman) makes a grisly discovery in her suburban neighborhood and soon becomes involved in a potentially deadly intrigue.; ; The Double - 51 mins.; Two women, identical in appearance but totally different in personality, compete for the affections of one man. Which will lose love and perhaps her life?
• Cast: George Baker; Christopher Ravenscroft; Louie Ramsay; Ken Kitson; Diane Keen; John Burgess; Emma Smith; Noah Huntley; Deborah Poplett; Charon Bourke; Joanna Jeffrees; Dave Hill; Colin Campbell; Ann Penfold; Sasha Mitchell; Peter Egan; Patrick Drury; Sylvia Syms; Richard Graham; John Forgeham; Robin Kermode; Marian McLoughlin; Robin Lermitte; Robert Reynolds; Matthew Grundy; Amanda Redman; Simon Shepherd; Carmel McSharry; Kim Thomson; Philip Locke; Jack Klaff; Idris Elba; Trevor Sellers; Neil McCaul; Michael Parkhouse; Emma Dewhurst; Colin Firth; James Callis; Emma Croft; Christine Kavanagh; Michael Jayston; Tom Wilkinson; Celia Gregory; Imelda Staunton; Tony Haygarth; Jane Lapotaire; Eleanor David; John Michie; Daniel Caltagirone; Catherine Neilson; John Vine; Philip Glenister; Sharon Maughan; Leslie Phillips; Josephine Butler; Nicholas Gecks; Nigel Terry; Peter Capaldi; Denis Lill; George Sweeney; George Costigan; Robert Urquhart; George Harris; Mark Frankel; Karen Meagher; June Ritchie; Marion Bailey; Mamta Kaash; David Lyon; Suzanna Hamilton; Ian McNeice; B.J. McLagan; Ellis Van Maarseveen; Barbara Leigh-Hunt; Susie Ann Watkins; Dorothy Tutin; Sara Kestelman; Christopher Ellison; Michael Byrne; Padraig O'Loinsigh; William Simons; Joseph Long; Julia Ormond; Rebecca Craig; Sylvester Morand; Owen Scott; Kate Lynn Evans; David Swift; Olivier Pierre; Jack Tanner; Rick Warden; Inday Ba; Jean Heywood; Geoffrey Beevers; Sandra Voe; Gemma Jones; Lisa Dulson; Hosh Kane; Mitzi Rogers; Kate David; Donald Sumpter; Hugh Downer; Anthony Douse; Mary MacLeod; Sheila Ruskin; Joan White; Valerie Whittington; Barrie Shore; David Doyle; James Snell; Bella Enahoro; Constance Chapman; Terry John; Robert Morgan; Q; Shirin Taylor; Barbara Keogh; Ellen Thomas; Stephanie Fayerman; Jonathan Barlow; Michael Elwyn; Marie Stillin; Tracie Bennett; Polly Adams; Michael Cochrane; Tim Meats; John Tams; Lynda Rooke; John Cater; Lizzy McInnerny; Ian Bartholomew; Jonathan Magnanti; John Bleasdale; Tom Radcliffe; Alison Fielding; Christina Greatrex; Linda Polan; Stephen Boxer; Adrian Martin; Razaaq Adoti; Peter Penry-Jones; Gordon Kane; Tom Donaldson; David Sibley; Anna Cropper; Amanda Boxer; Michael Turner; Nick Edmett; Sara Clee; Leonard Preston; Rachel Fielding; Stephanie Buttle; Jane Gurnett; Melanie Kilburn; Joanna Kanska; Rebecca Lacey; Donald Hewlett; Maryann Turner; Marc Sinden; Lisa Harrow; Caroline Bliss; James D'Arcy; Simon Ward; Keith Barron; Sarah Parks; Phoebe Nicholls; Tim Woodward; Geoffrey Bateman; David Collings; Adam Welsh; Amanda Royle; Simon Chandler; Don Henderson; Elizabeth Bennett; Patrick Malahide; Garry Cooper; Sally Kinghorn; Michael Fitzgerald; Fiona Mollison; Cheryl Campbell; Malcolm Storry; Owen Teale; Abigail Cruttenden; Janet Dale; Paul Freeman; Robin Summers; Russell Hunter; Arthur White; Ian Thompson; Ravi Kapoor; Kristy Bruce; Ingrid Lacey; Ronald Pickup; Nicola Redmond; Pip Torrens; Cara Konig; Hugh Simon; Sally Grace; Wendy Morgan; Robert Burbage; Julian Wadham; David Hargreaves; Des McAleer; Sally Sanders; Karen Westwood; Maggie Jones; Amanda Mainard; Jenny Quayle; Jonathan Linsley; Isobel Middleton; Fiona Welburn; Kate Buffery; Andrew MacLachlan; Thomas Wheatley; Niall Buggy; Chloë Annett; Gerard Horan; John Salthouse; Lucy Cohu; Stuart Fox; Lawrence Mullin; Tony Spooner; Christopher Fulford; Nigel Gregory; Michael Hadley; Helena Michell; Julian Fox; Hal Dyer; Susan Bovell; Natascha McElhone; Fay Masterson; Sandy McDade; Richard Jones; William Chubb; Daniel Ilsley; Kelly Reilly; Arthur Cox; Iain Mitchell; Sidney Livingstone; Julia Chambers; Amanda Waring; Vinny Dhillon; Basil Moss; Nigel Pegram; Pamela Buckle; Robert Swann; Sarah Webb; Martin Hall; Brian Poyser; Timothy Evans; Patricia Garwood; Michael Gunn; Rachel Robertson; John Humphry; Phillip Molyneux; Guy Oliver-Watts; Charles Simon; Robert Hands; Russell Mabey; Natasha Estelle Williams; Su Douglas; Gary Mavers; John Horsley; Eileen Davies; Anthony Higginson; Robert Portal; Liz Kettle; Judith Paris; Roger Brierley; Josie Kidd; Cheryl Prime; Philip McGough; Julie Peasgood; Natalie Walter; Peter Harri; Norma West; Marcia Tucker; Bee Jay; Daniel de la Falaise; Cecily Hobbs; Brian Mitchell; Richard Cubison; Trevor Byfield; Joanna Scanlan; Meg Davies; Shaughan Seymour; Michael Stainton; Brian Smith; Judith Scott; Ruth Trouncer; Robert Oates; Dilys Hamlett; Emily Hamilton; Gertan Klauber; Robert Austin; Imogen Boorman; James Allen; Naomi Buch; Kate Eaton; Amanda Walker; Jim Dunk; Loretta Parnell; Rupert Bates; Christine Moore; Daniel O'Brien; Guy Phillips; Barbara Ashcroft; Peggy Ann Wood; Gail Taphouse; Honeysuckle Weeks; Linda Spurrier; Susan Wooldridge; Alistair Findlay; Ken Wynne; Fred Pearson; Peter Gilmore; Tina Marian; Jacqueline Tong; Amanda Pointer; Julian Firth; Sion Tudor Owen; John Moreno; Bernice Stegers; Patricia Hayes; Angela Curran; David Stoll; Anne Jameson; Bernard Holley; Rosemary Martin; Helen Lindsay; Christopher James; George Raistrick; Bunny May; Susan Derrick; Harriet Thorpe; Karen Archer; Doreen Andrew; Kate Lansbury; Rosalind Thomas; Jean Warren; Maggie Ollerenshaw; Matthew Scurfield; James Fleet; Lesley Joseph; Linda Marlowe; Eleanor Bron; Tom Chadbon; Tamara Hinchco; Phillip Manikum; Ruth Posner; Philip Stone; John Duttine; Anthony Andrews; Freddie Findlay; Camilla Power; Janet Suzman; Susannah York; Serena Evans; Max Brazier; Cal Macaninch; Mel Martin; Elspet Gray; John Castle; Neil Daglish; Jason Flemyng; Edward Hardwicke; Michael Nardone; John McGlynn; Jerome Flynn; Gregg Prentice; Jane Horrocks; Paola Dionisotti; Rossano Brazzi; Ralph Brown; Virginia McKenna; Emily Mortimer; Susan Penhaligon; Joyce Redman; Lalor Roddy; David Ryall; Damian Zuk; Jane Hazlegrove; Barbara Ewing; Eric Flynn; Margery Mason; Clive Wood; Camille Coduri; Janet Maw; Nicholas Haley; Daisy Haggard; Katie Havelaar Cook; Peter Helmer; Tina Hobley; Richard Johnson; Michelle Newell; Paul Blair; Marsha Fitzalan; Gary Moynihan; Martha Cope; Edna Doré; Ian Fitzgibbon; Stephen Solloway; Stephen Dillane; Georgina Cates; Jacqueline Defferary; Harmage Singh Kalirai; Norman Rodway; Elizabeth Spriggs; Andy Greenhalgh; Alan MacNaughton; Elizabeth Ashley; Helen Blatch; Beth Goddard; Sara Markland; Danny Spring; Albert Welling; Fiona Dolman; David Daker; Nick Reding; Hugh Lloyd; Clara Salaman; Kim Barclay; Denyse Alexander; Eileen Page; Sean Pertwee; Adrian Ross Magenty; Philip Bird; Jack Galloway; Rowena Cooper; Frances Jeater; Mica Lee; Charlotte Mason-Apps; David Trevena; Rupert Procter; Lex van Delden; Omid Djalili; Clare Matthews; Clare Holman; Petra Davies; André Oumansky; Miles Anderson; Annette Crosbie; Leon Lissek; Alan Bodenham; Edward Clayton; Linda Quinn; Gabrielle Reidy; Cherith Mellor; Lynne Wilmot; Susie Fairfax; Carl Ferguson; Bryan Pringle; Malcolm Raeburn; Julia Lane; Elspeth Charlton; Victoria Fairbrother; Kay Tong Lim; Steven Mackintosh; Marjorie Summerville; Bob Barrett; Jeannie Crowther; Paul Trussell; Charlotte Avery; Navin Chowdhry; David Huntington; Lloyd McGuire; Ruth Platt; Paul Birchard; Alexis Denisof; Ian Puleston-Davies; Liz Smith; Sian Webber; Jonathan Lacey; Myra McFadyen; Michael Carter; Anne Reid; Patricia Samuels; Roger Hammond; Victoria Duarri; Jessica Fox; Barbara Jefford; Griff Mellhuish; Mark Mordue; James Bree; Jean Challis; Martino Lazzeri; Alison Rose; Tony Vogel; Vincenzo Nicoli; Derek Hicks; Charlotte Howard; John Conroy; Trevor Cooper; Katrina Levon; Marjorie Yates; Damian Hunt; Shari Hughes; Neil Phillips; Claire Szekeres; Oliver Young; Mary McMurray; Sandy Johnson; Herbert Wise; Matthew Evans; Bruce MacDonald; John Gorrie; Marc Evans; Jim Goddard; Jenny Wilkes; Gavin Millar; James Cellan Jones; Mike Vardy; John Davies; Don Leaver; Jan Sargent; Sarah Hellings; Rob Walker; Piers Haggard; Peter Berry; Ken Blakeson; Julian Bond; John Brown; Geoffrey Case; Clive Exton; Alex Ferguson; Peter Hammond; John Harvey; Guy Hibbert; Jacqueline Holborough; Matthew Jacobs; Douglas Livingstone; Roy MacGregor; Roger Marshall; Guy Meredith; Paula Milne; Alan Plater; Trevor Preston; Peter Ransley; Ruth Rendell; Christopher Russell; Rosemary Anne Sisson; Robert Smith; Ted Whitehead
• Director: Mary McMurray
• Runtime: 7:43
• Company: Acorn Media, Granada International
• Media Format: Series