Episodes
1. Fatal Caper
6.6
April 19, 1996
29 min
Two adult brothers come to blows over the the fortune of their wealthy father, whose interests are protected by a lovely young woman with questionable loyalties.
Guest Stars:
Natasha Richardson, Bob Hoskins, Greg Wise, James Saxon, Leslie Phillips
2. Last Respects
5.8
April 26, 1996
25 min
Three bickering sisters left in charge of their late father's struggling curiosity shop come into possession of a cursed monkey's paw, and try to use it to their advantage - with deadly results.
Guest Stars:
Dulcie Gray, Julie Cox, Emma Samms, Kerry Fox, Michael Denison
3. A Slight Case of Murder
6.1
May 3, 1996
27 min
A game of cat and mouse ensues between a female mystery novelist and her jealous former husband when he accuses her of having a love affair with her nosy neighbor's son.
Guest Stars:
Patrick Barlow, Elizabeth Spriggs, Christopher Cazenove, Francesca Annis
4. Escape
6.0
May 17, 1996
26 min
A traitor in the second World War is restricted to a prison camp and one of the men he betrayed is transported to the camp and promises to reveal his identity.
Guest Stars:
Al Hunter Ashton, Martin Kemp, Roy Dotrice, Murray McArthur, Nickolas Grace
5. Horror in the Night
6.9
May 24, 1996
27 min
A double-crossing jewel thief is shot and hides out in a hotel where he starts to hallucinate about a mysterious beautiful woman.
Guest Stars:
Elizabeth McGovern, Ronan Vibert, Edward Tudor-Pole, James Wilby, Peter Guinness
6. Cold War
6.6
May 31, 1996
26 min
After losing their friend Cutter in a botched robbery, Ford and Cammy, a wild young Londoner crime couple, split up and Cammy finds a new lover, Jimmy. Jealous, Ford shoots him and the trio discovers something shocking about one another.
Guest Stars:
Colin Salmon, Jane Horrocks, John Salthouse, Ewan McGregor, Willie Ross
7. The Kidnapper
5.1
June 7, 1996
25 min
A young man takes in a pregnant woman and falls in love with her but becomes jealous when her baby is born so he sets out to get rid of the kid forever.
Guest Stars:
Julia Sawalha, Serena Gordon, Steve Coogan, Tim Stern, Matthew Scurfield
8. Report from the Grave
5.6
June 14, 1996
27 min
A scientist named Elliot invents a way to read memories of the dead. To test the device, Elliot and his girlfriend Arianne break into the crypt of a dead serial killer.
Guest Stars:
Roger Ashton-Griffiths, James Frain, Siobhan Flynn, Jonathan Firth, Gordon Peters
9. Smoke Wrings
5.2
June 21, 1996
26 min
A young man with a strange device is hired onto an advertising company by an esteemed executive--but what the exec doesn't know is that the young man is in cahoots with her enraged ex-partner who is out for revenge.
Guest Stars:
Daniel Craig, Ute Lemper, Gayle Hunnicutt, Denis Lawson, Tres Hanley
10. About Face
5.1
June 28, 1996
26 min
A sleazy minister in Victorian England gets a nasty surprise when he discovers he previously fathered twin daughters.
Guest Stars:
Finty Williams, Anthony Andrews, Anna Friel, Pip Torrens, Imelda Staunton
11. Confession
7.3
July 5, 1996
28 min
Evans, a sly horror screenwriter suspected in a series of grisly murders of women whose heads were taken by the killer as trophies is interrogated by Jack Lynch, a clever hardboiled homicide detective whom every cop idolizes.
Guest Stars:
Ciarán Hinds, Alun Armstrong, Eddie Izzard, John Benfield, Ashley Artus
12. Ear Today... Gone Tomorrow
4.9
July 12, 1996
27 min
A greedy safe cracker with a slight hearing loss gets entangled in a game between a mobster and his beautiful, exotic wife and ends up getting the auditory system he could only dream of. But there's a price.
Guest Stars:
Richard Johnson, Gretchen Palmer, Phil Davis, Robert Lindsay, David Gant
13. The Third Pig
4.8
July 19, 1996
25 min
In this cartoon version of the Three Little Pigs story, Dudly, the smart pig, is framed for the murders of his brothers and sentenced to death. But, his brothers' spirits help him seek revenge on the wolf.
Guest Stars:
Cam Clarke, Brad Garrett, Bobcat Goldthwait, Charlie Adler, Corey Burton
