'Victim As Red' by Edward Boyd

Scrotty receives his annual visit from Harold Lemming, a client who has been employing the detective’s services to find his missing brother for the last seven years. By this point Scrotty has given up hope of ever finding Colonel Hugo Lemming, but his interest is piqued when Harold gives him a manuscript for ‘Money on the Line’, a crime novel penned by his sibling which accurately described a £2 million train robbery before the theft actually occurred. Elsewhere, an amnesiac Hugo escapes from the house he has been kept prisoner in by the scheming Beryl Kempsford and her recently-deceased husband. Hugo soon encounters Syrie Van Epp, who becomes intrigued by his loss of memory and his talk of a trigger phrase: “two million pounds”. Meanwhile, at the M.O.D., Kronk is troubled by the amount of Department K’s unsolved crimes, particularly the one pertaining to Colonel Hugo Lemming’s disappearance and possible defection to the East; so when Scrotty pays him a visit and sells him Hugo’s manuscript, Kronk decides to reopen the Lemming case. Mrs Kempsford engages Scrotty’s services to track down her first husband, who turns out to be Hugo. Scrotty’s investigations lead him into a web of intrigue, as he uncovers the identity of the real train robber…

Elizabeth Shepherd (Syrie Van Epp), John Sharp (Kronk), Gary Cockrell (Phil Scrotty), John Woodnutt (Colonel Hugo Lemming), Alan Curtis (Inspector Blood), William Maxwell (Sergeant Hound), Betty McDowall (Beryl Kempsford), William Moore (Harold Lemming), Margery Withers (Miss Winkle), Ivor Salter (Blinky), Michael Hall (Voice 1), Ian Cooper (Voice 2), Rex Boyd (Voice 3)

Directed by David Boisseau
Produced by Richard Everitt

TX (Granada):
9th September 1966 @ 9.40 pm

Notes:
*Featuring Syrie Van Epp, Phil Scrotty, Kronk, Inspector Blood and Sergeant Hound