Supplementary
Episode
Who
Killed Lamb?
Original UK transmission: 16th March 1974
CREATED BY: Anthony Skene and Michael Zagor
WRITTEN
BY: Anthony
Skene
DIRECTED BY: David Cunliffe
PRODUCED BY: David Cunliffe
CAST: (See TVT listing below)
ARCHIVE
STATUS: Exists as PAL 625 line VT
Plot
Summary
Superintendent Jamieson
arrives in Oxford to investigate the murder of a local
businessman, Octavius Lamb, in his flat late one night. Octavius
ran his own "help for hire" agency and was, by all
accounts, a well-liked man with no known enemies. No-one can seem
to be able to suggest a reason why anyone would want him dead.
The case moves forward though when the custodian in Lamb's apartment block reports that he had seen a man on a motorbike leaving the building suddenly on the night of his death. It soon transpires that the same motorcyclist has been involved in a serious accident and has been taken to a local hospital in a coma. The murder weapon is found near the scene of the accident and for a while it looks as though the murderer has been found.
But Jamieson soon begins to uncover evidence that suggest that Lamb was not quite the saint everyone knew him as. A private mailing address is discovered some miles away which clearly shows that the man was in fact a professional blackmailer who used his business as a front for collecting compromising information about potential victims. Jamieson is now certain that one of the blackmailed parties was the murderer, but is it possible that even Lamb's wife and son could have been involved somehow?
Who did kill Lamb?
Comments
This one off play from Yorkshire TV has no connection proper with
the ATV series, but for reasons unknown was allocated a spot in
the Series Two schedule and was billed and fully networked as an
episode of Thriller. The running time is 65 minutes (the same
unusual length as the ATV episodes) and an American actor is
featured, along with scripted Americanisms like
"janitor" (indeed it aired in the US on 4th February
1974). It should be noted
however that the play does NOT use the Thriller title sequence or
theme music; the title sequences are entirely unique and
refer to the program only as "Who Killed Lamb?" Also,
the musical score is not by Laurie Johnson but is merely stock
music. According to the
closing titles the play was a "David Paradine-Trident
Television co-production © 1973" (the former was David
Frost's production company, the latter was the owner of Yorkshire
and Tyne Tees television at the time). This was quite a
prestigious and well-received production at the time. It is
included as an extra in the R2 dvd box set.
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