The Danedyke Mystery

The Danedyke Mystery
Genre	Mystery
Based on	Septimus and the Danedyke Mystery by Stephen Chance
Written by	Willis Hall
Directed by	Jonathan Wright-Miller
Starring	Michael Craig Kenneth Colley Tessa Peake-Jones
Composer	Alan Parker
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producers	Pauline Shaw Michael Cox
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	Granada Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	3 June (1979-06-03) – 15 July 1979 (1979-07-15)

The Danedyke Mystery is a 1979 British mystery television series which originally aired on ITV in 1979. A former police detective turned Anglican priest investigates strange goings on in the village of Danedyke St Mary.

Cast

• Michael Craig as Rev. Septimus Treloar
• Kenneth Colley as The Major
• Tessa Peake-Jones as Angela Horton
• John Rhys-Davies as Armchair
• Derek Thompson as Tom Richards
• Adrian Delaney as Russell Skingle
• Preston Lockwood as Dr. Henry Simmonds
• Peter Vaughan as Det. Insp. Burroughs
• Jeremy Child as Mary Crowle
• Leon Eagles as Olov Hellerstadt
• Bernard Latham as PC Skingle
• Robert Longden as Lionel Empson
• Simon Molloy as Det. Sgt. Trasker
• Lee Atkins as Choir boy
• Candace Hartley as Jenny
• Valerie Shute as Policewoman
• William Tarmey as Workman
• Teddy Turner as Warner Baxendale
• David Sumner as Narrator

Bibliography

• Mark J. Docherty & Alistair D. McGown. The Hill and Beyond: Children's Television Drama - An Encyclopedia. Bloomsbury Academic, 2003.

External links

• The Danedyke Mystery at IMDb