Dover and the Sleeping Beauty
Comedy thriller by Paul Mendelson, set in the 1960s. Inspector Dover investigates when a girl in an irreversible coma after being shot is murdered months later.
Comedy thriller by Paul Mendelson, set in the 1960s, featuring Scotland Yard's most unwanted man, Chief Inspector Wilfred Dover, and his long-suffering gofer, Sergeant McGregor. A young woman, Isabel Slatcher, has been in an irreversible coma for months after being shot outside her local church in a small northern town. Now she has been smothered - murdered. Who killed her? Was it the person that shot her and why have they waited until now to complete their evil crime?
Chief Inspector Dover ...... Kenneth Cranham
Sergeant McGregor ...... Stuart McQuarrie
Chief Constable Muckle ...... Philip Whitchurch
Mrs Muckle ...... Colleen Prendergast
Reverend Bonnington ...... Shaun Prendergast
Mrs Horsley ...... Geraldine McNulty
Violet ...... Debbie Arnold
Freddie Gash ...... Ross Adams
Muckle ...... Cesca Bonetti
Other parts played by the cast.
Directed by David Ian Neville.
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