| Campion: Season 1 | |||||
| BBC Home Video (1989) | |||||
| TV Series / Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery | |||||
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| Peter Davison | Albert Campion | |
| Brian Glover | Magersfontein Lugg | |
| Andrew Burt | Chief Inspector Stanislaus Oates | |
| Andrew Burt | Inspector Oates | |
| Milton Johns | William Potter | |
| Adrian Lukis | Matt D'Urfey | |
| Rosalie Crutchley | Lisa | |
| Shaughan Seymour | Max Fustian | |
| Jean Anderson | Belle Lafcadio | |
| Isabel Dean | Donna Beatrice | |
| Carole Ruggier | Rosa | |
| Amanda Harris | Linda | |
| Elizabeth Chambers | Claire Potter | |
| John Burgess | Dr. Fettes | |
| Mark Rogers | Mr. Green | |
| Michael Gough | Mr. Hayhoe |
| Director |
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| Producer |
Ken Riddington
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| Writer |
Jill Hyem
Elaine Morgan Alan Plater |
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| Cinematography |
Nigel Walters
Ian Punter |
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Campion, Albert, born 20 May 1900. Name known to be a pseudonym. Edcuation privileged. Embarked on adventurous career 1929. Justice neatly executed, specialist in fairy stories. This English show brings to life an enigmatic gentleman detective from Margery Allingham's detective stories set in the 1930s. Blinking owlishly behind his tortoise-shell glasses, amateur sleuth Albert Campion (played by Peter Davison) has a less-than-obvious fondness for dangerous adventure. He is supported by a clever but shady manservant in the craggy shape of Magersfontein Lugg (Brian Glover), probably the only gentleman's gentleman in fiction who looks and sounds like an old prize fighter. Although Margery Allingham wrote twenty-six Campion novels, only eight of her stories were filmed in this series. The eight episodes (each usually broadcast in two parts) are still occasionally repeated in the U.K. and elsewhere. |
| Disc 01 | ||
| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 55 mins 1/22/1989 1. Look to the Lady Part 1 | ||
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Campion learns that a mediaeval relic called the Gyrth Chalice, which for hundreds of years has been in the care of the Gyrth family at the village of Sanctuary, is threatened by an international gang of art thieves. For the Gyrths the stakes are high - if they lose the Chalice, their country estate will revert to the Crown. Campion travels to Sanctuary with Val Gyrth, and almost at once Val's aunt Lady Diana is found dead in the middle of a wood, apparently frightened to death... it seems the gang is already on the job.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 55 mins 1/29/1989 2. Look to the Lady Part 2 | ||
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When the safety of the ancient Gyrth Chalice is threatened, Campion embarks on a dangerous assignment to protect it. He soon discovers that his adversary will stop at nothing - even murder - in order to get the Chalice.
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| Disc 02 | ||
| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 55 mins 2/5/1989 3. Police at the Funeral Part 1 | ||
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A murderer is on the loose at Cambridge, where the family of the late Professor John Faraday is being murdered. His niece's husband Andrew is found in the river with a bullet in his head, then his daughter Julia is poisoned and his son William is attacked. Campion is called in by a friend, and Caroline Faraday, the Professor's widow, retains hin to protect her eccentric children William and Kitty and to find the murderer. Campion finds himself working on the case with Inspector Stanislaus Oates.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 55 mins 2/12/1989 4. Police at the Funeral Part 2 | ||
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Campion receives a letter from an old Cambridge friend, asking him to help find a missing uncle of his fiancée. Campion is convinced that the murderer is part of the Faraday household.
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| Disc 03 | ||
| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 55 mins 2/19/1989 5. The Case of the Late Pig Part 1 | ||
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'Pig' Peters dies and is buried... but then he turns up dead again...
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 55 mins 2/26/1989 6. The Case of the Late Pig Part 2 | ||
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Campion investigates the murder of 'Pig' Peters, whose funeral he attended three months earlier.
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| Disc 04 | ||
| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 55 mins 3/5/1989 7. Death of a Ghost Part 1 | ||
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Campion, getting away from it all, visits his friend Belle Lafcadio, a rich art collector. Trouble begins with murder at an exhibition of pictures by a dead artist. First one body turns up, then another... and the identity of one of the departed comes as something of a surprise.
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| Seen it: Yes 0 hr 55 mins 3/12/1989 8. Death of a Ghost Part 2 | ||
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Campion is convinced that a third murder is imminent. The inquest into the death of Claire Potter reveals that she died from nicotine poisoning.
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