The Gentle Ladies
CAST:
Avice Landon - Florence Warshed
Renee
Houston - Ida Warshed
Barbara Mullen - Violet Warshed
Phillip
O'Flynn - Alfred Powls
Anthony Nicholls - George Marsh
Timothy
Bateson - Charley Butterworth
Christina
Gregg - Kathleen Howard
Frank Sieman - Joe Tracey
Gwenda
Ewen - Miss Wilson
Donald Tandy - Detective Seargent
Barry Wilsher - Waiter
Directed by Jeremy Summers; Screenplay by John Graeme (pdf Screenplay on network DVD)
STORY:
Templar is in the small town Bosham
in Sussex to visit Kathleen Howard and to go sailing. When Florence Warshed
accidentally bumps into his car he learns of the three elderly Warshed
sisters that have lived here for 10 years.
Soon an unfriendly guy named
Alfred Powls appears and starts to blackmail them. What dark secret could those three
lovely ladies have?
NOTES:
* Renee Houston also appears in Episode
#28 "The Wonderful War"
* Anthony Nicholls also appears in
Episode #78 "The Angel's Eye"
* Anthony Nicholls would later appear
in the Roger Moore film "The
Man Who Haunted Himself" (1970) [Submitted by Christopher Survela]
* If you know the solution to the
ladies' secret - why are they so afraid to call the police? They already
served their sentence?
*
The same shot with the white car was used on two occasions in this episode (0:00 and 0:15).
* What a lovely Volvo P1800 toy car! Which model manufacturer is it from? Corgi? (0:15).
AIRDATE:
UK: 5th March 1964
AVAILABLE ON:
* DVD (PAL): Umbrella DAVID0249 (2003)
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Last Updated: 06/20/2016