Campion

Campion (1989)

★ 6.5 50m Mystery Drama Comedy

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.

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Episodes

  1. 1 1. Look to the Lady (1)1989-01-22 · 50mCampion 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 a
  2. 2 2. Look to the Lady (2)1989-01-29 · 50mWhen 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 - eve
  3. 3 3. Police at the Funeral (1)1989-02-05 · 50mA 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 hi
  4. 4 4. Police at the Funeral (2)1989-02-12 · 50mCampion 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 house
  5. 5 5. The Case of the Late Pig (1)1989-02-19 · 50m'Pig' Peters dies and is buried... but then he turns up dead again...
  6. 6 6. The Case of the Late Pig (2)1989-02-26 · 50mCampion investigates the murder of 'Pig' Peters, whose funeral he attended three months earlier.
  7. 7 7. Death of a Ghost (1)1989-03-05 · 50mCampion, 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
  8. 8 8. Death of a Ghost (2)1989-03-12 · 50mCampion is convinced that a third murder is imminent. The inquest into the death of Claire Potter reveals that she died from nicotine poisoning.

Cast

Peter DavisonAlbert Campion
Brian GloverMagersfontein Lugg

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