The Orchard End Murder
Charthurst Green, Kent, 1966. Pauline Cox accompanies Mike Robins to a village cricket match in which he is playing, but becomes bored and wanders away. She fetches up at the local railway station, where she is first entertained to tea by the garrulous, hunchbacked station master, then upset by the intrusion of the latter's assistant Ewen, who proceeds to kill a rabbit in her presence. Making her way back to the match, Pauline is waylaid by the simple-minded Ewen as she crosses an apple orchard; when his advances become violent, she tries to fight him off and he strangles her. The station master helps in covering up the murder, burying the corpse in the orchard.
Cast
Tracy Hyde
as Pauline Cox
Clive Mantle
as Ewen
Bill Wallis
as Railway Gatekeeper
Mark Hardy
as Mike Robins
Raymond Adamson
as Mr Wickstead
Jessie Evans
as Mrs Trowel
David Wilkinson
as Batsman
Jeremy Watt
as Bowler
Geoffrey Frederick
as Cricket Captain
Alan Neame
as Rector
