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Evil Liver (Original title)
Date: 23 August 1975 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Carol Wilks

Synopsis: First television play written by Dame Ngaio Marsh. A dog, a cat, a confirmed spinster, a retired Major, his beautiful wife and her handsome doctor friend, plus a parcel of poisoned liver. Mix them together, and you have all the ingredients for murder.

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TV Transmissions
Date: 23 August 1975Broadcast channel: ITVCountry: United KingdomTransmission time: 20:15-21:30Runtime: 75 mins Network - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 23 August 1975not specified

Credits (6)
Production Company: Granada Television, Producer: Kerry Crabbe, Researcher: Alex Marshall, Script: Ngaio Marsh, Designer: Knowles Bentley
Cast (15)
William Mervyn (Mr Justice Campbell), Jonathan Elsom (Marcus Golding QC), William Simons (Martin O'Connor), Joan Hickson (Mary Freebody), David Waller (Major Basil Ecclestone), Spencer Banks (Thomas Tidwell), Pauline Delany (Barbara Ecclestone), Dennis Edwards (Dr Ernest Smithson), Daphne Heard (Gwendoline Biggs), Richard Colson (clerk of court), Jo Day (jury foreman), Joseph Berry (court usher), Peter Wheeler (court reporter), Ronald Lewis (Dr Stephen Swale), Elizabeth Dawn ([female officer])