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Summary
Press baron Twiggy Rathbone (Robert Hardy) takes over the day-to-day running of a failing daily newspaper, 'The Crucible'.
Rathbone 'promotes' editor Harry Stringer (Geoffrey Palmer) to 'Managing Editor' but makes sure he has no power. Then he brings in a new editor, Russell Spam (Robert Hardy), giving him the job of turning the newspaper into a sleazy downmarket 'rag'.
Spam reinstates Greg Kettle (Richard Kettle), who had previously been sacked by Stringer. Kettle becomes the papers leading 'sleaze merchant', inventing stories whenever he can't find any real ones.
Stringer later vanishes after a mysterious accident on an aeroplane. He's replaced as Managing Editor by Richard Lipton (Richard Wilson).
Cast List
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Robert Hardy
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Russell Spam
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Robert Hardy
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Twiggy Rathbone
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Geoffrey Palmer
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Harold Stringer (Series 1)
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Richard Wilson
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Dicky Lipton (Series 2)
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Richard Kane
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Greg Kettle
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John Gordon Sinclair
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Bill Tytla (Series 1)
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John Horsley
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Father Teasdale (Series 1)
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Geoffrey Hutchings
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Max Rutherford (Series 1)
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David Barrass
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Jack Thrush (Series 2)
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Caroline Milmoe
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Maggie Troon (Series 2)
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Production Details
Written by:
Andrew Marshall, David Renwick
Directed by:
David Askey, Nic Phillips
Produced by:
Humphrey Barclay
2 series, 12 episodes
Transmitted: 1986; 1988
TV Channel: ITV
London Weekend Television
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