
It all started with a young girl’s scream …
Alec Graham is sentenced to death for the murder of his girlfriend Jennie, with whom he spent a weekend at the English country home of the parents of his friend Brian Stanford. Alec’s father, David Graham, a not-so-successful writer and alcoholic who has neglected his son in the past, flies in from Canada to visit his son on death row. David then goes on a quest to try and clear his son’s name while battling “the bottle.”

Alec McCowen
Alec Graham

Renée Houston
Mrs. Harker

Lois Maxwell
Vickie Harker

Richard Wordsworth
Maxwell - the MP

George Devine
Barnes - the Editor

Joan Plowright
Agnes Cole

Ernest Clark
Under Secretary