Murder Being Once Done
- Episode 13 / Series 4
- First transmitted in three parts in 1991
- Adapted from the novel by Matthew Jacobs
- Directed by John Gorrie
- A Television South Production
- DVD
This is London. Not Kingsmarkham We’ve hardly any men on the case. We need all the help we can get.
Mike Burden is on secondment in London. He is investigating the murder of a young woman found strangled in Kenbourne Vale cemetery vault when Reg Wexford, who is convalescing after a thrombosis, comes to stay in nearby Chelsea with his nephew, Superintendent Howard Fortune. Burden’s case is not progressing well, and Wexford decides to go against the doctor’s orders and embark upon his own unofficial investigation.
Credits
- DCI Wexford
- George Baker
- DI Burden
- Christopher Ravenscroft
- Dora Wexford
- Louie Ramsay
- Jenny Burden
- Diane Keen
- Dr Len Crocker
- John Burgess 1
- DI Baker
- John Forgeham 2
- Brian Gregson
- Philip Glenister
- Sgt Clemens
- George Sweeney
- Ivan Teal
- Ian McNeice
- Postman
- Derek Hicks
- Elderly Man
- Hugh Dickson 3
- Barman
- Nigel Gregory
- Hannah Peters
- Valerie Whittington
- Mrs Lyle
- Constance Chapman 4
- Stephen Dearborn
- Michael Elwyn
- Melanie Dearborn
- Polly Adams
- Peggy Pope
- Lizzy McInnerny
- Johnny Lamont
- Tom Radcliffe
- Verity
- Charlotte Attenborough
- Receptionist
- Colin Meredith
- Script Executive
- Corinne Cartier 5
- Original music composed by
- Brian Bennett
- Casting Director
- Doreen Jones 6
- Production Manager
- Mark Cooper
- Location Managers
- Ian Strachan, Dennis Firminger
- 1st Assistant Director
- Francesco Reidy
- Continuity
- Liz West
- Production Secretary
- Cathie Willcocks
- Stage Manager
- Mike Fisher
- Production Buyer
- Geoff Burford
- Graphic Design
- The Original Graphics Company
- Costume Designer
- Wendy McCullagh
- Makeup Supervisor
- Toni Holmes
- Camera Grip
- Alan Imeson
- Designer
- Christine Ruscoe
- Dubbing Mixer
- Tony Cunningham
- Dubbing Editor
- Peter Dansie
- Sound Recordist
- Maurice Hillier
- Film Editor
- Christopher Wentzell
- Lighting Cameraman
- Ken Brinsley BSC
- Executive Producer
- Graham Benson
- Producer
- Neil Zeiger
Soundtrack
- Wexford’s Theme
- Letters from the Past
- A Cry from the Tomb
- Strange Confessions
- Wexford’s Theme (Reprise)
Notes
The Wexford soundtrack was composed, performed, arranged and produced by Brian Bennett at Honeyhill Studios in Hertfordshire.
Murder Being Once Done is set in the fictitious London borough of Kenbourne Vale. The St Mary’s area in Southampton was used for many of the external London scenes.
Jenny and Mike Burden’s storyline had to be written into the episode as they do not appear in Ruth Rendell’s novel.
Footnotes
John Burgess 1933-2010: obituary by Mike Leigh, The Guardian. ↩︎
John Forgeham 1941-2017: obituary Anthony Hayward, The Guardian. ↩︎
Hugh Dickson 1927-2018: obituary by Alan Brownjohn, The Guardian. ↩︎
Constance Chapman 1912-2003: obituary by Eric Shorter, The Guardian. ↩︎
Doreen Jones 1940-2017: obituary by Derek Granger, The Guardian. ↩︎