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Virtual Murder

Kim Thomson and Nicholas Clay as Samantha Valentine and Dr John Cornelius in Virtual Murder
Format Drama
Mystery
Created by Harry Robertson and Brian Degas
Starring Nicholas Clay
Kim Thomson
Stephen Yardley
Jude Akuwuike
Alan David
Carole Boyd
Theme music composer Harry Robertson
Country of origin Flag of the United Kingdom United Kingdom
Language(s) English
No. Kim Thomson (born 1960 in London) is an English actress who has worked since the mid 1980s in British Regional theatre and West End theatre Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay ( September 18, 1946 - May 25, 2000) was a British Actor. Drama is the specific mode of Fiction represented in Performance. Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay ( September 18, 1946 - May 25, 2000) was a British Actor. Kim Thomson (born 1960 in London) is an English actress who has worked since the mid 1980s in British Regional theatre and West End theatre Stephen Yardley (born 24 March 1942) is an English Actor, known for his work on British Television in the 1970s and 1980s Alan David (born 29 December 1947 Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan) is a Welsh television actor Carole Boyd (Born in 1947 is a British Actress. She has had a career in theatre television and radio and plays Lynda Snell in BBC Radio 4 's The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located English is a West Germanic language originating in England and is the First language for most people in the United Kingdom, the United States  of episodes 6
Production
Executive
producer(s)		 Barry Hanson
Producer(s) Harry Robertson and Brian Degas
Running time c. 50 minutes per episode
Broadcast
Original channel BBC1
Original run 24 July 1992 – 28 August 1992
External links
IMDb profile
TV.com summary

Virtual Murder was an unusual investigative drama series shown on BBC television in 1992. Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) It starred Nicholas Clay as Dr John Cornelius, a psychology lecturer at a provincial university, and Kim Thomson as his vivacious, red-headed partner, Samantha Valentine. Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay ( September 18, 1946 - May 25, 2000) was a British Actor. Kim Thomson (born 1960 in London) is an English actress who has worked since the mid 1980s in British Regional theatre and West End theatre

Contents

Subject matter and cast

Virtual Murder was in the mould of some earlier off-beat series, such as The Avengers and Adam Adamant Lives!, both shown in the 1960s. The Avengers was a British Television series featuring Secret agents in 1960s Britain. Adam Adamant Lives! was a British Television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC Like Steed and Emma Peel or Adam Adamant and Georgina Jones, Cornelius ("JC") and Valentine investigated a succession of rather eccentric or bizarre occurrences. John Steed is a fictional character played by Patrick Macnee, on the British series The Avengers and The New Avengers. Emma Peel was a fictional Television Spy played by Diana Rigg in the British 1960s adventure series The Avengers. Miss Georgina Jones was a fictional modish young woman living in the Soho area of London in the mid 1960s They often did so in cooperation with the police, represented by Stephen Yardley as Inspector Cadogan and Jude Akuwuike as Sergeant Gummer. Stephen Yardley (born 24 March 1942) is an English Actor, known for his work on British Television in the 1970s and 1980s Complementing the occult elements and those of virtual reality, there was a thread of playful, sometimes dark humour running through the scripts and an underlying sexual frisson between Clay and Thomson. The word occult comes from the Latin word occultus (clandestine hidden secret referring to "knowledge of the hidden" Virtual reality ( VR) is a technology which allows a user to interact with a Computer-simulated environment be it a real or imagined one

Other regular characters were Professor Owen Griffiths (Alan David) and Phoebe Littlejohn (Carole Boyd, best known for her role as Lynda Snell in BBC radio’s The Archers). Alan David (born 29 December 1947 Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan) is a Welsh television actor Carole Boyd (Born in 1947 is a British Actress. She has had a career in theatre television and radio and plays Lynda Snell in BBC Radio 4 's The Archers is a British radio Soap opera broadcast on the BBC 's main spoken-word channel, Radio 4.

Production

The series was created and produced at the BBC’s Pebble Mill studios in Birmingham by Brian Degas,[1] a scriptwriter for the film Barbarella (1968) and co-creator of the TV series Colditz (1972), and Harry Robertson, best known as a composer of film music (mostly under the name of Harry Robinson). For the talk show see Pebble Mill at One. The BBC Birmingham network production centre Pebble Mill was located in Edgbaston, a suburb of Birmingham Birmingham ( ˈbɜːmɪŋəm Ber -ming-um Barbarella is a 1968 erotic sci-fi film directed by Roger Vadim and based on the French Barbarella comics Colditz is a British Television series made as a co-production between the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 [2] The original title of the series was Nimrod but this was changed to Virtual Murder – this was the original title of the script for what was intended to be the first episode, later renamed “Dreams Imagic”. [3] As things transpired “Dreams Imagic” was, in fact, the last episode to be broadcast. Direction of the episodes was shared between Philip Draycott[4] and Peter Rose[5] with the episodes recorded between 12 August 1991 and 28 February 1992 on location in Birmingham, Milton Keynes, Kidderminster and Wolverhampton as well as at Studio A in Pebble Mill. Events 1099 - First Crusade: Battle of Ascalon - Crusaders under the command of Godfrey of Bouillon defeat Fatimid Year 1991 ( MCMXCI) was a Common year starting on Tuesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar. Events 202 BC - coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han takes place initiating four centuries of the Han Dynasty 's rule Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Milton Keynes ( ˌmɪltənˈkiːnz often abbreviated to MK, is a large town Kidderminster is a town in the Wyre Forest district of Worcestershire, England. [3] All but “Dreams Imagic” had an array of guest stars.

The series

Episodes

Six episodes of Virtual Murder were made and broadcast by the BBC on Friday evenings in 1992:[6]

Critical reaction

On the whole, the series received a lukewarm critical response with Lynne Truss in The Times summing it up as “The Avengers re-written by someone who heard about it once but never actually saw it”. Events 1132 - Battle of Nocera between Ranulf II of Alife and Roger II of Sicily. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Philip Martin (born 1938 in Liverpool) is an English television Screenwriter. Helen Lederer (born Llandovery, Wales, September 24 1954) is a British Comedian, writer and Actress who emerged as Bernard Bresslaw ( February 25 1934 – June 11 1993) was an English Actor. Julia Foster (born 2 August 1943 in Lewes, Sussex, England) is a British actress. Events 30 BC - Battle of Alexandria: Mark Antony achieves a minor victory over Octavian 's forces but most of his army subsequently Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Richard Todd (born 11 June 1919 is a British Actor, Soldier and film star Events 322 BC - Battle of Crannon between Athens and Macedon following the death of Alexander the Great. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Dr Tony Robinson (born 15 August 1946 in Leytonstone, London) is an English Actor, broadcaster and Hywel Thomas Bennett (born 8 April 1944 is a Welsh Actor. Bennett was born in Garnant, Carmarthenshire, Wales, the son of Dora Mary Broadbent OBE (born 7 February 1924 in Southport) usually known by her stage name Dora Bryan, is an English Events 1183 - Taira no Munemori and the Taira clan take the young Emperor Antoku and the three sacred treasures Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) John Devon Roland Pertwee (7 July 1919 – 20 May 1996 better known as Jon Pertwee, was an English Actor. Bernard Horsfall (born 20 November 1930 in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire) is a British actor Events 1192 - Minamoto Yoritomo becomes Seii Tai Shōgun and the De facto ruler of Japan. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Julian Clary (born 25 May 1959 is an English Comedian and Writer, known for his playing-on-stereotypes camp style with a heavy reliance on Ronald Fraser ( 11 April 1930 &ndash March 13 1997) was an English Character actor, who appeared in numerous British Jill Gascoine (born 11 April, 1937) is an English actress and Novelist She is best known for her role as Maggie Forbes on the Alfred Edward Marks OBE (28 January 1921 - 1 July 1996 was a comic actor and comedian Peggy Mount OBE, (2 May 1915 - 13 November 2001 born Margaret Rose Mount, was an English actress of stage and screen Events 475 - The Roman General Orestes forces western Roman Emperor Julius Nepos to flee his Capital Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Lynne Truss (born 1955) is an English writer and journalist who was born in Kingston upon Thames. The Times is a daily national Newspaper published in the United Kingdom since 1785 when it was known as The Daily Universal Register. [7] Another commentator, who, on balance, judged the series a failure, described it as being pitched "uncomfortabl[y] somewhere between the camp of The Avengers and the dark fantasy of The X-Files"[8], although the latter highly-acclaimed American science fiction series post-dates Virtual Murder by over a year. The X-Files is a Peabody, Golden Globe and Emmy Award -winning American Science fiction television series created by Chris Carter Others have blamed the summer evening scheduling for jeopardising its chances of success. [9]

Ratings fell from 6. 53 million for the opening episode to 4. 9 million for the fourth episode and the series was not renewed for a second season. [10] Virtual Murder is well regarded in some quarters: for example, the eminent television historian Andrew Pixley, recalling the show in 2002, wrote, “Finally, I thought, somebody had been brave enough to craft a modern thriller which, while captured on videotape, boasted all the style, fun and imagination of the great British film series of the 1960s such as The Avengers and Department S”. Department S was a British Espionage / Science fiction adventure series produced by ITC Entertainment. [11] However, the series remains largely forgotten today and, as of early 2008, has never been repeated, nor released in any video format. Video is the technology of electronically capturing, Recording, processing storing transmitting and reconstructing a sequence of Still images

Notes and references

  1. ^ Brian Degas at the Internet Movie Database
  2. ^ Harry Robertson at the Internet Movie Database
  3. ^ a b Pixley, Andrew (1997). "The Murder of a Series (in the Summer graveyard slot)". TV Zone (Special #26: Anniversaries Special '97): p. TV Zone is a British Magazine published every four weeks by Visual Imagination that covers Cult television. 8–11. ISSN 0960-8230.  
  4. ^ Philip Draycott at the Internet Movie Database
  5. ^ Peter Rose at the Internet Movie Database
  6. ^ Virtual Murder. BBC Programme Catalogue. British Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved on 2007-01-06. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1066 - Harold Godwinson is crowned King of England. 1205 - Philip of Swabia becomes King
  7. ^ Truss, Lynne. Lynne Truss (born 1955) is an English writer and journalist who was born in Kingston upon Thames. "TV Review: Fifty Ways to End it All", The Times, News Corp. , 1992-08-08. Year 1992 ( MCMXCII) was a Leap year starting on Wednesday (link will display full 1992 Gregorian calendar) Events 1220 - Sweden is defeated by Estonian tribes in the Battle of Lihula.  
  8. ^ Virtual Murder [1992]. EOFFTV. Retrieved on 2007-01-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
  9. ^ See, for example: Seymour, Kieran (2002). Virtual Murder Episode Guide. Action TV Online. Retrieved on 2007-01-19. Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Events 1419 - Hundred Years' War: Rouen surrenders to Henry V of England completing his reconquest of Normandy.
  10. ^ May, Dominic; Clark, Stuart & Yau, Edward (October 1992). "News: Ratings". TV Zone (35): p. TV Zone is a British Magazine published every four weeks by Visual Imagination that covers Cult television. 4. ISSN 0957-9844.  
  11. ^ Pixley, Andrew (2002). "Virtual Murder". TV Zone (Special #45: TV Heroes): p. TV Zone is a British Magazine published every four weeks by Visual Imagination that covers Cult television. 30.  

External links

Virtual Murder
Nicholas Clay — Kim Thomson — Stephen Yardley
Nicholas Anthony Phillip Clay ( September 18, 1946 - May 25, 2000) was a British Actor. Kim Thomson (born 1960 in London) is an English actress who has worked since the mid 1980s in British Regional theatre and West End theatre Stephen Yardley (born 24 March 1942) is an English Actor, known for his work on British Television in the 1970s and 1980s
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