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Crime Story

Season 1
Some of Britain's most notorious crimes, dramatized in this powerful series - exciting, moving, and surprising cases that demonstrate how truth can be stranger than fiction.
IMDb 8.3199210 episodes
TV-MA
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Episodes

  1. S1 E1 - A Terrible Coldness
    December 21, 1993
    51min
    TV-MA
    White House Farm holds a sinister secret, one of the most horrific crimes of the 1980's.
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  2. S1 E2 - All Good Friends - The Case of The Handless Corpse
    November 30, 1993
    51min
    TV-MA
    The thoroughly unpleasant tale of Graham Young, a convicted poisoner at the tender age of 14, is told in this intriguing edition of Crime Story starring Mark Womack and Christine Mackie.
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  3. S1 E3 - Deadly Obsession
    October 15, 1992
    51min
    TV-MA
    A sinister case of intrigue, drugs and death. In 1979 two divers discovered the body of a young man in a flooded Lancashire quarry. The body was weighted down and both hands had been removed at the wrists.
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  4. S1 E4 - Dear Roy Love Gillian
    November 20, 1992
    50min
    TV-MA
    A story of jealousy and unrequited love which led to murder, based on the true story of Kathleen Calhaem, a respected business woman from Cheddar in Somerset. The murder was brutal and sinister involving battery and repeated stabbing.
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  5. S1 E5 - Gone Too Far: The Mystery of Mrs Muriel McKay
    November 20, 1992
    50min
    TV-MA
    Gillian is a shy 16-year old who becomes a pen-friend to Roy, a young prisoner. Plans for their first meeting end in tragedy. Starring Tara Simpson, Lawrence Mullin and Julia Booth.
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  6. S1 E6 - The Britoil Affair
    November 5, 1992
    51min
    TV-MA
    Muriel McKay was kidnapped from her home in Wimbledon on 29th December 1969 and her body was never found. The media was enlisted to try and help the police to find her. But the police blamed the media involvement for their failures.
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  7. S1 E7 - The Lady's Man
    November 5, 1992
    51min
    TV-MA
    A cunning plan to defraud one of the world's largest oil companies of more than £20 million is the subject of this programme. This is a story of intrigue and provides a dramatic reconstruction of a case that captured Europe's headlines.
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  8. S1 E8 - Wallpaper Warrior
    October 1, 1992
    50min
    TV-MA
    John Shrapnel and Mark McGann star in this dramatisation of one of the most intriguing crime stories in British criminal history. There is rivalry at Kirtleton Hall as two members of staff compete to rob the house, which results in a fatal shooting.
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  9. S1 E9 - The White House Farm Murders
    October 1, 1992
    51min
    TV-MA
    Eddie Horner gave the appearance of being an average man. He worked at a wallpaper factory in the north of England, lived with his mother and had no criminal record. Yet only seven months later, as leader of a self-styled Workers Army.
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  10. S1 E10 - Episode 10
    November 16, 1992
    52min
    TV-MA
    The story of British businessman Ian Spiro found dead in a Californian desert.
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Audio languages
English
Subtitles
English [CC]
Directors
Alan MacmillanSimon Massey
Starring
Peter O'BrienAnne ReidEd Devereaux
Studio
British True Crime
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