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A Murder Is Announced
It is somewhere in the middle of England in 1950.
Britain is still in the grip of food, fuel and clothing rationing.
In the little village of Chipping Cleghorn, quite close to the town of Medenham Wells, an announcement appears in the local newspaper, at the foot of the personal columns:
A murder is announced and will take place on Friday, October the thirteenth, at Little Paddocks - at six-thirty p.m. Friends please accept this, the only intimation.
The owner of Little Paddocks, Miss Blacklock, is set into quite a tizzy by this, but not quite as much as some other occupants of this house.
Cast in order of appearance:
| Julia Simmons | Alexandra de Peyer |
| Letitia Blacklock | Mary Valach |
| Dora Bunner | Anna Michelsen |
| Patrick Simmons | Mark Stern |
| Mitzi | Elisabeth Leitner |
| Miss Marple | Sheila Berger |
| Phillipa Haymes | Claudia Winfield |
| Mrs Swettenham | Lynn Morgan |
| Edmund Swettenham | Samuel Bewick |
| Ruedi Scherz | Branko Lovakovic |
| Inspector Craddock | Brian Morgan |
| Sergeant Mellors | Philip Gooda |
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Production Manager - Phil Gooda
Stage Manager - Josephina Delahaye
Set Construction - Chris Mitton
Set Decoration - Suzanne Seiler
Lights/Sounds - Bruce Caldwell and Jimmy Mast
Artwork - Phil Gooda
Props - Suzanne Seiler, Robyne McKeown, Phil Gooda, Sheila Berger
Costumes - Robyne McKeown
Antique Furniture - Rösti, Gümligen
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Acknowledgements:
With sincere thanks to
- The Schweizerhof Hotel
- Restaurant zu Webern
- Thomas Schafroth, Breitenrain