Surprise Me!

Edge of Darkness. Part 1, Compassionate Leave, and 2, Into the Shadows, of 6.

2025-11-29 15 Dailymotion

First broadcast 4th/11th November 1985.

Yorkshire cop Craven returns home after picking his daughter Emma up at college, when a man fires a shotgun and kills Emma.

Bob Peck - Ronald Craven
Joanne Whalley - Emma Craven
Jack Watson - James Godbolt
Charles Kay - Pendleton
Joe Don Baker - Darius Jedburgh
John Woodvine - Ross
David Fleeshman - Jones
Randal Herley - Elliott
Bill Stewart - Dingle
Martin Dale - Detective
Mike Kelly - Detective
Peter Ivatts - Detective
Peter Lorenzelli - Detective
Ian Bleasdale - Driver
Martin Oldfield - Driver
Alan Starkey - Muntsey
Gordon Wharmby - Caretaker
Rita May - Tea Lady
Joan Campion - Hospital Almoner
Imogen Staley - Young Emma
Michael Meacher M.P. - Michael Meacher M.P.
Sean Caffrey - McCroon
Robin Day - Robin Day
Kenneth Kendall - Kenneth Kendall
Margaret Thatcher - Self (archive footage)
Ian McNeice - Harcourt
Tim McInnerny - Terry Shields
Paul Humpoletz - Elham
Robert Hickson - Desk Sergeant
Anthony Douse - Carlisle
Joel Cutrara - Merryweather
Mac McDonald - Kelly
Lesley Burt - Ellen
Sue Cook - TV Interviewer
Jay Roberts - Shadow

(Parts 3 and 4 haven't been blocked - but they have, for reasons beyond me, been "Age-Restricted". So they are out there somewhere.)