For Release: February 28th, 2000
Mystery! once again brings back the intrepid Inspector Morse in a compelling whodunit about murder, mayhem and politics. And much to the relief of fans everywhere, Morse's first name is finally revealed. The two-part program airs in one evening on KET and KET2, beginning at 8/7 p.m. CT, Thursday, March 16.
"Inspector Morse: Death is Now My Neighbor" finds Inspector Morse (John Thaw) and his sidekick Lewis (Kevin Whately) called in to investigate the mysterious deaths of two Oxfordshire neighbors, murdered only twenty-four hours apart--with the same gun. The investigation begins to unearth links between the two crimes, but it also leads Morse and Lewis straight into the hothouse atmosphere of the election for Master of Lonsdale College.
In Part One, a young woman (Julia Dalkin) is fatally shot. With only a valentine from an unsigned lover to go on, Morse talks to neighbors in the adjoining homes, including Geoffrey Owens (Mark McGann), an aggressive journalist, and Adele Cecil (Judy Loe), a music teacher with whom Morse is immediately taken--and who he secretly hopes is innocent. And then, at precisely the same time the next morning, Geoffrey Owens is shot and killed.
In Part Two, Morse and Lewis learn that the murders are connected to a discreetly but bitterly fought competition taking place at Oxford's Lonsdale College. The current Master of Lonsdale, the malicious Sir Clixby Breem (Richard Briers), is retiring, and two professors, Denis Cornford (Roger Allam) and Julian Storrs (John Shrapnel), are vying for the post, with their wives doing whatever they can to influence the election behind the scenes.
Mystery! "Inspector Morse: Death is Now My Neighbor," presented by WGBH/Boston, is closed-captioned for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. Viewers can find out more about programming on KET by visiting the KET Web site at http://www.ket.org, a Kentucky.com affiliate.
Contact: Todd Piccirilli
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