Class of '76 (2005) (TV)

Director:

Ashley Pearce

Writer:

John Ireland (writer)

Release Date:

3 October 2005 (UK)

Genre:

Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller

Plot Keywords:

Class Picture | Classmate | Mystery Killer

Cast

  (Credited cast)

Robert Carlyle	...	DI Tom Monroe
Daniel Mays	...	DS Steven Grant
Claire Skinner	...	Dr. Kate Tremaine
Robert Glenister	...	Frank Thompson
Sean Gallagher	...	Colin Somerville
Tony Haygarth	...	DS Pritchard
Anton Lesser	...	Martin Gibson
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
David Acton	...	Psychologist
Emma Cater	...	Sharon Reid
Amelia Curtis	...	Monica Grant
Kevin French	...	Aiden Thompson
Davyd Harries	...	Cliff Fisher
Martin Herdman	...	Caretaker
Belle Hithersay	...	Alison Carter (as Belle Mary Hithersay)
William Ilkley	...	Charlie Drain
Paul Ireland	...	Andy
Tonya Kerins	...	Receptionist
Peter Lovstrom	...	Petrol Station Manager
Stephen Mapes	...	Pat Fisher
Rosalind March	...	Mrs. Mitchell
Diana Payan	...	Anne Thompson
Veronica Roberts	...	Mrs. Spencer
Pip Torrens	...	Supt Flood

Also Known As:

Monroe - Class of '76 (Australia)

Runtime:

UK:180 min (including commercials) (2 parts)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

Australia:M

Filming Locations:

Leigh-on-Sea, Essex, England, UK

Company:

Zenith Entertainment

Quotes:

[first lines]
Pat Fisher: Amy was the first. It happened on a Sunday. She was picking Bluebells. The place where they found her was always a favorite. We built our tree house near there then, our sanctuary. Her last minutes of trouble-less innocence...

Variable thriller saved by good acting

As others have written, this thriller starts out as an enthralling and incomprehensible mystery. A young man appears to commit suicide after visiting the site where a classmate was murdered thirty years before. It seems he is haunted by the murder, or is he threatened by the murderer, who has never been caught? Robert Carlyle, who, as usual, gives an excellent performance, plays the detective investigating the mysterious death. However, the show spends a lot of time with spooky photography, revisiting the original murder, and with Carlyle driving up and down country lanes to the town where the murder was committed. We have the usual dimwit Chief Inspector telling him to back off, the somewhat clodhopping junior officer doing it all wrong, and Carlyle taking leave to continue with his investigation because of his obsession with the case. The second episode loses the plot a bit, and it becomes irritating as the plot becomes silly. It was an interesting mystery, well acted, but the end is more than a bit daft and I ended up not feeling very satisfied by it.