| Murder in Eden | |
|---|---|
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| Genre | Crime drama |
| Based on | Bogmail by Patrick McGinley |
| Written by | Shane Connaughton |
| Directed by | Nicholas Renton |
| Starring | Peter Firth Ian Bannen Alun Armstrong Tony Doyle Tina Kellegher Sean Lawlor |
| Country of origin | Ireland |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Producer | Robert Cooper |
| Cinematography | Dave Bennett |
| Running time | 55 minutes |
| Production company | BBC Worldwide |
| Original release | |
| Network | BBC1 |
| Release | 19 July – 2 August 1991 |
Murder in Eden is a British television crime drama miniseries, consisting of three fifty-minute episodes, that first broadcast on 19 July 1991 on BBC1.[1] The series stars Alun Armstrong as Sergeant McGing, a police officer in rural County Donegal who investigates when Tim Roarty (Tony Doyle), the landlord of a local pub, murders his barman after being blackmailed by one of the other inhabitants of the village. While the police are busy hunting for the killer, parts of the victim's body continue to resurface. The miniseries was written by Shane Connaughton and directed by Nicholas Renton.
The series was based on the novel Bogmail by author Patrick McGinley, first published in 1978.[2] The series was filmed in and around the Glencolmcille and Teelin areas in 1990.[3] The series co-starred Ian Bannen and Peter Firth as quarrelling neighbours Canon Loftus and Kenneth Potter. In 2016, just short of twenty-five years after it first aired, Murder in Eden was uploaded in full to YouTube, thought to be first time it had resurfaced since its original broadcast.[3] Notably, it has yet to be released on DVD.
There is to a new series to be added called “Weekend at Alan’s” … All to be confirmed in due course.
