The Next
Scream You Hear
(ITC Movie title "Not Guilty")
Original UK transmission: 6th July 1974
Original US transmission: 16th July 1974
WRITTEN BY: Brian Clemens
DIRECTED BY: Robert D. Cardona
PRODUCED BY: John Sichel
MAIN CAST: Christopher George (Bernard Peel), Dinsdale Landen
(Matthew Earp), Richard Todd (Tulliver), Suzanne Neve (Blonde),
Edward Hardwicke (Gifford), Derek Bond (Maycroft), Hans Meyer
(Karl Vorster), Frank Wylie (Hendry), Andrew Mann (Garfield),
Marion Diamond (Jennifer Peel), Belinda Mayne (Boutique
Assistant)
Teaser
Sequence
The camera pans across a country landscape; in a greenhouse a
young woman and an elderly woman are at work when a phone can be
heard to ring. The younger woman goes into the house to answer
it, and is distressed to find an anonymous caller at the other
end. The voice tells her that her husband is cheating on her, and
to go home at once. He then hangs up, and she is left with a
worried look on her face.
(NOTE: In the movie version this sequence is intercut with extraneous US footage of a man wearing a stocking over his head)
Plot
Summary
Businessman Bernard Peel is being framed for the murder of his
wife and calls in private detective extraordinaire Matthew Earp.
The flamboyant Earp pieces together a scenario that is completely
at odds with the official version, much to the annoyance of the
authorities. However, there are some disturbing implications to
the evidence. Is Peel really being framed, or he is cleverer than
he looks?
Comments
This is virtually just another vehicle for the character of
Matthew Earp (who had first appeared in Season One's An
Echo Of Theresa ), but fortunately he is in even sharper form this
time around. In fact, if the show had been made a few years
earlier it's highly possible Earp could have wound up in an ITC
production of his own. The script is workmanlike but full of
incident. Christopher George was the real life husband of Lynda
Day George who had appeared in the previous week's episode
"Come Out Come Out Wherever You Are". Worth catching,
though should not be confused with the similarly titled classic The
Next Voice You See.
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