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Who Only Stand and Wait

Who Only Stand and Wait

1994TV Episode⏱️ 49mTV-PG
ComedyCrimeDrama
7.9
IMDB Rating
102 votes

The dismembered body of Claudette Thierry, who went missing eighteen years previously, is dug up on farmland and French detective Marianne Dupont is brought in to help Henry re-open the enquiry. At the time Fisher, then an inspect...

Director
Lawrence Gordon Clark
Writers
N/A
Stars
Richard Griffiths, Maggie Steed, Malcolm Sinclair
Release Date
May 8, 1994
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom, Australia
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🎭 Top Cast

Richard Griffiths
Richard Griffiths
as Henry Crabbe
Maggie Steed
Maggie Steed
as Margaret Crabbe
Malcolm Sinclair
Malcolm Sinclair
as Freddy Fisher
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Bella Enahoro
as P.C. Cambridge
Joe Duttine
Joe Duttine
as Steve Turner
Alison McKenna
Alison McKenna
as Linda
Ashley Russell
Ashley Russell
as John
Nick Raggett
Nick Raggett
as Henderson
Richard Ridings
Richard Ridings
as Gary Bourne
Jonathan Stratt
Jonathan Stratt
as Vic

🎬 Technical Specs

Color
Color
Filming Location
Reading Jail, Reading, Berkshire, UK
Production
WitzEnd Productions, SelecTV, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

🎯 Categories

ComedyCrimeDrama

💡 Did You Know?

Ian McNeice plays Barry Wilkes, whose catchphrase, "Some chicken! Some egg!" is a takeoff on a line from a speech by Winston Churchill: "When I warned them (the French) that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, 'In three weeks England would have her neck wrung like a chicken.' Some chicken! Some Neck." Canadian Parliament 30 December 1941.

In 2010 and 2011 Ian McNeice played Winston Churchill four times in Doctor Who.

📖 Synopsis

The dismembered body of Claudette Thierry, who went missing eighteen years previously, is dug up on farmland and French detective Marianne Dupont is brought in to help Henry re-open the enquiry. At the time Fisher, then an inspect...