Breaking Bad
2008 · Drama · Crime
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TV series / 1988
The Franchise Affair
Episode directors
Leonard Lewis
A schoolgirl who has been missing for weeks returns home covered in bruises. She says two women kidnapped her, held her captive in an isolated house and beat her. Taken by the police to the house she described, she identifies it and the mother and daughter who live there. They call in a lawyer, who has only days to find evidence that will break the girl's story.
The story
A schoolgirl who has been missing for weeks returns home covered in bruises. She says two women kidnapped her, held her captive in an isolated house and beat her. Taken by the police to the house she described, she identifies it and the mother and daughter who live there. They call in a lawyer, who has only days to find evidence that will break the girl's story.
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A schoolgirl who has been missing for weeks returns home covered in bruises. She says two women kidnapped her, held her captive in an isolated house and beat her. Taken by the police to the house she described, she identifies it and the mother and daughter who live there. They call in a lawyer, who has only days to find evidence that will break the girl's story.
Cast
Patrick MalahideRobert Blair
Joanna McCallumMarion Sharpe
Rosalie CrutchleyMrs Sharpe
Alex JenningsNevil Bennet
David EllisonInspector John Hallam
Miranda BellMiss Tuff
James GarbuttMr Heseltine
Penelope NiceMrs Wynn
Grant ParsonsLeslie Wynn
Jean HeywoodAunt Lin
Kate Emma DaviesBetty Kane
John VineDI Grant
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Edward WilsonBenjamin Carley
Timothy BlockStanley Peters
Peter James HollowayHerbert
Jo RowbottomMildred Pinner
Catherine TerrisAnita Kenton
David DoyleWallis
Roger BrierleyRamsden
Alan DownerEinar Lange
Frances AtkinsonRose Glyn
Alexander JohnMr Piper
Frank MillsAlbert
Gareth MilnePressman · Lorry Driver
Bryan MurrayKevin MacDermott
Chris HumphreysBernard Chadwick
Gabrielle GlaisterFrances Chadwick
Margaret JohnWaitress
David AllisterMiles Allison
Gordon SalkilldBus Inspector
Roy SpencerTicket Inspector
Philip PraegerMechanic
Gaylie RuncimanWoman on Train
George WaringMagistrate
Ray BlakeCourt Usher
John RinghamJudge
Patrick BlackwellJury Foreman
David McEwanCourt Usher
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