TV series
The Massingham Affair
1964 · 1 season
A slow, sober period procedural that builds quiet tension as a principled outsider pushes against institutional power.
- Created by
- Paddy Russell
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Starring
- Lyndon Brook, Eileen Atkins, Geoffrey Bayldon
- Overview
- The Massingham Affair was a six-part British crime drama broadcast on BBC 2 in late 1964. Set in 19th-century Yorkshire, the story follows a young solicitor's clerk who risks his career to prove that local police are railroading two innocent men into a murder conviction.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Justice, corruption, class, deception
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
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- Created by
- Paddy Russell
- Genres
- Crime, Drama
- Starring
- Lyndon Brook, Eileen Atkins, Geoffrey Bayldon
