The Charmer(1987)
Drama
First Air Date: 1987-10-18
Average Runtime: 50m
Rating: 4.0
Votes: 4
Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman and murderer, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, the smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her. It was made by London Weekend Television for ITV, and based on the 1953 novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy. The series was repeated in February and March 1990. ITV3 also repeated the series in full at 01:45am from 5 September 2009. Narrative repeats were on Mondays from 7 September 2009 at 10:05am.
Seasons & Episodes
Miniseries
Episodes: 6E01
Gorse, the Tempter
Air Date: 1987-10-18
After agreeing to house sit for friend Ronnie Shooter, Ralph Gorse meets solicitor Donald Stimpson for the first time...
E02
Gorse, the Investor
Air Date: 1987-10-25
After agreeing to house sit for friend Ronnie Shooter, Ralph Gorse meets solicitor Donald Stimpson for the first time...
E03
Gorse, the Deceiver
Air Date: 1987-11-01
Having swindled Joan Plumleigh-Bruce out of £1,000 Ralph has quickly spent it and is now cashing dud cheques. Once mo...
E04
Gorse in the Middle
Air Date: 1987-11-08
Ralph, having married Pamela as a way out of his financial difficulties is now feeling more trapped than ever, after ...
E05
Gorse, The Imposter
Air Date: 1987-11-15
No episode overview available.
E06
Gorse at the End
Air Date: 1987-11-22
The body of the man Ralph took the RAF uniform from is washed up on the beach, its reported that the body is Ralph. S...
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