First broadcast 16th/23rd February 1986.
What will the tycoon owner of Rathouse International do to Harry Stringer's respectable but doomed Daily Crucible?
Geoffrey Palmer - Harold Stringer
Richard Kane - Greg Kettle
Robert Hardy - Twiggy Rathbone/Russell Spam
Geoffrey Hutchings - Max Rutherford
Aubrey Morris - Old Man
Edita Brychta - Lady Deborah
Helena McCarthy - Old Woman
Sean Blowers - Photographer
Roderic Leigh - Reporter
Aden Gillett - Reporter (as Aden Gillet)
Christopher Timothy - Newsreader (voice)
Jack Watling - Prime Minister MacNamara
Aubrey Morris - Nikita Kruschev
John Gordon Sinclair - Bill Tytla (as John Gordon-Sinclair)
Yvonne D'Alpra - Mrs Tape
John Horsley - Father Teasdale
Helen Atkinson Wood - Television Interviewer (as Helen Atkinson-Wood)
Eliza Buckingham - Mrs MacNamara
Michael Chesden - Waiter
Nicholas Geake - Television Announcer
Julia Gilbert - Asst. Stage Manager
