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8. Cause for Alarm

Accident or arson? Investigator 'Q' Barnaby probes a blaze in a hardware store. Stars Robert Beatty. From 1962.

Claude Routledge opens a hardware shop on a new housing estate, which, on the surface, seems to be successful.

So why is the agent from the Eastern Loan Company a regular visitor?

Quentin Barnaby must solve another mysterious case...

Starring Robert Beatty.

Philip Levene’s series of intriguing cases for a fire investigator.

'Q' Barnaby ... Robert Beatty
Val Crane … Gudrun Ure
Inspector Hackett … Duncan McIntyre
Alec Groves … Anthony Hall
Claude Routledge ... Malcolm Hayes
Sue Routledge ... Sulwen Morgan
Dave Campbell ... Peter Claughton
Ernie Nelson ... John Baddeley
Brian Jarvis ... Kenneth Dight
Mrs Adams ... Mary O'Farrell

Producer: Martyn C Webster

First broadcast on the BBC Light Service in Programme in 1962.

30 minutes

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Fri 10 Oct 202501:00

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