I'll Be Watching You
Written by Stephen Volk
(BBC1, 1995) (1 x 1hr)
(Standalone drama in the BBC1 series "Ghosts")
(BBC1, 1995) (1 x 1hr)
(Standalone drama in the BBC1 series "Ghosts")
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Jack Rudkin, a violent criminal psychopath who reigned London by intimidation and terror in the 1960s, has been locked away in prison with a life sentence. But when a fellow convict stabs him, the chance brush with death gives Rudkin an "out-of-body experience". Subsequently he finds that the prison walls are not the impediment they ought to be. And with this (highly uncharacteristic) new-found psychic awareness, he slowly plans his revenge against those who have wronged him in the past... and in the present.
"Resembled off-cuts of EastEnders rewritten by Edgar Allan Poe" Private Eye
"Looks like the Beeb has hit on another winning formula" Patrick McGuire, letter to Radio Times
Directed by John Strickland
Produced by Ruth Baumgarten & Andrée Molyneux
(stand-alone film in the BBC1 series "Ghosts", 1995)
Jack Rudkin.......................Derrick O'Connor
Suzi Rudkin........................Anita Dobson
Les Rudkin.........................David Hayman
Spivey.................................Paddy Joyce
DS Cochrane......................Dominic Taylor
Dylan..................................Dermot Keaney
PCO Messiter....................Oscar James
Pat Rudkin.........................Vivienne Ritchie
PO Pomeroy......................Bernard Latham
"Stonewashed".................Gary Sefton
Helen.................................Sheila Ruskin
Jack Rudkin, a violent criminal psychopath who reigned London by intimidation and terror in the 1960s, has been locked away in prison with a life sentence. But when a fellow convict stabs him, the chance brush with death gives Rudkin an "out-of-body experience". Subsequently he finds that the prison walls are not the impediment they ought to be. And with this (highly uncharacteristic) new-found psychic awareness, he slowly plans his revenge against those who have wronged him in the past... and in the present.
"Resembled off-cuts of EastEnders rewritten by Edgar Allan Poe" Private Eye
"Looks like the Beeb has hit on another winning formula" Patrick McGuire, letter to Radio Times
Directed by John Strickland
Produced by Ruth Baumgarten & Andrée Molyneux
(stand-alone film in the BBC1 series "Ghosts", 1995)
Jack Rudkin.......................Derrick O'Connor
Suzi Rudkin........................Anita Dobson
Les Rudkin.........................David Hayman
Spivey.................................Paddy Joyce
DS Cochrane......................Dominic Taylor
Dylan..................................Dermot Keaney
PCO Messiter....................Oscar James
Pat Rudkin.........................Vivienne Ritchie
PO Pomeroy......................Bernard Latham
"Stonewashed".................Gary Sefton
Helen.................................Sheila Ruskin
