The Charmer (1987) (Episode 4)

Part 4 of 6 of the period thriller. Now trapped in a marriage with his employer's daughter Pamela after her shock revelation, Ralph Gorse plots a way of escape as he tries to better himself. But he finds himself up against his resentful father in law Harold Bennett, who refuses to promote him in his workplace, and becomes increasingly disturbed by Donald Stimpson's digging into his background and contact with his wife. When he resumes his affair with Clarice Mannors he begins to form a money making idea in order to escape with her. But his plan goes badly - and fatally - wrong...

Starring Nigel Havers, Bernard Hepton, Fiona Fullerton, Rosemary Leach, Abigail McKern, George Baker, Gillian Raine, Terence Hardiman, Andy Greenhalgh, John Bott, Andrew Bicknell, Pamela Lyne, Jason James, Graham Cull and Matthew Devitt. Watch out for Terrence Hardiman - best known for The Demon Headmaster and Secret Army among others - giving a delightfully droll and intelligent performance as a insurance agent who proves more than a match for Ralph Gorse.