'The Bogman of Letchmoor Heath' by Anthony Adams

Ian’s mum gets a call from her sister Gertie, who has dug up the perfectly-preserved corpse of a hanged-man in a peat bog in her garden. Gertie and her fellow villagers of Letchmoor Heath are overjoyed, seeing a way to bring fame and fortune their way, and so she wants her nephew to examine it for them. Only too happy to oblige, Ian sets off with Randi to pay Gertie a visit, but when they arrive, they learn that the seamstress has just been murdered, her eyes and mouth gruesomely sewn shut. After the funeral, Ian and Rani decide to stay behind to find Gertie’s murderer; Rani looks forward to the prospect of sharing a room at the local pub, but Ian insists on setting some teacher-student boundaries. Meanwhile, downstairs, the pub barmaid, Abigail, closes up for the night; but as she bids goodbye to the bogman, now proudly on display in the middle of the taproom, the corpse comes to life and strangles Abigail, then stuffs her body into a beer barrel with a tap rammed down her throat. The local bobby, P.C. Leary, turns to Ian and Randi for help, and it isn’t long before a third victim is found: the baker, Mr Oates, his corpse crammed inside his oven. With the village now in a state of terror, Ian and Randi pay a visit to the local poacher, Fergus Grey, and discover he shares a link with the reanimated murderer…

Kate Hodge (Randi Wallace), Neil Dickson (Professor Ian Matheson), Jean Challis (Mum Matheson), Arthur Cox (Dad Matheson), Scott Fults (Julian Matheson), Dorothea Phillips (Aunt Elsa), John Hallam (Fergus Grey), Pamela Duncan (Gertie), Charles Lewson (Angus), Eve Ferret (Abigail), Roger Winslett (Mr. Oates), Adrian Cairns (Rev. Goodbody), Richard Coleman (P.C. Leary), Stuart Gordon (Fiddler), Andy Davis (Bodhranist)

Directed by Roger Cheveley
Produced by David Roessell
Executive producers Patrick Dromgoole, Paul Sarony, Bill Finnegan, Pat Finnegan and Sheldon Pinchuk

TX (US): 16th October 1990

Notes:
*Featuring Randi Wallace and Professor Ian Matheson