• 2008
  • TV-PG
  • 46m
Place of Execution

Summary A young girl mysteriously vanishes from her English village home. 45 years later, a journalist's attempts to make a documentary on the case threaten to shatter the lives of all involved. View more details

  • 2008
  • TV-PG
  • 46m

Place of Execution

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Juliet Stevenson Lee Ingleby Emma Cunniffe Philip Jackson

All cast & crew

7.4

Details

Genres : Thriller Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 21, 2008

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : South Tyneside District Hospital, Harton Lane, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

Production companies : Coastal Productions

Summary A young girl mysteriously vanishes from her English village home. 45 years later, a journalist's attempts to make a documentary on the case threaten to shatter the lives of all involved. View more details

Details

Genres : Thriller Mystery Crime Drama

Release date : Sep 21, 2008

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Filming locations : South Tyneside District Hospital, Harton Lane, South Shields, Tyne and Wear, England, UK

Production companies : Coastal Productions

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Place of Execution (2008) Place of Execution (2008) Lee Ingleby, Juliet Stevenson, and Greg Wise in Place of Execution (2008)

Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 21, 2008
Episode #1.1
In 1963 schoolgirl Alison Carter disappears from the village of Scardale and young policeman George Bennett investigates. Although there is no body it is treated with the seriousness of a murder case, suspects numbering Alison's school-friend Charlie Lomas, though he is eliminated from enquiries and her uncle Simon, a known sex offender, who is later found dead in a field, an apparent suicide. Further evidence points towards Alison's stepfather, Philip Hawkin, an aloof man disliked by the locals and when a gun is stolen from a friend of Hawkin's, George pulls him in for interview. Forty years later Catherine Heathcote, a London-based journalist who was brought up in Scardale by her alcoholic mother, returns to the village with her teen-aged daughter Sasha to make a film about the disappearance.
Episode 2 • Sep 28, 2008
Episode #1.2
George brings Hawkin in for interview and later arrests him after finding his blood-stained shirt and pornographic photographs of Alison. Still protesting his innocence Hawkin stands trial for murder. In the present Catherine is surprised when George suddenly tells her that he no longer wants to take part in her film and she has some reason to suspect that he may have framed Hawkin by doctoring the photographs, which have recently been destroyed. After George suffers a heart attack and is hospitalized Catherine is perturbed when her boss Keith seems to want to subvert her film to accuse George of police corruption and she and Sasha go to visit George's former colleague Tommy Clough to learn the truth.
Episode 3 • Oct 05, 2008
Episode #1.3
Despite his barrister's assertion that George Bennett faked the photographs Hawkin is found guilty of the rape and murder of Alison and is hanged - to the joy of the village. In the present Keith sacks Catherine and sends his assistant Nicola to interview George but George's sister refuses her access. Aware that Keith is out to discredit George Catherine persuades Tommy to go to Scardale with her to interview surviving locals and find out what really happened but they are met with hostility and driven away. Returning to the village alone Catherine accidentally stumbles upon a woman who holds the key to events of the 1960s including a catalogue of systematic child abuse in which she herself was a victim. Having heard the truth Catherine decides that the past should be allowed to be laid to rest and gives up the film.
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