EPISODE
Cold Turkey | |
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Season 10, Episode 10 | |
Air date | 24th December 2000 |
Written by | Peter Gibbs |
Directed by | Noreen Kershaw |
Episode guide | |
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Cold Turkey is the 10th episode of season 10 of the ITV's British period drama series Heartbeat and the show's 160th episode overall. It first aired on December 24, 2000.
Synopsis[]
Local bank manager Gordon Stringer is Aidensfield's own Scrooge and soon Stringer's son Noel finds himself a target for Jack Dugdale's rage. Greengrass faces a miserable Christmas Eve and PC Bellamy prepares for the Christmas raffle at the Aidensfield Arms.
Full Summary[]
Gordon Stringer is the new manager of the District Bank in Ashfordly and as a regular Uncle Scrooge he has tightened the reins on both the bank's customers and its employees. Even Greengrass has trouble getting paid for some gardening work he has been doing for Stringer. But he himself gets in need of a lot of money when his son Noel is kidnapped a few days before Christmas. It actually started as a prank of Noel's hiding in the caravan of Jack Dugdale, whose son Paul has provided him with the key. But then it gets serious when Noel disappears from the caravan too, and Jack Dugdale gets under suspicion because Stringer has refused to give him a postponement of his payments.
Cast[]
- David Beckett as Jack Dugdale
- Richard Walsh as Gordon Stringer
- Jason Durr as PC Mike Bradley
- Fiona Dolman as Jackie Bradley
- William Simons as PC Alf Ventress
- Bill Maynard as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass
- Lorraine Sass as Brenda Dugdale
- Jody Latham as Paul Dugdale
- David Lonsdale as David Stockwell
- Alwyne Taylor as Molly Stringer
- Emma Cleasby as Linda
- Michael Begley as Chris Draycott
- Scott Taylor as Noel Stringer
- Julie Corrigan as Wendy
- Tricia Penrose as Gina Ward
- Derek Fowlds as Oscar Blaketon
- Fiona Dolman as Jackie Bradley
- Philip Franks as Sgt Raymond Craddock
- Peter Benson as Bernie Scripps
- Johnny Caesar as Drunk in Cell
- Crackerjack as Singing Quartet
Trivia[]
- This episode marks the final appearance of Claude Jeremiah Greengrass; Bill Maynard was forced to leave the show because of ill health. Although he did return in the Heartbeat spin off series 'The Royal.
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Trivia[]
- Final appearance of Bill Maynard as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass.
- Bill Maynard's wife Muriel Linnett died in June 1983 and Maynard himself died on March 30, 2018.