Who Killed Lamb? is a 1974 TV play starring Stanley Baker as a Scotland Yard detective investigating a murder in Oxford. It was made by Yorkshire Television in association with David Paradine Productions Ltd. for ITV, and was screened on 16 March 1974.
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Plot
Octavius Lamb a member of the Oxford community is killed, and nobody can think why. A police inspector named Detective Inspector Jamieson is called in to solve the case and asks everyone who knew Octavius and his family. He asks many people to see if they know anything about his death such as his wife, his son, his janitor and the people that worked for his business.
Cast
Stanley Baker as Detective Inspector Jamieson
Denis Lill as Sgt. Beck
David Swift as Insp. Havelock
Derek Francis as Octavius Lamb
Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Madeleine
Simon Turner as Steven
Peter Sallis as Lloyd
Eve Karpf as Miss Compton
Cheryl Hall as Amy
Mona Hammond as Nurse
Melinda Sheridan as Receptionist
Miles Anderson as P.C. Hanworth
Dennis Blanch as P.C. York
Colin Edwynn as Michael
Anthony Roye as Doctor Robson
Ingrid Hafner as Mary
Gillian Raine as Miss Bennett
John Challis as Casson
Bruce Boa as Professor Friedland
Artro Morris as Mr. Humber
Anthony Bailey as Sgt. Latimer
Cyril Shaps as Mr. Lavender
Sheelagh Wilcocks as Mrs. Lavender
Michael Hawkins as Bardon
DVD release
The play is included on the 2007 Network DVD release of the film Hell Drivers, which also starred Stanley Baker. It is also included on the 2008 Network DVD release of Thriller (1973–1976), as Who Killed Lamb? was incorrectly billed on 16 March 1974 as being an episode of Thriller on ITV.