First broadcast 10th January 1990.<br /><br />The managing director and heir apparent to a venerable family-owned brewery in dire financial straits is found drowned in a vat of his own ale.<br /><br />John Thaw - Chief Inspector Morse<br />Kevin Whately - Detective Sergeant Lewis<br />Andy Bradford - Trevor Radford<br />Trevor Martin - Alan Sowden<br />Paul Mooney - Pathologist<br />Simon Slater - Norman Weeks<br />Kamilla Blanche - Gail<br />Jean Ainslie - Cleaning Lady<br />Kim Thomson - Helen Radford<br />Noel Johnson - Butler<br />Isabel Dean - Isobel Radford<br />Paul Shelley - Stephen Radford<br />Lionel Jeffries - Charles Radford<br />Alex Jennings - Victor Preece (as Alex Jenning)<br />Betty Marsden - Cynthia Preece<br />John Bird - George Linacre<br />John Golightly - Alford Nelson<br />Bernard Brown - Wheatley<br />San Lee - Maid<br />Lisa Harrow - Thelma Radford<br />Maggie Wilkinson - Shirley<br />Liz Kettle - WPC
