First broadcast 16th/23rd February 1986.<br /><br />What will the tycoon owner of Rathouse International do to Harry Stringer's respectable but doomed Daily Crucible?<br /><br />Geoffrey Palmer - Harold Stringer<br />Richard Kane - Greg Kettle<br />Robert Hardy - Twiggy Rathbone/Russell Spam<br />Geoffrey Hutchings - Max Rutherford<br />Aubrey Morris - Old Man<br />Edita Brychta - Lady Deborah<br />Helena McCarthy - Old Woman<br />Sean Blowers - Photographer<br />Roderic Leigh - Reporter<br />Aden Gillett - Reporter (as Aden Gillet)<br />Christopher Timothy - Newsreader (voice)<br />Jack Watling - Prime Minister MacNamara<br />Aubrey Morris - Nikita Kruschev<br />John Gordon Sinclair - Bill Tytla (as John Gordon-Sinclair)<br />Yvonne D'Alpra - Mrs Tape<br />John Horsley - Father Teasdale<br />Helen Atkinson Wood - Television Interviewer (as Helen Atkinson-Wood)<br />Eliza Buckingham - Mrs MacNamara<br />Michael Chesden - Waiter<br />Nicholas Geake - Television Announcer<br />Julia Gilbert - Asst. Stage Manager
