TV Episode:
Thursday the 12th (TV episode)
- Genre: Mystery
- Director: Charles Beeson
- Main Cast: Jon Glover, Ciarán Hinds, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Ralph Ineson, Elizabeth McGovern
- Release Year: 2000
- Country: UK
- Run Time: 200 minutes
Plot
Originally telecast over Britain's ITV1 in 2000, the two-part mystery miniseries Thursday the 12th began with the discovery of an unidentified body on the estate of Marius Bannister (Ciaran Hinds), a wealthy dentist and politician. As an investigative TV reporter Julian Glover sifted through the particulars of the case, the viewer was introduced to the dramatis personae: Bannister; his wife, Nina (Maria Doyle Kennedy); their troubled adopted teenaged son, Martin (Jim Sturgess); and Nina's predatory sister, Candice Hopper (Elizabeth McGovern). In Rashomon fashion, a series of flashbacks indicated that any one of these worthies had motive aplenty to be a murderer -- and in fact, one of them was the victim. The key to the mystery was in the hands of Marius' supposedly senile father, Edgar Bannister (Peter Vaughan). In the U.S., Thursday the 12th first aired over the Bravo cable network on June 4, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie GuideCast
- Jon Glover - TV Reporter
- Ciarán Hinds - Marius Bannister
- Maria Doyle Kennedy - Nina Bannister
- Ralph Ineson - Collins
- Elizabeth McGovern - Candice Hopper
Jim Sturgess - Martin Bannister; Christopher James - Hugo Schindler; Gillian Bevan - Marilyn Forbes; Trevor Byfield - Frank Ely; Robert Murray - David Skinner; June Watson - Mrs. Davies; Peter Vaughan - Edgar Bannister; Hugh Bonneville - Brin Hopper; Susan Engel - Regional Secretary; Barry Jackson - Constituency Secretary; Sydney Livingstone - Chairman; Selina Cadell - Deputy Chairwoman; Jamie Booroff - Young Martin Bannister; Morgan Sass - Daisy Bannister; Robin Houston - Newscaster; Vincent Franklyn - Hewitt; Ron Cook - Liam Donnelly
