A 50-minute British TV nightmare where the real horror is being a pathetic little man.
Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and she coolly tells him she has no intention of either giving up her lover or divorcing Adam. The top crime story of the moment is a serial murderer nicknamed "The Kitchen Killer". Adam sets out to murder his wife and blame it on this shadowy psycho
Acting
Robert Lang's sweaty desperation is genuinely hard to watch.
Direction
Menmuir traps you in Adam's suffocating POV like a bad marriage.
Director
Raymond Menmuir
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Made for ITV's 'Sunday Night Theatre' slot, this was prestige TV horror before the term existed—part of Britain's brief obsession with televised psychological nastiness.
The 'Kitchen Killer' nickname was allegedly improvised on set; the original script simply called him 'the murderer,' which tells you everything about this production's budget.
GB
