The Scarifyers: The Nazad Conspiracy
Christmas 1936.
Ghost story writer Professor Dunning (Terry Molloy) doesn't believe in the supernatural. So he's more than surprised when an invisible winged demon appears in his drawing room.
The Metropolitan Police's longest-serving officer, Inspector Lionheart (Nicholas Courtney), doesn't believe in the supernatural either, wings or no wings. So he's less than impressed when Russian emigres begin dying impossible deaths all over London.
Together, Lionheart and Dunning must face quarrelsome Generals, sinister clowns and Russian demons as they unravel THE NAZAD CONSPIRACY.
This is the first adventure of THE SCARIFYERS.
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Nicholas Courtney as Inspector Lionheart
Terry Molloy as Professor Dunning
David Benson as General Warlock and Aleister Crowley
Cicely Giddings as Lady Walsingham
Pasha Kanevsky as Doctor Lazavert
Seva Novgorodtsev as Dimitri Romanov
Owen Oldroyd as Chief Inspector Fang
Stuart Silver as Doctor Slither and Pickering
Alexei Voronkov as Lieutenant Sukhotin
Zinoviy Zinnik as Bobo the Magnificent
Written and directed by Simon Barnard
Music by Edwin Sykes
Post-production by Ant Danbury
Design and artwork by Garen Ewing
Recorded at Chestnut Studios, London
Running time: 84 minutes
“Terry Molloy (aka Davros) plays a professor and writer of supernatural stories who gets drawn into a part-criminal, part-spooky nightmare with a policeman played by Nicholas Courtney (who used to assist the Doctor as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart). It's got a ludicrous plot involving demons, the Romanov family and an attempt to bring Rasputin back from the dead, but it's rollicking good fun as well.”
Radio Times
“The first story in the Scarifyers series, The Nazad Conspiracy... is, in many ways, the bastard child of Douglas Adams and a sort of period Avengers, with all the quintessentially deadpan wit that implies… It tries hard not to be laugh-out-loud and for that very reason, is exactly that - peppered with the sort of unflappably dry and English wit that has been sadly lacking in recent British light drama… For its three-week-run, it was quite simply the smartest and most enjoyable thing on British radio.”
TV Zone
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