Underplayed Gems

Into the Fire

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Genre
thriller television series
Country
United Kingdom
Length
1 season, 3 episodes
Elsewhere
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How it feels

A businessman struggling to keep his leather goods company afloat gets a big order from America. He remortgages his house to fund the project but then turns to insurance fraud through arson. The scheme spirals into death, deceit and adultery.

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What happens

Into the Fire is a British television thriller drama series, written by Tony Marchant, that first broadcast on BBC1 on 14 February 1996, and ran for three consecutive nights. The series, directed by Jane Howell, stars Donal McCann as Frank Cody, a businessman whose struggling leather goods company is thrown a lifeline when it wins a new order from America. But when he re-mortgages his house to finance the project, events take a dramatic turn, and death, deceit and adultery arise from a misguided scheme to commit insurance fraud via arson. The series co-starred David Morrissey, Sharon Duce and Sue Johnston, and was partially inspired by novelist Thomas Hardy's The Mayor of Casterbridge. The series was originally due to transmit in the autumn of 1995, but was pushed back to February 1996. The series was actor David Morrissey's first of three projects with producer David Snodin, with whom he later worked on Holding On and Passer By. Notably, the series has never been re-broadcast or released on DVD. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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