Super Sleuth

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox television | image = | caption = | director = David Wilson | producer = Jeremy Cornford | writer = Martin Jeffrey | based_on = | narrator = | starring = Carmen Duncan<br>Steven Grives<br>Patrick Ward<br>John Ewart | music = | cinematography = Tony Wilson | editor = Warren Lynch | company = Cox Cornford Productions | released = {{Start date|1984}} | runtime = 96 minutes | country = Australia | language = English | budget = }} '''''Super Sleuth''''' is a 1984 Australian television film directed by David Wilson and starring Carmen Duncan, Steven Grives, Patrick Ward, and John Ewart. The screenplay concerns a group of people gathered in a secluded house murdered by a mysterious killer.<ref name="scott">Ed. Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p149</ref> The cast did not know the identity of the killer until they filmed the final segment.<ref>{{Citation | last=Lee Lewes | first= Jacqueline | title= Whodunnit with a difference | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 12 August 1984 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | last= Coleman | first= Richard | title= Television choice | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 16 August 1984 }}</ref> It was based on a concept created by Bill Powell.<ref>{{Citation | last=Lee Lewes | first= Jacqueline | title= Not even the cast knows the killer | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 4 March 1984 }}</ref>

The Sydney Morning Herald's Richard Coleman gave it a bad review stating "The makers of Super Sleuth obviously thought that by making it a spoof they didn't have to worry about the terrible script, hammy acting and bad production. They were right. It was beyond worrying about."<ref>{{Citation | last= Coleman | first= Richard | title= Up the kapok tree with David and an arrow poison frog | url= | periodical= The Sydney Morning Herald | date= 18 August 1984 }}</ref>

==Cast== * Carmen Duncan as Margaret Little * Steven Grives as Thomas Barker * Patrick Ward as Oswald McKinnon * John Ewart as Steven Weatherley * James Condon as Dennis Powell * James Healey as James Harrison * Elaine Lee as Harriet Barker * Allan Penney as Douglas Hegecliff * Susan Stenmark as Susan Mountjoy * Megan Williams as Roberta Collins * Sally Tayler as Sarah Clarke * James Healey as James Harrison

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|0381632}}

Category:Australian television films Category:1984 television films Category:1984 films Category:1984 English-language films