# Super Sleuth

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{{Infobox television
| image          = 
| caption        = 
| director       = David Wilson
| producer       = Jeremy Cornford
| writer         = Martin Jeffrey
| based_on       = 
| narrator       =
| starring       = [Carmen Duncan](/source/Carmen_Duncan)<br>[Steven Grives](/source/Steven_Grives)<br>[Patrick Ward](/source/Patrick_Ward_(actor))<br>[John Ewart](/source/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](/source/Carmen_Duncan), [Steven Grives](/source/Steven_Grives), [Patrick Ward](/source/Patrick_Ward_(actor)), and [John Ewart](/source/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](/source/Carmen_Duncan) as Margaret Little
* [Steven Grives](/source/Steven_Grives) as Thomas Barker
* [Patrick Ward](/source/Patrick_Ward_(actor)) as Oswald McKinnon
* [John Ewart](/source/John_Ewart) as Steven Weatherley
* [James Condon](/source/James_Condon) as Dennis Powell
* James Healey as James Harrison
* [Elaine Lee](/source/Elaine_Lee_(actress)) as Harriet Barker
* Allan Penney as Douglas Hegecliff
* Susan Stenmark as Susan Mountjoy
* [Megan Williams](/source/Megan_Williams_(actress)) as Roberta Collins
* [Sally Tayler](/source/Sally_Tayler) as Sarah Clarke
* [James Healey](/source/James_Healey_(actor)) as James Harrison

==References==
{{reflist}}

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

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

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