First broadcast 10th January 1990.
The managing director and heir apparent to a venerable family-owned brewery in dire financial straits is found drowned in a vat of his own ale.
John Thaw - Chief Inspector Morse
Kevin Whately - Detective Sergeant Lewis
Andy Bradford - Trevor Radford
Trevor Martin - Alan Sowden
Paul Mooney - Pathologist
Simon Slater - Norman Weeks
Kamilla Blanche - Gail
Jean Ainslie - Cleaning Lady
Kim Thomson - Helen Radford
Noel Johnson - Butler
Isabel Dean - Isobel Radford
Paul Shelley - Stephen Radford
Lionel Jeffries - Charles Radford
Alex Jennings - Victor Preece (as Alex Jenning)
Betty Marsden - Cynthia Preece
John Bird - George Linacre
John Golightly - Alford Nelson
Bernard Brown - Wheatley
San Lee - Maid
Lisa Harrow - Thelma Radford
Maggie Wilkinson - Shirley
Liz Kettle - WPC