Marley's Ghosts Series 1, Episode 1

Marley's Ghosts. Image shows from L to R: Marley Wise (Sarah Alexander), Michael Walton (Nicholas Burns).

Series 1, Episode 1

Magistrate Marley has an unattentive husband with a failed business, and a lover who's a little too sure of their relationship. In a tragic pairing of accidents, both men die - along with the local vicar. But for Marley, that's only the start...

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Further details

In the opening episode, forty-something magistrate, Marley is juggling work, marriage and a secret love affair. While her career goes from strength to strength husband Adam's business has failed and their relationship has taken a downward turn. Things come to a head when Adam drunkenly stumbles into her courtroom and after being escorted home by a furious Marley, chokes on a chicken bone and suddenly dies.

At his funeral she realises she can see Adam watching her and races home with an astonished Michael, Marley's colleague and lover, in tow - only to be run down by the local Vicar and also die. To add a further complication from the afterlife, the vicar, on whom Marley had been relying on to get rid of the ghosts, also shuffles off her own mortal coil.

So begins a bizarre ménage-a-quatre, with Adam, Michael and the vicar all moving in, albeit in ghostly form, to Marley's home. Marley is in despair. There's no room left on the sofa and she really doesn't want to live with ghosts, and especially not two really annoying ones - husband Adam and lover Michael, who are constantly bickering over, and competing for her affections.

The Vicar, a mediator of sorts makes a vain attempt to be Marley's confidante and sanctuary, but is useless, calling on made up tales from St Peter at times of crisis, and getting stories by Joan Collins and the Bible mixed up. It would appear Marley's on her own, even in this most claustrophobic of domestic situations.

Broadcast details

Date: Wednesday 30th September 2015
Time: 10pm
Channel: Gold
Length: 30 minutes

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Cast & crew

Regular cast
Sarah Alexander	Marley Wise
Jo Joyner	Vicar
Nicholas Burns	Michael Walton
John Hannah	Adam Wise
Mina Anwar	Tina Jarvis

Guest cast
Laura June Hudson	Mrs. Nathan
Alan Breck	Mr. Nathan
Ed Coleman	Supermarket Manager
David Oakley	Mr. Devon
Abbie Murphy	Nurse
Jan Uddin	Paramedic
Miranda Hennessy	Alice

Writing team
Daniel Peacock	Writer

Production team
Richard Drew	Production Designer
Chris Blaine	Editor
Ben Blaine	Editor
Ben Gosling Fuller	Director
Katie Mavroleon	Producer
Layla Smith	Executive Producer
Simon Lupton	Executive Producer
Grant Olding	Composer