Ngaio Marsh Theatre is a 1977 television miniseries which adapted four of the author's Inspector Roderick Alleyn detective novels for New Zealand television. The British actor George Baker starred in the title role. [1]
The series adapted three Alleyn novels that were set in New Zealand ( Vintage Murder , [2] Colour Scheme , [3] and Died in the Wool [4] ) along with the London-set Opening Night . [5] The last mentioned featured a major character from New Zealand coming to England to work in the theatre. The series was originally screened on Television New Zealand. A later broadcast on PBS in the United States was the first American screening of a New Zealand television drama. [6]
Local actors who appeared in the series included Terence Cooper, Don Selwyn and Ian Watkin.
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