Talk:The Odd Man trilogy

Sarah Lawson

My memory clearly tells me that, in the first series, Sarah Lawson played the wife of the the Edwin Richfield character. The Lawson character was killed at the end of the first series. In the second series Lawson played a character identical in appearance to the murdered character - causing some emotional problems for the Richfield character. Presumable this was done because Lawson had proved popular in the first series. I feel this is noteworthy, but can find no source to confirm my memory. Can anyone help? (gramorak 08:36, 6 August 2010 (UTC))

"With audiences of over ten million, however, popular sentiment inevitably did intrude. At the end of the second series, the Sarah Lawson character was killed off (the murder for which South would be hanged). Granada was inundated with mail from angry viewers — and, surprisingly for such a hard-edged, determinedly unsentimental series, decided to resurrect her. Though grateful for the unexpected extension of her contract, Lawson protested that it was a daft idea. In those pre-Dallas days, however, the device could still seem imaginative rather than exploitative. She was re-cast as a twin sister who'd been working with a Schweitzer figure in central Africa (a topic explored in Graham Greene's then recently-published A Burnt-Out Case)." The Listener, BBC 1988 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 79.202.92.249 (talk) 20:49, 2 September 2013 (UTC)