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The Landlady

Billy Weaver, a seventeen-year-old Londoner, arrives in Bath late at night to take up a new job. He finds a room for the night at a bed-and-breakfast house run by a sweet old woman. As he signs the guest book, Billy feels sure he recognizes the names of the two previous guests. Where on earth can he have heard them before? As he drinks a cup of tea with a curiously bitter-almond flavour, the owner of the boarding house is telling Billy she is an amateur taxidermist...

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  • Originally Aired April 21, 1979
  • Runtime 25 minutes
  • Production Code 048075
  • Network ITV1
  • Sensitive Content & Trigger Warnings Death or Dying Smoking / Tobacco
  • Created February 26, 2018 by
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  • Modified January 26, 2023 by
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Name Type Role
Robin Chapman Writer
Jess Davies Guest Star
Siobhan McKenna Guest Star
Leonard Preston Guest Star
Anthony Dawes Guest Star
John Bryant Guest Star
Herbert Wise Director
Roald Dahl Director