The Ghost Train Murder

A couple enjoying The Ghost Train at a funfair are disturbed when the young woman believes she saw a dead body besides the track during the ride.

I've seen a couple of these now, and I'd argue that this is perhaps the best of them. It's an interesting storyline, with a good set of characters, intriguing case, and a good set of suspects.

Best scene, perhaps the department store theft and transformation, quite imaginative.

Look out for a young Carole Anne Ford, who plays the girl who saw the body on The Ghost Train, and also look out for Angela Browne, who played a Police Sergeant.

Once again, seeing the shops and fashions of the time is a real treat. Look how smart people were back then, not a tracksuit or pair of jogging bottoms in sight.

7/10.

A body of a young woman is found on the ghost train ride.

It is a case for Superintendent Duggan of Scotland Yard. The dead woman was a Hungarian refugee who was recently tried for shoplifting.

She had been living in some lodgings and her landlady believes that she had a lot of men friends. One of these male friends called Johnny becomes a suspect as his alibi is weak.

However Duggan brings some undercover police women in to keep an eye at the lodgings.

They uncover a shoplifting ring and the landlady is part of it preying on vulnerable women to turn to shoplifting.

It is an episode that takes a while to get going. It finds its footing once the female undercover constables arrive. The episode moves up a few gears.

Jill Ireland plays one of the shoplifters. Carole Ann Ford plays the young woman who thought she saw a dead body in the ghost train.