Framed

Synopsis

Lawrence Jackson and Eddie Myers could not be more different. Jackson is an ambitious young police officer saddled with the responsibilities of a wife and children. Myers is an escaped criminal turned informer, presumed dead. But as Jackson discovers whilst holidaying in Spain, Myers is very much alive. He has reinvented himself as Phillip von Joel, handsome, dangerously charismatic and very wealthy. Extradited back to England after a nerve-wracking Scotland Yard Operation, von Joel agrees to a deal with the Police, He'll tell what he knows - but only if Jackson is his interrogator. So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse between the master criminal and his determined minder. Which comes first - duty or temptation?

First Air Date: 1992-11-27

Last Air Date: 1992-12-18

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 4

Networks: ITV1

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Top Cast

Timothy Dalton as Eddie Myers
Timothy West as DCI Jimmy McKinnes
David Morrissey as DC Larry Jackson
Penélope Cruz as Lola Del Moreno
Annabelle Apsion as Susan Jackson
Rowena King as Charlotte Lambton
Trevor Cooper as DI Frank Shrapnel
Francis Johnson as DC Frisby
Christopher Fairbank as Sydney Jefferson

Seasons

Miniseries (1992)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (1992-11-27)

London police officer Larry Jackson, on holiday in Spain, recognizes the wealthy local art dealer Philip von Joel as Eddie Myers, an absconded criminal from England, and sets out to have him arrested and extradited to the UK.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (1992-12-04)

Eddie Myers has agreed to give evidence on the condition that Jackson is appointed his interrogator. Jackson moves into the secret isolation with the manipulative Myers who, even in prison back in the UK, seems to be able to command all kinds of luxuries and immediately makes efforts to corrupt the young officer.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (1992-12-11)

Myers is recovering from his injuries and continues playing his games with everybody. Jackson, whose relationship with his wife is getting increasingly strained, meets Myers's stunning and seductive Spanish girlfriend in her London hotel.
Ep. 4: Episode 4 (1992-12-18)

McKinnes needs Myers to lead the police to the stolen money, without which he has no case against him. He sets him up to escape and commit another bank robbery, together with sergeant Jackson, who is to be in on the crime as an informer. But who is playing who, and who will come out on top?