Heat of the Sun
| Heat of the Sun | |
|---|---|
| Genre |
Drama Adventure |
| Created by | Russell Lewis Timothy Prager |
| Starring |
Trevor Eve Freddie Annobil-Dodoo Susannah Harker Julian Rhind-Tutt |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 3 |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) |
Carlton Television WGBH |
| Running time | 100 minutes (including commercials) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ITV |
| Picture format |
Colour 4:3 |
| Audio format | Stereo |
| Original release | 28 January – 11 February 1998 |
Heat of the Sun is a police drama TV serial, set in 1930s Kenya. It was a joint production by Carlton Productions and WGBH Boston; it aired in 1998 in the United Kingdom on ITV and in 1999 on Mystery! on PBS in the United States. It starred Trevor Eve as Superintendent Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard criminal investigations officer working in Nairobi and Susannah Harker as a romantic interest and aviator modelled on Beryl Markham. The series reveals the underside of the expatriate community in Kenya, exploring murders against issue of race and class, drug use, and sexuality.
Ep. 1: "Private Lives"
Original Air Date: 28 January 1998
After shooting a child killer who was deemed untouchable, Scotland Yard's Albert Tyburn (Trevor Eve) is sent to 1930s Kenya to head a new criminal division of the small police force in Nairobi. He investigates the death of Lady Daphne Ellesmere (Kate McKenzie) as a murder, although his boss Commissioner Burkitt (Michael Byrne) and the coroner insist her death by lion attack was an accident. Helping him is Daphne's sister Emma Fitzgerald (Susannah Harker), an attractive and independent woman who has become a bush pilot and refuses to play the social games common in the British expatriate set. She appears in each episode.
Ep. 2: "Hide in Plain Sight"
Original Air Date—4 February 1998
Tyburn and his new assistant, Valentine (Julian Rhind-Tutt), investigate the murder of a native woman and a reported Native attack on a local mission. Meanwhile, Burkitt orders Tyburn to arrest all the native prostitutes, to get them off the street before the expected visit by Edward, the Prince of Wales; Tyburn struggles to house them all.
Ep. 3: "The Sport of Kings"
Original Air Date—11 February 1998
After defeating a charge of murdering a young African man who worked for him and losing an important horse race, wealthy and powerful Max Van der Vuurst (Joss Ackland) is found dead in what appears to be an accidental fire at his house. Tyburn has to work with colonial troops to rescue a town besieged by raiders in order to collar their prime suspect.
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