633 The Dark Side of the Sun

First  viewed :  September  1983

This  was  the  last  of  a  quartet  of  BBC  serials  written  by  Michael  Bird   which   capitalised  on  the  opening-up  of  the  Med  to  British  holiday-makers  in  the  seventies. It  stretched  over  a  decade  beginning  with  The  Lotus  Eaters  in  1973 , the  others  being  Who  Pays  The  Ferryman ?  and   The  Aphrodite  Inheritance.

This  was  the  darkest  of  the four. I  didn't  see  all  of  it  but  what  I  did  seemed  pretty  good. Patrick  Mower  plays  a  photographer  killed  in  a  car  crash  in  Rhodes. His  widow  Emily  Richard  goes  over   there  to  complete  his  assignments  and  soon  feels  threatened  by  dark  forces, including  visitations  from  her  deceased  husband, emanating  from  the  sinister  tycoon  played  by  Peter  Egan. From  what  I  can  recall  he  turned  out  to  be  an  undead  Templar still  exerting  a   malevolent  hold  on  the  island.