The Leper of St. Giles (12 Jun. 1994)
"Cadfael" The Leper of St. Giles (original title)

When a cruel middle-aged baron and a beautiful wealthy orphan are to be wed at the abbey, it comes as no surprise when the sadistic nobleman is found strangled to death.

Director:

Graham Theakston

Writers:

Paul Pender (screenplay), Edith Pargeter (novel)

Stars:

Derek Jacobi, Sean Pertwee, Peter Copley

Cast

Episode cast overview, first billed only:
Derek Jacobi	...	Brother Cadfael
Sean Pertwee	...	Hugh Beringar
Peter Copley	...	Abbot Heribert
Michael Culver	...	Prior Robert
Julian Firth	...	Brother Jerome
John Bennett	...	Lazarus the Leper
Sarah Badel	...	Avice of Thornbury
Tara Fitzgerald	...	Iveta de Massard
Susan Fleetwood	...	Agnes Piccard
Jonathan Hyde	...	Godfrid Piccard
Jonathan Firth	...	Joscelyn
Jamie Glover	...	Simon
Adrian Ross Magenty	...	Guy
Norman Eshley	...	Baron Huon de Domville
Albie Woodington	...	Sergeant Warden

Storyline

Young heiress Iveta de Massard comes to the abbey to marry Baron Huon de Domville, as dictated by her guardian Godfrid Picard. Joscelyn loves her and would protect her with his life, which makes him the prime suspect when de Domville winds up dead. Cadfael must find the real villain from a tangle of hidden motives and a mysterious leper who has arrived at the hospice.

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Plot Keywords:

heiress | leper | suspect | novice | crusader | 

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Genres:

Crime | Drama | Mystery

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Details

Release Date:

12 June 1994 (UK)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Carlton Television, Central Films

Did You Know?

Quotes

Brother Cadfael: But your leprosy is no longer contagious! You are a danger to no man or woman, and whatever name you've been using these past years you are still Guimar de Massard. Iveta would revere you and delight in you... why not give her hand in marraige to young Joscelyn?
Lazarus the Leper: Brother, you speak of what you do not understand! Leave my bones and my grave and my legend alone! I am a dead man!
Brother Cadfael: But there was one Lazarus who did rise again from his tomb, to the great joy of his kinswomen.
Lazarus the Leper: Is *this* the face that ...
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User Reviews

The Princess

I am finding these Cadfael episodes formulaic, predictable and uninteresting.

This one has a feature that is pleasantly distracting. The Princess, over whom two men fight, is played by Tara Fitzgerald. She's the sort of actress who can do well enough when all she has to do is act pretty and vulnerable — usually (but not here) exposing her breasts along the way in a practiced innocence.

She never was able to develop into someone that mattered. But here she is at her apex, her bearing absolutely perfect for the art direction here — particularly the understated makeup. That apex, that pure archetype, is of a healthy, but demur, desirable but either dedicated or confused why not, unvoluptuously inviting, tentatively poised.

Ted's Evaluation -- 2 of 3: Has some interesting elements.