In 1975, on his 70th birthday, Dr. Carlos Miranda watches a TV special about his life. Displeased with it, he uses his futuristic TV set to interrupt the host and provide his own retelling of the story to the audience.
A hated country gentleman is murdered, and the inspector on the case takes the veiwer through his thoughts about the possible murderer and motives as he questions everyone concerned.
This heartwarming British drama is based on Beth the Sheepdog, a novel by Ernest Lewis. The story concerns the efforts of various interested human parties to enter Beth in the All-England Dog Championship.
Stevie Carson, a newspaper reporter, and Danny Butler, the "morgue" manager on the same newspaper, set out to track down the killer of a colleague, a book-reviewer who was involved with a group of rare book forgers and whose sister has been convinced her editor-fiance, Bill Monroe, killed him.