Roger Heathcott was an English actor, known for Island of Terror (1966), Redcap (1964) and Dalziel and Pascoe (1996).
A small island community is overrun with creeping, blobbish, tentacled monsters which liquefy and digest the bones from living creatures. The community struggles to fight back.
After their latest production, "Princess Ida", meets with less-than-stunning reception, Gilbert and Sullivan's relationship is strained to the breaking point. Their friends and associates attempt to get the two to work together again, which bares the path to "The Mikado", one of the duo's greatest successes.
The murder of a young boy in a small coastal town brings a media frenzy, which threatens to tear the community apart.