28th November 1990
Jack Higgins’ Night of the Fox is broadcast
Although born in Newcastle upon Tyne, thriller writer Henry Patterson, who publishes under the name Jack Higgins, moved to Jersey in the 1970s. His novel Night of the Fox was set in the island and, when made into TV movie starring George Peppard, was first broadcast on 28 November 1990.
Also starring Michael York, and father and daughter John and Juliet Mills, the story focuses on Professor Alan Stacy, who travels to Jersey to work on his friend’s biography only to discover that his friend has already died. However, he meets a former member of the Special Operations Executive who had worked with his friend, Harry, during the Second World War and tells him about a wartime operation to prevent plans for D-Day, which had washed up on occupied Jersey with an injured soldier, from falling into German hands.
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Other events that occured in November
Bailiff Cecil Stanley Harrison is born
- Cecil Stanley Harrison was Bailiff of Jersey and had earlier played a role in the trial that had resulted in the island's last execution.
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Tarka the Otter released in cinemas
- Based on Henry Williamson’s novel of the same name, the screenplay for Tarka the Otter was co-written by Gerald Durrell, founder of Jersey Zoo.
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Jersey and Guernsey decide to merge lotteries
- Jersey and Guernsey had been running separate lotteries before the decision to merge them was taken in 1972.
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MP worries about Jersey’s butter consumption
- British MPs debated the amount of butter that Jersey was consuming in 1919, with suggestions that it might be being sent to France.
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