UK TV B6 - THE BOY IN THE BUSH to THE BROKEN HORSESHOE
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BREAKTHROUGH, THE
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BRITAIN'S GOT THE POP FACTOR
BOY IN THE BUSH
ABC-Portman / 2x120m-e / 1984 11-18 March
Writer: Hugh Whitmore / Novel: D.H. Lawrence and Mollie Skinner / Camera: Peter Hendry / Music: Bruce Smeaton / Costume: James Murray / Design: Quentin Hole, Brett Moore / Producers: Ian Walker, Geoffrey Daniels / Executive Producer: Ray Alchin / Director: Rob Stewart
Period drama serial. In the 1880's English Jack Grant travels to Western Australia to work on a farm owned by relatives.
With:- KENNETH BRANAGH as Jack Grant / SIGRID THORNTON as Monica Ellis / STEPHEN BISLEY as Esau / JON BLAKE as Tom Ellis / CELIA DE BURGH as Mary / JOHN FRAWLEY as Mr George / PAUL SMITH as Lennie / BUNNEY BROOKE as Gran Ellis / ALFRED BELL as Dr Rackett / HOWARD BELL as Pa Ellis / FELICITY GORDON as Ma Ellis / DON REID as Mr Grant / LYNNE MURPHY as Mrs Grant / RICHARD MORGAN as Herbert / LOUIS BROWN as Ross / JAMES SUTTON as Alan
BOY IN THE SMOKE
BBC 'The Wednesday Play' / 1x / 1966 black and white
Writer: Patrick Galvin / Producer: Peter Luke / Director: William Slater
Drama. An newly arrived Irish Immigrant boy faces up to life in London.
Paddy................................................. SEAN CAFFREY
Billy Carey ......................................... RAYMOND HUNT
BOYS IN BROWN
BBC / 1x105m-e / 1947 27 July black and white
Writer: Reginald Beckwith / Producer: Michael Barry
Drama. The problems of a group of young lads stuck in borstal.Made into a film in 1949.
With:- NIGEL STOCK / ANDRE MORRELL / MICHAEL RIPPER
BOYD QC
A-R / x60m-e / 1954-64 black and white
Writer: Jack Roffey / Producer: Caryl Doncaster
Crime drama series. Cases of tough no nonsense barrister Richard Boyd who generally won the cases he took on.
With:- MICHAEL DENISON as Richard Boyd QC / CHARLES LENO as Jack
THE BOY DOMINIC
Yorkshire TV / 12x30m-e / 1975
Executive Producer: Jess Yates / Script Editor: Joy Whitby / Producer: Terence Williams
Period drama series. In 1820 Captain Charles Bulman has adventures after being shipwrecked off the coast of Africa.
Captain Bulman................................. RICHARD TODD
Emma Bulman.................................. HILDEGARD NEIL
Dominic Bulman............................... MURRAY DALE
Mr Jackson...................................... JULIAN GLOVER
Nick Bulman.................................... MURRAY DALE
BOY MEETS GIRL
ABC / 1959-60 black and white
Producer: Jack Good
Music show. A sequel to Oh Boy with the same format presented by Marty Wilde. Adam Faith, Gene Vincent, Terry Dene and Joe Brown were among the acts regularly featured.
BBC 'Comedy Special' / 1x30m-e / 1977 Tuesday 7.40pm
Writer: Ronald Wolfe, Ronald Chesney / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
Comedy. Mrs B has trouble controlling the boys at the youth club she runs.
Mrs B.................................................. THORA HIRD
Councillor Cooper................................. RICHARD CALDICOTT
Joe Bates............................................ JOHN TORDOFF
Mr Hobkirk.......................................... GORDEN KAYE
The Stripper........................................ LUAN PETERS
Lenny................................................. PETER CLEALL
Dodger............................................... MICHAEL DEEKS
Pete.................................................. SEAN CLARKE
Mark................................................. TONY ROBINSON
Tiny.................................................. JEFF STEVENSON
BBC / 6x70m-e / 1982 10 October - 7 November
Writer: Alan Bleasdale / Producer: Michael Wearing
Hard hitting drama serial which began life as a play called The Black Stuff(2 Jan 1980) with mostly the same credits as the serial. A group of scouse tarmac layers face the harsh realities of life on the dole in Thatcher's Britain.
With:- MICHAEL ANGELIS as Chrissie Todd / BERNARD HILL as Yosser Hughes / TOM GEORGESON as Dixie Dean / PETER KERRIGAN as George Malone / ALAN IGBON as Loggo Logmond / JULIE WALTERS as Angie Todd / GARY BLEASDALE as Kevin Dean / JEAN BOHT as Miss Sutcliffe / JAMES ELLIS as The Wino
THE BOYS FROM THE BUSH
BBC1/CV / 20x50m-e / 1991-92 Season One:25 Jan - 5 Apr 91 Season Two:12 May - 14 July 92
Creator: Douglas Livingstone / Producers: Verity Lambert, David Shanks
Crime comedy drama series. An ex pat Englishman living in Oz runs a private detective agency called Melbourne Confidential in partnership with a woman obsessed Aussie.
With:- TIM HEALY as Reg Toomer / CHRIS HAYWOOD as Dennis Tontine / MARK HADDIGAN as Leslie / NADINE GARNER as Arlene Toomer / PAT THOMSON as Doris Toomer / KRIS McQUADE as Delilah
BRADFORD RIOTS
Channel 4-Oxford Film and Television / 1x90m / 4 May 2006
Writer/Director:
Neil Biswas / Producer: Nicolas Brown / Executive Producers: Mark Bentley, Kate
Triggs, Nicolas Kent
Story of the racial tensions that led up to the Bradford Riots on 7 July 2001
and the events that followed as the rioters are systematically hunted down and
arrested by the police. Told from the point of view of the members of one Asian
family who get caught up in the situation. This was Neil Biswas's second drama
commission for Channel 4 (after Second Generation), The script was based
on a year of intense first-hand research within Bradford's Pakistani community.
Biswas looks at this Muslim community from the inside to see how it lived and
breathed before mass violence blew up its streets and explores the painful
aftermath left in its wake.
With:- SACHA DHAWAN as Karim / ACE BHATTI as Faisa; / VICTOR BANERJEE as Azad /
MANJINDER VIRK as Shazia / SYED AHMED as Aki
BRAMWELL
Central / 22x60m-e 2x120m-e / 1995-98
Creator: Lucy Gannon / Producers: Tim Whitby, Harriet Davison
Period medical drama series. In Victorian times a strong willed female doctor sets up a thrift hospital.
Eleanor Bramwell.............................. JEMMA REDGRAVE
Robert Bramwell............................... DAVID CALDER
Alice Costigan.................................. MAUREEN BEATTIE
Joe Marsham................................... KEVIN McGONAGLE
Kate................................................ KEELEY GAINEY
BRAT FARRAR
BBC1 / 6x30m-e / 1985
Writer: James Andrew Hall / Novel: Josephine Tey / Producer: Terrance Dicks / Director: Leonard Lewis
Period mystery serial. In the 1950's, eight years after going missing believed dead, Brat Farrar or a man claiming to be him turns up to claim his inheritance.
Brat Farrar.......................................... MARK GREENSTREET
Eleanor............................................... DOMINIQUE BARNES
BRAVO TWO ZERO
BBC1 / 2x60m-e / 1999
Writers: Andy McNab, Troy Kennedy Martin / Book: Andy McNab / Producers: Ruth Caleb, Anant Singh / Director: Tom Clegg
Wartime drama. In 1991 at the height of the Gulf War an SAS patrol go deep into Iraqui territory and are soon caught up in a fight for their lives.
Andy.................................................... SEAN BEAN
Dinger.................................................. STEVE NICHOLSON
Sally.................................................... JULIA BOOTH
Stan.................................................... ROBERT HOBBS
Jilly..................................................... ALISON COLES
Tony................................................... RICK WARDEN
Baz..................................................... IAN CURTIS
Chris.................................................. KEVIN COLLINS
BRAZEN HUSSIES
BBC2 / 1x90m-e / 1996
Writer: Martin Edward Hesford / Producer: Tatiana Kennedy / Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Drama. When her takings hit an all time low a pub landlady decides to bring in male strippers to boost trade.
Maureen Hardcastle.......................... JULIE WALTERS
Jimmy Hardcastle............................. ALUN ARMSTRONG
Billy Bowmans................................. ROBERT LINDSAY.
Sandra Delaney............................... CRISSY ROCK
Mr Belafonte.................................... JIMMY TARBUCK
Man In the Moon............................. JULIAN CLARY
Madame Zavene............................. SARA KESTELMAN
BREACH OF THE PEACE
ATV / 1x60m-e / 1967
Writer: Jane Gaskell / Director: Shaun O'Riordan
Drama. A couple decide to call off their wedding at the last minute.
With:- GABRIELLE DRAKE / NORMAN ESHLEY
BREAD OR BLOOD
BBC / 5x75m-e / 1981
Writer: Peter Ransley / Director: Peter Smith
Period drama serial. Rural life and hard times in England in the 1850's.
With:- MALCOLM STORRY
THE BREADWINNER
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1938 7 November black and white
Writer: W. Somerset Maugham / Producer: Stephen Thomas
Comedy play.
With:- MARGARET VINES / NICHOLAS HANNON / ATHENE SEYLER / D.A. CLARKE-SMITH
THE BREAK
ITV
Network-Yorkshire / 1x60 minute episode / Thursday 31 Jan 1974 @ 8:30pm
Writer: William Fairchild / Designer: Natasha Kroll / Executive Producer: Peter
Willies / Director: David Cunliffe
Drama. Psychiatrist Julian Burroughs and his wife Jane are celebrating their
Silver Wedding with a dinner with their closest friend Gerald but the night
doesn't go as planned and terror is soon on the menu.
With:- Robert Shaw asGiles / Mary Ure as Jane / Jack Hedley as Gerald / Suzan
Farmer as Janet / Gerald Sim as Julian / Tony Selby as Crawford
BREAKAWAY
BBC1 'Francis Durbridge Presents' / 6x30m-e / 1980
Writer: Francis Durbridge / Producer: Ken Riddington / Director: Paul Ciapessoni
Thriller. A police inspector tackles an extraordinary case involving Scotland Yard.
Sam Harvey...................................... MARTIN JARVIS
BREAKDOWN
BBC / 1x60m-e / 1976
Writer: Julian Bond
Drama. The pressures of a second mortgage and the affair he is having almost drive an insurance broker to a nervous breakdown.
With:- JACK HEDLEY / WANDA VENTHAM
BREAKFAST NEWS
BBC1 / x120m-e / 1999- (weekdays 7am)
The BBC's breakfast show more overtly news based than the others, presenters have included John Nicolson and Sophie Raworth.
BREAKFAST TV
Breakfast television was first launched by the BBC on 17th Jan 1983 with a show hosted by Frank Bough and Selina Scott. Two weeks later TV-AM was on the air, this had some heavyweight presenters in the form of David Frost, Michael Parkinson, Angela Rippon and Robin Day. However it was the BBC show that took the ratings at first with TV-AM on the verge of calling it a day. Their unlikely saviour was a fast talking puppet rat called Roland who helped revitalise the show. Later hosts included Anne Diamond, Nick Owen, Mike Morrissey, John Stapleton and Jayne Irving.
THE BREAKING OF COLONEL KEYSER
ITV Network-Thames (for Armchair Theatre) / 1x60m-e / Broadcast 17 October 1972
Writer: Robert Holles / Producer: Kim Mills / Production Design: Marilyn Taylor / Executive Producer: Lloyd Shirley / Director: Mike Vardy
Wartime drama. A wild infantry officer is sacked on the eve of D-Day because of his harsh training methods.
cast
COLIN BLAKELY as Keyser / PAUL EDDINGTON as Vandenburgh / DONALD SUMPTER as
Dellow / JAMES COSSINS as Partridge / DENNIS WATERMAN as Goodall / BASIL HENSON
as Oxted / JACK MAY as Watts / ANTHONY LANGDON as Musgrove / DENNIS BLANCH as
Bambridge / PETER MAYOCK as Parker / RICHARD HENRY as Kirby / MARK ALLINGTON as
Private / CARL RIGG as Diplock / RICHARD STEELE as Cook Staff Sergeant / SUSAN
BROWN as Naafi Girl / ROGER ROWLAND as Parsons / JONATHAN GARDNER as Avery /
JONATHAN COLLINS as Ticehurst
BREAKING THE CODE
BBC1 / 1x75m-e / 1997
Writer: Hugh Whitmore / Producer: Jack Emery / Director: Herbert Wise
Period drama. The story Alan Turing, the mathematical genius who turned the course of World War II by cracking the German Enigma code.
Alan Turing....................................... DEREK JACOBI
Young Alan...................................... WILLIAM MANNERING
Sara Turing....................................... PRUNELLA SCALES
Dilwyn Knox..................................... RICHARD JOHNSON
Mick Ross....................................... ALUN ARMSTRONG
Pat Green........................................ AMANDA ROOT
John Smith...................................... HAROLD PINTER
Ron Miller........................................ JULIAN KERRIDGE
BREAKOUT
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1997 26 June
Writer: Michael Stewart / Producer: Peter Norris
SciFi drama. A pair of scientists investigate a pesticide that may be highly dangerous to humans.
Dr Neil McFarlane........................... NEIL DUDGEON
Dr Lisa Temple............................... SAMANTHA BOND
A BREED OF HEROES
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1994
Writer: Charles Wood / Producer: Andree Molyneaux / Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Period drama. In 1971 a group of soldiers arrive in Belfast for a stressful tour of duty.
Lt Charles Thoroughgood.................. SAMUEL WEST
Lt Col Ian Gowie.............................. NICHOLAS FARRELL
Brian Beazeley................................ RICHARD GRIFFITHS
Lt Chatsworth.................................. JOHNATHON FIRTH
Major Edward Lumley...................... ROBERT BATHURST
L/Cpl Van Horne............................. SHAUN DINGWALL
Jack Smiles................................... DENYS HAWTHORNE
BRENSHAM PEOPLE
BBC / 3x45m-e / 1976
Writer: Hugh Whitmore / Novels: John Moore
Period drama serial. Life in a Gloustershire village.
BRETT
BBC / 19x50m-e / 1971
Producer: Royston Morley
Drama series. The problems of a powerful tycoon.
With:- PATRICK ALLEN / JOHN BENNETT
THE BRETTS
Central / 12x60m-e / 1987
Producer: Tony Charles
Period drama series. Stories of a family of actors during the 1920's.
Charles Brett..................................... NORMAN RODWAY
Martha Brett...................................... BELINDA LANG
Lydia Brett........................................ BARBARA MURRAY
Edwin Brett....................................... DAVID YELLAND
BRIAN RIX FARCES
From the 1950's onwards Brian Rix presented many farces, as these were stage productions simply tele-recorded they are not actually TV Productions, but these farces were a staple element of bank holidays etc, for many a year. The farces usually went out under umbrella titles such as Laughter From the Whitehall, Brian Rix Farces, Brian Rix Presents, Six of Rix, etc.
BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION
ITV 'Ruth Rendell' / 2x60m-e / 1997
Writer: Guy Meredith / Story: Ruth Rendell / Producer: Neil Zeigler
Thriller serial. Nicholas Sorenson discovers that the man who made his father redundant is having an affair, but this affair threatens to shake his own family's existence.
Julius Sorenson............................... PAUL FREEMAN
Nick Hawthorne............................... TIM WOODWARD
Annabel Lynes................................ ABIGAIL CRUTTENDEN
Nicholas Hawthorne......................... JAMES D'ARCY
Emma Sorenson............................. FIONA MOLLISON
D.S. Khan...................................... RAVI KAPOOR
BRICK IS BEAUTIFUL
BBC / 1x50m-e / 1986
Writer: Andy Armitage / Director: David Wheatley
Drama. A teenager begins dealing in illegal second hand bricks.
With:- CHRIS WILD / CAROLINE MILMOE
ATV / 1x30m-e / 1977 11 August - Thursday 7.00pm
Writers: Andrew McCulloch, John Flanagan / Producer/Director: Les Chatfield
Comedy. Jobbing builder Ernie Randle is given a commission to build a house.
Ernie Randle...................................... MICHAEL ELPHICK
Phoebe.............................................. AMANDA REISS
BRIDESHEAD REVISITED
Granada / 11x60m-e / 1980 12 October - 22 December
Writer: John Mortimer / Novel: Evelyn Waugh / Music: Geoffrey Burgon / Design: Peter Phillips / Costume: Jane Robinson / Producer: Derek Granger / Directors: Michael Lindsay-Hogg, Charles Sturridge
Period drama serial. Before World War II Charles Ryder finds his life becoming entangled with that of the wealthy Sebastian Flyte and his stately home Bridehead Castle. Although very nearly held up by a technicians strike the show went on to massively popular in the UK and throughout the world.
With:- JEREMY IRONS as Charles Ryder / ANTHONY ANDREWS as Sebastian Flyte / LAURENCE OLIVIER as Lord Marchmain / JOHN GIELGUD as Edward Ryder / DIANA QUICK as Lady Julia Flyte / CLAIRE BLOOM as Lady Marchmain / SIMON JONES as Lord Brideshead / PHOEBE NICHOLLS as Lady Cordelia Flyte / JANE ASHER as Celia Mulcaster / NICKOLAS GRACE as Anthony Blanche / STEPHANE AUDRAN as Cara
THE BRIDES IN THE BATH
ITV1
/ 1x120m / 31 December 2003
Writer: Glenn Chandler / Director: Harry Bradbeer / Producer: Alan Dossor
Period crime drama. True story of George Joseph Smith who in the early 1900's
married a succession of women, three of whom he murdered in their bath shortly
afterwards to receive their inheritance or collect on a life insurance policy he
had taken out on them. He was found guilty and hanged in 1915.
With:- MARTIN KEMP as George Joseph Smith / RICHARD GRIFFITHS as Sir Edward
Marshall-Hall / CHARLOTTE RANDLE as Bessie Mundy / EMMA FERGUSON as Alice
Burnham / JENNIFER CALVERT as Caroline Thornhill / CAROLYN BACKHOUSE as Margaret
Lofty / TRACEY WILKINSON as Edith May Smith
THE BRIEF
TVS / 13x60m-e / 1984
Creator: Ray Jenkins / Executive Producer: James Gatwood / Producer: Rex Firkin
Crime drama series. Barrister Lucas Hellier goes to Germany to defend a British soldier accused of defecting to the East and ends up involved in all kinds of intrigue.
With:- RAY LONNEN as Lucas Hellier / ISOBEL BLACK as Samantha Hellier / SABINE POSTAL as Annika Newman
THE BRIEF
ITV1 / 8x90m / 2004-2005
Writer:
Dusty Hughes / Director: Jack Gold / Executive Producer: Ted Childs
Legal drama. Henry Farmer is a talented but somewhat unconventional junior
barrister with a complicated personal life and mounting gambling debts. Season
one began started 25 April 2004 and season two started 7 October 2005.
With:- ALAN DAVIES as Henry Farmer/ CHERIE LUNGHI as Cleo Steyn QC / ZARA TURNER
as Polly Graham
BRIEF ENCOUNTER
ITC/Ponti / 1x75m-e / 1975 4 January
Writer: John Bowen / Producer: Duane C. Bogie / Director: Alan Bridges Drama.
Remake of the David Lean/Noel Coward film. A married housewife begins an affair with an also married doctor.
With:- RICHARD BURTON / SOPHIA LOREN / JACK HEDLEY / ROSEMARY LEACH / ANN FIRBANK / JOHN LE MESURIER
BRIEFEST ENCOUNTER
ITV 'Rik Mayall Presents' / 1x60m / 27 May 1993
Writer:
Peter Learmouth / Director: Nick Hamm / Producer: Andy Harries
Greg things his luck is in when a beautiful journalist invites him back to her
flat. But he finds he has a serious rival for her affections - in her pet dog.
With:- RIK MAYALL as Greg / AMANDA DONOHOE as Siobhan
BRIGADISTA
BBC1 / 1x70m-e / 1981
Writer: Terence Hodgkinson / Script Editor: Maggie Allen / Design: Guthrie Hutton / Producer: Bob McIntosh / Director: Chris Lovett
Drama. Renowned author James Fuller Hayes pays a visit to Glasgow to promote his new book which is about the Spanish Civil War, a meeting with two former friends (who he was in the International Brigade with) gives him pause for thought.
With:- PAUL ROGERS as James Fuller Hayes / PATRICIA BRAKE as Penny / JAMES COPELAND as Billy / PHIL McCALL as Bob / GEORGE REX as Bingo Caller / DAVID McCOLL as Boy / DONNA MICHELLE FINDLAY as Girl
BRIGHT HAIR
BBC1 / 2x65m-e / 1997
Writer: Peter Ransley from his novel. / Producer: Brian Donovan / Director: Christopher Menaul
Psychological thriller serial. In the village of Ashminster a brutal murder occurs. Teenager Ann Devonish discovers the body and the find has a profound effect on her.
Ann Devonish.................................... EMILIA FOX
David Miles....................................... JAMES PUREFOY
Lawrence Churchman........................ OLIVER MILBURN
Insp Gates....................................... JOHN BOWE
Norma Devonish............................... JIM CARTER
Eileen Devonish................................ PATRICIA KERRIGAN
Miss Montrose................................. VICTORIA WICKS
THE BRIGHT SIDE
ITV / 1x60m-e / 1966 black and white
Writer: Hugh Forbes
Drama. A newspaper reporter contemplates beginning an affair.
With:- WILLIAM LUCAS / COLETTE O'NEILL / JUDY PARFITT
THE BRIGHTON BELLE
BBC1 / 3x50m-e / 1972 6 January - 20 January
Writer: Alan Melville
Comedy drama serial. A group of people reflect on the demise of the train of the title.
With:- DORA BRYAN
BRIMSTONE AND TREACLE
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1987
Writer: Dennis Potter / Producer: Kenith Trodd
Drama. A sinister young man inveigles his way into the home of the Bates who have a brain damaged daughter. Made in 1976 the play was withheld by the BBC on the grounds of taste but was finally transmitted in a Dennis Potter retrospective in 1987(25 August).
Mr Bates............................................ DENHOLM ELLIOTT
Mrs Bates.......................................... PATRICIA LAWRENCE
Martin................................................ MICHAEL KITCHEN
Pattie................................................ MICHELLE NEWELL
BRING ON THE GIRLS
Thames / 2x60 minute episode / Wednesday 28 July 1976 @ 8.00pm and Wednesday 22 June 1977 @ 7.30pm
Writers:
Dick Hills, Barry Cryer / Producer: Keith Beckett / Executive Producer: Philip
Jones
Light entertainment. A pair of specials starring Bruce Forsyth accompanied by a
collection of females. These were:- Honor Blackman, Twiggy, The Three Degrees,
Lena Zavaroni and the Lionel Blair Dancers.
BRINKS MAT: THE GREATEST HEIST
C4 / 2x60m / 24 Nov, 1 Dec 2003
Director:
Bruce Goodison / Producer: Mark Hayhurst
Thriller. Telling the story of the robbery of a warehouse near Heathrow which
unexpectedly turned out to have £26 million in gold bars awaiting transit and
made it the biggest heist ever. Using news footage, police reconstruction tapes
and dramatised sequences, the story of the robbery, the police investigation,
and the attempt to recover the gold and the proceeds from its disposal is told.
Narrated by Steven Mackintosh.
With:- RUSSELL LEVY as Michael Scouse / CAVAN CLERKIN as Robin Riseley / ROLAND
MANOOKIAN as Tony Black / JONNY PHILLIPS as Michael McAvoy / NICOLA STAPLETON as
Kathy Meacock / RUPERT PROCTER as Michael Relton / GEOFF BELL as Kenneth Noye
BROKE
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1990
Writer: Stephen Bill / Director: Alan Dosser
Drama. A small time businessman finds himself going bankrupt.
With:- TIMOTHY SPALL / SHEILA KELLY / LARRY LAMB
BROKEN GLASS
CENTRAL / 1x60m-e / 1982
Writer: James Andrew Hall
Thriller. A young girl with strange parents goes missing.
With:- BERNARD HEPTON / JAMES GROUT / STEPHANIE COLE
BROKEN GLASS
BBC Wales / 1x30m-e / 1995
Writer: Peter Lloyd
Drama. A man reappears in his family's life after a long absence.
With:- KARL JOHNSON / MELANIE WALTERS
BROKEN GLASS
BBC2 'Performance' / 1x75m-e / 1997
Writer: David Thacker, David Holman / Play:Arthur Miller / Producer: Fiona Finlay / Director: David Thacker
Period drama. In Brooklyn in 1938 Sylvia Gellburg is stricken by a strange paralysis in her legs.
Dr Harry Hyam................................ MANDY PATANKIN
Sylvia Gellburg................................ MARGOT LEICESTER
Philip Gellburg................................ HENRY GOODMAN
Margaret Hyam............................... ELIZABETH McGOVERN
Harriet........................................... JULIA SWIFT
Stanton Case................................. ED BISHOP
Myra............................................. GABRIELLE LLOYD
THE BROKEN HORSESHOE
BBC /6x30m-e / 1952 15 Mar - 19 Apr
Writer: Francis Durbridge
TV's first thriller serial.
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