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COME INTO THE GARDEN MAUD
CONSUMING PASSION 100 Years of Mills and Boon
COME LAUGHING HOME
ATV / 1x60m-e / 1966 black and white
Producer: Cecil Clarke / Director: John Moxey
Drama. A girl announces to her shocked family that she is pregnant.
Vera................................................. GEMMA JONES
Eric Fawcett...................................... REGINALD MARSH
Edith Fawcett.................................... AVIS BUNNAGE
Brian Hudson.................................... KEITH BARRON
COME SPY WITH ME
London Weekend Television / 1x90m-e / 1977 11 September
Writer: Bryan Blackburn / Producer: Jack Williams / Director: Philip Casson
Comedy. Misadventures of a secret agent.
With:- DANNY LA RUE / PATRICK CARGILL / IRENE HANDL / ALFRED MARKS / KENNETH WALLER / BARBARA WINDSOR
COMFORTABLY NUMB
C4 / 1x100m / 25 January 2004
Writer/Director/Producer:
Leo Regan
Drama. Jake admits himself to a rehab centre with alcohol problems but struggles
to accept he needs treatment - and matters are complicated by the arrival of a
new patient Emma when they begin an affair. Note:- told in a fly-on-the-wall
style - other than the two main actors the other parts were played by real
former addicts and treatment staff.
With:- HANS MATHESON as Jake / REBECCA PALMER as Emma
COMICS
C4/La Plante / 2x120m-e / 1993
Writer: Lynda La Plante / Producers: Verity Lambert, Selwyn Roberts / Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Drama serial. A stand up comic witnesses a gang land killing and is then targetted by a hit-man.
With:- TIM GUINEE / DANNY WEBB / MICHELLE FAIRLEY / LENNIE JAMES / FRANK GRIMES / STEVE NICOLSON
COMIC ASIDES
BBC2 / 15x30m-e / 1989-95
A series of comedies, a kind of BBC2 version of Comedy Playhouse. *= became a series.
1. KYTV*, 2.Tygo Road* 3.Dowie, 4.The Stone Age, 5.I, Lovett*, 6.Mornin' Sarge* 7. It's A Mad World, World, World, 8.The High Life*, 9.Woodcock, 10.The Last Word, 11.The Honeymoon's Over, 12.Pulp Video*, 13.N7, 14.Mac, 15.Felix Dexter on TV. All are featured individually.
COMIC RELIEF DOES FAME ACADEMY
BBC1 / 7-14 March 2003
Executive Producer: Richard Hopkins
Essentially Fame Academy in compressed celebrity form with a day for every week
of the original's format. Nine celebrities not known as singers live in the
academy house receiving vocal training and each evening they perform cover
versions live on TV. The viewers vote for their favourites and each night one
celebrity is voted off leading into Comic Relief Night 2003 on 14 March with two
remaining for the final. Although only lasting for a week the show proved an
unexpected success outshining the "regular" show's ratings and
unscheduled extra or extended editions were put on during the week. The
celebrities in the order they were voted off were:- Paul Ross, Fearne Cotton, Jo
Brand, John Thompson, Ulrika Jonsson, Doon Mackichan, Kwame Kwei-Armah, the
final was between Ruby Wax and the eventual winner Will Mellor. Presented by
Patrick Kielty and Cat Deeley
THE COMIC STRIP PRESENTS
C4/BBC2 / 37x(mostly)30m-e / 1982-93/98
Creator: Peter Richardson
A group of comedians take on various genres. The first Comic Strip was shown on Channel Four's opening night(2 Nov 1982).the team included PETER RICHARDSON, DAWN FRENCH, JENNIFER SAUNDERS, ADRIAN EDMONDSON, RIK MAYALL, ROBBIE COLTRANE, NIGEL PLANER, DANIEL PEACOCK & KEITH ALLEN
Yorkshire / 2x120m-e / 1998
Writer: John Goldsmith / Novel: Rosamunde Pilcher / Producer: David Cunliffe / Director: Giles Foster
Period drama serial. Judith Dunbar's life changes when she is befriended by the rich Carey-Lewis family but the arrival of world war two threatens to end her privileged way of life. See also Nancherrow. DVD now available, read the review here.
With:- EMILY MORTIMER as Judith Dunbar / KEIRA KNIGHTLEY as Young Judith / KATIE RYDER-RICHARDSON as Loveday Carey-Lewis / JOANNA LUMLEY as Diana Carey-Lewis / PETER O'TOOLE as Colonel Carey-Lewis / GEORGE ASPREY as Jeremy Wells / PAUL BETTANY as Edward Carey-Lewis / PATRICK RYECART as Tommy Mortimer / PENELOPE KEITH as Aunt Louise / DAVID McCALLUM as Billy Fawcett / CAROL DRINKWATER as Biddy / MALCOLM STODDARD as Somerville / SUSAN HAMPSHIRE as Miss Catto / BROOKE KINSELLA as Jess
COMING OUT
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1979
Writer: James Andrew Hall / Producer: Kenith Trodd / Director: Carol Wiseman
Drama. A writer is scared to come out of the closet as a homosexual.
With:- ANTON RODGERS / NIGEL HAVERS / RICHARD PEARSON / HYWEL BENNETT
THE COMING OUT PARTY
BBC1 'The Wednesday Play' / 1x75m-e / 1965 black and white
Writer: James O'Connor / Producer: James MacTaggart / Director: Ken Loach
Drama. A young boy begins a search in Notting Hill just before Christmas.
COMING SOON
C4 / 3x60m-e / 1999 17 June - 1 July Thursdays 10.30pm
Writer/Director: Annie Griffin / Producer: Anna Campeau
Comedy drama serial. A struggling theatre company undertake a tour of Scotland.
With:- VICKI PEPPERDINE as Jen / BEN MILLER as Bon / JOANNA SCANLAN as Claudia / ELAINE C. SMITH as Paisley Johnson / JULIA DAVIS as Kim / PAUL KAYE as Gunther von Hojdonk
COMING THROUGH
Central / 1x120m-e / 1982
Drama. Various episodes in the life of D.H. Lawrence contrasting with that of a student researching him.
With:- KENNETH BRANAGH as D.H. Lawrence
COMING UP
C4 / 8x30m / 2003 / 11:45pm
Producer: Paolo Proto / Executive Producer: Mervyn Gill-Dougherty
An anthology series of short dramas from new writers and directors.
NAKED (Writer: Emma Millions / Director: Paul Williams - 20 August 2003)
Mark has to try and overcome his embarrassment when he goes with his girlfriend
Bryony to her parents 30th wedding anniversary party. Bryony and her parents are
naturists and everyone at the party is naked.
With: BEN SUTHERLAND as Mark / SARAH NIVEN as Bryony / LUCIA COX as Claire /
ADAM DAY as Shane / ERIN GERAGHTY as Mum / PETER LOCHBURN as Dad / MARK LE
BAILEY as Tom
FIERCE (Writer: David Hayles / Director: Rachel Das - 27 August 2003)
Stan returns home from a spell of working abroad in Ibiza for his best friend
Meadows' 21st and finds life on the estate unchanged with a prevalent gang
culture. Stan takes up with Meadows' 15 year old sister, Kirsty, whom Meadows is
fiercely protective of and trouble ensues.
With:- FRASER AYERS as Stan / BEN BISHOP as Meadows / CHARLOTTE MCDONAGH as
Kirsty
RE-IGNITED (Writer: Holly Phillips / Director: Jon Sen - 3 September 2003)
Nigel meets up with an old flame after looking her up on the Friends Reunited
website.
With:- RAINER WISEMAN as Nigel / KIRSTY DILLON as Katie / ANIL DESAI as Jit /
DANIELLE TARENTO as Sara / DAVID ARMAN as Dave
SICK (Writer: Gemma McMullan / Director: Faye Gilbert - 17 September 2003)
A story of a hypochondriac schoolboy who thinks he is ill but whom the doctors
can find nothing wrong with.
With:- PETER KIN ELLY as Neil / JERMAL LYNCH as Jonno / JANET BAMFORD as Stella
/ VICTORIA LENNOX as Sonia / ROSIE MORRIS as Carol
VICTORIA (Writers: Rupert Jones, Dominic McHale / Director: Rupert Jones - 24
September 2003)
While waiting for his girlfriend, Raff chances to meet Alan - someone he knew
and disliked in junior school and who is now down on his luck. Girlfriend Rachel
sympathises with him and helps him out but Raff wants nothing to do with him.
(Victoria was the area of London the story took place in).
With:- DOMINIC MCHALE as Alan / ASHLEY JENSEN as Rachel / HUSS GARBIYA as Raff.
MONEY CAN BUY YOU LOVE (Writer: Tom MacRae / Director: Mark Soldinger - 1
October 2003)
Sam is straight but works as a rent boy to pay the bills. Then an attractive
woman hires him for sex and he falls for her despite finding out she is a
high-class prostitute herself.
With:- DANNY NUSSBAUM as Sam / LOUISE PAGE as Charlotte / SOPHIA MYLES as Nina
LOVELESS (Writer: Martin Brocklebank / Director: Amit Gupta - 8 October 2003)
Rachel lives with Mark but feels the passion has gone from their relationship
and she finds comfort with Tommy who lives above them with his girlfriend and
whose relationship is very fiery.
With:- CHRISTINE TREMARCO as Rachel / ALEC NEWMAN as Mark / ENZO CILENTI as
Tommy / CLARE FRANCIS as Becky
BED BUGS (Writer Jane Pugh / Director: Andrea Arnold - 8 October 2003)
A young lad runs away from his life of impending marriage to his pregnant
girlfriend because he knows he is gay.
With:- TIM SMITH as Ian / BEN HOMEWOOD as Max / DOMINIC CARTER as Jamie / AMBER
ROSE SEALEY as Kate
SEASON TWO
THE BAADER MEINHOF GANG SHOW (13 October
2004)
Two men with disabilities get together and plan to rob a bank
With:- EWEN BREMNER / EDDIE MARSAN
REPEAT AFTER ME (27 October 2004)
Writer: Harry Wootliff; Director: Crispin Whittell
A man wants to be more popular
With:- BEN CROMPTON / TABITHA WADY / Danny Webb
CUCKOOS (3 November 2004)
Writer: Justin Villiers; Director: Becky Brazil
Teenager Sean breaks into a house and holds a couple hostage forcing them to
hold a birthday party for him - but the couple seem to be more deranged than he
is and end up holding him hostage
With:- SEAN MASON as Sean / RICHARD HOPE as David / PHOEBE NICHOLLS as Sarah
TAKE MY HEART (10 November 2004)
SNOWMAN (24/11/2004)
Writer: Jacob Krichefski; Director: Smita Bhide
Black lad Snow owes big money to a local hardman
ONLY GIRLS (1/12/2004)
Writers: Raymond Friel, Derek Boyle; Director: Andrew Gunn
Four teenage girls in a holiday home play tricks on each other leading to tragic
consequences.
With:- CHRISTINE KAVANAGH as Mum / SAMANTHA WHITTAKER as Charlotte / KIRSTY WOOD
as Mary / FLORENCE HOATH as Vicky / MEDHAVI PATEL as Ginty
TAME (1/12/2004)
Writer: Christan Solimeno; Director: Joseph Bullman
A brother plans to kill his psychotic brother in the woods - but they end up
having to save their sister from a gang.
With:- CHRISTAN SOLIMENO
SEASON THREE
C4 / 7x30m
Producer: Dave Edwards
LOVING LUDMILLA (22 Aug 2005)
Writer/Director: Paul Berczfeller
As a favour to his east European girlfriend, Simon illegally smuggles her
brother Arpoz into the country - but he's really her boyfriend.
With:- TOBY JONES as Simon / ANNA SOWINSKI as Ludmilla / DYLAN CHARLES as Arpoz
/ EMIL MARWA as Barry
BIRD'S EYE VIEW (23 Aug 2005)
Writer: Sasha Hails / Director: David O'Neill
Black school boy Ashley has a crush on the new white teacher Katy and is amazed
to find his interest reciprocated.
With:- MIRANDA RAISON as Katy / CHARLES MNENE as Ashley
ROCKABYE (24 Aug 2005)
Writer: Tam Hoskyns / Director: Tim Supple
A young man arrives at a middle-aged couple's home with news of their son who
ran away from home ten years ago at age 14 - dark family secrets emerge as the
evening progresses.
With:- TOM BROOKE as Jack / ROSALIND MARCH as Ann (mum) / ALAN DAVID as Mike
(dad) / ALICE KNIGHT as Amy
PILLOW TALK (29 Aug 2005)
Writer: William Sutcliffe / Director: Adam Ganz
A man hears his fiancée talking in her sleep about his inadequacies and he
resolves to correct things but finds the changes are not what she wants at all.
With:- CAVAN CLERKIN as Chris / DAISY DONOVAN as Jen
KARMA COWBOYS (30 Aug 2005)
Writer: Rae Burton / Director: Steve Barker
A young lad answers a classified ad for a job and becomes a debt collector's
apprentice.
With:- SAM GRAHAM as Dougie LEE INGLEBY as Gabriel / BOB KINGDOM as Willy /
JESSICA WEAR as Steph
RANDOMER (31 Aug 2005)
Writer: Susan Kenyon / Director: Jules Williamson
Two teenage schoolgirls steal a car to go joy-riding but find there is a baby in
the back seat.
With:- JEMIMA ABEY as Hannah / RACHEL HUDSON as Stella / WILLIAM HALL as Tony
VIVA LIBERTY! (1 Sept 2005)
Writer/Director: Dishad Husain
An innocent British Muslim man goes on holiday to the United States and is
arrested as a terrorist and held in an interrogation camp where he is subjected
to a bizarre line of questioning to get him to "confess".
With:- RIZ MEEDIN as Woody Ali / ANTHONY OSEYEMY as Jeffrey Mohamed / SAM
COUGHLAN as Pvt Daisy Galich / BILL HOPE as Major Jeffcock Winchester
THE COMMANDER
ITV1 / 11x90m / 2003-2008
Writer/Producer: Lynda La Plante
Crime thriller. James Lampton, recently released from prison after serving his
time for his crimes as a serial killer, has written a book describing his
crimes. Then copycat killings start. Commander Claire Blake who originally
arrested Lampton believes him innocent of the new crimes and befriends him and a
relationship starts and she herself provides him with an alibi for some new
murders. But she herself almost becomes his next victim when she discovers he
has indeed been killing again.
TRANSMISSION DETAILS: 1. 16 & 17
March 2003 (a two part story) | 2. 10-18 January 2005 (4 episodes) | 3. 27 March
- 4 April 2006 (a 2 part story)
cast
AMANDA BURTON as Cdr Claire Blake / HUGH BONNEVILLE as James Lampton /
MATTHEW MARSH as DCI Mike Hedges / NICHOLAS JONES as DCS Les Branton / MARTIN WALSH as Graham Warner / DAVID CALDER as George Hart
/ ROBERT WILFORT as DI Jeff Dunn
COMMANDER BADMAN
Thames / 1x30m-e / 1974 24 May - Fri 4.50pm 'Funny Ha Ha'
Writer: Eric Idle / Producer: Ruth Boswell / Director: Darrol Blake
Comedy. The misadventures of a group of useless crooks led by the Commander of the title.
Commander Badman........................ AUBREY WOODS
Vince.............................................. HENRY WOOLF
Boy Wonder.................................... DAVID BATTLEY
Anthea........................................... BRIDGET ARMSTRONG
Sgt Henderson................................ ROLAND MacLEOD
THE COMMON
BBC 'Play of the Month' / 1x90m-e / 1973
Writer: Peter Nichols
Comedy drama. A rich Tory family living on one side of a common find their lives intertwining with that of a working class family from the other side.
With:- PETER JEFFREY / VIVIEN MERCHANT / DENNIS WATERMAN / GWEN TAYLOR
COMMON AS MUCK
BBC1 / 12x60m-e / 1994/97
Writer: William Ivory / Theme Music: The Other Two / Executive Producers: John Chapman, Michael Wearing
Drama series. A group of unruly dustbinmen face up to the realities of privatisation(94) and being out of work(97).
With:- EDWARD WOODWARD as Nev / TIM HEALY as Foxy(94) / NEIL DUDGEON as Ken / RICHARD RIDINGS as Bernard / ANTHONY BARCLAY as Sunil / STEPHEN LORD as Jonno / ROY HUDD as John Parry / FREDA DOWIE as Dulcie / PAUL KEMBER as George Ward / MICHELLE HOLMES as Marie / NIMMY MARCH as Denise
THE COMMON LOT
ATV / 1x30m-e / 1977 5 April - Tuesday 7.00pm
Writer: Caroline Graham / Producer/Director: Alan Tarrant
Comedy. Two council gardeners attempt to create a hybrid plant.
Arthur................................................. LESLIE DWYER
Gaffer................................................. BERNARD KAY
Burridge............................................. JOHN SAVIDENT
COMMON PURSUIT
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1992
Comedy drama. The lives of a group of Cambridge students.
With:- STEPHEN FRY / KEVIN McNALLY / STELLA GONET
THE COMMON ROOM
BBC / 1958
Drama series. Stories from the staff room of a modern school.
COMPACT
BBC / 373x25m-e / 1962-65 black and white
Creators: Hazel Adair, Peter Ling
Twice Weekly Drama series. The convoluted lives of the staff of a woman's magazine.
With:- JEAN HARVEY as Joanne Minister / NICHOLAS SELBY as Jimmy / MORAY WATSON as Richard / RONALD ADAM as Ian Harmon / GARETH DAVIES as Mark Vicars / LEO McGUIRE as Alec / MONICA EVANS as Sally / BETTY COOPER as Alison Morley
THE COMPANY OF FIVE
LWT / 1968
An anthology of plays featuring the same five actors, who included John Neville and Cyril Luckham, one of the plays was Dennis Potter's Shaggy Dog.
CONVICTION
BBC3-Red Production / 6x50 minute episodes / 2004 (7-21 November )
Written by Bill Gallagher / Director: David Richards
Crime drama serial. A murder squad team
are convinced that the murder of a 12 year old girl was committed by a well
known paedophile, the two cops leading the investigation, Joe and Chrissie,
decide to take matters into their own hands. Soon the paedophile is found
murdered and evidence turns up to suggest he is innocent...
The episodes were shown in double bills.
With:- IAN PULESTON-DAVIES as Joe Payne / WILLIAM ASH as Chrissie Fairburn / REECE DINSDALE as Robert Seymour / LAURA FRASER as Lucy Romanis / DAVID WARNER as Lenny Fairburn / SHARON DUCE as Sandra Buleigh / JASON WATKINS as Jason Buleigh / NICHOLAS GLEAVES as Ray Fairburn / JASON DONE as Sol Draper / LINDSEY COCKER as Miriam Payne
COPENHAGEN
BBC2 / 1x90 / 30 August 2003
Play: Michael Frayn / Adapted and Directed by: Howard Davies / Producer: Richard Fell
Drama showing what might have taken place in Copenhagen in 1941 when two physicists, Heisenberg and Bohr, had a meeting - once friends and colleagues but now finding themselves on opposite sides of the war and both with connections to their side's nuclear programme. It puts forward a reason why Heisenberg made the trip to meet Bohr and postulates how the outcome of the war may have differed had German physicist Heisenberg been given one crucial lead that Bohr, working with the allies, knew. Originally shown on digital channel BBC4 in September 2002.
With:- DANIEL CRAIG as Werner Heisenberg / STEPHEN REA as Niels Bohr / FRANCESCA ANNIS as Margrethe Bohr
THE COMPLETE GUIDE TO RELATIONSHIPS
Carlton/Kudos 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1993 13 April -Tuesday 8.30pm
Writer/Producer: Kim Fuller / Executive Producer: Stephen Garrett / Director: Juliet May
Comedy. The romantic entanglements of eight people.
Mike................................................... MICHAEL MALONEY
Julia................................................... ANNA CHANCELLOR
Tony.................................................. MICHAEL SIMKINS
Sarah................................................ MARIA FREEDMAN
Val.................................................... SOPHIE THOMPSON
Chris................................................. DAVID BAMBER
Donna............................................... DIANE PARISH
Gary................................................. TOBY WHITEHOUSE
BBC 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1963 30 Nov-Sat 9.35pm black and white
Writer: Donald Churchill / Producer: Graeme Muir
Comedy. A window cleaner witnesses an extra marital affair and is soon involved in farcical cover-up shenanigans.
Ted..................................................... GRAHAM STARK
Julie.................................................... FENELLA FIELDING
Bernard............................................... IAN BANNEN
Bernard's Wife..................................... ELVI HALE
CONAN DOYLE:See Short Stories Of...
CONCEPTIONS OF MURDER
London Weekend Television / 6x60m-e / 1970
Writer: Clive Exton
Six dramatisations of real life murder cases.
With:- HUGH BURDEN / ANGELA BADDELLY / RONALD FRASER
THE CONCUBINE
Yorkshire / 1x60m-e / 1981
Writer: Claire Higgins / Executive Producer: David Cunliffe / Producer: Pat Sandys / Director: Gareth Davies
Drama. A seemingly happily married businessman in fact has a mistress.
With:- BRUCE MONTAGUE / CLAIRE HIGGINS / JUDY PARFITT
CONDEMNED TO BE SHOT
BBC / 1x20m-e / 1939 4 March black and white
Writer: R.E. J. Brooke / Producer: Jan Bussell
Drama. A man is about to face the firing squad. The camera was the character and the action was directed as such.
With:- REGINALD BROOKE / BEN SOUTTEN / ZOE DAVIES / OLGA EDWARDS
THE CONFESSION
Anglia / 1x60m-e / 1967 black and white
Writer: Maurice McLaughlin / Design: Michael Wield / Producer: John Jacobs
Drama. A man is murdered in strange circumstances.
With:- MARIE KEAN / ANN LYNN / FRANCIS MATTHEWS / LIAM REDMOND / LESLIE SANDS
CONFESSION:THE PYTHON METHOD
Granada / 1x50m-e / 1970
Writer: John Kruse / Director: Barry Davis
Spy drama. A young scientist goes on a mission behind the iron curtain.
With:- KEITH BARRON / JAMES DONNELLY
THE CONFIDENCE COURSE
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1965 black and white
Writer: Dennis Potter / Producer: James MacTaggart / Director: Gilchrist Calder
Comedy drama. Potter's first TV play. Three conmen try to persuade people onto their confidence building course.
With:- DENNIS PRICE / STANLEY BAKER
CONFESSIONAL
Granada / 2x120m-e / 1989
Writer: James Mitchell / Director: Gilchrist Calder
Thriller serial. An ex-IRA terrorist has to prevent a KGB agent from assassinating the pope.
With:- ROBERT LINDSAY / KEITH CARRADINE / VALENTINA YUKUNUA / ROBERT LANG / SIMON CHANDLER / DAVID DE KEYSER / ANTHONY QUAYLE / KATIE RABETT
CONJUGAL RIGHTS
Yorkshhire / 3x60m-e / 1973
Writer: Philip Mackie / Producer: Peter Willes / Director: Marc Miller
Drama serial. The marital ups and downs of three couples.
With:- IAN HOLM / BARBARA FERRIS
CONNIE
Central / 13x60m-e / 1985
Writer: Ron Hutchinson / Producer: Nicholas Palmer / Theme song: Willie Russell
Drama series. Former fashion tycoon Connie returns home from Greece determined to get back to the top of her profession.
With:- STEPHANIE BEACHAM as Connie / BRENDA BRUCE as Bea / PAM FERRIS as Nesta / RICHARD MORANT as Jamieson / GEORGE COSTIGAN as Arnie / KAREN MEAGHER as Marie
CONSPIRACY
BBC2 25 January 2002 1x90m 9:00pm
Writer: Loring Mandel; Director: Frank Pierson; Producer: Nick Gillot
Drama recreating the secret summit meeting held at a Wanasee villa in the
outskirts of Berlin in 1942 where SS General Reinhard Heydrich and a group of 15
senior Nazi party members and military officials plotted the annihilation of the
Jewish people - The Final Solution. Based on the sole-surviving record of the
meeting.
KENNETH BRANAGH as Reinhard Heydrich / STANLEY TUCCI as Adolf Eichmann /
DAVID THRELFALL as Freidrich Kritzinger / COLIN FIRTH as Wilhelm Stuckart
/ BARNABY KAY as Rudolph Lange / BEN DANIELS as Joseph Buhler / JONATHAN
COY as Erich Neumann / BRENDAN COYLE as Heinrich Muller / IAN McNIECE as
Gerhard Klopfer / OWEN TEALE as Roland Freisler / NICHOLAS WOODESON as Otto
Hoffman / EWAN STEWART as Georg Leibbrandt / KEVIN McNALLY as Martin Luther /
BRIAN PETTIFER as Alfred Pettifer / PETER SULLIVAN as Karl Schongarth
THE CONSTABLE'S MOVE
BBC / February 1959
Writer: Donal Giltinan / Story: W.W. Jacobs / Producer: Peter Dews
Drama.
Leonard Rossiter as Joe Stocks
THE CONSTANT NYMPH
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1938 31 May black and white
Writers: Margaret Kennedy, Basil Dean / Producer: George More O'Ferrall
Drama. A composer finds himself falling in love with a woman who has a short time to live.
With:- VICTORIA HOPPER / ERIC PORTMAN / MARGARETTA SCOTT / DOROTHY HYSON / RONALD SHINER
THE CONSULTANT
BBC / 4x50m-e / 1983
Writer: Alan Plater / Producer: Ron Craddock / Director: Cyril Coke
Thriller serial about a hitman.
With:- HYWEL BENNETT / DONALD BURTON / PHILIP JACKSON / PAMELA SALEM
THE CONSULTANT
BBC / 4x50m-e / 1983
Writer: Alan Plater / Producer: Ron Craddock / Director: Cyril Coke
Thriller serial about a hitman.
With:- HYWEL BENNETT / DONALD BURTON / PHILIP JACKSON / PAMELA SALEM
CONTACT
BBC / 1x70m-e / 1984
Writer: A.F.N. Clarke / Producer: Terry Coles / Director: Alan Clarke
Drama. A group of soldiers have a tense patrol whilst on duty in Northern Ireland.
With:- SEAN CHAPMAN / JOHN BLUNDELL / OZZIE STEVENS / JASON CUNLIFFE
CONTRACT
BBC1 'Murder In Mind' / 1x60m / 3 April 2003
Writer: Guy Butt / Director: Adrian Bean
/ Producer: Paul Knight
Crime drama. Three city dealers' scheme to siphon off money from their company's
accounts is suspected by Simon's boss so he and his friends hire ageing hitman
Terry Cameron to do away with him. Cameron requires payment only on completion
of the job, but when the boss publicly dies of a heart attack the dealers decide
there is no need to pay the hitman. Cameron then starts killing the dealers
one-by-one as a penalty for non-payment. Starring Adam Faith in his final TV
role completed shortly before his death; and TV Presenter Jamie Theakston in an
acting role.
With:- ADAM FAITH as Terry Cameron / JAMIE THEAKSTON as Simon Talbot / RAJI
JAMES as Anthony / ANDREW CLOVER as Greg / WILLIAM CHUBB as James Carlson /
CHRISTINE ADAMS as Chloe / ALEX HASSELL as Jules
COOGAN'S RUN
BBC2/Pozzitive / 6x30m-e / 1995 17 Nov- 22 Dec
Creator: Steve Coogan / Producers: Geoff Posner, David Tyler
Six half hour comedies based around the inhabitants of the town of Little Ottle, all starring Steve Coogan.
COPPERS
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1988
Writer: Stephen Whittaker / Producer: Andre Molyneaux / Director: Ted Clisby
Drama. A pair of bored teenagers begin posing as policemen but find matters quickly getting out of hand.
With:- TIM ROTH / REECE DINSDALE / MARION BAILEY / SANDRA VOE / TONY ROHR / MARK WILLIAMS
THE COPS
BBC2 / x50m-e / 1998-continuing
Producer: Eric Coulter / Executive Producer: Tony Garnett
Hard hitting crime drama series. Cases of the police in the northern town of Stanton where the officers work hard and play even harder. The series was popular in the UK for its American style of fast cuts, hand held cameras etc. Season three was made up of occasional two part stories.
Mel...................................................... KATY CAVANAGH
Giffen................................................... ROB DIXON
Roy..................................................... JOHN HENSHAW
Mike.................................................... STEVE JACKSON
Danny................................................. JACK MARSDEN
Natalie................................................ CLARE McGLINN
Jaz..................................................... PARVEZ QADIR
Wakefield............................................ DAVID GRELLIN
Colin................................................... STEVE GARTI
COR, BLIMEY!
ITV-Company TV / 1x115m-e / 2000 24 April - Monday 9.00pm
Writer/Director: Terry Johnson / Camera: Paul Wheeler / Design: Chris Edwards /Costume: Odile Dicks-Mireaux / Music: Barrington Pheloung / Executive Producers: Charlie Pattinson, George Faber , Suzan Harrison
Period comedy drama. An account of the real life relationship between Carry On film stars Sid James and Barbara Windsor. For years the much older Sid tried to persuade Barbara to have an affair with him and even proposed (although Barbara was married to underworld figure Ronnie Knight). Windsor makes a guest appearance as herself towards the end of the film and most of the actual Carry On team are impersonated.
With:- Geoffrey Hutchings as Sid James / Samantha Spiro as Barbara Windsor / Adam Godley as Kenneth Williams / Jacqueline Defferary as Sally / Kenneth McDonald as Eddie / Chrissie Cotterill as Joan Sims / Hugh Walters as Charles Hawtrey / Steve Spiers as Bernard Bresslaw / Derek Howard as Kenneth Connor / Hetty Baynes as Maggie / Louise Delamere as Imogen / David McAlister as Gerald Thomas / Maria Charles as Charlie's Mum / Kellie Bright as Viola / Windsor Davies as Sir Tony Welch / Abigail McKern as Olga
BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1984
Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Stephen Oliver / Producer: Shaun Sutton / Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Period tragedy.
With:- JOSS ACKLAND as Menenius / PAUL JESSON as First Citizen / RAY ROBERTS as 2nd Citizen / LEON LISSEK as 3rd Citizen / JON RUMNEY as 5th Citizen / ALAN HOWARD as Caius Marcius / PATRICK GODFREY as Comminnius / VALENTINE DYALL as Adrian /
THE CORMORANT
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1992
Writer: Peter Ransley / Novel: Stephen Gregory / Director: Peter Markham
Drama. A writer finds himself becomes obsessed with the house left to him in a will.
With:- RALPH FIENNES / HELEN SCHLESINGER / KARL FRANCIS / THOMAS WILLIAMS / BUDDUG MORGAN / DEREK HUTCHINSON / DYFAN ROBERTS / MICI PLWM / RAY GRAVELL / STEWART JONES / GWILYM EVANS
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