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

COMING HOME

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 / 8x90m / 2003-2006 

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

COMRADES IN ARMS

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 

CORIOLANUS

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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