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An indepth guide to pretty much every UK show ever seen on TV, all entries include cast and crew details as well as running times, plot details, when it was on, what it was about and more besides. Simply click on the links below to access the information, UK sitcoms and UK Comedy are treated separately in their own sections. 

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DAISIES IN DECEMBER

BBC2 / 1x95m-e / 1999 3 February

Writer: John Kane / Director: Mark Haber 

Drama. An elderly man left at a hotel by his family strikes up a relationship with a widow.

Gerald Carmody............................. JOSS ACKLAND

Katherine Palmer........................... JEAN SIMMONS

Miss Glaistow................................ PIPPA GUARD

Miss Bunce................................... JUDITH BARKER

Mrs Carmichael............................. BARBARA LOTT

Miss Dean.................................... MURIEL PAVLOW

 

DADDY’S GIRL

ITV1 / 1x120m / 23 September 2002 / 9:00pm

Writer: Philomena McDonagh / Director: Bill Eagles / Producer: David Lascelles

17 year old Emma lives alone with her father, Chris, following her mother’s abandonment of the family 10 years ago - a mother who hasn’t been in contact at all since that day. But Emma starts to get suspicious that perhaps her mother didn’t just run away and persuades the police to re-open their missing person’s file.

With:- MARTIN KEMP as Chris Cooper / STEPHANIE LEONIDAS as Emma Cooper / NICHOLAS HUTCHISON as Malcolm / DENISE BLACK as Sue / SAM GREEN as James / HELEN KVALE as Carol / TREVOR FOX as Dan Rothwell

 

DALZIEL AND PASCOE

BBC1-A&E / 44x90m-e / 1996-1999 and 2000-2002 and 2004-2006  

Creator: Reginald Hill / Music: Damion Barry / Producers: Eric Abraham, Chris Parr 

Crime drama series. An old fashioned superintendent teams up with a graduate police sergeant. Dalziel is pronounced Dee-Al. There was a new story of DALZIEL AND PASCOE (2x60m  a 2-parter) broadcast 21-22 December 2002 and a new 4x90m series emerged in January 2004.  A further batch of 5 two part stories were broadcast from March 2006. 

With:- WARREN CLARKE as Det Supt Andrew Dalziel / COLIN BUCHANAN as Det Sgt/Insp Peter Pascoe / SUSANNAH CORBETT as Ellie Soper/Pascoe / DAVID ROYLE as Det Sgt Wield / KATY CAVANAGH as DS Dawn "Spike" Milligan (from 2004)

 

THE DAME OF SARK

Anglia / 1x60m-e / 1976 29 December

Writer: David Butler / Play: Douglas-Hume / Producer: John Jacobs / Director: Alvin Rakoff 

Period drama. During World War II the Channel Island of Sark is taken over by the Germans.

Sybil Hathaway............................... CELIA JOHNSON

Count Von Schmetteau.................... TONY BRITTON

 

DAMON AND DEBBIE

C4/Mersey / 3x30m-e / 1989 

Creator: Phil Redmond 

Drama serial. Spin off from Brookside( a self proclaimed 'soap bubble' - much like the current spate of soap video releases.) Damon and Debbie from Brookside Close decide to run away.

With:- SIMON O'BRIEN as Damon / GILLIAN KEARNEY as Debbie 

 

DAMON HILL'S WILD AND WHACKY RACES

Channel Five / 7x30 minutes / 1999 (First episode broadcast Wednesday 12 May @ 8.30pm)

Producer: John Nolan Motor sports. Former Formula One world champion Damon Hill looks at bizarre motor sports from around the world. 

 

DANCE

C4/Tiger Aspect 'Shockers' / 1x65m-e / 1999 2 November - Tuesday 10.00pm

Writers: Kate Maravan,Sophie Vaughan / Producer: Lisa Marie Russo / Director: Richard Clark 

Thriller. When widower with two children Mike Swift begins a relationship with Deborah it leads to a terrible discovery.

Mike Swift.......................................... DOUGLAS HODGE

Deborah............................................ CHRISTINE TREMARCO

Anne................................................. JEMIMA ROOPER

Peter................................................. ALEXANDER POWNALL

Davie................................................. JACK PIERCE

Joy................................................... ANGELA WALSH

Marie................................................ KATIE LYONS

Tarnya.............................................. NICOLE CHARLES

 

DANCERS IN MORNING

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1959 black and white

Writer: John Hopkins / Novel: Margery Allingham 

Crime drama serial. A case for Albert Campion.

Campion............................................ BERNARD HORSFALL

 

A DANCE TO THE MUSIC OF TIME

C4 / 4x120m-e / 1997

Writer: Hugh Whitmore / Novels: Anthony Powell / Producer/Director: Alvin Rakoff 

Period drama serial. Five decades of upperclass life in Britain, from the 1920's onwards especially for two men Nicholas Jenkins and Kenneth Widmerpool. Based on the mammoth collection of twelve novels by Anthony Powell this serial could never hope to match up to the brilliance of the novels but was still a superb piece of work, Dennis Potter had once been commissioned to write a serial around the novels but could not condense the material enough to make it work for TV, indeed this version at 8 hours is a mere glimpse of the detail in the books. 

With:- JAMES PUREFOY as Nicholas Jenkins / SIMON RUSSELL BEALE as Kenneth Widmerpool / PAUL RHYS as Charles Stringham / CLAIRE SKINNER as Jean Duport / MIRANDA RICHARDSON as Pamela Flitton / ZOE WANAMAKER as Audrey MacLintock / ALAN BENNETT as Sillery / EDWARD FOX as Uncle Giles / JONATHAN CAKE as Peter Templar / JOHN GIELGUD as St John Clarke / EMMA FIELDING as Isobel / NICOLA WALKER as Gypsy / CARMEN DU SAUTOY as  Miss Weedon  / JOHN STANDING as Older Nicholas (episode 4)

DANCING QUEEN 

ITV 'Rik Mayall Presents' / 1x60m / 3 June 1993

Writer: Nick Vivian / Director: Nick Hamm / Producer: Andy Harries

Comedy. Following a stag night prank, Neil finds himself stranded on a train with the strip-o-gram girl hired for his party. 

With:- RIK MAYALL as Neil / HELENA BONHAM-CARTER as Pandora/Julie / SERENA GORDON as Sophie / DOROTHY TUTIN as Margaret / NATHANIEL PARKER as Nigel / MARTIN CLUNES as Donald

 

DANCING THRU THE DARK

BBC1 / 1x75m-e / 1987

Writer: Willy Russell / Producer: Andre Molyneaux / Director: Mike Ockrent 

Comedy drama. Two sets of friends, one girls, the other lads, go out for respectively a hen night and a stag night.

Linda.................................................. CLAIRE HACKETT

Peter.................................................. CON O'NEILL.

Manager............................................. COLIN WELLAND

Sourface............................................. WILLY RUSSELL

Bernadette.......................................... JULIA DEAKIN

Maureen............................................. ANGELA CLARKE

Carol.................................................. SANDRA HENDRICKSE

Kev.................................................... SIMON O'BRIEN

 

DANDELION DEAD

London Weekend Television /  2x120m-e / 1993

Writer: Michael Chaplin / Music: Barrington Pheloung / Costume: Evangeline Harrison / Design: Voytek / Producer: Patrick Harbinson / Executive Producer: Sarah Wilson / Director: Mike Hodges

Period crime drama serial. In the 1920's solicitor Major Herbert Armstrong is accused of murder when his wife is found to have been poisoned. Based on a true story. 

Herbert Armstrong.......................... MICHAEL KITCHEN

Katherine Armstrong....................... SARAH MILES

Oswald Martin................................ DAVID THEWLISS

Marion Glassford-Gale.................... DIANA QUICK

Tom Hincks................................... PETER VAUGHAN

Vaughan....................................... ROBERT STEPHENS

Davies.......................................... BERNARD HEPTON

Phillips......................................... ROGER LLOYD PACK

Griffiths......................................... PATRICK GODFREY

Barmaid....................................... ARBEL JONES

 

DANGERFIELD

BBC1 / 66x50m-e / 1995-99 Six seasons

Creator: Don Shaw / Music: Nigel Hess / Script Editor: Barbara Mackie(Seasons 1-2) / Medical Advisor: M.H. Bletcher / Executive Producer: Chris Parr 

Medical Drama series. Cases of a busy police surgeon, initially Paul Dangerfield a widower with a teenage son and daughter and then following the departure of Le Vaillant in 1997 Nigel Havers took over as single Jonathan Paige.

Paul Dangerfield(95-97)........................ NIGEL LE VAILLANT

Joanna Stevens(Seasons 1-2).............. AMANDA REDMAN

Alison Dangerfield(95-96)..................... LISA FAULKNER

Alison Dangerfield(97)......................... TAMZIN MALLESON

Marty Dangerfield(95-96)..................... SEAN McGUIRE

Marty Dangerfield(97).......................... TIM VINCENT

Shaban Hamada................................. NADIM SAWALHA

Dr Jonathan Paige(97-99).................... NIGEL HAVERS

Kate Durrani(Season 1)....................... KIM VITHANI

D.I. Ken Jackson(95-96)...................... GEORGE IRVING

Terri Murphy(Season 2)....................... KATY MURPHY

Sgt Lardner........................................ RODERICK SMITH

Liz Moss(Season 3)........................... JACQUETTA MAY

Angela Wakefield(From Season 3)....... MARCIA WARREN

DS Helen Diamond............................. NICOLA COWPER

D.I. Gillian Cramer(97-99).................... JANE GURNETT

 

DANGER MAN

ATV / 26x30m-e / 45x60m-e / 1960-61/64-67 black and white

Creator/Executive Producer: Ralph Smart / Producers: Sidney Cole, Aida Young 

Action adventure series. Cases of suave loner intelligence agent John Drake. The final two episodes were made in colour.

With:- PATRICK McGOOHAN as John Drake / PETER MADDEN as Hobbs 

 

DANGEROUS CORNER

Yorkshire / 1x / 1970

Period drama based on the J. B. Priestley play.

With:- GWEN WATFORD as Olwen Peel / NICHOLAS PENNELL / IAN HENDRY / NICOLA PAGETT / JOANNA DUNHAM / MORAY WATSON / MARGARETTA SCOTT

 

DANGER UXB

 Thames/Euston / 13x60m-e / 1979

Creator/Producer: John Hawkesworth / Executive Producer: Johnny Goodman 

Wartime drama series. Lieutenant Brian Ash finds himself drafted into a bomb disposal squad,97 Company Royal Engineers, during World War II.

With:- ANTHONY ANDREWS as Lt Brian Ash / JUDY GEESON as Susan Mount / IAIN CUTHBERTSON as Dr David Gillespie / MOYRA FRASER as Aunt Dodo / MARJIE LAWRENCE as Mrs Baker / DEBORAH WATLING as Norma Baker / ALFIE BASS as Reg Preston / LOUISA RIX as Angie / GERALDINE GARDNER as Nicky / NICK TATE as Chris Craik / PETER CARTWRIGHT as Maj Luckhurst / JEREMY SINDEN as Lt Ivor Rodgers / NICK BRIMBLE as 2nd Lt Gresham / MAURICE ROEVES as Sgt James / GEORGE INNES as Cpl Horrocks / KENNETH CRANHAM as Sapper Salt / JOHN BOWLER as Sapper Scott

 

DANGEROUS DAVIES:THE LAST DETECTIVE

ATV /  1x90m-e / 1981

Writer: Leslie Thomas / Director: Val Guest

Crime drama. Bumbling copper Detective Constable 'Dangerous' Davies decides to investigate a 25 year old murder case.

D.C. 'Dangerous' Davies..................... BERNARD CRIBBENS

Mod Lewis........................................ BILL MAYNARD

Ch. Insp Yardbird.............................. JOSS ACKLAND

Sgt Ben........................................... BERNARD LEE

Dave Boot........................................ JOHN LEYTON

Ena Lind.......................................... MAUREEN LIPMAN

William Lind..................................... COLIN BAKER

 

DANGEROUS LADY

ITV / 4x60m-e / 1995

Writer: Paul Hines / Novel: Martina Cole / Producer: Lavinia Warner 

Crime drama serial. Maura Ryan finds herself running a family of gangsters.

Maura Ryan..................................... SUSAN LYNCH

Sarah Ryan...................................... SHEILA HANCOCK

Michael Ryan................................... JASON ISAACS

Terry Patterson................................ OWEN TEALE

Joe the Fish..................................... DAVID CALDER

Roy Ryan........................................ JAMES BOWERS

 

A DANGEROUS MAN

Anglia/Focus / 1x105m-e / 1991 

Writer: Tim Rose Price Camera: Witold Stok / Executive producers: David Puttnam , Brenda Reid.  D:Christopher Menaul 

Period drama.T.E. Lawrence(of Arabia) gets involved in trying to bring independance to his Arab allies.

With:- Ralph Fiennes as T. E. Lawrence / Paul Freeman/ Nicholas Jones as Lord Dyson / Gillian Barge / Jim Carter / Denis Quilley as Lord Curzon/  Michael Cochrane / Roger Hammond / Polly Walker / Siddig El Fadil as Feisal. 

 

DANGER ZONE

Anglia / 1x90m-e / 1963 22 June

Writer: N. J. Crisp / Director: George More O'Ferrall 

Scifi drama. Tensions arise on the eve of a nuclear test. 

Harry Brunewald................................ OSCAR HOMALKA

Capt Guy.......................................... JOHN SUTTON

Capt Raffan....................................... ALAN WHITE

Jenny Earl........................................ JEANNE MOODY

Bob Fellowes.................................... WILLIAM SYLVESTER

Margo Robertson............................... JEAN MARSH  

 

DANIEL DERONDA

BBC1 / 1x90m 2x60m / started 23 November 2002

Book: George Eliot / Adaption: Andrew Davies / Director: Tom Hooper / Producer: Louis Marks

Period drama. The story of idealistic Daniel Deronda, who rescues a young Jewish girl from drowning then sets about helping her find her family and in so doing discovers the truth of his own roots. And of Gwendolen Harleth, a beautiful flighty young thing who feels compelled to marry the powerful but cruel Mr Grandcourt to save her families fortunes. 

With:- HUGH DANCY as Daniel Deronda / ROMOLA GARAI as Gwendolen Harleth / HUGH BONNEVILLE as Mr Grandcourt / JOHDI MAY as Mirah Lapidoth / EDWARD FOX as Sir Hugo Mallinger / GRETA SCACCHI as Lydia Glasher / AMANDA ROOT as Mrs Davilow / DAVID BAMBER as Lush / CELIA IMRIE as Mrs Meyrick 

 

DANIELLE CABLE: EYEWITNESS

ITV1 / 1x120m / 14 April 2003

Writers: Terry Winsor, Kate Brooke / Director: Adrian Shergold / Producer: Francis Hopkinson

Drama telling the true story of Danielle Cable who witnessed the murder of her fiancé Stephen Cameron in a road rage incident in 1996.

With:- JOANNE FROGGATT as Danielle Cable / BILL PATERSON as DI Nick Biddiss / LINDSEY COULSON as Ann Cable / JAMIE FOREMAN as Keith Phelan / NIGEL TERRY as Kenneth Boye / EAMON BOLAND as Ken Cameron / ALEX HASSELL as Stephen Cameron

DAPHNE LAUREOLA

Granada 'The Best Play Of...' / 1x95m-e / 1978

Writer: James Bridie / Director: Waris Hussein 

Drama about an eccentric elderly couple.

With:- JOAN PLOWRIGHT / LAURENCE OLIVIER / ARTHUR LOWE

 

THE DARK ANGEL

BBC2 / 3x60m-e / 1988

Writer: Don McPherson / Music: Paul Lewis / Producer: Joe Waters / Director: Peter Hammond

Period drama serial.A young girl in Victorian times finds herself tormented  by her evil governess.

With:- PETER O'TOOLE / JANE LAPOTAIRE / TIM WOODWARD / BEATIE EDNEY / BARBARA SHELLEY /SIMON SHEPHERD

 

A DARK ADAPTED EYE

BBC1 / 2x80m-e / 1994

Writer: Sandy Welch / Novel: Barbara Vine / Producer: Phillipa Giles / Director: Tim Fywell

Period crime drama serial. In the early sixties a young woman investigates the true facts surrounding the hanging of her Aunt in the 1940's.

Faith..................................................... HELENA BONHAM-CARTER

Vera..................................................... CELIA IMRIE

Eden.................................................... SOPHIE WARD

Paolo................................................... CIARAN HINDS

Andrew................................................ WILLIAM GAMINARA

John.................................................... ROBIN ELLIS

Francis................................................ STEPHEN MACKINTOSH

Young Faith......................................... HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS

Anne................................................... EMMA CROFT

 

THE DARK IS LIGHT ENOUGH

BBC / 1x / 1958

Writer: Christopher Fry / Producer: Stuart Burge 

Period drama.

With:- PETER WYNGARDE / DAME EDITH EVANS / DAPHNE SLATER

 

DARK KNIGHT

Channel Five-Portman-Palena-Dark Knight / 1x95m-e 11x60m-e / 2000 Saturdays 5.45pm 1 July - 

Creator: Terry Marcel / Music: Jeremy Dempsey / Producers: Phil Walbank, Terry Marcel / Executive Producers: Tim Buxton, David Wright

Period fantasy adventure series. In medieval England (1192) Saxon Ivanhoe returns home to try and regain the power from the darkness (brought about by the evil Prince John and the sorceror Mordour. A UK-New Zealand co-production and only in the loosest sense of the word based on Sir Walter Scott's original Ivanhoe novel. 

With:- BENJAMIN PULLEN as Ivanhoe / CHARLOTTE COMER as Rebecca / PETER O'FARRELL as Odo / CAMERON RHODES as Prince John / CHRISTOPHER NEAME as Mordour / TODD RIPPON as Falco   

 

THE DARK LADY OF THE SONNETS

BBC / 1946 7 June

Writer: George Bernard Shaw / Producer: George More O'Ferrall 

Period drama shown on the afternoon of the BBC's re-opening following the end of World War II. Restaged March 1947 with Denis Webb as Shakespeare

With:- HENRY OSCAR as Shakespeare / DOROTHY BLACK as Queen Elizabeth / LESLEY DEANE as Dark Lady / ALBAN BLAKELOCK as The Beefeater

 

THE DARK MAN

BBC / 1960 black and white  

Writer: N.J. Crisp / Director: Don Taylor 

Drama. A black taxi driver faces problems at work.

With:- EARL CAMERON / ROBERT SHAW / RITA DAVIES / REGINALD MARSH

 

THE DARK NUMBER

BBC2 / 5x50m-e / 1967

Writer: Edward Boyd / Producer: Alan Bromly / Director: Michael Ferguson 

Crime drama serial. A police inspector investigates the disappearance of a woman in Scotland.

Insp Wardlow.................................. RODDY McMILLAN

Johnny Maxen................................. PATRICK ALLEN

 

A DARK PERFUME

ITV / 1x60m-e / 1997

Writer: Peter Ransley / Story: Ruth Rendell / Producer: Neil Zeiger / Director: Sandy Johnson

Thriller. Mark returns home after an absence of more than 30 years and finds himself confronted with the ghost of a lost love.

Liz........................................................ SUSANNAH YORK

Mark.................................................... JOHN CASTLE

Sheila.................................................. ROWENA COOPER

Bill ..................................................... DAVID RYALL

 

THE DARK ROOM

BBC1 / 2x75m-e / 1999 2-3 April  Fri 9.30pm/Sat 9.05pm

Writer: Niall Leonard / Novel: Minette Walters / Music: Colin Towns / Design: Nick Somerville / Costume: Charlotte Walker / Producer: Tony Redston / Executive Producer: Suzan Harrison / Director: Graham Theakston

Thriller serial. Jinx Kingsley is a car crash that put her in a coma for two weeks when she wakes she has memory loss and learns she is prime suspect in a double murder case.

With:- DERVLA KIRWAN as Jinx Kingsley / JAMES WILBY as Dr Alan Protheroe / PAUL FREEMAN as Adam Kingsley / NICHOLAS GECKS as D.I. Arthur Maddox / CONNIE HYDE as D.S. Susie Blake / ROBERT HANDS as Miles Kingsley / JOANNA DAVID as Caroline Harris / JOSEPH BENNETT as Simon Harris 

 

DARK SUMMER

ITV Network-H M Tennent Globe-Associated Television / 1x60 minutes / Thursday 9 May 1957 @ 8.00pm

Play: Wynyard Browne / Adaptation: Dennis Webb / Producer: Peter Potter

Drama. Having been been blinded in the war, former pilot Stephen Hadow relies on four women to care for him, his mother, his fiancee Judy, spinster Miss Loader and Austrian refugee Gisela. 

With:- Elvi Hale as Judy Van Haan / Margot van der Burgh as Gisela Waldstein / Nora Nicholson as Miss Loder / Tom Criddle as Stephen Hadow / Madeleine Christie as Mrs Hadow

THE DARLING BUDS OF MAY

Yorkshire-Excelsior / 20x60m-e / 1991-93  3 Seasons + 2 Specials

Creator/Executive Producer: Richard Bates / Executive Producers: Vernon Lawrence, Philip Burkey / Characters: H.E. Bates / Titles: Paul Peppiate / Theme Music: Pip Burley / Other Music: Barrie Guard / Design: Alan Davies

Period comedy drama series. Stories of the permanently optimistic Larkin family in an ever sunny 1950's. For a time the show was amazingly popular and made a star out of Zeta Jones who garnered as much newspaper space as a Royal. 

With:- DAVID JASON as Pop Larkin / PAM FERRIS as Ma Larkin / CATHERINE ZETA JONES as Mariette / PHILIP FRANKS as Charley / RACHEL BELL as Edith Pilchester / MORAY WATSON as The Brigadier / CHRISTINA GILES as Petunia Larkin / KIKA MIRYLEES as Angela Snow (seasons 1-2) / KATHERINE GILES as Zinnia Larkin / STEPHANIE RALPH as Victoria Larkin / JULIE DAVIES as Primrose Larkin (season 1) / ABIGAIL ROKISON as Primrose Larkin (seasons 2-3) / IAN TUCKER as MOntgomery Larkin (Seasons 1-2)  

 

DARWIN’S DAUGHTER

C4 / 1x70m / 28 December 2002

Book: Randall Keynes / Dramatised, Produced and Directed by: James Runcie

Based on the book "Annie’s Box", this documentary tells the story of Charles Darwin as he is putting together his theories of evolution in part by studying the behaviour of his children, in particular Annie, his eldest. Annie’s death aged 10 shattered his Christian faith whose teachings in any event were always at odds with his scientific beliefs. Told with short dramatised pieces and with character "interviews". Narrated by Janis Robinson. 

With: Pip Torrens as Charles Darwin, Annabelle Apsion as Emma Darwin, Lara Rebekah Harvey as Annie Darwin

 

THE DAUGHTERS OF ALBION

Yorkshire / 1x60m-e / 1979

Writer: Willy Russell / Producer: David Cunliffe 

Drama. Three girls from a Liverpool biscuit factory find themselves at a student party.

 

THE DAVE SAINT SHOW

UK Play - Channel X / x30m-e / 2000   

Writers: Alexander Kirk, Simon Messingham / Script Consultant: Stacy Herbert / Music: Steve Cripps, Dan Mendford / Costume: Pookie Russell / Producer: Jim Reid / Director: Mark Mylod

Comedy about a useless heavy metal DJ on a local radio station. As was usual with with shows on extra terrestrial channel UK Play music videos were interspersed throughout the show.

With:- JOHN THOMSON as Dave Saint / ALEXANDER KIRK as AK / KATE LOUSTOU as Jeneane

 

DAVE'S KINGDOM

ATV / 6x30m-e / 1964  21 October - 9 December Wednesdays 9.10pm

Producer: Francis Essex 

Sitcom. Episodes (often fantasy based) in the life of Dave King, usually set in his apartment.

With:- DAVE KING as Dave / VICTOR MADDERN / PAT GOH / JACK DOUGLAS / BILLY CORNELIUS

 

DAVID COPPERFIELD

BBC / 6x50m-e / 1975

Writer: Hugh Whitmore / Novel: Charles Dickens / Producer: John McRae / Director: Joan Craft

Period drama serial. In Victorian times young David Copperfield determines to make his way in the world.

David.................................................. DAVID YELLAND

Mr Micawber....................................... ARTHUR LOWE

Mrs Micawber..................................... PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE

Betsy Trotwood................................... PATIENCE COLLIER

Uriah Heep......................................... MARTIN JARVIS

Mr Peggotty ....................................... IAN HOGG

 

DAVID COPPERFIELD

ITC / 1x120m-e / 1970

Writer: Jack Pulman 

A typical ITC TV Movie version of Charles Dickens's novel about young David making his way in the world, and featuring a starry cast.

With:- ROBIN PHILLIPS / RALPH RICHARDSON / WENDY HILLER / EDITH EVANS / RON MOODY / LAURENCE OLIVIER / RICHARD ATTENBOROUGH

 

DAVID COPPERFIELD

BBC / 1986

Writer: James Andrew Hall / Producer: Barry Letts 

Another serial version in the usual BBC style.

With:- COLIN HURLEY / DAVID DEXTER /  BRENDA BRUCE / SIMON CALLOW

 

DAVID COPPERFIELD

BBC1 / 2x90m-e / 1999  25-26 December Sat 7.00pm/Sun 6.25pm

Writer: Adrian Hodges / Novel: Charles Dickens / Costume: Mike O'Neill / Producer: Kate Harwood / Director: Simon Curtis 

Period drama serial. Young orphan boy David Copperfield grows up to become an idealistic teacher and becomes romantically involved with two women, Dora and also Emily who is promised to another.

David Copperfield.............................. CIERAN McMENAMIN

Young David..................................... DANIEL RADCLIFFE

Mr Micawber.................................... BOB HOSKINS

Uriah Heep...................................... NICHOLAS LYNDHURST

Betsey Trotwood.............................. MAGGIE SMITH

Miss Murdstone.............................. ZOE WANAMAKER

Mr Murdstone................................. TREVOR EVE

Clara Copperfield............................. EMILIA FOX

Peggotty........................................ PAULINE QUIRKE

Creakle.......................................... IAN McKELLEN

Mrs Micawber................................. IMELDA STAUNTON

Mrs Crupp...................................... DAWN FRENCH

Pawnbroker.................................... PAUL WHITEHOUSE

Dan Peggotty................................. ALUN ARMSTRONG

Barkis........................................... MICHAEL ELPHICK

Mrs Steerforth................................ CHERIE LUNGHI

Rosa Dartle................................... CLARE HOLMAN

Steerforth...................................... OLIVER MILBURN

Emily............................................ AISLIN McGUCKIN

Dora............................................. JOANNA PAGE

Ham Peggotty .............................. JAMES THORNTON

 

DAWSON'S WEEKLY

Yorkshire / 7x30m-e / 1975 12 Jun - 29 Jul

Writers: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson / Producer/Director: Vernon Lawrence 

Anthology series of one off comedies designed to showcase the talents of Les Dawson. Roy Barraclough also appeared regularly. 

 

DAY AFTER THE FAIR

BBC / 2x75m-e / 1988

Story: On the Western Circuit by Thomas Hardy / Producer: Louis Marks / Director: Anthony Simmons

Period drama serial. The story of a simple, passionate, yet illiterate young housemaid, Anna, in Victorian rural England. She's seduced by a young London barrister she meets at a country fair. Anna's elegant, sophisticated mistress, Edith, is trapped in a loveless, childless marriage to an autocratic businessman, Arthur, whose sister runs the household. Edith consents to ghost-write the maid's love letters to the barrister. As Edith pours out her own fantasies in the letters, they become increasingly lyrical and intimate. Through their correspondence, she falls in love with the barrister and he, in turn, believes the letter writer is the perky housemaid...

With:- Hannah Gordon as Edith / Anna Massey as Letty / Sammi Davis as Anna / Martyn Stanbridge as Charles / Keith Haigh as Arthur / Sophie Thursfield as Sarah / Jonathan Adams as Parnell / Roy Holder as Jim / Jane Gurnett as Grace / Veronica Clifford / Peter Martin / Brian Hogg / Geoffrey Greenhill / Richard Huggett / John Baskcomb 

 

THE DAY BRITAIN STOPPED

BBC2 / 1x90m / 13 May 2003

Writers: Simon Finch, Gabriel Range / Director: Gabriel Range / Producer: Simon Finch

A drama told in the style of a retrospective documentary "re-telling" the events of 19th December 2003 when events conspired to cause the worst ever day for Britain's transport system using news footage from the day. A national rail strike made the roads extra busy on one of the busiest days of the year - road accidents meant the closing of key motorways causing huge jams - this delayed air traffic controllers arriving for their shift replacements and with the earlier shift over-tired a calamitous mistake resulted in a mid-air plane collision over London. All "news" footage was specially shot and hindsight eyewitness interview clips were played by actors.

With:- JOANNA GRIFFITHS / ERIC CARTE / STEVE NORTH / NANCY MCCLEAN / ANDY SHIELD / JONATHAN LINSLEY / OLIVIA MACDONALD / ANGELO ANDREOU / EMMA PINTO / ANNA RAJAN

 

A DAY IN SUMMER

Yorkshire / 1x120m-e / 1989

Writer: Alan Plater / Music: Paul Hart, Joe Campbell / D:Bob Mahoney                    

Period drama. In a 1950's Market Town an ex RAF officer is planning revenge on the drunken driver who was responsible for the death of his son.

With:- JACK SHEPHERD / PETER EGAN / SUZANNE BERTISH / JOHN SESSIONS / JILL BENNETT / IAN CARMICHAEL / ANNA CROPPER / TOM CHADBON

 

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