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DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS 1981
DAY OF THE TRIFFIDS 2009
DEAD GORGEOUS
DEAD MAN'S KIT
DEAD SET
THE DEAL
THE DEATH WATCHER (SHADOWS OF FEAR)
DECEIT
DECODED: DAN BROWN'S LOST SYMBOL
DEEP AND CRISP AND STOLEN
THE DEEP BLUE SEA
DAYLIGHT ROBBERY
BBC / 1x55m-e / 1986
Writer: Rose Tremain / Director: Chris Goddard
Comedy drama. An elderly widow decides to rob a bank to pay off her growing gambling debts.
With:- JOAN HICKSON / VIVIEN PICKLES
THE DAY OF THE JANITOR
Thames 'Playhouse' / 1x60m-e / 1981
Writer: Christopher Watkins
Comedy drama.
With:- RICHARD DURDEN as Roger / ARTHUR WHYBROW as Arthur
A DAY OUT
BBC2 / 1x50m-e / 1972 black and white
Writer: Alan Bennett / Director: Stephen Frears
Period drama. A group of cyclists go on a trip in 19th Century Halifax. Bennett's first TV play.
With:- ANTHONY ANDREWS / BRIAN GLOVER / JAMES COSSINS / FRED FEAST / VIRGINIA BELL
DAYS AT THE BEACH
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1981
Writer/Director: Malcolm Mowbray
Period drama. In 1920 a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.
With:- SAM KELLY / STEPHEN BILL / MARK ASPINALL / JULIE WALTERS / CHARLES McKEOWN
DAYS OF HOPE
BBC1 / 1x90m-e 1x105m-e 1x75m-e 1x130m-e / 1975 11 Sep - 2 Oct
Writer: Jim Allen / Producer: Tony Garnett
Quartet of period drama's. A young Northern socialist farmer grows up between World War One and the General Strike.
Ben Matthews.................................. PAUL COPLEY
Sarah Hargreaves............................. PAMELA BRIGHTON
Philip Hargreaves ............................ NIKOLAS SIMMONDS
DAYS TO COME
BBC 'Play of the Month' / 1x95m-e / 1966 25 October black and white
Writer: Ken Taylor / Story: H.G. Wells / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: Alan Bridges
Science Fiction drama. In the year 2122 a young couple attempt to find love in a society which is against it.
Jon...................................................... DINSDALE LANDEN
Elisabeth............................................. JUDI DENCH
Moris.................................................. BERNARD ARCHARD
Elliot................................................... MICHAEL GOUGH
DEACON BRODIE
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1997
Writer: Simon Donald / Producer: Greg Brennan / Director: Philip Saville
Period drama. The true story of one of Scotland's most notorious criminals, Deacon Brodie, who ruled the roost in 1870's Edinburgh.
Deacon Brodie................................. BILLY CONNELLY
Baillie Creech.................................. PATRICK MALAHIDE
Joan Broadie................................... SIOBHAN REDMOND
Ginny Watt..................................... SALLY DEXTER
Procurator Fiscal............................. RUSSELL HUNTER
George Smith.................................. LORCAN CRANITCH
Frances Jameson............................ RALPH RIACH
C4/Tiger (Bunch of Fives) / 1x30m-e / 1992 3 Jun - Wed 10.30pm
Writers: Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson / Producer: David Tyler / Director: John Stroud
Comedy. A quartet of flatmates become obsessed with a video game.
With:- PATERSON JOSEPH / LOU CURRAN / JESSE BIRDSALL / MARK WILLIAMS
DEAD DRUNK
BBC /1x30m / 2002
Writer: Frances Duffy / Director: Emma
Bodger / Producer: Solon Papadopoulos
Educational schools drama about a teenager whose mother drinks too much and
whose friend dies after an underage drinking binge.
With:- KATE FITZGERALD as Val Cooper / TOMMY SHERLOCK as James Cooper / TOM
GEORGESON as Tom Ellis / SHAUN MASON as Matthew Ellis
DEAD HEAD
BBC2 / 4x50m-e / 1986 15 Jan - 5 Feb
Writer: Howard Brenton / Director: Rob Walker
Thriller serial. After witnessing a murder a small time crook is somewhat disturbed to find himself targeted by the Secret Service.
With:- DENIS LAWSON / GEORGE BAKER / LINDSAY DUNCAN / SIMON CALLOW / DON HENDERSON / NORMAN BEATON / LARRINGTON WALKER
DEAD LETTER
ABC 'Armchair Theatre' / 1x60m-e / 1962 14 October Sunday 9.35pm black and white
Writer: Robert Storey / Design: Timothy O'Brien / Director: William T. Kotcheff
Drama. Problems arise for would be inheritors on a will following a funeral.
DEADLINE
BBC / 1x85m-e / 1988
Writer: Tom Stacey / Director: Richard Stroud
Thriller serial. A past his best foreign correspondent finds himself caught up in a coup on a remote island.
With:- JOHN HURT / IMOGEN STUBBS
DEAD LUCKY
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1987
Writer/Director: Barbara Rennie / Novel:Ruth Rendell
Thriller. After winning the pools a young man finds himself drawn into a complex murder plot.
With:- NICHOLAS FARRELL / PHILIP DAVIS / HARRIET BAGNALL / WILLIAM GAMINARA
DEADLINE MIDNIGHT
ATV / 39x60m-e / 1960-61 black and white
Producer: Hugh Rennie, Rex Firkin
Drama series. Stories of a group of hardworking
Joe Dunn.......................................... PETER VAUGHAN
Neville Crane.................................... JEREMY YOUNG
Matt Stewart.................................... BRUCE BEEBY
Mike Grieves................................... GLYN HOUSTON
Mark Byron..................................... OLAF POOLEY
DEADLY SUMMER
C5/Red Rooster / 1x120m-e / 1997
Writers: Benny Stringle, Jackie Robb / Producer: Julie Ouston / Director: Ian Emes
Comedy thriller. Two mismatched couples go on holiday together to France and soon one of the four has murder in mind.
Linda Topping............................... PAULINE QUIRKE
Celia Hardcourt............................. FRANCESCA ANNIS
Donald Hardcourt.......................... BOB PECK.
Jim Topping.................................. NICHOLAS FARRELL
Katie Hardcourt............................ SARAH SMART
Gary Topping............................... ROBIN LAING
Regis.......................................... GEORGE TRILLAT
DEADLY VOYAGE
BBC / 1x120m-e / 1994
Writer: Stuart Urban / Director: John McKenzie
Thriller. The survivor of a group of Ghanaian stowaways tells how the rest of his friends were brutally murdered.
Kingsley Ofusu................................. OMAR EPPS
Captain............................................ JOSS ACKLAND
Ian................................................... SEAN PERTWEE
Nicholas........................................... DAVID SUCHET
DEAD OF NIGHT
BBC2 / 7x50m-e / 1972
Script Editor: Louis Marks / Producer: Innes Lloyd
An anthology of horror stories which included Return Flight written by Robert Holmes and starring Peter Barkworth and The Exorcism by Don Taylor.
DEAD ROMANTIC
BBC2 'Screen Two' / 1x90m-e / 1992
Writer: Jan Ashdown / Novel: Simon Brett / Director: Patrick Lau
Thriller. A serial killer brings terror to a staid Gloustershire town.
With:- JANET McTEER / CLIVE WOOD / JOHNNY LEE MILLER / ELSPET GRAY SIMON ROUSE / ROBIN WEAVER / BERNICE STEGERS / SARAH BURGHHARD / DIANA PAYAN / ROWLAND DAVIES / BARBARA KEOGH / RALPH ARLISS / CAROLINE O'NEILL / RUPERT DEGAS / PETER MORETON / DEBBIE FINCH
DEAR BOX NUMBER
Central / 1x60m-e / 1987
Writer: Alan Clews / Producer: Joan Brown / Director: Carol Wiseman
Drama. A couple meet through a lonely hearts column.
Betty.................................................. JULIA McKENZIE
Walter ............................................... BERNARD HEPTON
DEAR ENEMY
Granada / 7x60m-e / 1982
Writer: C.P. Taylor / Novel: Jean Webster / Director: Alistair Clark
Drama serial.
With:- VANESSA KNOX-MAWER / PATRICK MALAHIDE as Dr Macrae
DEAR LIFE
BBC2 (Scene) /
1x30minutes /
Writer: Sue Glover /
Producer: Cas Lester / Executive Producer: Richard Langridge / Director: Jane
Howell
Scifi Drama.
Sometime in a not too distant Orwellian style future 18 year old Tuscan (after
being caught in an accident as a baby) has lived all his life inside a plastic
bubble.
With:- JAMES
HINDE as Tuscan / GEMMA JONES as Audrey / TOM GEORGESON as Myles / INDRA OVE as
Rosa / JOHN DARLING as Duty Officer
DEAR NOBODY
BBC2/Zenith 'Scene' / 3x30m-e / 1998
Writer: Richard Cameron / Novel: Berlie Doherty / Music: Debbie Wiseman / Producer: Andrew Rowley
Drama serial. For schools. A young couple, both 17 and with bright futures, find their lives change when the girl becomes pregnant.
Chris................................................... SEAN MAGUIRE
Helen.................................................. KATIE BLAKE
Mr Garton............................................ PETER DAVISON
Mrs Garton.......................................... POLLY HEMINGWAY
Robbie................................................ ADAM SCOURFIELD
Guy.................................................... JONATHAN DODLING
DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS (PD JAMES)
BBC1 / 2x90m / 23-24 August 2003
Book: PD James / Adaption: Robert Jones / Director: Jonny Campbell / Producer: Margaret Enefer
Thriller. Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates the death of a young ordinand at a theological college in Suffolk. Martin Shaw takes over the role previously played on ITV by Roy Marsden.
With:- MARTIN SHAW as Adam Dalgliesh / JANIE DEE as Emma Lavenham / JOHN FORTUNE as AC Harkness / JESSE SPENCER as Raphael Arbuthnot / HUGH FRASER as George Gregory / ALAN HOWARD as Father Sebastian / ROBERT HARDY as Father Martin / JEFF RAWLE as Father Peregrine / JOHN CLEGG as Father John / VICTORIA SCARBOROUGH as Inspector Kate Miskin / STEPHEN NOONAN as DS Tony Rudson / CLIVE WOOD as Archdeacon Crampton
DEATH IS A GOOD LIVING
BBC / 4x25m-e / 1966 black and white
Writers: Brian Degas and Tudor Gates (based on the novel by Philip Jones
Spy drama serial. A British agent is due to retire but first must carry out one last "job", he only hopes he'll live long enough to enjoy his retirement.
With:- Leonard Rossiter
DEATH IS PART OF THE PROCESS
BBC / 1x150m-e / 1986
Writer: Alan Plater / Music: Jim Plater / Director: Bills Hays
Drama. The struggles of white intellectuals and their black activist friends in apartheid 1960's South Africa.
With:- ART MALIK / JOHN MATHSHIKIZA / JACK KLAFF / ESTELLE KOHLER / JOHN WOODVINE / ERIC FLYNN
THE DEATH OF ADOLF HITLER
London Weekend Television / 1x120m-e / 1973 7 Jan
Writer: Vincent Tilsley / Producer: Rex Firkin
Period drama. The last ten days in Hitler's life before his suicide in the bunker in 1945.
Adolf Hitler...................................... FRANK FINLAY
Eva Braun....................................... CAROLINE MORTIMER
Martin Boorman............................... ED DEVEREAUX
Josef Goebbels............................... OSCAR QUITAK
Herman Goering.............................. ROBERT CAWDRON
Heinrich Himmler............................. MICHAEL SHEARD
DEATH OF A GHOST
BBC / 6x30m-e / 1960 black and white
Writer: John Hopkins / Producer: John Harrison
Mystery serial. A case for Lord Peter Wimsey.
Lord Peter.......................................... BERNARD HORSFALL
DEATH OF A PRINCESS
Central / 1x120m-e / 1986
Writer: Anthony Thomas / Producer: Martin McKeand, Anthony Thomas
Highly controversial drama documentary about the public execution of an adulterous 19 Year Old Arabian Princess.
Princess Mischa'al............................... SUZANNE ABOY TALEB
Ryder.................................................. PAUL FREEMAN
DEATH OF A RAT
BBC / 21, 25 August 1949
Live play performed twice. Set in a Dutch cancer research laboratory and exploring some scientific controversies of the day.
Cast included: KENNETH MORE
DEATH OF A SALESMAN
BBC1 'Play of the Month' / 1x95m-e / 1966
Writer: Arthur Miller / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: Alan Cooke
Drama. An increasingly depressed travelling salesman decides the only way out is suicide.
With:- ROD STEIGER as Willy Loman / JOSS ACKLAND / KENNETH J. WARREN / BETSY BLAIR
DEATH OF A SALEMAN
BBC2 / 5x20m-e / 1996
Writer: Arthur Miller / Producer: Anne Brogan / Executive Producer: Richard Langridge / Director: David Tucker
Drama serial. A schools production about suicidal travelling salesman Willy Loman.
Willy Loman........................................ WARREN MITCHELL
Linda................................................... ROSEMARY HARRIS
Biff...................................................... IAIN GLEN
Happy................................................. OWEN TEALE
Miss Forsythe..................................... JULIET AUBREY
Woman............................................... PAM FERRIS
Charley............................................... JAMES GROUT
Ben.................................................... IAN HOGG
Howard............................................... MATTHEW MARSH
THE DEATH OF A YOUNG MAN
BBC1 / 1x / 1975 Jan 23
Writer: Willy Russell
Drama about a trio of youngsters suspended from school and the problems they then face.
DEATH OF THE HEART
Granada / 1x90m-e / 1985
Writer: Derek Mahon / Novel: Elisabeth Bowen / Costume: Anne Salisbury / Music: Geoffrey Burgon / Producers: June Wyndham Davies, Peter Hammond
Period romantic drama. In 1937 16 year old Portia Quayne falls madly in love with a philanderer called Eddie.
Anna Quayne................................... PATRICIA HODGE
Matchett......................................... WENDY HILLER
Thomas Quayne.............................. NIGEL HAVERS
Daphne Heccomb............................ MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Eddie............................................. DANIEL CHATTO
St Quentin Miller............................. JONATHAN HYDE
Mrs Heccomb................................. PHYLLIS CALVERT
Portia Quayne................................ JOJO COLE
Major Brutt..................................... ROBERT HARDY
DEATH OR GLORY BOY
Yorkshire / 3x60m-e / 1974
Writer: Charles Wood / Producer: Peter Willes
Drama serial. A young soldier gradually becomes disillusioned.
With:- CHRISTOPHER BLAKE
THE DEBT
BBC1 / 2x60m / 31 August,1 September 2003
Writer: Richard McBrien / Director: Jon Jones / Producer: Pier Wilkie
Drama. Geoff Dresner, a safe-cracker gone straight, is persuaded out of retirement to take on a job to clear the debt of his son-in-law from a loan-shark. But things go wrong when a security guard is accidentally killed.
With:- WARREN CLARKE as Geoff Dresner / HUGO SPEER as Ed Foster / LEE WILLIAMS as James Hilden / ORLA BRADY as Angela Jahnsen / MARTIN FREEMAN as Terry Ross / NINA SOSANYA as Kate Jaspers / MALCOLM STORRY as Tony Stokes / BARBARA MARTEN as Gwen Dresner / AMANDA ABBINGTON as Stacey Ross / JODI ALBERT as Sophie Stokes
THE DEBUSSY FILM
BBC / 1x65m-e / 1965 black and white
Writers: Ken Russell, Melvyn Bragg / Director: Ken Russell
Period drama. A typically extravagant Ken Russell version of the life of the composer.
With:- OLIVER REED / VLADEK SHEYBAL
DECEMBER FLOWER
Granada / 1984
Writer: Judy Allen / Producer: Roy Roberts / Director: Stephen Frears
Drama. After being left a widow a middle aged woman tries to make a friend of her elderly stubborn Aunt.
With:- JEAN SIMMONS / MONA WASHBOURNE
DEEP SECRETS
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1996
Writer: Hossein Amini / Producer: Gillian McNeill / Director: Diarmuid Lawrence
Thriller. Cop D.S. Nolan goes undercover on the trail of a gangster.
Nolan.................................................. COLIN SALMON
Caine.................................................. ION CARMMIRU
Lara................................................... AMANDA DONAHOE
Honey................................................ SOPHIE OKANEDO
Fran................................................... ANN MITCHELL
DEF II
BBC2 / 1988-92
An umbrella title for a series of early evening youth orientated shows including the likes of Rapido and Rough Guide to Europe.
DEFROSTING THE FRIDGE
BBC / 1x95m-e / 1988
Writer: Ray Connolly / Director: Sandy Johnson
Comedy drama. An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English team.
With:- JOE DON BAKER / PHYLLIS LOGAN / MAGGIE O'NEILL / EMMA WRAY / VICTOR MADDERN
DEGAS AND PISSARO FALL OUT
C4 / 1x60m-e / 1994
Producer: Paul Morrison
Drama about the two French Impressionist painters.
With:- MICHAEL PENNINGTON / HENRY GOODMAN / ALISON STEADMAN / PETE WINGFIELD / LOUISE JAMESON
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