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THE DIVISION

Granada / 1x50m-e / 1967 black and white

Writer: Bill Meilen / Design: Roy Stonehouse / Producer: Derek Bennett  

Drama.

With:- RODDY McMILLAN / ALAN MacNAUGHTON

DIVING TO ADVENTURE

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1956 (6 April - 11 May)  black and white

Producer: Geoffrey Baines

Husband and wife team Hans and Lotte Hass in a series of Undersea sorties. They travelled to the Caribbean, the Aegean and the Red Sea.

DIVORCE HIS, DIVORCE HERS

HTV / 2x75m-e / 1972 24-25 June

Writer: JohnHopkins / Music: Stanley Myers / Director: Waris Hussein 

Drama serial. A couple get divorced, the two episodes showed the couples story first from the wife's viewpoint and then the husband's.

With:- RICHARD BURTON as Martin Reynolds / ELIZABETH TAYLOR as Jane Reynolds / BARRY FOSTER

DIXON OF DOCK GREEN

BBC1 / 367x50m-e / 1955-76

Creator: Ted Willis / Theme Music: An Ordinary Copper composed by Jeff Darnell / Harmonica Solo by Tommy Riley

Crime drama series. The cases of a London beat copper. Jack Warner was 85 when the show finally finished, the Dixon character first appeared in the 1949 film The Blue Lamp and was actually killed in that film by Dirk Bogarde. Dixon became a sergeant earning his stripes on 19 September 1964.

With:- JACK WARNER as George Dixon / PETER BYRNE as Andy Crawford / BILLIE WHITELAW as Mary Dixon/Crawford(1) / JEANNETTE HUTCHINSON as Mary(2) / GEOFFREY ADAMS as PC 'Laudy' Lauderdale / ARTHUR RIGBY as Desk Segt Flint / NEIL WILSON as PC 'Tubb' Barrell / MOIRA MANNION as Sgt Grace Millard

THE DOBSON DOUGHNUT

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1974  14 May - Tues 8.30pm

Writer: Raymond Allen / Producer: Michael Mills 

Comedy. 

With:- MILO O'SHEA  as Henry Medway / BERNARD SPEAR as Dobson

DOCKERS

C4 / 1x110m-e / 1999 11 July - Sun 10.00pm

Writers: (count them), Jimmy McGovern, Irvine Welsh, Jimmy Campbell, Dave Cotterill, John Cowley, Mark Crichton, Jimmy Holmes, Charlie McNally, Doreen McNally, Colin Mitchell, Sue Mitchell, Mike Morris, Larry Riley, John Ryan, Marty Size, Tony Weedon, / Producer: Sally Hibbin / Director: Bill Anderson

Drama. When a pair of Liverpool dockers 'walk off' their job 500 of their colleagues down tools in support. Based on a true story and many of the dockers were actually involved in the writing.

With:- KEN STOTT as Tommy Walton / RICKY TOMLINSON as Macca Macaulay / CRISSY ROCK as Jean Walton / LEE ROSS as Andy Walton / CHRISTINE TREMARCO as Paul Walton / KATY LAMONT as Sarah Walton / KRISTOPHER LUNDON as Kenny Walton / MICHAEL RYAN as Thomas Walton / JOAN KEMPSON as Macca's Wife / DAVID PARKINSON as Pete Macaulay / PETER ARMITAGE as Jimmy Nolan / SHANE RIMMER as US Longshoreman  

DOC MARTIN

ITV1 /14x60m / started 2 September 2004

Writer: Dominic Minghella / Director: Ben Bolt / Philippa Braithwaite

Dr Martin Ellingham quits his London job as a top-surgeon because he has developed a phobia of blood. He moves to a small Cornish village to become a local GP where his straight-laced manner is at odds with the ways of the local characters and he has to learn to try and fit in. NOTE: This series was credited as arising from the film "Saving Grace" in which Martin Clunes also starred although there were several plot differences including the character's surname which was Dr Martin Bamford. Clunes subsequently made two further films "Doc Martin", and "Doc Martin and the Legend of the Cloutie" as the same character. These films were shown on Sky TV. Season 2 started 10 November 2005.

With:- MARTIN CLUNES as Dr Martin Ellingham / CAROLINE CATZ as Louisa Glasson / STEPHANIE COLE as Joan Norton / LUCY PUNCH as Elaine Denham / JOE ANSOLOM as Al Large / STEWART WRIGHT as PC Mark Mylow

DOCTOR ZHIVAGO

ITV1 / 3x90m / started 24 November 2002 / 9:00pm

Book: Boris Pasternak / Adaption: Andrew Davies / Director: Giacomo Campiotti / Producer: Anne Pivcevic

Romantic period drama. Yury Zhivago is a young doctor who lives with his aunt and uncle and cousin Tonya in Moscow. He sees a girl, Lara, in a café window and falls in love with her. Lara is desperately unhappy in a relationship with a much older man - Victor Komarovsky - a man whom Yury feels is responsible for his father being driven to suicide. To escape his clutches Lara marries Pasha her childhood friend and runs off with him. Meanwhile Yury marries Tonya and gets embrolied in the Russian war. But Yury and Lara's paths are destined to cross again.

With:- HANS MATHESON as Yury Zhivago / KEIRA KNIGHTLEY as Lara Guishar / HUGH BONNERVILLE as Audrey Zhivago / SAM NEILL as Victor Komarovsky / MARYAM D’ABO as Amalia Guishar / KRIS MARSHALL as Pasha Antipov

DR FINLAY'S CASEBOOK

BBC / 178x50m-e / 1962-71

Creator: A.J. Cronin 

Medical drama series. In the late 1920's a young doctor joins a small practice in the Scottish village of Tannochbrae.

With:- BILL SIMPSON as Dr Alan Finlay / ANDREW CRUICKSHANK as Dr Angus Cameron / BARBARA MULLEN as Janet / ERIC WOODBURN as Dr Snoddie / EFFIE MORRISON as Mistress Niven / TRACY REED as Barbara Davidson / ANTHONY VALENTINE as  Bruce Cameron

DR FINLAY

Scottish / 27x60m-e / 1993-96

Producer: Peter Wolfes, Bernard Krichefski 

Medical drama series. An updated version of the sixties hit. This took the story up after world war II with Dr John Finlay back in Tannochbrae and determined to bring the practice in line with the new national health service.

With:- DAVID RINTOUL as Dr John Finlay / IAN BANNEN as Dr Cameron / JASON FLEMYNG as Dr Neil / ANNETTE CROSBIE as Janet McPherson / RALPH RIACH as Dr Gilmore / GORDON REID as Angus Livingstone / JACKIE MORRISON as Rhona Swanson

DOCTOR IN THE HOUSE

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1960 black and white

Writer: Ted Willis / Novel: Richard Gordon / Director: Wallace Douglas  

Comedy. Exploits of the trainee doctors at St Swithins.

Simon Sparrow............................... BRIAN RIX

Sir Lancelot Spratt......................... CHARLES CAMERON

DR FISCHER OF GENEVA

BBC2/Consilidated / 1x95m-e / 1984 1 October

Writer/Producer: Richard Broke / Novel: Graham Greene / Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg 

Comedy drama. Geneva millionaire Dr Fischer holds regular dinner parties at which he tries to measure the depths his 'friends' will sink to if he offers them enough money.

With:- JAMES MASON as Dr Fischer / ALAN BATES as Dr Jones / GRETA SCACCHI / HUGH BURDEN / DAVID DE KEYSER / CLARISSA KAYE

THE DOCTORS

BBC1 / 120x25m-e / 1969-71

Creator: Donald Bull / Producers: Colin Morris, Bill Sellars 

Medical drama series. Cases of a group of hard working doctors at a large practice in North London. There was also a spin off called Owen MD.

Dr John Somers.............................. JOHN BARRIE

Dr Roger Hayman........................... RICHARD LEECH

Dr Elizabeth McNeal....................... JUSTINE LORD

Tom Durham.................................. PAUL MASSIE

Dr Thomas Owen........................... NIGEL STOCK

Bob Gilmore.................................. DAVID SAVILLE

Mrs Groom.................................... PAMELA DUNCAN

DOCTORS

BBC1 / 41 x30m-e / 2000  Season One: 26 March - 19 May   /  Weekdays 12.30pm

Executive Producer: Mal Young / Theme Music: Mike Badger, Paul Hemmings / Medical Advisors: Dr Robert Hicks, Dr Adrian Noon / Producer: Carson Black

Medical drama series. Cases of the doctors working at a practice in the heart of Birmingham.

With:- CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY as Dr Brendan McGuire / MARK FROST as Dr Steve Rawlings / CORRINE WICKS as Dr Helen Thompson / AKBAR KURTHAN as Dr Rana Mistry / JACQUELINE LEONARD as Dr Caroline Powers 

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

BBC / 1x115m-e / 1981

Writer: Gerald Savoury / Novel: R.L. Stevenson / Producer: Johnathon Powell / Director: Alastair Reid

Period horror. Scientist Dr Jekyll creates and uses a potion that when drunk unleashes his dark alter ego Mr Hyde.

With:- DAVID HEMMINGS / LISA HARROW / IAN BANNEN / TOYAH WILCOX / DIANA DORS / CLIVE SWIFT

DR JEKYLL AND MR HYDE

LWT / 2x120m-e / 1990

Writer/Producer: David Wickes / Executive Producer: Nick Elliott / Producer: Patrick Carr 

Period horror serial. Scientist Dr Jekyll unleashes his dark alter ego Mr Hyde when he creates a sinister potion.

With:- MICHAEL CAINE as Jekyll/Hyde / JOSS ACKLAND / LIONEL JEFFRIES / DIANE KEEN / CHERYL LADD / RONALD PICKUP

DR WATSON AND THE DARKWATER HALL MYSTERY

BBC / 1x60minutes / 197?

Writer: Kingsley Amis / Producer: Mark Shivas

Period mystery. Whilst Holmes is away on holiday Dr watson finds himself caught up in a mystery.

With:- EDWARD FOX as Dr Watson

DOGFOOD DAN AND THE CARMARTHEN COWBOY

Yorkshire 'ITV Playhouse' / 1x60m-e / 1982 24 July - Saturday 9.45pm

Writer: David Nobbs / Producer/Director: Derek Bennett 

Comedy. Two long distance lorry drivers unbeknownst to the other are having affairs with each others wives. See also the 1988 sitcom.

With:- DAVID DAKER as Dogfood Dan Milton / GARETH THOMAS as Aubrey Owen 'The Carmarthen Cowboy' / DIANA DAVIES as Helen Milton / HELEN COTTERILL as Myfanwy Owen

DOGGIN' AROUND

BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1994

Writer: Alan Plater / Producer: Otto Plaschkey / Director: Desmond Davis 

Comedy drama. A had been American jazz pianist arrives in England on a short tour and is soon antagonising the woman hired to mind him.

Joe Warren....................................... ELLIOTT GOULD

Sarah Williams................................. GERALDINE JAMES

Charlie Foster................................... ALUN ARMSTRONG

Tom Clayton..................................... EWAN McGREGOR

Mrs Thompson.................................. LIZ SMITH

Ken.................................................. LARRY LAMB

DOGMA TV

C4 / 10x30m / 2000

A series showcasing dramas by first time writers and directors with largely unknown casts.

Dramas included:-

Poshboy - A white boy's struggles with sex and racism in a multi-racial family. / All-the-way.co.uk - A boy discovers his parents are participating in live sex orgies on the internet. With:- Annie Miles / Baby One More Time - A 16-year old girls jealousy of Britney Spears gets out of hand. / Planet Arse - A boy falls for a wheelchair bound girl and pretends he too has to use a wheelchair in order to meet her. / The Real Notting Hill - Stark social realist drama. / Rockabye Baby - a couple who meet on a train have a passionate encounter and decide to spend the rest of their lives together. / Alister Meek Gets A Result - a young lad seeks to lose his virginity. / Getting Off - a woman’s career as drug dealer is threatened when her boyfriend is released from prison. / Blaggers - Two charismatic wide boys scan and scheme their way through life. / Dead Meat - A tale of lust and longing over a halal-meat counter. With:- Saeed Jaffrey

THE DOLL

BBC / 3x50m-e / 1975

Writer: Francis Durbridge / Producer: Bill Sellars / Director: David Askey 

Thriller serial. A publisher helps a woman and then finds himself involved in murky intrigue.

With:- JOHN FRASER / ANOUSKA HEMPEL / DEREK FOWLDS / GEOFFREY WHITEHEAD / CYRIL LUCKHAM / WILLIAM RUSSELL

A DOLL'S HOUSE

BBC2 'Performance' / 1x100m-e / 1992

Writer: Henrik Ibsen / Producer: Simon Curtis / Director: David Thacker 

Period drama. Nora Helmer tired of being a down trodden wife decides to change her life.

With:- JULIET STEVENSON as Nora Helmer / TREVOR EVE as Torvald Helmer / DAVID CALDER as Nils Krogstad / PATRICK MALAHIDE as Dr Rank / GERALDINE JAMES as Mrs Linde

DOMBEY AND SON

BBC1 / 10x30 / 198?

Book: Charles Dickens; Dramatised by: James Andrew Hall; Producer: Barry Letts

Period drama serial.

With: JULIAN GLOVER as Dombey / PAUL DARROW as Carker / SHARON MUGHAN as Edith / SHIRLEY CAIN as Miss Tox / LYSETTE ANTHONY as Florence

DOMINION

Channel 4-Fireside / 4x10m-e / 2000 (First Episode: Monday 25 September 7.50pm)

Writers: Richard Preddy, Gary Howe / Producer: Gavin Claxton / Director: Tim Searle

Animated scifi drama serial. Everyday Earthling Roger Averyfinds himself kidnapped by aliens from the planet Dominion.

Voices:- HUGH LAURIE / TIM McINNERNY / MORWENNA BANKS / KEN CAMPBELL 

DO NOT DISTURB

BBC / 1x70m-e / 1991

Writer: Timberlake Wertenbaker / Music: Bill Connor / Producer: Simon Passmore / Director: Nicholas Renton

Ghostly drama. A writer of ghost stories gives a moonlit party where strange things begin to happen.

With:- FRANCES BARBER / PETER CAPALDI / STEFAN SCHWARTZ / EVA DARLAN / JEAN ANDERSON / PHILLIPA GAIL 

DONOVAN QUICK

BBC1 / 1x105m-e / 2000 (Thursday 28 December 9.00pm)

Writer: Donna Franceschild / Producer: Sue Austin / Director: David Blair

Drama. The somewhat mysterious Donovan takes on a room in a guesthouse in a none too salubrious, part of Glasgow and has an effect on the Pannick family who run the place, the title (as does the production) carries echoes of Cervantes Don Quixote.

With:- COLIN FIRTH as Donovan Quick / KATY MURPHY as Lucy Pannick / DAVID O'HARA as Clive / LIZ SMITH as Gran / DAVID WESTHEAD as George Mackie / DAVID BROWN as Sandy Pannick / PAUL DOONAN as Jim Pannick / PARMINDER NAGRA as Radhika / ELIZABETH RIDER as Grief Strciken Woman / SALLY HOWITT as Audrey / FORD KIERNAN as Jim Leahy / GAVIN MITCHELL as Mr Clancy / ANNE KIDD as Kathleen Gorman

DON'T ASK ME

ITV (Yorkshire TV) / 55x30m-e / 1974-78

A group of experts answered viewers queries about science and other subjects. Chairman was Derek Griffiths and the panel included Dr Magnus Pike, David Bellamy and Dr Miriam Stoppard, also involved were Brian Glover and Rob Buckman. A follow up called Don't Just Sit There ran for 19 episodes from 1979-80, the show was also made for Yorkshire TV and featured the same panel.

DON'T BE SILLY

BBC / 1x70m-e / 1979

Writer: Rachel Billington / Producer: Innes Lloyd / Director: Kenneth Ives 

Drama. A young wife tries to cope with an abusive husband.

With:- SUSAN FLEETWOOD / CHRISTOPHER GODWIN 

DON'T DILLY DALLY ON THE WAY

LWT 'Galton & Simpson Comedy' / 1x30m-e / 1969 10 May- Saturday 9.20pm

Writers: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson / Producer/Director: David Askey 

Comedy. An elderly face the prospect of moving from their bungalow.

With:- JIMMY EDWARDS as Mr Croucher / PAT COOMBS as Mrs Croucher

DON'T FORGET TO WRITE

BBC2 / 12x50m-e / 1977/79  Season One: 18 Apr - 23 May 77 / Season Two: 18 Jan - 22 Feb 79

Writer: Charles Wood / Producer: Joe Waters 

Comedy drama series. Gordon Maple is a screenwriter who finds himself beset by problems especially those of producers hassling him for scripts. The character previously featured in two plays A Bit of A Holiday(YTV-1968) and A Bit of a Family Feeling (Yorkshire TV 1971)

With:- GEORGE COLE as Gordon Maple / GWEN WATFORD as Mabel Maple / FRANCIS MATTHEWS as Tom Lawrence / RON EMSLIE as Wilfred Maples / DAPHNE HEARD as Mrs Field / RENNY LISTER as Jenny Lawrence / JAMES COSSINS as Philip Mounter (season 2)

DON'T LEAVE ME THIS WAY

BBC2 / 1x95m-e / 1993

Writer: Catherine Buchanan / Music: Colin Towns / Director: Stuart Orme 

Thriller. A pair of female academics look into the murder of their friend.

With:- JANET McTEER / IMELDA STAUNTON / JOHN FORTUNE / IAN McNEICE / BILL NIGHY

DON'T LOOK NOW - THE DINGLES IN VENICE

OnDigital/Yorkshire / 1x75m-e / 1999  16 Oct - Sat 7.00pm

Comedy. Spin off from Emmerdale shown especially on the OnDigital package (before its video release) to try and tempt in new subscribers. Following their wedding in the Emmerdale show vet Paddy and new wife Mandy go on a honeymoon to Venice(accompanied by the rest of the Dingles, Zak, Butch and Marlon) where Paddy ends up kidnapped and the rest of the boys end up tangling with the Mafia.

With:- LISA RILEY as Mandy / DOMINIC BRUNT as Paddy / STEVE HALLIWELL as Zak / PAUL LOUGHRAN as Butch / MARK CHARNOCK as Marlon

DON'T RING US...WE'LL RING YOU

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1970  29 July - Wednesday 7.30pm

Writers: Mike Craig, Lawrie Kinsley / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson 

Comedy. Exploits of two down at heel theatrical agents.

Jimmy Duffy...................................... NORMAN ROSSINGTON

Ernie Babcock.................................. JOHN JUNKIN

Dave Sullivan.................................... COLIN WELLAND

Joe Ridsdale..................................... SANDY POWELL

Ethel................................................ BARBARA MULLANEY

Reg Aveyard..................................... JOE GLADWIN

DON'T UTTER A NOTE

ATV (Armchair Theatre) / 1x60m-e / 1969

Comedy. A pair of Spinster sisters, Florence and Nellie Pringle move into the house left to them by their brother, also living with them is ex-convict Basher Bates who they are determined to reform. The ladies discover a nest egg in the of 75 pounds which they then decide to distribute to the needy among the parish.

With:- SYBIL THORNDIKE / ATHENE SEYLER / SIDNEY JAMES as Basher Bates

DOOMSDAY FOR DYSON

Granada / 1x45m-e / 1958   10 March  black and white

Writer: J.B. Priestley / Design: Tom Spaulding / Director: Silvio Narizzano  

Scifi drama. Tom Dyson finds himself caught up in the chaos of a nuclear war. The play was followed by an hour long debate on some of the issues raised in the play.

With:- IAN HUNTER as Tom Dyson / FRANCIS ROWE as Mrs Dyson / ANN FIRBANK as Ann Dyson / GEORGE BAKER as Goltsev / HUGH LATIMER as General Kuprin / BONAR COLLEANO as Jackston / HARRY FOWLER as Porson / BILL FRASER as Civil Servant

DOOMWATCH

BBC / 37x50m-e / 1970-72

Creators: Kit Pedlar,Gerry Davis / Music: Max Harris / Titles: Alan Jeapes / Script Editors: Gerry Davis(Seasons 1-2), Anna Kaliski (Season 3) / Producer: Terence Dudley

Scifi drama series. The Government sets up a special department to counteract unwanted scientific development. One episode made for season three has never been show (but still exists) called Sex and Violence, the show included footage of a real military execution and was deemed too sensitive.

With:- JOHN PAUL as Dr Spencer Quist / SIMON OATES as Dr John Ridge / ROBERT POWELL as Toby Wren(70) / JOBY BLANSHARD as Colin Bradley / WENDY HALL as Pat Hunniset / VIVIEN SHEPHERD as Barbara Mason / JOHN NOLAN as Geoff Hardcastle / JEAN TREND as Dr Fay Chantry

DOOMWATCH

C5/Working Title/ Vanson / 1x120m-e / 1999  7 December - Tuesday 9.00pm

Writers: Ian MacDonald, John Howett / Creators: Kit Pedlar, Gerry Davis / Music: Debbie Wiseman / Costume: Anne Sinclair / Design: Chris Robilliard, Sue Ferguson / Titles: GP Design / Scientific Consultant: Dr Gerry Gilmore / Producer: Peter Lee-Wright / Director: Roy Battersby

Scifi drama. A revival of the classic 1970's BBC show of the same name (see above). Dr Spencer Quist tries to persuade Cambridge astrophysicist Neil Tannahill to join his Doomwatch group,and when Tannahill's energy project research is stolen he finds himself drawn into investigating a sinister black hole that is being 'created' by an old colleague Toby Ross. The production carried the subtitle "Winter Angel".

With:- PHILIP STONE as Dr Spencer Quist / TREVOR EVE as Neil Tannahill / AMANDA OOMS as Meg Tannahill / MILES ANDERSON as Toby Ross / DALLAS CAMPBELL as Hugo Cox / ALLIE BYRNE as Teri Riley

DO OR DIE

Sky One-Southern Star-John Edwards-Warner Sisters / 2x110m-e / 2001 (22-29 April / Sunday 9.00pm)

Writer: Christopher Lee / Design: Murray Picknett / Camera: Martin McGrath / Music: Edmund Butt / Producers: John Edwards, Lavinia Warner / Director: Rowan Woods 

Thriller serial. Doctor Sam has her life turned around when her son falls ill and she has to trace his Australian crook father who she had a brief fling with whilst backpacking in Australia with her friend Claire some years before. The show was heavy on the flashbacks, beginning in present day England and moving in back in time to the mid 1990's and Australia. A UK-Australia co-production. 

With:- PATSY PALMER as Claire / KATE ASHFIELD as Sam / HUGO SPEER as Nicholas / TOM LONG as Joey / WILLIAM McDOWELL as William

A DOROTHY L. SAYERS MYSTERY

 BBC2 / 10x50m-e / 1987 25 March - 27 May

Writers: Philip Broadley, Rosemary Anne Sisson / Music: Joseph Harowitz / Producer: Michael Chapman 

Period crime drama series. Dramatisations of three of Dorothy L. Sayer's Lord Peter Wimsey novels. Strong Poison, Have His Carcass and Gaudy Night.

Lord Peter Wimsey............................... EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE

Harriet Vane......................................... HARRIET WALTER

Bunter.................................................. RICHARD MORANT

THE DOUBLE

ITV / 1x60m-e / 1996

Story:Ruth Rendell 

Thriller. When Lisa meets her exotic double Zoe it starts off an unstoppable chain of life changing events.

Lisa/Zoe............................................ CAMILLA POWER

Peter Milton....................................... JASON FLEMYNG

John Amber Powell............................. LALOR RODDY

Andrea Cleasant................................ MICHELLE NEWELL

Annabel............................................ HELEN BLATCH

THE DOUBLE BLIND

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1962 black and white

Writer: Vincent Tilsley / Novel: John Rowan Wilson / Producer: John Elliott  

Drama. A doctor and a priest come into conflict on a West African island.

Dr Farrell......................................... LYNDON BROOK

Father de Freitas............................. PETER ILLING

Dr Peter Mayne............................... RICHARD LEECH

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