BBC 'Theatre Parade' / 2x40m-e / 1937 black and white

Writer: James Elroy Flecker / Design :Peter Bax / Music: Hyam Greenbaum / Producer: George More O'Ferrall 

Drama. The Arabian nights style story of Hassan of Baghdad.

With:- GREER GARSON as Yasmin / FRANK CELLIER as Baghdad

Granada / 10x50m-e / 1967-68/74

Producer: Derek Granger 

An anthology of dramas with a spooky theme each featured Patrick Mower as Michael West a university lecturer.

ITV  / 1x60m-e / 1993

Writer: Fiona McHugh / Director: Alvin Rakoff 

Spooky drama. A young boy attending a Cathedral school is befriended by a 400 year old ghost.

With:- NATHANIAL MOREAU as David Fabry / JEAN MARC PERRET as Huw Pritchard / FRANK MIDDLEMASS as Priestley / FRANCESCA ANNIS as Anna Fabry / ROBERT JELEK as Walter Fabry

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

Writer: Alan Melville / Producer: Robin Nash 

Comedy. Exploits of the residents of an old folks home.

Rupert Haliburton............................... JULIAN ORCHARD

Mr Prentice....................................... JOHN LE MESURIER

Miss Barnett..................................... VIVIENNE BENNETT

Miss Batchelor.................................. PATRICIA HAYES

Col Satchwell-Simpson...................... BALLARD BERKELEY

Mr Benson........................................ DERYCK GUYLER

Lady Henderson................................ JOYCE CAREY

Daphne Delaney................................ LALLY BOWERS

BBC1 / 4x50m-e / 1997

Writer: Rob Heyland  / Director: Paul Seed 

Drama serial. Married rollercoaster designer Sam Dawson strikes up an intense affair with his secretary when they go away together on a business trip.

With:- MILES ANDERSON as Sam Dawson / HOLLY AIRD as Allie Gray  / SINEAD CUSACK as Charlotte Dawson / IAN McNEICE as Zief / JAMES PUREFOY as Ben / HONEYSUCKLE WEEKS as Sophie Dawson / JAMES BOLAM as Oliver

BBC 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x25m-e / 1963  29 Mar - Fri 8.20pm

Writer: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson / Producer: Graeme Muir 

Comedy. A man is beset by nerves as he tries to sneak a watch through the nothing to declare section of an airport.

Norman Fox...................................... FRANKIE HOWERD

First Customs Officer......................... BILL KERR

Aeroplane Passenger......................... EDWIN APPS

BBC1 / 5x55m-e / 1971

Writers: Allan Prior, Alistair Bell / Producer: John McRae / Director: David Maloney 

Period drama serial. A sequel to Last of the Mohicans  and featuring further adventures of Hawkeye and Chingachook.

With:- PAUL MASSIE as Hawkeye / JOHN ABINERI as Chingachook 

HAWKING

BBC2 / 1x90m / 13 April 2004

Writer: Peter Moffatt / Director: Philip Martin / Producer: Jessica Pope

The real story of the early academic life of physicist Stephen Hawking when at the age of 21 he is diagnosed with motor neurone disease with a prognosis giving him only a few years to live. The drama shows Hawking as he works out some ground-breaking mathematical theories describing the nature of the universe while struggling with the onset of his debilitating condition.

With:- BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH as Stephen Hawking / PETER FIRTH as Fred Hoyle / TOM WARD as Roger Penrose / LISA DILLON as Jane Wilde / JOHN SESSIONS as Dennis Sciama / PHOEBE NICHOLLS as Isobel Hawking / ADAM GODLEY as Frank Hawking

Thames / 22x60m-e / 1978-79

Creators: Terry Venables, Gordon Williams / Music: Andy Mackay / Producers: June Roberts, Tim Aspinall 

Crime drama series. Cases of ex-policeman, ex-alcoholic private detective James Hazell. Co-Created by later to be England manager Terry Venables.

With:- NICHOLAS BALL as James Hazell / RODDY McMILLAN as 'Choc' Minty / DESMOND McNAMARA as Cousin Tel

Thames / 1x60m-e / 1977

Writer: C.P. Taylor / Producer: Mike Wooller / Director: Michael Darlow 

Romantic drama. A famous writer falls for the attractions of a teenage girl.

With:- KENNETH HAIGH

BBC1 / 3x50m-e / 1994

Writer: Doug Lucie / Producer: Andy Park / Director: Simon Langton 

Drama serial. Executive personnel headhunter Simon Hall is going through a mid life crisis.

Simon Hall......................................... JAMES FOX

Sally................................................. FRANCESCA ANNIS

Roddy Metcalfe................................. JEREMY CHILD

Barbara Levy..................................... ELEANOR DAVID

Malcolm Standish.............................. IAIN CUTHBERTSON

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1991

Writer/Director: David Hare / Music: Stanley Myers 

Period romantic drama. A naive provincial girl arrives in post war London and is soon mixed up with spivs and poets. 

With:- JOELY RICHARDSON / GARY OLDMAN / STEPHEN DILLANE / STELLA GONET / MICHAEL BRYANT

HEADLESS

Channel 5-Sanctuary / 10x60m-e / 2000 (Fridays 10.50pm / 3 November - )

Creator: Tony McHale / Music: Edmund Butt / Songs: Frances Ruffelle / Camera: Peter Chapman / Design: Robert Ide / Costume: Clarissa Bromelle / Producer: Matthew Kuipers

Crime drama series with seriously strange overtones. Detective Chief INspector Mortimer Marzec finds himself on the trail of a serial killer who is terrorising a block of flats and whose special signature involves him cutting off the heads of his victims.

With:- PATRICK ROBINSON as DCI Mortoimer Marzec / GINNY HOLDER as Claire Brennan / DAVID ASHCROFT as Keith Stevery / DEBORAH SHERIDAN-TAYLOR as Judi Lincoln / MARY TAMM as Portia Loomis / DAVID ROBB as Mike Loomis / JONIE BROOM as Nathan Romero / FRANCES RUFFELLE as Kitty Lascelles / DEBBIE ARNOLD as Sasha Lascelles / EMILY HAMILTON as Imogen Krelborn / SARA GRIFFITHS as Regan Medina / ALAN WESTAWAY as Quentin Medina

BBC2 / 6x50m-e / 1974

Drama series. Stories of a dedicated headmaster and charting the joining of a secondary and grammar school into a comprehensive school..

With:- FRANK WINDSOR as Tom Fisher / COLIN DOUGLAS / MICHAEL BYRNE

Carlton/Carnival / 7x60m-e / 1993

Creator/Co-Producer: Jane Prowse / Titles: Animation City / Music: Stanley Myers / Theme sung by Nick Haverson / Design: Eileen Diss / Producer: Brian Eastman

Period comedy drama series. Exploits of a group of girls at a finishing school in the 1950's.

With:- JACKIE MORRISON as Camilla / ANN BELL as Gracie Ellis / SALLY GEOGHAN as Catherine / DIANA MORRISON as Heather / KATHY KIERA CLARKE as Bernadette / JESSICA LLOYD as Alice / GEMMA PAGE as Stella / MICHAEL THOMAS as Jack / IAN EMBLETON as Jimmy / ALISON SKILBECK as Flora

BBC1 / 2x90m-e / 1994

Writer/Producer: G.F. Newman / Director: Mike Hodges 

Drama serial. An ordinary doctor discovers that he has magical healing hands.

With:- PAUL RHYS / GERALDINE JAMES / JULIE COVINGTON / NICKY HENSON / HILARY MASON / TERESA BANHAM / DAVID GARFIELD

BBC / 1x75m-e / 1983

Writer: Andrew Davies / Producer: Rosemary Hill / Director: Mike Vardy 

Comedy. Exploits of the staff and guests at a luxery country hotel.

With:- ROBERT LANG / MICHAEL GOUGH / MADGE RYAN

 Yorkshire TV / 250+x60m-e / 1992-continuing

Creator: Johnny Byrne / Stories: Nicholas Rhea / Executive Producer: Keith Richardson  / Theme sung by Nick Berry

Period crime drama series. In the mid sixties London copper Nick Rowan and his doctor wife Kate move to the sleepy Yorkshire village of Aidensfield. Following the departures of the two main characters the series began to open out and focus on more of the residents of the village especially wily Claude Jeremiah Greengrass and new cop PC Mike Bradley. Latterly the show has lost both Greengrass and Bradley. The series continues into 2005 with another 14 episodes. The 250th episode was broadcast 5 September 2004. See also Greengrass spin-off The Royal. 

With:- NICK BERRY as PC Nick Rowan(-97) / NIAMH CUSACK as Dr Kate Rowan(-95) / DEREK FOWLDS as Oscar Blaketon / BILL MAYNARD as Claude Jeremiah Greengrass / WILLIAM SIMONS as Alf Ventress / MARK JORDAN as PC Phil Bellamy / STUART GOLLAND as George Ward / TRICIA PENROSE as Gina Ward(from season 2) / ANNE STALLYBRASS as Eileen(-96) / JULIETTE GRUBER as Jo(95-97) / KAZIA PELKA as Maggie Bolton / JASON DURR as PC Mike Bradley(1997-13 April 2003 ) / PHILIP FRANKS as Sgt Craddock(97- ) / FIONA DOLMAN as Jackie Lambert(98-2001) / JONATHAN KERRIGAN as PC Rob Walker (from 2004)

Yorkshire TV / 1x90m-e / 1998

Writer: Jonathan Critchley / Producer/Director: Bob Mahoney 

Period drama. A one off Heartbeat spinoff. PC Nick Rowan and his new wife Jo leave Aidensfield to start a new life in Canada where Nick has a job as a Mountie. This was originally a video special released immediately following Berry's departure from the show. It received its TV premiere on ITV Sunday June 13 1999 - 8.20pm.

With:- NICK BERRY as Nick Rowan / JULIETTE GRUBER as Jo Rowan / ALICE JONES as Katie Rowan / JIMMY HERMAN as Frank / JACK ACKROYD as Sgt Hoodekoff / JENNIFER PHILLIPS as Ma Gibson / KATE NEWBY as Cora Palmer / BOB CHOMYN as Shopkeeper / R.D. REID as Gerry / RANDY BIRCH as Travis

HEARTLAND

ATV / 6x60m-e / 1979

An anthology series of dramas in which the central character of one play was held over to appear in the next. Donald Churchill and John Bowen were among the writers.

BBC/First Reel / 1x90m-e / 1989

Writer: Steve Gough / Music: Stanley Myers / Director: Kevin Billington 

Drama. A welsh farmer is brought to his knees by crippling EC regulations.

With:- ANTHONY HOPKINS / LYNN FARLEIGH / GLYN HOUSTON / JANE HORROCKS 

HEARTLESS

ITV1 / 1x90m / 4 April 2005

Writer: Caleb Ranson / Director: Nick Laughland / Producer: Jeremy Gwilt

Drama. Cynical divorce barrister Harry Holland suffers a heart attack and is given a heart transplant. But then his attitudes change and he starts having memories of a remote Scottish village he has never been to. He travels there and meets Amanda who is the widow of the man whom Harry's new heart comes from and they fall in love.

With:- ANGUS DEAYTON as Harry Holland / SIMONE LAHBIB as Amanda McNaughton / ROY BARRACLOUGH as Sean / ADAM HARKIN as Thomas

HEARTS AND BONES

BBC1 / 13x50m-e / 2000-2001 

Writer: Stewart Harcourt / Script Editor: Rebecca Keane / Producer: Sally Haynes / Music: Martin Phipps / Camera: John McGlashan / Producer: Sally Haynes / Director: Tom Shankland

Drama series. The complicated lives of a group of thirty somethings.

With:- DERVLA KIRWAN as Emma Rose / HUGO SPEER as Richard Rose / AMANDA HOLDEN as Louise Slaney / DAMIAN LEWIS as Mark Rose / ROSE KEEGAN as Sinead Creagh / ANDREW SCARBOROUGH as Michael Owen / JOEL PITTS as Sam Rose / SARAH PARISH as Amanda Thomas / CLAIRE LUBERT as Marianne / ANDREW WOODALL as Stuart Gee / KIERAN O'BRIEN as Robbie Rose

C4 / 4x60m-e / 1995

Writer: Jimmy McGovern / Producers: Tara Prem, David Wimbury / Director: Stephen Whittaker 

Drama serial. A new teacher has a tough time at a Liverpool Inner City comprehensive.

Drew.................................................... CHRIS ECCLESTON

Alex..................................................... IAN McELHINNEY

Trevor................................................... DAVID HAREWOOD

Emma.................................................. LYNDA STEADMAN

Norman................................................ PETER ARMITAGE

HEARTS OF GOLD

BBC1 / 2x90m / 5-6 July 2003

Book: Catrin Collier / Adaption: Matthew Baylis / Director: Richard Laxton / Producer: Matthew Robinson

Period drama set in a 1930's South Wales village telling the story of Bethan Powell with a father who is out of work and a family that are struggling to get by on her wages as a nurse; and what happens when she falls in love with handsome and well-to-do doctor Andrew John.

With:- JERMEMY SHEFFIELD as Andrew John / KATE JARMAN as Bethan Powell / GERALDINE JAMES as Elizabeth Powell / DAVID TROUGHTON as Evan Powell / DAVID WARNER as Dr John senior / JUDY PARFITT as Mrs John / JOHNATHAN FLOYD as Eddie Powell / CARTRIN STEWART as Maud Powell

ITV 'Ruth Rendell Mysteries' / 1x120m-e / 1996

Writer: Guy Meredith / Story: Ruth Rendell / Producer: Neil Zeiger / Director: Piers Haggard 

Thriller. The eldest daughter of Cathedral clergyman Luke Crossland looks into the mystery surrounding her mothers death.

Luke Crossland................................ ANTHONY ANDREWS

Elvira Crossland............................... EMILY MORTIMER

Spinny Crossland............................. DAISY HAGGARD

Mrs Crossland................................. ELSPET GRAY

Anthony Lewis................................. JACK GALLOWAY

The Dean........................................ ALAN MacNAUGHTON

BBC / 1x / 1962 black and white

Writer: Terence Rattigan / Producer: Alvin Rakoff 

Drama. A TV interviewer is determined to get a coup on a dodgy cabinet minister. This was part of a project called the Largest Theatre in the World in which nine countries broadcast the same play simultaneously. The companies involved were BBC - England, RTF - France, ORF - Austria, SRT - Sweden, NRK - Norway, RTE - Ireland, RAI - Italy, NTS - Holland and YLE - Finland.

David Mann..................................... KENNETH MORE

Peggy Mann................................... JEAN MARSH

Also with:- RALPH RICHARDSON / WENDY CRAIG

THE HEAT OF THE DAY

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1990  

Novel by Elizabeth Bowen / Writer: Harold Pinter / Producer: June W Davies / Director: Christopher Morahan

Period drama. Set in the 1940's against the backdrop of wartime London, "The Heat of the Day" is the story of a woman coming to terms with the fact that the man she loves may be a traitor to his country. There are three men in Stella's life. Her lover, Robert Kelway, has a secret and rather mysterious job with the War Office; her son Roderick is in the Army. And then there is Harrison, the sinister stranger who haunts her and who exerts a strange fascination over her, despite the fact that she is repelled by him. It is Harrison who tells her that Robert is selling secrets to the enemy, and who makes her a distasteful proposition. He will keep his information to himself, at a price. The price is Stella herself.

With:- Patricia Hodge / Michael Gambon as Harrison / Michael York as Robert / Peggy Ashcroft as Nettie / Ralph Michael /  Hilary Mason / John Gill / Aubrey Philips / Stephen Hancock / Imelda Staunton / Grant Parsons / Anna Carteret / Heather Chasen / Pat O'Toole / Rafael Pauley

Carlton / 3x120m-e / 1998 28 January - 11 February

Music: Nick Bicat / Executive Producer: Ted Childs / Producer: Ann Tricklebank 

Period crime drama series.  In the 1930's Albert Tyburn, a Scotland Yard Superintendant, is sent to Kenya to work amongst the large number of ex-pats there and soon finds himself investigating murder. 

With:- TREVOR EVE as Supt Albert Tyburn / SUSANNAH HARKER as Emma Fitzgerald / MICHAEL BYRNE as Cmdr Ronald  Burkitt / JULIAN RHIND-TUTT as Ass Supt James Valentine / FREDDIE ANNOBIL-DODO as Cpl Jonah Karinde / SEAN GALLAGHER as Chico de Ville / DAVID HOROVITCH as Dr Emil Mueller

BBC1 /  2x85m-e / 1998

Writer: Adrian Hodges / Producer: Julia Ouston / Director: Stuart Orme 

Drama serial. When their business and family life hits crisis point, Richard and Deborah Bennett head for the sanctity of a religious Amish like commune called the Community of the Fathful deep in rural Wales.After initial sceptism Richard becomes swept up in a tide of religious fervour and sets about trying to take control of the Community.

Richard Bennett............................... NEIL PEARSON

Deborah Bennett.............................. GERALDINE SOMERVILLE

Mary Weston................................... ISLA BLAIR

Isaac Muller.................................... LIONEL JEFFRIES

Leo Kemp....................................... JONATHAN HACKETT

Karl Brack...................................... WILLIAM LUCAS

Otto Kemp...................................... JEROME WILLIS

Charlotte Bennett............................ JESSICA PLAYFOOT

Barbara Tucker............................... ZENIA MERTON

Thames / 1x30m-e / 1977  24 Mar - Thurs 7.30pm

Writer: Terence Feely / Producer/Director: Les Chatfield 

Comedy. When he fails to get in the police force, George Fletcher sets up his own private security firm.

George Fletcher................................ WINDSOR DAVIES

Bert Ramsden................................... MICHAEL ROBBINS

Sgt Ryan.......................................... ROBERT KEEGAN

Alan Parker...................................... JOHN FLANAGAN

Lofty Harris....................................... RONNIE BRODY

Benny Bates..................................... NORMAN MITCHELL

Joe Higgins....................................... BERNARD STONE

Sadie Higgins.................................... TONI PALMER

BBC1 / 1x95m-e / 1995

Writer: Douglas Livingstone / Book: P.G. Wodehouse / Producer: Verity Lambert / Director: Jack Gold

Period comedy. Clarence, the Earl of Emsworth has trouble at his home Blandings Castle thanks to his prize pig. 

Clarence............................................ PETER O'TOOLE

The Hon Galahad Threepwood............. RICHARD BRIERS

Lady Keeble..................................... JUDY PARFITT

Lady Julia Fish................................. RICHARD JOHNSON

P. Frobisher Pilbeam ....................... DAVID BAMBER

HEDDA GABLER

BBC2 (Performance) / 1x90m-e / 1992

Play: Ibsen / Producer: Simon Curtis / Director: Deborah Warner 

Period drama. Hedda, a manipulative, neurotic woman, is bored with her insipid scholarly husband, upset by the idea of a possible pregnancy, and concerned that she may have to change her style of living if her husband is not appointed to a professorship at the university. Eilert Lovberg, who was once in love with Hedda and lived a dissipated life, has now become the author of a successful book and her husband's rival for the professorship. Determined to show her power over Lovberg, Hedda lures him back into dissipation with dire consequences for Lovberg, as well as for herself.

With:- Stephen Rea as Ejlert Lovborg / Brid Brennan as Mrs. Elvsted / Fiona Shaw as Hedda Gabler / Donal McCann as Judge Brack / Nicholas Woodeson as Jorgen Tesman / Pat Leavy as Miss Tesman / Susan Colverd as Berte

BBC / 1x60m-e / 1987

Writer: Elisabeth Spender / Music: Ilona Secakz / Producer: Innes Lloyd / Director: Tim King

Drama. Revalations abound at a country house wedding party.

With:- FREDERICK TREVES / LYNSEY BAXTER / MARSHA FITZALAN / FRANCESCA BRILL / SHEILA ALLEN

BBC / 6x25m-e / 1974

Writer: Martin Worth / Novel: Johanni Spyri / Producer: John McRae / Director: June Wyndham Davies

Period drama serial. A young girl goes to stay with her crochety old grandfather in the Swiss mountains.

Heidi................................................... EMMA BLAKE

Grandfather.......................................... HANS MEYER

Also With:- FLORA ROBSON / KATHLEEN BYRON / NICHOLAS LYNDHURST 

BBC / 3x25m-e / 1974

Writer: John Bowen / Producer: Ron Smedley 

Drama serial. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar set in a Banana Republic in modern times. Originally a schools production but later givien an evening repeat.

With:- ANTHONY BATE / JOHN STRIDE / FRANK MIDDLEMASS 

HEIL HONEY I'M HOME

British Satellite Broadcasting-Noel Gay TV / 8x30m-e / 1990

Writer: Geoff Atkinson / Producer: Harry Waterson / Executive Producer: Paul Jackson

Incredibly bizarre attempt to make a sitcom around Adolf Hitler's home life painting him as a suburbanite living in an apartment with Eva Braun next door to a Jewish family in 1938. Highly controversial the show was pulled after one episode with the other seven remaining unseen. The show was made by fledging satellite channel BSB so it's highly likely that hardly anybody saw the show anyway.

With:- NEIL McCAUL as Adolf Hitler / DENICA FAIRMAN as Eva Braun  

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1967 9 June - Friday 7.30pm

Writer: Dave Freeman / Producer: John Street 

Comedy. A couple are expecting an inheritance from their elderly uncle but a spanner is put in the works by a prospective new heir.

James............................................... JIMMY EDWARDS

Uncle Charles.................................... CLIVE DUNN

Alfred................................................ SAM KYDD

Winifred............................................. FRANCES BENNETT 

HE KNEW HE WAS RIGHT

BBC1 / 4x60m / started 18 April 2004

Book: Anthony Trollope / Adaption: Andrew Davies / Director: Tom Vaughan / Producer: Nigel Stafford-Clark

Period drama. Louis and Emily seemed to have a perfect marriage until he starts believing she is having an affair with her godfather, Colonel Osborne - a regular caller to their home. He forces a separation but keeps tabs on her from afar by employing the services of a private detective who has a tendency to misinterpret innocent key events which only fuels Louis' suspicions.

With:-OLIVER DIMSDALE as Louis Trevelyan / LAURA FRASER as Emily Trevalyan / ANNA MASSEY as Miss Stanbury / BILL NIGHY as Colonel Osborne / CHRISTINA COLE as Nora Rowley / STEPHEN CAMPBELL MOORE as Hugh Stanbury / CAROLINE MARTIN as Dorothy Stanbury

LWT / 13x50m-e / 1973

Producer: Richard Bates 

Drama series. A wife divorces her unfaithful husband and tries to make a new life for herself.

With:- ALISON FISKE  as Helen Tully / MARTIN SHAW as Frank Tully / SHARON DUCE as Carole

HELEN WEST

ITV1 / 3x120m-e / Began 6 May 2002 / 9:00pm

Dramatised by: Jacqueline Holborough / Director: Justin Chadwick / Producer: Alan Wright

Helen West works for the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) deciding whether cases should be prosecuted in court. Based on the novels by Frances Fyfield. (ITV had previously adapted a Fyfield book in 1999 called TRIAL BY FIRE with Juliet Stevenson in the lead role).

With:- AMANDA BURTON as Helen West / CONOR MULLEN as Chief Supt Bailey / NICHOLAS WOODESON as Brian Redwood

THE HELLO GIRLS

BBC1 - Diverse Design / 16x30m-e / 1996-98 2 Seasons 

Producers: Jacinta Peel , Laurence Bowen / Script Editor: Nell Denton / Costume: Venetia Ercolani / Titles: Diverse Design  / Music: Roger Jackson / Series inspired by Switchboard Operators by Carol Lake / Executive producers: Philip Clarke, Caroline Oulton  

Period drama series.  The mainly romantic entanglements of five girls on a Derby Telephone Exchange in the late fifties and early sixties.

With:- LETITIA DEAN as Chris Cross / AMY MARSTON as Sylvia Sands / COLIN WELLS as Dick Mandeville(96) / HELEN SHEALS as Ronni Ferrari / KATE LONERGAN as Pam Heath(96) / STEPHANIE TURNER as Miss Armitage / 

THE HEN HOUSE

BBC (Comedy Playhouse) / 1x25m-e / 1964 10 January - Friday 7.35pm black and white

Writer: George Evans, Derek Collyer / Producer: Michael Mills 

Comedy. Mrs Fanwyn runs her Khartoum House Girls Hostel with a firm hand.

With:- BERYL REID as Teresa Fanwyn / BARBARA WINDSOR as Cynthia Spooner / DERMOT KELLY as Edwin Russell

BBC2 / 1x60m-e / 1994

Writer: John Forde / Producer: Colin Tucker 

Drama. A young Irish girl violinist travels to the big city for an important music festival.

With:- KARA BOWMAN / CHERYL O'DWYER / JOHN HOWITT 

BBC2 (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x160m-e / 1979

Writer: William Shakespeare / Director: Kevin Billington 

Period drama. 

With:- JOHN STRIDE / TIMOTHY WEST / CLAIRE BLOOM / RONALD PICKUP / JON FINCH / ANTHONY QUAYLE

HENRY IV PARTS 1&2

BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 2x155m-e / 1979

Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: David Lloyd-Jones / Producer: Cedric Messina 

Period drama. Complete version of Shakespeare's version of the life of King Henry the Fourth.

With:- JON FINCH as Henry IV / TIM PIGGOTT-SMITH as Harry Hotspur / DAVID GWILLIM as Prince Hal / BRENDA BRUCE as Mistress Quickly / MICHELE DOTRICE as Lady Percy / ROB EDWARDS as Prince John of Lancaster / CLIVE SWIFT as Thomas Percy / SHARON MORGAN as Lady Mortimer / FRANCES CUKA as Doll Tearsheet / ROBERT EDDISON as Justice Shallow / BRYAN PRINGLE as Pistol / ANTHONY QUAYLE as Falstaff / RALPH MICHAEL as Chief Justice / GORDON GOSTELOW as Bardolph

BBC2 'Performance' / 1x180m-e / 1995

Writer: William Shakespere / Producer: Anne Castledine 

Medieval drama. Irresponsible young Prince Henry matures when he becomes King.

King Henry IV.................................. RONALD PICKUP

Sir John Falstaff............................... DAVID CALDER

Hal................................................. JOHNATHON FIRTH

Hotspur........................................... RUFUS SEWELL

Mistress Quickley............................ ELIZABETH SPRIGGS

Robert Shallow................................ PAUL EDDINGTON

Doll Tearsheet................................. JANE HORROCKS

Kate.............................................. JOSETTE SIMON

Earl of Worcestor............................ CORIN REDGRAVE

Earl of Warwick............................... JOHN WOODVINE

Lord Chief Justice............................ PETER JEFFREY

Silence........................................... JAMES GROUT

HENRY V

BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1979

Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: David Lloyd-Jones / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: David Giles

Period drama. Shakespeare's life of the King.

With:- DAVID GWILYM as Henry V / BRYAN PRINGLE as Pistol / ALEC McCOWAN as Chorus / JOCELYNE BOISSEAU as Katherine / ROGER DAVENPORT as Clarence / CLIFFORD PARRISH as Exeter / DEREK HOLLIS as York / ROBERT ASHBY as Salisbury / DAVID BUCK as Westmoreland / ROD BEECHAM as Warwick / TIM WYLTON as Fluellen / IAN PRICE as Scroop

HENRY VI PARTS 1-3

BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x185m-e 2x200m-e / 1983

Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Dudley Simpson / Producers: Jonathan Miller(parts 1&2), Shaun Sutton(part 3) / Director: Jane Howell

Period drama. Immense version of Shakespeare's play with several members of the cast tackling more than one role.

With:- PETER BENSON as Henry VI / MARK WING-DAVY as Earl of Warwick / DAVID BAMBER as Gloucestor / JULIA FOSTER as Margaret / BRENDA BLETHYN as Joan / TREVOR PEACOCK as Cade / BERNARD HILL as York / RON COOK as Richard, Duke of Gloucestor / BRIAN PROTHEROE as Edward IV 

HENRY VIII

ITV1 / 2x120m / 12, 19 October 2003

Writer: Pete Morgan / Director: Pete Travis / Producer: Francis Hopkinson

Period drama about the life of king Henry VIII and his six marriages as the monarch attempts to honour his father's dying wish that he produce a male heir.

With:- RAY WINSTONE as Henry VIII / DAVID SUCHET as Cardinal Wolsey / CHARLES DANCE as Duke of Buckingham / DANNY WEBB as Thomas Cromwell / SEAN BEAN as Robert Aske / LARA BELMONT as Mary Tudor / Mark Strong as Duke of Norfolk

The Wives:- ASSUMPTA SERNA as Katherine of Aragon / HELENA BONHAM CARTER as Anne Boleyn / EMILIA FOX as Jane Seymour /  PIA GIRARD as Anne of Cleves / EMILY BLUNT as Katherine Howard / CLAIRE HOLMAN as Katherine Parr

HERE COMES THE MIRROR MAN

ITV 'Chiller' / 1x60m-e / 1995

Writer: Stephen Gallagher / Executive Producer: David Reynolds / Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark 

Spooky drama. A social worker takes on a disturbed down and out but may have cause to regret it as her predecessor was murdered in mysterious circumstances.

Anna Spalinsky.................................... PHYLLIS LOGAN

Gary Kingston..................................... JOHN SIMM

Michael ............................................. PAUL REYNOLDS

Trevor................................................. MATTHEW SCURFIELD

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1965 11 June - Friday 8.00pm

Writer: Marty Feldman / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson / Executive Producer: Graeme Muir 

Comedy. 32 Year old Ambrose Twombly yearns to fall in love.

Ambrose Twombly........................... BERNARD CRIBBINS

Mousy Bird(Greta Spavin)................. HELEN FRASER

HERE IS THE NEWS

BBC / 1x75m-e / 1989

Writer: G.F. Newman / Producer: Kenith Trodd / Director: Udayan Prasad 

Thriller. Story of a journalist who becomes addicted to shoplifting.

With:- RICHARD E. GRANT / JOSETTE SIMON / GARY LOVE / HEATHCOTE WILLIAMS /ALAN MACNAUGHTON 

HEAR THE SILENCE

C5 / 1x120m / 15 December 2003

Writer: Timothy Prager / Director: Tim Fywell / Producer: Adrian Bate

Drama about the alleged effect of the combined Measles-Mumps-Rubella (MMR) vaccination on a young boy and the impact his behavioural changes have on his family.

With:- JULIET STEVENSON as Christine Shields / HUGH BONNEVILLE as Dr Andrew Wakefield / JAMIE MARTIN as Nicky Shields / ANDREW WOODALL as Martin Shields / ADIE ALLEN as Dr Carmel Wakefield / EMMA PIKE as Emma / TODD BOYCE as Simonson / EMMA HANDY as Ann

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