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UK TV H4 - HOME RUN to HUSTLE

HOME RUN

BBC / 1x85m-e / 1989

Writer: Andy Armitage / Director: Nicholas Renton 

Thriller. A London Yuppie gets caught up in a nightmare.

With:- MICHAEL KITCHEN / KEITH BARRON / TOM GEORGESON / GEORGIA ALLEN

HOME ON THEIR OWN

ITV1 / x45 / started 6 July 2002

Series Producer: Dagmar Charlton

Makeover show. With the help of a team of builders and designers, children have a weekend to transform their family home whilst their parents are away of a luxury holiday. Presented by Ulrika Jonsson.

C4/Limehouse / 3x60m-e / 1984

Three plays on the subject of video and home technology.

1.HOME VIDEO Writer: Lesley Bruce /  Director: Alan Dossor with Colin Blakely, Patricia Routledge,

2.CQ Writer: Paula Milne /  Director: Moira Armstrong with Michael Elphick

3.TROPICAL MOON OVER DORKING Writer: Jeremy Burnham /  Director: Robert Chetwyn with Pauline Collins, Nicky Henson, Hetty Baynes,

BBC / 1x96m-e / 1986

Director: Les Blair 

Semi improvised drama set in an advertising agency.

With:- DERRICK O'CONNOR / ARABELLA WEIR / ADRIAN EDMONDSON / GARY OLDMAN / RICHARD E. GRANT

HONEY LANE:See Market in Honey Lane

BBC2 'Comic Asides' / 1x30m-e / 1994 30 January - Sunday 9.00pm

Writers: Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson / Director: John Birkin 

Comedy. Phil and Helen return home from honeymoon and decide to get divorced.

With:- ALEX LOWE as Phil / ANGELA CLARKE as Helen / GEORGINA HALE as Norma / PAUL WHITEHOUSE as Billy / DES McALEER as Skippy / MARK WILLIAMS as Martin / JIM MOIR* as Ginger (*Jim Moir is Vic Reeves performing under his real name.)

ATV / 3x60m-e / 1981 21 Jan - 4 Feb  Wed 9.00pm

Writer: Ray Connelly / Producer: David Reid / Director: Bill Hays 

Drama serial. Exploits of a group of country and western enthusiasts.

With:- JAMES GROUT as Big Hal / SHEILA STAEFAL as Betty / DAVID PARFITT as David

AN HONOURABLE RETIREMENT

ITV / 1x / 1979 4 November

Writer: Donald Churchill / Producer: Robert Lowe / Director: Tom Clegg

Comedy drama.

With:- JOHN LE MESURIER / PHILIP LOCKE / BERYL REID as The Landlady / HILARY MASON

Yorkshire / 6x30m-e / 1982

Writer: Roy Minton / Producer: Keith Richardson / Director: James Cellan Jones 

Comedy drama serial. Episodes in the life of Horace (who has the mind of a child), a middle aged man living with his elderly mother. 

With:- BARRY JACKSON as Horace

BBC/Collier-Young / 1x50m-e / 1963 3 June

Director: John Newland / Characters: C.S. Forester 

Period drama. Lt Cmdr Hornblower has to deal with a riot on a Man O' War. A colour pilot for a series that never emerged.

With:- DAVID BUCK / TERENCE LONGDEN / NIGEL GREEN / SEAN KELLY / JEREMY BULLOCH

 Meridian/Celtic/ Picture Palace / 4x120m-e / 1998, 2002 and 2003

Script Editor: Tom Grieves / Music: John Keane / Design: Rob Harris / Costume: John Mollo / Executive Producers: Vernon Lawrence, Delia Fine / Producer: Andrew Benson

Period action adventure series. Stories of young naval officer Horatio Hornblower in the late 18th century. Two more feature length stories are currently in production. Between 24-25 March 2002 two new episodes of HORNBLOWER (both 2 hours duration) were shown titled "Mutiny" and "Retribution". These were actually made over two years previously at the same sort of time as the others but were put "on the shelf". Two brand new stories of HORNBLOWER followed on ITV1 (Bothx120m) on 5&6 January 2003.

With:- IOAN GRUFFUDD as Hornblower / ROBERT LINDSAY as Capt Pellow / DORIAN HEALY as M'Man Simpson / MICHAEL BYRNE as Capt Keene

BBC1 'The Wednesday Play' / 1x75m-e / 10 March 1965, black and white

Writer: John Hopkins / Producer: James MacTaggart

The relationship between Cathy Young and her demanding husband takes on a new and disturbing meaning when Robin, a former art-student friend, re-enters their lives. The play gave a frank portrayal of homosexuality which at the time was illegal.

With:- GLENDA JACKSON as Cathy Young / ALFRED LYNCH

BBC / 13x50m-e / 1977

Novels: R.F. Delderfield / Producer: Ken Riddington 

Period drama serial.

With:- NIGEL HAVERS / PRUNELLA RANSOME

Channel 5 / 1x50m-e / 1997 30 March - Sunday 8.00pm

Writer: Laurie Rowley / Producer: Sue Vertue / Director: John Henderson 

Comedy. A surgeon faces a difficult choice in a highly bizarre hospital. Shown on Channel 5's opening night March 30th 1997.

Dr Jim Nightingale........................... GREG WISE

Harley Benson................................ BOB PECK

Dickie Beaumont............................ HYWEL BENNETT

Victoria Barking............................. HAYDN GWYNNE

Sister Muriel.................................. CELIA IMRIE

Jock............................................. JULIAN CLARY

X-Ray Operator.............................. ALEXEI SAYLE

Isolation Patient............................ MARTIN CLUNES

Granada / 1x105m-e / 1992

Writer: Bernard MacLaverty / Director: David Wheatley 

Dramatised account of the terrorist kidnappings of John McCarthy, Brian Keenan and Terry Waite.

With:- KATHY BATES / COLIN FIRTH / CIARAN HINDS / NATASHA RICHARDSON

HOTEL

Channel 5-Tiger Aspect-January-Living / 1x90m-e / 2001 (Sunday 18 February 9.00pm)

Writer: Laurie Rowley / Producers: Mark Chapman, Tim Sealey / Music: Rick Wentworth / Design: Steve Smithwick / Camera: Nigel Walters / Executive Producer: Charles Brand / Director: Alan Nixon

Comedy (very silly). Chaos reigns when the US president finds himself kidnapped by a group of none too bright terrorists.

With:- PAUL MvGANN as US President / PAUL McGANN as Ben Carter / ART MALIK as Radocheck Zeigler / LYSETTE ANTHONY as Amanda Brown / SARAH WATERBRIDGE as Polly Doyle / BRIAN CONLEY as Inspector Cochrane / BRADLEY WALSH as Henry the Porter / KEELEY HAWES as Tricia / HENRY NAYLOR as Constable Watkins

TSW / 1x50m-e / 1984

Writer: Kate and Mike Westbrook / Director: Derek Fairhead 

Drama.The story of a run down ballroom. 

With:- PAUL COPLEY / ALAN HAY / MADGE LUCAS / KATE WESTBROOK

BBC / 1x95m-e / 1986

Writer: Christopher Hampton / Director: Giles Foster 

Drama. A novelist spends time in an out of season Swiss hotel following an emotional crisis.

With:- ANNA MASSEY / DENHOLM ELLIOTT / GOOGIE WITHERS / PATRICIA HODGE / JULIA McKENZIE / BARRY FOSTER

THE HOTHOUSE

ABC (Armchair Theatre) / 1x60m-e / 1964 13 December Sunday 10.05pm black and white

Writer: Donald Churchill / Design: Assheton Gordon / Director: Guy Verney 

Drama. A young supermarket owner plans an exciting weekend.

With:- HARRY H. CORBETT / DONALD CHURCHILL / MIRANDA CONNELL / DIANA RIGG

HOT MONEY

ITV1 / 1x120m / 12 December 2001

Play: John Mister / Adaption: Neil McKay, Terry Windsor / Director: Terry Windsor / Producer: Jeremy Phillips

Comedy crime drama. Bridget Watmore works as a cleaner at the Bank of England?s banknote incinerating plant and with some of her work colleagues she devises an ingenious plan to get around the tightly regulated security and smuggle money out.

With:- CAROLINE QUENTIN as Bridget Watmore / MELANIE HILL as Liz Hoodless / GEORGIA MACKENZIE as Jackie Haggar / GERARD HORON as Don Watmore / JAY SIMPSON as Barry Weller / CHRISTINE ELLERBECK as Mrs Riddell / SHAUN CURRY as Mr Glover / DICKSON TOLSON as Sean / KATE WILLIAMS as Molly Stern

ABC / 13x50m-e / 1957 black and white

Producer: John Nelson Burton 

Anthology series of fantasy and mystery plays hosted by Donald Wolfit.

BBC2 / 1x90m-e / 1993

Writer/Director: Leslie Megahy 

Period drama. In Medieval France, a Parisian lawyer moves to the rural community of Abbeville where one of his first cases sees him defending a pig against a charge of murder.

Richard Courtois.................................. COLIN FIRTH

Albertus.............................................. IAN HOLM

Pinchon.............................................. DONALD PLEASANCE

Jeannine............................................. HARRIET WALTER

Filette d'Auferre................................... LYSETTE ANTHONY

BBC / 1x30m-e / 1960 black and white

Director: Ken Russell 

Drama set in an old London rooming house.

x50m-e / 1978

Drama series. Stories of a family of provincial auctioneers.

BBC1 / 4x60m-e / 1990 18 November - 9 December

Writer: Andrew Davies / Novel: Michael Dobbs / Music: Jim Carter / Design: Ken Ledsham / Costume: Rosalind Ebbut / Producer: Ken Riddington / Director: Paul Seed

Drama serial. In the very near future Conservative MP Francis Urquhart will let nothing or noone stand in the way of his bid to become party leader. Part one of the Francis Urquhart trilogy see also To Play the King and The Final Cut.

Francis Urquhart................................ IAN RICHARDSON

Mattie Storin..................................... SUSANNAH HARKER

Stamper........................................... COLIN JEAVONS

Elizabeth Urquhart............................ DIANE FLETCHER

Roger O'Neil..................................... MILES ANDERSON

Penny Guy....................................... ALPHONSIA EMMANUEL

Charles Collingridge.......................... JAMES WILLIERS

Patrick Woolton............................... MALCOLM TIERNAY

John Krajewski................................ WILLIAM CHUBB

Harold Earle.................................... KENNETH GILBERT

Ben Landless.................................. KENNY IRELAND

HOUSE OF ROCK

Channel 4-Fireside Favourites / x5m-e / 2000

Writers: Richard Preddy, Gary Howe, Gavin Claxton / Animation: Flick Films Ltd / Producer: Gavin Claxton

Crazy short late night animated comedies about a group of famous dead rock stars (Freddie Mercury, Marc Bolan, Kurt Cobain etc) all living together in a suburban house and spending most of their time arguing.

Voices:- RICHARD PREDDY / GARY HOWE / GAVIN CLAXTON

BBC / 1975

Writer: Peter Ransley 

Drama about an elderly refugee. 

With:- ELISABETH BERGNER

THE HOUSE ON THE HILL

STV / 6x60m-e / 1981

Producers: Robert Love, Mike Vardy 

Period drama series. The history of a Glasgow town house between the years 1880 and 1980. 

BBC2 / 1x50m-e / 1976 1 March - Monday 10.40pm

Writer: Harri Webb / Producer: Richard Lewis 

Comedy. An American, Jenkin Jenkins III, travels to Wales to search for his roots. Ryan Davies played several roles.

Jenkins Jenkins III............................ RYAN DAVIES

Spirit of the Valleys.......................... MAX BOYLE

BBC / 8x30m-e / 1960 1 January - 19 February  black and white

Writer: Barry Thomas / Producer: Dafydd Gruffydd 

Period drama serial. Welsh family life between the wars.

With:- EYNON EVANS / GLYN HOUSTON / ISLWYN MAELOR EVANS / RACHEL THOMAS

BBC / 6x50m-e / 1975-76  29 Dec 75 - 2 Feb 76

Writer: Elaine Morgan / Novel: Richard Llewellyn / Producer: Martin Lisemore / Director: Ronald Wilson 

Period drama serial. Welsh family life between the wars.

Ianto................................................. KEITH DRINKEL

Gwilym Morgan................................. STANLEY BAKER

Beth Morgan..................................... SIAN PHILLIPS

Huw................................................. DOMINIC GUARD

Young Huw....................................... RHYS POWYS

Rev Griffith........................................ GARETH THOMAS

BBC / 1937 7 July

Producer: George More O'Ferrall 

The very first George Bernard Shaw play to be broadcast on British Television.

With:- GREER GARSON / D.A. CLARKE-SMITH / DEREK WILLIAMS

HOW TO BE A GARDENER

BBC2 / 8x30m / started 27 February 2002

Series Producer: Kathryn Moore / Executive Producer: Dick Colhurst

Alan Titchmarsh demonstrates and explains how to carry out basic work in the garden.

HOW TO BE A LITTLE S*D

BBC1 / 10x10m-e / 1995 19 Sep - 12 Dec Tuesdays 8.50pm

Writer: Simon Brett / Executive Producers: Judith Holder, Ed Bye / Producer: Jamie Rix / Director: Daniel Keinman 

Comedy series. Episodes in the life of a couple coping with a new baby.

Baby's Voice...................................... RIK MAYALL

Mum.................................................. HARRIET THORPE

Dad................................................... STEVEN O'DONNELL

Maternal Gran.................................... DIANE LANGTON

Paternal Gran.................................... DAPHNE OXENFORD

Great Gran........................................ EDNA DORE

BBC / 1x60m-e / 1974

Writer: John Lloyd / Producer: Tam Fry 

Drama documentary. The events surrounding the impeachment of USA President Andrew Jackson but seen from a modern perspective with Jackson being hassled by the press, TV etc.

With:- WALTER KLAVUN / ROBERT MacNEIL

Long running schools series ITV/C4 featuring acted out segments of history from the middle ages to the 1960's. The series attracted a high standard of actors and many well known faces appeared.

BBC1 /  7x30m-e / 1965  Pilot: 15 July / Season: 23 Nov - 28 Dec

Writers: George Evans, Derek Collyer / Producer: John Paddy Carstairs

An anthology series of one off comedies all starring Roy Hudd.

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1967 19 May - Friday 7.30pm

Creator: Alexander Dore / Writers: Johnnie Mortimer, Brian Cooke / Producer: Robin Nash 

Comedy. Hugh is released from prison after a 10 year sentence but wants to return straight to the comfort of his cell.

Hugh................................................... HUGH LLOYD

Mr Gates............................................. PATRICK CARGILL

Mrs Green........................................... ANN LANCASTER

Padre.................................................. ROBERT GILLESPIE

ATV / 1x60m-e / 1964 black and white

Writer: Stan Barstow / Producer: Stella Richman / Director: Josephine Douglas  

Drama. A young girl would like her boyfriend to show her more affection but he is more interested in his bike.

With:- FRANCES CUKA / JEREMY KEMP / TREVOR BANNISTER / JOHNNY BRIGGS

BBC / 1x96m-e / 1978 

Writer: Robert Muller / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: Alan Cooke 

Period drama. In old Notre Dame disfigured hunchback bell ringer Quasimodo falls in love with the beautiful Esmarelda.

Quasimodo....................................... WARREN CLARKE

Esmeralda........................................ MICHELLE NEWELL

Frollo................................................ KENNETH HAIGH

Yorkshire/Buffalo / 1x115m-e / 1999 31 March - Wednesday 9.00pm

Writer: Nick Vivian / Music: Jools Holland / Design: Iain Andrews / Costume: Lindsay McLean / Executive Producer: David Reynolds / Producer: Philippa Braithwaite / Director: Martin Clunes

Comedy drama. Former pop star turned con artist Simon Delancey is kidnapped two fans of his eighties pop band the Venus Hunters, they 'persuade' him to reform the band for one final gig.

Simon................................................. MARTIN CLUNES

Charlotte............................................. NEIL MORRISSEY

Cassandra........................................... JANE HORROCKS

Jacqui................................................. ESTHER COLES

John................................................... DANNY WEBB

Peter.................................................. MARK WILLIAMS

Gavin................................................. BEN WILLIAMS

Marge Beake...................................... MARLENE SIDAWAY

D.I. Hoardes....................................... ROGER WATKINS

Antiques Dealer.................................. STEPHEN CHURCHETT

Granada / 3x60m-e / 1970

Writer: Julian Mitchell / Novel: Ferenc Molnar / Producer: Peter Potter / Director: Basil Coleman

Period drama serial. Stories of a young student in early 1900's Budapest.

Nicholas............................................. FRANCIS WALLIS

Hedwig............................................... TOBY ROBINS

Johann............................................... MICHAEL CRAIG

Eric.................................................... JONATHAN NEWTH 

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