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JONATHAN CREEK-
Season Three Episodes
The Curious Tale of Mr Spearfish
The Eye of Tiresias
JACK AND JEREMY'S REAL LIVES
C4/Open Mike / 6x30m-e / 1996 31 May - 5 July Fridays 10.30pm
Writers: Jack Dee, Jeremy Hardy / Producers: Dave Morley, Ivan Douglas / Director: John Stroud
Comedy series. Six comedies in which Jack Dee and Jeremy Hardy play a different pair of characters each time searching across Britain for various facets of life.
With:- JACK DEE as Jack / JEREMY HARDY as Jeremy
ITV / 1x85m-e / 1998 25 December
Writer: Simon Nye / Producer: Helen Pitcher, Sarah Williams / Director: John Henderson
Pantomime. Boisterous version of the traditional tale but mixing in one or two other ingredients such as Goldilocks and the character of Jill.
With:- PAUL MERTON as Narrator / NEIL MORRISSEY as Jack / ADRIAN EDMONDSON as Dame Dolly / GRIFF RHYS JONES as Baron Wasteland / DENISE VAN OUTEN as Jill / MORWENNA BANKS as Goldilocks / JULIE WALTERS as Fairy Godmother / JULIAN CLARY as Giant's Assistant
JACK OF DIAMONDS
BBC / 6x30m-e / 1982
Writer: John and Steven Singer / Music: Ronnie Hazlehurst / Costume: Pip Bryce / Producer: Stuart Allen
Comedy thriller serial. A pair of private detectives go in search of diamonds hidden in Holland during World War II. Dick Emery played a number of different roles and see also Emery:Legacy of Murder.
With:- TONY SELBY as Norman / JAMES VILLIERS as George Billyard / GLYNN EDWARDS as Reg / HELEN GILL as Helen Carter
JACK OF HEARTS
BBC1 / 6x50m-e 1999 Wednesdays 9.30pm
Executive Producers: Pedr James, Maggie Russell
Drama series. Probation officer Jack Denby has to contend with a tough job and a troubled home life.
With:- KEITH ALLEN as Jack Denby / ANNA MOUNTFORD as Suzanne Pryce / RUTH MADOC as Jean Pryce / ANDREW SACHS as Peter Pryce / STEVE TOUSSAINT as Joe / MIRANDA LLEWELLYN JENKINS as Katie
JACKS AND KNAVES
BBC / 4x45m-e / 1961 16 November - 7 December black and white
Writer: Colin Morris / Producer: Gilchrist Calder
Crime drama serial. Cases of a Liverpool detective sergeant. This serial is said to have been the inspiration for Z Cars.
Det Sgt Tom Hitchen........................ JOHN BARRIE
Sgt Harry Frost................................ PHILIP STONE
Det Con Bert Hoyle.......................... LEONARD WILLIAMS
JACKS HORRIBLE LUCK
BBC / 1x / 1961 black and white
Writer: Henry Livings
Drama. A young sailor has a strange encounter with an old busker.
With:- BARRY FOSTER / WILFRED BRAMBELL
JACK THE RIPPER
BBC1 / 6x50m-e / 1973 13 Jul - 17 Aug
Writers: Elwyn Jones, John Lloyd / Producers: Paul Bonner, Leonard Lewis
Crime drama serial. Former Z Cars cops Barlow and Watt investigate the notorious Victorian murders. The short series Second Verdict followed.
With:- STRATFORD JOHNS as Det Ch Supt Barlow / FRANK WINDSOR as Det Ch Supt Watt
JACK THE RIPPER
Thames / 2x120m-e / 1988
Writers: Derek Marlowe, David Wickes / Producer: David Wickes
Period crime drama serial. Inspector Abberline investigates a series of horrific murders that are terrorising Victorian London.
With:- MICHAEL CAINE as Insp Frederick Abberline / SUSAN GEORGE as Cathy Eddowes / LEWIS COLLINS as Sgt George Godley / JANE SEYMOUR as Emma Prentice / LYSETTE ANTHONY as Mary Jane Kelly / HARRY ANDREWS as Coroner / ARMAND ASSANTE as Richard Mansfield / RAY McANALLY as Sir William Gull / HUGH FISHER as Sir Charles Warren / MICHAEL GOTHARD as George Lusk / DENYS HAWTHORNE as Assistant Commisioner / RONALD HINES as Henry Matthew / EDWARD JUDD as DCS Arnold
JAKE'S PROGRESS
C4 / 6x70m-e / 1995
Writer/Producer: Alan Bleasdale
Drama serial. Middle aged house husband and former musician Jamie Diadoni has a hard working wife who is a nurse and a son who worships him, but various factors combine to stretch the Diadoni family to breaking point.
Jamie Diadoni.................................. ROBERT LINDSAY
Julie Diadoni................................... JULIE WALTERS
Jake Diadoni................................... BARCLAY WRIGHT
Monica........................................... LINDSAY DUNCAN
Kate Eliott...................................... AMANDA MEALING
Eliott............................................. DAVID ROSS
JAMAICA INN
ITV (HTV-Metromedia-United Media-Jamaica Inn Productions) / 3x60m-e / 1983
Writer: Derek Marlowe / Story: Daphne Du Maurier / Design: Ken Jones / Costume Design: Lorna McNab, Gillie Brock / Supervising Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole / Producer: Peter Graham Scott / Executive Producers: Hilary Heath, Stephen Bankler-Jukes / Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark
Period drama serial. Shaken by her parents death, Mary Jellan heads for the mysterious Jamaica Inn to stay with relatives. She is shocked to discover that the Inn is a house of disrepute harbouring thieves, drunks and criminals. But nothing shocks her more than the stories about the "wreckers", a ruthless band of killers who roam the coast looting and murdering. Suspecting there is a link between her fathers death and the "wreckers" Mary is determined to uncover the truth. Despite some day for night shooting at the start that gives the whole piece a rather murky look this is a classic slice of HTV big budget drama.
With:- JANE SEYMOUR as Mary Yellan / PATRICK McGOOHAN as Joss Merilyn / TREVOR EVE as Jem / PETER VAUGHAN as Squire Bassatt / BILLIE WHITELAW as Patience / JOHN McENERY as Francis Davey / VIVIAN PICKLES as Matha Yellan / MICHAEL GOLDIE as Harry / JOHN ABINERI as Richards / PAVEL DOUGLAS as James / BILL WALLIS as Blacksmith
JAMIE ON A FLYING VISIT
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1968 black and white
Writer: Michael Frayn / Director: Claude Whatham
Comedy drama. Jamie decides to pay a visit to one of his former girlfriends. She is now a married suburbanite.
With:- ANTON RODGERS / CAROLINE MORTIMER / DINSDALE LANDEN / FELICITY GIBSON
P.D. JAMES
Anglia / 10 stories (42x60m-e, 2x120m-e) / 1983-98
Novels: PD James / Producer: John Rosenberg (to
story 6)
Crime drama series. Cases of Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent (later
Commander) Adam Dalgliesh. Dalgliesh lived alone in a converted windmill. The
first six stories were 6-part serials, then two movie-length stories were made,
and the final two were 3-part serials.
With:- ROY MARSDEN as Adam Dalgliesh / JOHN VINE as John Massingham (first 3
stories only)
The individual stories were:-
1) Death of an Expert Witness (1983 / 6x60m)
W: Robin Chapman, D: Herbert Wise
With:- John Vine / Barry Foster / Geoffrey Palmer / Ray Brooks / Andrew Ray /
Meg Davies / Malcolm Terris / Brenda Blethyn
2) Shroud for a Nightingale (1984 / 6x60m)
W: Robin Chapman, D: John Gorrie
With:- John Vine / Joss Ackland / Sheila Allen / Liz Fraser
3) Cover Her Face (1985 / 6x60m)
W: Robin Chapman, D: John Davies
With:- John Vine / Mel Martin / Rupert Frazer / Phyllis Calvert / Norman Wooland
/ Julian Glover / Bill Fraser / Clare Higgins / Kim Thomson
4) The Black Tower (1985 / 6x60m)
W: William Humble, D: Ronald Wilson
With:- Pauline Collins / Martin Jarvis / Maurice Denham / Rachel Kempson /
Harriet Bagnall / Andrew Hawkins / Valerie Whittington / Sheila Ruskin
5) A Taste For Death (1989 / 6x60m)
D: John Davies
With:- Penny Downie / Wendy Hiller / Bosco Hogan / Fiona Fullerton / Simon Ward
6) Devices and Desires (1991 / 6x60m)
W: Thomas Ellice, D: John Davies
With:- Susannah York / Gemma Jones / James Faulkner / Tony Haygarth / Tom
Georgeson / Tom Chadbon / Harry Burton / Suzan Crowley / Nicola Cowper
7) Unnatural Causes (1993 / 1x120m)
W: Peter Buckman, D: John Davies, P: Hilary Bevan Jones
With:- Simon Chandler / Kenneth Colley / Mel Martin / Bill Nighy
8) A Mind To Murder (1995 / 1x120m)
D: Gareth Davies, P: Hilary Bevan Jones
With:- Mairead Carty / Sean Scanlan / Robert Pugh / Peter Tuddenham / Frank
Finlay
9) Original Sin (1996 / 3x60m)
W: Michael Chaplin, D: Andrew Grieve, P: Andrew Benson
With:- Ian Bannen / Cathryn Harrison / Amanda Root / Sylvia Syms / Tim Dutton /
Lizzy McInnerny / Jonathan Coy / Carolyn Pickles
10) A Certain Justice (1998 / 3x60m)
W: Michael Russell, D: Ross Devenish
With:- Penny Downie / Ricci Harnett / Flora Montgomery / Frederick Treves /
Matthew Marsh
11) Death in Holy Orders (2003 / 2x90m)
Adaption: Robert Jones / Director: Jonny Campbell / Producer: Margaret Enefer.
Martin Shaw played Adam Dalgliesh.
JANE
BBC2 / 10x10m-e / 1982/84 Season One:2-6 Aug 1982 / Season Two: 3-7 Sep 1984
Writer: Mervyn Haisman / Characters: Norman Pett / Music: Neil Innes / Producer: Ian Keill
Period drama serials. Adventures of the Daily Mirrors wartime scantily clad heroine. The series had the cast interacting with comic strip backgrounds. Season Two had the subtitle Jane in the Desert.
With:- GLYNIS BARBER as Jane / MAX WALL as Tombs / ROBIN BAILEY as The Colonel (Season 1) / SUZANNE DANIELLE as Lola (Season 1) / BOB TODD as Professor Crankshaft / FRANK THORNTON as Commander L (Season 2) / JOHN BIRD as Casper Cutler (Season 2)
JANE EYRE
There have been several versions of Charlotte Bronte's classic novel about Victorian governess Jane Eyre getting mixed up with the sinister Rochester.
1956:BBC 6 Part serial.
DAPHNE SLATER as Jane / STANLEY BAKER as Rochester
1963:BBC 6 Part serial
With:- ANN BELL as Jane / RICHARD LEECH as Rochester
1971: Omnibus 1x105m-e TV Movie version
Writer: Jack Pulman
With:- SUSANNAH YORK as Jane / GEORGE C. SCOTT as Rochester
1973:BBC Serial version
With:- SORCHA CUSACK as Jane / MICHAEL JAYSTON as Rochester
1983:BBC Serial version
Writer: Alexander Barron / Music: Paul Reade / Director: Julian Aymes
With:- ZELAH CLARKE as Jane / TIMOTHY DALTON as Rochester / JUDY CORNWELL as Mrs Read / ROBERT JAMES as Brocklehurst / KATE DAVID as Bessie / SALLY OSBORN as Miss Temple / AVRIL CLARK as Miss Scathered / JEAN HARVEY as Mrs Fairfax / EVE MATHESON as Leah / MARY TAMM as Blanche Ingram / GABRIELLE GLAISTER as Amy Eshton / ROGER WALKER as Robert Leaven / TRACEY CHILDS as Georgina Reed / COLIN JEAVONS as Briggs / LOCKWOOD WEST as Wood / ANNE DYSON as Hanna
1997:ITV 1x120m-e
Writer: Kay Mellor
With:- SAMANTHA MORTON as Jane / CIARAN HINDS as Rochester / GEMMA JONES / ABIGAIL CRUTTENDEN
JANGO
Associated-Rediffusion / 8x30m-e / 1961 (Broadcast: 25 January - 22 March)
Creator: Robert Urquhart / Producer / Director: Cyril Coke
Crime drama series. Criminology expert Jango Smith uses his skills to tackle various detective cases. Jango always wore a tweed hat and carried a twisted walking stick and also sport (sometime before Columbo too) a shabby raincoat. The character of Jango had previously been seen in an episode of Murder Stamp.
With:- ROBERT URQUHART as Jango Smith / MOIRA REDMOND as Dee Smith
JANE HALL
ITV1 / 6x60m / started 12 July 2006
Writer: Sally Wainwright / Director: Syd Macartney / Producer: Nicola Schindler
Comedy drama series. Jane Hall is a young woman who has a low opinion of her own abilities and decides to escape all the lofty ambitions her mother has for her and become a bus driver. She lives with friends in a flat and gets into scrapes and love-tangles always with her nagging over confident inner-ego trying to spur her on to be braver but mostly voicing the things she'd like to say but dare not.
With:- SARAH SMART as Jane Hall / GILLIAN TAYLFORTH as Mandy Searle / ROBERT GLENISTER as Dave Searle / NITIN GANATRA as Sid Gokahani / SUZANNA HAMILTON as Helen Gillespie / IAN REDDINGTON as Barry Hargreaves / ANN MITCHELL as Lillian Hargreaves / NOEL CLARKE as Steve Heaney
JASON KING
ITC/Scoton / 26x60m-e / 1971
Creators: Dennis Spooner, Monty Berman / Music: Laurie Johnson / Titles: Chambers + Partners / Producer: Monty Berman
Crime drama series. Spin off from Department S. Ultra smooth, suave champagne drinking novelist Jason King finds himself continually involved in mysteries.
With:- PETER WYNGARDE as Jason King / ANN SHARP as Nicola Harvester / DENNIS PRICE as Sir Brian / RONALD LACEY as Ryland
JAZZ 625
BBC2 / 1964-66
Producer: Terry Henebery
An attempt by the BBC to use their new channel
(BBC2 had started in 1964) to introduce people to different facets of Jazz.
The title referred to the fact that BBC2 was now broadcasting on 625 lines,
giving a much better picture quality. The series was
introduced by Steve Race and many big names were featured.
Other Jazz TV shows have been:-
Commonwealth Jazz Club (BBC2 / 5x30m-e / 1965 2 Sep - 30 Sep) / Jazz Goes to
College (BBC2 / 1966-67 concerts in
various colleges and universities) / Jazz Scene (BBC2 / 1969-70 A weekly
magazine show produced by Tewrry Henebery) / Jazz
on Four (Channel Four / 1982-83) / Jazz at the Gateway (Channel 4-STV / 1987) /
Jazz 606 (BBC2 / 1998) and Jazz Heroes
(Channel 4 / 1998 / documentary series)
JEANNIE
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1946 2 July black and white
Writer: Aimee Stuart / Producer: Eric Fawcett
Comedy. After coming into an inheritance young Scots lass Jeannie plans a holiday.
With:- BARBARA MULLEN as Jeannie / JOHN LAURIE / EVE LYND / CARL BERNARD
JEEVES AND WOOSTER
Granada/Picture Partnership / 23x60m-e / 1990-93 Four seasons
Titles: Animation City / Costume: Dany Everett / Design: Eileen Diss / Music: Anne Dudley / Producer: Brian Eastman / Executive Producer: Sally Head / Characters: P.G. Wodehouse
Period comedy drama series.During the 1920's and 30's aristocratic oaf Bertie Wooster is constantly got out of trouble by his butler Jeeves.
Jeeves............................................ STEPHEN FRY
Bertie Wooster................................ HUGH LAURIE
JEFFREY ARCHER - THE TRUTH
BBC1 / 1x90m / 1 December 2002 / 9:00pm
Writer/Director: Guy Jenkin / Producer: Chrissy
Skinns
Comedy. Irreverent take on the life of Jeffrey Archer. In 2009, Archer is
dictating his "unauthorised" biography to the journalist who will
write it since (as he says) no one would believe it if he wrote it himself. He
paints himself as a superheroic figure closely involved in key events:- he
advised The Beatles on their song titles; personally led the SAS in the Iranian
embassy siege; and persuaded Margaret Thatcher to send a task force to re-take
the Falklands. Along the way he has an affair with Mrs Thatcher; invents the
mobile phone; and discovers he is the illegitimate son of the Queen and Duke of
Edinburgh - all while having to contend with his arch nemesis.
With:- DAMIAN LEWIS as Jeffrey Archer / GRETA SCACCHI as Margaret Thatcher /
RICHARD WILSON as Duke of Edinburgh / BEN MILLER as Roland Moxley-Nemesis /
EMILY MORTIMER as Princess Diana / POLLY WALKER as Mary Archer / RICHARD
GRIFFITHS as Willie Whitelaw / DANIELLE TILLEY as Emma Goss / STEPHEN PACEY as
Tony Blair
JEKYLL AND HYDE:See Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Thames / x60m-e / 1983
Creator: Antonia Fraser / Producer: Tim Aspinall
Crime drama series. TV reporter Jemima Shore investigates crimes among the upper echelons of society.
Jemima Shore................................ PATRICIA HODGE
JENNIE LADY RANDOLPH CHURCHILL
Thames / 7x60m-e / 1974 22 Oct - 3 Dec
Writer: Julian Mitchell / Producer: Andrew Brown / Director: James Cellan Jones
Period drama serial. The life story of Winston Churchill's mother.
Jennie................................................ LEE REMICK
Lord Randolph.................................... RONALD PICKUP
Duchess of Marlborough...................... RACHEL KEMPSON
Count Kinsky..................................... JEREMY BRETT
George Cornwallis-West..................... CHRIS CAZENOVE
Winston............................................ WARREN CLARKE
Mrs Patrick Campbell......................... SIAN PHILLIPS
Duke of Marlborough.......................... CYRIL LUCKHAM
JENNY'S WAR
HTV / 4x60m-e / 1985 3 -24 June
Writer/Director: Steven Gethers / Novel: Jack Stonely / Design: Bruce Grimes / Producer: Peter Graham Scott
Wartime drama serial. During World War II teacher Jenny Baines decides to go into Nazi Germany when her son goes missing there.
Jenny Baines........................................ DYAN CANNON
Klein.................................................... ROBERT HARDY
Eva...................................................... ELKE SOMMER
Colonel................................................ NIGEL HAWTHORNE
Preston............................................... CHRISTOPHER CAZENOVE
Schumann........................................... MICHAEL ELPHICK
Peter................................................... HUGH GRANT
JEREMY BERNARD IS UNWELL
BBC2/Independant Image/Veer Line Ltd / 1x90m-e / 1999 23 Dec - Thurs 10.20pm
Writer: Keith Waterhouse / Producer/Director: Tom Kinninmont, Peter O'Toole / Theatre Production: Ned Sherrin
Comedy drama. Jeffrey Bernard, locked in a Soho pub, looks back over his life. recorded over three nights at London's Old Vic Theatre. This was an abridged version of the long running play. Jeffrey Bernard was a well liked, but definitely an old soak, newspaper columnist. The title coming from whenever Jeffrey missed one of his columns through his love of the old hard stuff.
With:- PETER O'TOOLE as Jeffrey Bernard also with Royce Mills, Timothy Ackroyd, Sarah Berger and Annabel Leventon.
JERRY SPRINGER - THE OPERA
BBC2 / 1x120m / 8 January 2005
Writers: Richard Thomas, Stewart Lee / Director: Peter Orton / Producer: Richard Grocock
TV presentation of the stage musical about talk show host Jerry Springer. The production courted much controversy prior to its screening for its swearing and its treatment of religion. The production was filmed during the period that David Soul was playing part of Springer.
JESUS OF NAZARETH
ITC/RAI / 2x180m-e / 1977
Writers: Anthony Burges, Suso Cechi d'Amico, Franco Zefferelli / Music: Maurice Jarre / Director: Franco Zefferelli
Period drama serial. The life of Jesus.
With:- ROBERT POWELL as Jesus / OLIVIA HUSSEY as Virgin Mary / JORGO VOYAGIS as Joseph / ANNE BANCROFT as Mary Magdalene / JAMES FARENTINO as Simon Peter / IAN McSHANE as Judas Iscariot / MICHAEL YORK as John the Baptist / LAURENCE OLIVIER as Nicodemus / RALPH RICHARDSON as Simeon / CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER as Herod / DONALD PLEASANCE as Melchoir / JAMES EARL JONES as Balthazar / JAMES MASON as Joseph of Arimathea / OLIVER TOBIAS as Joel / CYRIL CUSACK as Yehuda / IAN BANNEN as Amos / CLAUDIA CARDINALE as The Adulteress / ROD STEIGER as Pontius Pilate / PETER USTINOV as Herod the Great / ANTHONY QUINN as Caiaphas / STACY KEACH as Barabbas / FERNANDO REY as Gasper
THE JEWEL IN THE CROWN
Granada / 1x120m-e 12x60m-e / 1984 9 Jan - 3 Apr
Writer: Ken Taylor / Novels: Paul Scott / Producer: Christopher Morahan
Period drama series. Life for a group of Brits in the Indian sub continent during the years 1942-47.
Ronald Merrick................................. TIM PIGGOTT-SMITH
Hari Kumar...................................... ART MALIK
Sarah Leyton.................................. GERALDINE JAMES
Daphne Manners............................. SUSAN WOOLDRIDGE
Sgt Guy Peron................................ CHARLES DANCE
Barbie Batchelor............................. PEGGY ASHCROFT
'Sophie' Dixon................................ WARREN CLARKE
Susan Layton/Bingham.................. WENDY MORGAN
Lady Manners............................... RACHEL KEMPSON
Count Dimitri Bronowski................. ERIC PORTER
Mildred Layton.............................. JUDY PARFITT
JILTING JOE
BBC2(Scotland)/ Cine Sisters / 1x80m-e 2000 16 Jan - Sun 10.30pm
Writer: Rosamund Orde-Powlett / Costume: Eve Stewart / Producer: Ann-Marie Casey / Director: Dan Zeff
Romantic drama. Olivia jilts her childhood sweetheart Joe at the altar, ten years later they meet at another wedding and attempt to rekindle their romance. The film received a limited cinema release in 1997 before its TV premiere.
With:- GERALDINE SOMERVILLE as Olivia / JAMES PUREFOY as Joe / PATRICIA HODGE as Gwennie / BENJAMIN WHITROW as Arthur / MATILDA ZEIGLER as Rona / ANGUS WRIGHT as Mick / TOM WILKINSON as Wyatt / ORIANA BONET as Mariana / CLARE GROGAN as Maggie / SIMON BATES as Himself (voice only) / MATT LUCAS as Air Steward
JIM'S INN
ITV / 250+x15m-e / 1957-63
Writers: Jimmy Hanley, Bob Kellett / Director: Pat Baker
One of the notorious advertising magazines that
proliferated in the 1950's, the IBA outlawed the programmes in 1963. In this
show Jimmy Hanley was the landlord of a pub and each week chatted to his
customers about the latest products on the market. Each
15 minute episode went out live, once a week, at 10:45pm. It was a sort of mini-soap,
featuring Jimmy and Maggie Hanley, as a couple who ran a warm and friendly
village pub in a place called Wembleham. Bob Kellet said of the show
"It sounds paradoxical, but without the advertisements it would lose a lot
of reality. People do talk, in a village pub, about things like household or gardening
gadgets, and how much they paid for them". Roma Cresswell recalls: "We
went out LIVE for the first few years, which was terrifying. There was a
huge glass ashtray on the bar under which we sometimes put difficult to
remember parts of our scripts! We had very little rehearsal, and if I
remember correctly, only got the scripts at first run-through. Towards the
end of our stint, we began to be recorded - in colour, and networked, too. Sadly
there are no recordings of Jim's Inn left at all."
With:- Jimmy Hanley as Jimmy / Maggie Hanley as Maggie / Roma Cresswell as Roma / John Sherlock as Ron / Jack Edwardes as Jack / Diane Watts as Peggy / Dennis Bowen as Dennis / Ken Haward as Fred / Victor Platt
JOE?S
ARK
BBC1 ?Play For Today?/ 1x55m-e / 14 Feb
1974
Writer: Dennis Potter; Director: Alan Bridges; Producer: Graeme MacDonald
Drama. Joe?s daughter Lucy is dying of cancer and his profound religious beliefs
are not enough to prepare him for the crisis.
With:- FREDDIE JONES as Joe / ANGHARAD REES as Lucy / DENNIS WATERMAN as Bobby /
CHRISTOPHER GUARD as John
JOHN GABRIEL BORKMAN
ATV / 1x75m-e / 1958 black and white
Producer: Casper Wrede / Director: Christopher Morahan
Drama.
With:- LAURENCE OLIVIER as John Gabriel Borkman / MAXINE AUDLEY / GEORGE RELPH / PAMELA BROWN / IRENE WORTH / ANTHONY VALENTINE / ANNE CASTALDINI
JOHN LENNON:A JOURNEY IN THE LIFE
BBC 'Everyman' / 1x95m-e / 1985
Producer: Daniel Wolf / Director: Ken Howard
Drama. Impressionistic account of the life of John Lennon using large amounts of Chromakey/CSO (Colour Seperation Overlay/Blue Screen).
John Lennon..................................... BERNARD HILL
JOHNNY & DENISE - PASSPORT TO PARADISE
BBC1 / 6x50m / started 3 July 2004
Series Producer: Suzy Lamb
An early evening live entertainment show featuring chat, competitions and music.
Reuniting the team of Johnny Vaughan and Denise Van Outen who previously worked
successfully together on The Big Breakfast in the late 90s.
JOHN SILVER'S RETURN TO TREASURE ISLAND
HTV / 1x120m-e 7x60m-e / 1986
Writer: John Goldsmith / Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole / Producer: Alan Clayton
Period action adventure serial. Further adventures of the rascally pirate Long John Silver.
John Silver........................................ BRIAN BLESSED
JOINT ACCOUNT
BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1969 18 Dec - Thurs 7.30pm
Writer: Michael Seddon / Producer: Michael Mills
Comedy. A newly wed husband faces problems when he learns his wife is a useless cook.
Rodney.............................................. KEITH BARRON
Celia ................................................. SARAH ATKINSON
George.............................................. GEOFFREY WHITEHEAD
THE JOURNAL OF BRIDGET HITLER
BBC / 1x110m-e / 1981
Writers: Beryl Bainbridge, Philip Saville / Producer: Ann Head / Director: Philip Saville
Period drama. Just prior to World War One Adolf Hitler visits Liverpool to see his Irish sister in law.
With:- MAURICE ROEVES as Adolf Hitler / SIOBHAN McKENNA as Bridget Hitler / JULIAN GLOVER
JOURNEY INTO THE SHADOWS
BBC2 play / 27 May 1984
Director:- Ana Benson Gyles
Drama about a welsh artist.
Cast Included:- ANNA MASSEY / MEL MARTIN
JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN
Hammer/TCF / 17x60m-e / 1968
Producer: Anthony Hinds / Theme Music: Harry Robinson / Executive Producers: Joan Harrison, Norman Lloyd
An anthology series of fantasy, horror, mystery and science fiction dramas. The series has a high percentage of American guest stars and stalwart British actors in support.
JOURNEY'S END
BBC / 1x60m-e / 1937 11 November - 9.00pm
Writer: R.C. Sheriff / Producer: George More O'Ferrall
Period drama. A group of young soldiers are stuck in a trench during world war one.
Stanhope............................................ REGINALD TATE
Osborne............................................. BASIL COLEMAN
Raliegh.............................................. WALLACE DOUGLAS
Trotter................................................ NORMAN PIERCE
Hardy................................................ REGINALD SMITH
JUBILEE
BBC / 13x50m-e / 1977
Producer: Pieter Rogers
An anthology of plays looking at British life since the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
JUDE THE OBSCURE
BBC / 6x50m-e / 1970
Writer: Harry Green / Novel: Thomas Hardy / Producer: Martin Lisemore / Director: Hugh David
Period drama serial. In the 19th century stonemason Jude Fawley has a dream of attending university but his chance disappears when he is tricked into marriage. Tradegy awaits Jude however thanks to his growing love for his cousin Sue.
With:- ROBERT POWELL as Jude / FIONA WALKER as Sue Bridehead / ALEX MARSHALL as Arabella Down / JOHN FRANKLYN ROBINS as Richard Phillotson / DAPHNE HEARD as Drusialla Fawley / SYLVIA COLERIDGE as Miss Fontover / GEORGE WOODBRIDGE as Challow / MEADOWS WHITE as Stonemason / MARK PRAID as Young Jude / EDWIN BROWN as Blacksmith / PAMELA DENTON as Anney / CARLETON HOBBS as Dr Tetuphar / GARY RICH as Juey / RICHARD BEALE as Chivers
JUDGE DEE
Granada / 6x60m-e / 1969 8 April - 13 May
Writer: John Wiles / Music: Derek Hilton / Novels: Robert Van Gulik / Producer: Howard Baker
Period crime drama series. Cases of master detective Judge Dee in 7th Century China.
With:- MICHAEL GOODLIFFE as Judge Dee / GARFIELD MORGAN as Tao
JUDGE JOHN DEED
BBC1 / 12x90m-e / 2001-2003
Writer/Producer: G.F. Newman / Director: Alrick Riley
Legal drama series. Divorced John Deed is a high
court judge who gets personally involved and takes on a case of a man Maurice
Hart, who killed the driver responsible for killing Hart's daughter in a hit and
run accident. A pilot edition ran first followed by a three part series in 2001
then four more in 2002.
With:- MARTIN SHAW as Judge John Deed / JENNY SEAGROVE as Jo Miller QC / COLIN
SALMON as Willy Radcliff / CHRISTOPHER CAZENOVE as Row Colemore / CAROLINE
LANGRISHE as Georgina Channing QC / DONALD SINDEN as Sir Joseph Channing /
DOMINIC JEPHCOTT as Simon Dymock / BARBARA THORN as Rita 'Coop' Cooper /
JONATHAN COY as David Stafford-Clark QC / CHRIS ELLISON as Mike Briggs / LOUISA
CLEIN as Charlie Deed / DAVE NORMAN as Stephen Ashurst / VICTOR ROMERO EVANS as
Maurice Hart / TOM HARPER as Rory Brown / TREVOR BOWEN as Mr Justice Nivan
JUDGEMENT DAY FOR ELIJAH JONES
BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1966 7 June - Tuesday 7.30pm
Writer: Marty Feldman / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson / Director: John Street
Comedy. Elijah Jones believes the world is about to end and plans to build himself an Ark and stock it with stolen animals.
With:- CLIVE DUNN as Elijah Jones / BERNARD CRIBBINS as Arnold / PRISCILLA MORGAN as Elijah's Wife
THE JUGG BROTHERS
BBC1 / 1x30m-e / 1970 1 January - Thursday 7.30pm
Writers: Bob Grant, Stephen Lewis / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
Comedy. Misadventures of two brothers Stephen and Robert Jugg.
Stephen Jugg.................................. STEPHEN LEWIS
Robert Jugg..................................... BOB GRANT
Lilly Dolly........................................ FANNY CARBY
Annie Bundle.................................. QUEENIE WATTS
JULIAN FELLOWES INVESTIGATES: A MOST MYSTERIOUS MURDER see A Most Mysterious Murder.
JULIET BRAVO
BBC1 / 82x50m-e / 1980-85
Creator: Ian Kennedy Martin
Crime drama series. Female Inspector Jean Darblay creates waves when she takes over a small town police station in Hartley, Lancashire. After three seasons Darblay left the area and was replaced by Kate Longton.
With:- STEPHANIE TURNER as Jean Darblay / ANNA CARTERET as Insp Kate Longton / DAVID ELLISON as Sgt Joseph Beck / NOEL COLLINS as Sgt George Parrish / MARK DREWRY as PC Roland Bentley / TONY CAUNTER as DCI Logan / C.J. ALLEN as PC Brian Kelleher
BBC2 (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x180m-e / 1979
Writer: William Shakespeare / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: Herbert Wise
Period drama. In Ancient emperor Julius Caesar is beset on all sides by his fellow Romans.
With:- CHARLES GRAY as Julius Caesar / KEITH MICHELL as Mark Antony / RICHARD PASCO as Brutus / VIRGINIA McKENNA as Portia / DAVID COLLINGS as Cassius / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS as Calphurnia / SAM DASTOR as Casca / LEONARD PRESTON as Titinius / JOHN STERLAND as Marculus
THE JULY PLOT
BBC 'The Wednesday Play' / 1x / 1964 black and white
Writer: Roger Marvell / Director: Rudolph Cartier
Period drama about a group of Nazi soldiers during World War II.
With:- CYRIL LUCKHAM / JOSEPH FURST / PETER COPLEY / JOHN LEE / MICHAEL ANTHONY / JOHN CARSON
THE JUMP
ITV/Warner Sisters / 4x60m-e / 1998
Writers: Martina Cole, Adrian Hodges / Producer: Lavinia Warner / Director: Richard Standeven
Thriller serial. When her husband George is sent to prison for a crime she is convinced he didn't commit, Donna Brunos decides to break him out.
George Brunos.............................. JONATHAN CAKE
Alan Cox...................................... ADRIAN DUNBAR
Donna Brunos............................... SUSAN VIDLER
Steven Brunos.............................. ANDY SERKIS
Mario Brunos................................JOHN LIGHT
Maeve Brunos............................... SUE JOHNSTON
Donald Lewis............................... MICHAEL ANGELIS
Peter Wilson................................ PETER McCABE
Sadie Gold...................................JULIAN KERRIDGE
Monica Fenland............................ROWENA COOPER
JUPITER MOON
BBC/Primetime/ Andromeda / 150x30m-e / 1990
Producer: William Smethurst / Music: Alan Parker
Scifi drama series. Exploits of a group of children and teenage students aboard a space station somewhere near Jupiter. This series was made by ill fated satellite station BSB and has yet to be shown on Terrestrial TV and is unlikely to be, although it has been since several times on the Scifi Channel since the mid 1990's.
Mercedes Page............................... ANNA CHANCELLOR
Fiona McBride................................ LUCY BENJAMIN
Eliot Creasy................................... ANDY RASHLIEGH
Professor Brelan............................. RICHARD DERRINGTON
Finbow Lewis................................. PHIL WILMOTT
Petra............................................ CHARLOTTE MARTIN
Daniel Weatherby.......................... DANIEL BEALES
James Bromwich........................... RICHARD LINTERN
Victoria Frobisher.......................... NICOLA WRIGHT
Rosie Greenwood.......................... CAROLYN BLACKHOUSE
Anna Begani................................. ANNA PERNICCI
THE
JURY
ITV1 / 6x60 / started 17 February 2002 /
9:30pm
Writer Peter Morgan, Andy Harries / Director:
Pete Travis / Producer: Francis Hopkinson
Drama surrounding a controversial murder trial of a 15-year old Sikh schoolboy
accused of brutally killing another boy. A lot of the action tales place
in the courtroom but this courtroom drama differs from others in that the jurors
are not nameless extras but are the focus of the drama and we peer into their
personal lives away from the courtroom.
With:- ANTHONY SHER as Gerald Lewis QC (Prosecution) / DEREK JACOBI as George
Cording QC (Defense) / SONNELL DADRAL as Duvinder Singh (The Accused) / PETER
VAUGHAN as Michael Colchester
Jurors:- SYLVIA SIMS as Elsie Beamish / NICHOLAS FARRELL AS Jeremy Crawford /
NINA SOSANYA as Marcia Thomas / MICHAEL MALONEY as Peter Segal / HELEN McCRORY
as Rose Davies / GERARD BUTLER as Johnnie Donne / SARAH-LOUISE YOUNG as Jessica
/ CONNOR McINTYRE as Derek Batey / WILLIAM HOYLAND as Hector / GILLIAN BARGE as
Eva Prohaska / STUART BUNCE as Charles Gore / PAUL REYNOLDS as Warren Murray
JURY ROOM
BBC2 / 12x50m-e / 1965 black and white
Producer: Peter Dews
An anthology series of dramas looking at famous trials and focusing on the Jury.
JUST ANOTHER SATURDAY
BBC1 'Play For Today' / 13 March 1975
Director: John Mackenzie
The tensions between Glasgow's Catholics and Protestants are seen through the
eyes of an Orange Day parader.
With:- JON MORRISON / BILLY CONNOLLY as Paddy
JUSTICE IN WONDERLAND
BBC2 / 1x85m-e / 2000 5 March Sunday 10.05pm
Producer: Richard Fell / Director: Tim Leandro
Drama. A reconstruction of the events surrounding the 1999 Hamilton Vs Al Fayed libel case (won by Al Fayed).
With:- CHARLES DANCE as Neil Hamilton / NADIM SAWALHA as Mohammed Al Fayed / BELINDA LANG as Christine Hamilton / KENNETH CRANHAM as George Carmen / JULIAN WADHAM as Desmond Browne / ROBERT HARDY as Mr Justice Morland / STEPHEN MOORE as Mr Blumenthal / MICHAEL COCHRANE as Mr Whiteman / JOHN BENFIELD as Mr Bromfield / CAROLINE LANGRISHE as Miss Bozek
JUSTICE IS A WOMAN
Yorkshire / 1x60m-e / 1969
Writer: Stanley Miller / Play: Jack Roffley, Ronald Kinnoth / Producer: Peter Willes / Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Crime drama. A female barrister defends a boy charged with murder and rape.
With:- MARGARET LOCKWOOD / IAIN CUTHBERTSON / CAVAN KENDALL / DAVID LANGTON / ALLAN CUTHBERTSON / JOHN LAURIE / RODDY McMILLAN
JUSTICE
Yorkshire / 39x60m-e / 1971-73
Creator: James Mitchell, Edmund Ward / Producer: James Ormerod
Crime drama series. Lady barrister Harriet Peterson tackles cases in the North of London and later on in London.
Harriet Peterson................................ MARGARET LOCKWOOD
Dr Moody......................................... JOHN STONE
Sir John Gallagher............................ PHILIP STONE
James Elliot.................................... ANTHONY VALENTINE
JUST BETWEEN OURSELVES
Yorkshire / 1x / 1978
Writer: Alan Ayckbourn
Comedy.
With:- RICHARD BRIERS / ROSEMARY LEACH
Thames / 3x30m-e / 1982
Writer: T.R. Bowen / Director: Robert Tronson
Crime drama serial. A sequel to the series Bognor. Board of trade investigator Simon Bognor delves into the world of shady restaurants.
Simon Bognor................................... DAVID HOROVITCH
JUST GOOD FRIENDS
ABC 'Comedy Tonight' / 1x30m-e / 1967 25 Nov
Writers: John Esmonde, Bob Larbey / Director: John Paddy Carstairs
Comedy. A young woman is jealous over fianc饧s job as a nude life model at an art school.
With:- DEREK NIMMO / AMANDA BARRIE
JUST HARRY AND ME
BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x35m-e / 1971 1 April - Thursday 7.40pm
Writer: Charles Laurence
Comedy.Claire and Harry Love face problems with their teenage daughter. This led to the series Now Take My Wife.
With:- SHEILA HANCOCK as Claire Love / DONALD HOUSTON as Harry Love / LYNNE FREDERICK as Jenny Love
JUSTIN THYME
BBC (Festival) / 1x / Wednesday 15th April 1964
Writers: John Bluthal, Robert Fuest and Joe McGrath / Director: Joe McGrath / Producer: Peter Luke
Comedy. Broadcast as part of the 'Festival' series of plays. Only a small extract remains on tape.
With:- Leonard Rossiter as Daudet
JUST LIKE MUM
LWT 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1976 27 August - Friday 7.00pm
Writer: John Stevenson / Producer/Director: Stuart Allen
Comedy. Nosy landlady Mrs Jordan rules over her student lodgers.
Mrs Jordan....................................... PEGGY MOUNT
Edward Unsworth............................. LEONARD PRESTON
Alwyn Williams................................ MIKE GRADY
Billy Norris...................................... RODERICK SMITH
Mrs Fairfax...................................... FRANCES BENNETT
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