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UK TV J JACK AND JEREMY to JUST LIKE MUM

JONATHAN CREEK

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

 

JACK AND THE BEANSTALK

 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

 

JEMIMA SHORE INVESTIGATES

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

 

JULIUS CAESAR

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

 

JUST DESSERTS

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 fiancs 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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