ATV / 1x60m-e / 1963 black and white 

Writer: Ronald Harwood / Producer: Cecil Clarke / Music: Trevor Peacock  

Comedy drama. A group of soldiers stationed in Cyprus enjoy a night out. A song that appeared in this play Mrs Brown You've Got a Lovely Daughter (written by actor Trevor Peacock) later became a chart hit.

With:- TOM COURTNAY / TREVOR PEACOCK

Thames / 6x60m-e / 1985 6 May - 17 June

Creator: Kate Herbert Hunting / Producer: Peter Duguid / Executive Producer: Lloyd Shirley

Period drama series. A group of 1920's flappers set up their own agency specialising in problem solving.

With:- CAROL ROYLE as Diana Granville / JULIA HILLS as Babs Palmer / JULIA SWIFT as Vicky Barton

BBC / 1x / 1958 black and whit

Comedy drama.

With:- JOAN HICKSON / DAVID McCALLUM / PRUNELLA SCALES

BBC1/Global Arts / 4x55m-e / 1993  6 June - 27 June

Writer/Director: Ken Russell / Novel: D.H. Lawrence / Producer: Michael Haggiag 

Period drama serial. Following the return of her husband in a wheelchair at the end of world war one frustrated Lady Chatterley begins an affair with her rough hewn gamekeeper Manners.

With:- JOELY RICHARDSON as  Lady Chatterley / SEAN BEAN as Manners / JAMES WILBY as Lord Chatterley / KEN RUSSELL as Sir Michael Reid

LADY AUDLEY'S SECRET

Carlton-WGBH / 1x120m-e / 2000  17 May Wednesday 9.00pm

Writer: Donald Hounan / Story: Mary Elizabeth Braddon / Producers: Anne-Marie Casey / Director: Betsan Morris Evans

Period drama. When Lucy Graham marries wealthy Sir Michael Audley, the secrets that she is keeping (especially that she is already married) threaten to tear apart many people's lives.

With:- NEVE McINTOSH as Lucy, Lady Audley / STEVEN MACKINTOSH as Robert Audley / KENNETH CRANHAM as Sir Michael Audley / JULIETTE CATON as Alicia Audley / MELANIE CLARK PULLEN as  Phoebe / JAMIE BAMBER as George Talboys / PAUL SWINNERTON as Luke / ROGER ASHTON-GRIFFITHS as Dr Mosgrave / MALCOLM TERRIS as Captain Muldoon /  CATE FOWLER as Miss Kenton / JOY MERRIMAN as Mrs Plowson

Granada / 14x60m-e / 1980-81

Producer: Pieter Rogers 

An anthology of period murder trials, focusing at first on women who killed and later murderers in general.

Host..................................................... ROBERT MORLEY

BBC / 1950 black and white

Writer: Christopher Fry 

Period drama. A story of love and passion against a background of witchcraft, superstition and murder in the 17th century.

With:- ALEC CLUNES / PAMELA BROWN

Yorkshire / 1x120m-e / 1987 

Writer: Christopher Fry / Music: Paula Reade / Camera: Gerry Lloyd / Producer: Pat Sandys / Director: Julian Aymes 

Period drama. A story of love and passion against a background of witchcraft, superstition and murder in the 17th century.

With:- KENNETH BRANAGH as Thomas Mendip / CHERIE LUNGHI as Jennet Jourdemayne / ROBERT EDDISON as The Chaplain / BERNARD HEPTON as Hebble Tyson / TOM MANNION as HUmphrey Devize / PAUL ROGERS as Edward Tappercoom / SHAUN SCOTT as Nicholas Devize / ANGELA THORNE as Margaret Devize  

Meridian/Blue Heaven/ United 'Ruth Rendell' / 1x120m-e / 1999 1 May - Monday 9.00pm

Writer: Peter J. Hammond / Novel: Ruth Rendell / Producer: Neil Zeiger / Executive Producer: Graham Benson / Director: Bruce McDonald 

Thriller. Martin Urban, an accountant, wins a fortune on the lottery and decides to use the money for good causes, later when he falls in love with Francesca he finds himself sucked into a deadly game of murder.

Martin Urban...................................... JEROME FLYNN

Francesca......................................... SADIE FROST

Finn.................................................. CAL MACANINCH

Tim Sage.......................................... NICK REDING

Lena Finn.......................................... LIZ SMITH

Mr Urban........................................... ERIC FLYNN

Caroline............................................ MARTHA COPE

Mr Beard........................................... JOHN BOSWELL

Miss Watson.................................... JEAN RIMMER

Dr Ghopal......................................... RENU SETNA

BBC1 / 1x90m-e 4x60m-e 10x40m-e / 1997/99

Creator: Jimmy McGovern / Music: Nick Humphreys / Series Consultant: Joe Ainsworth / Producers: Charles Pattison (Season 1), Matthew Bird (Season 2) / Titles: Diverse design

Drama series. Danny Kavanagh, an early twentysomething wastrel, leaves home and gets a job in a hotel in a small Lake District community where he is soon caught up in trouble of a sexual and dark kind. Season 2 opened out to focus on more of the communities characters but still with a very strong emphasis on sex and murder.

With:- JOHN SIMM as Danny Kavanagh / EMMA CUNIFFE as  Emma Quinlan / PAUL COPLEY as Peter Quinlan / MARY JO RANDLE as Bernie Quinlan / ROBERT PUGH as Father Matthew / CLARE HOLMAN as Simone Parr / MATT BARDOCK as Albie / AMANDA MEALING as JoJo Spiers (Season 2) / ANNABELLE APSION as Beverly (Season 2)

BBC2 / 1x90m-e / 1994

Writer: Michael Frayn / Producer: David Snodin / Director: Nicholas Renton 

Drama. A cabinet officer investigates the mysterious death 20 years previously of a fellow civil servant called Summerchild.

Jessel................................................ ROBERT GLENISTER

Serafin............................................... SUSAN FLEETWOOD

Summerchild...................................... ROGER ALLAM

Millie.................................................. JUDITH SCOTT

Tite.................................................... PATRICK GODFREY

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1990

Writer: Alan Cubitt / Producer: Colin Ludlow / Director: Diarmuid Lawrence 

Drama. A London based Africanse lawyer helps a black South African who is seeking political asylum.

With:- ANTONY SHER / PATRICK SHAI / RUDI DAVIES / IAN BARTHOLOMEW / ANTONY CARRICK

BBC2 'Performance' / 1x40m-e / 1995 

Writer: Harold Pinter / Producer: Simon Curtis 

Drama. The secret life of lovers Beth and Duff. This play formed part of a double bill with the surreal drama Bed.

Duff...................................................... IAN HOLM

Beth..................................................... PENELOPE WILTON

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1978

Writer: Harold Pinter / Novel: Aldan Higgins / Producer/Director: David Jones 

Drama. Three spinster sisters face upto changes in their lives sparked by the arrival of a German student.

With:- JUDI DENCH as Imogen Langrishe / JEREMY IRONS as Otto Beck / ANNETTE CROSBIE as Helen Langrishe / SUSAN WILLIAMSON as Lily Langrishe / HAROLD PINTER as Barry Shannon / MARGARET WHITING as Maureen Layde

BBC / 1962-71

An occasional anthology series in which the featured plays were produced simultaneously in nine different European countries.

BBC / 1x60m-e / 1947 11 May black and white

Writer: Hendrick Baker / Producer: Alex McCrindle 

Comedy. Adventures of Larry the Lamb and his friends in toytown.

Larry the Lamb................................. BETTY BLACKLER

Dennis the Daschund........................ MALCOLM THOMAS

Peter Brass..................................... ROGER TRAFFORD 

THE LAST CHANCERS

C4 / 2x60m / 22-23 December 2004

Writers: Adam Buxton, Tony MacMurray / Director: Vito Rocco / Producer: Sally Martin

Comedy drama about a small-time rock band and their efforts to cut a record and make it big. Based on an episode in the Comedy Lab series.

With:- ADAM BUXTON as Johnny / KEVIN BISHOP as Dan / PATRICK DRIVER as Brian / VALERIE EDMOND as Liv / STEVE JOHN SHEPHERD as Paul / TONY MacMurray as James / EMMA PIERSON as Kirby

BBC1 / 1x80m-e / 1999 22 December - Wednesday 9.30pm

Writer: Tony Grounds / Producer: David Snodin / Director: Adrian Shergold 

Fantasy drama. Young lad Frank is troubled following the death of his father Neville a year before; Neville returns to Frank as a trainee Angel and takes him on a magical journey.

Frank................................................. PHILIP DOWLING

Gwen................................................. PAULINE QUIRKE

Neville................................................ RAY WINSTONE

Geoff.................................................. PHIL DANIELS

Judy.................................................. ELLA DANIELS

Father Christmas................................ MARK BENTON

Bobby Moore..................................... MATT BARDOCK

Doctor............................................... AHSEN BHATTI

Donna............................................... DONNA EWIN

Tessa............................................... SUZANNE BURDEN

Mourner............................................ TONY GROUNDS

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1959 black and white

Writer: Peter Black 

Period drama serial based on an Anthony Trollope novel.

With:- HUGH BURDEN / OLGA LINDO

BBC / 1x75m-e / 1983

Writer: John Pilger / Director: Richard Stroud 

Period drama. Reconstruction of the day the Yanks quit Saigon.

With:- CHARLES DANCE / DAN O'HERLIHY / DAVID SUCHET

THE LAST DETECTIVE

ITV1 / 1x120, 7x90m / (started 7 February 03) 2003-2004

Novels: Leslie Thomas / Dramatist: Richard Harris / Directors: Nick Hurran, Douglas Mackinnon / Producer: Nick Hurran.

Comedy drama. Detective Constable Davies is considered a bit of joke in his station and is laughingly referred to as "Dangerous" because he is considered so useless. But he has an earnest enthusiasm regardless of the trivial cases he gets assigned by his superior who tells him that he would be the "Last Detective" he would think of to assign an important case to. Despite this Davies' mundane cases often tend to have more to them than first meets the eye. The first story in this series was previously adapted on ITV in 1981 as "Dangerous Davies: The Last Detective" with Bernard Cribbens in the title role.

With:- PETER DAVISON as Dangerous Davies / SEAN HUGHES as Mod / ROB SPENDLOVE as DI Aspinall / EMMA AMOS as Julie Davies / DAVID TROUGHTON as Yardley 

THE LAST DRAGON

C4 / 1x120m / 5 March 2005

Director: Justin Hardy / Producer: Ceri Barnes

Pseudo drama/documentary. A drama in a documentary style - archaeological evidence is discovered that place dragons as real creatures that were contemporary to the dinosaurs and survived into the middle ages. Computer animation brings the dragons to life as the "documentary" reconstructs what their lives would have been like through the ages.

Associated-Rediffusion / 1x90m-e / 1956 black and white

Writer: Richard Hillary / Producer/Director: Peter Graham-Scott 

Drama. A pilot, during the Battle of Britain, tries to come to terms with his situation.

With:- PETER MURRAY / JOHN ROBINSON / PATRICK DRISCOLL / TARN BASSETT

BBC 'Heroes and Villains' / 1x50m-e / 1995

Writer: Anthony Horowitz / Producer: Sue Vertue / Director: John Henderson 

Period drama. The life of eccentric British military hero, Colonel A.D. Wintle.

Colonel Wintle.................................. JIM BROADBENT

Cedric Mays..................................... TONY HAYGARTH

Old Engineer.................................... JAMES WARRIOR

Barmaid........................................... CHERYL HALL

Nurse.............................................. VALERIE MINIFIE

THE LAST MUSKETEER

Scottish TV-Coastal / 1x120m-e / 2000 26 March  Sunday 9.00pm

Writer: Sebastian Secker / Costume: Hazel Pettig / Camera: Tony Miller / Design: Marius Der Werff / Music: John Rea / Producer: Bill Boyes / Director: Bill Britten

Drama. Fencing expert Steve McTear is hopeful of winning a place with the British Fencing Squad, beginning an affair with the head teacher of a girls school McTear also finds himself getting involved with crime.

With:- ROBSON GREEN as Steve McTear / ARKIE WHITELEY as Dr Elizabeth Fraser / HOLLY DAVIDSON as Emily Gordon  / MAUREEN BEATTIE as Sallie Latham / JOHN McGLYNN as James Wax / ANGELA LONSDALE as Lena / SANDRA VOE as Peggy Ingrams / JOE CAFFREY as Joe Salter / JEAN HEYWOOD as Flo / ERIC DEACON as Drew

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1974 4 June - Tuesday 8.30pm

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

Comedy. Mother and Henry return home from their caravan in Frinton to find everybody in the entire world has vanished.

Mother................................................. DANDY NICHOLS

Henry................................................... RONALD FRASER

Thames / 1x30m-e / 1975 19 May - Monday 8.30pm

Writer: Richard Waring / Producer/Director: Michael Mills 

Comedy. Of a group of seven young confirmed bachelors only one has not succumbed to married life.

Henry.................................................. DEREK FOWLDS

Annette............................................... PRUNELLA GEE

Geoff.................................................. GEOFFREY WHITEHEAD

Pamela............................................... JACQUELINE CLARKE

LAST OF THE BLONDE BOMBSHELLS

BBC1-HBO-WTTV-Universal / 1x80m-e / 2000 3 September Sunday 9.00pm

Writer: Alan Plater / Producer: Su Armstrong / Original Music: John Keane / Director: Gillies MacKinnon

Comedy drama. When the now ageing Elizabeth thinks back to her time playing in an all female big band during world war II she decides to try and get the band back together to perform at her granddaughter's school concert. The production made ample use of flashbacks back to the second world war and also featured plenty of tunes from that era.

With:- JUDI DENCH as Elizabeth / IAN HOLM as Patrick / LESLIE CARON as Madeleine / OLYMPIA DUKAKIS as Dinah / CLEO LAINE as Gwen / JOAN SIMS as Betty / BILLIE WHITELAW as Evelyn / JUNE WHITFIELD as Evelyn / THELMA RUBY as Vera / VALENTINE PELKA as Leslie / JAMES COSMO as McNab / MILLIE FINDLAY as Joanna 

ABC 'Armchair Theatre' / 1x / 1960 black and white

Writer: Stanley Mann / Producer: Sydney Newman / Director: Philip Mackie  

Military drama about a retired colonel.

With:- DONALD WOLFIT

BBC / 8x45m-e / 1971 17 January - 7 March

Writer: Harry Green / Novel: J.F. Cooper / Producer: John McRae / Director: David Maloney 

Period drama serial. Stories of Hawkeye in America during the Franco-British war in 1750. See also Hawkeye-The Pathfinder.

With:- KENNETH IVES as Hawkeye / JOHN ABINERI as Chingachook / PHILIP MADOC / ANDREW CRAWFORD / PATRICIA MAYNARD / JOANNA DAVID

Central/Renegade /  1x90m-e 5x60m-e / 1985 

Writer: Trevor Griffiths / Book: Roland Huntford / Design: Maurice Cain / Music: Trevor Jones / Executive Producer: Robert Buckler / Titles: Shelley Elbounre / Costume: Louise Frogley / Producer: Tim Van Rellim / Director: Ferdinand Fairfax

Period drama serial. The story of Scott's doom laden last

Capt R.F. Scott................................ MARTIN SHAW

Roland Amundson............................ SVERRE ANKER OUSDAL

Dr 'Bill' Wilson.................................. STEPHEN MOORE

Olav Bjaaland................................... STALE BJORNHAUG

P.O. Lashly..................................... TOM GEORGESON

P.O. Keohane.................................. TOM GERRARD

Cherry Garrard................................. HUGH GRANT

Lt 'Teddy' Evans............................... MICHAEL MALONEY

Capt 'Titus' Oates............................. RICHARD MORANT

Lt Birdie Bowers............................... SYLVESTER McCOY

P.O. Evans...................................... PAT ROACH

LAST RESORT

BBC Film (2000) / 1x75m-e / Broadcast 23 January 2002 at 9:00pm

Writer/Director: Pawel Pawlikowski

Tanya, a Russian single mother arrives in England with her 10-year old son to meet and settle down with her English fianc鮠 When he doesn?t turn up she is forced to seek political asylum and is assigned to a refugee holding centre in a rundown holiday resort.

DINA KORZUN as Tanya / PADDY CONSIDINE as Alfie / ARTIOM STREINIKOV as Artiom / LINDSEY HONEY as Les / PERRY BENSON as Immigration Officer / KATIE DRINKWATER as Katie / DAVE BEAN as Frank / ADRIAN SCARBOROUGH as Council Official 

LAST RIGHTS

C4 / 3x50m / 24 March 2005 (all 3 parts back-to-back) / 9:30am

Writer: Clive Bradley / Director: Bill Anderson / Producer: Philip Trethowan

Thriller serial. When the laptop computer belonging to the aide of the newly elected Prime Minister is stolen the hunt is on to get it back. The PM's daughter believes it contains some compromising photos of her with the aide but really it contains confidential and damaging information on how the new government is going to overthrow democracy.

With:- CHARLES DANCE as PM Richard Wheeler / PHILIP GLENISTER as John Spiers / ASHLY WALTERS as Max / STEPHEN GRAHAM as Steve / KEIRA MALIK as Melissa Wheeler / FRANCESCA FOWLER as Liz / RAQUEL CASSIDY as Nadine Chandler

BBC / 1x70m-e / 1992

Writer: Nigel Williams / Director: Jack Gold 

Period drama set in a Cambridge university, telling the stories of two writers Sir Arthur Quiller Couch and F.R. Leavis and focusing on the problems a student causes for his tutor. 

With:- IAN HOLM / LEO McKERN / SARA KESTELMAN / SARA KESTELMAN / RUFUS SEWELL / ALAN CUMMING / JOHN LLOYD FILLINGHAM / HELGA BRINDLE / MIRANDA FORBES / CHARLES DALE / ALICE DOUGLAS / SEAN O'CALLAGHAN

Granada 'Shades of Darkness' / 1x60m-e / 1986

Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy / Story: Agatha Christie 

Period drama. A French medium begins to become concerned about her powers.

With:- JEANNE MOREAU / ANTHONY HIGGINS / NORMA WEST

LAST SUMMER

Thames / 1x60m-e / 1977

Writer: Peter Prince / Director: Stephen Frears 

Drama. Exploits of a group of professional car thieves and ringers.

With:- RICHARD BECKINSALE / RICHARD MOTTAU

Granada / 6x60m-e / 1999 April 7 - 6 May

Writer: Matthew Graham / Music: Christopher Gunning / Design: Stephen Finerei / Costume: Lyn Avery / Special Effects: Steve Tonkow / Producer: Sita Williams / Director: Stuart Orme

Scifi drama serial. Following a train crash caused by the earth being hit by an asteroid, the small group of survivors discover the world changed beyond all recognition, they later learn that one of their number, Harriet Ambrose, was responsible for them being kept in a state of suspended animation for years when a top secret canister she was illegally carrying was opened during the crash.

Harriet Ambrose............................... NICOLA WALKER

Jandra Nixon................................... AMITA DHIRI

Austin Danforth................................ JAMES HAZLEDINE

Ian Hart.......................................... CHRISTOPHER FULFORD

Mick Sizer...................................... TREVA ETIENNE

Roe Germaine................................. ZOE TELFORD

Anita Nixon..................................... DINITA GOHIL

Leo Nixon....................................... SACHA DHAWAN

Jean Wilson.................................... JANET DALE

Colin Wallis.................................... STEVE HUISON

Hild................................................ CAROLINE CARVER

Jonathan Geddes............................ RALPH BROWN

Coates........................................... JOSH MORAN

Becky............................................ ABIGAIL HAYES

BBC 'The Wednesday Play' / 1x50m-e / 1969

Writer: Peter Terson / Producer: Irene Shubik / Director: Alan Clarke 

Drama. A train buff goes on one last trip before a branch line is closed.

With:- RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN 

BBC / 1x45m-e / 1938 1 November black and white

Writer/Producer: Denis Johnston 

An arctic adventure based on the novel The Captain's Chair by Robert Flaherty.

With:- IAN AYLMER / MICHELLE PATTON / BASIL CUNARD / DAVID MARSH / CYRIL GARDINER

BBC2 'Comic Asides' / 1x30m-e / 1994 23 January - Sunday 9.00pm

Writer: Tony Bagley / Producer: Justin Sbresni / Director: Roy Gould 

Comedy. Rude, boorish and downright vicious journalist Michael Dimmock is responsible for the obituary column on his paper.

Michael Dimmock............................... MARK McGANN

Andy................................................. MICHAEL N. HARBOUR

Donald............................................... PAUL SHELLEY

Gill.................................................... HAZEL ELLERBY

Paul.................................................. PHILIP FOX

BBC2 / 4x50m-e / 1975 1 - 22 March

Writer: Dennis Potter / Novel: Angus Wilson 

Drama serial. A married, elderly former seaside landlady, Sylvia, retires.

Sylvia.................................................... DANDY NICHOLS

Arthur.................................................... LESLIE DWYER

Harold................................................... MICHAEL BRYANT

BBC/Ecosse /  1x60m-e / 1994

Music: Jim Parker / Producer: Caroline Speed / Director: David HInton 

Musical drama based on the poetry of John Betjeman. middle aged Cousin John spends a weekend in a country house where he spends his time watching the antics of a group of young men and women. The dancers were Adventures in Motion Pictures.

Cousin John..................................... NIGEL HAWTHORNE

Mr Fairclough................................... JONATHAN CECIL

Mrs Fairclough................................. RICHENDA CAREY

BBC2 / 7x30m-e / 1967

Producer: Jarry Moore 

An anthology of half hour horror stories, one of the first colour series made by the BBC.

THE LATE SHOW

UK / BBC2 / x40m-e / 1990's

Arts and media round up shown live lat night (11.15pm) on weekdays ala Late Night Line Up. The show was often overly pretentious and things often went wrong such as the infamous occasion the Stone Roses made their TV debut and the equipment went down, their singer Ian Brown shouted out a cry of "amateurs". Presented included crime novelist Sarah Dunant.

BBC / 8x50m-e / 1985 29 March - 12 April 

Writer: Brian Clarke / Producer: Ruth Boswell / Directors: Barry Davis, Nicholas Mallett 

Drama serial. When his wife walks out leaving him penniless, a retired university professor finds himself having to start again and having to live in a run down bedsit in North London.

With:- PETER BARKWORTH / ROWENA COOPER / JULIA FOSTER / BERYL REID as Helen Magee / JIMMY JEWEL

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1962 black and white

Writer: Leo Lehman / Director: Eric Taylor 

Comedy drama. Whilst his wife and children are away, a married man plans a spot of extra marital activity.

With:- NIGEL STOCK / WENDY CRAIG / REGINALD MARSH

BBC / 1963-65 black and white

An anthology of farces involving Brian Rix and his Whitehall Theatre company.

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1991

Writer/Director: Tony Bicat / Producer: Bill Shapter 

Drama. A philandering husband and wife start to begin to have fantasies about killing each other.

With:- AMANDA DONAHOE / PETER FIRTH / SYLVIA SYMS / REGINALD MARSH

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