THE MELTING POT

BBC1 / 1x30m-e / 1975 11 June - Wed 9.25pm

Writers: Spike Milligan, Neil Shand / Producer: Roger Race 

Comedy. Two illegal immigrants from Pakistan arrive in England via Amsterdam and move into lodgings run by an Irishman. This controversial show was planned to be a six episode sitcom and six episodes were indeed filmed. The other five have never been shown although the scripts have been published in book form.

With:- SPIKE MILLIGAN as Mr Van Gogh / JOHN BIRD as Mr Rembrandt / FRANK CARSON as Paddy O'Brien / ALEXANDRA DANE as Nefertiti Skupinski / WAYNE BROWN as Luigi O'Reilly / HARRY FOWLER as Eric Lee Fung / JOHN BLUTHAL as Richard Armitage / ROBERT DORNING as Colonel Grope / BILL KERR as Bluey Notts

MEMOIRS OF A CHAISE LONGUE

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1965 2 July - Friday 8.00pm 

Writers: Marty Feldman, Barry Took / Producer: Graeme Muir 

Period comedy. Stories of various couples to have 'used' a chaise longue through the years.

With:- ALAN MELVILLE as Voice of Chaise / FENELLA FIELDING / JACK WATLING / BETTY MARSDEN / JOHN LE MESURIER / J.G. DEVLIN / SHAY GORMAN

Granada / 6x50m-e / 1994

Producer: June Wyndham-Davies 

Period crime drama series. The final outing for Jeremy Brett as Holmes. Further cases of the Great Victorian detective including tangling with The Wicked Lady and plunging into seedy opium dens.

With:- JEREMY BRETT as Sherlock Holmes / EDWARD HARDWICKE as Watson / ROSALIE WILLIAMS as Mrs Hudson / CHARLES GRAY as Mycroft Holmes

Anglia / 3x60m-e / 1988 

Writer: Alan Seymour / Producer: John Rosenberg / Director: Paul Annett 

Thriller serial. A computer consultant investigates the strange death of a colleague.

With:- IAN OLGILVY / JUDI BOWKER / BRENDA BRUCE / CYRIL CUSACK / ANDREW RAY / JOHN SESSIONS

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1948 21 March black and white

Writer/Producer: Royston Morley / Play: Armand Salacrom 

Period drama. Stories of a resistance cell in 1940 France.

With:- ROGER LIVESLY / JOYCE REDMAN / RAYMOND HUNTLEY / GEORGE WOODBRIDGE

BBC2 / 1x70m-e / 1994

Writer: Rona Munro / Producer: Caroline Oulton / Director: Jean Stewart 

Drama. The problems of Tracey (a man), an inarticulate and painfully shy, cycle courier for a woman's top shelf magazine.

Tracey................................................. DOUGLAS HODGE

Aidan.................................................. AKIM MOGAJI

Fiona.................................................. CLAIRE HIGGINS

Roisin................................................. BRITTA SMITH

Jane................................................... CLAIRE HACKETT

Meg................................................... SANDY RATCLIFF

MEN ONLY

C4 / 2x90m-e / 3&4 June 2001 / 10:00pm

Writer: Richard Cottan

A drama about the members of a 5-a-side football team who are thirty-something football fanatics with diminishing prowess and expanding guts. It explores their dysfunctional relationships and their efforts to find a substitute for football through drug taking, clubbing and brothel-going leading to chaos and pain for all around them.

With:- MARC WARREN as Mack / DANIEL RYAN as Des / MARTIN FREEMAN as Jamie / STEPHEN MOYER as Jason / RAZAAQ ADOLI as Dwight / ESTHER HALL as Katie / ZOE TELFORD as Alice

BBC2 / 5x50m-e / 1991

Writer: Laura Lamson / Novel: Ann Oakley / Producer: David Snodin 

Drama serial. Married Charity Walton begins a steamy affair with womanising work colleague Mark Carleton.

Charity Walton.................................. HARRIET WALTER

Mark Carleton................................... BILL NIGHY

Jane Carleton................................... MEL MARTIN

Sally............................................... AMANDA REDMAN

James Walton.................................. PATRICK DRURY

Mavis.............................................. CHERYL HALL

Tessa Pascoe.................................. KATE HARDIE

Pascoe ........................................... DAVID RYALL

MENTORS

This is the title of a projected scifi fantasy series that never progressed beyond a five minute show reel. Made by The Family Channel in 1995 a pilot script was written called Awakenings by Austen Atkinson-Broadbelt and Gareth Thomas was to have starred as Edward Greig. 

BBC / 1947 black and white

Writer: William Shakespeare 

Period drama. Early version of Shakespeare's play.

With:- ABRAHAM SOFAER / MARGARETTA SCOTT

THE MERCHANT OF VENICE

BBC (Part of the BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x180m-e / 1980

Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Carl Davis, Stephen Oliver / Director: Jack Gold

Shakespeare's drama.

With:- JOHN FRANKLYN ROBBINS as Antonio / JOHN RHYS-DAVIES as Salerio / JOHN NETTLES as Bassanio / GEMMA JONES as Portia / KENNETH CRANHAM as Gratiano / ALAN DAVID as Solanio / RICHARD MORANT as Lorenzo / SUSAN JAMESON as Nerissa / WARREN MITCHELL as Shylock / ENN REITEL as Launcelot Gobbo / MARC ZUBER as Prince of Morocco / JOE GLADWIN as Old Gobbo  

BBC 'BBC Television Shakespeare' / 1x50m-e / 1983  Recorded 1-8 Nov/82

Writer: William Shakespeare / Script Editor: David Snodin / Design: Don Homfrey / Choreographer: Geraldine Stephenson / Music: Dominic Muldowney / Costume: Christine Rawling / Producer: Shaun Sutton / Director: David Jones

Shakespeare's comedy.

Sir John Falstaff................................... RICHARD GRIFFITHS

Shallow............................................... ALAN BENNETT

Ford................................................... BEN KINGSLEY

Page.................................................. BRYAN MARSHALL

Sir Hugh Evans................................... TENNIEL EVANS

Dr Casus............................................ MICHAEL BRYANT

Pistol................................................. NIGEL TERRY

Mistress Ford..................................... JUDY DAVIS

Mistress Page.................................... PRUNELLA SCALES

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

Robin ............................................... LEE WHITLOCK

MESSIAH

BBC1(Northern Ireland)-Paramount International-Messiah Films / 2x75m-e 4x90m-e / 2001 and 2003-2004

Novel: Boris Starling / Costume: Ralph Holes / Design: Claire Kenny / Executive Producers: James Dowalby, Kate Triggs, Robert Cooper

Crime thriller. Detective Red Metcalfe and his hand picked team find themselves up against a serial killer stalking the streets of London, each of the victims is found with a silver spoon in their mouths instead of a tongue, and it looks like the killer is using a "twelve disciples" theme as his raison Detre. MESSIAH 2: Vengeance is Mine was broadcast BBC1 / 2x90m / 11-12 January 2003. MESSIAH 3: The Promise was broadcast BBC1 / 2x90m / 30-31 August 2004 / MESSIAH 4: The Harrowing was broadcast BBC1 / 3x60m / 28-30 August 2005.

With:- KEN STOTT as Red Metcalfe / EDWARD WOODWARD as Reverend Stephen Hedges / MICHELLE FORBES as Susan Metcalfe / FRANCES GREY as Kate Beauchamp / JAMIE DRAVEN as Jez Clifton / NEIL DUDGEON as Duncan Warren / ART MALIK as D.C.S. Emerson / GILLIAN TAYLFORTH as Helen Warren / RON BERGLASS as Lubezski 

BBC / 1x30m-e / 1967 27 December

Writer: Derrick Sherwin / Producer: George Spenton-Foster / Director: Brian Hulme  

Scifi drama. In the future when robots are in control of the world, one robot has a strange thought - he starts to think he is a man.

The Father............................................. ALEX SCOTT

Two...................................................... GEOFFREY MATTHEWS

Master Technician................................. JOHN GABRIEL

Ed....................................................... BARRY JACKSON

Argo.................................................... JOHN ROLLASON

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1970 5 Aug - Wed 7.30pm 

Writers: Louis Quinn, Robin Hawdon / Producer: Douglas Argent 

Comedy. The exploits of a group of a group of female traffic wardens.

Polly.................................................. BARBARA WINDSOR

Smythe.............................................. JOAN SANDERSON

Crocker.............................................. PAT COOMBS

Supt Craddock................................... MARTIN WYLDECK

Sgt McKenzie.................................... BOB TODD

West................................................. QUEENIE WATTS

Ruxton............................................... HILARY PRITCHARD

METROPOLIS

Granada / 4x60m-e 1x30m-e / 2000   1 - 15 May  Mon/Tues 10.00pm

Producer: Glenn Wilhide / Executive Producer: Andy Harries

Drama series. The intertwined lives of 6 long time friends (they all met at University) living in London. The show suffered badly from haphazard scheduling sometimes shown Mondays, sometimes Tuesdaysand from having different lengths for some of the shows one going out as a half hour, others a full hour.  

With:- MATTHEW RHYS as Matthew Bishop / LOUISE LOMBARD as Charlotte Owen / KRIS MARSHALL as Frank Green / JASON BARRY as Alistair Hibbert / JAMES FOX as Milton Friedkin / JAMES PUREFOY as Nathan / MICHAEL ELPHICK as Andrew Kaplan / FLORA MONTGOMERY as Sophie Hamilton / EMILY BRUNI as Tanya Rubens / JELLO EDWARDS as Mrs Bentley / JONATHAN KYDD as Dr Gower

METROSEXUALITY

Channel 4-Feelgood Fiction-Vicarious Productions / 6x30m-e / 2001 (First Episode: Wednesday 21 February 11.00pm)

Creator / Director: Rikki Beadle Blair / Producer: Carol Harding / Executive Producers: Laurence Bowen, Philip Clarke

Comedy drama series. Stories of a diverse group of characters living in the Notting Hill area of London.

With:- RIKKI BEADLE-BLAIR as Max / NOEL CLARKE as Kwame / PAUL KEATING as Dean / MAT FRASER as Marlon Gittar / KARL COLLINS as Jordan / PUI FAN LEE as Jaye / SILAS CARSON as Jonno / DAVEY FAIRBANKS as Bambi / REBECCA VARNEY as Asha / MATT HARRIS as Daniel / FRANCES LIMA as Gerri / CARLEEN BEADLE as Cindy

MICAWBER

ITV1 / 4x60m-e / 2001  First Episode:  26 December

Writer: John Sullivan; Producer: Vernon Lawrence

A drama series based on the character from Charles Dicken's David Copperfield starring David Jason and written by Only Fools and Horses creator John Sullivan. It is the story of Micawber?s life before he meets Copperfield.

With:- DAVID JASON as Micawber / ANNABELLE APSION as Emma Micawber / MICHAEL TROUGHTON as Milton

MICHAEL BARRYMORE'S SATURDAY NIGHT OUT

BBC1 / 12x60m-e / 1988-89

Comedy variety series hosted by Barrymore with star guests etc.

Granada 'Rik Mayall Presents' / 1x60m-e / 1993 

Writer: Peter Morgan / Producer: Andy Harries / Director: Nick Haman 

Comedy drama. Fading TV host Micky Love is determined to make sure his last show is one to remember.

Micky Love....................................... RIK MAYALL

Paddy Logan.................................... NICK HANCOCK

Tamsin............................................ JENNIFER EHLE

Greg Deane..................................... ALAN CUMMING

Adele Franklin................................. ELEANOR BRON

David Critchley................................ PETER CAPALDI

Tony Scott...................................... MICHAEL MALONEY

BBC / 6x50m-e / 1974 18 September - 23 October

Writers: Martin Worth, John Wiles, Bruce Norman / Producer: Peter Goodchild 

Period drama serial. How various diseases were wiped out and the lives of the scientists involved.

Louis Pasteur.................................... ARTHUR LOWE

Ignaz Semmelweiz............................. ROBERT LANG

Paul Erlich........................................ MILO O'SHEA

BBC / 7x50m-e / 1968

Writer: Michael Voysey / Director: Joan Craft 

Period drama serial. England 1829, with a new age dawning, in Middlemarch young idealistic doctor Tersius Lydgate and Dorothea Brooke look forward to the great new world, but when Dorothy marries the much older Rev Edward Casaubon she finds herself constricted by her new situation.

With:- MICHELE DOTRICE

BBC2/WGBH / 6x50m-e / 1994 12 Jan - 16 Feb

Writer: Andrew Davies / Novel: George Elliot / Producer: Louis Marks / Director: Anthony Page 

Period drama serial. England 1829, with a new age dawning, in Middlemarch young idealistic doctor Tersius Lydgate and Dorothea Brooke look forward to the great new world, but when Dorothy marries the much older Rev Edward Casaubon she finds herself constricted by her new situation.

Dorothea Brooke................................ JULIET AUBREY

Dr Tertius Lydgate............................. DOUGLAS HODGE

Rosamund Vincy.............................. TREVYN McDOWELL

Will Ladislaw.................................... RUFUS SEWELL

Arthur Brooke................................... ROBERT HARDY

Peter Featherstone........................... MICHAEL HORDERN

Rev Edward Casaubon...................... PATRICK MALAHIDE

Nicholas Bulstrode........................... PETER JEFFREY

Mary Garth...................................... RACHEL POWER

Mrs Cadwallender............................ ELIZABETH SPRIGGS

Fred Vincy...................................... JONATHAN FIRTH

BBC2 / 6x50m-e / 1977

Writer: Alan Plater 

Comedy drama serial.

With:- FRANK WINDSOR / FRANCIS MATTHEWS

Associated-Rediffusion / 1x90m-e / 1964 black and white 

Producer/Director: Joan Kemp-Welch 

Period comedy. Shakespeare's comedy drama set in the Forest of Arden.

With:- BENNY HILL as Bottom / PETER WYNGARDE as Oberon / ALFIE BASS / BERNARD BRESSLAW / JILL BENNETT / PATRICK ALLEN

Thames / 1x60m-e / 1971 9 June - Wednesday 8.00pm

Writers: Vince Powell, Harry Driver / Producer/Director: Alan Tarrant 

Comedy. Episodes in the lives of 'popular' comedy duo and real life brothers Mike and Bernie Winters.

With:-  MIKE WINTERS as Mike / BERNIE WINTERS as Bernie / PETER JONES as Major Mills / GARFIELD MORGAN as Col Muller / LYNDA BARON as Gloria / PATSY SMART as Mrs Bolton / BILL PERTWEE as Joe Collier

Thames / 1x60m-e / 1973 1 January - Monday 10.30pm

Writer: Ronnie Taylor / Producer/Director: Peter Frazer-Jones 

Comedy. A comedy duo, who spend their time touring and living in digs can't stand the sight of each other. Apparently this mirrored real life brothers Mike and Bernie's off stage relationship at the time.

With:- MIKE WINTERS as Charlie Ross / BERNIE WINTERS as Joe Redman / PETER NOONE as Willie Topple / SYLVIA SYMS as Pauline Ross / SHEILA WHITE as Jenny Jones / REGINALD MARSH as Barnie Balham / DEREK FRANCIS as Gerard Prince 

MIKE BASSETT: MANAGER

ITV1 / 6x30m / started 29 September 2005

Writers: Rob Sprackling, Jrn Smith / Director: Martin Dennis / Producers: Luc Roeg, Peter La Terriere

Comedy Drama. A sequel to the 2001 movie "Mike Bassett: England Manager" and with the same stars. After failing in his England job Mike Bassett is forced to take a managerial job with an unsuccessful team in the lower leagues with the hope of turning things around. But Wirral County football team are worse than he could possibly have imagined.

With:- RICKY TOMLINSON as Mike Bassett / AMANDA REDMAN as Karine Bassett / MICHAEL FENTON STEVENS as Richard Johnson / STEVE EDGE as Doddsy

MILE HIGH

Sky1-Hewland International / 39x60m / 16th February 2003 - 20th July 2005

Drama series about the cabin crew on budget airline Fresh and living together in a house in South East London

With:- Stacey Cadman as Poppy Fields / Matthew Chambers as John Bryson / Katy Edwards as Lorna / Sarah Farooqui as Charlotte Taylor / Emma Ferguson as Emma Coyle / Jo Anne Knowles as Janis Steele / Sarah Manners as K.C. Gregory / John Pickard as Jack Fields / Emma-Jane Portch as Rachel Potter / James Redmond as Jason Murdoch / Luke Roberts as Captain Dan / Naomi Ryan as Lehann Evans / Adam Sinclair as Will O'Brien / Christopher Villiers as Captain Nigel Croker / Tom Wisdom as Marco Bailey 

C4/Childsplay 'Bunch of Five' / 1x30m-e / 1992  1 July - Wednesday 10.30pm

Writers: Peter Arnott, Peter Mullan / Executive Producer: Esta Charkham / Producer: Peter Tabern / Director: David G. Hillier 

Comedy. Scottish Michael Miles and his Gran run a security systems firm.

Michael Miles........................................ ANDY GRAY

Gran..................................................... ANN SCOTT-JONES

Nita...................................................... JENNY McCRINDLE

Linda................................................... ALISON PEEBLES

ATV / 1x30m-e / 1975 26 Nov - Wed 8.00pm

Writer: Anthony Marriott, Bob Grant / Producer: John Scholz-Conway 

Comedy. Milkman Jim Wilkins faces a hectic round when he accidentally oversleeps.

Jim Wilkins........................................ BOB GRANT

Norman Fish...................................... ALAN CURTIS

Dad................................................... LESLIE DWYER

Rita Wilkins....................................... ANNA KAREN

BBC / 1979

Novel: George Elliot / Producer: Barry Letts 

Period drama serial. In the 19th Century Maggie Tulliver faces tragedy when she is torn between two men.

With:- PIPPA GUARD as Maggie Tulliver / CHRISTOPHER BLAKE as Tom Tulliver

BBC2 / 1x105m-e / 1996

Writer: Hugh Stoddart / Novel:George Elliot / Camera: David Johnson / Music: John Scott / Director: Graham Theakston

Period drama. In the 19th Century Maggie Tulliver faces

With:- EMILY WATSON as Maggie Tulliver / CHERYL CAMPBELL as Bessy Tulliver / JAMES FRAIN as Philip Wakem / BERNARD HILL as Edward Tulliver / JOANNA DAVID as Sophy Deane / JESSICA TURNER as Jane Clegg / LUCY WHYBROW as Lucy Deane / IFAN MEREDITH as Tom Tulliver / JAMES WEBER-BROWN as Stephen Guest / NICHOLAS GECKS as Lawyer Wakem 

BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1994

Writer: T.R. Bowen / Producer: Colin Ludlow / Director: John Strickland 

Drama. Solicitor Stephen Milner investigates when a building owned by one of his clients is destroyed in a gas explosion.

Stephen Milner................................. MEL SMITH

Jocelyn Fry...................................... RONALD PICKUP

Sylvia Milner.................................... DEBORAH FINDLAY

Ron Jesson..................................... KEN HUTCHINSON

Hugh Bonning.................................. JAMES FLEET

Colette Brustein............................... NICOLA WALKER

Dave Stiles...................................... DAVID RYALL

MIND GAMES

ITV Network / 1x120m-e / 2001 (Saturday 6 January 9.10pm)

Writer/Producer: Lynda La Plante / Director: Richard Standeven

Crime thriller. Frances O'Neill, a criminal profiler, investigates the murder of a pair of middle-aged women, then after a further murder O'Neill discovers a sinister plot is under way.

With:- FIONA SHAW as Frances O'Neill / FINBAR LYNCH as DCI Chris Med-Wynter / COLIN SALMON as DI Ricky Glover / SARA KESTELMAN as Dr Davina Ward / CHIWETEL EJIOFOR as Tyler Arnold / GRAHAM TURNER as Martin Savage / CRISPIN BONHAM TURNER as DC Terry Beale / IAN TARGETT as DS Roger Ball / GEOFFREY CHURCH as DC Matt Begg / TANYA RONDER as DC Samantha Western / LISA PALFREY as DC Rebecca Longton / PAUL CHILD as Steven / STEVAN RIMKUS as Gary Little / JUDITH PARIS as Mrs Kaminski 

BBC2 / 1x30m-e / 1968 19 Aug - Mon 8.00pm#

Writer: Alun Owen / Producer: James Gilbert 

Comedy. George, a shoe shop assistant is left in charge when his boss has to go out.

George.............................................. BRIAN COX

American Lady................................... MARGARET TYZACK

Shop Owner....................................... IVOR DEAN

Thames / 16x60m-e / 1969-71

Executive Producer: Lloyd Shirley / Stories: Edgar Wallace / Producers: Kim Mills, Robert Love 

Period crime drama series. In the 1920's, J.G. Reeder investigates crimes whilst working for the department of public prosecutions.

J.G. Reeder...................................... HUGH BURDEN

Sir Jason Toovey............................... WILLOUGHBY GODDARD

Miss Belman..................................... GILLIAN LEWIS

Mrs Houchin...................................... MONA BRUCE

THE MIND OF THE ENEMY

BBC / 5x25 minute episodes / 1965 (14 June - 12 July) black and white

Writer: Michael Gilbert / Producer: Alan Bromly / Director: Paddy Russell 

Spy drama serial. Agent Brian Calder has to stem the tide of a series of leakages at the Security Excutive and has further problems following a murder. 

With:- MIKE PRATT as Brian Calder / ANNA CROPPER as Anthea Fairside / JOHN WELSH as General Fairside / CYRIL LUCKHAM as Sir Henry Blake / NORMAN MITCHELL as Max Underwood / MANNING WILSON as Gerald Gould / BLAKE BUTLER as Mr Wild / MICHAEL BILTON as Truscott

S4C/ACI / 13x120m-e / 1995

Producer: Peter Edwards 

Crime drama series. Cases of tough Welsh detective D.C.I. Bain. The series was seen first in HTV Wales followed by Sky One and then Channel Five. Seven new two hour episodes began showing on HTV Wales on 23 Dec 1999. There were also four more episodes broadcast on Channel Five in August 2002. Producers were Mike Parker, Ed Thomas.

With:- PHILIP MADOC as Det Ch Insp Bain / GILLIAN ELISA as W.D.S. Griffiths / SHARON MORGAN as Margaret Edwards / MEIC POVEY as Supt Bevan / FFION WILKINS as Hannah Bain

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1970 8 July - Wednesday 7.30pm 

Writers: Tony Bilbow, Mike Fentiman / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson 

Comedy. The misadventures of a pair of window cleaning cockney brothers, one of whom happens to be black, the other white.

Bill....................................................... TONY SELBY

Ernie.................................................... DEREK GRIFFITHS

Dad...................................................... NORMAN BIRD

Mum.................................................... HILDA FENEMORE

Audrey................................................ CHERYL HALL

Muriel.................................................. ADRIENNE POSTA

BBC / 7x10m-e / 1951 13 January - 7 April Saturday 5.00pm Shown Fortnightly black and white

Creator: Cecil Madden / Writers: Jill Allgood, Henry Hemsley / Producer: Jill Allgood  

Comedy. A couple find themselves getting rebuked by their young daughter whenever they misbehave. The star Harry Hemsley died before the final episode, the series continued with someone else providing an off camera voice for Elsie.

Elsie................................................... HARRY HEMSLEY

Peter................................................... PETER MADDEN

Irene.................................................... IRENE PRADOR 

MINE ALL MINE

ITV1 / 5x60m / started 25 November 2004

Writer: Russell T Davies / Director: Sheree Folkson / Producer: Annie Harrison-Baxter

Max Vivaldi has always claimed that an ancient will gave him ownership rights of Swansea. But he is treated as an eccentric until a London lawyer manages to verify his claim and Max becomes ruler of Swansea and takes over control of the council.

With:- GRIFF RHYSS JONES as Max Vivaldi / RHIAN MORGAN as Val Vivaldi / SIWAN MORRIS as Maria / JASON HUGHES as Gethin / JOANNA PAGE as Candy / MATTHEW BARRY as Leo / RUTH MADOC as Myrtle Jones / JO STONE-FEWINGS as Danny Baveystock

BBC / 1x100m-e / 1949 25 December black and white

Writer: Peter Blackmore / Design: Barry Learoyd / Producer: John Glyn-Jones 

Comedy. A young man discovers and falls in love with a mermaid.

Miranda.............................................. PEGGY SIMPSON

Thames / x30m-e / 1984

Daytime soap set in a community advice centre.

Betty Hackforth................................ PATSY BYRNE

Also with:- POLLY HEMINGWAY / LYNETTE DAVIES

BBC1 / 6x50m-e / 1984

Writer: Roger Marshall  / Producer: Ron Craddock 

Drama serial. Middle aged Alison Reynolds has to learn to cope when her husband disappears without warning.

Alison Reynolds.............................. JUDY LOE

Jerry Reynolds................................ GAWN GRAINGER

Tony Walters.................................. JONATHAN NEWTH

HTV / 1x120m-e / 1990

Writer: David Cook / Director: Derek Bennett 

Crime drama. An elderly lady looks for the son of her childhood friend's husband whom, fifty years earlier, he was forced to abandon. This TV Movie later led to the BBC1 series Hetty Wainthropp Investigates. 

With:- PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE as Hetty / JEAN HEYWOOD / JIMMY JEWEL / GARY WALDHORN / JEAN KENT

BBC1 / 1x80m-e 1x75m-e / 1997

Writer: Mark Wallington / Producer: Gareth Neame / Director: Alan Dossor 

Comedy drama serial. When he is forced into taking early retirement, Clive peacock decides to deliver his last collection by hand, cycling the length of Britain to deliver his letters, he becomes a folk hero when the press get hold of the story and chase him around the country, closely followed by the police (the post office having accused him of pinching their mail).

Clive Peacock................................ JAMES BOLAM

Christine Peacock.......................... ALISON STEADMAN

Laurence Pitman............................ JIM CARTER

Ralph............................................ STEPHEN MOORE

WPC McMahon............................. GWYNETH STRONG

Peter Robson................................ ROBERT DAWS

Danny........................................... BOBBY KNUTT

Joe............................................... BOB MASON

Linda Taylor................................... BARBARA DICKSON

Trevor Ramsey............................... LARRY LAMB

Ken Thompson .............................. ROGER LLOYD PACK

MISS JULIE

BBC / 1x80m-e / 1987

Writer: Michael Meyer / Play: August Strindberg / Director: Michael Simpson

Period drama. The servant in a wealthy man's house begins an affair with the man's daughter in order to try and improve his lot.

With:- PATRICK MALAHIDE as Jean / JANET McTEER as Miss Julie  

Anglia / 1x120m-e / 1981

Writer: Ian Curteis / Producer: John Rosenberg / Director: John Bruce 

Period spooky drama. In 1901 two female academics think they have seen the ghost of Marie Antoinette.

With:- HANNAH GORDON / WENDY HILLER / BOSCO HOGAN / VIVIEN PICKLES / JOHN FRANKLYN ROBBINS / DAVID LELAND / ANN QUEENSBERRY / NIALL TOBIN

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