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MR AXELFORD'S ANGEL
A MONTH IN THE COUNTRY 1955
MR AND MRS EDGEHILL
MRS ACLAND'S GHOSTS
MRS CAPPERS BIRTHDAY
MRS MANDELA
MR BEAN
Thames - Tiger Aspect / 13x30m-e / 1990-95
Creators: Rowan Atkinson, Richard Curtis, Robin Driscoll
Occasional comedies. Misadventures of an almost silent, child like, accident prone, very strange man. The Mr Bean comedies were already very popular throughout the world but following the release in the late 1990's the character became truly massive.
With:- ROWAN ATKINSON as Mr Bean
MR BOWLING BUYS A NEWSPAPER
BBC / 1957 15 June One off play black and white
Writer: Donald Henderson / Producer: Stephen Harrison
Thriller.
With:- HUGH SINCLAIR as Mr Bowling / GEORGE HOWE / ERIC CHITTY / BERYL REID as Alice, the Maid
MR BUCHANAN
Granada / 1x60m-e / 1969
Writer: Joseph Freen / Producer: Richard Bates / Director: Brian Mills
Drama. A young man collects evidence to try and prove his father was a nasty piece of work.
With:- TERENCE ALEXANDER / PAUL DANEMAN / ANN FIRBANK
MR HARVEY LIGHTS A CANDLE
BBC1 / 1x85m / 26 March 2005
Writer: Rhidian Brook /
Dirctor: Susanna White / Producer: Paul Rutman
Drama. Mr Harvey, a mild-mannered and maligned widowered teacher, takes a party
of schoolchildren to visit Salisbury cathedral. He also has an ulterior motive
as he is treating it as a pilgrimage to the place where he first met his late
wife.
With:- TIMOTHY SPALL as Malcolm Harvey / CELIA IMRIE as Fran Davies / BEN MILES
as Jonathan Cole / NATALIE PRESS as Helen Taylor / DAVID BRADLEY as Archie /
DANIEL BLISS as Phil Rogers / JODY LATHAM as Andy Wilson / STEVEN WEBB as Dave
Miller
MR H IS LATE
Thames / 1x30m-e / 1988 15 Feb - Mon 8.00pm
Writer/Director: Eric Sykes / Producer: Dennis Kirkland
Silent comedy. A man attempts to transport a coffin to church. with:- Eric Sykes, Jimmy Edwards, John Alderton, Cannon and Ball, Norman Collier, Gabrielle Drake, Richard O'Sullivan, Terry Scott, Dennis Waterman, Spike Milligan, Kenny Lynch, Paul Shane,
MR JERICO
ITC / 1x85m-e / 1969
Writer: Philip Levene / Producer: Julian Wintle / Director: Sidney Hayers
Thriller. Exploits of a con artist.
With:- PATRICK MACNEE / CONNIE STEVENS / HERBERT LOM / MARTY ALLEN
MR PALFREY OF WESTMINSTER
Thames / 10x60m-e / 1984-85
Executive Producer: Lloyd Shirley / Producer: Michael Chapman
Spy drama series. Cases of civil servant turned spycatcher Mr Palfrey.
Mr Palfrey.......................................... ALEC McCOWEN
Co-Ordinator...................................... CAROLINE BLAKISTON
Blair................................................. CLIVE WOOD
MR PASTRY
Richard
Hearne aka Mr Pastry first appeared on TV in 1946, as well as the sitcoms
detailed in the British Sitcoms section the bumbling Mr Pastry character also
appeared in the following sketch and entertainment shows.
THE VILLAGE STORE (BBC / 1x10 minutes / Monay 19
August 1946 @ 8.30pm)
JUST FOR FUN (BBC / 1x70 minutes / Saturday 5 July 1947 @ 8.50pm)
RICHARD HEARNE (BBC / 1x15 minutes / Sunday 11 April 1948 @ 4.45pm)
MR PASTRY AT HOME (BBC / 1x20 minutes / Sunday 15 June 1949 @ 8.40pm)
MR PASTRY GETS A JOB (BBC / 8x15 minutes / 1950 14 April - 21 July)
CAMPING (BBC / 1x10 minutes / Sunday 18 June 1950 @ 5.30pm)
APRIL FOOLS DAY (BBC / 1x15 minutes / Sunday 1 April 1951 @ 5.00pm)
MR PASTRY'S HOLIDAY SHOW (BBC / 1x30 minutes / Sunday 5 August 1951 @ 8.15pm)
BY REQUEST (BBC / 3x15 minutes / 1952 15 June - 13 July)
THE MR PASTRY SHOW (BBC / 1x30 minutes / Wednesday 12 November 1952 @ 8.15pm)
MR PASTRY TAKES A HOLIDAY (BBC / 1x15 minutes / Tuesday 23 December 1952 @
5.55pm)
MR PASTRY'S SPICY LIFE (BBC / 1x60 minutes / Saturday 4 December 1954 @ 9.15pm)
SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM (ITV / 1x60 minutes / Sunday 2 October 1955
@ 8.00pm)
SATURDAY SHOWTIME (ATV / 6x45 minutes / 17 December 1955 - 21 January 1956)
SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: The Christmas Pantomime - Cinderella (ITV
/ 1x90 minutes / Sunday 18 December 1955 @ 7:45pm)
A NIGHT AT THE MOULIN ROUGE (ITV Network - Incorporated / 1x60 minutes /
Thursday 29 December 1955 @ 8:00 pm)
SUNDAY NIGHT AT THE LONDON PALLADIUM: The Christmas Pantomime - Mother Goose
(ITV / 1x90 minutes / Sunday1 January @ 7.45pm)
HIGHLAND FLING (ITV-Associated Rediffusion / 6x30 minutes / 1957 5 August - 9
September Mondays @ 9.30pm)
SALUTE TO SHOW BUSINESS (ITV-Associated Rediffusion / 1x160 minutes / Friday 20
September 1957 @ 8.00pm)
MR PASTRY'S SPICY LIFE (BBC / 1x60 minutes / Saturday 23 November 1957 @ 8.00pm)
THE ADVENTURES OF MR PASTRY (ITV / 1x30 minutes / Saturday 21 June 1958 @
6.00pm)
CAN DO (ITV / 1x30 minutes / Saturday 26 Jul 1958 @ 6.30pm)
MR PASTRY (BBC / 1x10 minutes / Sunday 21 December 1958 @ 5.15pm)
HOLIDAY TOWN PARADE (ITV Network-ABC / 4x45 minutes / 6 June 1959, 25 July 1959,
8 August 1959, 29 August 1959 / Saturdays @ 6.15pm)
MR PASTRY HOOKS A SPOOK (BBC / 1x25m-e / Saturday 28 October 1961 @ 5.25pm)
THE NEW LONDON PALLADIUM SHOW (ITV Network-ATV / 1x60 minutes / Sunday 5
December 1965 @ 8.25pm)
HELTER SKELTER (ITV Network - ATV / 1x85 minutes / Sunday 1 May 1966 @ 4:05pm)
CELEBRITY SQUARES (ITV Network - ATV / 1x45 minutes / Saturday 1 January 1977
@5:45pm)
MR PASTRY'S HOLIDAY SHOW
BBC / 1x30m-e / 1951 5 Aug - Sun 8.15pm black and white
Writer: Richard Hearne / Producer: Bill Lyon-Shaw
Comedy. Disaster area Mr Pastry goes on holiday .
Mr Pastry........................................... RICHARD HEARNE
MR PASTRY HOOKS A SPOOK
BBC / 1x25m-e / 1961 28 Oct - Sat 5.25pm black and white
Writer: Richard Hearne / Producer: David Goddard
Comedy. Mr Pastry tangles with crooks when he sets up as a ghostbuster.
Mr Pastry........................................... RICHARD HEARNE
John Groom....................................... MELVYN HAYES
PC Tom............................................. JOHN BRITTANY
MR PYE
C4 / 1986
Novel: Mervyn Peake / Adaption: Donald Churchill
/ Director: Michael Darlow
Comedy drama. Mr Pye, a manic character who literally has wings, is convinced of
the good in all and goes to the island of Sark intending to save every soul
there - whether they want to be or not.
With:- DEREK JACOBI as Mr Pye / JUDY PARFITT as Miss Dredger / BETTY MARSDEN as
Miss George / ROBIN McCAFFREY as Tanty / RICHARD O?CALLAHAN as Thorpe / PATRICIA
HAYES as Kaka / RALPH NOSSEK as Major Havershoe / AMANDA REISS as Mrs Rice /
HOWARD LEWIS as Mr Rice / SARAH DAWSON as Mrs Porter / MICHAEL TURNER as Mr
Porter
MR ROSE
Granada / 25x60m-e / 1967-68
Creator: Philip Mackie / Producers: Philip Mackie, Margaret Morris
Crime drama series. Ex Scotland Yard Inspector Rose still finds time to tackle the odd case. This show was a spin off from The Odd Man and It's Dark Outside.
Mr Rose............................................ WILLIAM MERVYN
John Halifax...................................... DONALD WEBSTER
Drusilla Lamb.................................... GILLIAN LEWIS
Jessica Dalton.................................. JENNIFER CLULOW
Robert Trent...................................... ERIC WOOLFE
MR WAKEFIELD'S CRUSADE
BBC2 / 3x50m-e / 1992
Writer: Paul Hines / Producer: Ruth Caleb / Director: Angela Pope
Comedy drama serial. A rich but bored man turns detective to try and discover who was behind the murder of his friend's wife.
With:- PETER CAPALDI / RICHARD GRIFFITHS / MIRANDA RICHARDSON / PAM FERRIS / MOSSIE SMITH
MR WHITE GOES TO WESTMINSTER
Channel 4 / 1x90m-e / 1997
Writer/Director: Guy Jenkin / Executive Producer: Denise O'Donoghue
Comedy drama. Ben White, a TV foreign correspondent, decides to make a stand and becomes an independent MP on an anti sleaze ticket. Obviously based on the real life case of TV reporter Martin Bell who did exactly the same thing. Bell was famed for his white suit, which obviously inspired the main character's surname.
Ben White......................................... BILL PATERSON
Paul Madison.................................... ROBERT DUNCAN
Victoria............................................. CELIA IMRIE
Pam................................................. DERVLA KIRWAN
Helen Nash....................................... SAMANTHA BOND
Peter Edworthy................................. JOHN BOWLER
MR WODEHOUSE SPEAKING
BBC1 / 1x60m-e / 1972 16 Dec - Tues 11.10pm
Writers: Gerry Davis, Rex Tucker / Producer: Gerald Savory / Director: Rex Tucker
Comedy. Episodes from the life of the comedy writer/creator of Jeeves and Wooster.
With:- WILLIAM MERVYN as P.G. Wodehouse / SEAN ARNOLD as Young Wodehouse
MR WROE'S VIRGINS
BBC / 4x60m-e / 1993
Period drama serial. In the 19th century, a preacher arrives in a northern industrial town, where the locals put him up in a house and give him four virgins to provide him with ?comfort and succour? each of the episodes focused on a different one of the virgins.
Cast Included:- JONATHAN PRYCE / MINNIE DRIVER / LIA WILLIAMS / KATHY BURKE
MRS AMWORTH
HTV / 1x30m-e / 1978
Writer: Hugh Whitmore / Story: E.F. Benson / Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole / Director: Alvin Rakoff
Spooky drama. A small English village is being stalked by a vampire.
With:- GLYNIS JOHNS as Mrs Amworth
THE MRS BRADLEY MYSTERIES
BBC1/WGBH / 1x90m-e 4x60m-e / 1998-2000
Producer: Deborah Jones / Novels: Gladys Mitchell / Music: Graham Dalby / Executive Producers: Ruth Caleb, Mal Young
Period crime drama series. In the 1920's an aristocratic middle aged female sleuth and her chauffeur tackle various mysteries, mostly of the murderous kind.
With:- DIANA RIGG as Mrs Adela Bradley / NEIL DUDGEON as George Moody
MRS CAPPER'S BIRTHDAY
ITV / 1968 31 January / one off play
Writer: William Marchant / Producer: Leonard White / Director: Guy Verney
Comedy drama based on the play by Noel Coward.
With:- BERYL REID as Hilda Capper / ARTHUR LOWE / SYLVIA COLERIDGE / JILL DIXON / GEORGE BAKER / MAUDIE EDWARDS
MRS HARTLEY AND THE GROWTH CENTRE
BBC2 / 1x65m-e / 1995
Writer: Phillipa Gregory / Producer: Debbie Shewell / Director: Noella Smith
Comedy drama. Middle aged Alison Hartley and her young lover open a growth centre specialising in sex, drugs and water births.
With:- PAM FERRIS as Alice Hartley / KEN CHRISTIANSEN as Michael / CHARLOTTE COLEMAN as Louise / CONSTANCE CHAPMAN as Sara / DAVID RYALL as Dr Simmonds / JIM CARTER as Inspector
MRS LAWRENCE WILL LOOK AFTER IT
BBC / 1x50m-e / 1968
Writer: Tony Parker / Producer: Irene Shubik / Director: John McKenzie
Drama. Mrs Lawrence spends her time caring for the children of other people.
With:- CONSTANCE CHAPMAN as Mrs Lawrence / NINA BADEN SEMPER / PAULINE COLLINS
MRS PATTERSON
BBC 'Sunday Night Theatre' / 1956 black and white
Writers: Charles Sebree, Greer Johnson / Producer: Anthony Pelissier
Drama.
With:- EARTHA KITT / ESTELLE WINWOOD / ELISABETH WELCH
MRS REINHARDT
BBC / 1x60m-e / 1981
Writer: Elmer Cossey / Story: Edna O'Brien / Producer: Alan Shallcross / Director: Piers Haggard
Drama. A married woman has an affair with a young American man.
With:- HELEN MIRREN / BRAD DAVIS / RALPH BATES
MRS THURSDAY
ATV / 25x60m-e / 1966-67 black and white
Creator: Ted Willis / Producer: Jack Williams
Comedy drama series. Elderly cleaning lady Alice Thursday is shocked when her millionaire tycoon boss dies and leaves his empire (and money) to her, she decides to carry on running his business.
Alice Thursday................................ KATHLEEN HARRISON
Richard B. Hunter ........................... HUGH MANNING
MRS WILSON'S DIARY
LWT / 1x60m-e / 1969 4 Jan - Sat 9.55pm
Writers: Richard Ingrams, John Wells / Cartoons: William Rushton / Producer/Director: Stuart Allen
Comedy. Satire from Private Eye (and based on a column in that paper) about the Wilson cabinet. Was originally scheduled for 23 November 1968 but some controversial scenes had to be refilmed.
Gladys Wilson................................. MYVANWY JENN
Harold Wilson.................................. BILL WALLIS
Insp Trimfittering.............................. STEPHEN LEWIS
Gerald Hoffman................................ PETER REEVES
Roy Jenkins.................................... NIGEL HAWTHORNE
George Brown................................. BOB GRANT
David Frost..................................... DAVID BATTLEY
Robot Heath ................................... REG TEMPLAR
MISTERIOSO
BBC / 1x100m-e / 1991
Writer: Alan Plater / Director: John Glenister
Drama. A young girl embarks on a search for her father and finds him running a jazz club in London.
With:- SUZAN SYLVESTER / JACK SHEPHERD / HUGH ROSS / SHARON DUCE
MISTRESS OF SUSPENSE
HTV / 1x60m-e / 1990
Writers: Mai Zetterling, David Hughes / Story: Patricia Highsmith / Director: Mai Zetterling
Thriller. Christopher Waggoner's keeping alive of a memory of a long lost love turns into a dangerous obsession.
With:- IAN HOLM as Christopher Waggoner / EILEEN ATKINS
THE MISUNDERSTANDING
Associated-Rediffusion / 1x80m-e / 1965
Writer: Kitty Black / Novel: Albert Camus / Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Period drama. A man returns home (after being away for more than twenty years) and doesn't reveal his identity, his family though embark on a plot to murder him.
With:- FLORA ROBSON / EWAN HOOPER / RUTH MEYERS / PAULINE MUNRO / PATRICK TROUGHTON
MIT
ITV1 / 8x60m / started 3 May 2003
Director: Tom Cotter / Producer: Michael Offer
M.I.T (Murder Investigation Team) are a team of police officers who specialise
in murder investigations. The show's first plot-line was launched from the
long-running police series THE BILL when long-standing regular Sgt Matthew
Boyden was gunned down in a street in the preceding BILL episode and MIT were
called in to investigate. Other than this initial crossover there were no
further contacts with THE BILL regulars. All the characters in MIT were new and
had not previously appeared in THE
BILL.
With:- SAMANTHA SPIRO as DI Vivien Friend / LINDSEY COULSON as DS Rosie MacManus
/ RICHARD HOPE as DS Barry Purvis / RICHARD HUW as Dr John Cornwell / MICHAEL
McKELL as DS Trevor Hands / STEVEN PACEY as DCI Malcolm Savage / JOE SHAW as DS
Scott Grainger / ANDREW SOMMERVILLE as DS Patrick Lincoln / HOWARD WARD as DS
Jim Daws
MITCH
LWT / 10x60m-e / 1984
Creator: Roger Marshall / Producer: Peter Cregeen
Crime drama series. Cases of a Fleet street crime reporter.
Mitch................................................... JOHN THAW
THE MIXER
HTV/ZDF/ORF / 13x60m-e / 1992
Music: Gerhard Heinz / Producer: Herbert Reutterer
Period crime drama series. Cases of debonair private detective Sir Anthony Rose during the 1930's. The series was an international co-production between several European countries.
Sir Anthony Rose............................ SIMON WILLIAMS
Paul............................................... JEREMY CLYDE
Inspector Bradley ............................ PETER JONES
MOBILE
ITV1 Network - Granada International / 3x90 minute episodes / 2007
Writer: John Fay / Producer: Gina Cronk / Director: Stuart Orme
Conspiracy thriller that unfolds against the backdrop of the Iraq war and the world of the multi billion pound mobile phone industry, flashing back and forth to retrace events from three very different perspectives: the engineer, the soldier and the boss. Each episode features the same story told from a different viewpoint and only in the final scenes of the third episode is the connection between all three stories made for the first time.
cast
JAMIE DRAVEN as Maurice Stoan / KEITH ALLEN as James Corson / MICHAEL KITCHEN as David West / NEIL FITZMAURICE as Eddie Doig / JULIE GRAHAM as Donna Doig / ADAM MCCOY as Steven Doig / JACK RIGBY as Keith Doig / JOHN MCARDLE as Paul Stoan / MICHAEL J JACKSON as Si Hewitt / ANTONY BOOTH as Eddies Dad / JOHN THOMSON as Ray Bould / SAMANTHA BOND as Rachel West / PETER VAUGHAN as Grandad Maurice Stoan / PAUL BYATT as Hughes Aru
MOGUL:See The Troubleshooters
MOLL FLANDERS
Granada/WGBH / 4x60m-e / 1996
Writer: Andrew Davies / Novel: Daniel Defoe / Music: Jim Parker / Costume: Trisha Biggar / Producer: David Lascelles / Director: David Attwood
Period drama serial. The life and hard times of ambitious 'hard-working' (all be it on her back) lass Moll Flanders in the 17th Century. The publicity for the serial seemed obsessed with the fact that the production contained 17 sex scenes.
Moll Flanders................................... ALEX KINGSTON
Jemmy Seagrave.............................. DANIEL CRAIG
Mrs Golightly................................... DIANA RIGG
Mrs Seagrave.................................. TREVYN McDOWLL
Daniel Dawkins................................ CHRISTOPHER FULFORD
Mr Richardson................................. STRUAN RODGER
Mrs Richardson................................ MAUREEN O'BRIEN
Maria.............................................. CAROLINE HARKER
There was also a BBC2 serial version in 1975 with Julia Foster in the title role, the serial also featured Ian Olgilvy and Kenneth Haigh.
MOMENTO MORI
BBC2 / 2x60m-e / 1992
Novel: Muriel Spark / Writers: Jack Clayton, Jeannie Simms, Alan Kelley / Executive Producer: Mark Shivas / Producer: Louis Marks / Director: Jack Clayton.
Comedy drama. Set in mid-50's London, the story centers on aging socialite Dame Lettie Colston, her brother Godfrey and his seemingly dotty wife Charmian, a former romantic novelist now enjoying a fresh rep. All of them receive anonymous calls in which a male voice announces, "Remember you must die." Dame Lettie hires a former cop to investigate, but the calls keep coming to other members of the pensioners' circle. Meanwhile, the waspish Mabel Pettigrew, who's blackmailing Godfrey for a past indiscretion, takes over the job as Charmian's housekeeper/companion with her eyes on some disputed loot...
With:- Maggie Smith as Mrs. Mabel Pettigrew / Renee Asherton as Charmian Colston / Michael Hordern as Godfrey Colston / Stephanie Cole as Dame Lettie Colston / Zoe Wanamaker as Olive Mannering / Thora Hird as Jean Taylor / Maurice Denham as Guy Leet / Cyril Cusack as Percy Mannering / John Wood as Ex-Inspector Henry Mortimer / Elizabeth Bradley as Mrs. Anthony / Margery Withers as Grannie Barnacle / Barbara Hicks as Tempest Sidebottome / Muriel Pavlow as Grannie Valvona / Anna Cropper as Mrs. Mortimer / Damaris Hayman as Miss Lottinville / Paul Opacic as Jeff
MONARCH OF THE GLEN
BBC1 / 60x50m-e / 2000-2005
Creator: Michael Chaplin / Novels: Compton Mackenzie / Script Editor: James Saynor / Music: Simon Brint / Producers: Nick Pitt, Paddy Higson, Stephen Garwood
Drama series. Archie MacDonald, carving out a
life for himself as a restaurateur in London, finds himself called back to
his home in the Scottish Highlands to assume his role as The Laird of Glenbogle
and get the 40,000 acre estate back on its feet. By the end of season three in
early 2002 the decision had been taken to kill off Hector MacDonald truly making
Archie the Laird. Season Four started 1 September 2002 and by the end of it
Archie and Lexie had got married. During the 5th series, Archie left Glenbogle,
leaving the estate in the hands of his wife Lexie and his half-brother Paul. In
the final episode Hector (Richard Briers) made a return appearance as a ghost
whom only Molly could see.
With:- Alastair MacKenzie as Archie MacDonald (-SEASON 5)/ Richard Briers as Hector MacDonald / Susan Hampshire as Molly MacDonald / Lorraine Pilkington as Katrina / Dawn Steele as Lexie (to season 6) / Hamish Clark as Duncan (to season 6) / Alexander Morton as Golly / Anna Wilson-Jones as Justine / ALEXANDRA GILBREATH as Stella Moon (Season three) / REBECCA LACEY as Irene (season four) / LLOYD OWEN as Paul (from Series 5) / RAE HENDRIE as Jessica (from Series 5) / TOM BAKER as Donald McDonald (series 6+) / SIMONE LAHBIB as Isobel Anderson (series 6+) / MARTIN CROMPTON as Ewan (series 5+) / KIRSTY MITCHELL as Iona (2005) / KELLYANNE FARQUHAR as Amy (2005)
MONEY FOR NOTHING
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1993
Writer: Tim Firth / Director: Mike Ockrent
Comedy drama. A 16 year old boy bets a school pal that he can become a millionaire and embarks on an audacious plan to do so.
With:- CHRISTIAN ANHOLT / JAYNE ASHBOURNE / PAUL REYNOLDS / MARTIN SHORT / HEATHER WRIGHT
MONEY WITH MENACES
Anglia / 1x60m-e / 1963 black and white
Writer: Ken Taylor / Story: Patrick Hamilton / Director: June Howson
Thriller. The daughter of a newspaper tycoon is kidnapped and held to ransom.
Andrew Carruthers................................. RONALD LEWIS
Jenny................................................... PRISCILLA HIRD
Poland................................................. PHILIP MADOC
MONKEY MAGIC
Channel Five-Objective / x30m-e / 2003
Executive Producer: Andrew O?Connor / Series
Producer: Anthony Owen
Entertainment. Four young magicians showcase their "skills" on both
celebs and the general public. The four were ?Tufty? (Pete Firman), ?The
Colonel? (Jonathan Goodwin), ?Papa? (Pete McCahon) and ?Monkey Boy? (Ali Cook)
MONKEYS
BBC / 1x65m-e / 1989
Writer: Paul Muldoon
Drama. The story behind the FBI attempt to trap John de Lorean in a huge drugs sting.
With:- MANNING REDWOOD as John de Lorean / CLARKE PETERS / BOB SHERMAN
THE MONOCLED MUTINEER
BBC1 / 2x75m-e/1x80m-e 1x95m-e / 1986 31 August - 29 September
Writer: Alan Bleasdale / Producer: Richard Broke
Period drama serial. The true story of Private Percy Topliss who during world war one instigates a mutiny at the brutal Etaples training camp and then went on the run posing as an Army Captain.
Percy Topliss...................................... PAUL McGANN
Charles Strange.................................. MATTHEW MARSH
Dorothy.............................................. CHERIE LUNGHI
Woodall............................................. PHILIP McGOUGH
Cruickshank....................................... NICK REDING
and TIMOTHY WEST
MONSIGNOR RENARD
Carlton / 4x90m-e / 2000 27 March - 17 April Mondays 9.00pm
Creator: Russell Lewis / Music: John Keane / Script Editor: Sophie Johnson / Camera: Nic Morris / Producer: Chris Kelly / Executive Producer: Ted Childs
Period drama series. In the 1940's French town of St-Josse-des-Bois, Catholic Priest Augustin Renard finds himself involved with the resistance and trying to help the people of the town against the invading German forces.
With:- JOHN THAW as Augustin Renard / CHERYL CAMPBELL as Madeleine Claveau / JULIETTE CATON as Helene Claveau / ANDREW McCULLOUGH as Albert Claveau / DES McALEER as Yves Renard / JIMMY YUILL as Maolo Gagnepain
THE MONSTERS
BBC / 4x50m-e / 1962 8 November - 29 November black and white
Writers: Evelyn Fraser, George R. Foa, Vincent Tilsley / Producer: George R. Foa
Scifi drama serial. In the Lakelands, a honeymooning couple tangle with a Loch Ness type monster.
John Brent.......................................... WILLIAM GREENE
Felecity Brent..................................... ELIZABETH WEAVER
Hopkins............................................. MARK DIGNAM
Howard Milroy.................................... CLIFFORD COX
Richard.............................................. PHILIP MADOC
A MONTH OF SUNDAYS
Central / 1x95m-e / 1991
Writer: Bob Larbey / Director: Allan Kroeker
Comedy drama. Episodes in the lives of two friends living in an old folks home.
With:- HUME CRONYN / VINCENT GARDENIA / MICHELLE SCARABELLI
MOODY AND PEGG
Thames / 12x60m-e / 1974-75
Writers: Julia Jones, Donald Churchill / Producer: Robert Love
Comedy drama series. Following a mix up over the lease, Daphne Pegg and Roland Moody end up sharing a flat.
Daphne Pegg....................................... JUDY CORNWELL
Roland Moody...................................... DEREK WARING
Jim..................................................... DENIS LILL
Monica Bakewell................................. FRANCES BENNETT
Auntie Ethel........................................ SHEILA KEITH
George............................................... PETER DENYER
Sid..................................................... TONY SELBY
Iris..................................................... ADRIENNE POSTA
Rowena Moody................................... LEA DREGORN
MOON AND SON
BBC1 / 8x50m-e / 1988
Creator: Robert Banks Stewart
Crime drama series. A medium and fortune teller along with her son gets involved in intriguing mysteries.
With:- MILLICENT MARTIN / JOHN MICHIE
MOONBASE 3
BBC / 6x50m-e / 1973 9 Sep - 14 Oct
Creators: Barry Letts, Terrance Dicks / Script Editor: Terrance Dicks / Science Advisor: James Burke / Music: Dudley Simpson / Producer: Barry Letts
Scifi drama series. In 2003 the moon has been colonised with base three belonging to the Europeans.
With:- DONALD HOUSTON as David Caulder / BARRY LOWE as Tom Hill / RALPH BATES as Michel Lebraun / FIONA GAUNT as Dr Helen Smith / GARRICK HAGON as Bruce Bertoli
MOONLIGHT ON THE HIGHWAY
ITV Network-London Weekend Television-Kestral (Saturday Night Theatre) / 1x60 minutes / Saturday 12 April 1969 @ 9.30pm
Writer: Dennis Potter / Designer: John Clements /
Producer: Kenith Trodd / Director: James MacTaggart
"Once dreams were possible-that was what the popular songs said. Now
they don't say that. They smash up their instruments on the stage. They wine and
yowl through their long hair like apes."
David Peters develops an unsettling obsession with the singer Al Bowlly despite
the fact that he was only six when Bowlly died. Bowlly was a British Bing Crosby
and was killed in his flat during the Blitz of World War Two, Peters allows his
obsession (he sets up a society dedicated to Bowlly) to overtake his life. This
was another of Potter's plays showing his own obsession with the music of the
1930's.
With:- Ian Holm as David Peters / Arthur Lovegrove as Landlord / Bart Allison as First old man / Harry Hutchinson as Old Irishman / Wally Patch as Old Londoner / Robin Wentworth as President of Bowlly Appreciation Society / Anthony Bate as Dr Chilton / Frederick Peisley as Gerald / Walter Swash as Second old man / Ursula Granville as Middle-aged lady / Derek Woodward as Medical Student / Michael Burrell as Waiter / Deborah Grant as Marie Holdsworth / John Flanagan as Second medical student / Kathleen St John as Third old lady / Beatrice Greeke as First Old Lady / Daphne Riggs as Second old lady / Johnny Watson as Middle-aged man
THE MOONSTONE
BBC / 5x50m-e / 1971
Writer: Hugh Leonard / Novel: Wilkie Collins
Period drama serial. In Victorian times a fabulous Indian jewel (the Moonstone of the title) has an haunting effect on all who came into contact with it. Sgt Cuff is called in when the jewel is stolen from the beautiful Rachel Verinder. The source novel for this production is cited as being the father of detective fiction.
With:- BASIL DIGNAM as Sgt Cuff / JOHN WELSH as Betteredge / ROBIN ELLIS / COLIN BAKER
THE MOONSTONE
BBC / 2x70m-e / 1996
Writer: Kevin Elyot / Novel: Wilkie Collins / Music: Rick Wentworth / Producer: Chris Parr / Camera: John Daly / Director: Robert Bierman
Period drama serial.In Victorian times a fabulous Indian jewel (the Moonstone of the title) has an haunting effect on all who came into contact with it. Sgt Cuff is called in when the jewel is stolen from the beautiful Rachel Verinder.
With:- GREG WISE as Franklin Blake / KEELEY HAWES as Rachel Verinder / ANTONY SHER as Sgt Cuff / PATRICIA HODGE as Lady Julia Verinder / PETER VAUGHAN as Gabriel Betteredge / TERENCE HARDIMAN as Col Sir John Herncastle / PETER JEFFREY as Mr Bruff / ROGER WALKER as Constable Seagrave / ANTON LESSER as Ezra Jennings / NICHOLAS LANE as Samuel / JANET HENFREY as Mrs Yolland / ELIZABETH BERRINGTON as Limping Lucy
MOONSTRIKE
BBC / x50m-e / 1963 black and white
Creator: Robert Barr / Music: Dudley Simpson / Producer: Gerard Glaister
Wartime spy drama series. Cases of a group of wartime secret agents and the squadron of pilots who flew them, based on true stories.
MORGAN'S BOY
BBC1 / 8x55m-e / 1984 (10 October - 29 November / Thursday 9.25pm)
Writer: Alick Rowe / Music: Richard Harvey / Design: Ian Ashhurst / Script Editor: Jenny Sheridan / Producer: Gerard Glaister / Director: John Gorrie
Drama series. Young Lee goes to stay with his Welsh farmer uncle Morgan who is facing a battle to save his farm.
With:- GARETH THOMAS as Morgan / MARTYN HESFORD as Lee / IOAN MEREDITH as Williams / MARJORIE YATES as Val Turner / MAXINE AUDLEY as Eileen Gregory / ALAN ROWE as Harry Gregory / JACK WALTERS as Pugh Davies / MICHAEL TROUGHTON as Vicar
THE MORNING AFTER
ATV / 1x / Friday 16th November 1962
Writter: G. C. Brown / Director: John Hale
Drama.
With:- Leonard Rossiter as Harry
MORNING DEPARTURE
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1946 1 December black and white
Writer: Kenneth Wollard / Producer: Harold Clayton
Drama. When their submarine is grounded on the bottom of an ocean bed the crew face a traumatic time trying to free themselves before their oxygen runs out.
With:- NIGEL PATRICK / MICHAEL HORDERN / CAMERON HALL / ROBERT RAGLAN / JOHN BAKER
The play was remounted in 1948 with Michael Rennie in the lead role.
MORTIMER'S LAW
BBC1(Wales) / 1x70m-e 5x50m-e / 1998
Producer: Stephen Jeffrey-Poulter
Crime drama series. London barrister Rachel Mortimer returns home to her Welsh roots taking up a post as Coroner of the Welsh marches.
Rachel Mortimer.................................. AMANDA ROOT
DC Humphries.................................... NICHOLAS McGAUGHEY
Mrs Morgan........................................ GWYNETH PETTY
Tegwyn ............................................. CLIVE MERRISON
THE MOSEDALE HORSESHOE
Granada / 1x60m-e / 1971
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft / Producer: Peter Eckersley / Director: Michael Apted
Comedy drama. A group of four friends meet for their annual hill walking holiday in the lakes.
MOSES - THE LAWGIVER
ATV/ITC / 6x60m-e / 1976
Writers: Anthony Burgess, Vittoria Bonicelli / Director: Gianfranco De Bosio
Period drama serial. The life of Moses especially his freeing of the enslaved Jewish people and subsequent journey to the promised land. A kind of dry run for the following years Jesus of Nazareth. The serial also had a theatrical release in some countries.
With:- BURT LANCASTER as Moses / ANTHONY QUAYLE as Aaron / IRENE PAPAS as Zipporah / INGRID THULIN as Miriam / LAURENT TERZIEFF as Pharoah
MOSLEY
Channel 4/Alamo / 4x60m-e / 1998
Writers: Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran / Book: Nicholas Mosley / Producer: Irving Teitelbaum / Director: Robert Knights
Period drama serial. The rise to notoriety of between the wars fascist Oswald Mosley, the serial concentrated especially on his many extra marital affairs.
Oswald 'Tom' Mosley........................ JONATHAN CAKE
Cynthia Curzon................................ JEMMA REDGRAVE
Diana Guiness................................. EMMA DAVIES
David Lloyd George.......................... WINDSOR DAVIES
Jane Bewley.................................... CAROLINE LANGRISHE
Robert Boothby................................ HUGH BONNEVILLE
Lord Curzon..................................... ROBERT LANG
Ramsay MacDonald......................... RALPH RIACH
Lady Mosley................................... RICHENDA CAREY
Winston Churchill............................ HUGH SIMON
Derek Johnson................................ EDWARD HIGHMORE
THE MOST BEAUTIFUL DRESS IN THE WORLD
BBC 'Bookmark' / 1x50m-e / 1993
Writer: Shena Mackay / Producer: James Runcie
Drama. A detectives looks into a number of bizarre crimes, based on the surreal writings of Mackay.
Harriet................................................. SUSAN FLEETWOOD
Olive................................................... HARRIET WALTER
Detective............................................. JIM CARTER
Miss Agnew........................................ RENEE ASHERSON
William............................................... NICHOLAS LE PREVOST
A MOST MYSTERIOUS MURDER
BBC1 / 3x60m / 16 October 2004
Writer: Tina Pepler, Julian Fellows / Director:
Michael Samuels / Producer: Clare Alan
Mystery. A dramatised account of an unsolved murder that intrigued Victoria
society. Florence, a rich but disgraced woman, marries Charles Bravo to regain
respectability. But he turns out to be harsh and only really married to get
control of her fortune. When he dies of poisoning foul play is suspected but
there are many within the household who appear to have sufficient motive. Julian
Fellows narrates and presents - occasionally walking into the action in modern
dress to explain a point. At the end he puts forward his theory on who carried
out the murder. This was a pilot for a proposed series and was individually
titled "The Case of Charles Bravo". From the second episode on the
show was re-titled to JULIAN FELLOWES INVESTIGATES: A MOST MYSTERIOUS MURDER
With:- NADIA CAMERON-BLAKEY as Florence / MICHAEL FASSBENDER as Charles Bravo /
ELIZABETH McKECHNIE as Mrs Cox / MICHAEL COCHRANE as Dr Gully / ALEX PALMER as
George Griffiths / LAURA STRACHAN as Mary Ann Keeber
THE MOTH
Tynes Tees-Portman / 3x60m-e / 1997
Novel: Catherine Cookson
Period drama serial. Carpenter Robert Bradley, in Edwardian times, 1903, falls in love with the wealthy Sarah Thorman.
Sarah Thorman................................. JULIET AUBREY
Robert Bradley................................. JACK DAVENPORT
Dave Waters.................................... DAVID BRADLEY
Alice Bradley................................... JANET DALE
Reginald Thorman............................ JEREMY CLYDE
Millie Thorman................................. JUSTINE WADDELL
THE MOTHER
BBC2 'Performance' / 1x60m-e / 1994
Writer: Paddy Chayefsky / Producer/Director: Simon Curtis
Period drama. remake of a 1954 USA production introduced by Diana Rigg. In 1954 New York, a widowed mother takes a job in a garment factory.
Mother................................................ ANNE BANCROFT
Daughter............................................ JOAN CUSACK
Son In Law......................................... ADRIAN PASDAR
Boss................................................. STEPHEN LANG
MOTHER CAME TOO
BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x25m-e / 1965 4 June - Friday 8.00pm black and white
Writer: Keith Waterhouse / Executive Producer: Graeme Muir / Producer: Philip Barker
Comedy. Arthur Pratt struggles to break away from his domineering mother.
With:- PEGGY MOUNT as Mrs Preston / GRAHAM STARK as Arthur Pratt
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