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MOTHER LOVE

BBC / 4x55m-e / 1989

Writer: Andrew Davies / Novel: Dominic Taylor / Music: Patrick Gowers / Producer: Ken Riddington / Director: Simon Langton

Drama serial. Helena Vesey's obsessive love for her son Kit sets her on a trail of destruction and murder letting no one, not even her son's wife Angela come between them.

With:- DIANA RIGG as Helena Vesey / DAVID McCALLUM as Alex Vesey / JAMES WILBY as Kit Vesey / FIONA GILLIES as Angela / JAMES GROUT as George / HOLLY AIRD as Emily / ISLA BLAIR / AMELIA SHANKLEY as Harriet / LOUISA JAMES as Little Helena

MOTHERTIME

BBC2 / 1x990m-e / 1999

Writer/Director: Matthew Jacobs

Drama. When her out of control drinking threatens to spoil their Christmas, the children of single mother Caroline, take steps and lock her in the sauna to force her to dry out.

With:- GINA McKEE as Caroline / KATE MABERLY as Vanessa / IMOGEN STUBBS as Suzie / ANTHONY ANDREWS as Robin / IAN REDDINGTON as Bart / FAITH BROOK as Isobel / SHEILA ALLEN as Eileen

THE MOUNTAIN AND THE MOLEHILL

BBC / 1x80m-e / 1988

Writer: David Reid / Director: Moira Armstrong

Period drama. At the height of the second world war, a trio of schoolboys unwittingly use D-Day landing codes as answers in a crossword they are asked to set, MI5 then get involved.

With:- MICHAEL GOUGH as Mr Mags / MICHAEL QUILL as Reg / DEMITRI JAGGER as Dennis / JACOB KRICHEFSKI as Norman / JOHN CARSON as Lauderdale / PAUL BROOKE as Lilliwhite

MOUSEY

RSO / 1x75m-e / 1973

Writer: John Peacock / Music: Ron Grainer / Director: Daniel Petrie

Thriller. The ex-wife of a schoolteacher is receiving threats on her life.

With:- KIRK DOUGLAS / JEAN SEBERG / JOHN VERNON / SAM WANAMAKER

MOVING STORY

ITV Network / 1x90m-e 11x60m-e / 1994-95

Creator: Jack Rosenthal / Producer: Linda Agran

Comedy drama series. The 'ups and downs' of a removal firm, especially the main crew of 'The African Queen' led by the general knowledge mad Bamber.

With:- WARREN CLARKE as Bamber / PHILIP DAVIS as Adrenalin / CON O'NEIL as Nick / RHONNY JHUTTI as Asif / KENNETH COLLEY as Ken / SHEILA KELLY as Patsy / MELANIE KILBURN as Charlotte / EMMA AMOS as Kathy / ALAN IGBON as Denis

MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING

BBC (Part of the BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x148m-e / 1984

Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Simon Rogers / Producer: Shaun Sutton / Director: Stuart Burge

Comedy about all manner of star crossed lovers especially the relationship between that of bachelor Benedick and the fiery Beatrice.

With:- ROBERT LINDSAY as Benedick / CHERI LUNGHI as Beatrice / LEE MONTAGUE as Leonato / JON FINCH as Don Pedro / KATHERINE LEVY as Hero / VERNON DOBTCHEFF as Don John / GORDON WHITING as Antonio / ROBERT REYNOLDS as Claudio / ROBERT GWYLYM as Comrade / OZ CLARKE as Balthesar

MUCK AND BRASS

Central / 6x60m-e / 1982

Writer: Tom Clarke / Producer: Margaret Matheson / Directors: Martin Campbell, Marek Kanievska

Drama serial. A ruthless property developer makes his mark in the Midlands. One of Mel Smith's rare straight acting roles.

With:- MEL SMITH as Tom Craig / DARIAN ANGADI

A MUG'S GAME

BBC1 / 4x60m-e / 1996

Writer: Donna Franceschild / Producer: Catherine Wearing / Director: David Blair

Drama serial. When McCaffrey arrives in a small fishing village on the West Coast of Scotland in order to run a fish farm, he shakes up the world of the people around him.

McCaffrey............................................. KEN STOTT

Kathy................................................... MICHELLE FAIRLEY

Con..................................................... SEAN HARRIS

Denise................................................. KATY MURPHY

Agnes................................................. JUNE WATSON

Alan.................................................... JIMMY YUILL

Kenny................................................. EWAN STEWART

MURDER

BBC2 / 4x50m / started 29 May / 9:00pm

Writer: Abi Morgan / Director: Beeban Kidron / Producer: Rebecca de Souza

Drama about a single murder with each episode focusing on the impact of the event on some of those affected:- Journalist, Newsagent, Detective, Eye-Witness

With:- JULIE WALTERS as Angela Maurer / DAVID MORRISSEY as Dave Dewston / IMELDA STAUNTON as DCI Billie Dory / OM PURI as Akash Gupta / RON COOK as Gareth McGuinness / ROBERT GLENISTER as Robert Weldon / NICOLA REYNOLDS as Roz Finch / PAUL HIGGINS as Lee Finch / JASON DONE as Christopher Maurer

MURDER - A PROFESSIONAL JOB

Granada / 1x60m-e / 1968 black and white

Writer/Producer: Marc Brondel / Director: Michael Apted

Crime drama. A convention guest staying at a hotel is murdered.

With:- MICHAEL BATES / TOM CRIDDLE / MARK EDEN / JIMMY HANLEY

MURDER BAG

Associated-Rediffusion / 55x30m-e / 1957-59 black and white

Creator: Glyn Davies / Writers: Barry Baker, Peter Ling / Producer: Barry Baker

Crime drama series. Cases for Detective Superintendent Tom Lockhart. The bag of the title was the bag Lockhart carried his forensic equipment in, Lockhart went on to appear in Crime Sheet and the long running No Hiding Place. The show was actually produced live in the studio.

With:- RAYMOND FRANCIS as Det Supt Tom Lockhart

MURDER BY THE BOOK

TVS / 1x60m-e / 1986

Writer: Nick Evans

Comedy thriller. Celebrated Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is brought face to face with his creator Agatha Christie when she intends killing him off.

Hercule Poirot................................... IAN HOLM

Agatha Christie................................. PEGGY ASHCROFT

Max Mallowan.................................. RICHARD WILSON

Edmund Cork................................... MICHAEL ALDRIDGE

MURDER CITY

ITV1 / 6x90m / started 18 March 2004

Writer: Robert Murphy / Director: Sam Miller / Producers: David Boulter, Tony Dennis

Crime drama series. There are 365 murders every year in this city - one every day - or so this series tells us. So more than enough to keep DI Susan Alembic and her unorthodox colleague DS Luke Stone busy.

With:- AMANDA DONOHOE as DI Susan Alembic / KRIS MARSHALL as DS Luke Stone / GEFF FRANCIS as DI Adrian Dumfries / AMBER Agar as Dr Annie Parvez / LAURA MAIN as DC Alison Bain / CONNOR MCINTYRE as DC Frank Craven / TIM WOODWARD as DCI Turner

MURDER CLUB

ABC / 1x60m-e / 1961 black and white

Writer: Robert Shackley / Design: Voytek / Producer: Sydney Newman

Scifi drama. A naive 22nd century social climber is pressured by his boss into taking up hunting to improve his promotion chances.

Venusian Compere.............................. STEVE PLYTAS

Dr Swann........................................... CHARLES LLOYD PACK

Stanley Frelaine.................................. RICHARD BRIERS

Mr Morger........................................... PATRICK MAGEE

Stanley's Mother ................................ PATIENCE COLLIER

MURDER ELITE

C4 / 1x55m-e / 1997

Writer: N.J. Crisp / Producer: Jeffrey Broom / Director: Claude Whatham

Thriller. Margaret Baker, living on her own in a remote part of the country, tries to run her ailing stud farm whilst a murderer is also at large.

Margaret Baker................................ BILLIE WHITELAW

Jimmy Fowler.................................. HYWEL BENNETT

Diane.............................................. ALI McGRAW

Ron Price........................................ RAY LONNEN

MURDER IN EDEN

BBC / 3x50m-e / 1991

Writer: Shane Connaughton / Music: Bill Connor / Director: Nicholas Renton

Thriller serial. The landlord of a pub in a small Irish village finds himself being blackmailed over the recent death of a barman.

With:- TONY DOYLE / PETER FIRTH / IAN BANNEN / ALUN ARMSTRONG / TARA MacGOWRAN / BREFNI McKENNA

MURDER IN MIND

BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1994

Writer: Jenny Diski / Producer: Lynn Horsford / Director: Robert Bierman

Thriller. A therapist lures a police inspector into a deadly games when he begins to make enquiries about a patient's death.

With:- CHARLOTTE RAMPLING / TREVOR EVE / CATHRYN HARRISON as Eileen / JULIETTE CATON as Fern / STEVEN MACKINTOSH as Simon / ANNA MASSEY as Rosemary / BRUCE ALEXANDER as Mills / PETER WINGFIELD as Pete / MARTIN WENNER as Danny

MURDER IN MIND

BBC1 / 23x60m-e / 2001-2003 (First Episode: Sunday 22 April/ 9.00pm)

Creator: Anthony Howoritz / Producer: Paul Knight

An anthology series of self contained plays with a murderous theme, the twist being that the action was followed from the point of view of the killer. The casts included the likes of Keeley Hawes, David Suchet, Gillian Kearney, Steve McFadden, Timothy West, Ian Kelsey and Kevin Whately. Episode guide here.

MURDER IN SUBURBIA

ITV1 / 6x60m / started 13 March 2004

Writer: Nick Collins / Producer: Joy Spink

Crime drama series. Two women detectives investigate murders in the suburban town of Middleford.

With:- CAROLINE CATZ as DI Kate Ashurst / LISA FAULKNER as DS Emma Scribbins / JEREMY SHEFFIELD as DCI Sullivan

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL

BBC / 1x25m-e / 1936 black and white

Writer: T.S. Eliot / Producer: George More O'Ferrall

Period drama. An early play (using some filmic techniques in conjunction with the live performance, such as superimposed ghosts in one scene) detailing the events surrounding the murder of Thomas A'Becket.

Thomas A'Becket........................... ROBERT SPEAIGHT

MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL

BBC / 1964 one off play black and white

Producer: Peter Luke / Director: George R. Foa

Period drama. The events surrounding the murder of Thomas A' Becket killed by five knights on the orders of King Henry.

With:- CYRIL CUSACK / DENIS QUILLEY / JOHN BENNETT / ESMOND KNIGHT / JOHN CARSON

MURDER MOST ENGLISH

BBC2 / 7x50m-e / 1977 8 May - 19 June

Writer: Richard Harris / Producer: Martin Lisemore / Directord: Ronald Wilson

Crime drama serial. A Detective Inspector investigates a crime in the town of Flaxborough.

With:- ANTON RODGERS as Detective Inspector Purbright / CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY as Sid

MURDER MOST HORRID

BBC2/Talkback / 24x30m-e / 1991-99 Four seasons

Producers: Jon Plowman, Sophie Clarke-Jervoise

An anthology of four seasons of comedy thrillers with Dawn French taking the lead role in each and each one focusing on a different aspect of murder.

MURDER MUST ADVERTISE

BBC / 4x50m-e / 1973 30 Nov - 21 Dec

Writer: Bill Craig / Novel: Dorothy L. Sayers / Producer: Richard Beynon / Directord: Rodney Bennett

Period crime drama serial. A case for Lord Peter Wimsey.

With:- IAN CARMICHAEL as Lord Peter Wimsey / PETER BOWLES as Major Milligan / ROBIN BAILEY / PAUL DARROW / MARK EDEN / FIONA WALKER

A MURDER OF QUALITY

Thames / 1x120m-e / 1991

Writer: John Le Carre /Director: Gavin Millar

Period spy drama. During the 1950's George Smiley turns amateur detective to investigate the murder of a school-master's wife.

With:- DENHOLM ELLIOTT as George Smiley / GLENDA JACKSON as Ailsa Brimley / JOSS ACKLAND / SAMANTHA JANUS / RONALD PICKUP / DAVID THRELLFALL

THE MURDER OF STEPHEN LAWRENCE

Granada / 1x120m-e / 1999 18 February

Writer/Director: Paul Greengrass / Producer: Mark Redhead

Drama. A recreation of the events surrounding the infamous murder of black Stephen Lawrence by allegedly a group of white men.

Doreen Lawrence........................... MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE

Neville Lawrence............................ HUGH QUARSHIE

Stephen Lawrence......................... LEON BLACK

Stuart Lawrence............................ ASHLEY WALTERS

Georgina Lawrence....................... MILLICENT GEZI

Duwayne Brooks........................... JOSEPH KPOBIE

Sir Paul Condon............................ DAVID CALDER

Michael Mansfield QC .................. KENNETH CRANHAM

MURDER ON THE MOON

LWT / 1x120m-e / 1989 26 August

Writer: Carl Jean Wagner / Music: Trevor Jones / Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Scifi crime drama. A murder is investigated in a titanium mine being worked on the moon.

Maggie Bartok................................... BRIGITTE NIELSEN

Stefan Kilenko.................................. JULIAN SANDS

Louis Mackey................................... JANE LAPOTAIRE

Keronov........................................... BRIAN COX

Dr Isabelle Klein............................... ALPHONSIA EMMANUEL

Alison Quinney................................ GEORGINA HALE

Patsy Dietal.................................... CELIA IMRIE

Change........................................... DAVID YIP

MURDER ROOMS:The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

BBC2-BBC Films- The TV Prod Co. / 6x60m-e / 1999-2001

Writer: David Pirie / Music: Jim Parker / Photography: John Kenway / Costume: Frances Tempest / Executive Producer: David M. Thompson / Producer: Ian Madden / Director: Paul Seed

Period thriller series. In 1878 a young Conan Doyle begins working with Edinburgh forensic pathologist Dr Joseph Bell, the pair of them go on the trail of a brutal serial killer, Dr Bell is thought to be the inspiration for Conan Doyle's most famous creation Sherlock Holmes. A series then followed the original two part serial.

Joseph Bell...................................... IAN RICHARDSON

Arthur Conan Doyle.......................... ROBIN LAING

Sir Henry Carlyle.............................. CHARLES DANCE

Elspeth........................................... DOLLY WELLS

Lady Sarah Carlyle.......................... RUTH PLATT

Inspector Beecher........................... SEAN McGINLEY

Summers........................................ LAURIE VENTRY

Crawford......................................... JOEL STRACHAN

Dr Gillespie.................................... STEPHEN MacDONALD

The Strand editor............................ RALPH RIACH

Crawford Snr.................................. BERNARD HORSFALL

Neill.............................................. ALEC NEWMAN

Stark............................................ ANDREW JOHN TAIT

Sophia ......................................... TAMSIN PIKE

THE MURDER ROOM

BBC1 / 2x90m / 1&2 January 2005

Writer: PD James (Book), Robert Jones (adaptation) / Director: Diarmuid Lawrence / Producer: Richard Broke

Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates a series of murders at a museum dedicated to the history of serial killings while at the same time trying to save his struggling relationship with his love interest Emma Lavenham. This was the second (after a fairly long wait) of the new adaptations of the Dalgliesh stories which began in August 2003 with DEATH IN HOLY ORDERS

cast
MARTIN SHAW as Cmdr Adam Dalgliesh / JANIE DEE as Emma Lavenham / SAMANTHA BOND as Caroline Dupayne / KERRY FOX as Muriel Godby / SIAN PHILLIPS as Marie Strickland / MICHAEL MALONEY as Neville Dupayne

MURDER STAMP

Associated-Rediffusion / 1x60m-e / 1960 black and white

Writers: Geoffrey Bellman, John Whitney / Director: Jonathan Alwyn

Crime drama. Nairobian criminologist Jango Smith, on attachment to Scotland Yard, investigates an old case.

Jango Smith...................................... ROBERT URQUHART

MURPHY'S LAW

BBC1 - Element Films - Tiger Aspect / 11x90minute episodes 6x60 minute episodes / 2001 (pilot) / series started 28 April 2003 - 3 October 2007

Creator: Colin Bateman / Creative Consultant: James Nesbitt / Music: Magnus Fiennes / Executive Producers: Andrew Lowe, Greg Brenman / Producer: Sanne Craddick

Maverick wisecracking Tommy Murphy is a policeman who performs undercover operations under the direction of his boss Annie Guthrie. A pilot episode in 2001 (included in the above episode count) had Murphy going undercover to infiltrate a gang suspected of pulling off lucrative diamond heists in London. Claudia Harrison made a brief cameo at the beginning of the first episode of the second series as her character falls victim to a serial killer whilst working undercover.

Series one and two had been made up of individual stories but from series three onwards the episodes followed one particular. Series four and five were three part stories shown over consecutive evenings.

Nesbitt is excellent in the lead role (apart from the Viva Zapata moustache of course) and the series, which is pretty hard hitting and in your face, plays pretty fast and loose with the lines that a copper should not step over.

The series is filmed in Ireland.

With:- JAMES NESBITT as Tommy Murphy / CLAUDIA HARRISON as Annie Guthrie (pilot and series 1 only) / DEL SYNOTT as DC Alan Carter (series 1 and 2) / MARK BENTON as Father McBride (series 1 and 2) / MARK WOMACK as Dave Callard (major villain for series three) / OWEN TEALE as DS Paul Allison (series 3) / GEORGIA MACKENZIE as Ellie Holloway (series 3) / BRIAN McCARDIE as Billy Jonstone / CHRISTOPHER FULFORD as Mark Baker (villain for series 5) / ROBBIE GEE as DCS John Atwood (series 5) / ANDREA LOWE as DC Kim Goodall (story lynchpin for series 5) / TIM DANTAY as DS Mitch Kershaw (series 5)

MURPHY'S STROKE

Thames / 1x90m-e / 1980

Producer: Frank Cvitanovitch

Comedy drama. In 1974 a Daily Mail reporter gets involved in an Irish syndicates planned betting coup.

Murphy................................................ NIALL TOBIN

Ewbank Callender................................. ROY BARRON

MURRAY AND ME

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x25m-e / 1965 8 July - Thursday 8.50pm black and white

Writer: John Law / Executive Producer: Graeme Muir / Producer: Philip Barker

Comedy. Murray tries to learn 'the knowledge' (of all the streets in London) in order to become a taxi driver.

Murray............................................ CHIC MURRAY

Tommy Penn................................... ALAN BAULCH

LA MUSICA

ATV / 1x / 1965 black and white

Writer: Marguerite Duras / Translation: Barbara Bray / Producer: Josephine Douglas / Director: John Nelson Burton

Drama. A couple meet up by chance on the day their divorce comes through.

With:- MICHAEL CRAIG / VANESSA REDGRAVE

MY BEAUTIFUL SON

ITV / 1x120m / 2001

Writer: Tim Kazurinsky / Director: Paul Seed / Producers: Jeff Pope, Bob Mills

Comedy drama. An American man is diagnosed with leukaemia and decides to track down his British birth mother.

With:- PAUL REISER as Jerry Lipman / JULIE WALTERS as Sheila Fitzpatrick / OLYMPIA DUKAKIS / GEORGE WENDT as Howard / AMY ROBBINS as Maureen / TONY MAUDSLY as Frank / RICKY TOMLINSON as Uncle Alfred

MY BROTHER JONATHAN

BBC1 / 4x50m-e / 1984

Writer: James Andrew Hall / Novel: Francis Brett Young / Script Editor: Mervyn Haisman / Costume Design: Rita Reekie / Music: Stanley Myers / Design: Humphrey Jaegar / Producer: Joe Waters / Director: Anthony Garner

Period drama serial. The relationship between two brothers in the Black Country in the early part of the 20th century, ungainly and hard done by eldest son Jonathan and the younger athletic, clever Harold. Jonathan is determined to become a doctor, moving to a slum area of London when he first qualifies.

With:- DANIEL DAY LEWIS as Jonathan / HELEN RYAN as Laura Dakers / CAROLINE BLISS as Edie Martin / FREDERICK TREVES as Dr Hammond / TP McKENNA as Lloyd Moore / MICHAEL TROUGHTON as Arthur Martook / JOHN STONE as Dr Craig / TONY DOYLE as John Morse / MICHAEL LOUGHNAN as Dr Monaghan / ANTHONY ROWE as Mr Wilburn / SALLY WATKINS as Lily Rudge

MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS

BBC1 / 10x30m-e / 1987

Book: Gerald Durrell / Music: Daryl Runwick / Director: Peter Barber-Fleming

Period drama serial. In 1935 young naturalist Gerald Durrell spends a year on the island of Corfu with his family. Based on the true story of Durrell's early years.

With:- BRIAN BLESSED as Spiros / DARREN REDMAYNE as Gerald / HANNAH GORDON / SARAH JANE HOLM / ANTHONY CALF / GUY SCANTLEBURY /JOHN NORMINGTON / CHRISTOPHER GODWIN / YIORGAS DIALEGMANOS / EDWARD PARSONS / ANGELA BARROW

MY FAMILY AND OTHER ANIMALS

BBC1 / 1x90m / 27 December 2005

Book: Gerald Durrell / Adaptation: Simon Nye / Executive Producer: Susan Hogg / Director: Sheree Folkson / Producer: Simon Lewis

Period family drama. In the 1930s young Gerald Durrell and his family go to Corfu for an extended holiday. Gerry becomes madly keen on nature and starts collecting all kinds of animals in his room much to the annoyance of his mother, two brothers and sister all of whom have their own share of peculiarities.

Filmed on location in Corfu over five weeks and befitting a story about Gerald Durrell featuring many animals most of which had to be imported from the UK as the heavy use of insecticide to protect Corfu's Olive crop has killed off much of the insect and small mammal population so loved by the naturalist. Durrell who grew up to a respected and well known naturalist founded the Jersey Zoo in 1959. He died in 1995.

With:- IMELDA STAUNTON as Mrs Durrell / EUGENE SIMON as Gerry / MATTHEW GOODE as Larry / TAMZIN MERCHANT as Margo / RUSSELL TOVEY as Leslie / CHRIS LANGHAM as Theo / OMID DJALILI as Spiro MARK CAVEN as Henry Miller / TOM GOODMAN HILL as Peter / DAVID ARMAND as George

MY FATHER'S HOUSE

ITV (Granada) / 7x50 minute episodes / 1981

Writer: Paula Milne / Novel: Kathleen Conlon / Producer: June Howson / Director: Alan Grint

Drama series. A young schoolgirl, living between her divorced parents, discovers that their world isn't al it is cracked up to be.

With:- JUDY HOLT / HELEN RYAN / TERENCE HARDIMAN / STEVEN MANN / ANNE REID

MY FRAGILE HEART

ITV Network-Tiger Aspect / 1x90m-e 1x80m-e / 2000 (17-18 September / Sunday 9.00pm and Monday 9.10pm)

Writer: Abi Morgan / Costume: Sarah Burns / Design: Roger Cann / Music: Colin Towns / Camera: Nigel Walters / Executive Producers: Greg Brenman, Lucy Richer / Producer: Rebecca de Souza / Director: Gavin Millar

Thriller. Trina Lavery returns home to her small Stoke home town after 20 years away to care for her ageing mother, she learns that Bernard Cleve, a man convicted of murdering her best friend when she was in her teens, is also living in the area after having his conviction quashed. Then another young girl is found murdered in the exact same spot as Trina's friend was found, Bernard is once again prime suspect but Trina starts to think he may be innocent.

With:- SARAH LANCASHIRE as Trina Lavery / LORCAN CRANITCH as Bernard Cleve / ANNE STALLYBRASS as Sandra Park / EVA POPE as Ruby Mason / LYNDA ROOKE as Maureen 'Mo' Blake / NICHOLAS GLEAVES as Joe Macavoy / ROBERT GLENISTER as Stephen 'Squeal' Blake / JOHN McARDLE as Roy Lavery / DAVID WESTHEAD as DCI Peter Murray / KELLY THRESHER as Shannon Macavoy / SARAH PRICE as Becca Blake / KATE RICHARDS as Katya Mason / RACHEL GATSIDE as Dr Rachel Dowd

MY KINGDOM FOR A HORSE

BBC / 1x70m-e / 1990

Writer: John Godber / Director: Barbara Rennie

Drama. A lonely 30 year year old teacher falls for the schools new careers officer.

With:- SEAN BEAN / JANE CLIFFORD / SHEILA HANCOCK / BRYAN PRINGLE / ANDREW LIVINGSTON

MY NIGHT WITH REG

BBC2 'Performance' / 1x90m-e / 1997

Writer: Kevin Elyot / Producer: Kevin Loader / Director: Roger Michell

Comedy drama. Over a period of three evenings, six gay friends meet up to discuss love, life, the universe and everything.

With:- DAVID BAMBER as Guy / JOHN SESSIONS as Daniel / ANTHONY CALF as John / JOE DUTTINE as Eric / ROGER FROST as Bernie / KENNETH MacDONALD as Benny

THE MYSTERY OF MEN

BBC1-Valentine / 1x95m-e / 1999 30 August - Monday 9.00pm

Writer: Nick Vivian / Music: Colin Towns / Costume: Leigh Bellis / Design: Peter Walpole / Producer: Steve Lanning / Director: David Wheatley

Comedy drama. Four male friends hatch a plan to make their fortune, (they each take out a life insurance policy, with the others as beneficiaries, the one living the longest collecting all the loot), but soon greed is driving each of them to desperate measures.

With:- WARREN CLARKE as Vernon / NICK BERRY as Colin Dunbar / NEIL PEARSON as Julian / ROBERT DAWS as Oscar / JUDY WATSON as Louise / MARK FROST as Wayne / BILLY HODSON as Fay / EMILY MORGAN as Suzy / BOBBY WINDEBANK as Adrian / MICHAEL COLE as Gavin / NICK HUTCHINSON as Harris / GEOFFREY BEEVERS as Dr Littlejohn / CHRISTOPHER McHALLEM as Det Sgt Hall / STEPHEN CHURCHETT as Mr Haines

MY SON MY SON

BBC-Time-Life / 6x50m-e / 1978

Writer: Julian Bond / Novel: Howard Spring / Producer: Keith Williams / Director: Peter Creggen

Period drama serial.

With:- KATE BINCHY / MICHAEL WILLIAMS / PATRICK RYECART / PATSY BYRNE / JULIAN FELLOWES / SHERRIE HEWSON

MYSTERY AND IMAGINATION

ABC/Thames / 22x60m-e 6x90m-e / 1966-70 (29 Jan 1966 - 23 Feb 1970 | 3 seasons)

Creators: Jonathan Alwyn, Terence Feely / Producer: Jonathan Alwyn

Anthology series of Victorian spooky stories of mainly classics including Dracula and Frankenstein, plus stories by Stevenson and Edgar Allen Poe as well as such delights as Sweeney Todd and The Canterville Ghost.

With:- DAVID BUCK as Richard Bennett (Host)

MY SUMMER WITH DES

BBC1 / 1x80m-e / 1998

Writer: Arthur Smith / Producer: Joy Spink / Director: Simon Curtis

Comedy drama. Martin thinks back about his idyllic summer of 1996 when England almost managed to win the European Football Championships and Martin fell for the mysterious and beautiful Rosie. The Des of the title referred to then BBC link man Des Lynam who popped up throughout the production to offer Martin words of wisdom.

With:- NEIL MORRISSEY as Martin / RACHEL WEISZ as Rosie / JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR as Cameron / ARABELLA WEIR as Barbara / GRAEME GARDEN as Angus / TONY SELBY as Barman

MY UNCLE SILAS

ITV1 / x30m / started 5 January 2002

Producer: Peter Norris

Stories of the H E Bates character with a legendary lust for life - and the ladies.

With:- ALBERT FINNEY as Silas / SUE JOHNSTON as Mrs Betts / JOE PROSPERO as Edward

MY WONDERFUL LIFE

Granada / x30m-e / 1997-99

Writer/Associate Producer: Simon Nye / Theme Music: Alisha's Attic / Producers: Mark Redhead (Seasons 1-2), / Spencer Campbell (Season 3)

Comedy drama series. The chaotic home and love life of busy nurse and single mum Donna. Based on a one hour pilot broadcast 25 Feb 1996, called True Love.

With:- EMMA WRAY as Donna / GARY WEBSTER as Lawrie / VICKY CONNETT as Shirley / TONY ROBINSON as Alan / AMANDA RILEY as Rhiannon / PHILIP GLENISTER as Phil / NICOLA STEPHENSON as Gail / OLIVER FURNESS as Simon / HAMISH CLARK as Roger

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