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OBJECTS OF AFFECTION

BBC / 7x50m-e / 1982

Writer: Alan Bennett / Producer: Innes Lloyd

Anthology of plays by Alan Bennett, the fourth play, A Day Out, was a repeat screening of his 1972 production. 1.INTENSIVE CARE, 2.OUR WINNIE, 3.A WOMAN OF NO IMPORTANCE, 4.A DAY OUT , 5.ROLLING HOME, 6.MARKS, 7.SAY SOMETHING HAPPENED

Associated-Rediffusion / 12x30m-e / 1965-66 Season one: 19 Oct - 22 Nov 65 / Season Two: 22 Feb - 29 Mar 66

Writer: Chris McMaster / Producer/Director: Daphne Shadwell 

Two scifi drama serials. The Earth is threatened by strange objects that are on line for a direct hit.

With:- TREVOR BANNISTER as  Peter Barry / RALPH NOSSEK as Prof Ramsay / CELIA BANNERMAN as Diana Winters / MARGARET NEALE as June Challis / LINDSAY CAMPBELL as Dr Rickover / ROY HERRICK as Radio Operator

BBC1 / 2x30m-e / 1998

Writers: Gareth Hale, Norman Pace, Richard Parker / Producer/Director: Peter Horton 

Two occasional comedies. The misadventures of a pair of silent eccentrics living in a sleepy country village.

Nobby................................................ GARETH HALE

Ginge................................................. NORMAN PACE

Posh Lady.......................................... MIRANDA BAKER

Bag Lady............................................ FLIP NEBSTER

Radio Voice........................................ DAVID HAMILTON

Short lived BBC2 1998 Umbrella title for a series of dark plays including Anorak of Fire  

THE ODD MAN

Granada / 16x60m-e / 1962-63 black and white

Creator: Edward Boyd / Producer: Stuart Latham 

Crime drama series. The cases of a group of detectives, a spin off series called Mr Rose emerged. See also It's Dark Outside.

Steve Gardiner.................................. EDWIN RICHFIELD

Ch Insp Gordon................................ MOULTRIE KELSALL

Ch Insp Rose................................... WILLIAM MERVYN

Det Sgt Swift.................................... KEITH BARRON

Judy Gardiner................................... SARAH LAWSON

South.............................................. CHRISTOPHER GUINEE

OFFENDERS

C4 / 7x30m / started 12 November 2002 / 11:35pm

Director: Farren Blackburn / Producer: Paolo Proto

Series following offenders carrying out work for their community service orders. Stories were about three offenders, Liam, Zoe, Chris and their supervising officer Tyla, with other offenders joining the work detail for individual episodes.

With:- RAKIE AYOLA as Tyla / BARRY AIRD as Liam / MARTHA COPE as Zoe / JUSTIN SALLINGER as Chris

ITV / 1x30m-e / 1996

Writer: Steven Moffatt / Producer: Sandra Hastie / Director: Paul Jackson 

Comedy. Things get out of hand when an office worker tries to impress his new female boss.

Norman.............................................. ROBERT LINDSAY

Hilary................................................. ISLA BLAIR

Pru.................................................... REBECCA FRONT

Nigel.................................................. STEFAN DENNIS

John.................................................. SARA POWELL

Voice of Mrs Platt............................... BELINDA LANG

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1970 8 January - Thursday 7.30pm 

Writer: Myles Rudge / Producer: Robin Nash 

Comedy.

Major Gissing.................................... JAMES GROUT

Sid Coil............................................. KEN WYNNE

Mrs Telfer.......................................... PATRICIA HAYES

Miss Jellicoe..................................... DIANA KING

Dimitri Yevgenyvitch........................... RAYMOND WESTWELL

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1959 14 April black and white

Writer: Margharita Laski / Design: Barry Learoyd / Producer: Dennis Vance  

Scifi drama. Eight years after an atomic war a young widow and her two children are living in an isolated valley when an American troop arrive.

James Verney.................................. TIM SEELY

Mary Verney..................................... DIANE CLARE

Rachel Verney.................................. ANN TODD

Martin.............................................. ROBERT BROWN

Capt Charles..................................... PHIL BROWN

Smithson.......................................... DAN JACKSON

BBC2 / 1x30m-e / 1979  23 March - Friday 10.15pm

Writers: Frederick Raphael, Kenneth McLeish / Producer: Richard Broke / Director: Hugh David

Period comedy. An alternate view of history showing what happened to Helen of Troy following the Trojan War.

Helen of Troy....................................... DIANA DORS

Menelaus........................................... FREDDIE JONES

Kassandra......................................... ANNETTE CROSBIE

The Messenger.................................. DEREK GODFREY

Mr Taramasalatopoulos...................... BOB HOSKINS

Central / 1x75m-e / 1982 April/Sat 10.00pm

Writer: Trevor Griffith / Producer: Sue Birtwhistle / Music: Andy Roberts / Director: Tony Smith 

Drama. An innercity skinhead band attempt to make the big time.

Swells................................................. IAN MERCER

Napper................................................ NEIL PEARSON

Gloria.................................................. LISA LEWIS

Landry................................................. RICHARD PLATT

Finn.................................................... ADAM KOTZ

The Man.............................................. GAVIN RICHARDS

BBC/TCF / 13x50m-e / 1976

Creator/Producer: Gerard Glaister 

Drama series. The lives of a group of men working on an offshore oil rig.

With:- NIGEL DAVENPORT / BARBARA SHELLEY / MICHAEL WHITNEY / ANGELA DOUGLAS / CALLUM MILL

ITV / 3x60m-e / 1998

Writer/Director: Stephen Gallagher / Producer: Brian Eastman 

Thriller serial. Teacher Jim Harper finds himself hunted down after his body is used in a sinister medical experiment.

Jim Harper........................................ STEPHEN TOMPKINSON

Rochelle............................................ LYDZIA ENGLERT

Linda................................................ MARIA LENNON

Viveros............................................. JAMES McCARTHY

Daniel.............................................. JAMES DUKE

Dr Franks......................................... MICHAEL BERTENSHAW

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1970 15 July - Wed 7.30pm 

Writer: Keith Waterhouse / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson / Director: Vere Lorrimer 

Comedy. Old World War One soldier Sam Oakley hates everything about the modern world.

Sam Oakley..................................... BILLY RUSSELL

Arthur Oakley................................... ARTHUR ENGLISH

Lily Oakley...................................... GRETCHEN FRANKLIN

Josie Oakley................................... TAMARA USTINOV

LWT / 1x / 1979

Writer: Alan Bennett / Director: Lindsay Anderson 

Comedy drama.

BBC / x25m-e / 1962 black and white

Novel: Charles Dickens 

Period drama serial. A dwarf enters the life of a man and his daughter and has a strange effect on them.

With:- MICHELE DOTRICE / OLIVER JOHNSTON / ANTON RODGERS / RONALD CUNLIFFE / PATRICK TROUGHTON

BBC / 3x60m-e / 1991

Writer: Andrew Davies / Music: John Altman / Director: Tristam Powell 

Comedy drama serial. A TV presenter returns to his Welsh home town after an absence of 40 years in order to write a novel but soon finds himself disrupting the lives of his former drinking pals.

With:- JOHN STRIDE as Alan Weaver / JAMES GROUT / RAY SMITH / BERNARD HEPTON / SHEILA ALLEN / ANNE STALLYBRASS / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS / ANNA CROPPER

THE OLD GREY WHISTLE TEST

BBC /  1971-87

Music show. In a world accustomed to Top of the Pops, this was a show on which the bands performed album tracks and were interviewed after they had played. The music was live and, since the idea was to air new sounds, many of the bands were making their first television appearance. Presenter Bob Harris recalls how the show's name was inspired by the doormen in grey suits who worked at the music publishing houses in London's Denmark Street , known as 'tin pan alley': "It was a 'tin pan alley' phrase from years ago. When they got the first pressing of a record they would play it to people they called the old greys. The ones they could remember and could whistle having heard it just once or twice had passed the old grey whistle test." 
The program went out on BBC2, last thing on a Tuesday night. If things were going well on the show, it would stay on air. Some shows ended after 25 minutes while particularly good ones sometimes extended to an hour and a half. After an incredible 16 year run featuring the greatest artists from rock, country, punk, new wave and alternative, The Old Grey Whistle Test ended its historic broadcast life in 1987. 

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1990

Writer: Simon Gray / Producer: Kenith Trodd / Director: Christopher Morahan 

Comedy. A barrister allows himself to get caught up in a convoluted conspiracy with an obsessive middle aged recluse.

With:- STEPHEN FRY / MIRIAM MARGOYLES / SIMON CALLOW / CLIVE FRANCIS

ITV / 1x105m-e / 1991

Writers: Dean Parker, Greg McGee / Director: Adam Clayton 

Comedy drama. When a dying linesman admits he cheated during a vital Welsh Vs New Zealand Rugby International in 1966, the authorities agree the only way to settle things is to replay the match with the original players. A lot of well known rugby players from the 1960's and 70's appeared as themselves. 

With:- ROBERT PUGH / GLYN HOUSTON / ALISON BRUCE / WINDSOR DAVIES / BARRY JOHN / GARETH EDWARDS

BBC1 / 5x50m-e / 1995

Writer: Alan Plater / Producer: David Cunliffe / Director: Giles Foster 

Comedy drama serial.  Redundant teacher Oliver undertakes a strange odyssey to try and discover the whereabouts of 'Aristotle'.

Oliver.................................................. ALAN BATES

Diane................................................. SINEAD CUSACK

Moody................................................ MICHAEL BYRNE

Norman Moody................................... SUE RODERICK

Librarian............................................. MURIEL PAVLOW

Baxter................................................ BILL PATERSON

BBC / 13x25m-e / 1962 7 Jan - 1 Apr black and white

Writer: Constance Cox / Novel: Charles Dickens / Producer: Eric Taylor  

Period drama serial. Young 19th century foundling boy Oliver Twist runs away to London and gets mixed up in the machinations of Fagin and the evil Bill Sykes.

Oliver Twist........................................ BRUCE PROCHNIK

Fagin................................................ MAX ADRIAN

Artful Dodger..................................... MELVYN HAYES

Bill Sykes......................................... PETER VAUGHAN

Nancy.............................................. CARMEL McSHARRY

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1985

Writer: Alexander Baron / Producer: Terrance Dicks / Director: Gareth Davies

Period drama serial. Young orphan Oliver Twist falls in with Fagin and the evil Bill Sykes. 

With:- BEN RODSKA as Oliver / ERIC PORTER as Fagin / LYSETTE ANTHONY / FARNK MIDDLEMISS / GODFREY JONES

HTV/United/Diplomat/ WGBH Boston / 4x120m-e / 1999 28 Nov - 19 Dec Sun 9.00pm

Writer: Alan Bleasdale / Novel: Charles Dickens / Music: Paul Pritchard with additional themes by Elvis Costello / Design: Malcolm Thornton / Costume: Ros Ebbut / Executive Producers: Alan Bleasdale, Michele Buck, Rebecca Eaton / Producer: Keith Thompson / Director: Renny Rye

Period drama serial. The classic Dickens story of young Orphan boy Oliver and his involvement with crooks Fagin and Bill Sykes. Bleasdale came up with a complete re-interpretation of the story with the first episode devoted to the events leading upto Oliver's birth.

Oliver Twist....................................... SAM SMITH

Fagin................................................ ROBERT LINDSAY

Bill Sykes......................................... ANDY SERKIS

Mrs Mann......................................... JULIE WALTERS

Nancy.............................................. EMILY WOOF

Mr Bumble....................................... DAVID ROSS

Edwin Leeford.................................. TIM DUTTON

Elizabeth Leeford.............................. LINDSAY DUNCAN

Monks............................................. MARK WARREN

Sally................................................ LIZ SMITH

Mr Fleming....................................... ALUN ARMSTRONG

Mrs Bedwin...................................... ANNETTE CROSBIE

Mr Brownlow.................................... MICHAEL KITCHEN

The Artful Dodger.............................. ALEX CROWLEY

Bet.................................................. ISLA FISHER

Mr Sowerby..................................... ROGER LLOYD PACK 

OMAGH

C4 / 1x120m / 27 May 2004

Writers: Guy Hibbert, Paul Greengrass / Director: Pete Travis / Producers: Ed Guiney, Paul Greengrass

Drama retelling the real events of 15 August 1998 when an IRA car bomb blew up in a main shopping street in the small Irish town of Omagh. In the aftermath of these events Michael Gallagher, the father of one of the victims, organises an action group to fight for justice for the bereaved families against political pressures to not arrest or prosecute the suspected perpetrators so as not to risk destabilising the peace process.

With:- GERARD McSORLEY as Michael Gallagher / STUART GRAHAM as Victor Barker / PETER BALANCE as Mark Bresin / MICHELLE FORBES as Patsy Gallagher / PAULINE HUTTON as Sharon Gallagher / FIONA GLASCOTT as Cathy Gallagher