Memorable TV

THE ONLY BOY FOR ME

ITV1 Network-High Stakes Production / 1x90 minute episode / Broadcast Wednesday 6 September 2006 @ 9.00pm 

Writer: Mark Wallington / Novel: Gill Mcneil / Director of Photography: Martin Hawkins / Editor: George Akers / Costume designer: Amy Roberts / Hair and make-up designer: Christine Walmesley-Cotham / Production designer: Helen Scott / Producer: Ann Scott / Director: Dewi Humphreys 

Comedy drama. Annie is bringing up her son Charlie on her own. They are happily settled in a small village with Annie working part-time making TV commercials. Then she meets Mack. Mack is older, divorced, sexy and successful. They fall in love and Mack turns their cosy life upside down. And then he is offered a job in New York…

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Helen Baxendale as Annie / Patrick Baladi as Mack / Karl Rogers as Charlie / Jack Shepherd as Grandpa / Anna Carteret as Nana / Claudia Harrison as Leila / Lara Cazalet as Kate / Ralph Ineson as Lawrence / Hamish Clark as Barney

ONLY MAKE BELIEVE 

BBC1 Play for Today / 1x75m-e / 12 Feb 1973

Writer: Dennis Potter / Director: Robert Knights

A kind of 'companion-piece' to Angels Are So Few in which a TV playwright struggles to write his latest play (which is Angels Are So Few).

With Keith Barron as Christopher Hudson  and Georgina Hale as Sandra George / Alun Armstrong as Michael Biddle / Rowena Cooper as Cynthia Nicholls / Laurence Hardy as Doctor / George Howe as Mr Cawser / John Malcolm as Interviewer / Geoffrey Palmer as Richard Nicholls / Susan Richards as Mrs Cawser / Monika Ringwald as Danish Girl 

BBC1 / 1x30m-e / 1975 18 June - Wednesday 9.30pm 

Writers: Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais / Producer: Gareth Gwenlan 

Comedy. Exploits of a village cricket team.

Geoffrey.............................................. TREVOR BANNISTER

Patrick................................................ PETER BOWLES

BBC / 1x60m-e / 1985

Writer: Alan Plater / Producer: Michael Andrews / Director: John Glenister 

Period drama. The life of nonsense writer Edward Lear.

Lear..................................................... ROBERT LANG

BBC / 1x / 1980

Writer: William Humble / Director: Anthony Simmons 

Drama.

With:- BRYAN PRINGLE / JUDI DENCH / TERRY WILES

BBC / 1968-70

Writer: David Mercer / Producer: Graeme McDonald 

A trilogy of Mercer plays compromising On the Eve of Publication(1968), The Cellar and the Almond Tree(70) and Emma's Time(70).They were about a socialist writer.

Robert Kelvin(1).............................. LEO McKERN

Robert Kelvin(2).............................. ANDREW KEIR

Emma .......................................... MICHELE DOTRICE

ATV / 1x60m-e / 1967

Writer: Jacques Gillies / Producer: Cecil Clarke / Director: Quentin Lawrence 

Drama. A family living on a South American island find themselves caught up in a revolution.

Robert Cosgrove............................. MARIUS GORING

Linda Cosgrove............................... HELEN CHERRY

Tess Cosgrove................................ MICHELE DOTRICE

Colonel Guzzman............................ IAN HENDRY

BBC 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e  / 1963  28 September - Saturday 9.45pm black and white

Writers: Harry Driver, Jack Rosenthal / Director: Douglas Moodie 

Comedy. Exploits of door to door salesman Ronnie Fender.

Ronnie Fender................................ RONALD FRASER

Frank............................................. ALFRED BURKE

Carole Lewisham............................ DIANA HOPE

Arthur Lewishan............................. NOEL JOHNSON

Mrs Soames.................................. BETTY ENGLAND

Central / 6x60m-e / 1982

Writer: Jim Hawkins / Producer: Colin Rogers 

Drama series. Problems of the staff of a car manufacturing plant.

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1938 2 July black and white

Writer: Edgar Wallace / Producer: Royston Morley 

Crime drama. Gangster Tony Pirelli gets his come uppance in 1920's Chicago.

Tony Perelli..................................... CHARLES LAUGHTON

BBC / 1948 black and white

Writer: Edgar Wallce 

Crime drama. A gangster in 1920's Chicago gets his come uppance.

Tony Perelli...................................... REGINALD TATE

Granada / 10x60m-e / 1962 black and white

Producer: Peter Wildeblood 

Anthology series based on famous trials.

BBC / 12x30m-e 6x50m-e / 1973

Writers: Caryl Brahms, Ned Sherrin / Producers: Douglas Argent, Barry Lupino, Stuart Allen 

Anthology of farces based on the writings of Feydeau, all starring Patrick Cargill. Amanda Barrie(S1) and Fenella Fielding(S2) were also regulars. Season three known as Patrick Cargill in Ooh La La.

ITV / 1x120m-e / 1994

Writer/Director: Paul Greengrass / Executive Producer: Simon Shaps 

Drama. The true story of armed robber David Martin, who was chased by the police, during which film editor Stephen Waldorf found himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and was nearly killed.

David Martin..................................... RUPERT GRAVES

Sue Stephens.................................. KATE HARDIE

DC Peter Finch................................ DOUGLAS HODGE

Stephen Waldorf.............................. SAMUEL WEST

DCS Young..................................... JIM CARTER

Rich............................................... EDDIE IZZARD

Ralph Martin................................... TREVOR BYFIELD

Gloria Martin.................................. GWYNETH POWELL 

OPEN WIDE

ITV1 / 1x90m / 21 December 2005

Writer: Simon Nye / Director: Juliet May / Producer: Margot Gavan Duffy

Comedy drama. David Wivvelsfield works as an arts and drama officer in a mens' prison. One of the prisoners sets him up with his daughter for a date on the outside. He also has a tooth problem and visits a dentist and is smitten by the attractive dental assistant and asks her out. And these two women happen to be mates.

With:- ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG as David Wivveslfield / NIGEL HAVERS as Peter Hillman (Dentist) / SALLY BRETTON as Karen (dental assistant) / ANGELA GRIFFIN as Sally (prisoner's daughter)

BBC / 7x50m-e / 1981 29 October - 10 December

Writer: Peter Prince / Producer: Peter Goodchild 

Period drama serial. The life of American professor Oppenheimer who along with a group of dedicated scientists was responsible for giving the world the atomic bomb.

SAM WATERSTON as Oppenheimer / JANE SHELDON / KATE HARPER / GARRICK HAGON

BBC2 / 3x55m-e / 1990 10 January - 24 January

Writer: Janette Winterson / Producer: Phillipa Giles 

Period drama serial. Young Jess, product of a highly religious background, grows up in 1960's Lancashire with growing doubts about her sexuality.

Jess.................................................. CHARLOTTE COLMAN

Young Jess........................................ EMILY ASTON

Mother.............................................. GERALDINE McEWAN

Pastor Finch...................................... KENNETH CRANHAM

May.................................................. ELIZABETH SPRIGGS

Melanie............................................. CATHRYN BRADSHAW

Miss Jewesbury................................. CELIA IMRIE

Mrs Arkwright.................................... PAM FERRIS

Mrs Green........................................ FREDA DOWIE

C4/Picture Palace / 4x60m-e / 1991

Music: Michael Storey / Costume: Sheelagh Killeen 

Period drama serial. Three English sisters live in the Dominican republic between the wars with their ailing father.

With:- FRANCES BARBER / ELIZABETH HURLEY / KATE BUFFERY as Stella / DIANA QUICK as Madam / NIGEL TERRY as Master / CARMEN DU SAUTOY as Mamselle the Tutor / MICHAEL BYRNE as Father Toussaint

BBC / 1x / 1976

Writer: Don Shaw / Director: Bill Hays 

Period drama. The life of the wartime British General. 

With:- BARRY FOSTER as Orde Wingate / NIGEL STOCK / DENHOLM ELLIOTT

THE ORGANISATION

Yorkshire TV / 6x60m-e / 1972

Writer: Philip Mackie (winner of the writers guild award 1973 award for best drama series for this show). / Executive Producer: Peter Willes / Director: James Ormerod

Drama series. Plotting and backbiting amongst the middle management of the Greatrick Organisation still ruled by the iron hand of the chairman who created it, in the public relations department Richard Pershore is determined to get within the Organisation. The department was full of backbiting, envy, sleeping around, in fact the show was a pretty realistic look at office life.

With:- DONALD SINDEN as David Pullman / ANTON RODGERS as Peter Frame / PETER EGAN as Richard Pershore / BERNARD HEPTON / PHILIP STONE as Chantry / JOHN NETTLETON as Blount / PATRICIA MAYNARD as Chantry's Secretary /  MEL MARTIN as Jenny / ELAINE TAYLOR as Veronica

BBC1 / 1x55m-e / 1979

Story: Melvyn Bragg / Mus/lyrics: Ken Howard, Alan Blaikely / Choreography: Nita Howard / Design: Rochelle Selwyn / Director: Jeremy Swan

Scifi musical. A story told by a young boy of how his father escaped his dying home planet.

Hoan.................................................. RICHARD BARNES

Mrs Hoan........................................... LEUEEN WILLOUGHBY

David................................................. RICHARD KATES

Carol................................................. JULIA LEWIS

Bruce................................................ JEREMY TRUELOVE

Chris................................................. ANTHONY O'KEEFE

BBC 'Play for Today' / 1x90m-e / 1971

Writer: John McGrath / Stories: George Mackay Brown / Producer: Graham McDonald 

Three stories set in the Orkney Islands.

With:- RODDY McMILLAN / HANNAH GORDON / MAURICE ROEVES / CLAIRE NEILSON

Anglia / 25x30m-e / 1974-76

Producer: John Jacobs 

An anthology series of spooky stories based on works by famous writers such as Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle, W.W. Jacobs etc. Hosted by the great Orson Welles.

BBC2 / 3x50m-e / 1985

Music: Carl Davis 

Period drama serial. The life story of the gifted Victorian playwright and flamboyant homosexual Oscar Wilde, from his early triumphs to his later downfall of being sent to for sodomy.

Oscar................................................. MICHAEL GAMBON

ITC/Buckeye / 26x30m-e / bw 1957-58

Producers: Jules Buck, William Eliscu 

Wartime action adventure series. Spy based exploits of the Office of Strategic Services during world war two.

Capt Frank Hawthorne......................... RON RANDALL

The Chief............................................ LIONEL MURTON

Sgt O'Brien......................................... ROBERT GALLICO

OTHELLO

BBC / 1955 black and white

Writer: William Shakespeare

With:- Gordon Heath as Othello / ROSEMARY HARRIS as Desdemona / PAUL ROGERS as Iago

OTHELLO

BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x208m-e / 1980

Writer: William Shakespeare / Music; Stephen Oliver / Producer/Director: Jonathan Miller

Tragedy. 

With:- ANTHONY HOPKINS as Othello, Moor of Venice / BOB HOSKINS as Iago / PENELOPE WILTON as Desdemona / ANTHONY PEDLEY as Rodrigo / GEOFFREY CHATER as Brabantio / JOHN BARRON as Duke of Venice / WENDY MORGAN as Bianca / DAVID ELLAND as Cassio / JOSEPH O'CONOR as Lodovico

OTHELLO 

ITV1 / 1x120m-e / 2001 (23 December)

A one-off drama by Andrew Davies updating Shakespeare's tragedy to the Present Day police force. When John Othello is promoted to a top police job, his former friend and mentor, Ben Jago, seeks a terrible revenge. 

With:- EAMONN WALKER as John Othello / KEELEY HAWES as Dessie Brabant / CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTONE as Ben Jago / RICHARD COYLE as Michael Cass / RACHAEL STIRLING as Lulu / BILL PATERSON as Sinclair Carver / DEL SYNNOTT as PC Alan Roderick / CHRISTOPHER FOX as PC John Adey / ALAN CUTTS as PC Gordon Stiller / JOHN HARDING as Prime Minister / GERRARD McARTHUR as Jim Gordon / ANDREW CHARLESTON as Tommy Rogers / TIM FARADAY as Chief Superindendant / TIM FRANCESas Newspaper Editor / MICHELLE NEWELL as Alma Carver / PATRICK MYERS as PC Gaunt / JON SNOW as Newsreader / ANNA NILAND as Estelle / CLAIRE OBERMAN as Prosecuting Council / CARL MCCRYSTAL as Geoffrey / MORGAN JOHNSTON as Billy Coates / NICHOLAS GECKS as Home Secretary / HOWARD COGGINS as Thug 

THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL

BBC2 / 1x90m / 28 March 2003

Writer/Director: Philippa Lowthorpe / Producer: Ruth Caleb

Period drama. The story of the Boleyn sisters in the court of King Henry VIII. Mary, who first became the king's mistress and bore a child by him, and Anne who schemed to take her place while Mary was pregnant and became queen, through to her downfall and execution after her failure to give Henry a son and heir.

With:- NATASCHA MCELHONE as Mary Boleyn / JOHDI MAY as Anne Boleyn / JARED HARRIS as Henry VIII / STEVEN MACKINOSH as George Boleyn / PHILIP GLENISTER as William Stafford / JACK SHEPHERD as Thomas Boleyn / JOHN WOODVINE as Uncle Howard / RON COOK as Thomas Cromwell / ANTHONY HOWELL as William Carey / JANE GURNETT as Elizabeth Boleyn

THE OTHER MAN

Granada / 1x140m-e / 1964 black and white

Writer: Giles Cooper / Producer: Gerald Savoury / Director: Gordon Flemyng  

Alternative history drama. After Churchill's death in 1940 brought about a swift end to the war a young English officer finds himself working for the Nazi's.

With:- MICHAEL CAINE  / SEAN CONNERY / JOHN THAW / NIGEL GREEN / KENNETH COLLEY / GEORGE LAYTON

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