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PALE HORSE, THE
PAPER ROSES
PARADOX
PARTY ANIMALS
PAINTED LADY
ITV / 2x120m-e / 1997
Writer: Alan Cubitt / Producer: Emma Burge / Director: Julian Jerrold
Thriller serial. Middle aged blues singer Maggie Sheridan investigates when her stately home owning landlord is robbed and finds she may have gotten herself into something too deep for her.
With:- HELEN MIRREN as Maggie Sheridan / IAIN GLEN as Sebastian Stafford / MICHAEL MALONEY as Oliver Peel / LESLEY MANVILLE as Susannah Peel / FRANCO NERO as Robert Tassi / IAIN CUTHBERTSON as Sir Charles Stafford / ROLAND GIFT as Eddie Mullen / JUDI TROTT as Young Barbara Stafford
THE PALLISERS
BBC2 / 26x50m-e / 1974 19 Jan - 29 Jun and 26 Oct - 2 Nov
Writer: Simon Raven / Novels: Anthony Trollope / Music: Herbert Chappell, Wilfred Josephs
Period drama series. The lives of various members of the wealthy Palliser family in Victorian times. The series was almost ruined by a BBC labour dispute that
With:- PHILIP LATHAM as Plantagenet Palliser / SUSAN HAMPSHIRE as Lady Glencora / ROLAND CULVER as Duke of Omnium / FABIA DRAKE as Countess Midlothian / JEREMY IRONS as Frank Tregear / PENELOPE KEITH as Mrs Hittaway / DEREK JACOBI as Lord Fawn / ANTHONY ANDREWS as Earl of Silverbridge / SARAH BADEL as Lizzie Eustace / ANNA MASSEY as Laura Kennedy / ANNA CARTERET as Lady Mabeol Grey / BARRY JUSTICE as Burgo Fitzgerald
PALMER
LWT / 1x90m-e / 1990
Writer: Tony Hoare / Producer: Paul Knight / Director: Keith Washington
Thriller. A Brighton based private detective tackles a child custody case.
With:- RAY WINSTONE / GERARD HORAN / DORA BRYAN / LOUISE PLOWRIGHT / BARRY JACKSON / DIANA KENT
PANDORA
Granada / 1x65m-e / 1971
Writer: Hugh Leonard / Producer: Peter Eckersley / Director: Brian Mills
Drama. A love affair begins to go wrong.
PANIC MECHANICS
BBC2 / 7x30m / started 2 May 2002
Series producer: Andy Francis
Two teams compete to transform an ordinary car into an extraordinary machine on
a limited budget of ?2000. Presented by Trevor Nelson.
PAPARAZZO
ITV / 1x90m-e / 1995
Writer: Guy Andrews / Producer: DavidLascelles / Director: Edward Bennett
Drama. Top photographer Rick Cauber gets personally involved with a movie starlet.
With:- NICK BERRY as Rick Cauber / FAY MASTERSON as Sadie Prince / MICHAEL J. SHANNON as Denis Prince / ANTHONY O'DONNELL as Terry / CARMEN DU SAUTOY as Marjorie / BRETT FANCY as Steve
THE PAPER MAN
ABC-Roadshow Coote and Carroll-Granada / 3x120m-e / 1990 5-7 September
Writer: Keith Aberdein, John Lonie / Camera: Ian Warburton / Design: Marcus North / Music: Chris Neal / Producers: Sue Masters, Greg Ricketson / Executive Producers: Matt Carroll, Penny Chapman / Director: Peter Fisk
Drama serial. The rise to power of Australian media mogul Philip Cromwell, from buying his first Sydney newspaper to building a world empire of media related businesses. Obviously based on Rupert Murdoch. A UK-Australia co-production.
With:- JOHN BACH as Philip Cromwell / OLIVER TOBIAS as Ian Harris / REBECCA GILLING as Virginia Morgan / PETA TOPPANO as Kate Cromwell / PAT BISHOP as Marjorie Stack / BARRY OTTO as Elliot Calder / PAUL CHUBB as Clarrie Bullock / GENNIE NEVINSON as Alice Drummond / CHARLES GRAY as Prime Minister / ROB STEELE as Frank Coates / BOB BAINES as Barry Slater / FREDDIE JONES as Sir Charles Llewellyn / RICHARD ROXBURGH as 'Gracie' Fields / RAY BARRETT as Maurice Grimm
THE PARACHUTE
BBC 'Play of the Month' / 1x75m-e / 1968
Writer: David Mercer / Director: Anthony Page
Period drama. During World War II an uppercrust Nazi, Werner Von Ragen, is testing a new parachute but breaks his back.
With:- JOHN OSBORNE as Werner Von Ragen / JILL BENNETT / ALAN BADEL / LINDSAY ANDERSON / ISABEL DEAN
PARADISE
BBC2 'Stages' / 1x50m-e / 1994
Writer: Anna Reynolds / Producer: Laurence Bowen / Director: Indra Bose
Comedy drama. A family who can't afford to go on holiday decide to lie to their neighbours and then take to their cellar for a fortnight, but tensions are soon fraying.
Joseph............................................... DAVE HILL
Linda.................................................. PENNY DOWNIE
Chris.................................................. GREG CHISHOLM
Sam................................................... REBECCA WEEKS
THE PARADISE CLUB
BBC/Zenith / 20x50m-e / 1989-90 Season 1: 19 Sep - 21 Nov 89 / Season 2:25 Sep - 27 Nov 90
Writer: Murray Smith / Producer: Selwyn Roberts
Crime drama series. A pair of semi-crooked brothers, Danny Kane and his priestly brother Frank, are left a nightclub, The Paradise Club of the title.
Danny Kane...................................... LESLIE GRANTHAM
Frank Kane....................................... DON HENDERSON
Det Insp Campbell............................. KITTY ALDRIDGE
Carol Kane....................................... BARBARA WILSHERE
Det Sgt Nesbitt................................. JACK GALLOWAY
Jonjo O'Brady................................... PETER GOWEN
BBC1 / 6x60m-e / started 2 July 2002 / 9:00pm
Writer: Ashley Pharoah / Director: Ashley Pearce
/ Producer: Polly Hill
Comedy drama. The Eustace brothers run a struggling discount warehouse (called
Paradise Heights) and are heavily in debt to local big-shot Jack Edwards. . . .
The series continued in 2003 but was re-named as THE
EUSTACE BROS (see separate entry for details).
With:- CHARLES DALE as Clive Eustace / NEIL MORRISSEY as Charlie Eustace / RALF
LITTLE as Richard Eustace / PAM FERRIS as Marion Eustace / JOANNE FROGGATT as
Julia Sawyer / LINDSEY COULSON as Claire Eustace / DAVID TROUGHTON as Jack
Edwards / MARY TAMM as Yvonne Edwards / NICKY LADANOWSKI as Mandy Cutler
Thames / 1x90m-e 10x60m-e / 1986 15 Sep - 24 Nov
Writer: John Mortimer / Producer: Jacqueline Davis / Director: Alvin Rakoff
Drama serial. The fortunes of one eccentric family from the end of the Second World War.
Rev Simeon Simcox......................... MICHAEL HORDERN
Leslie Titmuss................................. DAVID THRELLFALL
Dr Humphrey Salter......................... COLIN BLAKELY
Henry Simcox................................. PETER EGAN
Charlotte Fanner............................. ZOE WANAMAKER
Fred Simcox................................... PAUL SHELLEY
Dorothy Simcox.............................. ANNETTE CROSBIE
Agnes Salter.................................. ELEANOR DAVID
Sir Nicholas Fanner........................ RICHARD VERNON
PARADISE RESTORED
BBC 'Omnibus' / 1x55m-e / 1968
Writer: Don Taylor
Drama documentary. The life of the poet Milton struggling to write Paradise Regained whilst coping with blindness and bereavement.
Milton................................................... JOHN NEVILLE
THE PARADISE RUN
Thames / 1x60m-e / 1976
Writer: Howard Brenton / Producer: Barry Hansen
Drama. A young British soldier embarks on a tour of duty in Northern Ireland.
With:- KEVIN McNALLY / IAN CHARLESON
PARENTS'
NIGHT
C4 Tiger-Aspect ?Shockers?
/ 1x60 / 29 May 2001 / 10:30pm
Writer: Joe Ahearne / Director: Marc Charach / Producer: Barney Reist
Thriller. Schoolboy David Turner makes a video diary that exposes the bullying
he endures at his school. When he kills himself his mother watches the video and
takes out a murderous revenge on the staff at a parents? night.
With:- AISLING O?SULLIVAN as Helena Turner / LIAM BARR as David Turner / BRYAN
DICK as Alan Compton / PHILIP MARTIN BROWN as Headmaster
PARIS 1900
Granada / 6x60m-e / 1964 black and white
Writer/Producer: Philip Mackie / Source Material: George Feydeau / Director: Silvio Narizzano
An anthology of farces with a resident cast, that featured Judy Cornwell, Adrienne Corri, Kenneth Griffith, henry McGee, Alfred Marks and Paul Whitsun-Jones.
PARKIN'S PATCH
ITV (Yorkshire) / 27x30m-e / 1969-70
Creator: Elwyn Jones / Producer: Terence Williams / Script Editor: Nick McCarthy
Crime drama series. The cases of country copper PC Moss Parkin. The show, seen late night Sunday evenings attracted a quality roster of writers and directors including the likes of Allan Prior, Robert Barr, Stephen Frears and Michael Apted.
With:- JOHN FLANAGAN as PC Moss Parkin / GARETH THOMAS / HEATHER PAGE
PARNELL AND THE ENGLISHWOMAN
BBC2 / 4x60m-e / 1990
Writer: Hugh Leonard / Director: John Bruce
Period drama serial. In the 19th century Irish nationalist politician Charles Stewart Parnell has an affair with an Englishwoman that ends ruining his career.
With:- TREVOR EVE as Charles Stewart Parnell / FRANCESCA ANNIS / T.P. McKENNA / ROBERT LANG
PAROSI
BBC1 / 26x15m-e / 1977-78
Producer: Robert Clamp
Sunday morning Asian orientated drama series. The lives of two Asian families living in Britain during the 1970's.
With:- ROSHAN SETH / SONI RAZDAN / NABEEL GUL / INDIRA JOSHI
PARTNERS IN CRIME
LWT / 10x60m-e 1x120m-e / 1983
Producer: Jack Williams / Stories: Agatha Christie
Period crime drama series. In the 1920's young married couple Tommy and Tuppence Beresford set up in business as private detectives.
With:- JAMES WARWICK as Tommy Beresford / FRANCESCA ANNIS as Tuppence Beresford / REECE DINSDALE as Albert
THE PARTY
BBC Choice / x30m-e / 2000
An anthology series of dramas that each used a party as its basis. The writers were all new to TV.
THE PARTY
BBC / 1x / 1987
Writer: Trevor Griffiths / Music: Duncan Browne / Director: Sebastian Graham Jones
Period drama. In 1968 a TV producer throws a party in his London flat whilst in Paris the students are rioting.
With:- ANDREW KEIR / KENNETH CRANHAM / JACK SHEPHERD / OLIVER COTTON / GAWN GRAINGER / BOB MASON
BBC1 / 3 June 2002
Live concert. The second of two live concerts direct from the grounds of
Buckingham Palace in celebration of the Queen?s golden jubilee - produced by the
BBC as part of BBC Music Live. This featured pop and rock performers from the
past and present including:- Paul McCartney, Queen, S Club 7, Ozzy Osbourne,
Bryan Adams, Shirley Bassey, Ricky Martin, Phil Collins, Brian Wilson (Beach
Boys), Tom Jones. Comedy links were provided by Ben Elton, Lenny Henry, Dame
Edna Everage and Ruby Wax. The other concert was a classical concert titled Prom
At The Palace.
PARTY MANNERS
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1950 black and white
Writer: Val Gielgud
Comedy drama. Problems arise for the government when a Labour politician is discovered to be leaking atomic secrets to the Russians.The play, broadcast live, was scheduled to have a repeat performance a few days later but the BBC Governors refused permission for it to be broadcast.
A PASSAGE TO ENGLAND
BBC 'Play for Today' / 1x75m-e / 1975
Writer: Leon Griffiths / Director: John Mackenzie
Comedy drama. A bunch of Asians hatch a plan to sneak into England using a fishing boat.
With:- COLIN WELLAND / TARIQ YUNIS / NIALL PADDEN
A PASSAGE TO INDIA
BBC / 1x105m-e / 1965 black and white
Writer: Santha Rama Rau / Novel: E.M. Forster
Period drama. The lives of a group of English people in India at the turn of the 20th century, especially a young woman who accuses an Indian friend of assault.
With:- SYBIL THORNDYKE / VIRGINIA McKENNA / CYRIL CUSACK / MICHAEL BATES / ZIA MOHYEDDIN
THE PASSENGER
BBC / 3x50m-e / 1971 (23 October - 6 November)
Writer: Francis Durbridge / Producer: Gerard Glaister / Director: Michael Ferguson
Crime drama serial. Detective Inspector Martin Denson investigates a series of murders.
With: - PETER BARKWORTH as Det Insp Martin Denson / JOANNA DUNHAM as Sue Denson / DAVID KNIGHT as David Walker / ARTHUR PENTELOW as Arthur Eastwood / MELISSA STRIBLING as Evelyn Walker / ROGER BOOTH as Jack Steen / BETH MORRIS as Judy Clayton / PAUL GRIST as Det Sgt Kennedy / JAMES KERRY as Roy Norton / MICHAEL McSTAY as Andy Mason / MONA BRUCE as Christine Bodley / DEREK BOND as Colonel Reams
PASSER BY
BBC1 / 2x60m / 28-29 March 2004
Writer: Tony Marchant / Director: David Morrissey
/ Producer: David Snodin
Drama. Joe Keyes travels home on a late train where a woman in his carriage is
being pestered by two young city-types who are not taking no for an answer. He
doesn't become involved other than giving them a mild rebuke and gets off at his
stop leaving them on the train. Later he discovers the woman was raped and is
racked by guilt at his ineffectualness in not helping her better when he could
have.
With:- JAMES NESBITT as Joe Keyes / SIOBHAN FINNERAN as Helen Keyes / EMILY
BRUNI as Alice / BRYAN DICK as Ruddock / JOE ARMSTRONG as Tinley / BENJAMIN
SMITH as Reece Keyes / BILLIE NORTH as Louise Keyes
PASSION
BBC1 (Murder in Mind) / 1x60m-e / 5 January 2002 9:30pm
Writer: Simon Sharkey; Director: Gerry Poulson; Producer: Paul Knight
Jane Saunders, a call centre supervisor, has a secret obsession with her
manager. When she becomes convinced he is having an affair with a junior staff
member she decides to kill her rival and frame the manager?s wife for the
murder.
With:- PAULINE QUIRKE as Jane Saunders / MARK WOMACK as Stephen Croft / ANGELA
RIDGEON as Michelle Croft / LUCY DAVIS as Kerry / REBECCA EGAN as Lisa / RACHEAL
JOSEPH as Meg / PERRY BLANKS as Security Guard / JEREMY NICHOLAS as Mr Green
THE PASSION
BBC1(Wales)/ First Choice / 3x55m-e / 1999 1- 3 May/Sat-Mon 9.00pm
Writer: Mick Ford / Music: Simon Lacey / Choreography: Stuart Hopps / Design: Ian Fisher / Costume: Lucinda Wright / Producer: Miriam Segal / Director: Catherine Morshead
Drama. Daniel, a young good looking actor arrives in a North Devon village to play the part of Jesus in a Passion play and stirs up the feelings of apparently happily
With:- PAUL NICHOLLS as Daniel / GINA McKEE as Ellie / ALASTAIR GALBRAITH as Neil / JACK HULLAND as Postman/Gregory / JEMIMA ROOPER as Alice / ROBERTA TAYLOR as Jane / MATYELOK GIBBS as Dinah / DAVID HARGREAVES as Dave / JULIET COWAN as Marjorie / PETER WIGHT as Clare / RICHARD GRAHAM as Ron / ADRIAN SCARBOROUGH as Michael
PASSION KILLERS
Granada / 1x60m-e / 1999 3 April - Saturday 10.00pm
Writer: Charles Peattie / Music: Mark Russell / Design: Anna Higginson / Costume: Joey Attawia / Executive Producer: Andy Harries / Producer: Rob Bullock / Director: David Evans
Comedy drama. A female private detective, specialising in entrapping philandering males, hires a new male assistant.
Nick.................................................... BEN MILLER
Kim.................................................... GEORGIA MACKENZIE
Maggie................................................ HELEN GRACE
George................................................ NICHOLAS SIDI
Dawn.................................................. EMMA AMOS
PAST CARING
BBC / 1x80m-e / 1986
Writer: Tom Clarke / Music: George Fenton / Producer: Kenith Trodd / Director: Richard Eyre
Drama. A decidedly unhappy man forced to move into an old peoples home begins an affair with one of the carers at the home.
With:- DENHOLM ELLIOTT / CONNIE BOOTH / EMLYN WILLIAMS / JOAN GREENWOOD / ROSE HILL
PASTORAL CARE
C4/Regent 'Tickets for the Titanic' / 1x60m-e / 1988 24 February - Wednesday 10.30pm
Writer: Andy Hamilton / Producer: William G.Stewart / Director: Roger Bamford
Comedy drama. A vicar is targeted by the secret service after visiting campaigners at a nuclear missile base.
Rev Timothy White........................ TONY ROBINSON
Rev David Williams........................ JACK SHEPHERD
Tom............................................. RICHARD O'CALLAGHAN
Osgood........................................ BENJAMIN WHITROW
Arbuthnot..................................... VICTORIA WICKS
Simon.......................................... DEREK WARING
PAT AND MARGARET
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1994
Writer: Victoria Wood / Producer: Ruth Caleb / Director: Gavin Millar
Comedy drama. Hollywood star Pat is reunited with her long lost (and poor) sister Margaret on a live TV show, the pair embark on an emotional journey into their past.
Pat....................................................... JULIE WALTERS
Margaret............................................... VICTORIA WOOD
Claire................................................... CELIA IMRIE
Jim...................................................... DUNCAN PRESTON
Jim's Mum........................................... THORA HIRD
Stella.................................................. DEBORAH GRANT
Billy.................................................... DON HENDERSON
Maeve................................................. ANNE REID
Vera................................................... SHIRLEY STELFOX
PAT AND MO
BBC1 'Eastenders' / 1x60m / 1 April 2004 / 8:00pm
Writer: Susan Boyd / Director: Michael Owen
Morris / Producer: Sally Stokes
An Eastenders one-off soap-bubble - looking back at how the animosity between
Pat Evans and Mo Harris developed from a time when they used to be best friends.
With:- PAM ST CLEMENT as Pat / LAILA MORSE as Mo / SAM KELLY as Stan / DEREK
MARTIN as Chalie Slater / EMMA COOKE as Young Pat / LORRAINE STANLEY as Young Mo
/ CALLUM DIXON as Young Stan
PATHFINDERS
UK / ABC / 27x25m-e / 1960-61 black and white
Creators: Malcolm Hulke, Eric Paice / Producer: Sydney Newman
Scifi drama series. A British family have adventures in space. Four serials were produced. 1.TARGET LUNA, 2.PATHFINDERS IN SPACE 3.PATHFINDERS TO MARS, 4.PATHFINDERS TO VENUS.
With:- PETER WILLIAMS as Prof Wedgwood / GERALD FLOOD as Conway Henderson / GILLIAN FERGUSON as Valerie Wedgwood / STEWART GUIDOTTI as Geoffrey Wedgwood / RICHARD DEAN as Jimmy Wedgwood
THE PATHFINDERS
Thames / 13x60m-e / 1972-73
Producer: Gerry Brown
Wartime drama series. Stories of the Pathfinder Squadron of the RAF during the Second World War.
Wing Cmdr MacPhearson................... ROBERT URQUHART
Doc Saxon........................................ JACK WATLING
PAUL MERTON IN GALTON AND SIMPSON'S ...
Central/Carlton / 15x30m-e / 1996-97
Writers: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson / Producers: Richard Boden (Season 1), Jamie Rix (season 2) / Director: Martin Dennis
Comedy anthology in which 1990's comedian Paul Merton tackles some of Ray Galton and Alan Simpson's 1960's and 70's scripts including 6 of their Tony Hancock shows.
PAUL TEMPLE
BBC / 12x50m-e / 1968
Writer: Francis Durbridge
Crime drama series. Novelist Paul Temple and his wife Steve find themselves involved in real life crime wherever they go. See below for the next years more successful version.
With:- JOHN BENTLEY as Paul Temple / DINAH SHERIDAN as Steve Temple
PAUL TEMPLE
BBC1 / 46x50m-e / 1969-71
Creator: Francis Durbridge / Producers: Alan Bromly, Peter Bryant, Derrick Sherwin
Crime drama series. Detective novelist Paul Temple and his wife Steve find time to investigate real life crime.
With:- FRANCIS MATTHEWS as Paul Temple / ROS DRINKWATER as Steve Temple
P.D. JAMES
Anglia / 10 stories (42x60m-e, 2x120m-e) / 1983-98
Novels: PD James / Producer: John Rosenberg (to
story 6)
Crime drama series. Cases of Scotland Yard Chief Superintendent (later
Commander) Adam Dalgliesh. Dalgliesh lived alone in a converted windmill. The
first six stories were 6-part serials, then two movie-length stories were made,
and the final two were 3-part serials.
With:- ROY MARSDEN as Adam Dalgliesh / JOHN VINE as John Massingham (first 3
stories only)
The individual stories were:-
1) Death of an Expert Witness (1983 / 6x60m)
W: Robin Chapman, D: Herbert Wise
With:- John Vine / Barry Foster / Geoffrey Palmer / Ray Brooks / Andrew Ray /
Meg Davies / Malcolm Terris / Brenda Blethyn
2) Shroud for a Nightingale (1984 / 6x60m)
W: Robin Chapman, D: John Gorrie
With:- John Vine / Joss Ackland / Sheila Allen / Liz Fraser
3) Cover Her Face (1985 / 6x60m)
W: Robin Chapman, D: John Davies
With:- John Vine / Mel Martin / Rupert Frazer / Phyllis Calvert / Norman Wooland
/ Julian Glover / Bill Fraser / Clare Higgins / Kim Thomson
4) The Black Tower (1985 / 6x60m)
W: William Humble, D: Ronald Wilson
With:- Pauline Collins / Martin Jarvis / Maurice Denham / Rachel Kempson /
Harriet Bagnall / Andrew Hawkins / Valerie Whittington / Sheila Ruskin
5) A Taste For Death (1989 / 6x60m)
D: John Davies
With:- Penny Downie / Wendy Hiller / Bosco Hogan / Fiona Fullerton / Simon Ward
6) Devices and Desires (1991 / 6x60m)
W: Thomas Ellice, D: John Davies
With:- Susannah York / Gemma Jones / James Faulkner / Tony Haygarth / Tom
Georgeson / Tom Chadbon / Harry Burton / Suzan Crowley / Nicola Cowper
7) Unnatural Causes (1993 / 1x120m)
W: Peter Buckman, D: John Davies, P: Hilary Bevan Jones
With:- Simon Chandler / Kenneth Colley / Mel Martin / Bill Nighy
8) A Mind To Murder (1995 / 1x120m)
D: Gareth Davies, P: Hilary Bevan Jones
With:- Mairead Carty / Sean Scanlan / Robert Pugh / Peter Tuddenham / Frank
Finlay
9) Original Sin (1996 / 3x60m)
W: Michael Chaplin, D: Andrew Grieve, P: Andrew Benson
With:- Ian Bannen / Cathryn Harrison / Amanda Root / Sylvia Syms / Tim Dutton /
Lizzy McInnerny / Jonathan Coy / Carolyn Pickles
10) A Certain Justice (1998 / 3x60m)
W: Michael Russell, D: Ross Devenish
With:- Penny Downie / Ricci Harnett / Flora Montgomery / Frederick Treves /
Matthew Marsh
THE PEACOCK SPRING
BBC1 / 2x90m-e / 1996
Writer: Ken Taylor / Novel: Rumer Godden / Director: Christopher Morahan
Period drama serial. In Delhi, India in 1959 the young daughter of English diplomat Edward Gwithian falls in love with asian Ravi Battacharya.
Edward Gwithian.................................. PETER EGAN
Alix Lamont......................................... JENNIFER HALL
Una.................................................... HATTIE MORAHAN
Ravi Battacharya................................. NAVEEN ANDREWS
Hal..................................................... LAURA BARNEBY
Hem................................................... RAVI KAPOOR
Bulbul................................................. SNEH GUPTA
Central / 1x90m-e / x60m-e / 1993-2001
Creator: Lucy Gannon / Music: John Altman / Producers: Tony Virgo, Michele Buck, Neil Zeiger
Medical drama series. The problems of a medical practice in the Derbyshire peak district. Initially the first three seasons concentrated on the relationship between Doctors Jack Kerruish and Beth Glover. The pair later married and left the practice, since then new doctors have come and gone with alarming regularity. Series 2001 ended with a cliffhanger with EVA POPE pushing herself and MAGGIE O'NEIL off a cliff and with Central then announcing that no more episodes would be made this meant that the cliff-hanger that ended the last series will presumably never be resolved.
With:- KEVIN WHATELY as Dr Jack Kerruish (Seasons
1-3) / AMANDA BURTON as Dr Beth Glover (Seasons 1-3) / SIMON SHEPHERD as Dr Will
Preston(93-96/2000-) / JAQUELINE LEONARD as Sarah Preston(93-96) / SYLVIA SYMS
as Isabel de Gines (Seasons 1-3) / ESTHER COLES as Kim Beardsmore / RICHARD
PLATT as James White / HAZEL ELLERBY as Chloe White / GARY MAVERS as Dr Andrew
Attwood(96-99) / SASKIA WICKHAM as Erica Matthews(96-97) / ADRIAN LUKIS as David
Shearer(97-98) / HAYDN GWYNNE as Joanna Graham(99) / JOSEPH MILLSON as Sam
Morgan(99-) / MARGERY MASON as Alice North / MAGGIE O'NEILL as Dr Alex Redman
(2000) / EVA POPE as Claire Brightwell.
PENMARRIC
BBC / 12x50m-e / 1979
Producer: Ron Craddock / Novel: Susan Howatch
Period drama series. The fortunes of the Castallack family in nineteenth century Cornwall.
With:- MARTIN C. THURLEY as Mark Castallack / ANGELA SCOULAR as Maud Castallack / RALPH BATES / PAUL DARROW / JOHN CASTLE / SHAUGHAN SEYMOUR
PENNIES FROM HEAVEN
BBC2 / 6x75m-e / 1978 7 March - 11 April
Writer: Dennis Potter / Producer: Kenith Trodd
Period drama serial. In the 1930's unhappy sheet music salesman Arthur Parker finds life does not the pleasures he thought it did. One of the key Potter works (and one of the most important in British TV as a whole) which along with the Singing Detective set in the 1940's and Lipstick on Your Collar(1950's) form a kind of trilogy. Each of the serials have the characters miming to popular records of the day.
Arthur Parker.................................... BOB HOSKINS
Joan Parker...................................... GEMMA CRAVEN
Eileen.............................................. CHERYL CAMPBELL
The Accordian Man........................... KENNETH COLLEY
Tom................................................. HYWEL BENNETT
The Headmaster............................... FREDDIE JONES
The Inspector................................... DAVE KING
PEOPLE FROM THE FOREST
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1981
Writer: Stephen Davis / Director: Mick Jackson
Drama. The life of Soviet dissident, nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov.
Sakharov........................................... JOHN SHRAPNEL
PEOPLE LIKE US
LWT / 13x60m-e / 1978
Producer: James Brabazon / Stories: R.F. Delderfield / Executive Producer: Tony Wharmby / Music: Wilfred Josephs
Period drama series. The lives of five familes who all live in the same avenue up to the beginning of World War II.
With:- BARBARA SHELLEY / JIM NORTON
THE PEOPLE'S PASSION
BBC1 / 1x50m-e / 1999 2 April - Friday 12noon
Writer: Jane McCulloch
A dramatisation of the events leading up to Christ's crucifixion. With the City of London Sinfonia and choir of St Paul's Cathedral.
Narrator.............................................. JESSYE NORMAN
Pontius Pilate..................................... ROBERT HARDY
Procula Pilate..................................... PATRICIA HODGE
Judas................................................ KEVIN WHATELY
Donket Minder................................... RON MOODY
Centurian.......................................... THOMAS ALLEN
The Spirit of Christ............................. JONATHAN COPE
THE PEOPLE'S PRINCESS
C5 / 1x120m-e / 1998
Producer: Nigel Thomas / Director: Gabrielle Beaumont
Drama. The last year in the ill fated life of Diana, Princess of Wales, especially her relationship with Dodi Fayed.
Diana................................................ AMY CLARE SECOMBE
Dodi Fayed....................................... GEORGE JACKOS
Reede.............................................. ANTHONY VALENTINE
Rachel............................................. LISA EICHHORN
Hasnay Khan................................... ANTHONY ZAKIS
PERE GORIOT
BBC / 4x45m-e / Started Sun 21 Jun 1969 19:30
Producer: David Conroy / Novel: Honore de Balzac / Director: Paddy Russell
Period drama serial. An elderly man is determined to make sure his two daughters gain a place in society and manages to squander his fortune in the process.
With:- MICHAEL GOODLIFFE as Pere Goriot / DAVID DUNDAS as Eugene de Rastignac / ANDREW KEIR / ANGELA BROWNE / WALTER GOTELL / MOIRA REDMOND / JUNE RITCHIE
PERFECT
ITV Network (RDF TV) / 2x90m-e / 2001 (23-30 April / Monday 9.00pm)
Writer: Susan Oudot / Design: Jane Martin / Music: Nick Bicat / Camera: David Odd / Producer: Margaret Enefer / Executive Producer: Debbie Shewell / Director: John Strickland
Drama. Julie, a nurse, just can't help being addicted to weddings, so long as it is her getting married and embarks on a career as a serial bigamist.
With:- MICHELLE COLLINS as Julie / RICHARD HAWLEY as Dave / CATHY TYSON as Marie / ROMOLA GARAI as Charlotte / NICHOLAS GLEAVES as Mike / ADAM KOTZ as Karl / CATHY WHITE as Sonia / ROSEMARY LEACH as Vera / BARBARA FLYNN as Imogen / DOREEN KEOGH as Nancy / PETER HALLIDAY as Ted / JOHN HARDING as Richard
A PERFECT BLUE
BBC2 'Love Bites' / 1x90m-e / 1997
Writer: Nick Collins / Producer: Elinor Day / Director: Kieron J. Walsh
Romantic comedy drama. Tom is about to marry his new partner when he bumps into(and realises he is still in love with) his former love Sunny.
Tom.................................................... PHILIP GLENISTER
Sunny................................................. INDAY BA
Jo....................................................... RUTH GEMMELL
Danny................................................ LENNIE JAMES
Mrs Jordan......................................... YVONNE BREWSTER
Frances............................................. MICHELE AUSTIN
PERFECT DAY
Channel 5 / 1x120m / 11 December 2005
Writer: Howard Overman / Director: David Richards
/ Producers: Tim Baker, Victoria Fea
Amy and Tom are getting married at a hotel venue and the guests have assembled
the night before for the big day. Tom's usher is Pete who he hasn't seen for
some years but used to be a best friend and in fact originally introduced the
couple to each other. But Amy and Pete have a history and feelings are rekindled
that threaten to ruin the perfect day.
With:- CLAIRE GOOSE as Amy / TOM GOODMAN-HILL as Tom / AIDAN McARDLE as Pete /
KATE ASHFIELD as Jenny / CLAIRE KEELAN as Kate
A PERFECT HERO
ITV / 6x60m-e / 1991
Writer: Allan Prior / Book: Christopher Matthew / Producer: James Cellan Jones
Period drama serial. At the end of World War Two pilot Hugh Fleming returns home horribly disfigured.
Hugh Fleming..................................... NIGEL HAVERS
Angus Meikle..................................... JAMES FOX
Arthur Fleming................................... BERNARD HEPTON
Iris Fleming....................................... BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT
Bunty................................................ FIONA GILLIES
PERFECTLY FRANK
BBC1 'Eastenders' / 1x60m / 21 September 2003 /
8:00pm
Writer: Tony Jordan / Director: Clive Arnold / Producer: Lorraine Newman
An Eastenders one-off soap-bubble - looking at what Frank Butcher has been up to
since leaving Albert Square. He has opened a car lot in a small seaside town and
is about to open his own night-club.
With:- MIKE REID as Frank Butcher / TONY OSOBA as Ray Taylor / CAROLINE HAYES as
Lucy Allen / MARC JORDAN as Kevin Mason.
THE PERFECT MATCH
Granada / 1x90m-e / 1996
Writer: Mike Bullen / Producer: Andy Harries, Justin Judd / Director: Nick Hurran
Romantic comedy. When football mad Phil asks Bridget to marry him over the big screen at a soccer match neither realise the complications in store for them as they shamble towards the altar.
With:- SASKIA REEVES as Bridget / CON O'NEIL as Phil / BETH GODDARD as Mandy / JOHN THOMSON as Rick / SHEILA GISH as Helen / ROGER LLOYD PACK as Tom / PETER HOWITT as Dave
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