PERFECT SCOUNDRELS

TVS / 16x60m-e / 1990-92

Creator: Ray Connelly / Idea: Peter Bowles, Bryan Murray / Titles: Chris Bett / Music: Richard Blackford, John Cameron / Executive Producer: Graham Benson

Comedy drama series. The exploits of two conmen , the suave Guy Buchanan and the down market Harry Cassidy.

With:- PETER BOWLES as Guy Buchanan / BRYAN MURRAY as Harry Cassidy

BBC / 6x50m-e / 1988

Director: Peter Smith / Novel: John Le Carre 

Spy drama serial. The third part of the George Smiley trilogy, see also Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Smiley's People.

With:- ALEC GUINESS as George Smiley / PEGGY ASHCROFT / PETER EGAN / RAY McANALLY / SARAH BADEL /  SARAH NEVILLE / TIM HEALY / JANE BOOKER / ALAN HOWARD / BENEDICT TAYLOR / RUDIGER WEIGANG / MICHAEL McSTAY / ANDY DE LA TOUR / JANE DOONER / JACK ELLIS

PERFECT STRANGERS

BBC2 / 1x90, 2x60m-e / 10-24 May 2001 
Writer/Director: Stephen Poliakoff; Producer: John Chapman

Daniel attends a family reunion with his father Raymond who was the black sheep of his family. When his father has a mild stroke and is rushed to hospital, Daniel delves into the family's history and uncovers a remarkable story he hopes will help his father embrace the past. A serial with a very similar mood to Poliakoff's previous Shooting the Past.

With:- MICHAEL GAMBON as Raymond / LINDSAY DUNCAN as Alice / MATTHEW MACFADYEN as Daniel / CLAIRE SKINNER as Rebecca / TOBY STEPHENS as Charles / JILL BAKER as Esther / TIMOTHY SPALL as Irving / ANTON LESSER as Stephen / MICHAEL CULKIN as Sidney / KELLY HUNTER as Poppy / KATHLEEN BYRON as Edith / EMMA SACKVILLE as Young Edith / MURIEL PAVLOV as Violet / REBECCA TARRY as Young Violet / SHEILA BURRELL as Grace / PETER HOWELL as Ernest / TONY MAUDSLEY as Peter / MARIANNE BORGO as Nazik / CAMILLA POWER as Martina

A BBC2 Umbrella title for a series of 1990's studio set plays of non original material.

PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE

BBC (Part of the BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x180m-e / 1984

Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Martin Best / Producer: Shaun Sutton / Director: David Hugh Jones

Shakespeare's drama.

With:-  EDWARD PETHERBRIDGE as Gower / MIKE GWILYM as Pericles / JOHN WOODVINE as King Antiochus / EDITA BRYCHTA as Daughter of Antiochus / ROBERT ASHBY as Thaliar / PATRICK GODFREY as Helicanus / PETER GORDON as Lord of Tyre Pirate / ANNETTE CROSBIE as Dionyza / NORMAN RODWAY as Cleon of Tarsus / CHRISTOPHER SAUL as Lord of Tarsus 

BBC2 / 6x50m-e / 1974 18 January - 7 March / Fridays 8.30pm

Writer: Peter Draper / Producer: Derrick Sherwin / Directors: Michael Ferguson, George Spenton-Foster 

Comedy drama series. Stories of the residents of the Welsh village of Pendragon. See also The Man Outside(1972).

With:- KENNETH GRIFFITH as Isaac / JOHN CLIVE as Rosko / LALLY BOWERS as Aunt Angharad / AUBREY RICHARDS as Rev Murchison Mort / OLIVE MERCER as Aunt Floss / RHODA LEWIS as Mrs Magwitch / BETH MORRIS as Myfanwy / TREVOR RAY as Uther Jacobs

BBC 'Second City Firsts' / 1x30m-e / 1975 

Devisor/Director: Mike Leigh / Design: Margaret Peacock / Producer:Tara Prem 

Comedy drama. Young couple Les & Carol plan a night out along with Les's sister Yvonne.

Les....................................................... BOB MASON

Carol.................................................... VERONICA ROBERTS

Yvonne................................................. RACHEL DAVIES

ATV / 1x60m-e / 1974

Writer: Ellen Dryden 

Drama. When newly appointed headmaster Michael Beasley has problems at home he turns to his deputy head for comfort.

Michael Beasley............................... KENNETH HAIGH

Mrs Beasley..................................... LYNN FARLEIGH

Miss Chapman................................. GWEN WATFORD

ITV / 1x60m-e / 1967

Writer: John Henry / Producer: Lionel Harris / Director: Raymond Menmuir 

Drama. A divorced journalist begins to think about having an affair.

Julia..................................................... ELIZABETH SELLARS

Mark.................................................... ROBIN BAILEY

Alan..................................................... MICHAEL STANDING

Anglia / 1x60m-e / 1967

Writer: David Butler / Story: Olive Chase, Stanley Clayton 

Crime drama. A detective investigates the murder of a young female student.

With:- JOHN GREGSON / ELIZABETH SELLARS / MICHAEL COLES / FELICITY KENDAL

ITC/Tribune / 26x60m-e / 1971

Creator/Producer: Robert S. Baker / Theme Music: John Barry / Script Executive/Associate Producer: Terry Nation / Incidental Music: Ken Thorne / Lord Brett Sinclair's clothed designed by Roger Moore.

Action adventure series. Exploits of two playboy troubleshooters, the suave Lord Brett Sinclair and the tough Danny Wilde from the back streets of Brooklyn.

Lord Brett Sinclair........................... ROGER MOORE

Danny Wilde.................................. TONY CURTIS

Judge Fulton.................................. LAURENCE NAISMITH

Granada / 5x50m-e / 1969

Writer: Julian Mitchell / Novel: Jane Austen / Producer/Director: Howard Baker 

Period drama serial. In England 1814 Anne Elliott initially rebuffs Captain Wentworth but then decides she loves him after all.

With:- ANN FIRBANK as Anne Elliott / BRYAN MARSHALL as Captain Wentworth / BASIL DIGNAM / VALERIE GEARON / MARIAN SPENCER / GEORGINE ANDERSON / RICHARD VERNON / MORAG HOOD / ROWLAND DAVIES / MEL MARTIN / ZHIVILIA ROCHE / NOEL DYSON / WILLIAM KENDALL / CHARLOTTE MITCHELL / HELEN RYAN

BBC2 / 1x120m-e / 1995

Writer: Nick Dear / Novel: Jane Austen / Produceer: Fiona Finlay 

Period drama. Anne Elliott tries to make up her mind about how she feels about her would be suitor Captain Wentworth in 1814 England. Previously produced in 1969 (see above entry).

Anne Elliott........................................ AMANDA ROOT

Captain Wentworth............................. CIARAN HINDS

Lady Russell..................................... SUSAN FLEETWOOD

Sir Walter Elliott................................ CORIN REDGRAVE

Mrs Croft........................................... FIONA SHAW

Mr Elliott........................................... SAMUEL WEST

Mary Musgrove.................................. SOPHIE THOMPSON

Charles Musgrove.............................. SIMON RUSSELL BEALE

ITC /  1x96m-e / 1976

Writers: Andrew Birkin, Jack Burns / Music: Leslie Bricusse,  Anthony Newley / Producer: Gary Smith 

Musical. Lavish from the stage version of J.M. Barrie's tale of the flying boy who never grew up (played here by a woman - as is traditional in the stage versions).

With:- MIA FARROW / DANNY KAYE

BBC1-Hatrick / 1x30m-e / 1995 4 September - Monday 8.30pm

Writers: Mark Burton, John O'Farrell, Dan Patterson  / Director: Terry Kinane 

Comedy. Newly promoted bank manager Peter Duff is out of his depth. The pilot for the series that appeared two years later, this featured a largely different cast.

Peter Duff.......................................... JIM BROADBENT

Susan Harvey.................................... LESLEY SHARP

Iris.................................................... LINDA BASSETT

Geoffrey............................................ DAVID GANT

Brenda.............................................. ZOE HAYES

David................................................ STUART McQUARRIE 

PETER IN PARADISE

BBC2 / 1x60m / 6 June 2003 / 9:00pm

Writer: Gwyneth Hughes / Producer/Director: Mary McMurray

The story of tsar Peter The Great's project to build St Petersburg as the new Russian capital.

With:- RORY MCCANN as Peter / CRISPIN BONHAM-CARTER as Alexander Menshikov / RONAN VIBERT as Domenico Trezzani / SALLY HURST as Catherine / LALOR RODDY as Fyodor Kikin / MATT CANAVAN as Crown Prince Alexi / EMMA BUCKLEY as Tsarista

Granada / 1x75m-e / 1977 31 May

Writer: Ian Curteis / Producer: Jeremy Wallington / Director: Gordon Flemyng 

Period drama.  The true story of the infamous Cambridge spy ring and how they defected to Moscow.

With:- DEREK JACOBI as Guy Burgess / ANTHONY BATE as Kim Philby / MICHAEL CULVER as Donald Maclean / ARTHUR LOWE / ELIZABETH SEAL

THE PIANO

BBC1 (A Play for Today) / 1x60m-e / 197?

Writer: Julia Jones

Comedy drama. An elderly couple are to move into their new council home (their old house is to be demolished to make way for a new development), when their piano won't fit into their new home however, the couple refuse to move.

With:- HILDA BARRY as Ada Ackroyd / LEO FRANKLYN as Edgar Ackroyd / GLYNN OWEN as Willie Duckworth / JANET MUNRO as Mabel Duckworth

ATV / 1x60m-e / 1974

Writer: Willis Hall / Producer: Nicholas Palmer / Director: John Nelson Burton 

Comedy drama. The regulars of a northern pub that is to be demolished decide to hold a piano smashing competition.

BBC2 / 5x55m-e / 1978 17 April - 15 May Mondays 9.00pm 

Writer: Mike Stott / Script Editor: Michael Wearing / Producer: Tara Prem / Directors: Alan Dosser, Pedr James 

An anthology series of comedies set in the northern town of Pickersgill. Each episode featured a different cast and among those appearing were Bernard Hill, Prunella Scales, Sam Kelly, Matthew Kelly, Richard Wilson, George Costigan, Antony Sher, Bryan Pringle and Philip Jackson. 

ITV / 8x60m-e / 1998

Producer: Paul Marques 

Medical drama series.  Stories of a paramedic team involved in life or death cases.

Barry Courtland.................................. ROGER WALKER

Lisa Gee............................................ DIANE PARISH

Bill Tansey......................................... DES McALEER

Bernadette Wallace............................ JENNA RUSSELL

Tony Anzari....................................... SIMON CHADWICK

Staff Nurse Hunter............................. AMANDA ABBINGTON

BBC1 / 1x30m-e / 1976 1 January - Thursday 9.00pm

Writer: David Huggett (aka Ronnie Barker), Larry Keith / Producer: Terry Hughes 

Silent comedy. A family go on a somewhat disastrous picnic by the river.

With:- RONNIE BARKER / RONNIE CORBETT / MADGE HINDLE / BARBARA NEW / PATRICIA BRAKE

BBC1 (Play of the Month) / 1x100m-e / 1976 (Sunday 19 September / 8.50pm)

Writer: John Osborne / Novel: Oscar Wilde / Director: John Gorrie  / Music: Joseph Horovitz / Make Up: Toni Chapman / Costume Design: Odette Barrow / Script Editor: Alan Shallcross / Design: Tony Abbott

Period fantasy drama. What is the secret of a sinister Victorian young man who seems to never grow older and what is the link with a painter of a portrait of an elderly man that he keeps hidden. Based on a production first moounted at the Greenwich Theatre the previous year.

With:- PETER FIRTH as Dorian Gray / JOHN GIELGUD as Lord Henry Wooton / JEREMY BRETT as Basil Hallward / MARK DIGNAM as Lord Fermor / NAN MUNRO as Duchess of Harley / GWEN FRANGCON-DAVIES as Lady Agatha / MICHAEL BARRINGTON as Mr Erskine / JUDY BOWKER as Sibyl Vane / GILLIAN RAINE as Mrs Vane / NICHOLAS BALL as James Vane / LAWRENCE DAVIDSON as Victor / REGINALD BARRATT as Mr Hubbard / PAUL GREENHALGH as Francis / NICHOLAS CLAY as Alan Campbell

BBC (Comedy Playhouse) / 1x30m-e / 1963 9 November - Saturday 9.40pm

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

Comedy. Northern Arthur Berry develops an interest in art.

Arthur Berry....................................... FREDERICK PEISLEY

Bette Berry........................................ PATRICIA BURKE

Ada Stringer...................................... MARIAN SPENCER

Arnold Slater..................................... CHARLES LLOYD PACK

PICTURE PAGE

BBC / x60 minute episodes / 1936-39 and 1946-52

Creator/Editor: Cecil Miller / Producers included George More O'Ferrall, Royston Morley, Harold Clayton, John Irwin, Stephen McCormack, Michael Mills

One of the BBC's first shows, Picture Page had a magazine format and Joan Miller, the switchboard girl, opened each edition  of the show seated at a telephone switchboard connected to a TV screen which she used to "connect" the viewers at home to the subjects featured in that edition of the show. Also involved were Leslie Mitchell who did the interviews, Jasmine Bligh and John Snagge. The guests on the first edition were Jim Mollison, interviewed on his record Atlantic flight by W. Courtenay, Kay Stammers, Guy Fawkes Interruption (Three Boys and a Guy); `Bossy' Phelps, the King's Bargemaster, G. Whitlaw (a cartoonist), P. Grainger, The Lord Mayor's Coachman, Alexander Shaw (film director), Mrs Donisthorpe, first woman announcer, Algernon Blackwood withtTwo Ghost Stories; Mr., Mrs. and Master Tinsley, Pearly King, Queen and Prince of Blackfriars, and R. Pasquale on the Barrel Organ. After the break for the second world war the show returned with Joan Gilbert replacing Miller, Mary Malcom was also a regular. 

Central / 7x60m-e / 1983

Writer: Roy Clarke / Producer: Joan Brown / Director: Carol Wiseman 

Period drama serial. In the 1920's a group of people try to mark their way in the burgeoning film world.

With:- ANTON RODGERS / PETER McENERY / HARRY TOWB / BARRY DENNEN / WENDY MORGAN / Malcolm M Jamieson / Marc Smith / Marianne Borgo / Manning Redwood / Donald M Gee / Wendy Raebeck / Arthur Cox / Judi Maynard / Frank Wylie / Robert O'Mahoney / John Carlin / Neville Phillips / Phoebe Nicholls / Philip York / Amanda Walker / Michael Cashman / Barry Dennen / Cookie Weymouth 

BBC2 / 1x90 / 1969 11 June

Writers: Jimmy Grafton, James Gilbert / Novel: Charles Dickens / Producer: James Gilbert / Director: Terry Hughes 

A comedy musical based on The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens? book by Wolf Mankowitz, music by Cyril Ornadel, lyrics by Leslie Bricusse. Musical staging and choreography by Gillian Lynne. Director Terry Hughes and producer James Gilbert. There are more than a dozen songs, including If I Ruled the World, Hell of an Election and That?s What I like for Christmas. 

With:- Harry Secombe as Mr. Pickwick / Roy Castle as Sam Weller / Hattie Jacques as Mrs. Barwell / Aubrey Woods as Jingle / Julian Orchard as Snodgrass / Robert Dorning as Tupman / Michael Balfour as Roker

LWT-Holmes / 6x60m-e / 1988 2 October - 6 November

Writer: Leon Griffiths / Director: Ian Toynton 

Period drama serial. Twelve young RAF pilots attempt to get through the first year of the second world war.

With:- NATHANIAL PARKER / DAVID HOROVITCH / NEIL DUDGEON / TIM WOODWARD

Granada / 1x120m-e / 1989

Producer: Craig McNeil / Director: Norman Stone 

Period drama. During the early days of the second world war elderly John Sidney Howard finds himself reluctantly escorting a group of young children and trying to leave France for England.

John Sidney Howard..................... PETER O'TOOLE

BBC1/SelecTV/ Witzend / 1x90m-e 37x50m-e / 1994-97

Creator: Andrew Payne / Music: Colin Towns / Executive Producers: Allan McKeown, Joanna Willett / Producers: Jacky Stoller, David Wimbury 

Crime drama series. Heavyweight Henry Crabbe combines tackling cases in his capacity as a Detective Inspector in Barstock C.I.D. with running his own gourmet restaurant called Pie In The Sky. Henry was often at loggerheads with his superior Assistant Chief Constable Freddy Fisher who was determined to try and keep Crabbe in the force, Henry's police partner was usually Sophia Cambrudge.

Henry Crabbe.................................. RICHARD GRIFFITHS

Margaret Crabbe.............................. MAGGIE STEED

Nicola (Seasons 2-5)....................... SAMANTHA JANUS

Ass Chief Con Freddy Fisher............ MALCOLM SINCLAIR

Steve Turner(94-95)......................... JOE DUTTINE

Sophia Cambridge.......................... BELLA ENAHORA

Henderson..................................... NICK RAGGETT

ITV / 3x60m-e / 1994

Writer: Robin Chapman / Novel: Reginald Hill 

Crime drama serial. Detectives Chief Superintendent Andy Dalziel and Inspector Peter Pascoe investigate a murder and arson attack at a 'private' (ie- porn) cinema club. The same two detectives have featured in a BBC1 series called Dalziel and Pascoe.

Ch Supt Andy Dalziel........................ GARETH HALE

Det Insp Peter Pascoe...................... NORMAN PACE

Sgt Wield........................................ CHRIS FAIRBANK

Dr Gilbert Haggard............................ FREDDIE JONES

Jack Shorter.................................... JOHN McGLYNN

Ray Crabtree................................... MALCOLM STORRY

Alice Andover.................................. URSULA HOWELLS

Annabelle Andover........................... ELIZABETH SPRIGGS 

A PIN TO SEE A PEEPSHOW

BBC2 / 26 July 1973

Drama. Story of a young girl in the early 1900's who was hanged along with her lover for the murder of her husband.

With:- FRANCESCA ANNIS as Julia Almond / JOHN DUTTINE (Lover) / BERNARD HEPTON (Husband)

BBC / 1x30m-e / 1997

Writer: Alan Sillitoe 

Drama. A miner from the Midlands travels to London to take part in the picketing of a power station during a strike.

Joshua Reed................................... BREWSTER MASON

PITY IN HISTORY

BBC / 1986

Writer: Howard Baker / Director: Sara Pia Anderson

With:- ALAN RICKMAN / PATRICK MALAHIDE / IAN McDIARMID

THE PITY OF IT ALL

ATV (Armchair Theatre) / 1966 22 January Saturday 10.05pm black and white

Writer: Stan Barstow / Design: David Marshall / Director: Patrick Dromgoole

Drama. The daughter of a miners widow is killed in a traffic accident, the man responsible, Walter Daymer, tries to make amends.

With:- BILLIE WHITELAW as Nancy Harper / NIGEL STOCK as Walter Daymer

BBC 'Frankie Howerd In...' / 1x30m-e / 1958 16 December - Tuesday 9.30pm 

Writer: Johnny Speight  / Producer: Eric Miller 

Comedy. Episodes in the life of comedian Frankie Howerd. 

Frankie............................................... FRANKIE HOWERD

LWT 'Galton & Simpson Comedy' / 1x30m-e / 1969 17 May - Saturday 7.30pm 

Writers: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson / Producer/Director: David Askey 

Comedy. Of a middle aged couple the wife is the one who goes out to work.

Alec Hentill........................................ MILO O'SHEA

Edie Hentill........................................ GWENDOLYN WATTS

Yorkshire / 3x60m-e / 1972

Writer: Hugh Whitemore / Producer: John Frankau 

Drama serial. Property dealer Martin Armstrong spends some  time in the South of France.

With:- MORAY WATSON as Martin Armstrong / ODILE VERSOIS as Jenny Armstrong / JOYCE CAREY / ANTON DIFFRING

ITV-VRP Productions / 1x120m-e / 1996

Writer/Producer: Jeff Pope / Design: Michael Ralph / Costume: David Rowe / Camera: Nino Martinetti / Executive Producer: Simon Shaps / Director: Suri Krishnamma 

Drama (based on a true story). In February 1994 a group of soldiers embark on an ill fated expedition to the jungles of Borneo.

With:- GREG WISE as Corporal Hugh Brittan / SIMON DUTTON as Lt Col Robert Neil /  JOHN McARDLE as Major Ron Foster / DOUGRAY SCOTT as Lance Cpl Richard Mayfield / TIMOTHY WEST as Chairman of the Inquiry / DAVE NELLIST as Page / RALPH BROWN as Mann / PHIL McKEE as Shearer / ANNA BOLT as Nicky / CRAIG SHAI HEE as Kevin

PLAIN JANE

ITV1 / 2x90m / 27-28 May 2002 / 9:00pm

Writer: Lucy Gannon / Director: John Woods / Producer: Jonathan Curling

Period drama set in 1910 London. David Bruce is a gas engineer working for a company with ambitious plans to lay new gas mains. At home David is obsessed by gas and bores his wife so his eyes turn to Jane, the family?s maid.

With:- KEVIN WHATLEY as David Bruce / EMMA CUNNIFFE as Jane / LESLEY MANVILLE as Dora Bruce / JASON HUGHES as Harry Bruce / CELIA IMRIE as Ellen Reynolds / KEITH BARRON as Thomas Reynolds / CORIN REDGRAVE as Walter Davison / SOPHIE STANTON as Chloe

PLAINTIFFS AND DEFENDANTS

BBC (Play for Today) / 1x60m-e / 1975 14 October 

Writer: Simon Gray / Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg

Drama. A married barrister's life begins to unravel when it looks like his highly tense mistress is going to spill the beans about their affair.

With:- ALAN BATES / GEORGINA HALE / ROSEMARY McHALE / DANIEL ST. GEORGE

BBC 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1963 2 November - Saturday 9.50pm  black and white

Writers: Richard Harris, Dennis Spooner / Producer: Sydney Lotterby 

Comedy. Albert Fawkes hates his surname and rebels against it by trying to re-enact the gunpowder plot.

With:- PETER CUSHING as Albert Fawkes / P.G. STEPHENS as Seamus McMichael / GRAHAM STARK as Lt Mills / FRANCIS MATTHEWS as Capt Hawkins

ATV / 26x60m-e / 1963-65 black and white

Creator: Wilfred Greatorex / Producer: Rex Firkin 

Drama series. Behind the scenes in the boardroom and shop floor of the Scott Furlong Aircraft Factory. After two seasons the lead character John Wilder took a place on the board of a merchant bank and the series was then renamed The Power Game.

John Wilder.................................... PATRICK WYMARK

Pamela Wilder................................ BARBARA MURRAY

Don Henderson.............................. JACK WATLING

Thames / 1x30m-e / 1979 17 December - Monday 8.00pm

Writer/Director: Eric Sykes / Producer: Dennis Kirkland 

Silent comedy. A remake of a 1967 cinema short, also by Sykes. Two bumbling workmen try to transport a plank of wood from the timber yard to the building site. Eric Sykes also used this plotline for an episode of his sitcom Sykes.  

with:- Eric Sykes, Arthur Lowe, Diana Dors, Carroll Baker, Kate O'Mara, Lionel Blair, Harry H. Corbett, Derek Guyler, Charlie Drake, Henry Cooper, Bernard Cribbens, Jimmy Edwards, Liza Goddard, Charles Hawtrey, Frankie Howerd, Joanna Lumley, Kenny Lynch and Brian Murphy.

THE PLANMAN

ITV1 / 2x90m / 31 March, 7 April 2003

Writer: Stuart Hepburn / Director: John Strickland / Producer: Mervyn Gill-Dougherty

Crime Drama. Jack Lennox QC divulges his hypothetical perfect robbery to an ex-policeman he has just successfully defended on corruption charges. Shortly after he reads of a heist carried out in the exact manner he described. He is asked to plan further perfect crimes and goes along with it until things start to go wrong.

With:- ROBBIE COLTRANE as Jack Lennox / CELIA IMRIE as Gail Forrester / NEIL DUDGEON as ACC Brian Richards / VINCENT REGAN as Jim Townsend / JOHN McGlynn as Crawford Hennesey-Boyd

BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1995

Writer/Director: Jonathan Lewis / Producer: Patrick Cassavetti 

Fantasy drama. A live television gardening show descends on Brown Gardens and soon strange events are beginning to strike the street.

Connie................................................ JOANNA ROTH

Max.................................................... VALENTINE PELKA

Tom.................................................... EOIN McCARTHY

D.C.I. Pinker....................................... CLIVE FRANCIS

Alan .................................................. TIM PREECE

Bella.................................................. SALLY DEXTER 

THE PLANTSMAN

BBC2 / 6x30m / started 28 February 2003

Series Producer: Kathy Myers

Chris Collins passes on his gardening tips.

ITV-Sally Head / 1x90m-e 1x120m-e / 1999 12-19 May - Wednesdays 9.00pm

Writers: Robin Mukherjee /  Music: Michael Gibbs / Design: Roger Cann / Costume: Mike O'Neill / Producer: Paul Marcus / Executive Producer: Sally Head / Director: Sarah Pia Anderson

Drama serial. Top plastic surgeon Joe MacConnell begins an affair that could ruin his marriage and his career.

Joe MacConnell............................. JOHN THAW

Erin MacConnel............................. SORCHA CUSACK

Louise ferman................................ FRANCES BARBER

James MacConnell........................ STUART PIPER

Claire Pursey................................ SOPHIE STANTON

Steve Pursey................................ MARTIN MARQUEZ

Adam Okoye................................ SHAUN PARKES

Mark MacConnell.......................... DAVID NICOLSON

Anna MacConnell.......................... PHILLIPA PEAK

Jesse Finch.................................. MELISSA WILSON

Liam Cooper................................. EDDIE MARSAN

Greg............................................ ROBERT WALLACE

Phil............................................. CHRIS NAYLOR

George........................................ JUSTIN SHEYLIN

Ginnie......................................... TERESA CARTER

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1946 9 August black and white

Producer: Fred O'Donovan / Play: J.M. Synge 

Drama set in Ireland.

With:- ARTHUR SINCLAIR / PHYLLIS RYAN / J. EDWARD BYRNE / JOYCE CANDLER

A PLAY FOR LOVE

Yorkshire TV / 1978

An anthology series of single plays with a self explanatory theme.

BBC / 325x75m-e /  1970-84

An umbrella title for a collection of dramas. The series was essentially a continuation of the influential Wednesday Play strand and anybody who was anybody appeared on it or wrote for it at some stage.

BBC1 / 6x60m-e / 1982 13 April - 18 May

Producer: Neil Zeiger / Script Editor: Chris Parr 

Anthology of plays with a supposed prophetic nature. The plays were. 

1.CRIMES / Writer: Caryl Churchill  Director: Stuart Burge with Sylvestra La Touzel, Julia Foster

2.BRIGHT EYES / Writer: Peter Prince, Director: Peter Duffell with Robin Ellis

3.CRICKET / Writer: Michael Wilcox, Director: Michael Darlow with Malcolm Terris, Jeremy Child

4.THE NUCLEAR FAMILY / Writer: Tom McGrath, Director: John Glenister

5.SHADES Writer: Stephen Lowe, Director: Bill Hays with:- Tracey Childs, Francesca Gonshaw, Neil Pearson,

6.EASTER 2016 / Writer: Graham Reid, Director: Ben Bolt With Denys Hawthorne, Kenneth Branagh,

BBC1 / 6x45m-e / 1988 29 July - 2 September Fridays 9.30pm 

Creator: Julie Welch / Producer: Tim Aspinall / Director: Jim Hill 

Comedy drama series. When Billy Buchan dies, his daughter Chrissie takes over the running of his subutteo football team installing herself as player/manager of Real Falkirk, much to the initial distress of her all male team-mates.

Chrissie Buchan.............................. PATRICIA KERRIGAN

Sam Montgomery............................ ALEC HEGGIE

Dougie Kemp.................................. JAKE D'ARCY

Mo Maconachie.............................. IAIN ANDREW

Bern McAvennie............................. DAVID MELDREW

Toni Rossi..................................... LAWRIE McNICOL

Perry Gilbert-Walker...................... SANDY SELCH

Agnes Buchan.............................. ANNE KRISTEN

Teresa Kelly................................. JULIET CADZOW

Elton Trelford................................ MICHAEL GARNER

BBC1/Tiger Aspect / 25x50m-e 6x60m-e / 1998-2002

Creator: Kay Mellor / Theme Music: Alison Moyet, Peter Glenister Sung by Alison Moyet / Producers: Greg Brenman (Season 1), Hugh Warren (Season 2), Kathleen Hutchison (from season 3) , Lis Steele (2002)

Comedy drama series. The lives, on the pitch and off, of a group of women in South Yorkshire who play football together for the Castlefield Blues ladies team. With each successive season the football played less of a part. Inspired by the real life Doncaster Belles ladies team.

With:- LESLEY SHARP as Theresa Mullen / JO McINNES as Jo Mullen / MELANIE HILL as Rita Dolen / LORRAINE ASHBOURNE as Geraldine Powell / MARSHA THOMASON as Sharon Pearce / TRACY WHITWELL as Angie Gill / BRIGIT FORSYTH as Francine Pratt / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS as Mrs Mullen / JAMES ELLIS as Mr Mullen / JOHN THOMSON as Eddie Ryan / RICKY TOMLINSON as Jim Pratt / TIM DANTAY as Dave Powell / JAMES NESBITT as John Dolan / DEBRA STEPHENSON as Diane Powell / ADELE McCORMACK as Vicky Dolan / NICHOLAS GLEAVES as Rick Powell / LEE ROSS as Ryan Pratt / EMMA RYDAL as  Mikey / OLIVIA CAFFREY as Kate Howard (Season 2) / KELLI HOLLIS as Lizzy Makin (2002)

BBC1 / 1965-79/82-83

An umbrella title for a collection of dramas that went out once a month, usually on a Sunday. The titles included original productions and adaptions of the classics.

Twice used as an umbrella title for anthologies of plays firstly by A-R from 1956-67 and BBC2 1977-79.

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