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PLAYHOUSE (BBC 1974-83)
PLAYING THE FIELD
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
A PERFECT SPY
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
PERILS OF PENDRAGON
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
THE PERMISSIVE SOCIETY
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
THE PERSON RESPONSIBLE
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
PERSON TO PERSON
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
PERSON UNKNOWN
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
THE PERSUADERS
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
PERSUASION
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
PETER PAN
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
THE PETER PRINCIPLE
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
PHILBY, BURGESS AND MACLEAN
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
THE PIANO SMASHERS OF THE GOLDEN SUN
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.
PICKERSGILL PEOPLE
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.
PICKING UP THE PIECES
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
THE PICNIC
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
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY
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.
PICTURES
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
PICKWICK
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
PIECE OF CAKE
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
PIED PIPER
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
PIE IN THE SKY
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
A PINCH OF SNUFF
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)
PIT STRIKE
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
PITY POOR FRANCIS
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
PITY POOR EDIE...MARRIED TO HIM
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
A PLACE IN THE SUN
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
THE PLACE OF THE DEAD
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
THE PLANK
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
THE PLANT
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.
PLASTIC MAN
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
PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD
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.
PLAY FOR TODAY
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.
PLAYING FOR REAL
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
PLAY OF THE MONTH
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.
PLAY OF THE WEEK
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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