Memorable TV

UK TV - REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT to ROCKLIFFE'S BABIES

REQUIEM FOR A HEAVYWEIGHT

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1957 black and white

Writer: Rod Serling / Producer: Alvin Rakoff 

Drama. A boxer tries to come to terms with his fading career. An adaption of a US original.

With:- SEAN CONNERY / GEORGE MARGO / WARREN MITCHELL

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1973 11 Jan - Thurs 8.00pm

Writer: Peter Jones / Producer: John Howard Davies 

Comedy. A man causes havoc for his rescuer after attempting suicide.

Clive.................................................... PETER JONES

Guy Shelmerdine................................. NICHOLAS PARSONS

Connie Shelmerdine............................. MOYRA FRASER

Mrs Harris........................................... LUCITA LIJERTWOOD

RESCUE ME

BBC1-Tiger Aspect / 6x60m / starts 3 March 2002 / 9:00pm

Writers: David Nicholls, Oliver Brown / Directors: Kate Dennis, Julian Holmes, Christine Langan / Producer: Christine Langan

Romantic comedy drama.  Katie Nash is a magazine feature writer for a women's glossy called "Eden" with romantic problems.

With:- SALLY PHILLIPS as Katie Nash / VINCENT REGAN as Matthew Nash / STEWART WRIGHT as Eddie Chisholm / OLIVER CHRIS as Luke Chatwin / SASHA BEHAR as EMMA PETERS / ANDREA LOWE as Melanie Woods / ALISON MAC as Alice Jackson

BBC / 5x50m-e / 1995

Writer: Tony McHale / Producer: Barry Hanson 

Thriller serial. A post graduate student investigates after his mother is murdered.

Joshua Penny................................. BEN CHAPLIN

Neville............................................ STEVEN WADDINGTON

Lucy Chapman............................... KELLY HUNTER

Peter Dennigan.............................. PETER FIRTH

Kepler........................................... NIGEL TERRY

Sam Penny................................... DAVID DAKER

The Leveller................................... BRETT FANCY

'Skins'........................................... NEIL STUKE

Granada / 1x60m-e / 1961 30 November

Writer: N.F. Simpson 

Comedy. The bizarre and surreal world of the Paradocks. See also Three Rousing Tinkles and Four Tall Tinkles.

Middie Paradock............................ BILLIE WHITELAW

Bro Paradock................................ TENNIEL EVANS

Yorkshire TV / 1x90m-e / 1996

Writer: Richard La Plante / Producer: Peter Waller / Director: Terry Marcel 

Drama. After being forced to retire from the ring Bobby Carr begins a new career as a coach.

Bobby Carr........................................ NICK BERRY

Rosie Carr......................................... JAYNE ASHBOURNE

Joe Carr............................................ MARK ADDY

Janine............................................... RACHEL VICTORIA ROBERTS

Ronnie Ellis....................................... NICHOLAS BALL

Stan Peters....................................... KENNETH COPE

BBC1 / 4x50m-e / 1998

Writer: Phillipa Gregory (from her novel) / Music: Julian Nott / Producer: Ruth Baumgarten / Director: Suri Krishnamma

Period drama serial. In 1788 governess Frances Scott finds her life undergoing a dramatic change when she marries ambitious ship owning slave trader Josiah Cole.

Josiah Cole....................................... WARREN CLARKE

Sarah Cole........................................ ANNA MASSEY

Frances Scott................................... EMMA FIELDING

Mehuru............................................ ARIYON BAKARE

Sir Charles Fairley............................ RICHARD BRIERS

Lady Scott....................................... JENNY AGUTTER

Lord Scott....................................... SIMON WILLIAMS

Brown............................................. CAIT DAVIS

Elizabeth........................................ JENNY JULES

BBC / 4x50m-e / 1970

Writer: Alexander Barry / Novel: Leo Tolstoy / Producer: David Conroy 

Period drama serial. A Russian prince falls in love with a prostitute.

With:- ALAN DOBIE as Prince Dimitri / JOHN BRYANS / BRYAN MURPHY / MITZI WEBSTER / BRIDGET TURNER 

THE RETURN

ITV1 / 1x120m / 30 December 2003

Writer: Kate O'Riordan / Director: Dermot Boyd / Producer: Keith Thompson

Thriller. Lizzie Hunt is released from prison on licence after serving 11 years of her sentence for murdering her husband while she was drunk. She had pleaded guilty at the time because she had no recollection of the event and believed she must have done it - but now after examining the evidence file against her she begins to doubt if it was really her that killed him.

With:- JULIE WALTERS as Lizzie Hunt / NEIL DUDGEON as Matt Dempsey / GER RYAN as Maggie Lynch / GLEN BARRY as Jimmy Hunt / ALAN BARRY as Dr Brian Cullen / EILEEN COLGAN as Fee Cullen / PAULINE MCLYNN as Laura Dunmore / NICK DUNNING as Tony Hunt

BBC 'Dead of Night' / 1x50m-e / 1972

Writer: Robert Holmes 

Spooky drama. A contemporary airline pilot has a ghostly experience that sees him involved with a wartime bomber crew who are flying a dangerous mission over Germany.

With:- PETER BARKWORTH

Granada / 10x60m-e 2x120m-e / 1986-87 Season 1:9 Jul - 20 Aug 86 / Season 2: 6 Apr - 27 Apr 87

Producer: June Wyndham-Davies / Research: Judd Cooper / Music: Patrick Gowers / Design: Alan Pickford / Executive Producer: Michael Cox 

Period crime drama series. Further cases of the celebrated detective, back from the grave after his apparent death at the Reichenbach Falls in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.

Sherlock Holmes................................ JEREMY BRETT

Doctor Watson................................... EDWARD HARDWICKE

Lestrade............................................ COLIN JEAVONS

RETURN OF THE NATIVE

BBC2 / 1x95m-e / 1994

Writer: Robert W. Lenski / Novel: Thomas Hardy / Producer: Nick Gillott / Director: Jack Gold

Period drama. In 1842 Eustacia Vye yearns to break free from her village life on Egdon Heath.

Eustacia Vye................................... CATHERINE ZETA JONES

Damon Wildeve................................ CLIVE OWEN

Mrs Yeobright.................................. JOAN PLOWRIGHT

Clym Yeobright................................ RAY STEVENSON

Diggory Venn.................................. STEVEN MACKINTOSH

Thomasin Yeobright......................... CLAIRE SKINNER

Susan Nunsuch............................... CELIA IMRIE

Timothy.......................................... PETER WIGHT

Mummer......................................... DANIEL NEWMAN

Cook.............................................. CAROL MACREADY

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1955 / 8 January - 19 March black and white 

Writer: Angus MacVicar (aka Andre Norton) / Design: John Cooper / Director: Kevin Sheldon 

Jeremy Grant.................................. PETER KERR

Dr Lachlan McKinnon...................... JOHN STUART

Madge Smith.................................. JOAN ALLEN

Andrieff.......................................... WOLFE MORRIS

Professor Bergman......................... DEREK BENFIELD

Dorman......................................... MICHAEL SEGAL

BBC 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1962 12 January - Friday 8.45pm 

Writer: Ray Galton,Alan Simpson / Producer: Duncan Wood 

Comedy. The reunion of a group of old friends doesn't go quite as planned.

Maurice Woolley............................. LEE MONTAGUE

Paddy O'Hanahan........................... J.G. DEVLIN

Arthur Clench................................. DICK EMERY

'Bow-Tie' Bertie............................... PATRICK CARGILL

Sammy Burton.............................. JEROLD WELLS

Johnny Burton............................... BERNARD GOLDMAN

Tommy Whitelaw........................... DAVID GREGORY

Colonel Yateley............................. CAMERON HALL

Central-Carlton / 52x30m-e / 1994-96

Creator: Russell T. Davies / Producers: David Hanson, Anthony Wood 

Drama series. The outrageous lives of a wealthy Church of England bishop and his highly strung family. The show was quite self conscious about its over the top aspects. 

Edward Rattigan............................. MATTHEW RADFORD

Jessica rattigan.............................. PAUL SHELLEY

Rachel Rattigan............................. LUCY ROBINSON

Gabriel Rattigan............................. STEPHEN MAPES

Caroline Blackwell......................... HELEN HOBSON

Mary Beckett................................ CAROLE NIMMONS

BBC2 / 25x50m-e / 1967-68

Producer: Gerard Glaister 

Crime drama series. Cases of a group of customs and excise men.

With:- EWAN SOLON / JAMES GRANT / CALLUM MILL

REVERSALS

ITV1 / 1x120m / 19 November 2003

Writer: Tim Sloane / Director: David Evans / Producer: Jake Lushington

Drama. Doctor Charlotte Woods blames her lack of career advancement on her gender and when her partner Doctor Chris Singleton gets offered a new job she dresses as a man and takes it in his place. When Chris finds out he agrees to dress as a woman and take-up Charlotte's new post as a medical teacher to try and prove to her that gender does not matter but finds out that perhaps it does after all.

With:- MARC WARREN as Chris Singleton / SARAH PARISH as Charlotte Woods / ANTHONY HEAD as Andrew Barton / INDIRA VARMA as Kathy Irwin / JEREMY SWIFT as Owen Doherty / NICHOLAS FARREL as Edward Leitch / CLAUDIA HARRISON as Judith Hobart / KIRSTEN HUGHES as Cynthia Barton

RHINOCEROS

Granada-Coastal / 1x120m-e / 1999 11 April - Sunday 9.00pm

Writer: Christopher Green / Additional Dialogue: Dominic Minghella / Music: Adrian Johnston / Costume: Hazel Pethig / Design: Chris Truelove / Producer: Bill Boyes / Director: David Tucker

Comedy drama. Ex-footballer Michael Flynn and his estranged wife Julie embark on a frantic search for their missing special needs teenage son Danny. Danny was making his first unaccompanied train journey at the time of his disappearance.

With:- ROBSON GREEN as Michael Flynn / NIAMH CUSACK as Julie Flynn / RAYMOND PICKARD as Danny Flynn / JOY RICHARDSON as Mavis McKendrick / DINAH STABB as Helen Marten / ANN MARIE HESLOP as Jackie / BETHAN WILLIAMS as Sian / FFION ROWLANDS as Becky / DAFYDD HYWEL as Arwel Edwards / SUSIE ANN WATKINS as Cheryl / MARK PEPPER as Malcolm

BBC / 1x90m-e 8x50m-e / 1996

Writer: Antony Thomas / Music: Alan Parker / Costume: Lyn Avery / Design: Maurice Cain / Producers: Scott Meek, Charles Salmon / Director: David Drury

Period drama serial. The life story of controversial adventurer Cecil Rhodes and his involvement with the Diamond Mine industry in South Africa. A much hyped (and very expensive) serial that never fulfilled it's potential.

With:- MARTIN SHAW as Cecil Rhodes / JOE SHAW as Young Cecil / FRANCES BARBER as  Princess Radziwill / NEIL PEARSON as Dr Jameson / KEN STOTT as Barney Barnato / RAY COULTHARD as Neville Pickering / DAVID BUTLER as Charles Rudd / OLIVER COTTON as Joseph Chamberlain

Thames / 1x30m-e / 1980 15 December - Monday 8.00pm

Writer/Director: Eric Sykes / Producer: David Clark 

Comedy. A remake of Sykes' 1970 film short. A policeman will stop at nothing to win a round of golf. The only dialogue spoken in the film is 'Rhubarb Rhubarb'(hence the title), this is supposed to be what extras used to say to each other instead of actually speaking.

With Eric Sykes, Jimmy Edwards, Bob Todd, Charlie Drake, Hattie Jacques, Roy Kinnear, Bill Fraser, Beryl Reid, April Walker, Nicholas Bond-Owen and Robert Carter.

Danziger / 39x30m-e / 1962 black and white

Producers: Ed J. and Harry Lee Danziger 

Period action adventure series. When King Richard learns that his brother John is planning to take over the throne of England he returns from the crusades determined to put things to rights.

King Richard...................................... DERMOT WALSH

Prince John....................................... TRADER FAULKNER

Blondel.............................................. IAIN GREGORY

Lady Berengaria................................. SHEILA WHITTINGTON

Hugo................................................ GLYN OWEN

Marta............................................... ANNE LAWSON

Sir Gilbert......................................... ROBIN HUNTER

BBC2 'BBC Television Shakespeare' / 1x155m-e / 1978

Writer: William Shakespeare / Director: David Giles 

Period drama. 

With:- DEREK JACOBI as Richard II / JOHN GIELGUD as John of Gaunt / JON FINCH as Henry Bolingbroke / WENDY HILLER as Duchess of York / CHARLES GRAY as The Duke of York / MARY MORRISON as Duchess of Gloucester / DAVID SWIFT as Duke of Northumberland / CLIFFORD ROSE as Bishop of Carlyle / JEFFREY HOLLAND as The Duke of Surrey / JEREMY BULLOCH as Henry Percy

RICHARD III

BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x228m-e / 1982

Writer: William Shakespeare / Director: Jane Howell

Period drama. The machinations of Richard Crookback ending with his death at the Battle of Bosworth field.

With:- RON COOK as Richard III / ROWENA COOPER as Queen Elizabeth / ANNETTE CROSBIE as Duchess of York / JULIA FOSTER as Queen Margaret / PETER BENSON as Ratcliffe / DAVID BURKE as Cathesby / MICHAEL BYRNE as Buckingham / PATSY KENSIT as Lady Margaret Plantagenet / ZOE WANAMAKER as Lady Anne / BRIAN PROTHEROE as Edward IV / NICK REDING as Ghost of Prince of Wales  

1x105m-e / 1980

Writer: Frederic Raphael / Director: Anthony Harvey 

Drama. A young girl is drawn into an affair with an older woman.

With:- LIV ULLMAN / AMANDA REDMAN / TIM PIGGOTT-SMITH / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS

BBC1 / 2x70m-e / 1997

Writer: Laura Lamson / Novel: Gillian White / Producer: Michelle Mendoza / Director: Gurinder Chadha

Romantic drama serial. When Liverpudlian Ellie Freeman wins a fortune on the pools she doesn't let her husband know but instead secretly sets up a business and arranges for him to run it.

Ellie Freeman.................................. LESLEY DUNLOP

Malc freeman.................................. JOHN McARDLE

Robert Beasley............................... JOHN SALTHOUSE

Bella Beasley................................. PETRA MARKHAM

Ricky Ramon................................. DAVID YIP

Maria............................................ CHERYL MURRAY

Yorkshire TV / 6x60m-e / 1991  5 Jul - 9 Aug Fridays 9.00pm

Writer: David Nobbs / Producer/Director: David Reynolds / Music: Ray Russell / Lyrics: Sally Howard / Theme sung by Patricia Hodge and Denis Quilley / Titles: Paul Peppiate / Costume: Val Hurst / Design: Robert Scott / Executive Producer: Vernon Lawrence 

Comedy drama series. Divorced mother Julia Merrygrove with two teenage children, works as a local councillor whilst also holding down a job in a biscuit factory. Julia begins an affair with her opposite number on the council.

Julia Merrygrove................................ PATRICIA HODGE

George Rudge.................................. DENIS QUILLEY

Grannie Trellis.................................. JEAN ALEXANDER

Grandad Rudge................................ LIONEL JEFFRIES

John Merrygrove............................... JASON FLEMYNG

Samantha Merrygrove...................... CLAUDIA BRYAN

Karen Rudge................................... LORRAINE ASHBOURNE

Steve Merrygrove............................. RAY LONNEN

Sally.............................................. ANNE REID

Nikki.............................................. TRACIE BENNETT

Tracey Rudge................................. SARA GRIFFITHS

Anglia-Friday / 4x60m-e / 1993

Novel: Jilly Cooper / Producer: Rogery Gregory / Director: Gabrielle Beaumont / Costume: Prue Handley / Horsemaster: Steve Dent / Executive Producer: Brenda Reid

Drama serial. Gypsy Jake Lovell, an international showjumper, keeps up an intense rivalry with utter cad and fellow showjumper Rupert Campbell-Black.

Jake Lovell....................................... MICHAEL PRAED

Rupert Campbell-Black..................... MARCUS GILBERT

Tory Lovell....................................... CAROLINE HARKER

Molly Carter.................................... STEPHANIE BEACHAM

Colonel Carter................................. ANTHONY VALENTINE

Colonel Malise Gordon.................... JOHN STANDING

Laura Duparru................................ CECILE PAOLI

Fenella Maxwell............................. SIENNA GUILLORY

Billy Lloyd-Foxe............................. ANTHONY CALF

Janey Henderson........................... SERENA GORDON

Dudley........................................... IAN HOGG

BBC1-Warner Sisters / 12x50m-e / 1992-93

Creator: Carole Hayman 

Drama series. The problems of a woman who starts her own female only taxi firm.

With:- JILL BAKER / LOUISE JAMESON / KATHERINE SCHLESINGER / LYNDA STEADMAN / ERICA GRANT / TREVOR BYFIELD

BBC1 / 12x50m-e / 1993-94

Writer: Debbie Horsfield / Producer: Liz Trubridge 

Comedy drama series. The impoverished upper-class Tundish family rent out one wing of their stately home Tundish Hall to a down at heel working class family.

Roger Tundish................................ RONALD PICKUP

Joanna Tundish.............................. CELIA IMRIE

Petula Belcher............................... MOSSIE SMITH

Carmen......................................... JAYNE ASHBOURNE

Declan.......................................... CAL MACANISH

Acky Belcher................................ TREVOR PEACOCK

Pheonix........................................ PIPPA GUARD

Granny Grogan.............................. BRENDA BRUCE

Boyd Tundish................................ NICHOLAS FARRELL

Alister.......................................... GREG WISE

Mortimer Tundish.......................... RICHARD HOPE

BBC 'Play for Today' / 1x75m-e / 1970 

Writer: John Osborne / Producer: Irene Shubik / Director: Alan Cooke 

Drama. A strange couple embark on a search for the ideal public school, not for any children but for them.

With:- GEORGE COLE / ELVI HALE / CHRISTOPHER WHITTY / TOM CRIDDLE

Granada / 6x60m-e / 1993, 1995 
Producer: Andy Harries(S1), Mark Redhead(S2) 

An anthology of comedy dramas linked only by featuring Rik Mayall as the star of each. Individual dramas were: (S1-1993) Micky Love; Briefest Encounter; Dancing Queen; (S2-1995) The Big One; Dirty Old Town; Clair De Lune.

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1938 23 December black and white

Producer: Royston Morley / Play: Edgar Wallace 

Thriller. Arch criminal the Ringer is out for revenge.

With:- CECIL PARKER / HENRY OSCAR / GINA MALO / WALLY PATCH / MARJORIE RHODES

RING OUT THE BELLS

ATV / 1x55m-e / 1961 (Sunday 24 December / 8.25pm)

Producer: Bill Ward

A Christmas musical special starring Jo Stafford, Harry Secombe, the Lionel Blair Dancers, The Polka Dots, the Choir of Westminster Abbey and the kids of the Corona Stage School.

BBC2 / 9x30m-e / 1977-79 27 Sep - 25 Oct 1977 and 10 Oct - 24 Oct 1979

Writers: Michael Palin, Terry Jones / Producer: Alan J.W. Bell 

An anthology series of affectionate period send up of boys own style adventures with Michael Palin starring in each.

RIPLEY'S BELIEVE IT OR NOT

Bravo (Pay TV) / x30m-e / 2001-2002

Craig Charles hosted  series of the programme  exploring the world of weird and amazing feats, facts and artifacts. An average edition features such weird stuff as a female body-piercing enthusiast who pulled a 1,000lb truck with ropes attached to hooks in her back, a motorbike modified for a driver with one arm and one leg, and the traditional Indian cure for asthma of eating live guppies.

RISE

C4 / x120m-e (weekdays) / first edition 29 April 2002 / 7am - 9am

Weekday breakfast show delivering a mix of entertainment, news and sport. The title is styled as RI:SE as if it were numbers on a digital clock. Originally presented by Mark Durden-Smith, Edith Bowman, Colin Murray, Kirsty Gallacher, Chris Rodgers, Liz Bonnin, Henry Bonsu.

THE RIVALS

BBC1 (play of the Month) / 1971 17 May

Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: Basil Coleman

Period comedy drama. A version of the Richard Brinsley Sheridan play featuring the antics of the character of Mrs Malaprop who gave a word to the English language "Malapropism" thanks to her skill at getting words mixed up.

With:- BERYL REID as Mrs Malaprop / ANDREW CRUICKSHANK / JEREMY BRETT / JENNIE LINDEN / JOHN ALDERTON / T.P. McKENNA

BBC / 1988

Period comedy. See also above.

With:- SHEILA HANCOCK / DONALD SINDEN

Thames / 26x60m-e / 1971-73 2 Seasons 

Producers: Robert Love and Jonathan Alwyn (season one), Reginald Collin and Jonathan Alwyn (season two) / Music: Bob Sharples / Story Editors: George Markstein (season one), Harry Moore (season two) / Executive Producers: Lloyd Shirley (season one), Kim Mills (season two)

An anthology series of period crime dramas featuring detective who were around in Victorian times  during Sherlock Holmes reign as the Worlds Greatest Detective. An impressive cast of actors played various little known detectives including Derek Jacobi, John Thaw, Bernard Hepton, Judy Geeson, Ronald Hines, Peter Vaughan, Peter Barkworth, Donald Sinden, Roy Dotrice and Donald Pleasence.

Associated-Rediffusion / 13x60m-e / 1965

Producer: Jordan Lawrence / Music: Laurie Johnson 

Crime drama series. Cases of a group of cops working in the South of France.

Inspector Legrand.......................... BRIAN SPINK

Supt Bernie Johnson..................... NOEL TREVARTHAN

Lt Col Constant Sorel.................... FRANK LIEBERMAN

Supt Adam Hunter........................ GEOFFREY FREDERICK

BBC / 1x55m-e / 1963 29 September black and white

Writer: Nigel Kneale / Script Editor: Vincent Tilsley / Producer: John Elliott / Director: Christopher Morahan 

Scifi drama. A 17th century scientific visionary investigates a haunted wood.

Sir Timothy Hassell........................... JAMES MAXWELL

Lavinia............................................. ANN BELL

Gideon Cobb.................................... JOHN PHILLIPS

Big Jeff............................................ DAVID KING

Sam Towler..................................... RODNEY BEWES

Tetsy.............................................. MEG RITCHIE

BBC / 1x80m-e / 1987

Writer: Jim Cartwright / Director: Alan Clarke 

Drama. The problems faced by unemployed men and women on a northern housing estate.

With:- JANE HORROCKS / MOSSIE SMITH / NEIL DUDGEON / LESLEY SHARP

BBC2 / 13x45m-e / 1970 4 October - 27 December

Writer: David Turner / Trilogy: Jean Paul-Sartre / Producer: David Conroy / Director: James Cellan Jones 

Period drama serial. Mattieu Delarue drifts his way through life in France before the second world war.

Mattieu Delarue............................... MICHAEL BRYANT

Brunet............................................ DONALD BURTON

Daniel............................................ DANIEL MASSEY

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1953 17 March - 21 April black and white

Writer: Max Kester / Producer: Joy Harrington 

Period drama serial. A traditional retelling of the oft told legend.

Robin Hood...................................... PATRICK TROUGHTON

Sheriff............................................. DAVID KOSSOF

Friar Tuck....................................... WENSLEY PITHEY

Little John....................................... KENNETH MACKINTOSH

BBC1 / 1973

A pantomime Christmas special version of the legend.

With:- TERRY SCOTT / HUGH LLOYD

HTV-Goldcrest / 2x120m-e  22x60m-e / 1984-86

Creator: Richard Carpenter / Music: Clannad / Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole

Period action adventure series. A new slant on the Robin Hood legend being realistic whilst also introducing some fantasy elements with Herne the Hunter. At the end of the second season Robin was killed off but then season three saw a new Robin emerge.

With:- MICHAEL PRAED as Robin of Loxley(84-85) / JUDI TROTT as Maid Marion / NICKOLAS GRACE as Sheriff of Nottingham / RAY WINSTONE as Will Scarlett / CLIVE MANTLE as Little John / JASON CONNERY as Robin of Huntingdon(86) / JOHN ABINERI as Herne the Hunter / PHIL ROSE as Friar Tuck / MARK RYAN as Nasir / PHILIP JACKSON as Abbot Hugo / ROBERT ADDIE as Guy of Gisburne / RICHARD O'BRIEN as Guhar(86)

ROALD DAHL'S TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED: See Tales of the Unexpected

ROBIN REDBREAST

BBC 'Play for Today' / 1x75m-e / 1970

Writer: John Bowen / Producer: Graeme McDonald / Director: James MacTaggart 

Spooky Drama. A middle aged woman living alone in a country cottage thinks someone or something is out to get her.

With:- ANNA CROPPER / BERNARD HEPTON / FREDA BAMFORD 

ROCKET MAN

BBC1 / 6x60m / started 30 October 2005

Writer: Alison Hume / Director: Jon East / Producer: Philip Leach

Rocket enthusiast George Stevenson is determined to perform one last service to his late and much beloved wife. With the help of his children and his friends he wants to build a rocket to blast his wife's ashes into space.

With:- ROBSON GREEN as George Stevenson / CHARLES DALE as Barney Scott / ALLISON NEWMAN as Diane Scott / DAVE HILL as Huw Masters / LUCY EVANS as Angela Stevenson / JOHN RHYS HALLIWELL as Tom Stevenson

BBC1 / 14x60m / 2002, 2003

Writer: Nicholas Hicks-Beach, Shelley Miller / Directors: Robert Bierman, Sue Dunderdale, Terry Winsor / Producer: Jacky Stoller (S1), Neil Zeiger (S2)

Drama set in the Scottish highlands about a mountain rescue team. The first series' episode lengths varied between 50, 55 and 60 minutes and received a weekday 7:30pm timeslot. The second series of 8 episodes received an unusually early timeslot of 5:45pm on Sundays.

With:- CLIVE RUSSELL as Gordon Urquart / BRENDAN COYLE as Douglas McLanaghan / MARK WOMACK as Harry Clark / CAL MACANINCH as Ben Craig / RICHARD GRAHAM as Mike Bayliss / ZOE EELES as Annie Craig / MELANIE GUTTERIDGE as Caroline Morrison / JAMIE SIVES as Peter Craig / RUPERT EVANS as Jamie Doughan

Thames / 12x60m-e / 1976-77 Season 1 :24 February - 30 March 76 Season 2: 4-18 May/22 November - 6 December 77

Writer: Howard Schumann / Music: Andy Mackay, Howard Schumann / Producer: Andrew Brown 

Drama series. A female rock group called The Little Ladies try to make it big on the music scene. Season two called Rock Follies of 77 and transmitted in two blocks of three episodes.

With:- CHARLOTTE CORNWELL as Anna Wynd / JULIE COVINGTON as 'Dee' Rhoades / RULA LENSKA as 'Q' Cunard de  Longchamps / BETH PORTER as Kitty Schrieber / EMLYN PRICE as Derek Huggin / DEREK THOMPSON as Harry Moon

BBC / 1x70m-e / 1987

Writer: John McGahern / Producer: Danny Boyle / Director: Kieran Hickery 

Period drama. In 1950's rural Ireland a schoolmaster with strong teaching methods finds his views coming under attack.

With:- BOSCO HOGAN / NIALL TOBIN / TONY ROHR / MARIE KEAN / JOHN OLOHAN

HTV / 1x60m-e / 1977

Writer: Julian Bond / Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole / Story: D.H. Lawrence / Director: Peter Medak

Period drama. When a young boy rides his rocking horse he finds himself able to correctly predict winners in real horse races. There was also a film version in 1949.

Paul..................................................... NIGEL RHODES

Uncle................................................... KENNETH MORE

Mother................................................ ANGELA THORNE

Father................................................. PETER CELLIER

BBC1 / 20x50m-e / 1987-88

Creator: Richard O'Keefe / Producer: Leonard Lewis 

Crime drama series. Tough detective sergeant Alan Rockliffe's new squad consists of seven young inexperienced trainee detectives. See also Rockliffe's Folly.

With:- IAN HOGG as Det Sgt Alan Rockliffe / JOE McGANN as PC Gerry O'Dowd / ALPHONSIA EMMANUEL as WPC Janice Hargreaves / BRETT FANCY as PC Steve Hood / BILL CHAMPION as PC David Adams / EDWARD WILSON as Det Insp Charlie Flight / JOHN BLAKEY as PC Keith Chitty / MARTYN ELLIS as PC Paul Georgiou / SUSANNAH SHELLING as WPC Karen Walsh / MALCOLM TERRIS as Det Supt Munro

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