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THE SECRET HOUSE OF DEATH Ruth Rendell Mysteries

SEA SONG

Thames / 1x90m-e / 1974

Writer: Guy Slater / Producer/Director: Peter Hammond

Comedy drama. A young female journalist hides on the boat of a businessman who is taking part in a single handed race.

With:- TOM BELL / KIKA MARKHAM

SEASON'S GREETINGS

BBC2 / 1x110m-e / 1986

Writer: Alan Ayckbourn / Music: Jim Parker / Producer: Shaun Sutton / Director: Michael Simpson

Comedy drama. A traditional family Christmas doesn't go as planned.

With:- NICKY HENSON as Neville / BARBARA FLYNN as Belinda / ANNA MASSEY as Rachel / GEOFFREY PALMER as Bernard / PETER VAUGHAN as Harvey / LESLEY DUNLOP as Pattie

SEASONS OF THE YEAR

Granada / 6x60m-e / 1971

Writer: Anthony Skene / Producer: Peter Potter

Anthology of dramas set in the same country house over a period of 150 years.

SECOMBE WITH MUSIC

ITV (Yorkshire) / x60m-e / 1980 and 1982

Producer: Vernon Lawrence

Occasional musical specials starring one time Goon Harry Secombe and focusing on his Welsh ancestry. Guests included the likes of Lorna Dallas, Derek Griffiths, John Mills, Larry Adler, Lulu, Julia McKenzie and Pam Ayres.

SECOND CHANCE

Yorkshire TV / 6x60m-e / 1981

Writer: Adele Rose / Producer: Keith Richardson / Executive Producer: David Cunliffe / Directors: Gerry Mill, Richard Handford

Drama. Middle aged couple, the Hursts, face up to divorce.

With:- SUSANNAH YORK as Kate Hurst / RALPH BATES as Chris Hurst / KATE DORNING as Jill Hurst

THE SECOND COMING

ITV1 / 2x90 / 9-10 February 2003 / 9:00pm

Writer: Russell T Davies / Director: Adrian Shergold / Producer: Ann Harrison-Baxter

Drama. Manchester Video shop worker Steven Baxter announces he is the son of God and proves it with a miracle. With the world's attention awed by the event he announces that the world's future fate is to soon be decided and everyone must submit their ideas for how mankind should proceed in a "third testament" from which he will choose the one that shall be the path to follow. He gathers his closest friends as his disciples to help him decide including Judith, a friend since childhood. All the time the Devil's henchmen, with their sinister glowing eyes, are at work trying to hinder things. Eventually Judith realises what the "third testament" is and knows that Steven has to die so that mankind can dispense with its dependence on a god.

With:- CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON as Steven Baxter / LESLEY SHARP as Judith Roach / WILLIAM TRAVIS as Dave Morris / AHSEN BHATTI as Peter Gupta / ANNABELLE APSION as Fiona Morris / JOHN HENSHAW as Clive Saxon

SECOND GENERATION

C4 / 2x90m / 14-15 September 2003 / 10:00pm

Writer: Neil Biswas / Director: Jon Sen / Producer: Catherine Wearing

Drama. Heere attempts to heal a rift with her father who disapproves of her relationship with music journalist Jack, a white man - meanwhile a former relationship is re-kindled with her former Indian boyfriend, Sam, who works in the music industry.

With:- ON PURI as Sharma / PARMINDER NAGRA as Heere / CHRISTOPHER SIMPSON as Sam / ANUPAM KHER as Khan / AMITA DHIRI as Rina . RITA WOOLF as Pria / DANNY DYER as Jack

SECOND OPINION

ATV / 1x60m-e / 1977

Writer: Alan Hackney / Director: John Sichel

Drama. A doctor rents a cottage in the country to spend time with his fianc饬 but is somewhat put out when his daughter tags along.

With:- TIMOTHY WEST / LYNDA BELLINGHAM / LYNN DALBY

SECOND PARTNER

1x50m-e / 1974

Writer: Noel Robinson

Drama. A country living husband is insecure in his marriage.

With:- ROBERT HARDY as Alec / ANGELA BROWNE as Chris

THE SECOND QUEST

ITV1 / 1x90m / 5 April 2004

Writer: Douglas Livingstone / Director: David Jason / Producer: David Reynolds

A sequel to 2002's THE QUEST. Following a DIY accident Charlie is hospitalised and his two mates of old visit him and they all reminisce about a motorcycling trip to the Isle of Man in the 1960s where they befriended some contestants in the local beauty pageant and Charlie searched for his girlfriend Sandra who was staying on the island.

With:- (Present Day) DAVID JASON as Dave / HYWEL BENNETT as Ronno / ROY HUDD as Charlie / (1960s) GREG FAULKNER as Dave / MAX WROTTESLEY as Ronno / JIM STURGESS as Charlie
And:- LES DENNIS as Johnny / MORVEN CHRISTIE as Nina / JENNIFER JAMES as Joyce / SHELLEY MINTO as Joanna / ELIZABETH AVIS as Angela / GEORGIA MOFFETT as Sandra

SECOND SIGHT

BBC1-2020-WGBH / 2x90m-e 6x50m-e / 2000-2001

Writer: Paula Milne / Police Consultant: Jon Bound / Ophthalmic Consultant: Bob Cooling / Music: John Lunn / Design: Charles Garrad / Producer: David Lascelles / Director: Charles Beeson

Crime drama series. Detective Chief Inspector Ross Tanner is investigating the murder of a youth when he is stricken by a progressive eye disease that threatens to leave him blind. A full series followed.

D.C.I. Ross Tanner......................... CLIVE OWEN

D.I. Catherine Tully......................... CLAIRE SKINNER

Adam Bendix................................. STUART WILSON

Judith Bendix................................. PHOEBE NICHOLLS

Liam Morrison................................ EDDIE MARSAN

Tracy Villiers.................................. LOUISE ATKINS

D.I. Skinner.................................... IAN REDFORD

D.S. Pewsey.................................. RUPERT HOLLIDAY EVANS

D.S. Finch..................................... FRANK HARPER

Marilyn Tanner............................... REBECCA EGAN

SECOND VERDICT

BBC1 / 6x50m-e / 1976 27 May - 1 July

Producer: Leonard Lewis

Crime drama series. A further spin off for two characters from Z Cars and Softly Softly. It paired up Charlie Barlow and John Watt and saw them investigating real life crimes from the past, such as Lizzie Borden, etc.

Det Supt Charlie Barlow................. STRATFORD JOHNS

Det Ch Insp John Watt................... FRANK WINDSOR

THE SECRET

Yorkshire-Tyne Tees- Festival / 3x60m-e / 2000 21 January - 4 February Fridays 9.00pm

Writer: T.R. Bowen / Novel: Catharine Cookson's The Harrogate Secret / Music: Colin Towns / Camera: Allan Pyrah / Design: Ash Wilkinson / Costume: Morgan Elliott / Producer: Ray Marshall / Director: Alan Grint

Period thriller serial. In the late 1880's reformed smuggler Freddie Musgrave has worked hard to turn a legitimate trade, but then a face from his past turns up threatening to ruin things for him.

With:- COLIN BUCHANAN as Freddie Musgrave / CLARE HIGGINS as Maggie Hewitt / HANNAH YELLAND as Belle / STEPHEN MOYER as Marcel / LIZ CARLING as Connie / JUNE WHITFIELD as Mrs Birkstead / MARLENE SIDAWAY as Jinny / JOANNA ROWDEN as Nancy / ADAM IRONSIDE as Young Freddie / MILTON JOHNS as Taylor / MALCOLM TERRIS as Sir Christopher Bell / PAULA WRIGHT as May

THE SECRET ADVERSARY:See Partners In Crime of which The Secret Adversary was a feature length opener.

THE SECRET AGENT

So far Joseph Conrad's novel about the anarchist Verloc working as a double agent for both the British and Russians has been produced three times.

1.ONE / BBC2 2x45m-e 8-15 Jul 1967 Writer: Alexander Baron / Director: Gerald Blake / With:- NIGEL GREEN as Verloc / ROSEMARY HILL as Winnie

2.TWO / BBC2 1x95m-e 1 Oct 1975 Director: Herbert Wise / With:- PAUL ROGERS as Verloc

3.THREE / BBC2 3x60m-e 28 Oct - 11 Nov 1992 Writer: Dusty Hughes / Director: David Drury / With:- DAVID SUCHET as Verloc / CHERYL CAMPBELL as Winnie / PATRICK MALAHIDE as Assistant Commissioner / PETER CAPALDI / RICHARD STIRLING / WARREN CLARKE / JANET SUZMAN

SECRET ARMY

BBC1 / 42x50m-e / 1977-79 3 seasons

Producer: Gerard Glaister / Script Editor: John Brason / Consultant: Wilfred Greatorex / Technical Advisor: Capt W. Randle / Theme Music: Robert Farnon

Wartime drama series. During World War II, a Belgian group called Lifeline set up a resistance movement helping shot down British airmen get back to Blighty. The German Kessler was determined to try and stamp Lifeline out but they always managed to try and stay one step ahead. The series followed the war through to its conclusion with the town being Liberated. See also the six part sequel Kessler.

With:- BERNARD HEPTON as Albert Foiret / JAN FRANCIS as Lisa Colbert (Season 1) / CLIFFORD ROSE as Kessler / ANGELA RICHARDS as Monique Duchamps / JULIET HAMMOND-HILL as Natalie / CHRISTOPHER NEAME as Flt Lt John Curtis (Season 1) / MICHAEL CULVER as Major Brandt (Seasons 1-2) / TERENCE HARDIMAN as Major Rheinhardt (Season 3) / STEPHEN YARDLEY as Max Brocard / HAZEL McBRIDE as Madelaine Duclos / PAUL SHELLEY as Bradley (Season 3) / RALPH BATES as Paul Vercors (Season 3)

THE SECRETARY WHO STOLE ?4 MILLION

BBC2 / 1x90m / 8 June 2005

Writer: Lucy Floyd / Director: Colin Barr / Executive Producer: Nick Mirsky

The true story of Joyti De-Laurey, a trusted personal assistant at an investment bankers who realised she could write cheques to herself and live a lavish lifestyle until she was eventually uncovered. Drama was broken up by interview contributions from real friends and family of De-Laurey.

With:- MEERA SYAL as Joyti De-Laurey / JOHN SALTHOUSE as Tony De-Laurey / CATHERINE RUSSELL as Jennifer Moses / ROSEMARY LEACH as Carol Samson / ALBERT WELLING as Scott Mead

SECRET MISSION

Associated-Rediffusion / 7x25m-e / 1956 black and white

Writer: Robert Barr / Executive Producer: Caryl Doncaster

Wartime spy drama series. Exploits of a group of female operatives during World War II.

SECRET ORCHARDS

SECRET SMILE

ITV1 / 2x90m / 12&13 December 2005

Novel: Nicci French: Adaptation: Kate Brooke / Director: Christopher Menaul / Producer: Jake Lushington

Thriller. Miranda Cotton has a brief passionate fling with charming and personable Brendan Block. But she sees a darker side to him and ends the relationship. Shortly afterwards she gets introduced to her sister's new fianc頡nd it is Brendan. To everyone else Brendan is the perfect guy - it seems only Miranda can see what a nasty calculating piece of work he really is - or is it her that's wrong?

With: KATE ASHFIELD as Miranda Cotton / DAVID TENNANT as Brendan Block / CLAIRE GOOSE as Kerry Cotton / JILL BAKER as Marcia Cotton / JOHN BOWE as Derek Cotton / SUSANNAH WISE as Laura

SECRET WEAPON

ITV / 23 Dec 1990

Thriller.

Cast included:- KAREN ALLEN as Ruth / GRIFFIN DUNNE as Mordecai Vanunu

SEE HOW THEY RUN

Channel 4-TVS-Theatre of Comedy / 1x90m-e / 1984 25 December - Tuesday 8.30pm

Writer: Ray Cooney / Play: Philip King / Producer: Martin Schute / Executive Producer: Michael Blakstead / Directors: Les Chatfield, Ray Cooney

Period farce. During World War II an escaped German Prisoner of War ends up in an English vicarage.

With:- MICHAEL DENISON as Bishop of Lax / LIZA GODDARD as Penelope Toop / MAUREEN LIPMAN as Miss Skillon / DEREK NIMMO as Rev Arthur Humphrey / CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY as Clive Winton / PETER BLAKE as Intruder / CAROL HAWKINS as Ida / ROYCE MILLS as Rev Lionel Toop / BILL PERTWEE as Sgt Towers / STEVEN MACKINTOSH as Willie Briggs

SEEING RED

Granada-WGBH-Producers/ 1x120m-e / 2000 19 Mar - Sunday 8.00pm

Writer: Chris Monger / Producers: Neal Weisman, Jenny Edwards, Jeanna Polley , Pippa Cross / Music: Barrington Pheloung / Costume: Charlotte Walter / Design: Adrian Smith / Camera: Lukas Strebel / Director: Graham Theakston

Period drama. The true story of how actress Coral Atkins, at the height of her popularity in the seventies (a starring role in TV show A Family At War) gave it all up to start her own children's home.

With: Sarah Lancashire as Coral Atkins / Nicholas Gecks as Dr O'Gorman / Lizzy McInnerny as Sylvia / Richard Dillane as Steve /John Quayle as Sir Godfrey Nicholson / Robert Curbishley as Chris / Joe Gunnas as Harry / Gary Cady as Peter / Zoe Henry as Julia / Tim Barker as Mr Thomas

SEEKERS

Central-London / 2x120m-e / 1992

Writer: Lynda La Plante / Music: Daryl Runswick / Producer: Sarah Lawson / Director: Peter Barber-Fleming

Thriller serial. When a private detective goes missing, a middle aged housewife and a younger ex-policeman discover that he was bigamously married to the both of them. When he fails to turn up the two women decide to take over his detective agency.

With:- BRENDA FRICKER / JOSETTE SIMON / MICHAEL CARTER / MILES ANDERSON / HARRY JONES / RACHEL WILKINSON

SEE NO EVIL: THE MOORS MURDERS

ITV1 / 2x90m / 14-15 May 2006

Writer: Neil Mckay / Director: Christopher Menual / Producer: Lisa Gilchrist

The story of the infamous duo of Ian Brady and Myra Hindley who in the 1960s became known as the Moors Murderers. It traces some of the events that led up to the murders and the police efforts to catch them.

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MAXINE PEAKE as Myra Hindley / SEAN HARRIS as Ian Brady / JOANNE FROGGATT as Maureen Smith / MICHAEL McNULTY as Dave Smith/ GEORGE COSTIGAN as DCI Joe Mounsey

THE SECRET WORLD OF MICHAEL FRY

Channel Four - Endor / 2x80m-e / 2000 25 April - 2 May Tuesdays 9.00pm

Writer:Paul Abbott / Producer: Hilary Bevan Jones / Design: Alice Normington / Camera: Daf Hobson / Costume: Nic Ede / Music: Ben Bartlett / Director: Marc Munden

Drama. Council Planner Michael Fry uncovers a sinister plot in his Welsh seaside home town and finds himself caught in a growing tide of corruption and sleazy internet sex.

With:- EWEN BREMNER as Michael Fry / MICHAEL KITCHEN as Herbie / ROSIE MARCEL as Donna / ROBERT PUGH as Hugh Wentworth-Davies / MARTIN GLYN MURRAY as Josh / ALED PUGH as Karl / ROSIE CAVALIERO as Janine / PETER KAY as Barney Barman / RHODA LEWIS as Nesta / PHILIP JOSEPH as Michael's Dad / SELINA CADELL as Michael's Mum / LIZ DANIELS as Michael's Gran

SEE SAW

ITV / 3x60m-e / 1998

Writer: Deborah Moggach / Producer: Gillian Gordon / Director: George Case

Thriller serial. Wealthy middle class couple The Prices have their orderly lives thrown into turmoil when their 17 year old daughter is kidnapped and held to ransom.

With:- DAVID SUCHET as Morris Price / GERALDINE JAMES as Val Price / AMANDA OOMS as Eva / NEIL STUKE as Jon / JOANNA POTTS as Hannah Price / TRICIA GEORGE as Bernice / JADE DAVIDSON as Becky Price / JOSEPH BEATTIE as Theo Price

THE SEIGE OF MANCHESTER

BBC2 / 1x120m-e / 1965 black and white

Writer: Keith Dewhurst / Director: Herbert Wise

Period drama. The small town of Manchester hire a German mercenary to defend their town during the civil war. Made to mark the coming of BBC2 to the north of England.

Capt Rosworm................................. ALAN DOBIE

SELECTED EXITS

BBC2 'Bookmark' / 1x90m-e / 1994

Writer: Alan Plater

Period drama. The life of Welsh broadcaster and comic writer Gwyn Thomas.

Gwyn Thomas................................... ANTHONY HOPKINS

Lyn Thomas...................................... SUE RODERICK

Gwyn's father.................................... ROBERT PUGH

Gwyn(aged 13)................................. GAVIN RHYS ASHCROPT

Nana Thomas.................................. ABIGAIL HARRISON*

*Harrison is Anthony Hopkins daughter.

SELF CATERING

Channel 4-Jab 'Alan Bleasdale Presents' / 1x120m-e / 1994

Writer: Andrew Collen / Producer: Alan Bleasdale / Director: Robin Le Fevre / Costume: Carolyn Maddocks / Blue Bayou sung by Julie Walters

Comedy drama. The five survivors of a plane crash are stranded on an idyllic island, after a while they begin to take on the names and characteristics of their favourite film stars.

With:- ANDREW SCHOFIELD as Clint Eastwood / NOREEN KERSHAW as Joan Crawford / JENNIFER EHLE as Meryl Streep / JANE HORROCKS as Marilyn Monroe / JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR as Henry Fonda

SELLING HITLER

Euston-Warner Sisters / 5x50m-e / 1991 11 June - 9 July

Writer: Howard Schumann / Book: Robert Harris / Producer: Andrew Brown / Director: Alastair Reid

Comedy drama serial. The story of how the Sunday Times got sucked into buying The Fake Hitler Diaries in 1983.

Gerd Heidemann............................... JONATHAN PRYCE

Rupert Murdoch................................ BARRY HUMPHRIES

Hugh Trevor-Roper............................ ALAN BENNETT

Conny Kujau.................................... ALEXEI SAYLE

Edda............................................... ALISON STEADMAN

SEMELE

UK / BBC2 / 1x80m-e / 1999 (Saturday 15 May / 7.00pm)

Producer: Caroline Speed / Director: Derek Bailey / Stage Production: Robert Carson

Opera. Semele, a mortal begins an ill fated love affair with the God Jupiter.

With:- CLIVE BAYLEY as Cadmus / ROSEMARY JOSHUA as Semele / SARAH CONNOLLY as Ino / STEPHEN WALLACE as Athamas / JOHN MARK AINSLEY as Jupiter

SEND IN THE GIRLS

Granada / 7x60m-e / 1978

Producer: June Wyndham-Davies

Drama series. Stories of a group of salesgirls.

With:- ANNIE ROSS as Velma Hardy / DIANA DAVIES / ANNA CARTERET / FLOELLA BENJAMIN

SENSE AND SENSIBILITY

BBC / 3x60m-e / 1980

Director: Rodney Bennett / Music: Dudley Simpson / Novel: Jane Austen / Camera: Don Oliver, Bob Everitt

Period drama serial. Two young sisters look for an husband during the 19th century.

With:- IRENE RICHARDS as Elinor Dashwood / TRACEY CHILDS as Marianne Dashwood / DIANA FAIRFAX as Mrs Dashwood / PETER GALE as John Dashwood / AMANDA BOXER as Fanny Dashwood / DONALD DOUGLAS as Sir John Middleton / HETTY BAYNES as Charlotte Palmer / GINA ROWE as Swan / PETER WOODWARD as Willoughby

A SENSE OF FREEDOM

Scottish / 1x120m-e / 1981 17 February

Writer: Peter McDougall / Director: Jeremy Isaacs

Drama. The true story of Jimmy Boyle, a violent murderer who had a traumatic stay in prison.

With:- DAVID HAYMAN as Jimmy Boyle / FULTON MACKAY / ALEX NORTON / JAKE D'ARCY

A SENSE OF GUILT

BBC1 / 7x50m-e / 1990

Writer: Andrea Newman / Producer: Simon Passmore

Drama serial. Writer Felix Cramer gets the young daughter of his best friend pregnant , thoroughly upsetting the applecart and ruining more than one relationship in the process.

Felix Cramer.................................... TREVOR EVE

Sally Hindle...................................... RUDI DAVIES

Richard Murray................................. JIM CARTER

Elizabeth Cramer.............................. MORAG HOOD

Helen Irving....................................... LISA HARROW

Carey Hindle..................................... PHILIP McGOUGH

SENSITIVE SKIN

BBC2 / 6x30m / started 10 November 2005

Writer/Director/Producer: Hugo Blick

Comedy drama about a woman who has just passed the age of 60 and her husband who are a little lost about what to do with the rest of their lives.

With:- JOANNA LUMLEY as Davina Jackson / DENIS LAWSON as Al Jackson / JAMES LANCE as Orlando Jackson

THE SENTIMENTAL AGENT

ATV / x30m-e / 1963 black and white

Producer: Harry Fine

Action adventure series. An international trader finds himself involved in intrigue and crime whilst on his world travels. The character of Carlos Varela had appeared in an episode of Man of the World.

Carlos Varela...................................... CARLOS THOMPSON

Suzy Carter........................................ CLEMENCE BETTANY

Chin................................................... BURT KWOUK

SEPERATE TABLES

HTV-Primetime / 1x120m-e / 1983

Writer: Terence Rattigan / Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole / Director: John Schlesinger

Period drama. The lives of a group of guests staying in a residential hotel in Bournemouth in 1954.

Miss Bell/Mrs Shankland................... JULIE CHRISTIE

Mr Malcolm/Maj Pollock.................... ALAN BATES

Miss Cooper.................................... CLAIRE BLOOM

Mrs Raiton Bell................................. IRENE WORTH

Miss Meecham................................. LIZ SMITH

Mabel.............................................. KATHY STAFF

Brian Stratton................................... BRIAN DEACON

Mr Fowler......................................... BERNARD ARCHARD

SEPTEMBER

Sky One-Portman / 2x90m-e / 1995

Writer: Lee Langley / Novel: Rosemunde Pilcher / Music: Richard Hartley / Producer: Nigel Watts / Director: Colin Bucksey

Romantic drama serial. When the exotic Pandora returns to her home in the remote Scottish village of Strathcroy it causes old tensions to resurface.

Pandora............................................. JACQUELINE BISSET

Archie................................................ EDWARD FOX

Edmund............................................. MICHAEL YORK

Virginia.............................................. MARIEL HEMINGWAY

Violet................................................ VIRGINIA McKENNA

Isobel................................................ JENNY AGUTTER

Verena.............................................. JUDY PARFITT

Lottie................................................ ANGELA PLEASANCE

Conrad.............................................. PAUL GUILFOYLE

Alexa................................................ EMILY HAMILTON

Neil.................................................. JESSE BIRDSALL

SEPTEMBER SONG

Granada / 1x60m-e 18x30m-e / 1993-95

Writer: Ken Blakeson / Producers: Gareth Morgan, Brian Park

Comedy drama series. After the death of his wife Ted Fenwick joins his best friend Billy Balsam, a stand up comic, first in Blackpool (1993), then a cruise around the Med(1994) and then in Cromer.

Ted Fenwick........................................ RUSS ABBOT

Billy Balsam........................................ MICHAEL WILLIAMS

Arnie................................................... MICHAEL ANGELIS

Cilla(1993)........................................... SUSAN BROWN

Roxy(1993).......................................... JULIE PEASGOOD

Katharine Hillyard (1994-95).................. DIANA QUICK

Connie French (1994)........................... DIANE KEEN

Vicky (1995)........................................ REBECCA CALLARD

SERGEANT CORK

ATV / 65x50m-e / 1963-68 black and white

Creator: Ted Willis / Producer: Jack Williams

Period crime drama series. In Victorian times, Metropolitan police Sgt Cork uses the latest forensic techniques to crack his cases.

Sgt Cork............................................ JOHN BARRIE

Bob Marriott....................................... WILLIAM GAUNT

Joseph Bird....................................... ARNOLD DIAMOND

Supt Rodway.................................... CHARLES MORGAN

Supt Billy Nelson.............................. JOHN RICHMOND

SERIOUS AND ORGANISED

ITV1 / 6x60m / started 2 January 2003

Producer: Matt Jones

Crime drama series. The Finn brothers work together in a specialist police unit fighting organised crime.

With:- MARTIN KEMP as DC Jack Finn / JOE DUTTINE as DC Tony Finn / ESTHER HALL as Rachel Finn / DANNY SAPANI as DI Dennis Clifton / EMILY BRUNI as DC Joanne Granger

SERMON FROM ST ALBIONS

ITV / 6x10m-e / 1998 Sundays late (11.00pm-ish)

Writer: Ian Hislop / Producer: Richard Wilson / Director: Mike Russell Hills

Satire. Based on a column in Private Eye. The Rev Tony Blair, vicar of St Albions, addresses his congregation, assisted by Church Warden Mr Mandelson and organist Mr Cook.A one off 30 minute special was broadcast 4 May 1999 with Rebecca Front as Cherie Blair and Louis MacLeod as Bill Clinton.

Rev Tony Blair................................. HARRY ENFIELD

A SERIES OF BIRDS

BBC1 / 8x30m-e / 1967 3 October - 21 November Tuesdays 9.05pm

Writers: John Bird, John Fortune, Michael Palin, Terry Jones / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson

Comedy. A series of unconnected comedies all featuring John Bird.

THE SERPENT SON

BBC / 3x75m-e / 1979

Writers: Frederic Raphael, Kenneth MacLeish / Producer: Richard Broke / Director: Bill Hays

A Greek Tragedy serial. A version of the Orestia of Aeschlus.

DIANA RIGG as Kytamnestra / DENIS QUILLEY as Agamemnon / HELEN MIRREN as Cassandra / MAUREEN O'BRIEN as Elektra / ANTON LESSSER as Orestes

SERVANTS

BBC1 / 6x60m / started 10 April 2003

Writer: Lucy Gannon / Director: Tim Whitby / Producer: Harriet Davison

Period drama set in the 1850s. The loves and ambitions of the staff of the Victorian country house of the Sturges Borne family. The narrative concentrates on the lives of the servants and little is seen of the family they serve. Although set in period, the dialogue and attitudes were fairly modern. See our episode guide here and our extensive show overview here.

With:- CHRISTOPHER FULFORD as Jarvis / ORLA BRADY as Flora Ryan / JOE ABSOLOM as George Cosmo / FELICITY JONES as Grace May / KENNY DOUGHTY as William Forest / CAROLINE HAYES as Esther Spencer / SHAUN PARKES as Frederick Matkin / JON MORRISON as Andrew Adams

THE SEVEN DIALS MYSTERY

LWT / 1x130m-e / 1981

Writer: Pat Sandys / Novel: Agatha Christie / Music: Joseph Horovitz / Design: Bryan Bagge, Colin Monk / Costume: Penny Lowe / Producer: Jack Williams / Executive Producer/Director: Tony Wharmby

Period crime drama. In the nineteen twenties Lady Eileen Brent and Jimmy Thesiger investigate the deaths of a pair of foreign office employees and get involved in a search for a vital stolen secret formula and a mysterious secret society.

Lady Eileen Brent............................ CHERYL CAMPBELL

Jimmy Thesiger............................... JAMES WARWICK

Marquess of Caterham..................... JOHN GIELGUD

Supt Battle..................................... HARRY ANDREWS

George Lomax................................ TERENCE ALEXANDER

Countess Radzsky.......................... RULA LENSKA

Tredwell.......................................... BRIAN WILDE

Lady Coote.................................... JOYCE REDMAN

Sir Oswald Coote............................ LESLIE SANDS

Lorraine Wade................................ LUCY GUTTERIDGE

Bill Eversleigh................................ CHRISTOPHER SCOULAR

Vera.............................................. HENRIETA BAYNES

Gerry Wade................................... ROBERT LONGDEN

Count Andras................................. SANDOR ELES

Stevens......................................... ROGER SLOMAN

Helen............................................ SARAH CROWDEN

SEVEN DEADLY SINS/VIRTUES

P:Peter Willes Associated-Rediffusion / 14x60m-e / 1966-67 Sins: 9 May - 27 June 1966 / Virtues: 30 March - 11 May 1967

Two separate anthology series, the first of which dealt with sinners, while the second took the opposite end of the spectrum.

THE SEVEN FACES OF JIM

BBC / 7x30m-e / 1961 black and white

Writers: Frank Muir, Denis Norden / Producer: James Gilbert

Anthology of one off comedies tailored as a showcase for the talents of Jimmy Edwards. A further series of six followed in 1962 called obviously The Six Faces of Jim. Also in 1963 Six More Faces of Jim appeared (produced by Douglas Moodie).

THE SEVEN SETBACKS OF THE SETBACKS:See The Setbacks.

SEVEN OF ONE

BBC2 / 7x30m-e / 1973 25 Mar - 6 May

Executive Producer: James Gilbert

Ronnie Barker proves his versatility with this 1973 collection of seven single comedies, two of which would lead to his best known series. Barker had tried this anthology format twice before with The Ronnie Barker Playhouse from 1968 and Six Dates With Barker in 1971 but its this collection that sees him at his best. Writing one of the episodes himself (under the pen name Jack Goetz) and bringing in giants of the genre such as Roy Clarke and Clement and La Frenais as well co-acting talent of the calibre of the legendary Talfryn Thomas, David Jason and Sam Kelly, Barker is very much on form. The first two episodes are Open All Hours with Barker's miserly shopkeeper Arkwright soon becoming a TV classic whilst the second is Prisoner and Escort starring a certain Norman Stanley Fletcher on his way to Slade prison, this episode would of course serve as the pilot for the legendary Porridge.

My Old Man sees Barker playing retired engine driver Sam Cobbett whose house faces demolition, this did in fact also go on to become a series that starred Clive Dunn in the title role. Spanner's Eleven is another gem, scripted by Roy Clarke and co-starring the fab Bill Maynard, Barker is Albert Spanner coach of the dismal Ashfield Athletic football Club, Another Fine Mess is something of a tribute to Laurel and Hardy that co-stars Roy Castle, One Man's Meat was written by Barker and is a comedy of a starvation diet. Finally I'll Fly You For A Quid is a farcical mix up over a winning betting slip. Interesting this was planned as the opening episode but for some reason was postponed and ended up being shown last. If you are only familiar with Barker from his more well known efforts then this is a brilliant chance to get aquainted. Anthology of single comedies all starring Ronnie Barker. (Two of the shows became series, Porridge, under the title Prisoner and Escort and Open All Hours (under that title).

SEVEN WONDERS OF THE INDUSTRIAL AGE

BBC2 / 7x50m / started 4 September 2003

Series producer: Deborah Cadbury

A series of drama-documentaries showing the development and personalities behind some of the greatest technological achievements and endeavours of the industrial age. Narration by Robert Lindsay. For more details see the episode guide.

SEVEN YEAR HITCH

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1966 28 June - Tuesday 7.30pm

Writer: Fred Robinson / Producer: Vere Lorrimer

Comedy. Exploits of the owner of a down at heel dance club.

Ernest 'Ern' Conway........................... HARRY H. CORBETT

Isabel 'Is' Conway.............................. JOAN SIMS

Deidre.............................................. DAWN BERET

Mr Swann......................................... DEREK ROYLE

SEX AND CHOCOLATE

BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1997

Writer: Tony Grounds / Producer: Sophie Clarke-Jervoise / Director: Gavin Millar

Comedy drama. Happily married primary school teacher Bev Bodger meets her former childhood sweetheart who persuades her to spend a weekend in Paris with him.

With:- DAWN FRENCH as Bev Bodger / PHIL DANIELS as Ian Bodger / MICHAEL MALONEY as Billy Gate / JAN ALPHONSE as Julie / ROSEMARY MARTIN as Loretta

SEX AND LIES

BBC2 / 1x60m / 8 June 2004 (previously shown on BBC3 on 20 Feb 2004)

Writer/Director: Jeremy Lovering / Producer: Madonna Baptiste

Kate calls a late-night radio talk show host and tells him about her relationship with her male friend and colleague, Alex, who she says raped her after a night out together. NOTE: this drama was billed as "Date Rape: Sex and Lies" for its BBC2 broadcast but this fuller title was not used within the programme itself.

With: KEELEY HAWES as Kate / STUART LAING as Alex / STACEY ROCA as Susie / JOHANN MYERS as Dave / JAMES HILLIER as Chris / SIMON PEGG (Voice) as Disk Jockey

SEX, CHIPS AND ROCK 'N' ROLL

BBC1-Wall to Wall / 6x50m-e / 1999 5 September - 10 October Sundays 9.00pm

Writer: Debbie Horsfield / Original Music: Mike Moran, Debbie Horsfield / Costume: Les Lansdown / Executive Producers: Tessa Ross, Alex Graham, Gina Cronk / Producer: Liz Truebridge / Director: John Woods

Period drama series. In Eccles, Manchester in 1965, 18 year old twins, Ellie and Arden, have their lives changed by a chance meeting with up and coming rock group The Ice Cubes.

With:- GILLIAN KEARNEY as Ellie / EMMA COOKE as Arden / JOSEPH McFADDEN as Dallas / SUE JOHNSTON as Irma / PHIL DANIELS as Larry / JAMES CALLIS as The Wolf / JULIAN KERRIDGE as Tex / DAVID THRELFALL as Norman / NICHOLAS FARRELL as Howard / MICHELLE ABRAHAMS as Hayley / JIM HOOPER as Clifford

SEX, FOOTBALLERS AND VIDEOTAPE

C4 / 1x60m / 19 August 2004

Writer: Rob Fraser / Producer & Director: Bruce Goodison

Drama. A young new premiership football player is drawn into a seedy world of night-clubs, boozing and girls by the older teammates he worships. When he finds time to be alone with a new girlfriend in a hotel room his teammates intrude and when the night is over the girl accuses the players of raping her.

With:- TROY GLASGOW as Jason / PHIL CORNWELL as Murray / RALPH BROWN as Vincent / SAHUN PARKES as Louis / RALPH INESON as Neil / CHRISTINE BOTTOMLEY as Mel / KELLIE SHIRLEY as Cassie / JOHANN MYERS as Nathan

SEX 'N' DEATH

BBC2-Hatrick / 1x75m-e / 1999 14 December - Tuesdays 9.30pm

Writer/Director: Guy Jenkin / Music: Matthew Scott, Richard Hammarton / Costume: Michele Clapton / Design: Jeff Tessler / Executive Producers: Jimmy Mulville, David M. Thompson / Producer: Jane Featherstone

Black comedy. In the very near future, Ben Black is the host of incredibly sick and sensationalist TV show Sex 'N' Death, but Black is finding the pressure getting to him, especially his rivalry with fellow TV host Neil Biddle.

With:- MARTIN CLUNES as Ben Black / CAROLINE GOODALL as Bella / MARTIN JARVIS as Neil Biddle / KATY CAVANAGH as Ruby / NICHOLAS R. BAILEY as Tony, the Great Fandango / KELLY REILLY as Julie / TREVOR COOPER as William / JANE PEACHEY as Sophie / PAULA BACON as Stacey / NATASHA BELL as Mandy / EDMUND MORIARTY as Giles / JASON WATKINS as Mick Luger / ANDY HAMILTON as Ambulance Man / TERRY O'NEILL as Warren Hatcher / ULRIKA JONSSON as Herself

THE SEXTET

BBC / 8x50m-e / 1972

Producer: Roderick Graham

An anthology of dramas that each featured the same cast. They were Dennis Waterman, Michele Dotrice, Denholm Elliott, Billie Whitelaw and Richard Vernon.

SEXTON BLAKE AND THE DEMON GOD

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1978

Writer: Simon Raven / Producer: Barry Letts / Director: Roger Tucker

Period crime drama serial. Another case for Sexton Blake.

Blake................................................... JEREMY CLYDE

Tinker.................................................. PHILIP DAVIS

SEX TRAFFIC

C4 / 2x120m / 14, 21 October 2004

Writer: Abi Morgan / Director: David Yates / Producer: Derek Wax

Drama. With the promise of a better life in London two young Moldovan sisters, Elena and Vara, are lured into a world where women are bought and sold into sexual slavery by vicious traffickers. Daniel Appleton is a charity worker who has been investigating the trafficking problem and comes up against a large American company in Kosovo which seems to be involved in it.

With:- JOHN SIMM as Daniel Appleton / WENDY CREWSON as Madeleine Harlsburgh / ANAMARIA MARINCA as Elena Visinescu / MARIA POPISTASU as Vara Visinescu / CHRIS POTTER as Harlsburgh

S FOR SUGAR, A FOR APPLE, M FOR MISERY

ATV / 1x60m-e / 1968 black and white

Writer: Jen Matos / Director: James Ferman

Drama. Problems are caused after a lighter is accidentally left in a taxi.

With:- BARRY FOSTER / ELIZABETH SHEPHERD

SHABBY TIGER

Granada / 6x60m-e / 1973 11 July - 22 August

Writer: Geoffrey Lancashire / Novel: Howard Spring / Music: Derek Hilton / Producer: Richard Everitt

Period drama serial. In the 1920's young Irish servant girl Anna Fitzgerald gets involved in Manchester bohemian life after falling for artist Nick Faunt.

With:- PRUNELLA GEE as Anna Fitzgerald / JOHN NOLAN as Nick Faunt / SHARON MAUGHAM / PATRICK HOLT / NIGEL HAVERS

SHACKLETON

C4 - 2/3 January 2002 2x125 9:00pm
Writer/Director: Charles Sturridge; Producer: Selwyn Roberts

The story of the legendary British explorer, Sir Ernest Shackleton, who set sail in 1914 on his ship the Endurance for the South Pole. When the ship becomes trapped in ice and sinks the crew seem condemned to certain death.

KENNETH BRANAGH as Ernest Shackleton / LORCAN CRANITCH as Wild / MARK MCGANN as Crean / PHOEBE NICHOLLS as Emily
KEVIN MCNALLY as Worsley / CORIN REDGRAVE as Curzon / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS as Janet Stancombe Wills / ROBERT HARDY as Sir James Caird / MATT DAY as Hurley / JOHN GRILLO as Franks / EVE BEST as Eleanor / MARK TANDY as Frank / CICELY DELANEY as Cecily / CHRISTIAN YOUNG as Raymond / EMBETH DAVIDTZ as Rosalind / DANNY WEBB as Perris / MICHAEL CULKIN as Jack Morgan
ABBY FORD as Marcie / RON DONACHIE as Sir John Scott Keltie / ROBERT SWANN as Freshfield / CHRIS LARKIN as Marston / SHAUN DOOLEY as Hudson / NICHOLAS ROWE as Orde-Lees / BRUCE BYRON as Harbour / JOSEPH LONG as Oddenino

SHADES

BBC1 / 6x50m-e / 2001

Drama series. A pair of ghosts, Maeve and Mark, wander the streets of London, helping people, they can only be seen by strangers and not by anyone who knew them in life.

With:- STEPHEN TOMKINSON as Mark / DERVLA KIRWAN as Maeve / PETER O'BRIEN as Freddie

SHADES OF DARKNESS

Granada / 8x60m-e / 1983/86

Producer: June Wyndham-Davies

An anthology series of spooky and menacing dramas, mostly period.

SHADES OF GREENE

Thames / 13x60m-e / 1975

Producer: Alan Cooke

An anthology of stories based on the writings of Graham Greene.

SHADOWLANDS

BBC1 'Everyman' / 1x90m-e / 1985

Writer: William Nicholson / Producer: David M. Thompson / Music: Ken Howard / Camera: Russ Walker /

Period drama. In the 1950's writer C.S. Lewis (author of Children's classic The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe) falls in love with a divorced American woman who later develops a fatal illness. Later turned into a successful film starring Anthony Hopkins as Lewis.

With:-JOSS ACKLAND as C.S. Lewis/ CLAIRE BLOOM as Joy Gresham / DAVID WALLER as Warnie Lewis / RUPERT BADERMAN as Douglas / RHYS HOPKINS as David / ALAN MacNAUGHTON as Christopher Riley / PHILIP STONE as Harry Harrington / TIM PREECE as Alan Gregg / JIM KIRBY as Father Fishers

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