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SHINE ON HARVEY MOON
Central-Witzend / 12x30m-e 23x60m-e / 1982-85
Creators: Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran / Titles: George Wallder / Musical Associate: Sam Harding / Script Editors: Dick Clement, Ian LaFrenais / Producers: Tony Charles, Allan McKeown
Period comedy drama series. Harvey Moon returns home from the war to find his home bombed out and his family life in tatters (his wife has been unable to resist the temptations of the Yanks), Harvey, however, sets about making a new life for himself and his kids Maggie and Stanley. In 1995 the show returned for 12 episodes (see below entry).
Harvey Moon..................................... KENNETH CRANHAM
Rita Moon......................................... MAGGIE STEED
Maggie Moon.................................... LINDA ROBSON
Stanley Moon.................................... LEE WHITLOCK
Nan.................................................. ELIZABETH SPRIGGS
Veronica(84-85)................................. PAULINE QUIRKE
Lou Lewis (Seasons 1-2).................... NIGEL PLANER
Eric Gottlieb...................................... LEONARD FENTON
Freda Gottlieb................................... SUZANNE BERTISH
SHINE ON HARVEY MOON
Central / 12x30m-e / 1995
Creators: Laurence Marks, Maurice Gran / Producer: Tony Charles
Period comedy drama serial. A sequel to the 1980's show. It is now 1953(Coronation year) and Maggie is preparing to marry Lou, whilst Harvey is heavily involved in politics.
Harvey Moon...................................... NICKY HENSON
Nan................................................... ELIZABETH SPRIGGS
Rita................................................... MAGGIE STEED
Maggie.............................................. LINDA ROBSON
Lou................................................... NIGEL PLANER
Stanley............................................. LEE WHITLOCK
Noah................................................ COLIN SALMON
Veronica........................................... PAULINE QUIRKE
Sq Ldr Cunningham........................... NICHOLAS CLAY
SHINY SHINY BRIGHT NEW HOLE IN MY HEART
BBC2 / 1x75m / 26 July 2006
Writer/Director: Mark Munden / Producers: Ruth Caleb, Lisa Marie Russo
Nathalie Winter works as a personal shopper helping her rich clients choose the right clothes. Nathalie buys herself some luxuries and then finds it becomes a compulsive obsession and she cannot stop herself making unaffordable purchases on credit - her spending spirals out of control as her addiction threatens to lose her her home and family.
With:- SALLY HAWKINS as Nathalie Winter / STEVEN MACKINTOSH as Jeremy Winter (husband)/ DANIELA NARDINI as Maya (rich client)
SHIPMAN
ITV1 / 1x120m / 9 July 2002 / 9:00pm
Writer: Michael Eaton / Director: Roger Bamford / Producer: Nick Finnis
Drama
based on the true-life events of Dr Harold Shipman, a well-liked community GP
from Hyde in greater Manchester who, over a period of many years, murdered many
of his elderly patients by lethal injection - not with any element of mercy but
simply if he thought he could get away with it. The story unfolds from the point
where Shipman makes a clumsy attempt to forge the will of his latest victim in
his favour rousing the suspicions of the deceased woman?s daughter and it
follows the police investigation that led to his arrest and trial.
With:- JAMES BOLAM as Dr Harold Shipman / JAMES HAZELDINE as DI Stan Egerton /
ALAN ROTHWELL as Alan Massey / TONY MELODY as Len Fellows /ELIZABETH BENNETT as
Angela Woodruff / JONATHAN COY as DCS Bernard Postles / GARETH THOMAS as Rev
Denis Thomas
THE SHIP THAT COULDN'T STOP
ABC / 1x60m-e / 1961 black and white 2 July
Writer: Christopher Hodder-Williams / Design: Asheton Gordon / Producer: Sydney Newman / Director: Alan Cooke
Scifi drama. A runaway nuclear powered ship is heading directly for New York.
Commodore Grant............................. FRANK PETTINGELL
Michael Holland................................ DONALD CHURCHILL
Roman............................................. SCOTT FORBES
Mrs Bollanger................................... MADELAINE BURGESS
Wainwright....................................... NORMAN BOWLER
SHIRLEY'S WORLD
ITV (ATV-Sheldon Leonard) / 17x30m-e / 1972 21 January - 14 May
Creator/Producers: Frank Tarloff, Melville Shavelson / Producer: Barry Delamaine / Music: Laurie Johnson / Associate Producer: Ronald Rubin
Comedy drama series. American Shirley Logan moves to London to begin working as a journalist but seems to spend much of the series in Hong Kong. Unusually ATV try the half hour format for one of their comedy action adventure series. You can find a full run down of the series in our episode guide here.
SHIRLEY MACLAINE as Shirley Logan / JOHN GREGSON as Dennis Croft / KIM SMITH as Rodney
Channel 4-Tiger Aspect /6x65m-e / 1999 and 2001
Music: Nick Bicat / Executive Producers: Greg Brenman, Julia Ouston
An anthology series of three urban thrillers each with a decidedly scary element. See separate entries for each. Season One: 1.DEJA VU, 2.THE VISITOR, 3.DANCE / Season Two: 1) CYCLOPS, 2) PARENT'S NIGHT, 3)IBIZA - ?99 RETURN
THE SHOP AT SLY CORNER
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1946 21 July
Writer: Edward Perry / Producer: S.E. Reynolds
Drama. Crooked antiques dealer Descius Heiss will go to any lengths to protect the wellbeing of his daughter Margaret - even murder.
Descius Heiss................................ KENNETH KENT
Archie Fellowes.............................. KENNETH GRIFFITHS
Margaret Heiss............................... JEAN COLIN
THE SHORT STORIES OF CONAN DOYLE
BBC2 / 13x50m-e / 1967 15 January - 23 April
Creator: John Hawkesworth / Producer: Harry Moore
An anthology series based on Doyle's non Sherlock Holmes stories. Three university undergrads appeared in each episode as a linking device.
Philip Hardacre............................... MICHAEL LATIMER
Tom Crabbe.................................... KEITH BUCKLEY
Monkhouse Lee.............................. CHRISTOPHER MATTHEWS
SHOOTERS
Channel Four (Cutting Edge) / 1x90m-e / 2000 (7 November - Tuesday 10.30pm)
Producer/Director: Dan Reed
Very real looking improvised drama featuring a non professional cast many of whom were ex-criminals, the plot concerned a villains attempt to pull off a job worth 3 quarters of a million pounds. The show generated some controversy before it was even aired.
SHOOTING THE CHANDELIER
BBC 'Play of the Month' / 1x75m-e / 1977
Writer: David Mercer / Director: Jane Howell
Period drama. Somewhere in an East European country, a country house is taken over by two Marxist officers.
With:- DENHOLM ELLIOTT / EDWARD FOX
SHOT THROUGH THE HEART
BBC2 / 1x110m-e / 1999 31 January
Writer: Guy Hibbert / Producer: Su Armstrong / Director: David Attwood
Drama. During the war in Sarajevo, Vlado, a muslim discovers that the enemy sniper who he has determined to kill, is his Serbian friend Slavko.
Vlado.................................................. LINUS ROACHE
Slavko................................................ VINCENT PEREZ
Maida................................................. LIA WILLIAMS
Miso.................................................. ADAM KOTZ
Amela................................................ SOO GARAY
Zijah................................................... LOTHAIRE BLUTEAU
Sasa.................................................. DANIEL NEWMAN
Drago................................................. PHILIP WHITCHURCH
SHOOTING THE PAST
BBC2 / 4x75m-e / 1999 10 January - 31 January
Writer/Director: Stephen Poliakoff / Producer: John Chapman
Drama serial. A US property developer has problems when he finds the staff of a huge picture library still working away in the London building he has come to renovate.
Marilyn Truman................................ LINDSAY DUNCAN
Oswald Bates.................................. TIMOTHY SPALL
Christopher Anderson....................... LIAM CUNNINGHAM
Veronica......................................... BILLIE WHITELAW
Spig............................................... EMILIA FOX
SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
BBC / 6x50m-e / 1974
Producer: Verity Lambert
Anthology of plays about the suffragette movement and their attempts to gain the vote.
Mrs Pankhurst................................... SIAN PHILLIPS
Lady Constance Lytton....................... JUDY PARFITT
Annie Kenney.................................... GEORGIA BROWN
Christabel Pankhurst.......................... PATRICIA QUINN
Lady Lytton....................................... PATIENCE COLLIER
Mrs Pethick-Lawrence........................SHEILA ALLEN
Lord Lytton....................................... JONATHAN NEWTH
SHOUT ALOUD SALVATION
BBC / 1x / 1951 black and white
Writer: Charles Terrot
Period drama. A pair of young Salvation army girls try to convert the residents of a northern town to their cause.
THE SHUTTER FALLS
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1987
Writer: N.M. MacDonald / Music: John McLeod / Director: Peter Barber-Fleming
Period drama. In 19th century Scotland, a photographer falls for a mysterious herring cutter.
With:- ANTHONY HIGGINS / EMER GILLESPIE / STELLA GONET / BILLY RIDDOCH / ROBERT URQUHART
THE SIEGE OF SIDNEY'S STREET
BBC 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x25m-e / 1964 17 January - Friday 7.35pm
Writer: Richard Harris, Dennis Spooner / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
Comedy. Sydney Lord hates beaurocracy and determines to fight it whenever he finds it.
With:- ROY KINNEAR as Sydney Lord / GORDON ROLLINGS as Roger Matthews / GEORGE BENSON as Mr Wilkes / ARTHUR MULLARD as Bailiff
THE SIGHT
Sky One-Fox / 1x110m-e / 2000 (10 September - Sunday 9.00pm)
Writer/Director: Paul W.S. Anderson / Music: Jocelyn Pook / Camera: David Johnson / Executive Producer: Jeremy Bolt / Producer: Chris Symes
Spooky thriller. Architect Michael Lewis accidentally runs down and kills an elderly lady, Margaret Smith, she then appears as a ghost and helps him and Detective Pryce get to the bottom of a series of disturbing child murders. Although tackling a similar theme as the hit movie The Sixth Sense (with Lewis also seeing dead people) this TV Movie was apparently in production some time before that.
With:- ANDREW McCARTHY as MICHAEL LEWIS / AMANDA REDMAN as Detective Pryce / HONOR BLACKMAN as Margaret Smith / ALEXANDER ARMSTRONG / DAVID ROPER / MAURICE ROEVES / KEVIN TIGHE / CLABE HARTLEY / JESSICA OYE LOWES
SIGNS AND WONDERS
BBC2 / 4x50m-e / 1995
Writer: Michael Eaton / Producer: Elaine Steel / Director: Maurice Phillips
Thriller serial. When young Claire Palmore is caught up in a religious cult her parents battle to free her from it's clutches.
Claire Palmore................................. JODHI MAY
Elizabeth Palmore............................ PRUNELLA SCALES
Rev Timothy Palmore........................ DAVID WARNER
Diamond......................................... JAMES EARL JONES
Stephen Palmore............................. MICHAEL MALONEY
Cornelius Van Damm....................... DONALD PLEASANCE
Brother Nahum................................ DAVID RASCHE
SILAS MARNER:The Weaver of Raveloe
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1985
Producer: Louis Marks / Novel: George Elliot / Director: Giles Foster
Period drama. In the 19th Century, lonely embittered weaver Silas Marner (after having his large hoard of money stolen) is given a new lease of life after taking in his foundling child.
Silas Marner..................................... BEN KINGSLEY
Godfrey Cass................................... PATRICK RYECART
Nancy Lammeter............................. JENNY AGUTTER
Squire Cass.................................... FREDDIE JONES
Eppie Marner(Adult)......................... PATSY KENSIT
Dolly Winthropp............................... ROSEMARY MARTIN
Jem Rodney.................................... JIM BROADBENT
SILENT EVIDENCE
BBC / x50m-e / 1962 black and white
Creator: Evelyn Frazer / Producer: Patrick Dromgoole
Crime drama series. Cases of a police pathologist.
Dr Martin Westlake........................... BASIL SYDNEY
Det Supt Evans................................ CONRAD PHILLIPS
THE SILVER TASSIE
BBC2 / 1x130m-e / 2000 (7 May - Sunday 9.55pm)
Writer: Mark-Anthony Turnage / Play: Sean O'Casey / Executive Producer: Sue Judd / Director: Peter Maniura
Opera. A small town in Dublin faces upto the realities of the first world war.
With:- GERALD FINLEY as Harry Heegan / JOHN GRAHAM-HILL as Sylvester / ANNE HOWELLS as Mrs Heegan / SARAH CONNOLLY as Susie / VIVIEN TIERNEY as Mrs Foran / DAVID KEMPSTER as Teddy / LESLIE JOHN FLANAGAN as Barney
SINCHRONICITY
BBC Three drama about three friends whose love lives are tangled to say the
least. Full story.
THE SINGING DETECTIVE
BBC1 / 6x60m-e / 1986 16 November - 21 December
Writer: Dennis Potter / Producer: Kenith Trodd, John Harris
Drama serial. Philip E. Marlow, a writer of cheap detective fiction is in hospital with a terrible skin condition, drifting in and out of consciousness Marlow imagines he is the hero of one of his novels and also remembers his childhood in the Forest of Dean.
Philip E. Marlow................................ MICHAEL GAMBON
Mark Finney/Binney/Raymond............ PATRICK MALAHIDE
Mrs Beth Marlow/Lili.......................... ALISON STEADMAN
Nurse Mills/Carlotta........................... JOANNE WHALLEY
Mr Marlow........................................ JIM CARTER
Dr Gibbon......................................... BILL PATERSON
Nicola Marlow................................... JANET SUZMAN
Philip Marlow(aged 10)...................... LYNDON DAVIES
SINGLE
ITV1 / 6x60m / Started 25 October 2003
Writer: Peter Bowker / Directors: Dominic
Brigstocke, Rebecca Frayn / Producer: Amanda Davis
Divorced forty-something mother of two Sarah Barton starts dating again after
twenty years of marriage.
With:- MICHELLE COLLINS as Sarah Barton / BRENDAN COYLE as Paul Barton / OPHELIA
LOVIBOND as Rachel Barton / ROBERT LOWE as John Barton / ALASTAIR GAILBRAITH as
Mark / MORWENNA BANKS as Julie / CATHERINE RUSSELL as Veronica
SINGLES
Yorkshire TV / 1x60m-e / 1981
Writer: John Bowen / Design: Roger Andrews / Producer: Pat Sandys / Director: Michael Ferguson
Drama. Young single Sophie Baines decides she wants a child.
Sophie Baines................................. SHERRIE HEWSON
SINGLES
Thames / 1x60m-e / 1984 19 June - Tuesday 9.00pm
Writers: Eric Chappell, Jean Warr / Producer/Director: Robert Reed
Comedy drama. Two men and two women meet at a singles night in a local hotel. Turned into a 1988 sitcom of the same title (see separate entry below).
Malcolm.............................................. ROBIN NEDWELL
Pamela............................................... ANGELA RICHARDS
Clive................................................... JOHN KAVANAGH
Jackie................................................ JANE CARR
Di....................................................... PATRICIA BRAKE
THE SINNERS
Granada / x60m-e / 1970-71
Producer: Brian Armstrong
An anthology of plays taking a humorous look at life in rural Ireland.
SINNERS
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 26 March 2002 / 9:00pm
Writer: Lizzie Mickery / Director: Aisling Walsh
/ Executive Producers: Robert Cooper, Kate Triggs
Drama set in Ireland in 1963. Young unmarried Anne-Marie's family sends
her to a "Magdalen laundry" to hide her away when they learn she is
pregnant. The laundry is run by nuns who maintain a very strict and cruel
discipline. Upon giving birth, the babies are given away for adoption, but the
mothers are still not permitted to leave unless a family member signs for them -
if they try and escape they are hunted down and dragged back. Anne-Marie
escapes and before she is recaptured she meets a local widower who agrees to
marry her.
With:- ANNE-MARIE DUFF as Anne-Marie/Theresa / TINA KELLEGHER as Sister
Bernadette / BRONAGH GALLAGHER as Kitty / JOHN KAVANAGH as Frank / ELAINE SYMONS
as Brida / MICHAEL COLGAN as Eamonn / GER RYAN as Eileen / RUTH BRADLEY as
Angela / KAREN ARDIFF as Nuala
BBC1 / 7x50m-e / 2000 (Tuesdays 9.30pm / 24 October - )
Writer: William Ivory / Producer: Liza Marshall / Design: David Roger / Costume: Dinah Collin / Executive Producer: Jane Tranter
Drama series. Crook Len Green comes out of prison and is determined to keep on the straight and narrow but each week is challenged by a challenged by a different one of the seven deadly sins.
With:- PETE POSTLETHWAITE as Len Green / GERALDINE JAMES as Gloria Green / FRANK FINLAY as Uncle Irwin Green / NEIL STUKE as Carl Rogers / PHILIP JACKSON as Mickey Thomas / CLAIRE RUSHBROOK as Faith Blackwell / KAYE WRAGG as Hope Green / LAURA ROGERS as Chastity Green / CAROLINE HAYES as Charity Green / BILLIE COOK as Dolores Green
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