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

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

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

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

BBC1 / 21x50m-e / 1979-80

Creator/Producer: Robert Banks Stewart / Theme Music: George Fenton 

Crime drama series. Private detective Eddie Shoestring takes on a case for Radio West and ends up working for them full time as their 'Private Ear' of the airwaves tackling cases on behalf of their listeners. Although it only lasted two season it was very popular regularly scoring between 18 and 23 million viewers per episode.

With:- TREVOR EVE as Eddie Shoestring / DORAN GODWIN as Erica Bayliss / LIZ CROWTHER as Sonia / MICHAEL MEDWIN as Don Satchley

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

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.   

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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 

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

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

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. 

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

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

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

THE SINS

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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