SIN WITH OUR PERMISSION

ATV / 1x60m-e / 1981 / 26 May

Writer: J.C. Wilsher / Producer: Colin Rogers / Director: Paul Harrison 

Scifi drama. A New Town of the future is under constant surveillance from Closed Circuit Television.

With:- PAUL EDDINGTON as Harry Dudley / GREGORY FLOY as James Walton / ROBIN BAILEY as Dr Perry / KATE FAHY as Angela Birley / SALLY BAXTER as Jenny Tevitt

BBC1 / 16x50m-e / 1968

Producer: David Goddard 

Period crime drama series. More cases of Victorian super sleuth Sherlock. A continuation of 1966's Sherlock Holmes but with Peter Cushing replacing Douglas Wilmer.

With:- PETER CUSHING as Sherlock Holmes / NIGEL STOCK as Dr Watson

SIRENS

ITV1 / 2x120m / 13-14 October 2002

Writer: Chris Lang / Director: Nick Laughland / Producer: Margaret Mitchell

Crime Drama. DC Jan Pearson is working on the police team hunting for a serial rapist. She has an affair with her sister?s boyfriend and then he emerges as a chief suspect.

With DANIELA NARDINI as Jay Pearson / GREG WISE as Oliver Rice / ROBERT GLEINSTER as Clive Wilson / SARAH PARISH as Ali Pearson / ANTHONY CALF as Anthony Soames / ALAN WILLIAMS as DC Mike Struthers / NISHA K NAYAR as Kate Oakley

ABC/ATV / 26x30m-e / 1961-62 black and white

Producer: Anthony Bushell 

Period action adventure series. Seafaring exploits of the Admiral of the Queen's Navy as he kept the ocean's around Britain peaceful.

Sir Francis Drake............................. TERENCE MORGAN

Queen Elizabeth.............................. JEAN KENT

John Drake...................................... MICHAEL CRAWFORD

Trevelyan......................................... PATRICK McLOUGHLIN

Mendoza......................................... ROGER DELGADO

Don Pedro....................................... ALEX SCOTT

Yorkshire / 3x60m-e / 1977

Writer: Christopher Fry 

Period drama serial. The life of early pioneering nurse Dorothy Pattison. 

Dorothy Pattison............................. DOROTHY TUTIN

Channel 5-Two Hats /  x30m-e / 1998-99

Creator/Producer: Daniel Peacock / Producer: Georgia Dussand

Teen music/sitcom. The exploits of an all girl English band stuck in America.

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1974 11 June - Tuesday 8.30pm

Writers: Pauline Devaney, Edwin Apps / Producer: Graeme Muir 

Comedy. Sitting tenant Jo Ransley is wanted out of her home.

Nick Ransley.................................... NICKY HENSON

Jo Ransley........................................ UNA STUBBS

BBC TV movie / 1989  

Director: Jenny Wilkes  

Drama. When a landlord decides he wants rid of the tenants of a London house he makes life very difficult for them.  

With:- LESLEE UDWIN / PHYLLIS LOGAN / JONATHAN HYDE / JOHN BOWE / MARY WIMBUSH

SIWAN

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1960 1 March

Writers: Saunders Lewis / Producers: Emyr Humphreys 

Period drama. Siwan, the daughter of King John is ordered to undergo an arranged marriage to Prince Llewellyn of Wales so that peace may be restored.

Siwan.................................................. SIAN PHILLIPS

Gwilym DeBress................................... PETER O'TOOLE

BBC2 / 6x30/60m-e / 1964-65

Six dramas which supposedly allowed the makers full freedom.

1.DIARY OF A NOBODY Director: Ken Russell /  Novel: Grosmith Bros / 2.THE CHASE Writers: Troy Kennedy Martin, Michael Elster / 3.DON'T I LOOK LIKE A LORDS SON Writer/Director: Joe Massot / 4.THE DAY OF RAGNAROK Writer/Director: John McGrath / 5.THE LOGIC GAME Writer/Directors: Philip Saville / 6.ANDY'S GAME Writer/Director: David Andrews 

LWT / 6x30m-e / 1971

Producer: Humphrey Barclay 

Six one off comedies by different writers, all featuring Ronnie Barker. Each episode focused on a different historical date. Writers included John Cleese, Spike Milligan, Bernard McKenna and Ronnie Barker himself under his nom de plume Gerald Wiley. The series Clarence sprang from an episode of this called The Removal's Person.

Thames / 12x60m-e / 1972-73

Producer: Reginald Colin 

Crime drama series. Stories of people dealt with by magistrates courts.

BBC / 6x50m-e / 1972

Producer: Stella Richman 

An anthology of plays looking at the life of one man through the eyes of six different people, wife, lover etc.

With:- KENNETH MORE / KIKA MARKHAM

SIX OF THE BEST

ATV / 6x30m-e /  1965 black and white

Producer: Alan Tarrant 

An anthology of comedy pilots, none of which became series. All are featured individually in the guide.

1.ANNIE DOESN'T LIVE HERE ANYMORE, 2.ME AND MY BIG MOUTH, 3.CHARLIE'S PLACE, 4.PORTERHOUSE - PRIVATE EYE, 5.MAN WITH A MISSION, 6.ARE THERE ANY MORE AT HOME LIKE YOU

Associated-Rediffusion / x15m-e / 1955-56 black and white

Writers: Hazel Adair, Jonquil Anthony 

Britain's first daily soap opera. Stories of newly wed Sally Norton and her garage managing husband Bill in the town of Springwood.

Bill Norton........................................ HOWARD PAYS

Sally Norton..................................... PATRICIA DAINTON

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1954 black and white

Writer: Donald Wilson 

Crime drama serial.

With:- TONY BRITTON / JULIA LOCKWOOD / LANA MORRIS

BBC / 6x30m-e / 1964 black and white

Writer: Donald Wilson / Producer: Douglas Allen 

Crime drama serial. Remake of the 1954 serial.

Granada / 6x60m-e / 1965 black and white

Writer/Producer: Peter Wildeblood 

An anthology of plays where one of the characters was carried over into the next.

BBC2 / 6x90m-e / 1970 1 January - 5 February

Creator: Maurice Cowan / Producers: Ronald Travers, Mark Shivas, Roderick Graham / Dances: Geraldine Stephenson / Camera: A.A. Englander /Narrator: Anthony Quayle / Music arranged and played by David Munrow

Period drama serial. The tempestuous lives and loves of King Henry VII, specifically his relationships with his six wives.

Henry VIII.......................................... KEITH MICHELL

Vatherine of Aragon........................... ANNETTE CROSBIE

Anne Boleyn..................................... DOROTHY TUTIN

Jane Seymour.................................. ANNE STALLYBRASS

Anne of Cleves................................. ELVI HALE

Catherine Howard............................. ANGELA PLEASANCE

Catherine Parr.................................. ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY

Duke of Norfolk................................. PATRICK TROUGHTON

Archbishop Cranmer......................... BERNARD HEPTON

Narrator........................................... ANTHONY QUAYLE

BBC2 / 1x90m-e / 1994

Writer: Nigel Williams / Novel: William Horwood / Producer: John Chapman / Director: Richard Spence

Drama. 15 year old Esther, who has cerebral palsy, hears stories of a fabled savior of the disabled called Skallagrigg, determining that he is real, she embarks on a quest to uncover his true identity.

Esther................................................ KERRY NOBLE

John................................................... BERNARD HILL

Dilke.................................................. JOHN McARDLE

Hopkins............................................. KEVIN WHATELY

George............................................... RICHARD BRIERS

Tom................................................... KARL ANDREW PURDOM

Arthur................................................ JAMIE BEDDARD

Margaret............................................ BILLIE WHITELAW

BBC2 / 6x30m-e / 1994

Producer: Philippa Lowthorpe 

An anthology of period drama documentaries looking at the lives of a group of

Anne Lister...................................... JULIA FORD

Bessie Parkes.................................. LESLEY MANVILLE

Dr James Barry................................ ANNA MASSEY

Florence Nightingale......................... ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY

Hannah Cullwick............................... BARBARA EWING

Emilie Peacocke.............................. ELIZABETH BRADLEY

BBC / 6x50m-e / 1982

Writer: John Brason / Story: Arden Winch / Producer: Gerard Glaister / Director: Michael Hayes

Spy/crime drama series. Chief Superintendent Franks investigates a bizarre plane crash.

With:- TERENCE HARDIMAN as Chief Superintendent Franks / MICHAEL DENISON as Capt Percival / MARY WIMBUSH

ITV / 52x30m-e / 1959-60 black and white

Action adventure series. A travel courier has a tendency to get involved airport security and crime fighting.

With:- GEORGE MOON / GERALD HARPER / LISA GASTONI

SLAP BANG WITH ANT AND DEC

ITV Network / x60m-e / 2001 (First Episode Broadcast: Sat 12 May / 7.05pm)

Series Producer: Conor McAnally

Entertainment. A prime time version of the show Ant and Dec present for kids on Saturday Morning SMTV:Live. There was a spoof sitcom based on cheers and called Beers and a quiz called Challenge Ant. There were also star guest of the calibre of Helen Mirren. Ant and Dec are Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly.

Yorkshire / 1x30m-e / 1974 3 December - Tuesdays 7.05pm 

Writer: Chris Boucher / Producer: Paddy Russell 

Comedy. P.R. Man Freddie Slater has a very bad day.

With:- JOHN JUNKIN as Freddy Slater / MARY MILLER as Jean Slater / PETER MAYOCK as Jack / MAUREEN SWEENEY as Muriel / JAMES CAIRNCROSS as Frogley 

THE SLAVERY BUSINESS

BBC2 / 3x60m / started 3 August 2005

Executive Producer: Michael Samuels

A series of three separate drama documentary stories about British slave traders in the 1700's.
1. How To Make a Million From Slavery - Slave trader Henry Lascalles is being investigated by a government official for tax fraud;
2. Sugar Dynasty - The story is the Beckford family who founded their fortune on the importation of sugar from Jamacia harvested and processed using slave labour;
3. Breaking The Chains - How the slaves rebelled and political activists rallied to have the slavery laws abolished.

With:-
1. ROBERT PUGH as Henry Lascalles / JACK SHEPPARD as Robert Dinwiddle
2. RICHARD DILLANE as William Beckford of Somerley / ORLANDO WELLS as William Beckford of Fonthill
3. JAMIU ADEBIYU as Samuel Sharpe / MARTIN TURNER as William Wilberforce / CHRIS CURRAN as William Knibb

THE SLEEPER

BBC1 / 2x60m-e / 2000 (26 - 27 December)

Writer: Gwyneth Hughes / Novel: Gillian White / Producer: Joy Spink / Director: Stuart Orme 

Thriller. The somewhat dysfunctional Moon family are determined to get together at a lovely for a traditional Christ,as, they gather at a lonely farmhouse but soon, started by a power cut, strange events start to overtake them.

With:- EILEEN ATKINS as Violet Moon / ANNA MASSEY as Lillian Kessel / GEORGE COLE as George Gleeson / MICHELLE COLLINS as Diana Wakeham / CIARAN HINDS as fergus Moon / ANNABELLE APSION as Claire Moon / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS as Cath marks / SIMON CHANDLER as Joanna Wakeham / ERIC BYRNE as Sam Wakeham / JULIA DEAKIN as Valerie Fellgett / RUPERT FRAZER as David Litton / CHRISTINE KAVANAGH as Sheena Marks / GERARD HORAN as Sgt Pollard / IAN McNEICE as Mr Tarbuck 

BBC2/Cinema Verity / 4x50m-e / 1991 

Writers: John Flanagan, Andrew McCulloch / Music: David Dundas, Rick Wentworth / Director: Geoffrey Sax 

Drama serial. Northern shop steward and London yuppie are  in reality KGB sleeper agents planted 20 years previously. However when they are recalled home to Moscow, they decide they are much too fond of their new lives and decide to go on the run together.

Albert Robinson............................... WARREN CLARKE

Jeremy Coward................................ NIGEL HAVERS

Nina Grishina.................................. JOANNA KANSKA

Victor Chekov.................................. DAVID CALDER

Andrei Zorin..................................... MICHAEL GOUGH

Igor Kostov...................................... RICHARD HUW

Oleg Petrovski................................. CHRISTOPHER ROZYCKI

K1.................................................. ALAN DAVID

George Wetherby............................ WILLIAM CHUBB

Sandra Robinson............................. ANNIE HULLEY

Bob Riley....................................... JOHN FLANAGAN

Donald........................................... ANDREW McCULLOCH

Anglia 'Summer Playhouse' / 1967 black and white

Writers: Patricia Highsmith, Anthony Steven / Novel: Winston Graham / Producer: John Jacobs

Thriller. Mike Granville faces a testing time following the disappearance of his wife Lynn.

With:- KEITH MICHELL as Mike Granville / SUZY ARTHUR as Lynn Granville / PETER JEFFREY / FRANCIS MATTHEWS / BARBARA SHELLEY / WILLIAM SYLVESTER

Thames / 1x30m-e / 1991 28 March - Thursday 8.30pm

Writer: Adrienne Conway / Producer/Director: John Howard Davies 

Comedy. Bachelor Simon agrees to a marriage of convenience with the Polish Anna.

Simon................................................. NIGEL HAVERS

Anna................................................... JOANNA KANSKA

Katerina.............................................. NANCY NEVINSON

Helen.................................................. HELEN CHRISTIE

Susie.................................................. SARAH-JANE VARLEY

BBC 'The Wednesday Play' / 1x75m-e / 1969

Writer: Roy Minton / Producer: Irene Shubik / Director: Michael Tuchner 

Comedy drama. A group of Nottingham miners go on an outing to Blackpool.

BBC 'Sunday Night Theatre' / 1959 black and white

Writer: John Hopkins / Novel: Nigel Balchin / Producer: Harold Clayton

Drama. The often harrowing struggles of an alcoholic.

With:-  JOHN GREGSON / URSULA HOWELLS

A SMALL DANCE

ITV / 1x90m-e / 1992 3 june

Director: Alan Horrox

Drama. On the East Anglian Fens a young teenage girl is horrified to find herself pregnant and decides to keep her problem to herself.

With:- KATE HARDIE / JAMES HAZLEDINE

1x50m-e / 1966 black and white

Writer: Alfred Shaughnessy / Producer: Pieter Rogers / Director: Shaun O'Riordan 

Drama. Young Jane Kennedy wins a night out with a fim star.

With:- HANNAH GORDON as Jane Kennedy / PATRICK MACNEE as Richard Page / TIMOTHY BATESON / PENELOPE KEITH

BBC / 1x60m-e / 19?

Writer: Martyn Hesford / Producer: George Faber / Director: Chris Barnard 

Comedy drama. A disgruntled son plans to disrupt his widowed mother's remarriage plans.

With:- ALISON STEADMAN / STRATFORD JOHNS / PAULINE YATES

SMALLPOX 2002 - SILENT WEAPON

BBC2-Learning Channel-Granada International / 1x90m / 5 February 2002

Writers: Simon Chinn, Daniel Percival; Director: Daniel Percival; Producer: Simon Chinn

A fictional drama made to appear like it was a documentary made in 2004 looking back on events that started in April 2002 when there was a large scale bio-terrorist attack which released one of mankind's most infectious diseases - Smallpox. Set in London and New York. Although started prior to the real world events of 11 September 2001 it wove elements of that attack into the story. All the participants and interviewees in the drama were actors. Narration by Brian Cox.

With:- BOLEN HIGH as Jack Hill / LINDA McGUIRE as Mary Cooper / TARA HUGO as Kathleen O'Reilly / STERLING K BROWN as / Carl Jocelyn / ED LEWIN as Sam Wiseman

Granada / 6x60m-e / 1987

Writer: Howard Schumann / Director: Robert Chetwyn 

Comedy drama serial. A young promising writer has his eyes opened by the often outrageous behavior of his fellow writers whilst on his first ever lecture tour.

With:- JOHN RATZENBERGER / LEONIE MELLINGER / BARRY LYNCH / DENIS LAWSON / SHEILA GISH / STEPHEN MOORE / SARAH BADEL

BBC / 1x80m-e / 1990

Writer: Jim Hawkins / Producer: Terry Coles / Director: Michael Whyte 

Drama. The story of a dissident Russian poet is contrasted with that of a wife beater.

With:- SEAN BEAN / CATHERINE NEILSON / SUZANNA HAMILTON / STEPHANIE TURNER

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1986

Writer: Matthew Jacobs / Music: Stanley Myers / Producer: Richard Broke / Directors: Bernard Rose

Thriller. A teenage computer genius plans to ruin the security expert who was responsible for putting his father out of business.

With:- SPENCER LEIGH / BRUCE PAYNE / ALEXANDRA PIGG / IAIN CUTHBERTSON / KEN CAMPBELL  

THE SMASH HITS CHART SHOW

Channel Five-EMAP / x30m-e / 2003 

Producer/Director: Tim Green

Presented by Sam Delaney and Anita Rani, the smash hits chart show was the first-ever interactive chart show on terrestrial television. The fortunes of each hit were decided by the viewers, who could send their favourite video to the top spot by picking up the phone. Each week, the 30-minute show featured a Top 20 countdown compiled by MRIB, the UK?s foremost research and content specialist. The chart blended single sales figures with national radio airplay data and requests to EMAP?s two market-leading pop channels, Smash Hits and The Box, as well as taking into account votes from Five viewers.

BBC1-Tiger Aspect / 1x45m-e / 1994 4 April - Monday 9.55pm

Writers: Harry Enfield, Paul Whitehouse / Producer: Alison Owen / Director: Daniel Kleinman 

Comedy. Poptabulous radio DJ's Mike 'Smashie' Smash Dave 'Nicey' Nice take a look back over their illustrious careers. The characters of Smashie and Nicey were first seen in the sketch show Harry Enfield's Television Programme.

Mike Smash...................................... PAUL WHITEHOUSE

Dave Nice.......................................... HARRY ENFIELD

A SMASHING DAY

BBC / 1x50m-e / 1962 black and white 

Writer: Alan Plater / Design: Paul Bernard / Producer: Vivien A. Daniels 

Comedy drama. A young adolescent is unsure what to do with his life.

Lennie................................................... ALFRED LYNCH

Stan..................................................... JOHN THAW

Anne.................................................... JUNE BARRY

Liz....................................................... ANGELA DOUGLAS

SMIKE!

BBC2 / 1973 26 December

Writer: John Morley / Music-Lyrics: Roger Holman, Simon May / Producer: Paul Ciani

An extravagant musical version of the Charles Dickens novel Nicholas Nickleby.

With:- ANDREW KEIR / LEONARD WHITING / BERYL REID as Mrs Squeers and Mrs Steele / PERRY CLAYTON / JOEL COOPER 

BBC2 / 6x60m-e / 1982

Writers: John Le Carre, John Hopkins / Music: Patrick Gowers / Producer: Johnathon Powell / Director: Simon Langton

Spy drama serial. A sequel to Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy in which elderly spy George Smiley tackles a Soviet spy master.

With:- ALEC GUINESS as George Smiley / PATRICK STEWART as Karla / EILEEN ATKINS / BILL PATERSON / ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY / BERNARD HEPTON / MICHAEL GOUGH / ANTHONY BATE / MARIO ADORF / MICHAEL BYRNE /  MICHAEL ELPHICK / BARRY FOSTER / CURT JURGENS / MAUREEN LIPMAN / MICHAEL LONSDALE / VLADEK SHEYBAL

BBC2 / 4x20m-e / 1989 19 October - 9 November

Producers: Peter Fincham, Trevor Evans 

An anthology of four shortish comedy plays featuring Mel Smith and Griff Rhys Jones, in an attempt for them to do something slightly different to their normal sketch show.

The plays were: - 1.THE WHOLE HOG, 2.THE BOAT PEOPLE, 3.SECOND THOUGHTS, 4.THE WAITING ROOM.

Carlton 'Comedy First' / 1x30m-e / 1995 7 August

Writer: Julian Roach / Producer: Antony Wood / Executive Producer: Andy Harries / Director: Tom Poole 

Comedy. Married couple, Clive and Carol, are desperate for a bit of privacy in order to rekindle their passion.

Clive................................................... KEVIN McNALLY

Carol.................................................. REBECCA LACEY

Geoff.................................................. ROWLAND RIVRON

Dooley............................................... GEOFFREY HUGHES

Best Friend........................................ JACKIE DOWNEY

Wayne............................................... SCOTT NEAL

Debbie............................................... HEATHER JONES

BBC1-Red Rooster / 6x25m-e / 1993

Writer: James Andrew Hall / Novel: Elsie McCutcheon 

Period drama serial. In 1907, a young girl gets mixed up with an aspiring film maker and a wicked cinema owner.

Mr Sheringham................................ TIMOTHY WEST

Sara Beau....................................... PAULA WILCOX

Gertie............................................. ANITA DOBSON

Mrs Nash........................................ JOAN SIMS

Miss Sheringham............................. KATE HARDIE

Albert Gold...................................... PETER GUINESS

Chrissie Gallant............................... SALLY WALSH

Windsor.......................................... KATE O'REGAN

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1938 31 October black and white

Producer: Michael Barry / Play: Edgar Wallace 

Thriller based on a play by the prolific Edgar Wallace.

With:- JOHN LOTHAR / GEORGE PUGHE / RICHARD NEWTON / JON FARRELL / CECIL PARKER

Associated-Rediffusion / 39x60m-e /  1960-63 black and white

Producer: Norman Marshall 

An anthology series based on the many short stories written by Somerset Maugham. In 1962 the title was changed to Somerset Maugham Hour.

HTV-Gatetarn / 13x30m-e / 1981 (5 April - 19 July )

Creator: Richard Carpenter / Music: Denis King / Executive Producer: Patrick Drromgoole / Producers: Paul Knight, Sidney Cole 

Period action adventure serial. In 1802 former naval officer Jack Vincent turns Smuggler. See also the sequel called The Adventurer. 

With:- OLIVER TOBIAS as Jack Vincent / LESLEY DUNLOP as Sarah Morton / HYWEL WILLIAMS ELLIS as Honest Evans / PETER CAPELL as Captain Konig / GEORGE MURCELL as Silas Kemble / MICHAEL O'HAGAN as Jacob

BBC2 / 1x90m-e / 1993

Writer: Roddy Doyle / Producer: Lynda Miles / Director: Stephen Frears 

Comedy drama. A Dublin family are shocked when their pregnant daughter refuses to reveal the identity of the father. The same family featured in the film the Commitments (albeit with a different surname - for contractual reasons).

With:- TINA KELLAGHER / COLM MEANEY / RUTH McCABE / EMMA MacLIAM / PETER ROWAN

BBC-Universal / 1x50m-e / 1971 28 December

Writer: Paul Gallico / Music: Carl Davis / Producer: Frank O'Connor / Director: Patrick Garland 

Period drama. During World War II, a young orphan girl teams up with a crippled artist to help a wounded Canadian Goose, stranded in Britain, later the pair are touched by tragedy during the Dunkirk landings.

Philip Rhyayader.................................. RICHARD HARRIS

Fritha.................................................. JENNY AGUTTER

BBC / 200x50m-e / 1966-76

Creator: Elwyn Jones / Producers: David E. Rose, Leonard Lewis, Geraint Morris 

Crime drama series. Spin off from Z Cars. Further cases of detectives Barlow and Watt. For the first 69 episodes the show was known as Softly Softly, the title then changed in 1969 to Softly Softly - Task Force (for a further 131 episodes) and Barlow left to take up his own series Barlow at Large.

D.Ch. Supt Charlie Barlow.................

D.C.I. John Watt............................... FRANK WINDSOR

D.C.I. Harry Hawkins........................ NORMAN BOWLER

PC Henry Snow............................... TERENCE RIGBY

Insp Gwyn Lewis.............................. GARFIELD MORGAN

Mr Blackitt....................................... ROBERT KEEGAN

DC Box........................................... DAN MEADAN  

SOFT TARGETS

BBC 'Play For Today' / 1x90m / 1982

Writer: Stephen Poliakoff / Director: Charles Surridge / Producer: Kenith Trodd

Play about a Russian diplomat whose life dramatically changes one morning.

With: IAN HOLM as Alexei / HELEN MIRREN as Celia / NIGEL HAVERS as Harman / RUPERT EVERETT

BBC / 1x60m-e / 1960 16 February

Writer: John Arden / Producer: Stuart Burge 

Drama. A strange army sergeant manages to inveigle his way into the household of a family whose young soldier son has gone missing.

With:- ANDREW KEIR / FRANK FINLAY / MAURICE DENHAM / ANNA WING / EDNA PETRIE

Central /  x60m-e / 1991-97

Creator: Lucy Gannon / Theme Music: Jim Parker / Titles: The Moving Picture Co. / Military Advisor: Lt Col Peter Bishop OBE / Producers: Chris Kelly, Christopher Neame, Ann Tricklebank

Drama series. Stories of a group of soldiers and officers serving in the Kings Own Fusiliers regiment. Two of the more popular characters privates Dave Tucker and Paddy Garvey were never far away from trouble (mainly caused by Tucker or his wife Donna).The two actors Green and Flynn later became for a short period the top UK singles act after singing on the show then getting a record deal.   

With:- ROBSON GREEN as Dave Tucker / JEROME FLYNN as  Paddy Garvey / GARY LOVE as Tony Wilton / ROSIE ROWELL as Donna Tucker / ANNABELLE APSION as Joy Wilton / LESLEY VICKERAGE as Capt Kate Butler / ROB SPENDLOVE as CSM Michael Stubbs / DENISE WELCH as Marsha Stubbs / BEN NEALON as Lt Jeremy Forsythe / DORIAN HEALY as Kieran Voce / MILES ANDERSON as Lt Col Dan Fortune / HOLLY AIRD as Nancy Thorpe/Garvey 

SOLID GEOMETRY

C4 / 1x30m / 28 November 2002 / 10:35pm

Writer/Director: Denis Lawson / Producer: Gill Parry

Drama. Newlywed Phil inherits his mysterious great grandfather's unfinished journals and gives up his job to edit them. It becomes an obsession to the dismay of his wife Maisie. In the journals he finds a blueprint for a fantastical geometric shape describing a plane without surface which when constructed exhibits unusual properties to vanish or make people disappear. Based on a 1975 short story by Ian McEwan who also wrote a TV script in 1979 for a proposed BBC version that was to have been directed by Mike Newell - however the project was abandoned because of the sexual content. This drama was also shown a month earlier on Scottish ITV as part of their NEW FOUND LAND anthology series.

With:- EWAN MCGREGOR as Phil / RUTH MILLAR as Maisie / PETER CAPALDI as David Hunter / JONATHAN WATSON as Patrick Murray / JOHN MURTAGH as Dr Vosse

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