UK TV - STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL to THE ERIC SYKES 1990 SHOW
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STRICTLY CONFIDENTIAL
ITV1 / 6x60m / started 16 November 2006
Writer: Kay Mellor / Director: Keith Boak / Producer: Yvonne Francis
Drama series. Linda Nelson is an ex-policewoman who balked at the sight of death and changed professions to become a sex therapist but still helps the police out with sex-crime cases.
cast
SURANNE JONES as Linda CRISTIAN SOLIMENO as Richard / EVA POPE as DI Angie Morton / TRISTAN GEMMILL as Greg / KATE ISITT as Penny
STRIKE FORCE
ITV / 1x60m-e / 1995
Writer: Nick McCarty / Producer: Steve Lanning
Action adventure. The exploits of a group of crack fighter fighter pilots in training for an elite new squadron. A pilot for a possible series that never emerged.
Jimmy................................................ STUART LAING
Tonto.................................................. DEREK RIDDELL
Sarah Kyte.......................................... FIONA DOLMAN
Doc Holliday........................................ MICK FORD
Francis Headley................................... JAMES FAULKNER
Raikes................................................ TIM VENTINCK
STRICTLY COME DANCING
BBC1 / 8x60m / started 15 May 2004
Executive
Producer: Karen Smith
Eight celebrities train with eight professional ballroom dancers
and perform their routines live on TV - Each week one pair are voted off.
Presenters:- Bruce Forsyth and Tess Daly
STRONGER THAN THE SUN
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1977 18 October
Writer: Stephen Poliakoff / Music: Howard Blake / Producer: Margaret Matheson / Director: Michael Apted
Scifi drama. A young woman gets a job at a plutonium purely to indulge in some sabotage and make a statement about the deadly dangers of the stuff.
Kate..................................................... FRANCESCA ANNIS
Alan..................................................... TOM BELL
Gregory................................................ CLIVE MERRISON
Edwards............................................... JOHN PROCTOR
Higby................................................... GERALD JAMES
Brian.................................................... MARK WING-DAVEY
STRUMPET
BBC2- BBC Films/Destiny Films / 1x?? / 7 October 2001
Writer: Jim Cartwright; Director: Danny Boyle; Producer: Martin Carr
A young woman teams up with a songwriter and they record a song that unexpectedly becomes a smash hit.
With:- CHRISTOPHER ECCLESTON as Strayman / JENNA G as Strumpet / STEPHEN WALTERS as Knockoff / DAVID CRELIN as Curdy / JONATHAN RYLAND as Colonel / STEPHEN DA COSTA as Perry
STUCK ON YOU
Carlton-Central 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1993 16 March - Tuesday 8.30pm
Writer: Mark Bussell, Justin Sbresni / Producer: Paula Burdon / Director: Nick Hurran
Comedy. A couple who are no longer an item still share a flat.
With:- NEIL MORRISSEY as Danny / AMELIA BULLMORE as Beth / TOM WATT as Gordon / CAROLINE MILMOE as Hazel / JEREMY GITTINS as Mike / ANTHONY DUNN as Cliff / ROGER FROST as Policeman
STUDIO
Granada / 7x60m-e / 1983
Writers: Anthony Minghella, Bob Mason / Producer: June Howson / Director: David Carson, Sebastian Graham-Jones
Drama serial. A business impresario sets up a recording studio in a large country house.
With:- ROBERT STEPHENS / CAROL LEADER / MICHAEL FEAST
STUDIO 4
BBC / 1962 black and white
An anthology of dramas broadcast from the BBC's then brand new studio 4.
STUDIO 64
ATV / 6x60m-e / 1964 black and white
Anthology of dramas, the pick of the bunch was Nigel Kneale's The Crunch about a third world country trying to blackmail Britain.
1.THE CRUNCH Writer: Nigel Kneale, Director: Michael Elliott
2.BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME Writer: Stanley Mann, Director: Silvio Narizzano
3.THE DEVIL AND JOHN BROWN Writer: Ken Taylor, Director: Stuart Burge
4.A WICKED WORLD Writer: Giles Cooper, Director: Donald McWhinnie
5.THE HAPPY MOORINGS Writer: Keith Waterhouse, Willis Hall, Director: David Greene
6.THE CLOSE PRISONER Writer: Clive Exton, Director: Ted Kotcheff
THE STUDENT PRINCE
BBC1 / 1x95m-e / 1997
Writer: Lee Hall / Producer: Michael Darben / Director: Simon Curtis
Comedy drama. Policeman Barry Grimes is detailed to guard a Royal Prince who is studying at University.
With:- ROBSON GREEN as Barry Grimes / TARA FITZGERALD as Grace / RUPERT PENRY-JONES as The Prince / STEPHEN MOORE as Dr Rymans / RICHARD BRIERS as Dr Corbitt / GRAEME GARDEN as The Master / TERENCE RIGBY as Mr Garter / JUDY CORNWELL as Mrs Quigley / TIM HEALY as Mr Grimes
STRYKER OF THE YARD
39x30m-e / 1961-63
Crime drama series. Cases of Chief Inspector Robert Stryker working out of Scotland Yard.
With:- CLIFFORD EVANS as Inspector Stryker / GEORGE WOODBRIDGE as Sergeant Hawker
STYLE MONSTERS
BBC2-Visual Arts / 1x30m-e / 1989 24 February - Fridays 9.00pm
Writer: Matthew Bardsley / Producer: James Dunford Wood / Director: Nick Turvey
Comedy. Vacuos ultra hip couple, Felix and Ulla, are both obsessed with style.
With:- GRANT RUSSELL as Felix / BRITT MORROW as Ulla / JOHN MARKHAM as Sam / JEANETTE DRIVER as Amanda
A SUBJECT OF SCANDAL AND CONCERN
BBC / 1960 black and white
Writer: John Osborne / Producer: Tony Richard
Drama.
With:- RICHARD BURTON / RACHEL ROBERTS
SUBTERFUGE
Intertel-Commonwealth Ltd / 1x90m-e / 1968
Director: Peter Graham Scott
Spy thriller. A London based American agent gets involved in a sinister case.
With:- GENE BARRY / JOAN COLLINS / MICHAEL RENNIE / SUZANNA LEIGH / RICHARD TODD
SUCCUBUS
HTV-TFI 'Night Voices' / 1x60m-e / 1987
Writers: Bob Baker, Dave Martin / Music: Sidney Sager / Director: Mordecai Klogport
Spooky drama. The young son of a property developer living in an ex monestry is almost possessed by a spirit.
Mike.................................................... BARRY FOSTER
Jane.................................................... LYNSEY BAXTER
Joy...................................................... PAMELA SALEM
Mark................................................... JEREMY GILLEY
Francoise............................................ AURORE CLEMENT
SUCKERFISH
BBC2 / 9 August 2001 (BBC Wales / 15 minute short)
Drama. Caitlin is given an unusual birthday treat by her boyfriend. The unusual present was a female prostitute because Caitlin had expressed an interest in being with another woman.
With:- JOANNE McQUINN as Caitlin
SUEZ 1956
BBC / 1x180m-e / 1979 25 November
Writer: Ian Curteis / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: Michael Darlow
Period drama. A dramatisation of the suez crisis of the 1950's.
With:- MICHAEL GOUGH as Eden / ROBERT STEPHENS as Nasser / WENSLEY PITHEY as Churchill / PATRICK TROUGHTON as Monckton / PETER CELLIER as Belwyn Lloyd / RICHARD VERNON as McMillan / OSCAR QUITAK as Gaitskill
SUGAR RUSH
C4 / 10x30m / started 7 June 2005 / 11pm
Book: Julie Burchill / Adaptation: Katie
Baxendale / Director: Sean Grundy / Producer: Johnny Capps
Kim is a 15 year old girl who has a mad lesbian crush on her straight best
friend Sugar but is afraid of telling her so. Her home life is a mess with a
mother who is having an affair with the handyman, an ineffectual father and a
younger brother who thinks he's a spaceman.
With:- OLIVIA HALLINAN as Kim / LENORA CRICHLOW as Sugar / SARA STEWART as
Stella / RICHARD LUMSDEN as Nathan / KURTIS O'BRIEN as Matt / ANDREW GARFIELD as
Tom
THE SUIT
LWT 'Galton & Simpson Comedy' / 1x30m-e / 1969 19 April - Saturday 7.30pm
Writers: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson / Producer/Director: David Askey
Comedy. Howard Butler is desperate to prevent his wife finding out about a robbery at the flat of his lover.
Howard Butler................................. LESLIE PHILLIPS
Penny Butler.................................. JENNIE LINDEN
Jimmy........................................... BILL ODDIE
Burglar.......................................... FRANK JARVIS
Wife............................................. JAN HOLDEN
A SUITABLE CASE FOR TREATMENT
BBC / 1x60m-e / 1962 black and white
Writer: David Mercer / Director: Don Taylor
Drama. Morgan is on the brink of madness and schizophrenia. Later turned into a movie called Morgan - a Suitable Case for Treatment.
With:- IAN HENDRY as Morgan
THE SULLAVAN BROTHERS
ATV / 26x60m-e / 1964-65 black and white
Creator: Ted Willis / Producer: Jack Williams
Legal drama series about a firm of London solicitors who are all brothers. The head of the family and senior partner is John Sullavan who is also blind, his wife Beth acts as his secretary and guide and the family motto is "One In - All In".
With:- HUGH MANNING as Robert Sullavan QC / ANTHONY BATE as Paula Sullavan / TENNIEL EVANS as John Sullavan / MARY KENTON as Beth Sullavan / DAVID SUMNER as Patrick Sullavan
SUMMER DAYS DREAM
BBC2 'Performance' / 1x90m-e / 1995
Writer: J.B. Priestley (in 1949) / Producer: Simon Curtis / Director: Christopher Morahan
Scifi drama. A vision of Britain after a nuclear war, in which a World Government is in power and in the country a family is visited by three people from the said World Government. The play is set in 1975 and was written by Priestley for the stage in 1949.
Stephen Dawlish................................ JOHN GIELGUD
Fred Voles........................................ TERENCE RIGBY
Irina Shestova.................................... SASKIA REEVES
Margaret Dawlish............................... ROSEMARY HARRIS
Rosalie............................................. EMILY WATSON
Franklyn Heimer................................ MIKE McSHANE
Christopher....................................... PAUL RHYS
Dr Bahru........................................... PAUL BHATTACHARJEE
SUMMER IN THE SUBURBS
BBC2 / 1x90m-e / 2000 10 January - Monday 9.00pm
Writer: Tony Basgallop / Music: John Harie / Costume: Verity Hawkes / Design: Eve Mavrakis / Producer: Hilary Salmon / Director: David Attwood
Crime drama. Policeman Ted Lyle and his wife Sandra have their lives turned around when their youngest son confesses to the horrific murder of a teenage girl.
Sandra Lyle........................................ TESSA PEAKE-JONES
Ted Lyle............................................. ANEIRIN HUGHES
Harold Lyle......................................... FRED PEARSON
James Lyle........................................ SID MITCHELL
John Lyle........................................... RYAN DAVENPORT
Julie Lyle........................................... JEMIMA ROOPER
Mulligan............................................ ANN MITCHELL
Maisie.............................................. SARAH ALEXANDER
George Sanders................................ MICHAEL BERTENSHAW
D.S. Greg Lipton................................ PATRICK CREMIN
Theresa Gibbs .................................. EMILY CORRIE
SUMMER PLAYHOUSE
ITV / 1967 black and white
Umbrella title for a series of dramas with no discernable theme.
SUMMERS LEASE
BBC2 / 4x50m-e / 1989
Writer: John Mortimer / Music: Nigel Hess / Producer: Colin Rogers
Drama serial. A family rent a villa for the summer in Tuscany.
With:- JOHN GIELGUD / SUSAN FLEETWOOD / MEL MARTIN / LESLIE PHILLIPS / ANNETTE CROSBIE / JEREMY KEMP
SUNBURN
BBC1 / 14x50m-e / 1999-2000
Creator: Mike Bullen / Theme sung by Michelle Collins / Music: Julian Knott / Script Editor: Julie Gardner / Executive Producer: Antony Wood / Producer: Kay Patrick
Drama series. The ups and downs of a group of British holiday reps working for Janus holidays in Cyprus (season one anyway), the second year saw them adjourn with quite a few cast changes to Portugal where Janus holidays owner David Janus was located.
With:- MICHELLE COLLINS as Nicki Matthews / REBECCA CALLARD as Laura / GEORGE LAYTON as Alan Brooks / SHARON SMALL as Carol / COLETTE BROWN as Julie (Season 1) / JAMES BULLER as Greg / PAUL NICHOLAS as David Janus (Season 2) / SEAN McGUIRE as Lee Wilson (Season 2)
SUNDAY
C4 / 28 January 2002 / 1x110m / 9:00pm
Writer: Jimmy McGovern; Director: Charles McDougall; Producer: Gub Neal
A very Jimmy McGovern blend of drama and documentary (in the style of his
previous Dockers) reconstructing the day in January 1972 when British
paratroopers shot dead 13 unarmed civilians on a civil rights march in Derry.
With:- BRID BRENNAN as Mrs Young / EVA BIRTISTLE as Maura Young / CHRISTOPHER
ECCLESTONE as General Ford / CIARAN MCMENAMIN as Leo Young / BARRY MULLAN as
John Young / CORIN REDGRAVE as Edward Heath / JULIEANN CAMPBELL as Geraldine
Richmond / KENNY DOUGHTY as Para 027 / MARK LAMBERT as Jack Doherty / CARA KELLY
as Mary Doherty / MICHAEL COLGAN as Gerard Donaghey / BRIAN DEVLIN as Father
Daly / MICHAEL BYRNE as Lord Widgery / OLIVER FORD DAVIES as Lord Hailsham /
PAUL CAMPBELL as Jackie Duddy
THE SUNDAY NIGHT PLAY
BBC / 1963 black and white
Producer: David E. Rose
An anthology of plays new to television.
SUNDAY NIGHT THEATRE
BBC / 1955-59
Anthology series of well known plays.
SUNDAY OUT OF SEASON
BBC / 1x60m-e / 1970
Drama. On a bleak winter Sunday in a Welsh seaside town, a youth meets a girl student from London and neither knows whether to treat the meeting as a brief encounter or something more significant than that.
With:- IAN McKELLAN as Victor Leach / LYNN REDGRAVE as Elaine Ford / STANLEY MEADOWS as George / RACHEL THOMAS as Mrs Leach
THE SUNDAY PLAY
BBC / 1963 black and white
Producer: John Elliot
An anthology series of modern day dramas.
BBC2 / x45m-e / 1995-98
A 'melange' of different styles of comedy, satirising TV, newspapers etc. Initially on late night then later Sunday lunchtimes. One regular segment of the show had Dennis Pennis (aka Paul Kaye) surprising celebrities at premieres with his outrageous questions. These segments were later compiled into two separate shows Anyone For Pennis and Very Important Pennis. Katie Puckrick was amongst the hosts.
SUNSET ACROSS THE BAY
BBC / 1x70m-e / 1975
Writer: Alan Bennett / Producer: Innes Lloyd / Director: Stephen Frears
Comedy drama. An elderly couple decide to retire to Morecambe.
With:- HARRY MARKHAM / GABRIELLE DAYE / BOB PECK / ALBERT MODLEY / MADGE HINDLE
SUNSET SONG
BBC / 6x50m-e / 1971
Writer: Bill Craig / Novel: Lewis Gibbon / Producer: Pharic Maclaren
Period drama serial. Rural life in turn of the century North East Scotland.
With:- VIVIEN HEILBRON / ANDREW KEIR / ANNE KRISTEN / DEREK ANDERS / RODDY McMILLAN / JOHN GRIEVE / PAUL YOUNG
SUPERNATURAL
BBC1 / 8x50m-e / 1977 11 June - 6 August
Writers: Robert Muller, Sue Lake / Producer: Pieter Rogers
An anthology of highly spooky tales, the setting was the Club of the Damned whose members told each other the stories.
SUPERVOLCANO
BBC1 / 2x60m / 13-14 March 2005
Writer: Edward Canfor-Dumas / Director: Tony
Mitchell / Producer: Aisla Orr
Drama exploring the build-up and aftermath to a super volcanic eruption at
Yellowstone National Park in the United States an event scientists say is
overdue and when it happens would have global consequences. Both instalments
were followed on BBC2 by a 2-part documentary on the subject called Supervolcano:
The Truth About Yellowstone.
With:- MICHAEL RILEY as Rick Lieberman / GARY LEWIS as Jock Galvin / REBECCA
JENKINS as Wendy / SUSAN DUERDEN as Fiona Lieberman
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
ITV / 1x120m-e / 1997
Writer: Lynda La Plante
Crime drama. A streetwise drugs officer is teamed up with a naive cop in an undercover operation. Effectively a pilot for the series of the same name that followed (see below entry).
Jake................................................. EAMONN WALKER
Harrington......................................... ADE SAPARA
Lance Izzard..................................... FREDDIE STARR
Chomsky......................................... JULIET AUBREY
Lloyd St John................................... ANTHONY HIGGINS
Supt Brent....................................... RON DONACHIE
SUPPLY AND DEMAND
ITV / 6x60m-e / 1998
Creator/Producer: Lynda La Plante
Crime drama series. Cases of an experimental undercover crime unit. Based on the 1997 pilot of the same name (see above entry).
Edna Colley...................................... MIRIAM MARGOYLES
Simon Hughes.................................. LARRY LAMB
June Leyland.................................... STELLA GONET
Det Supt John Arliss......................... ANDREW BURT
Jake Brown...................................... EAMONN WALKER
SURREALISSIMO:
The Scandalous Success of Salvador Dali
BBC4 & BBC2 / 1x60m-e / 2 March 2002 /
9:00pm
Writer: Matthew Broughton / Producer,Director: Richard Curson-Smith
Comedy drama. Based on a 1934 "trial" of Salvador Dali conducted
by his contemporaries where he was accused of crimes against Surrealism by Andr頂reton,
the founder of the movement.
Broadcast on the first night of BBC4,
a new digital channel devoted to cultural achievement - the opening night was
simultaneously broadcast on BBC2.
With:- EWEN BREMNER as Dali / STEPHEN FRY as Breton / KATRIN CARTLIDGE as Gala /
VIC REEVES as Eluard / MARK GATISS as Aragon / BEN MILLER as Yoyotte / MATT
LUCAS as Brunel
SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1990
Writer: Julian Mitchell / Producer: Carol Parks / Director: Martyn Friend
Comedy drama. A small village is ruled over by an elderly battleaxe.
With:- JEAN ANDERSON / TIMOTHY WEST / ELIZABETH SPRIGGS / NERYS HUGHES
SUSPICION
HTV / 1x120m-e / 1987
Writers: Johnathon Lynn, Barry Levinson / Director: Andrew Greive
Period thriller. Remake of the classic Hitchcock film about a newlywed who gradually begins to think her husband may be planning her murder.
With:- JANE CURTIN / ANTHONY ANDREWS / BETSY BLAIR / MICHAEL HORDERN / JONATHAN LYNN
SUSPICION
ITV1 / 2x90m / 8-9 September 2003
Writer: Peter Whalley / Director: Jaimie Payne /
Hugh Warren
Thriller. Carol starts getting anonymous e-mails saying her husband, Mark, is
having an affair with his attractive secretary, Rebecca. Then Rebecca is
murdered and the e-mailer says Mark did it and Carol starts to be convinced.
With:- AMANDA REDMAN as Carol Finnegan / ADRIAN DUNBAR as Mark Finnegan / SASKIA
REEVES as Julie Hopcroft / ADAM KOTZ as Trevor Hopcroft / CLAUDIA HARRISON as
Rebecca Lomax
SWALLOW
C4-BoxTV / 3x60 / Starting 5 December 2001
Writer: Tony Marchant
Drama. A woman has been taking a new prescribed drug. When she stops taking it she becomes paranoid and tries to kill herself. She takes on the drug company and with the help of a disillusioned ex-employee discovers that vital research had been withheld on the dependant nature of the drug.
With:- CHRISTINE TREMARCO as Lorraine Landry / STEVEN MacKINTOSH as Stuart Collins / CLAIRE SKINNER as Gail Collins / BILL PATERSON as Angus Tighe / ANTON LESSER as Paul Valley / DEARBHLA MOLLOY as Dorothy Collins
SWANN
BBC2 / 1x95m-e / 1998
Writer: David Young / Novel: Carol Shields / Producers: Christina Jennings, Ann Scott / Director: Anna Benson Gyles
Drama. Author Sarah Maloney tries to unravel the secrets of Mary Swann a rural Ontarian poet who met with an untimely death.
Sarah Maloney............................... MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Rose Hindmarch............................. BRENDA FRICKER
Stephen......................................... MICHAEL ONTKEAN
Brownie......................................... DAVID CUBITT
Homer........................................... SEAN McCANN
Cruzzi........................................... JOHN NEVILLE
Jimroy........................................... SEAN HEWITT
Jean.............................................. KYRA HARPER
Mrs Cruzzi..................................... MEG HOGFORTH
SWAN
SONG
BBC1 ?Murder in Mind? / 1x60m / 20 March 2002 / 9:00pm
Writer: Anthony Horowitz / Director: Frank W Smith / Producer: Paul Knight
Tara, a night-club singer, feels stifled by her rich husband, and plans to have
him murdered. She has an affair with Mark White, an ex-con who now works
as a security guard in her husbands office. Mark agrees to kill her
husband and the murder is investigated by Detective Superintendent Mike Garrett
whom it turns out that Tara is REALLY having an affair with. Together they
plotted to set Mark White up to murder Tara?s husband.
With:- SAMANTHA ROBSON as Tara Stevens / MICHAEL GRECO as Mark White / DANNY
WEBB as Derek Stevens / JESSE BIRDSALL as Det Supt Mike Garrett
THE SWAP
ITV1-Greenlit / 2x90 / 10&11 February 2002
Writer: Marc Blake; Director: David Drury; Producer: Jill Green
Thames-Euston / 52x60m-e / 1974-78
Creator: Ian Kennedy Martin / Theme Music: Harry South / Executive Producers: Lloyd Shirley, George Taylor / Producer: Ted Childs
Crime drama series. Get your trousers on, you're nicked! High octane exploits of Detective Inspector Regan and Detective Sergeant Carter of the strong arm Flying Squad.
With:- JOHN THAW as Det Insp Jack Regan / DENNIS WATERMAN as Det Sgt George Carter / GARFIELD MORGAN as Ch Insp Frank Hoskins
SWEENEY TODD
1x90m-e / 1981
Writer: Vincent Tilsley / Story: A String of Pearls by Thomas Pressed Pitt
Period horror about the Demon Barber of Fleet Street overly fond of murder.
With:- FREDDIE JONES / PETER SALLIS / RUSSELL HUNTER / LEWIS FIANDER / LEN JONES / HEATHER CANNING
SWEENEY TODD
BBC1 / 1x90m / 3 January 2006
Writer: Joshua St Johnson / Director: David Moore
/ Producers: Gub Neal, Caroline Hewitt
Period crime drama. In 18th Century London Sweeney Todd is a barber-surgeon who
as a child spent years in a prison. While shaving a particularly repulsive
prison guard he slits his throat in anger and has to dispose of the man's body.
He finds he has a compulsion to kill and repeats his actions many times. He
eventually befriends a woman baker on hard times and sets her up with a pie shop
next to his and provides her with the meat of his victims for her pies.
With:- RAY WINSTONE as Sweeney Todd / ESSIE DAVIS as Mrs Lovett / DAVID WARNER
as Fielding / TOM HARDY as Matthew Payne
SWEET AS YOU ARE
BBC / 1x85m-e / 1988
Writer: William Nicholson / Producer: Ruth Caleb / Director: Angela Pope
Drama. Young married couple, Martin and Julia Perry, has a traumatic time after Martin has an affair which leaves him HIV positive.
Martin Perry...................................... LIAM NEESON
Julia Perry........................................ MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Katie................................................ ALEX PAKENHAM
Tony................................................ PHILIP McGOUGH
Isobel.............................................. GILLIAN RAINE
SWEET DREAMS
ITV 'The Things You Do For Love' 1x60m-e / 1998 23 December
Writer: Kay Mellor / Producer: Sue Durkan
Romantic drama. Forty years after falling in love at first sight 55 year old Joan gets a message from her 'lost' love that changes her life.
Joan................................................. ANNE STALLYBRASS
Young Joan...................................... GILLIAN KEARNEY
Joe.................................................. BARNEY CRAIG
Mother............................................. ANNY TOBIN
Rose............................................... GERALDINE FEENEY
SWEET MEDICINE
ITV1 / 10x60m / started 4 September 2003 / 9:00pm
Writer: Nick Collins / Director: Jon Woods / Producer: Claire Phillips
Medical drama about rural family doctors Nick and Deb Sweet and Nick's domineering mother.
With:- PATRICIA HODGE as Georgina Sweet / JASON MERRELLS as Nick Sweet / GILLIAN KEARNEY as Deb Sweet / OLIVER CHRIS as Geoff Sweet / OLIVER MILBURN as Eddie Sweet / LUCY COHU as Anna / ANNIE HULLEY as Muriel Parsons / KATIE BLAKE as Lilian / SARAH CHURM as Zoe
SWEET NOTHING
BBC / 1x100m-e / 1990 23 September - Sunday 9.20pm
Writer: Vincent O'Connell / Producer: Louis Marks / Director: Tony Smith
Drama. When his parents emigrate to Canada leaving him behind, teenage Phil fins himself on the streets of London.
Phil.................................................... LEE ROSS
Caroline............................................. JANET McTEER
Ros................................................... CHARLOTTE COLMAN
Frankie.............................................. VICTOR MADDERN
Dog................................................... ANDREW TIERNAN
Tone.................................................. ALAN STOCKS
Big Mac............................................. RON DONACHIE
Man in Cell........................................ TREVOR PEACOCK
Man in Station.................................... BOB MASON
Rent Man........................................... KEN SHARROCK
Woman in Job Centre.......................... SANDI TOKSVIG
SWEET NOTHINGS
BBC1 / 4x50m-e / 1980
Writer: Ted Whitehead / Design: David McKenzie / Producer: Colin Tucker / Director: Martyn Friend
Drama serial. An obsessive love affair begins to get out of hand.
With:- TOM BELL as Tom / LYNN FARLEIGH as Mary
SWEET REVENGE
ITV / 2x?? (may have been 60 or 90) / 2001
Writer: Sandy Welch
With:- PAUL McGANN as Patrick Vine / SUSAN LYNCH as Madeleine Adair / SOPHIE OKONEDO as Ellen Lewis / PAM FERRIS as Denise Williams / STEVEN MacINTOSH as Sebastian Harper / SARAH SMART as Lisa Craig
SWIZZLEWICK
BBC1 / 1964
Twice weekly serial about a town council and the central figure of Mayor Bent.
With:- MARTIN WYLDECK as Augustus Bent
SWORD OF FREEDOM
ITC-Sapphire / 39x30m-e / 1959-61 black and white
Executive Producer: Hannah Weinstein / Producer: Sidney Cole
Period action adventure series. In 15th Century Italy, a one time painter becomes a sword fighting hero to the people.
Marco Del Monte................................ EDMUND PURDOM
Angelica............................................ ADRIENNE CORRI
Sandro.............................................. ROWLAND BARTROP
Duke de Medici................................. MARTIN BENSON
SWORD OF HONOUR
BBC / 3x90m-e / 1967 black and white
Writer: Giles Cooper / Trilogy: Evelyn Waugh / Director: Donald MacWhinnie
Wartime drama serial. The story of World War II as seen through the eyes of soldier Guy Crouchback and his wife Virginie.
With:- FREDDIE JONES / RONALD FRASER / EDWARD WOODWARD
SWORD OF HONOUR
Channel 4 / 2x110m-e / 2001 (2 - 3 January)
Writer: William Boyd / Novels: Evelyn Waugh / Producer: Gillian McNeill / Director: Bill Anderson
Period drama serial. During the second world war officer Guy Crouchback faces a struggle to come to terms with the carnage around him, he later finds himself in Crete having to cover the backs or relatives.
With:- DANIEL CRAIG as Guy Crouchback / LESLIE PHILLIPS as Gervase Crouchback / MALCOLM STORRY as Major Tickeridge / SELINA CADELL as Angela Crouchback / STEPHEN MANGAN as Frank De Souza / RICHARD COYLE as Trimmer / JULIAN RHIND-TUTT as Ian Kilbannock / TOM WISDOM as Ivor Claire / GUY HENRY as Ludovic / NEIL BOULTON as Bertie / JAMES WEBER BROWN as Tom Blackhouse / MEGAN DODDS as Virginia / ABIGAIL CRUTTENDEN as Kerstie Kilbannock / RUPERT VANSITTART as Cmdr in Chief / ROBERT DAWS as Major Hound
THE ERIC SYKES 1990 SHOW
Thames / 1x60m-e / 1982 14 Apr - Wed 8.00pm
Writer: Eric Sykes / Producer/Director: Dennis Kirkland
Comedy. A glimpse of what TV might be live in 1990 with the programmes being short segments between the adverts (and lets face it Eric wasn't too far off the mark.)
with Eric Sykes, Tommy Cooper, John Williams, Dandy Nichols, Chic Murray, Henry Cooper and Leslie Mitchell.
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