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

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

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

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

BBC / 1962 black and white

An anthology of dramas broadcast from the BBC's then brand new studio 4.

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

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  

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 

BBC / 1960 black and white

Writer: John Osborne / Producer: Tony Richard  

Drama.

With:- RICHARD BURTON / RACHEL ROBERTS

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

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

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  

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

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

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

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

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

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

ITV / 1967 black and white

Umbrella title for a series of dramas with no discernable theme.

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

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

BBC / 1963 black and white

Producer: David E. Rose 

An anthology of plays new to television.

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

BBC / 1963 black and white

Producer: John Elliot 

An anthology series of modern day dramas.

THE SUNDAY SHOW

BBC2 / x45m-e / 1995-98

A 'm鬡nge' 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

BBC1 / 38x50m-e / 1975-77 Season 1:16 April - 16 July 75 / Season 2: 31 March - 23 June 76 / Season 3: 16 March - 8 June 77

Creator: Terry Nation / Music: Anthony Isaac / Script Editors: Jack Rondor (Season 1), Martin Worth / Producer: Terence Dudley 

Post plague drama series. When a deadly virus wipes out 95% of the world's population, a motley group of British survivors struggle on, especially Abby Grant who in season one searched for her missing son Peter, and later Greg Preston and Charles Vaughan who led a growing community. The third and final season saw the group Greg, Charles etc take to the road to try and link up with other communities.
Survivors is probably more relevant now than ever before with almost the entire world depending on technology for its very survival.

With:- IAN McCULLOCH as Greg Preston / LUCY FLEMING as Jenny Richards / DENIS LILL as Charles Vaughan / CAROLYN SEYMOUR as Abby Grant(75) / TALFRYN THOMAS as Tom Price(75) / STEPHEN DUDLEY as John Millan / CHRISTOPHER TRANCHELL as Paul Pitman(75-76) / CELIA GREGORY as Ruth Anderson(76) / JOHN ABINERI as Hubert Goss(76-77) / GORDON SALKILLD as Jack(76-77) /  LORNA LEWIS as Pet Simpson(76-77) / MICHAEL GOVER as Arthur Russell(75-76) / TANYA RONDER as Lizzie Stevens(75-76) / ANGIE STEVENS as Lizzie(77)

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

BBC1 / 46x50m-e / 1973-76 

Creator: Lindsay Galloway / Producers: Neil McCallum, Frank Cox 

Crime drama series. Cases of procurator fiscal John Sutherland in the small Scottish town of Glendoran, aided by a succession of assistants (who included Gareth Thomas and Martin Shaw). The series grew out of a 1972 drama playhouse production. Sutherland was played by Derek Francis in the Drama Playhouse edition. There were five seasons in all and the broadcast dates dor each season were as follows:- (06-Jun-1973 to 05-Sep-1973 / 15-May-1974 to 24-Jul-1974 / 03-Sep-1974 to 01-Oct-1974 /  27-May-1975 to 12-Aug-1975 / 06-Jul-1976 to 31-Aug-1976)

With:- IAIN CUTHBERTSON as John Sutherland / DON McKILLOP as Sgt McKechnie / GARETH THOMAS as Alex Duthie / MAEV ALEXANDER as Christine Russell / MARTIN COCHRANE as David Drummond / VIRGINIA STARK as Helen Matheson

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

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

Tom and Jen, an English couple swap their London home for the Christmas holidays with Charles, an Australian.  But all is not what it seems - when they return home they find their home has been sold and the contents stripped bare.  Tom, whose relationship with Jen is heading for divorce, discovers that she has been having an affair with the (fake) Australian and the house swap/sale was her endeavour to get a fair settlement in the divorce.

 With:- JEMMA REDGRAVE as Jen Forrester / MICHAEL MALONEY as Tom Forrester / JONATHAN CAKE as Charles Anderson / LARA BELMONT as Lissa Forrester / PHYLLIDA LAW as Rose Trenchard

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

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

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

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

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

Patrick Vine offers a special service.  He helps devise and carry out satisfying schemes of revenge against those that have hurt or upset his clients.  But when he meets Madeleine Adair he unwittingly falls victim to a revenge she is carrying out on behalf of her brother. Revenges included the likes of - a jilted girlfriend wanted revenge on her boyfriend - Patrick & co went with the ex-boyfriend on a plane trip and managed to make him think it was going to crash causing him to panic and become violent thereby getting himself arrested for air-rage.  

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

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

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

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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