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TABLE 12
BBC2 / 10x10m / Started 12 July 2001
A series of short dramas with
different casts all set at the same table of a restaurant.
Including:- DANIELA NARDINI / PAUL NICHOLAS / KATE GARTSIDE
TAFF ACRE
HTV / 26x30m-e / 1981
Drama series. Stories of the residents of the South Wales village of Taff Acre.
With:- RICHARD DAVIES as Max / RHODA LEWIS as Beth / STUART DAVIS as Wayne / DEWI MORRIS as Gareth / BETH MORRIS as Cilla / SUE JONES DAVIES as Sian
TAGGART
Scottish TV /(50+ editions many feature length) x60m-e/120m-e / 1983-continuing.
Creator: Glenn Chandler
Crime drama series. Cases of
a tough Glaswegian detective Jim Taggart. After Mark McManus died in the mid
1990's the show continued (still called Taggart) and focused on his workmates
Mike Jardine and Jackie Reid. The stories were originally in two or three parts
of 60 minutes each, latterly they have tended towards the one off two hour mark.
Taggart is currently the longest running cop show on TV. Apparently creator
Chandler took the names of the characters in the first serial from from the
graves in a Glasgow cemetery. The only original cast member left is pathologist
Dr Andrew Stephens. In the episode "Death Trap" former regular DCI
Mike Jardine (James MacPherson) was killed off with new regular DCI Matt Burke
(Alex Norton) taking his place as the lead. 2002: 2 New episodes "Watertight"
/ 1x120m / 8 July 2002 and "The Friday Event"
/ 2x60m / 15-16 July 2002 were broadcast. With the season that began on 4
December 2002 the format changed to one-hour self-contained stories. new episode
of TAGGART broadcast ITV1 / 1x90m / 30 April 2004. Two new stories (both 2x90
minutes) broadcast ITV1 4 & 11 November 2005 and 9 & 16 December
2005.
With:- MARK McMANUS as D.C.I. Jim Taggart / NEIL DUNCAN as Det Sgt Peter Livingstone / JAMES McPHERSON as Mike Jardine / BLYTHE DUFF as Jackie Reid / GERALDINE ALEXANDER as Alison Taggart / HARRIET BUCHAN as Jean Taggart / IAIN ANDERS as Supt McVitie / COLIN McGREDIE as DC Stuart Fraser / ROBERT ROBERTSON as Dr Andrew Stephens / ALEX NORTON as DCI Matt Burke (2002)
BBC1-WGBH / 3x50m-e / 2000 (First Episode: Sunday 26 November)
Writer: Andrew Davies / Novel: Kingsley Amis / Camera: James Welland / Design: Donal Woods / Music: Rupert Gregson-Williams / Script Editor: Kate Lewis / Executive Producer: Hal Chester, Jane Tranter (BBC), Rebecca Eaton (WGBH) / Producer: Gareth Neame / Director: Nick Hurran
Period drama serial. In 1959 young virginal northern lass Jenny Bunn moves down to live in London and is soon falling prey to the lasciviousness attentions of the men she meets, especially teacher Patrick.
With:- SIENNA GUILLORY as Jenny Bunn / RUPERT GRAVES as Patrick Standish / HUGH BONNEVILLE as Julian Ormerod / ROBERT DAWS as Dick Thompson / EMMA CHAMBERS as Martha Thompson / IAN DRIVER as Graham McClintoch / KATHY KIERA CLARKE as Anne Le Page / JEFF RAWLE as Horace Charlton / SIMON EVANS as Horse / BRIDGET McCONNEL as Miss Sinclair / AMELIA WARNER as Sheila Torkingham / NINA YOUNG as Wendy
TAKE A PAIR OF PRIVATE EYES
UK / BBC2 / 6x55m-e / 1966 (10 April - 15 May) black and white
Creator: Peter O'Donnell / Producer: Alan Bromly
Comedy crime drama series focusing on the exploits of a husband and wife private detective team, Ambrose and Dominique Frayne, Ambrose's dad, a criminal expert offered plenty of help.
With:- DEREK FOWLDS as Ambrose Frayne / JEANNE ROLAND as Dominique Frayne / SAM KYDD as Hector Frayne
TAKE ME
ITV / 6x60m-e / First Episode 5 August 2001
Writer: Caleb Ranson; Director: Alex Pillai; Producer: Bill Boyes
With:- ROBSON GREEN as Jack Chambers / BETH GODDARD as Kay Chambers / DANNY WEBB as Doug Patton / OLGA SOSNOVSKA as Andrea Patton / ANNETTE EKBLOM as Lauren / ANEIRIN HUGHES as Sam / KEITH BARRON as Don Chambers / JULIA MALLAM as Maggie Chambers
TAKE ME HOME
BBC1 / 3x55m-e / 1989
Writer: Tony Marchant / Producer: David Snodin / Director: Jane Howell
Drama serial. Middle aged, married taxi driver Tom has a traumatic affair with the much younger and equally married Kathy.
With:- KEITH BARRON as Tom / MAGGIE O'NEILL as Kathy / ANNETTE CROSBIE as Liz / REECE DINSDALE as Ray / NEIL McCAUL as Salter
Scottish / x30m-e / 1980-continuing
Creator: Don Houghton
Drama series. The lives of the people of the Scottish village of Glendarroch. Very similar in style to the early years of Yorkshire TV's Emmerdale Farm, the show has been seen on weekday afternoons and from 1995 has been known as simply High Road.
Important cast members include:-
With:- GWEN GUTHRIE as Mrs Mary Mack / JIMMY CHISHOLM as Jimmy Black / EDITH MacARTHUR as Elizabeth Cunningham / EILEEN McCALLUM as Isabel Blair / ALEC MONTEATH as Dougal Lachlan / GINNI BARLOW as Gladys Lachlan / MARJORIE THOMSON as Grace Lachlan / BILL HENDERSON as Ken Calder / MARTIN COCHRANE as Alan McIntyre / INGRID HAFFNER as Jane Steedman / KENNETH WATSON as Brian Blair / JAN WATERS as Margaret Ross-Gifford
TAKE THREE GIRLS
BBC1 / 18x50m-e / 1969-71
Creator: Gerald Savory / Music: Pentangle / Producer: Michael Hayes
Drama series. Three young girls, including a single mother, share a flat in South West London. Victoria was a cello playing debutante, Avril was an art student, while Kate was the single mum and struggling actress, by season two Avril and Kate had left and were replaced by journalist Jenny and American Lulie. The theme tune by Pentangle did well in the charts too. See also the sequel Take Three Women.
With:- LIZA GODDARD as Victoria / ANGELA DOWN as Avril / SUSAN JAMESON as Kate / CAROLYN SEYMOUR as Jenny / BARRA GRANT as Lulie / DAVID LANGTON as Victoria's Father
TAKE THREE WOMEN
BBC2 / 4x55m-e / 1982 21 September - 12 October
Creator/Producer: Gerald Savory / Music: Pentangle
Drama serial. An update of the series Take Three Girls (see above entry) which picked up with the girls eleven years older.
With:- ANGELA DOWN as Avril / LIZA GODDARD as Victoria / SUSAN JAMESON as Kate
TAKIN' OVER THE ASYLUM
BBC2 / 6x50m-e / 1994
Writer: Donna Franceschild / Producer: Chris Parr / Director: David Blair
Drama serial. Eddie, an out of work DJ, takes a job running the radio station in a mental hospital.
Eddie................................................ KEN STOTT
Francine............................................ KATY MURPHY
Grandma........................................... ELIZABETH SPRIGGS
Campbell........................................... DAVID TENNANT
Rosalie.............................................. RUTH McCABE
Isabel................................................ ANGELA BRUCE
Griffin................................................ ROY HANLON
TALENT
Granada / 1x60m-e / 1979 5 August
Writer/Music: Victoria Wood
Comedy drama. A story of two women, one of whom is trying to make it as a singer. See also Nearly a Happy Ending.
Julie.................................................... JULIE WALTERS
Maureen.............................................. VICTORIA WOOD
THE TALE OF BEATRIX POTTER
BBC / 2x60m-e / 1983
Based on the biographies by Margaret Lane / Writer / Executive Producer: John Hawkesworth / Producer: Carol Robertson / Director: Bill Hays
Period drama serial. Young Beatrix Potter lives a quiet, protected childhood surrounded by her beloved pets. As she grows to adulthood, her talent for creating illustrated stories about these animals leads to publication of her first book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit." As her books continue to gain popularity, her association with her publisher grows into an affectionate relationship that is strongly discouraged by Beatrix's domineering parents.
With:- Penelope Wilton / Holly Aird / John Woodvine / Richard Aylen / Jennifer Marriott / Rosemary Martin / Tenniel Evans / Victoria Burton / Fanny Rowe / John Welsh / James Grout / James Bree / Nicholas Lovell / Donald M Gee / John Stratton / Timothy Bateson / Jeremy Nicholas / Sophie Ashton / Catherine Schell / Tim Wylton
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
BBC / 1965 black and white
Novel: Charles Dickens
Period drama serial. An English lawyer, Sidney Carlton, has trouble in Revolutionary France.
Sidney Carlton................................... JOHN WOOD
Dr Manette......................................... PATRICK TROUGHTON
Lucie................................................. KIKA MARKHAM
Darnay.............................................. NICHOLAS PENNELL
Madame Defarge................................ ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY
A TALE OF TWO CITIES
Granada / 4x60m-e / 1988
Writer: Arthur Hopcraft / Music: Serge Franklin / Novel: Charles Dickens / Costume: Franklin Tempest / Producer: Roy Roberts / Director: Philip Marnier
Period drama serial. Sidney Carlton gets caught up in intrigue in Revolutionary France.
With:- JAMES WILBY / JOHN MILLS / SERENA GORDON / ANNA MASSEY / ALFRED LYNCH / MARY HEALEY
TALES FROM A LONG ROOM
BBC2 / 2x15m-e / 1980 22 - 29 May Thursdays 10.30pm
Writer: Peter Tinniswood / Producer: Tony Laryea / Director: Bob Blagden
Comedies. The Brigadier gives two talks about his cricketing past, with the aid of a magic lantern. See also the 1985 series of the same name.
With:- ROBIN BAILEY as The Brigadier
TALES FROM LAZY ACRE
BBC1 / 7x30m-e / 1972
Writer: Hugh Leonard / Producers: James Gilbert, David Croft
Comedy anthology series of seven unconnected tales based on Irish urban myths.
With Milo O'Shea and David Kelly.
TALES FROM PLEASURE BEACH
BBC2 / 3x50m / 2-16 August 2001
Writer: Roger Williams; Devised and Directed by:
Edmund Coulthard;
Producer: Madonna Baptiste
A series of separate stories with different main casts (with some cameo
crossovers) all located in the same Welsh pleasure resort.
1) LAID With:- JOANNA GRIFFITHS as Kelly / MARK LETHEREN as Drew / BRIAN HIBBARD
as Alan / EVE MYLES as Angie
2) LUSH With:- EVE MYLES as Angie / SIWAN MORRIS as Karen / RICHARD LYNCH as
Sonny / RHIAN GRUNDY as Debbie /
RACHEL ISAAC as Lou
3) FAITHLESS With:- MARK LEWIS JONES as Dune / RUTH JONES as Amanda / STEFFAN
RHODRI as Wes / LYNN HUNTER
as Janice / BRIAN HUBBARD as Alan
TALES FROM SHERWOOD FOREST
Central / 6x60m-e / 1987
Creator: Alan Plater / Music: Frank Ricotti / Executive Producer: Ted Childs
Comedy drama series. A cafe owner in Nottingham has an obsession with the film Casablanca.
Eric.................................................... PETE POSTLETHWAITE
Sarah................................................. JILL BAKER
Det Sgt Terry...................................... DAVID TROUGHTON
Ken.................................................... ROBIN SOAMS
Anita.................................................. BEE JAYE
TALES OF MYSTERY
Associated-Rediffusion / 29x30m-e / 1961-63 black and white
Producer: Peter Graham Scott
An anthology of dramas with a supernatural or spooky angle hosted by John Laurie as ghost story writer Algernon Blackwood.
THE TALES OF PARA HANDY
BBC1 / 9x50m-e / 1994-95 Two seasons
Creator: Neil Munro / Script Editor: Niall Clark / Music: Phil Cunningham / Design: Graham Rose / Producer: Colin Gilbert
Period comedy drama series. In the 1930's Captain Para Handy and his hapless on the Vital Spark ply the Scottish Highland coastline with many an unlikely cargo. Season two contained only three episodes. See also Para Handy - Master Mariner and The Vital Spark.
With:- GREGOR FISHER as Para Handy / RIKKI FULTON as MacPhail / SEAN SCANLON as Dougie / ANDREW FAIRLIE as Sunny Jim / PAUL YOUNG as Andrew Campbell / SALLY HOWITT as Miss Kelly
C4-Propaganda/ 12x60m-e / 1993 & 1998
Creator: Armistead Maupin / Music: John Keane / Executive Producers: Richard Kramer, Armistead Maupin / Producer: Anthony Root / Director: Alastair Reid
Period comedy drama series. Life in 1970's San Francisco for an eccdentric array of mainly gay folk. An American set series made by C4 with an English crew but US cast. Five years after the first series, a second series emerged this time known as More Tales of the City.
Anna Madrigal................................ OLYMPIA DUKAKIS
Edgar Halcyon............................... DONALD MOFFAT
Mona Romsey............................... CHLOE WEBB
Mary Ann Singleton........................ LAURA LINNEY
Michael Tolliver.............................. MARCUS D'AMICO
Archibald Giddle............................. IAN McKELLEN
Anglia / 72x30m-e / 1979-88
Creator: Roald Dahl / Music: Ron Grainer / Executive Producer: John Woolf / Producer: John Rosenberg
An anthology series of short dramas with a sting in the tail. Originally called Roald Dahl's Tales of the Unexpected, Dahl introduced some of the early episodes. The shows featured a veritable who's who of top flight acting talent.
TALKING HEADS
BBC1 / 12x30m-e / 1988 and then 1998
Writer: Alan Bennett / Music: George Fenton / Costume: Janet Tharby / Script Editor: Brenda Reid
An anthology series of straight to camera monologues. Bennett performed himself as did other favourites of his including Maggie Smith, Thora Hird, Patricia Routledge, Julie Walters, Stephanie Cole and David Haig. TALKING HEADS II monologues consisted of Nights in the Spanish Garden (Penelope Wilton) Playing Sandwiches (David Haig), The Outside Dog (Julie Walters), The Hand of God (Eileen Atkins), Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet (Patricia Routledge), Waiting For the Telegram (Thora Hird)
TALKING TO STRANGE MEN
ITV Network / 1x120m-e / 1992
Writer: Julian Bond / Novel: Ruth Rendell / Director: John Gorrie
Thriller. After his wife walks out on him John Creevey finds himself caught up in a bizarre mystery.
With:- JOHN DUTTINE as John Creevey / MEL MARTIN as Jennifer Creevey / RALPH BROWN as Peter Mullin / MILES ANDERSON as Mark Simms / ABIGAIL McKERN as WDC Susan Aubrey / KEELEY HAWES as Sarah Mabledene / TREVOR COOPER as DCI Fordwych
A TALL STALWART LANCER
ITV / 1x / 1965 black and white
Writer: Gerald Vaughan-Hughes / Design: Disley Jones / Producer: Cecil Clarke / Director: John Moxey
Bizarre drama about mysterious Torquil Callander who hangs around a mews area of houses.
Torquil Callander............................ JAMES MASON
THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
BBC (The BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x180m-e / 1980
Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Stephen Oliver / Producer/Director: Jonathan Miller
Shakespeare's comedy of warring lovers, part of the BBC's attempt to film the complete canon of the great Bard's plays.
With:- JOHN CLEESE as Petruchio / SARAH BADEL as Kate / SIMON CHANDLER as Lucentio / ANTHONY PEDLER as Tranio / JONATHAN CECIL as Hortensio / JOHN FRANKLYN-ROBBINS as Baptista / SUSAN PENHALIGON as Bianca / HARRY WATERS as Blondello / ANGUS LENNIE as Curtis /
TANAMERA: LION OF SINGAPORE
Central-10 Network-Grundy / 7x60m-e / 1989
Writer: Peter Gibbs / Novel: Noel Barber / Camera: Dan Burstall / Music: Mario Millo / Producers: Jan Badlier, David Lee / Executive Producer: Don Battye / Directors: John Power, Kevin Dobson
Period drama serial. The intertwined lives of two families, the Dexters and the Sungs, in Singapore during the years 1935 to 1948. The families came together when son John Dexter fell in love with Julie Sung. A UK-Australia co-production.
With:- CHRISTOPHER BOWEN as John Dexter / KHYM LAM as Julie Sung / ED DEVEREAUX as Grandfather Dexter / ANTHONY CALF / KAY TONG LIM / ANNE LOUISE LAMBERT / ROBERT COLEBY / PENNE HACKFORTH-JONES / TUSHKA BERGON / BRYAN MARSHALL / GARY SWEET / BRUCE SPENCE / JOHN JARRATT
BBC1 / 18x50m-e / 1977-78
Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe / Music: Dudley Simpson
Crime drama series. Cases of a hard hitting regional crime squad. The show seen as a kind of BBC version of The Sweeney was criticised for its heavy quotient of violence.
Det Supt Steve Hackett................... PATRICK MOWER
Det Sgt Louise Colbert.................... VIVIEN HEILBRON
Det Ch Supt Tate............................ PHILIP MADOC
Det Sgt Frank Bonney..................... BRENDAN PRICE
TARTUFFE, OR THE IMPOSTER
BBC / 1984 One off play
Writer: Christopher Hampton / Play: Moliere / Music: Alex Winterson / Played by Simon Couzens / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: Bill Alexander
Period drama. The highly strange supposedly Holy man Tartuffe inveigles his way into the household of Orgon a rich Parisian merchant. The play was produced in association with the Royal Shakespeare Company.
With:- ANTONY SHER as Tartuffe / NIGEL HAWTHORNE as Orgon / ALISON STEADMAN as Elmire / SYLVIA COLERIDGE / STEPHANIE FAYERMAN / MICHAEL MALONEY / LESLEY SHARP / DAVID BRADLEY / SARA MAIR-THOMAS / IAN TALBOT / JOHN TRAMPER / ROBIN MEREDITH / DAVID GLOVER
TAXI
BBC1 / 26x50m-e / 1963-64 Season 1: 10 July - 28 September 63 Season 2: 4 April - 27 Jun 64 black and white
Creator: Ted Willis / Producers: Michael Mills, Harry Carlisle, Douglas Moodie
Comedy drama series. London cabbie Sid Stone can't help getting involved in the problems of his passengers.
With:- SID JAMES as Sid Stone / RAY BROOKS as Terry Mills / BILL OWEN as Fred Cuddell / VANDA GODSELL as Madelaine / TOKE TOWNLEY as Bert Stoker / CLARE KELLY as Dolly Stoker
TEA AT FOUR
BBC / 1975 (February 4)
Comedy drama.
With:- FREDDIE JONES / MONA WASHBOURNE / RICHARD WATTIS
TEA AT THE RITZ
Granada 'Comedy Four' / 1x30m-e / 1963 6 June - Thursday 7.30pm black and white
Writers: Barry Took, Peter Miller, James Kelly / Producer: Peter Eton / Director: Graeme McDonald
Comedy. George Podmore takes over the running of decrepit cinema the Ritz and plans to drag it out of the dark ages.
With:- NORMAN ROSSINGTON as George Podmore / RONNIE STEVENS as Arnold Barnes / ANN LANCASTER as Rene Barnes / RITA WEBB as Mrs Gutter
TEACHERS
Channel Four / 39x60m-e / 2001-2004 (First
Episode: Wednesday 21 March 2001 / 10.00pm)
Writer: Tim Loane / Producer: Tim Bradley (season one), Rhonda Smith (SEASON
TWO) / Director: Richard Dale
Drama series looking at the often harassed lives of a group of mainly twenty
something teachers at a comprehensive school, there was as much focus on their
out of hours activities as their school hour ones. Andrew Lincoln left the
series a few episodes before the end of the second season. This is the first
Channel 4 drama ever to be re-commissioned for a third series. Andrew Lincoln's
character returned for three mid-season episodes in series 3 while working as a
supply teacher. He also directed the final 2 episodes of the series. In the
fourth series the Summerdown school has merged with another school and is now
set at Wattkins Comprehensive.
With:- Andrew Lincoln as Simon / Navin Chowdhry as Kurt / Adrian Bower as Brian
/ Raquel Cassidy as Susan (-2002) / Nina Sosanya as Jenny / Gillian Bevan as
Clare / Simon Chandler as Geoff / Ursula Holden Gill as Carol / Anna
Holkar as Marcella / Bob Mason as Stephen / Lloyd McGuire as Bob Porter / Zoe
Telford as Maggie (season one) / Ellen Thomas as Liz / Daniel Bliss as Danny /
Kelly Brennan as Tanya / James Corden as Jeremy / Peter England as Arnie /
Ashley Madekwe as Bev / Kier Mills as Teddy / Lucy Shore as Hayley / Tim
Smith as Ian / TAMZIN MALLISON as Penny (SEASON TWO) / VICKY HALL as
Lindsay / DAON BRONI as Damien (from series 4) / LEE WILLIAMS as Ewan (from
Series 4) / MATTHEW HORNE as Ben (from series 4)
THE TEA LADIES
BBC1 / 1x30m-e / 1979 4 January - Thursday 8.30pm
Writers: Ray Galton, Johnny Speight / Producer: Dennis Main Wilson
Comedy. The exploits of three tea ladies working in the house of commons.
With:- MOLLIE SUGDEN as Lil / DANDY NICHOLS as Vi / PATRICIA HAYES as Min / JOHN QUAYLE as MP
TEARS BEFORE BEDTIME
BBC1 / 4x50m-e / 1995
Writer: Sandy Welch / Music: John Altman / Costume: Colin Lavers / Design: Anthony Ainsworth / Executive Producers: Michael Wearing, Caroline Oulton / Director: Tristram Powell
Drama serial. Three couples have their lives (full of the usual secrets and scandals) turned upside down when they hire three nannies.
Ben Farlow........................................ PETER HOWITT
Sarah Bayliss................................... SAMANTHA BOND
David Bayliss.................................... ADRIAN RAWLINS
Beattie Freeman................................ LESLEY MANVILLE
Jimmy Turner.................................... JAMES PUREFOY
Katherine.......................................... JULIE COX
Lisa.................................................. NICOLA COWPER
Stuart Freeman.................................. RICHARD HOPE
Maggie............................................. JESSICA STEVENSON
TEARS IN THE WIND
ABC / 1x50m-e / 1956 black and white
Writer: Millicent George / Producer/Director: Dennis Vance
Drama. Based on Symphonie Pastorale by Andre Gide.
With:- JOAN GREENWOOD / ANDRE MORELL / BARBARA MULLEN / IAN BANNEN
TED AND RALPH
BBC2 / 1x70m-e / 1998 27 December
Writers: Paul Whitehouse, Charlie Higson / Producer: Paul Schlesinger / Director: Christine Gernon
Comedy. A spin off from the Fast Show. Toff Ralph (madly in unrequited love with his elderly gardener Ted) is devastated when he learns he will have to find a wife in order to keep his large country estate.
Ted/Kevin Brown/Rowley............ PAUL WHITEHOUSE
Ralph/Aunt Cecilia/Ralph's Dad.. CHARLIE HIGSON
Henrietta Blough-Pendleton........ MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Vicar........................................ JOHN THOMSON
Henrietta Spain......................... GINA BELLMAN
First Landowner........................ RICHARD WILSON
Second Landowner.................... RICHARD GRIFFITHS
Wendy..................................... SASKIA WICKHAM
Mrs Ted................................... KATHY BURKE
TELECRIME
BBC / 12x15m-e / 1946 black and white
Writer: Mileson Horeton / Producers: Gordon Crier, Stephen Harrison, Douglas Muir
An anthology series of short whodunnits.
BBC 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1962 19 June - Friday 8.45pm
Writers: Ray Galton and Alan Simpson / Producer: James Gilbert
Comedy. Worried Lionel Baxter decides to use his phone to do something about what he sees as a troubled world.
Lionel Baxter................................... PETER JONES
Sandra Baxter................................. JUNE WHITFIELD
Mr Croxley...................................... RICHARD CALDICOT
Mr Gore-Willoughby MP................... DEREK BOND
BBC Producer................................. HAROLD LANG
TELEVISION WORLD THEATRE
BBC / 1957-58
An anthology series of prestigious productions that were based on well known material from around the world.
TELFORD'S CHANGE
BBC1 / 10x50m-e / 1979 7 January - 11 March
Writer: Brian Clark / Producer: Mark Shivas
Drama serial. Middle aged banking executive Mark Telford decides he needs a new challenge and takes over the running of a rural bank, his wife is none too happy, however, and opts to stay in London.
Mark Telford.................................... PETER BARKWORTH
Sylvia Telford.................................. HANNAH GORDON
Tim Hart......................................... KEITH BARRON
Helen Santon.................................. ZENA WALKER
Maddox.......................................... COLIN DOUGLAS
TELL IT TO THE JUDGE
LWT / 1x30m-e / 1980 23 March - Sunday 8.45pm
Writer: Sid Green / Producer: Derrick Goodwin
Comedy. Problems for Detective Inspector Saggers of Catley C.I.D.
With:- DAVE KING as Det Insp Saggers / JOHN GRIEVE as Det Insp Jock Stuart / LINAL HAFT as D.C. Ossie Sullivan / KARL HOWMAN as D.C. Martin Walters / PAUL BARBER as D.C. Dennis Baxter
TELLING TALES
BBC2 / 10x15m-e / 2000 (4 November - )
Writer: Alan Bennett / Music: George Fenton / Camera: Tim Palmer / Design: Francesca Boyd / Costume: Dany Everett / Producer: Mark Shivas / Directors: Patrick Garland, Tristram Powell
A series of ten monologues in which Alan Bennett reflects on his years growing up in Leeds.
THE TELL TALE HART
ABC / 1x60m-e / 1968 black and white
Writer: Peter Van Greenaway / Story: Edgar Allen Poe / Producer: Jonathon Alwyn / Director: Robert Tronson
Mystery drama. Does a man have evil buried in his heart. There was a previous 25 minute version made by the BBC in 1939 written by Michael Hogan. Produced by Dallas Bower. Broadcast 4 January.
With:- FREDDIE JONES / LESLIE FRENCH / GILLIAN FRENCH / NORMAN ESHLEY / KENNETH J. WARREN
THE TEMPEST
BBC (The BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x126m-e / 1980
Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Joseph Horovitz, William Walton / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: John Gorrie
Fantasy drama. Another entry in the BBC attempt to perform every Shakespeare play to make up the definitive TV Shakespeare canon.
With:- MICHAEL HORDERN as Prospero / WARREN CLARKE as Caliban / DEREK GODFREY as Antonio / DAVID DIXON as Ariel / DAVID WALLER as Alonso / NIGEL HAWTHORNE as Stephano / ANDREW SACHS as Trinculo / PIPPA GUARD as Miranda / CHRISTOPHER GUARD as Ferdinand / KENNETH GILBERT as Boatswain
THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL
BBC-2 / 4x45mins / 1969
WRITER: Anne Bronte (Dramatised by Christopher Fry) / DIRECTOR: Peter Sasdy
Period drama serial. Helen Graham seeks refuge in remote Wildfell Hall after running away from her brutish husband, Helen then falls in love with a local landowner.
With:- Janet Munro, Felicity Kendal, Megs
Jenkins, Jean Anderson
THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL
BBC / 3x50m-e / 1996
Writer: David Nokes / Novel: Anne Bronte / Music: Richard Mitchell / Producer: Suzan Harrison / Director: Mike Barker
Period drama serial. Helen Graham seeks refuge in remote Wildfell Hall after running away from her brutish husband, Helen then falls in love with a local landowner.
With:- TARA FITZGERALD as Helen / RUPERT GRAVES as Huntingdon / TOBY STEPHENS as Gilbert Markham / BEATIE EDNEY as Annabella / PAM FERRIS as Mrs Markham / JAMES PUREFOY as Mr Lawrence / KENNETH CRANHAM as Rev Millward / MIRANDA PLEASENCE as Eliza Millward / PALOMA BAEZA as Rose Markham / JONATHAN CAKE as Hattersley / SARAH BADEL as Rachel / CATHY MURPHY as Mrs Myers / JACKSON LEACH as Arthur / SEAN GALLAGHER as Hargraves / JANET DALE as Mrs Wilson / ARAN BELL as Richard Wilson
THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
Yorkshire TV / 10x60m-e / 1971
Producer: Peter Willes
An anthology of dramas with each one, as the title says, taking its cue from one of Ten Commandments.
BBC2 / 6x55m-e / 1985 23 September - 28 October
Writer: Dennis Potter / Novel: F.Scott Fitzgerald / Music: Richard Rodney Bennett / Producer: Betty Willingale / Director: Robert Knights
Period drama serial. The highly tense and knife-edge married life of a US couple during the 1920's.
With:- PETER STRAUSS as Dick Diver / MARY
STEENBERGEN as Nicole / JOHN HEARD as Abe North / SEAN YOUNG as Rosemary Hoyte
BBC1 / 30x50m-e / 1981-84
Creator: Lavinia Warner / Music: James Harpham / Producers: Ken Riddington, Vere Lorrimer
Wartime drama series. During World War Two a group of European women find themselves rounded up by the Japanese after they invade Singapore. The women are interned in a number of brutal camps.In 1985 there was a 90 minute special set in the fifties and called Tenko Reunion.
Marion Jefferson................................ ANN BELL
Joss Holbrook.................................. JEAN ANDERSON
Dr Beatrice Mason........................... STEPHANIE COLE
Rose Miller...................................... STEPHANIE BEACHAM
Blanche Simmons............................ LOUISE JAMESON
Kate Norris...................................... CLAIRE OBERMAN
Sister Ulrica.................................... PATRICIA LAWRENCE
Alice Courtenay............................... CINDY SHELLY
Dorothy Bennett.............................. VERONICA ROBERTS
Sylvia Ashburton............................. RENEE ASHERSON
Maggie Thorpe................................ ELIZABETH MICKERY
Mrs Van Meyer............................... ELIZABETH CHAMBERS
Major Yamauchi............................. BURT KWOUK
TEN LITTLE NIGGERS
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1949 black and white
Writer: Agatha Christie / Design: Richard Greenough / Producer: Kevin Sheldon
Mystery drama. A group of people, stranded on a remote island, finds themselves being bumped off one by one. This play was broadcast with it's distinctly un-PC title intact, later film versions opted for the title And Then There Were None (As did later re-issues of the book on which this is based).
Philip Lombard.................................... JOHN BENTLEY
William Blore...................................... CAMPBELL SINGER
Rogers............................................... STANLEY LEMIN
Narracot............................................. BARRY STEELE
Mrs Rogers........................................ ELIZABETH MAUDE
Vera Claythorne................................. SALLY ROGERS
Antony Marston................................. DOUGLAS HURN
General Mackenzie............................ ARTHUR WONTNER
THE TENTH KINGDOM
Sky One-Hallmark / 5x120m-e / 2000
Writer: Simon Booker / Music: Anne Dudley / Producers: Brian Eastman, Jane Prowse, Simon Moore / Costume: Jill Taylor / Design: Rob Hinds, Julian Fullalove
Fantasy drama series. In the land of the Nine Kingdoms the evil queen decides to take over from the rightful ruler, Prince Wendell, the Prince manages to escape by leaping through a magic mirror into 21st century New York, a young woman, Virginia tries to help reclaim his throne.
With:- KIMBERLY WILLIAMS as Virginia / SCOTT COHEN as Wolf / DIANNE WEST as Evil Queen / ED O'NEILL as Relish, Troll King / JOHN LARROQUETTE as Tony / JIMMY NAIL as Clayface / ROBERT HARDY as Chancellor Griswold / CAMRYN MANHEIM as Snow White
TERRACES
BBC2 'Scene' / 1x30m-e / 1995
Writer: Willy Russell / Producer: Richard Langridge / Director: Rob Rohrer
Comedy drama. Trouble flares in a Liverpool terraced street when one man refuses to join in and paint his house in the local football teams colours.
Danny................................................. MARK WOMACK
Susan................................................. CLAIRE HACKETT
Michael............................................... CARL RICE
Eddie.................................................. PAUL BROUGHTON
Carol the Barmaid................................ TRICIA PENROSE
THE TERROR
ITV Network - Associated Rediffusion (Play Of The Week) 1x90 minute episode / Monday 27 Aug 1956 @ 8:00pm in black and white
Writer: Juan Cortez / Play: Edgar Wallace / Set Design: John Clements / Director: Peter Cote
Based on a famous Edgar Wallace play this
thriller saw a pact made between convicts lead to murder at Monkshall Priory.
With:- Alfie Bass as "Soppy" Marks / Desmond Walter-Ellis as Ferdinad
Fane / John Blythe as Joe Connor / Max Adrian as William Goodman / David Markham
as Sergant Dobey / Arnold Bell as Superintendent Aske / Llewellyn Rees as Cotton
/ Bryan Coleman as Superintendent Hallick / Catherine Boyle as Mary Redmayne /
Raymond Francis as Colonel Redmayne / Marjorie Rhodes as Veronica Elvery / Brian
Haines as Chief Warder Joyce / Richard Shaw as Warder Timms / Julian d'Albie as
Major Craddock / Other Warders, Convicts and Policemen: Vincent Holman, Graham
Ashley, Sean Connery, John East, Brian Hamilton, Ron Braden, Hubert Woodward,
Anthony Tankred
TERRORVISION
TVS-PMA-Excel Telemedia Int / 5x15m-e / 1992 20 March - 24 April
Music: Paul Mesches / Producers: Nathan Klein, James Percelay
An anthology series of spooky stories seen only briefly in some ITV regions.
ITV / 1x120m-e 1x90m-e / 1998
Writer: Ted Whitehead / Novel: Thomas Hardy / Producer: Sarah Wilson / Director: Ian Sharp
Period drama serial. Poor 19th Century girl Tess D'Urbeyfield is sent to work on the estate of her wealthy relatives the D'Urbervilles, but when two men, Angel Clare and Alec D'Urberville fall in love with her it is a situation that is to have tragic consequences.
Tess D'Urbeyfield............................... JUSTINE WADDELL
Alec D'Urberville................................. JASON FLEMYNG
Angel Clare....................................... OLIVER MILBURN
Joan Durbeyfield................................ LESLEY DUNLOP
Jack Durbeyfield................................ JOHN McENERY
Crick................................................ ANTHONY O'DONNELL
Kail.................................................. BRYAN PRINGLE
THE TEST
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1961 5 November black and white
Writers: William Bast, Donald Bull / Producer: Alan Bromly
Scifi drama. The stress filled life of a scientist preparing a top secret project.
Dr John Armstrong............................. NICHOLAS SELBY
Mary Armstrong................................. SHEILA BALLANTINE
Ian Campbell..................................... JACK STEWART
Biggs................................................ WILLIAM KENDALL
Wilson.............................................. JACK MAY
Capt Snell......................................... GARY WATSON
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
BBC / 5x50m-e / 1979
Writer: Elaine Morgan / Music: Geoffrey Burgon / Producer: Jonathon Powell / Director: Moira Armstrong
Period drama serial. Idealistic Vera Brittain finds herself caught up in the horrors of the first world war.
With:- CHERYL CAMPBELL as Vera Brittain / PETER WOODWARD as Roland Leighton / JANE WENHAM / EMRYS JAMES / MICHAEL TROUGHTON / RUPERT FRAZER
THANK YOU MR PEPYS
BBC / 1x30m-e / 1938 black and white
Writer: W.P. Liscomb / Producer: George More o'Ferrall
Period drama. A story of the 17th Century.
Pepys................................................. EDMUND GWENN
King Charles II..................................... BARRY K. BARNES
James Duke of York............................. DOUGLAS MATTHEWS
Earl of Shaftsbury................................ HENRY OSCAR
THANK YOU SIR, THANK YOU MADAM
BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1968 31 May - Friday 8.20pm
Writers: George Evans, Derek Collyer / Producer: James Gilbert
Comedy. Busker, Wally, falls out with his fellow group members and sets up a rival band.
Wally................................................... DAVID LODGE
Ralph.................................................. PETER GLAZE
Flipper................................................ GORDON ROLLINGS
Alec................................................... JOHN GRIEVE
Barmaid.............................................. VERONICA CLIFFORD
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