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An indepth guide to pretty much every UK show ever seen on TV, all entries include cast and crew details as well as running times, plot details, when it was on, what it was about and more besides. Simply click on the links below to access the information, UK sitcoms and UK Comedy are treated separately in their own sections. 

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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)

 

TAKE A GIRL LIKE YOU

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

Drama.  Jack and Kay move to a new house and become involved somewhat reluctantly involved in the regular wife-swapping parties that take place amongst their new neighbours.  When a woman is murdered things look bad for Jack.  

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

 

TAKE THE HIGH ROAD

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

 

TALES OF THE CITY

  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

 

TALES OF THE UNEXPECTED

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.

 

 

TALES OF UNEASE

LWT / 6x30m-e / 1970 30 October - 11 December

Producer: Paul Knight 

A short anthology of suspense stories.

 

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 A STRANGER

BBC2 / 4x90m-e / 1966 2 October - 23 October

Writer: John Hopkins / Producer/Director: Christopher Morahan 

Quartet of dramas. One family's grim weekend is looked at, Rashomon style,  from four different angles.

With:- JUDI DENCH / MAURICE DENHAM / MICHAEL BRYANT / MARGERY MASON

 

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 

 

TARGET

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

 

TECX

Central / 13x60m-e / 1990

Executive Producer: Ted Childs / Titles: Plume Partners / Music: Hal Lindes 

Crime drama series. Cases of a group of international detectives who were based in Brussels but roamed all over Europe. Their headquarters was Souverain Associates.

With:- JENNY AGUTTER as Kate Milverton / ROB SPENDLOVE as Chris Tierney / DAVID HOWEY as Colonel Mount / NEIL DUDGEON as Peter Mayert / URBANO BARBERINIas Fabio Cavalcanti / ULRIKE SCHWARZ as Anna Holz

 

TED AND ALICE

BBC1 / 3x60m / started 4 April 2002 / 9:00pm

Writer: Nick Vivian / Director: Steve Bendelack / Producer: Jacinta Peel

Comedy drama serial. Ted is an alien looking for love on earth as HE is considered a freak on his planet for being all-male rather than hermaphrodite. He sees Alice as his ideal woman. 
With: DAWN FRENCH as Alice Putkin / STEPHEN TOMKINSON as Ted / OWEN TEALE as Barry Branch / DAVID TROUGHTON as Stan / DAVID WALLIAMS as Shane / KATY CAVANAGH as Joy

  

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.

 

THE TELEPHONE CALL

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.

 

TENDER IS THE NIGHT

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

TENKO

 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.

 

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES

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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