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Turn of the Screw, The
TOUCH AND GO
BBC2 / 1x95m-e / 1998
Writer: Martin Allen / Producer: Alan Wright / Director: Tim Fywell
Drama. When their marriage hits a distinctly rocky patch, successful professional couple Nick and Alison Wood decide to get involved with a swinging partner swapping scene.
With:- MARTIN CLUNES as Nick Wood / ZARA TURNER as Alison Wood / EWAN STEWART as Rob Aldridge / TERESA BANHAM as Laura Aldridge / IAN McELHINNEY as Clive Bevan / NADIA CAMERON as Pam Bevan / JESSICA WATSON as Molly / GILLIAN PERRY as Zoe
TOUCHING EVIL
Granada/Coastal / 16x60m-e / 1997-99 Three seasons
Creator: Paul Abbott / Producers: Jane Featherstone, Philip Leach
Crime drama series. Detective Inspector Dave Creegan joins a new specialist crack unit specialising in catching serial killers and other highly dangerous criminals. Like so many cops nowadays Creegan had a problematic home life, being separated from his wife.
With:- ROBSON GREEN as Dave Creegan / NICOLA WALKER as Susan Taylor / MICHAEL FEAST as Cmdr Enwright / ADAM KOTZ as Jonathon Kreitman / SHAUN DINGWALL as Mark Rivers
Yorkshire TV/Excelsior / 30x120m-e 4x90m-e / 1992-2004
Creator: R.D. Wingfield / Theme Music: Barbara Thompson, Jan Hiseman / Co-Executive Producer: David Jason / Producer: Don Leaver
Crime drama series. Cases of loner, middle aged Detective Inspector William 'Jack' Frost in the town of Denton. Probably UK TV's most popular detective, Frost had an antagonistic relationship with his superior Superintendent Mullett and strangely Jack was partnered by a different sergeant each show. The series has now settled into a once a year two part special or two hour one off. A new episode was broadcast ITV1 / 1x120m / 22 February 2004. Despite saying after the Feb 04 episode that that was it another episode was made and broadcast 25 September 2005.
With:- DAVID JASON as Detective Inspector Jack Frost / BRUCE ALEXANDER as Superintendent Mullett / NEIL PHILLIPS as Detective Chief Inspector Allen / LINDY WHITEFORD as Shirley Fisher
A TOUCH OF THE JUMBOS
LWT / 1x60m-e / 1970
Writer: Peter Draper
Drama. A tough American tycoon holds a meeting on board a specially chartered 747.
With:- DAVID BARR as Rook
A TOUCH OF VENUS
BBC2 / x20m-e / 1968-69
An anthology series of monologues performed by famous actresses including Rachel Roberts, Moira Lister and Margaret Leighton. Writers included J.B. Priestley, Terence Rattigan and John Mortimer.
ITV Network-Granada / 2x90m-e / 2000 (1-8 October / Sundays 9.00pm)
Writer: Edward Camfor-Dumas / Titles: Huge Design / Costume: Lyn Avery / Music: Alan Parker / Design: Claire Kenny / Camera: Dominic Clemence / Executive Producers: Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis / Producer: Tom Grieves / Director: David Drury
Thriller. High flying Detective Chief Inspector Michael Love (very popular in the north for bringing down the crime figures) finds his career on the line when an inquiry into corruption is started against him. Matters are further heightened because it's his best friend DC Lenny Milton who is investigating. See also the sequel Lenny Blue.
With:- ADRIAN DUNBAR as D.C.I. Michael Love / Ray Winstone as D.C. Lenny Milton / DAVID HAYMAN as Barry Hindes / COLIN TIERNEY as D.S. Connelly / HAZEL ELLERBY as Mags Milton / SALLY DEXTER as Helen Love / ANNABELLE APSION as D.I. Karen Irving / VINCENT FRIELL as D.C. Kevin Hughes / BRUCE BYRON as D.C. Gerry Singleton / GEORGE ANTON as D.I. Donald Parkin / SOPHIE STANTON as D.S. Denise Wright / JAKE WOOD as Pete Ainsworth / AMANDA DREW as D.C. Jilly Barnes / SAM RILEY as James Milton
THE TOWER OF LONDON: The Innocent
BBC1 (Drama Playhouse) / 1x50m-e / 1969 Thursday 31 July / 8.00pm
Writer: Derek Ingrey / Design: Stanley Morris / Producer: Jordan Lawrence / Director: Jonathan Alwyn
Period drama. Just after the end of the war of the Roses the King finds that there is a plot to take the crown away from him and that a prisoner in the Tower may have a rightful claim to Kingship. A pilot from the Drama Playhouse strand for a series that never emerged.
With:- JAMES MAXWELL as Henry VII / BERNARD ARCHARD as Earl of Oxford / PAUL BACON as Count Chamberlain / WOLFE MORRIS as Dr Puebla / SIMON TURNER as Prince Arthur / PETER COPLEY as Archbishop Morton / ROBERT POWELL as Earl of Warwick / PHILIPPA URQUHART as Lady Catherine / CORIN REDGRAVE as Perkin Warbeck / EDWARD KELSEY as Clerk of the Court / PETER WELCH as Robert Cleymound / JOHN ABINERI as Thomas Astwood / ROY PATRICK as Gaoler / LAURENCE JEFFREY as Prince Henry
TRAFALGAR BATTLE SURGEON
C4 / 1x60m / 29 August 2005
Writer: Peter Guiness / Director: Justin Hardy /
Executive Producer: Ben Goold
As Lord Horatio Nelson's flagship, HMS Trafalgar, engages the enemy in the
famous sea battle this drama focuses not on the conflict itself but on the work
below decks of William Beatty the ship's surgeon as he struggles with the
terrible injuries amongst the crew including Nelson himself.
With:- FRANCIS MAGEE as William Beatty / ROGER DALTRY as Loblolly boy / JOHN
CASTLE as Gunner Rivers / JIM DE GROOT as William Westenburg / ROBERT LINGE as
Horatio Nelson.
TRAFFIK
C4/Picture Partnership / 1x120m-e 4x60m-e / 22 June - 17 July
Writer: Simon Moore / Music: Tim Suster / Producer: Brian Eastman / Director: Alistair Reid
Thriller serial. Police attempt to track and catch international heroin traders across Germany, Britain and Pakistan.
With:- BILL PATERSON as Jack / LINDSAY DUNCAN as Helen / JAMAL SHAH as Fazal / TALAL HUSSAIN as Tariq Butt / GEORGE KUKURA as Karl
TRAFFORD TANZI
BBC2 'Scene' / 1x30m-e / 1995
Writer: Claire Luckham / Producer: Cas Lester / Director: Juliet May
Drama. Young lady wrestler Tanzi faces a fight for her title and also faces opposition from her husband.
With:- ANASTASIA MULROONEY as Tanzi / NEIL MORRISSEY as Dean Rebel / MICHAEL MALONEY as Referee / TIM HEALY as Tanzi's Dad / SHARON DUCE as Tanzi's Mum / SOPHIE HEYMAN as Platinum Sue
THE TRAGEDY OF KING RICHARD II
BBC / 1x125m-e / 1971
Writer: William Shakespeare / Director: Tony Robinson
A production by the Prospect Theatre Company looking at the reign of Richard II and the power struggles between England and France. The play opened with the murder of Gloucester at Calais.
With:- IAN McKELLAN / TIMOTHY WEST / PAUL HARDWICKE / ROBERT EDDISON
TRAINER
BBC1 / 20x50m-e / 1991-92
Creator/Producer: Gerard Glaister / Theme Music: Mike Read Sung by Cliff Richard
Drama series. Trainer Mike Hardy is determined to make it to the top in the horse racing business. This was a series that attempted to be the Howard's Way of the horse world.
With:- MARK GREENSTREET as Mike Hardy / NIGEL DAVENPORT as James Brant / DAVID McCALLUM as John Grey / SUSANNAH YORK as Rachel Ware / CLAIRE OBERMAN as Alex Farrell(92) / PATRICK RYECART as Hugo Latimer / DES McALEER as Joe Hogan
TRAITOR
BBC 'Play For Today' / 1x75m-e / 1971
Writer: Dennis Potter / Producer: Graeme McDonald / Director: Alan Bridges
Drama. A secret agent turns traitor.
With:- JOHN LE MESURIER
TRAITORS
BBC / 1x60m-e / 1990
Writer: Jimmy McGovern / Producer: Simon Passmore / Director: Malcolm McKay
Period drama. In 1605 Robert Catesby and a bunch of fellow conspirators (including one Guy Fawkes) plan to blow up the houses of parliament.
With:- ANTON LESSER / GEOFFREY HUTCHINGS / TIM WOODWARD / JONATHON PHILLIPS / CYRIL SHAPS / JOHN SOUTHWORTH
TRAPPED
ITV1 / 3x60m / started 4 September 2004
A themed series of one-off dramas with different writers, directors and casts
all with some variation on the theme of being trapped. See the individual
entries for "Von Trapped", "Beauty" and "King of
Fridges"
TRAPPED: CHEZ MADAME THOMPSON
ITV / 1972 25 November
Writer: Jack Gerson / Producer/Director: Liam Hood
Drama.
With:- BERYL REID as Madame Thompson / LEIGH LAWSON / LAURENCE NAISMITH
TRAVELLING MAN
Granada / 13x60m-e / 1984-85
Creator: Roger Marshall / Music: Duncan Browne / Costume: Janet Johnson / Executive Producer: Richard Everitt / Producer: Brian Armstrong
Crime drama series. Former cop Lomax is released, after two years, from prison, for a crime he didn't commit. He lives on a narrowboat and cruises Britains canals and waterways searching for his missing son and the man who framed him.
With:- LEIGH LAWSON as Lomax / TERRY TAPLIN as Robinson
BBC / 3x50m-e / 1983
Writer: Jack Gerson / Producer: Bob McIntosh
Thriller serial. A sequel to The Assassination Run . Former Intelligence agent Mark Fraser is framed for the murder of a biochemist and has to go on the run and try and prove his innocence, he is hotly pursued by intelligence agents from three different countries who have secrets they will go to any length to keep.
With:- MALCOLM STODDARD as Mark Fraser / MARY TAMM as Jill Fraser
TREASURE ISLAND
BBC / 9x25m-e / 1968
Writer: David Turner / Novel: R.L. Stevenson / Producer: Campbell Logan / Director: Peter Hammond
Period action adventure serial. Young cabin boy Jim Hawkins has adventures after teaming up with the rascally pirate Long John Silver.
With:- PETER VAUGHAN as Long John Silver / MICHAEL NEWPORT as Jim Hawkins
TREASURE ISLAND
Anglia / 6x10m-e / 1972
Writer/Producer: Paul Honeyman / Director: John Salway
A storybook retelling of the story with pictures by John Worsley and narration by Paul Honeyman.
TREASURE ISLAND
BBC1-Universal / 4x50 minute episodes / 1977
Writer: John Lucarotti / Production Unit Manager: George Gallaccio / Fight Arranged by William Hobbs / Hands Fight: Tim Condren / Music: Carl Davis / Costume Design: Rupert Jarvis / Make Up: Magdalen Gaffney / Script Editor: Alistair Bell / Production Design: Graham Oakley / Producer: Barry Letts / Director: Michael E. Briant
Period drama serial. Pretty lavish mounting of Stevenson's Pirate tale with a hugh quality cast.
cast
Alfred Burke as Long John Silver / Talfryn Thomas as Morgan / Patrick Troughton as Israel Hands / David Collings as Blind Pew / Jack Watson as Billy Bones / Anthony Bate as Dr Livesey / Terry Scully as Daniel Hawkins / Jo Kendall as Sarah Hawkins / Ashley Knight as Jim Hawkins / John Baskomb as Mr Blandly / Stephen Greif as Anderson / Roy Boyd as Merry / Christopher Burgess as Black Dog / Linal Haft as Joshua Arrow / William Abney as Captain Doakes / Max Faulkner as Sergeant Dance / Tim Pearce as Bosun / Ena Cabayo as Louisa Silver / Thorley Walters as Squire Trelawney / Richard Beale as Captain Smollett / Tim Condren as O’Brian / Edward Peel as Gray / Brian Croucher as Hunter / Derrick Slater as Tom / Stephen Boswell as Dick / Clive Wood as Dirk / Paul Copley as Ben Gunn / John Dearth as Jeb / Henry Knowles as Bill / Keith Bartlett as John
TREASURE ISLAND
Channel 4-Dreamgtrange / 1x70m-e / 1995
Writer/Director: Ken Russell / Camera: Hong Manley / Design: James Merifield / Costume: Dany Everett / Producer: Maureen Murray
A typically idiosyncratic Ken Russell version with a female lead and musical moments.
With:- HETTY BAYNES as Long Jane Silver / MICHAEL ELPHICK as Billy Bones / GREGORY HALL as Jim Hawkins / GEORGINA HALE as Mum / BOB GOODY as Dr Livesly / CHARLES AUGINS as Blind Pew
TREASURE ON PELICAN
BBC / 1x125m-e / 1951 2 September black and white
Writer: J.B. Priestley / Producer: Harold Clayton
Comedy drama. A group of men embark on a treasure hunt on the Island of Pelican.
With:- CLIVE MORTON / JULIAN MITCHELL / EILEEN BELDON / ROGER SNOWDEN / BASIL SYDNEY / BARBARA COUPER
TREVOR NELSON'S URBAN CHOICE
BBC2 / 12x30 minute episodes / 2000 (First Episode: Friday 3 November at 1.25am)
Producer: Serena Cross
Music. A series showcasing the best in black music, hosted by DJ Trevor Nelson guests included the likes Lyndon David Hall, Damage, Courtney Pine etc.
THE TRIAL
BBC2 / 1x120m-e / 1993
Writer: Harold Pinter / Novel: Franz Kafka / Producer: Louis Marks
Period drama. In Prague earlier this century, Josef K is arrested but doesn't know what for, trying to prove his innocence sees him embroiled in a tangle of corruption and lies.
With:- KYLE MacLACHLAN as Josef K / JULIET STEVENSON as Fraulein Burstner / ANTHONY HOPKINS as Priest / JASON ROBARDS as Dr Huld / POLLY WALKER as Leni / ALFRED MOLINA as Titorelli / MICHAEL KITCHEN as Block / DAVID THEWLISS as Franz / TONY HAYGARTH as Willem
TRIAL AND RETRIBUTION
ITV/La Plante / 14x120m-e 4x90m-e / 1997-2005
Writer/Producer: Lynda La Plante
Crime drama series. Occasional specials in which murder cases are followed from the search for the killer through to the trial and verdict. The shows, in two part stories, made much use of split screen techniques with sometimes as many as four different images on screen at any one time. Story five broadcast in 2002 on 19 and 20 June some two years after the others with another 2 part story following in October 02. Story 7 appeared on 1-2 September 2003 with the title "Suspicion". Story 8 (another 2 parter, this time with 90 minute episodes was broadcast 11-12 October). Story 9 another 2x90 minute story was broadcast 7,8 November 2005.
With:- DAVID HAYMAN as Det Supt Walker / KATE BUFFERY as Det Insp North (stories 1-6) / DORIAN LOUGH as Det Sgt Satchell / GEORGE ROSS as Det Sgt Donaldson / VICTORIA SMURFITT as DCI Roisin Conner (from story 7)/ BEN CROSS as DS Taylor Matthews (from story 7)
ITV-Arrowhead-Matrix Film & TV-East Wind Films / 1x120m-e / 1999 15 December - Wednesday 9.00pm
Writer: T.R. Bowen / Novel: Frances Fyfield / Music: Richard G. Mitchell / Costume: Howard Burden / Producer: Alan Wright / Director: Patrick Lau / Creator: John Davies / Design: Tim Hutchinson / Executive Producers: Peter Fudakowski, Patrick MacGwire
Crime drama. Crown prosecutor Helen west and her partner Superintendant Geoffrey Bailey look into the murder of the wife of a property developer. A series featuring the same character began in 2002, called Helen West it starred Amanda Burton in the lead role.
With:- JULIET STEVENSON as Helen West / JIM CARTER as Geoffrey Bailey / JAMES LAURENSON as John Blundell / ANTON LESSER as Brian Redwood / DOMINIC MAFHAM as Anthony Sumner / POLLY FINDLEY as Evie Manning / KEVIN KNAPMAN as William Featherstone / JANE GURNETT as Christine Manning / JONATHAN COY as George Harmoner / EMILY JOYCE as WDC Scott / PAUL BROUGHTON as Harold Featherstone / KATE FITZGERALD as Bernadette Featherstone / STUART McQUARRIE as Ian Whatmough / LYNN FARLEIGH as Jane Metcalfe
THE TRIAL OF LORD LUCAN
ITV / 1x90m-e / 1996
Writer: Peter Whelan / Producer: Bill Jones / Director: Richard Signy
Drama. A fictionalised account that saw wanted murderer Lord Lucan arrested and brought to trial.
Lord Lucan......................................... JULIAN WADHAM
Lady Lucan........................................ LYNSEY BAXTER
Dominic Elwes................................... ANTHONY HEAD
Sir James Hallows QC....................... JAMES FAULKNER
Det Ch Supt Roy Ranson................... PAUL JESSON
THE TRIAL OF MARY LEFARGE
BBC 'Sunday Night Theatre' / 1x90m-e / 1957 15 December black and white
Writer: Judith Kerr / Play: Marcelle Maurette / Producer: Stuart Burge
Period drama. In 1840's Paris young widow Mary La Farge finds herself accused of murdering her husband.
Mary La Farge................................. YVONNE MITCHELL
La Farge......................................... GEORGE MURCELL
Clementine ..................................... ANNABELLE LEE
TRIANGLE
Granada / 6x60m-e / 1964 black and white
Producer: Philip Mackie
Anthology series of dramas in which each drama was made up of three parts written by different writers.
TRIANGLE
BBC1 / 79x25m-e / 1981-83
Creator/Producer: Bill Sellars / Music: Johnny Pearson
Twice weekly drama series. Stories of the staff and passengers of a ferry, plying its trade via Felixstowe, Rotterdam and Gothenberg. The series gained a certain amount of notoriety for it's cheapness, bad lighting and pretending the weather was fine (Kate O'Mara sunbathing topless in the winter for example) when it obviously wasn't.
Katherine Laker(81-82)........................ KATE O'MARA
Matt Taylor........................................ LARRY LAMB
John Anderson.................................. MICHAEL CRAIG
Marion Terson................................... DIANA COUPLAND
Nick Stevens.................................... TONY ANHOLT
Wally James.................................... NIGEL STOCK
Tom Kelly........................................ SCOTT FREDERICKS
THE TRIBE
BBC2 / 1x105m-e / 1998
Writer/Director: Stephen Poliakoff / Producer: Anita Overland
Drama. A property developer is drawn into the mystical lifestyle of a new agish free loving group who have taken over a house his company is interested in. Initially made for the screen this was eventually given a TV premiere.
Lizzie.................................................. ANNA FRIEL
Emily.................................................. JOELY RICHARDSON
Jamie.................................................. JEREMY NORTHAM
Kanahan............................................. TREVOR EVE
Diana.................................................. EMMA AMOS
Caroline.............................................. KATE ISIT
Forester.............................................. JULIAN RHIND-TUTT
Megan................................................ LAURA FRASER
TRINITY TALES
BBC2 / 6x60m-e / 1975 21 November - 26 December
Writer: Alan Plater / Producer: David Rose
Comedy drama series. An updating of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. On a minibus travelling to Wembley for a Rugby League Challenge Cup Final, six fans pass the time by telling each other tall stories.
Eric the Prologue............................... FRANCIS MATTHEWS
Stan the Fryer................................... BILL MAYNARD
Dave the Joiner................................. PAUL COPLEY
Nick the Driver.................................. COLIN FARRELL
Judy the Judy................................... SUSAN LITTLER
Alice the wife of Batley..................... GAYE BROWN
Smith the man of law....................... JOHN STRATTON
THE TRIPODS
BBC1 / 25x30m-e / 1984-85
Writers: Alick Rowe,Christopher Penfold / Trilogy of Novels: John Christopher (The three books are The White Mountains, The City of Gold and Lead and The Pool of Fire). / Theme Music: Ken Freeman / Producer: Richard Bates
Scifi drama series. Sometime in the future the world has been overtaken by alien beings and their huge machines - The Tripods - the human race has been subjugated (by means of a cap fitted into the skull and controlled by the aliens). Three young teenagers join a resistance movement that plans to free the world and get rid of the Tripods. This is a series with a troubled history, the show was cancelled two thirds of the way through its three season run, leaving the aliens still in control. The only recourse for viewers to find out how the story ends is to read the source material - the third novel in the sequence The Pool of Fire).
With:- JOHN SHACKLEY as Will Parker / CERI SEEL as Beanpole / JIM BAKER as Henry Parker / PAMELA SALEM as Countess / RODERICK HORN as Ozymandias / JOHN WOODVINE as Master 468 / EDWARD HIGHMORE as Boll / ROBIN HAYTER as Fritz
TRIP TRAP
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1996
Writer: Lucy Gannon / Producers: Ruth Caleb, Lucy Gannon / Director: Danny Hiller
Drama. Apparently happily married couple the Armstrongs hide the fact that Ian resorts to using his fists on his wife whenever things arn't going his way.
Ian Armstrong................................... KEVIN WHATELY
Kate Armstrong................................ STELLA GONET
Maggie............................................ SUE RODERICK
Simon Armstrong............................. FRANK WINDSOR
Penny Armstrong............................. JEAN HEYWOOD
Tom Armstrong................................ DARREN PLEWS
Molly Armstrong............................... SOPHIE GRIFFITHS
WPC Ryan...................................... HELEN GRIFFIN
TRITON
BBC / 1961 black and white
Period drama. In the 19th century with Napoleon preparing to invade, a pair of dashing English officers go undercover in France in search of a secret weapon.
TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
BBC (The BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x181m-e / 1981
Writer: William Shakespeare / Director: Jonathan Miller
Shakespeare's drama, part of the BBC's attempt to perform all of Shakespeare's plays.
With:- ANTON LESSER as Troilus / SUZANNE BURDEN as Cressida / CHARLES GRAY as Pandarus / MAX HARVEY as Alexander / VERNON DOBTCHEFF as Agamennon / KENNETH HAIGH as Achilles / GEOFFREY CHATER as Nestor / BENJAMIN WHITROW as Ullysses / DAVID FIRTH as Paris
THE TROLLENBERG TERROR
ITV / 6x30m-e / 1956-57 15 December 56 - 19 January 57 black and white
Writer: Peter Kay / Design: Tom Lingwood / Producer/Director: Quentin Lawrence bw
Scifi drama serial. Alien creatures invade and bring terror to a small Alpine village.
Sarah Pilgrim....................................... SARAH LAWSON
An Pilgrim........................................... ROSEMARY MILLER
Petit Jean........................................... MICHAEL ANTHONY
Philip Truscott..................................... LAURENCE PAYNE
Albert................................................. ROLAND O'CASEY
TROPIC
ATV / 6x30m-e / 1979 29 July - 5 August and then 24 November - 15 December
Writer: Leslie Thomas / Executive Producer: Greg Smith / Producer/Director: Matthew Robinson
Comedy drama serial. Comings and goings of a mainly sexual kind on an executive housing estate. The programme was severely interrupted by strike action with many viewers then not bothering to stick with the story when it was reshown.
Andrew Maiby................................. RONALD PICKUP
Audrey Maiby.................................. HILARY TINDALL
Rev Ivor Boon.................................. JOHN CLIVE
Geoffrey Turvey............................... RONALD LACEY
Hercules........................................ GEORGE MALPAS
Polly Blossom-Smith...................... HILARY PRITCHARD
Lizzie Maiby.................................. KATE DORNING
Primrose....................................... NICHOLA McAULIFFE
Bert White.................................... JOHN ALDERSON
Bessie White................................ LYNNE MORGAN
BBC1 / 136x50m-e / 1965-72
Creator: John Elliot / Producers: Peter Graham Scott, Anthony Read
Drama series. Stories of a group of oil company executives and their 'troubleshooters' who travelled the world sorting out problems on various oil rigs. Season one and the first 13 episodes of this show are known as Mogul.
Brian Stead....................................... GEOFFREY KEEN
Willy Izzard....................................... PHILIP LATHAM
Alec Stewart..................................... ROBERT HARDY
Peter Thornton.................................. RAY BARRETT
Steve Thornton................................. JUSTINE LORD
Derek Prentice................................. RONALD HINES
Jane Webb...................................... PHILLIPPA GAIL
THE TRUE ADVENTURES OF CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS
BBC2 / 1x30m-e 1x25m-e 2x20m-e / 1992 28 - 31 July Tuesday-Friday 8.00pm
Writer: Patrick Barlow / Producer: George Faber / Directors: Patrick Barlow, Philip Bonham-Carter
Period comedy series. A somewhat dubious account of Columbus's discovery of America, made to mark the 500th anniversary of the discovery.
Christopher Columbus...................... PATRICK BARLOW
King Ferdinand................................ TIM PIGGOTT-SMITH
Queen Isabella................................ MIRANDA RICHARDSON
Guananagari.................................... VICTOR BANNERJEE
Herald............................................. FREDDIE JONES
Old Sea Dog.................................... GRAHAM STARK
ITV / 1x60m-e / 1996
Writer: Simon Nye / Producer: Brian Park / Director: Simon Massey
Comedy drama. Young single mum and nurse Donna unexpectedly finds romance. This one off led to the series My Wonderful Life.
Donna................................................. EMMA WRAY
James................................................ DOUGLAS HODGE
Phil.................................................... PHILIP GLENISTER
Christopher......................................... SCOTT HANDY
Olive.................................................. NISHA K. NAYAR
TRULY MADLY DEEPLY
BBC2 / 1x90m-e / 1990
Writer/Director: Anthony Minghella
Fantasy drama. Nina, living in a terrible dingy flat in London, is unable to cope with the death of her lover. To help her he comes back as a ghost.
Nina.................................................... JULIET STEVENSON
Jamie.................................................. ALAN RICKMAN
Mark................................................... MICHAEL MALONEY
Sandy................................................. BILL PATERSON
Claire.................................................. DEBORAH FINDLAY
George................................................ DAVID RYALL
Titus................................................... CHRISTOPHER ROZYCKI
TRUST
ITV-Red Rooster- Greenlit / 2x90m-e / 1999 4 - 5 May/Tuesday-Wednesday 9.00pm
Writer: Richard McBrien / Music: Robert Lockhart / Design: Roger Murray Leach / Costume: Phoebe De Gaye / Producer: Jill Green / Director: David Drury
Thriller. A high powered lawyer has to defend her husband when he is accused of a brutal murder. She is convinced of his innocence but is there more to his story than there seems.
Anne Travers................................... CAROLINE GOODALL
Michael Mitcham............................. MARK STRONG
Andrew Pearce................................ NATHANIEL PARKER
D.I. Jim Hinton................................ JOHN McGLYNN
D.S. Sarah Miller............................ CAROLINE STRONG
Joshua Macer................................ JOSEPH KPOBIE
Trevor Macer.................................. ROGER GRIFFITHS
Caroline........................................ ABIGAIL THAW
Dr Ian Matthews............................ JOHN GRILLO
Tara Reeves................................. GEORGIA MACKENZIE
Beth Simpson............................... FELICITY MONTAGU
Geoff Keens................................. HUGH SIMONS
TRUST
BBC1 / 6x60m / started 9 January 2003 / 9:00pm
Writer: Simon Block / Director: John Strickland /
Producer: Jake Lushington
Drama about the high flying city lawyers at a busy corporate law office.
With:- ROBSON GREEN as Stephen Bradley / SARAH PARISH as Annie Naylor /.NEIL
STUKE as Martin Grieg / CHIWETEL EJIOFOR as Ashley Carter
/ EVA BIRTWISTLE as Maria Acklam / IAN McSHANE as Alan Cooper-Fozard / JULIE
SAUNDERS as Serene Green
THE TRUTH ABOUT VERITY
ATV 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1975 28 August - Thursday 7.00pm
Writer: Jon Watkins / Producer/Director: John Scholz-Conway
Comedy.
Verity Martin..................................... SYLVIA SYMS
Mr Frisby......................................... JOHN SAVIDENT
Alison Bentley.................................. JENNY HANLEY
Hugh............................................... JOHN C ARLIN
Roger.............................................. ED DEVEREAUX
TRUTH OR DARE
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1996
Producer: Gareth Neame / Director: John Madden
Thriller. Lorna Johnson, a young lawyer, finds herself drawn into a murderous game when three of her old university friends re-enter her life.
Lorna Johnson................................. HELEN BAXENDALE
Nick............................................... JOHN HANNAH
Mel................................................ SUSAN LYNCH
Ben................................................ BEN DANIELS
Derek McKendrick.......................... OLIVER FORD DAVIES
David Baird.................................... JOHN MICHIE
Maggie.......................................... FIONA BELL
Mrs Hugill..................................... ANNE KRISTEN
TULLY
Thames-Euston-ABC-Insignia / 1x75m-e / 1974
Writers: Ian Stuart Black, John Cameron / Producer/Director: James Gatward
Thriller. A tough insurance investigator tackles a gang of crooks determined to retrieve a cache of stolen art gems. A UK-Australia co-production.
With:- ANTHONY VALENTINE / BARBARA NEILSEN / KEVIN MILES / HENRI SZEPS / JOHN STANTON / JACK THOMPSON / NOELINE BROWN / TONY BARRY / BRUNO LAWRENCE
TUMBLEDOWN
BBC1 / 1x115m-e / 1988
Writer: Charles Wood / Design: Geoff Powell / Producer: Richard Broke / Director: Richard Eyre
Drama. The true story of Robert Lawrence, a 22 year old officer, who was wounded during the Falklands War and has a terrible time facing upto things on his return home.
With:- COLIN FIRTH as Robert Lawrence / DAVID CALDER / BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT / PAUL RHYS
TUNNEL OF LOVE
ITV1 Network - Talkback Thames / 1x90 minute episode / Broadcast 18 October 2004
Writer: Simon Nye / Director: John Henderson /
Producer: Margot Gavan Duffy
Comedy drama. Roy Phelps runs a funfair and when two patrons have accidents and
threaten to sue he faces financial ruin. He hopes to prove that the claims are
spurious and is aided by eager but simple funfair worker Sean.
cast
JACK DEE as Roy Phelps / CRISTIAN SOLIMENO as Sean / JOSEPHINE BUTLER as
Carol / NIGEL LINDSAY as Geoff / SANDRA BEE as Wendy / ANN MITCHELL as Rita
ALBIE WOODINGTON as Len / MARK HEAP as Gibson
ITV / 1x90m-e / 1995
Writer: Tony Hoare / Producer: Bill Shapter / Director: Suri Krishnamma
Crime drama. Private Detective Nick Sharman tries to discover who carried out a contract killing on a wealthy family.This pilot served as the basis for the series Sharman.
Nick Sharman.................................. CLIVE OWEN
James Webb.................................... BILL PATERSON
Fiona............................................... ROWENA KING
D.I. Jack Robber............................... JOHN SALTHOUSE
Tony Hogan...................................... MATTHEW MARSH
Laura............................................... MIRANDA FOSTER
TURNING WORLD
C4 / 3x60m-e / 1997
Writer: Mahmood Jamal / Producers: Mahmood Jamal, David Shanks / Director: David Blair
Drama serial. The head of a decaying Victorian asylum faces all manner of problems when the authorities want to close the place down.
Dr Khan............................................... ROSHAN SETH
Shamus.............................................. ART MALIK
Dr Sen................................................ PAUL BHATTACHARJEE
Mr Roberts.......................................... LOUIS MAHONEY
Colonel Andrews.................................. RONALD HINES
Evelyn Sharples.................................. AMANDA ROOT
BBC (Bristol) / 7x30m-e / 1979 (24 June - 5 August)
Music: Dave Greenslade / Design: William Noble / Costume Design: Joan Wakefield / Make-up: Daphne Barker / Producer: Alastair Read
An anthology series of seven comedy drama plays
of all kinds. The seven productions were:- 1: Big Jim and the Figaro Club (24
June 1979) This play was turned into a series
of the same name. /
2: Follow the River (1 July 1979 ) / 3: Dear Harriet (8 July 1979) / 4: Clubs
(15 July 1979) / 5: The Essay (22 July 1979) / 6: May Blossoms (29 July 1979) /
7: Jack Fletcher (5 August 1979)
TURN OF THE SCREW
Meridian-WGBH Boston- Martin Pope Prod. / 1x120m-e / 1999 26 December - Sunday 9.00pm
Writer: Nick Dear / Story: Henry James / Costume: Sheena Napier / Music: Adrian Johnston / Design: Pat Campbell / Camera: David Odd / Executive Producer: Rebecca Eaton, Michele Buck, Tim Vaughan / Producer: Martin Pope / Director: Ben Bolt
Period spooky drama. In Victorian times Young Miss becomes governess to two quiet children in a large country house; Soon strange things begin to happen and Miss is convinced she is seeing the ghosts of two former employees and that they are after the children.
Miss.................................................... JODHI MAY
Mrs Grose............................................ PAM FERRIS
Master................................................. COLIN FIRTH
Miles................................................... JOE SOWERBUTTS
Flora................................................... GRACE ROBINSON
Peter Quint......................................... JASON SALKEY
Miss Jessel........................................ CAROLINE PEGG
Cook.................................................. JENNY HOWE
Granada / 6x45m-e / 1967 black and white
Producer: Derek Granger
Comedy drama series. Spin off from Pardon the Expression. After getting the sack from Dobson and Hawks department store, Leonard Swindley and Walter Hunt decide to start up their own ghost hunting business.
Leonard Swindley................................ ARTHUR LOWE
Walter Hunt........................................ ROBERT DORNING
TURTLE'S PROGRESS
ATV / 6x60m-e / 1979
Writer: Edmund Ward
Crime drama series. A pair of crooks steal a load of safe deposit boxes they use the contents of the boxes to blackmail various of the owners.
With:- MICHAEL ATTWELL
TUTTI FRUTTI
BBC1 / 6x50m-e / 1987 3 March - 7 April Tuesdays 9.30pm
Writer: John Byrne / Music: The Majestics, Zoot Money / Producer: Andy Park / Director: Tony Smith
Comedy drama series. After the death of his brother, former musician Danny McGlone is drafted into his brothers rock 'n' roll band The Majestics who have a dodgy tour to complete. Coltrane as Danny McGlone made a great front man of the band belting out all the old rock n roll classics.
Danny McGlone................................. ROBBIE COLTRANE
Suzie Kettles..................................... EMMA THOMPSON
Vincent Driver.................................... MAURICE ROEVES
Eddie Clockerly................................. RICHARD WILSON
Miss Toner....................................... KATY MURPHY
Bomba MacAteer............................. STUART McGUGAN
Fud O'Donnell.................................. JAKE D'ARCY
Dennis Sproull................................. RON DONACHIE
A TV DANTE:The Inferno Cantos I-VIII
Channel Four / 1x90m-e / 1989
Writer: Tom Phillips / Poem: La Divina Comedia by Dante Alighieri / Producers: Sophie Balhetchet, Kees Kasander, Dennis Wigman / Directors: Peter Greenaway, Tom Phillips
Fantasy. A typically strange Greenaway production bringing to life Dante's vision of hell and relying heavily on computer generated images.
With:- JOHN GIELGUD as Virgil / BOB PECK as Dante / JOANNE WHALLEY-KILMER as Beatrice
TV'S NAUGHTIEST BLUNDERS
ITV1 (Carlton) / 6x60m-e / 2000-continuing
Producer: Sean Kneale / Executive Producer: Mark Wells
Comedy clip show hosted by Steve Penk, shown late night it featured some of the more adult foul ups and bloopers from various TV shows that couldn't be seen on It'll Be Alright on the Night. Celebrity guests (the likes of Amanda Holden etc) also appeared to talk about their boo boos.
TWELFTH NIGHT
BBC 'Play Parade' / 1x30m-e / 1937 black and white
Writer: William Shakespere / Producer: George More O'Ferrall
Various scenes from Shakesperes play.
With:- GREER GARSON / HENRY OSCAR / DOROTHY BLACK
TWELFTH NIGHT
BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x128m-e / 1980
Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Joseph Horowitz, William Walton / Producer: Cedric Messina / Director: Alan Shallcross
Romantic comedy drama, part of the BBC's attempt to film all of Shakespeare's plays.
With:- FELICITY KENDAL as Viola / ALEC McCOWEN as Malvolio / ANNETTE CROSBIE as Maria / SINEAD CUSACK as Olivia / TREVOR PEACOCK as Feste / ROBERT LINDSAY as Fabian / MAURICE ROEVES as Antonio / RONNIE STEVENS as Sir Andrew Aguecheek
TWELFTH NIGHT
C4 / 1x120m / 5 May 2003 / 6:55pm
Play: William Shakespeare / Adaption: Andrew
Bannerman, Tim Supple / Director: Tim Supple / Producer: Rachel Gesua
A modern-day and multicultural adaptation of the Shakespeare comedy play
portraying the twins Viola and Sebastian as asylum seekers.
With:- PARMINDER NAGRA as Viola / CHIWETEL EJIOFOR as Orsino / CLAIRE PRICE as
Olivia / DAVID TROUGHTON as Sir Toby Belch / RICHARD BREMMER as Sir Andrew
Aguecheek / MICHAEL MALONEY as Malvolio / RONNY JHUTTI as Sebastian
20th CENTURY ROADSHOW
BBC1 / 10x60m / started 14 April 2005
Series Producer: John Miller
A variation on the Antiques Roadshow in which members of the public bring modern
collectibles to be assessed by experts. Presented by Alan Titchmarsh.
ATV / x30m-e / 1963 black and white
Producer: Philip Dale
Medical drama series. Spin Off from Call Oxbridge 2000. A group of doctors set up in practice.
With:- GODFREY QUIGLEY / GEOFFREY FREDERICK / SCOTT FORBES / ANDREW DOWNIE
TWENTY THOUSAND STREETS UNDER THE SKY
BBC2 / 3x50m / started 9 September 2005 (previously shown on BBC4 19-21 April 2005)
Book: Patrick Hamilton: Adaptation: Kevin Elyot /
Director: Simon Curtis / Producer: Kate Harwood
Set in 1930s London and centred around the Midnight Bell pub. Barman Bob falls
in love with a young prostitute called Jenny who seems to agrees to anything he
wants with regard their future but always lets him down, bleeding his bank
balance dry in the process; and less-attractive Ella who also works at the pub
and has a secret longing for Bob. The story is told from the perspectives of
these three main characters in turn in the three episodes.
With:- BRYAN DICK as Bob / SALLY HAWKINS as Ella / ZOE TAPPER as Jenny / TONY
HAYGARTH as Governor / JACQUELINE TONG as Governor's Wife / KELLIE SHIRLEY as
Violet / PHIL DAVIS as Ernest Eccles / ANTHONY O'DONNELL as Mr Sounder
20 THINGS TO DO BEFORE YOU'RE 30
C4 / 8x30m / started 6 February 2003 / 10:35pm
Writers: Charlie Martin, Jack Lothian, Stephen
Leslie / Director: Otto Bathurst / Producer: Sue Howells / Executive Producer:
Jane Fallon
Comedy Drama. Four friends working at the same office as they approach 30 try
and decide what they want to achieve before they reach their next decade.
With:- AMANDA ABBINGTON as Shona / MATTHEW HORNE as Conrad / GERGIA MACKENZIE as
Zoe / CHRIS POLICK as Dominic / JAMES MURRAY as Glen / STEPHANIE STREET as Nadia
/ SAMANTHA WHITTAKER as Celia
2020
Granada / 1x120m-e / 1997
Writer: Paul Abbot
Scifi crime drama. Life for the police in the year 2020 when Britain is on the verge of collapse.
With:- LIAM CUNNINGHAM / KEITH BARRON / RACHEL DAVIES
TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA
BBC (The BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x133m-e / 1984
Writer: William Shakespeare / Producer: Shaun Sutton / Director: Don Taylor
Comedy. Part of the BBC's attempt to perform all of Shakespeare's plays.
With:- FRANK BARRIE as Sir Eglamor / TESSA PEAKE-JONES as Julia / TONY HAYGARTH as Launce / HETTA CHARNLEY as Lucetta / JOHN HUDSON as Valentine / TYLER BUTTERWORTH as Proteus / MICHAEL BYRNE as Antonio / JOHN WOODNUTT as Pantino / JOANNE PEARCE as Silvia / PAUL DANEMAN as Duke of Milan / DAVID COLLINGS as Thurio
TWO GOLDEN BALLS
BBC1 / 1x80m-e / 1994
Writer: Maureen Chadwick / Director: Anya Camilleri
Drama. A naive anti-porn campaigner teams up with a pair of sex film actresses and has her eyes opened to a whole new world.
With:- CLAIRE SKINNER / KIM CATTRALL
THE TWO MRS CARROLLS
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1947 6 February black and white
Writer: Martin Vale / Design: James Bould / Producer: Ian Atkins
Thriller. Sally Carroll begins to think her husband may be trying to kill her.
Geoffrey Carroll................................ WILLIAM FOX
Sally Carroll..................................... TATIANA GLEVAN
BBC2 'Stages' / 1x50m-e / 1994
Writer: Harwant Bains / Producer: Martin Pope / Director: Lindsay Posner
Drama. A brother and a sister make a journey to India to attend the funeral of their estranged father.
Davinder.............................................. PAUL BHATTACHARJEE
Father................................................. SAEED JAFFREY
Surinder.............................................. NICOLE ARUMUGAM
Uncle.................................................. MARC ZUBER
Mohanial............................................. BADI UZZAMAN
Suresh................................................ ASSAD RAJA
TWO PEOPLE
LWT / x30m-e / 1979
Writer: Alick Rowe, Julian Bond
Drama serial. A pair of teenagers fall in love.
TWO STARS FOR COMFORT
ATV / 1x60m-e / 1977
Writer: John Mortimer / Producer: David Reid
Period comedy drama. In 1953 an hotel owner decides to pep up his love life whilst his wife is away.
With:- KENNETH MORE / JUDY PARFITT / SHERIDAN FITZGERALD
2000 MINUS 60
Granada / 1x70m-e / 1958 4 April black and white
Writer: James Workman / Director: Peter Graham-Scott
Scifi drama. A runaway rocket is on a direct collision course for London.
With:- ERIC LANDER as Devlin / JUNE THORNBURN as Lucy / CAMPBELL SINGER as Sinclair / CHARLES LLOYD PACK as Professor James / JOHN ROBINSON as General Trent
2000 ACRES OF SKY
BBC1 (Scotland)-Zenith / 6x50m-e 16x60m-e / 2001-2003 (First Episode: Monday 1 January 2001 8.30pm)
Music: John Lunn / Costume: Just Pepperdine / Design: Chris Robilliard / Producer: Tony Redston / Executive Producers: Adrian Bate, Barbara McKissack
Drama series. On the small Scottish island of Ronansay, the islanders are shocked to learn that if they dont get two more kids for their school on the island then it will have to close, they hit on the idea of advertising for a family to run the B&B on the island, London based single mum Abby gets the job but only by pretending to be married to her best friend Kenny. Season three began on 3 Jan 2003 and in the sixth episode of that season Kenny (PAUL KAYE) died in a boating accident.
With:- MICHELLE COLLINS as Abby Wallace / PAUL KAYE as Kenny Marsh / MICHAEL CARTER as Douglas Raeburn / MONICA GIBB as Mary Fraser / SEAN SCANLAN as Gordon / JOHN STRAITON as Alistair MacLeod / TOM WATSON as Murdo Campbell / GEORGE ANTON as Malcolm Campbell / JOANNA ROTH as Helen Kennedy / ANDY GRAY as Big Jerry Kennedy / KAREN WESTWOOD as Carolyn Fraser / JENNY FOULDS as Heather McGowan (2002)
TYCOON
BBC / x50m-e / 1978
Creator: John Sichel
Drama series. Widow Diana Clark decides to carry on her late husband's business empire.
With:- DIANE CILENTO as Diana Clark / NORMAN RODWAY / JEAN KENT / CHRISTOPHER GABLE
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