Memorable TV

UK TV T4 - TOUCH AND GO to TYCOON

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

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

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

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.

TOUGH LOVE

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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 

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 

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

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

TURNING YEAR TALES

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)

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

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

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 

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

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

TWO ORANGES AND A MANGO

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

LWT / x30m-e / 1979

Writer: Alick Rowe, Julian Bond 

Drama serial. A pair of teenagers fall in love.

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

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)

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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