THE VACILLATIONS OF POPPY CAREW

ITV / 1x120m-e / 1995

Writer: William Humble / Novel: Mary Wesley / Producer: Brian True-May / Director: James Cellan Jones

Drama. Young independent Poppy Carew embarks on a quest for true love.

With:- TARA FITZGERALD as Poppy / JOSEPH FIENNES as Willy / OWEN TEALE as Edmund / EDWARD ATTERTON as Fergus / SAMUEL WEST as Victor / CHARLOTTE COLMAN as Mary / SIAN PHILLIPS as  Calypso / DANIEL MASSEY as Dad

VACUUMING COMPLETELY NUDE IN PARADISE

BBC2  1x?? / 30 September 2001

Drama. BBC2 film (probably 75-90 mins).

With:- TIMOTHY SPALL / MICHAEL BEGLEY / DAVID CRELIN / KATY CAVANAGH

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1969 21 April - Monday 7.30pm 

Writer: John Lloyd / Producer: James Gilbert 

Comedy. A pair of bored hacks working on a Welsh newspaper decide to invent stories and sell them on to Fleet Street.

With:- DAVID BAXTER as Stan / RICHARD DAVIES as Rag / NERYS HUGHES as Jenny / JESSIE EVANS as Pet-Shop Owner / GRAEME GARDEN as TV Director 

VAMPIRES

BBC (Play For Today) / 1x90m-e / 9th January 1979 

Writer: Dixie Williams / Director: John Goldschmidt 

Thriller. A young Liverpool boy obsessed with vampires (after seeing a late night horror film) thinks he has seen one whilst walking through a cemetery on his way to school. The show had a nice twist ending with the boy saying goodnight to his mum who smiles to reveal a large pair of incisors. 

With:- Peter Moran / Paul Moran / Tommy White / Linda Beckett / Jimmy Coleman / Bert Edgar / John G Heller 

Thames/Euston / 25x60m-e 4x120m-e / 1972-73/77/91-92

Creator: Nicholas Freeling / Theme Music: Eye Level by Jack Tromberg (reached No1 in the UK Charts). 

Crime drama series. Cases of Amsterdam based Dutch detective Piet Van Der Valk. The series has been twice revived in 1977 and again for a series of feature length episodes in 1991-92.

With:- BARRY FOSTER as Van Der Valk / SUSAN TRAVERS as Arlette Van Der Valk(72-73) / JOANNA DUNHAM as  Arlette(77) / MEG DAVIES as Arlette(91-92) / MICHAEL LATIMER as Kroon

Meridian / 6x60m-e 1x120m-e / 1997-98

Writer: Anthony Horowitz / Special Effects: Tony Harding / Producer: Linda Agran / Director: Maurice Phillips 

Scifi comedy drama series. Convict Nick Cameron volunteers for a top secret project into (unknown to him) invisibility when the experiment works Nick is forced to flee in danger for his life. Later he semi-works for the government. The 120 minute episode was a pilot broadcast in 1997.

With:- NEIL MORRISSEY as Nick Cameron / BARBARA FLYNN as Mrs Jeffries / LUCY AKHURST as Alice Grant / MARK WOMACK as Joe Cameron / DAVID HEMMINGS as Edward Lawrence / DOMINIC JEPHCOTT as Dr Chivers / NADIA SAWALHA  as Catherine / JAMES LAURENSON as Moreau

ITV / 3x60m-e / 1996

Writer: Julian Bond / Novel: Ruth Rendell / Producer: Neil Zeiger 

Thriller serial. After Alice Whittaker announces she is wed a strange disappearance occurs.

With:- ELEANOR DAVID as Alice Whittaker / MARK FRANKEL as Andrew Fielding / PETER EGAN as Dr Harry Blunden / JANE GURNETT as Nesta Drage / LESLIE PHILLIPS as Justin Whittaker / JOANNA KANSKA as Pernille Madson / REBECCA LACEY as Daphne Feast / MELANIE KILBURN as Jackie Whittaker

BBC2 / 5x45m-e / 1967

Writer: Rex Tucker / Novel: W.M. Thackery / Producer: David Conroy / Director: David Giles

Period drama serial. During the Napoleonic Wars ambitious Becky Sharp is determined to make her way in society. The first BBC TV Drama serial to be made in colour. There was a previous BBC version in 1957 whose cast included Petra Davies(as Ameilia) and Derek Blomfield(as Captain Dobbin).

With:- SUSAN HAMPSHIRE as Becky Sharpe / ROY MARSDEN as George / BARBARA COWPER as Miss Crawley / ROBERT FLEMYNG as Lord Steyne / MARILYN TAYLERSON as Amelia /  A J BROWN as Reverend Bute Crawley / DEDDIE DAVIES as Lady Crawley / JOHN WELSH as Sir Pitt Crawley / DYSON LOVELL as Rawdon Crawley

BBC1 / 6x50m-e / 1998 November - December

Writer: Andrew Davies / Producer: Gillian McNeill / Director: Marc Munden 

Period drama serial. Becky Sharp makes her ambitious way in society during the Napoleonic Wars.

Becky Sharp................................... NATASHA LITTLE

Amelia Sedley................................. FRANCES GRAY

Miss Pinkerton................................ PAT KEEN

Jemima Pinkerton............................ CHARLOTTE WEST-ORAM

Mrs Sedley..................................... MICHELE DOTRICE

Mr Sedley....................................... DAVID ROSS

Jos Sedley..................................... JEREMY SWIFT

Rawdon Crawley............................. NATHANIAL PARKER

Miss Crawley.................................. MIRIAM MARGOYLES

Sir Pitt Crawley............................... DAVID BRADLEY

William Dobbin................................ PHILIP GLENISTER

George Osborne.............................. TOM WARD

Yorkshire TV 'Galton & Simpson Comedy' / 1x30m-e / 1977 17 March - Thursday 9.00pm

Writers: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson / Executive Producer: Duncan Wood / Producer/Director: Ronnie Baxter 

Comedy. 

With:- JOHN BIRD / FRANCES DE LA TOUR / NORMAN CHAPPELL

BBC / 36x50m-e / 1966-68 black and white

Creators: Brian Degas,Tudor Gates / Producers: Anthony Coburn, William Slater 

Crime drama series. A pair of international agents travel the world tracking down members of the Mafia.

With:- STELIO CANDELLI as Danny Scipio / NEIL McCALLUM as Angelo James / KIERON MOORE as Mike Hammond

THE VENTURERS

BBC1 / 10x50m-e / 1975 (7 January to 11 March)            

Creator: Donald Bull / Producer: Anthony Coburn 

Drama series. Stories of a group of venture capitalists. This series grew out of a Drama Playhouse entry for Wednesday 30 August 1972 shown at 8.10pm with the series itself emerging some three later. Confirmation is needed on the series cast.

The pilot's cast included:- SEBASTIAN BREAKS as Tom Prince / BRIAN BLESSED as Harry Shannon / JOY HARRISON as Deborah / KENNETH BENDA as Grimbold / MARY HIGNETT as Beyrl

Granada / x60m-e / 1998

Producer: David Hanson 

An updated version of Crown Court in which Jury members were played by members of the public.

Granada / x30m-e / 1958-63 black and white

Producers: Peter Wildeblood, Harry Elton, Claude Whatham 

Dramatisations of various 'unscripted' trials, writers prepared the case and the jury, made up of members of the viewing public, delivered it's verdict.

A VERY BRITISH COUP

Channel 4/Skreba / 3x65m-e / 1988 19 June - 3 July

Writer: Alan Plater / Novel: Chris Mullin / Director: Mick Jackson 

Drama serial. Working class left wing labour leader Harry Perkins is elected Prime Minister and soon comes under pressure.

Harry Perkins.................................. RAY McANALLY

Browne........................................... ALAN McNAUGHTON

Thompson...................................... KEITH ALLEN

Wainwright..................................... GEOFFREY BEEVERS

Newsome....................................... JIM CARTER

Fison............................................. PHILIP MADOC

BBC2 / 1x80m-e / 1995

Writer/Director: Guy Jenkin / Producer: Geoffrey Perkins 

Comedy drama. Three prisoners create havoc for the government when they break out of a newly privatised jail. The lead character of Hanratty also appears in the comedy drama Crossing the Floor.

David Hanratty................................. TOM WILKINSON

Brian Silcott.................................... RONALD PICKUP

Jeremy Craig.................................. STEPHEN TOMPKINSON

Amanda Ellis.................................. EMILY MORTIMER

Dominic Casement.......................... PETER WINGFIELD

Lord Langland................................. MICHAEL HORDERN

Prime Minister................................ JOHN FORTUNE

Victoria Bridgewater........................ CELIA IMRIE

Sir Mortimer Fawkes....................... JULIAN FELLOWES

BBC2 / 14x50m-e / 1986-88 Season 1: 21 May - 2 July 86 / Season 2: 24 February - 6 April 88

Writer: Andrew Davies / Script Editor: Devora Pope / Music: Dave Greenslade / Theme sung by Elkie Brooks / Producer: Ken Riddington 

Comedy drama series. Idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker begins working in the medical block of Lowlands University and is soon beset by chaos and strange happenings. There was a one off 90 minute special called A Very polish Practice broadcast on 6 September 1992.

Dr Stephen Daker.......................... PETER DAVISON

Dr Jock McCannon........................ GRAHAM CROWDEN

Dr Rose Marie............................... BARBARA FLYNN

Dr Bob Buzzard............................ DAVID TROUGHTON

Lyn Turtle.................................... AMANDA HILLWOOD

Dr Grete Grotowska(88)................ JOANNA KANSKA

Prof George Burn......................... JAMES GROUT

Ernest Hemingway...................... JOHN BIRD

Jack B. Daniels(88)..................... MICHAEL J. SHANNON 

A VERY SOCIAL SECRETARY

C4 / 1x90m / 20 October 2005

Writer: Alistair Beaton / Director: Jon Jones / Producer: Hal Vogel

Speculative dramatisation of a recent political uproar. Blind Labour home secretary David Blunkett becomes involved with the American editor of The Spectator magazine and the matter of the paternity of her children and whether any special favours were done with regard to fast-tracking a nanny's visa become the topic for hot media speculation.

With:- BERNARD HILL as David Blunkett / VICTORIA HAMILTON as Kimberley Quinn / ROBERT LINDSAY as Tony Blair / ALEX JENNINGS as Alistair Campbell / DOON MacKICHAN as Cherie Blair / STUART McQUARRIE as Boris Johnson

BBC1 / 13x50m-e / 1995-96

Producer: Tony Virgo 

Drama series. Stories of female vet, Jennifer Holt, in practice in Devon.

Jennifer Holt..................................... SUZANNE BURDEN

Chris Lennox................................... RICHARD HAWLEY

Murray Wilson................................. NEIL McKINVEN

Laura Sinclair.................................. GABRIELLE COWBURN

Patricia Lennox............................... DIANA KENT

Jim Cronin...................................... MARK JEFFRIES

Claire............................................. CHARLOTTE WILLIAMS

THE VICE

Carlton / 18x60m-e 4x90m-e / 1999-2003 Mondays 9.00pm 4 seasons

Creator: Rob Pursey, Barry Simner / Script Editor: Sophie Johnson / Titles: Philip Dupee / Police Advisor: Michael Hoskins / Music: Julian Nott / Producer: Stephen Smallwood

Crime drama series. Cases of Inspector Pat Chappel, a member of the Metropolitan police Vice Squad. One of the new breed of crime drama, that in the wake of Cracker, examined the seedier side of life on prime time TV. The final series saw Chappell kicked out of the force and working as a private eye. 

With:- KEN STOTT as Insp Pat Chappel / ANNA CHANCELLOR as Dr Christina Weir (seasons 1-2) / STRUAN RODGER as David Hinkley / DAVID HAREWOOD as Sgt Joe Robinson / MARC WARREN as PC Dougie Raymond (seasons 1-2) / CAROLINE CATZ as PC Sheryl Hutchins / GARRY COOPER as Supt Jeff Callard / HEATHER JAY-JONES as Natasha Hinkley / ROSIE MARCEL as PC Kirsty Morgan

VICIOUS CIRCLE

BBC1 / 1x105m-e / 1999 9 February

Writer: Kieron Prendiville / Producer: Sue Austen / Director: David Blair 

Crime drama. Dublin's most notorious criminal Martin Cahill plans to pull off Ireland's most daring robbery.

With:- KEN STOTT as Martin Cahill / GERARD McSORLEY as Crowley / ANDREW CONNOLLY as Finney / JOHN KAVANAGH as Rice / ART MALIK as Harrison / MICHELLE FAIRLEY as Frances / BREFFNI McKENNA as Clive

BBC1 ?Murder in Mind? / 1x60m / 6 April 2002 / 9:00pm  

Writer: James Wood / Director: Jeremy Wood / Producer: Tim Holloway  

Thriller. Emily and Lucy move in as lodgers with reclusive writer Colin in an area where there have been a spate of murders of women.  Lucy is obsessed and keeps a scrapbook on the murders and begins to suspect Colin.  The twist at the end is that the murders have been carried out by Emily.  

With:-  NEIL STUKE as Colin Edwardson / CAMILLA POWER as Emily Stapleford / FRANCES GREY as LUCY SLATER

VICTORIA AND ALBERT

BBC / 2x90m / 2001

Writer: John Goldsmith / Director: John Erman / Producer: David Cunliffe

Period drama showing a Queen Victoria we've never seen before--not a staid matron cloaked in black, but a strong young woman who takes command of the throne and falls passionately in love with a dashing prince.

With:- VICTORIA HAMILTON as Victoria / JONATHAN FIRTH as Prince Albert / NIGEL HAWTHORNE as Lord Melborne / PENELOPE WILTON as Duchess of Kent / RICHARD BRIERS as Joseph Paxton / PETER USTINOV as King William IV / JOHN WOOD as Wellington / CRISPON REDMAN as Anson / JONATHAN PRYCE as Prince Leopold / DIANA RIGG as Baroness Lehzen / DAVID SUCHET as Baron Stockmar

Granada / 4x60m-e / 1964 13 November - 4 December black and white

Writer/Producer: Peter Wildeblood / Play: Laurence Houseman / Director: Stuart Latham  

An anthology series of four dramas looking at the life of Queen Victoria.

Queen Victoria............................... PATRICIA ROUTLEDGE

Disraeli.......................................... MAX ADRIAN

Prince Albert................................. JOACHIM HANSEN

Archbishop of Canterbury............... GEOFFREY DUNN

Granada / 8x60m-e / 1963 black and white

Producer: Philip Mackie 

An anthology series of dramas covering life in Victorian Britain.

1.THE RENT DAY Director: Herbert Wise / 2.LONDON ASSURANCE Director: Stuart Latham / 3. SOCIETY Director: Graeme McDonald / 4. THE TICKET OF LEAVE MAN Director: Stuart Latham / 5.TWO ROSES Director: Richard Everitt / 6.THE SILVER KING Director: Herbert Wise / 7.STILL WATERS RUN DEEP Director: Cliff Owen / 8.SWEET LAVENDER Director: Graeme McDonald 

The resident cast were:- GEOFFREY BAYLDON / PATRICIA GARWOOD / CHARLES KAY /  JOHN WOOD /  MICHAEL BARRINGTON / INGRID HAFNER.

Granada / 7x60m-e / 1976

Producer: Michael Cox 

An anthology series of dramas looking at Scandalous moments from the Victorian era. The casts included Nigel Havers, Twiggy and Gareth Thomas.

BBC1 / 6x30m-e / 1989 6 November - 21 December Thursday 8.30pm

Writer/Music: Victoria Wood / Producer: Geoff Posner 

Six individual comedies specially written by Wood. The casts featured Victoria Wood, Celia Imrie, Julie Walters, Duncan Preston, Lill Roughley, Liza Tarbuck, Anne Reid, Georgia Allen and Selina Cadell.

BBC / 1x75m-e / 1983

Writer: Howard Schumann / Producer: Kenith Trodd / Director: Colin Bucksey 

Comedy drama set in the world of cable TV.

BBC / 5x50m-e / 1979

Writer: Roger Muller / Stories: Arthur Schnitzler / Producer: Richard Beynon / Director: Herbert Wise

Period drama serial. Stories of the aristocracy in turn of the 20th century Vienna.

Beate Heinold.................................. DOROTHY TUTIN

Hugo Heinold................................... CHRISTOPHER GUARD

Dr Graesler...................................... ROBERT STEPHENS

Berta............................................... LYNN REDGRAVE

Anna............................................... JACQUELINE PEARCE

Frau Sommer................................... SHEILA BRENNAN

BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1968 3 May - Friday 8.20pm

Writer: Jennifer Phillips / Producer: Robin Nash 

Comedy. A lonely couple decide to sell their house so that potential buyers can be treated as new fiends. This pilot led to a series called Wink To Me Only.

Sidney Jelliot.................................... HUGH PADDICK

Rene Jelliot....................................... BERYL REID

Marjorie............................................ PAULINE COLLINS

Jimmy.............................................. DEREK FOWLDS

BBC2 / 15x50m-e / 1971-73

Creator: Edward Boyd / Producer: Anthony Coburn 

Crime drama series. Cases of a tough Glaswegian Private Detective.

Daniel Pike...................................... RODDY McMILLAN

BBC / 1x75m-e / 1989

Writers: Danny Boyle, Colin MacDonald / Directors: Alistair Reid, Sandy Johnson 

Drama. A middle aged social worker goes through an alcoholic mid-life crisis.

With:- GRIFF RHYS JONES / ELAINE PAIGE / CHARLOTTE COLMAN / IAN HART / CLIVE RUSSELL

BBC / 1x25m-e / 1938 10 November black and white

Producer: Stephen Harrison 

Comedy by Sacha Guitry, translation by Frank and Virgina Vernon.

With:- REX HARRISON / CATHLEEN CORDELL / PAULINE VILDA

Granada / 14x60m-e / 1975

An anthology series of dramas set over different time periods but featuring the same village hall. The writers included Kenneth Cope, Jack Rosenthal and Willis Hall.

ITV / 1x120m-e / 1996

Writer: Alma Cullen / Novel: Joanna Trollope / Producer: Jane Wellesley / Director: Moira Armstrong

Drama. Alice Jordan and Clodagh Unwin begin an affair that shocks the inhabitants of their small English village.

Alice Jordan................................... SOPHIE WARD

Clodagh Unwin............................... KERRY FOX

Martin Jordan................................. NATHANIAL PARKER

Anthony Jordan...............................JEREMY NORTHAM

Sir Ralph Unwin.............................. MICHAEL GOUGH

Cecily Jordan................................. CLAIRE BLOOM

Lady Unwin.................................... BARBARA JEFFORD

Peter Morris................................... PETER JEFFREY

Lettice Deverel............................... ROSALIE CRUTCHLEY

Granada / x60m-e / 1964-65

Producers: Howard Baker, H.V. Kershaw, Royston Morley 

An anthology series of dramas looking at criminals in the north of England. Writers included Jack Rosenthal and Alan Plater.

LWT / 13x60m-e / 1972

Producer: Andrew Brown 

An anthology series of dramas looking at the criminal classes.

The cast included:- MARTIN SHAW, BOB HOSKINS, BRYAN MARSHALL, HILARY DWEYER, DAVID DAKER, MICHAEL CULVER, ALUN ARMSTRONG, CHERYL HALL.

BBC / 1957 black and white

Novel: Charlotte Bronte 

Period drama serial.

With:- MICHAEL WARE / JILL BENNETT 

VILLETTE

BBC-2 / 5x45 min / 1970 Colour 

WRITER: Charlotte Bronte (Dramatised by Lennox Phillips) / DIRECTOR: Moira Armstrong 

Period drama serial.

WITH:- Judy Parfitt, Peter Jeffrey, Kevin Stoney  

VINCENT

ITV1 / 4x90m / started 10 October 2005

Writer: Stephen Butchard / Director: Peter Lydon, Roger Gartland. / Producers: Rebecca Hodgson, John Rushton

Gritty crime drama. Vincent Gallagher is an ex-cop who runs a Private Detective agency leading his well-equipped team on cases that need an approach that the police are unable to provide. For more details see the episode guide here. 

With:- RAY WINSTONE as Vincent Gallagher / SURANNE JONES as Beth / JOE ABSOLOM as Robert / ANGEL COULBY as Gilian / EVA POPE as Cathy Gallagher / PHILIP GLENISTER as DCI David Driscol

Granada / 1x60m-e / 1964 black and white

Writer: Dennis Woolf / Design: Terry Pritchard / Producer: Richard Everitt  

Drama. The time comes for Virginia to prove her claims of being irresistible to men.

Virginia............................................... JULIE SAMUEL

Honey................................................ JUDITH SMITH

Casanova........................................... RAY BROOKS

BBC / 1x60m-e / 1982

Writer: Angela Huth / Producer: Anne Head / Director: Mark Cullingham 

Drama. Middle aged spinster Virginia has a traumatic experience on a television talk show.

Virginia................................................ ANNA MASSEY

VIRGIN OF THE SECRET SERVICE

ATV / 13x60m-e / 1968

Creator: Ted Willis / Producer: Josephine Douglas 

Period action adventure series. Daring Captain Robert Virgin works for the British Secret Service in India and the Middle East at the turn of the 20th Century.

Capt Robert Virgin............................ CLINTON GREYN

Mrs Virginia Cortez........................... VERONICA STRONG

Doublett.......................................... JOHN CATER

Karl Von Brauner............................. ALEXANDER DORE

Col Shaw-Camberley....................... NOEL COLEMAN

Klaus Striebeck.............................. PETER SWANNICK

BBC1 (Pebble Mill) / 6x50m-e / 1992   24 Jul - 28 Aug

Creators/Producers: Harry Robertson, Brian Degas / Music: Harry Robertson / Executive Producer: Barry Hanson

Crime drama series. Cases of a criminal psychologist and his partner.

With:- NICHOLAS CLAY as Dr John Cornelius / KIM THOMSON as Samantha Valentine / STEPHEN YARDLEY as Inspector Cadogan / ALAN DAVID as Prof Owen Griffiths / JUDE AKUWIDIKE as Sgt Gummer / CAROLE BOND as Phoebe Littlejohn /   

VIRTUOSO

BBC / 1x80m-e / 1989

Producer: Philip Hinchcliffe / Director: Tony Smith 

Drama. The true life fall into madness of concert pianist John Ogden.

With:- ALFRED MOLINA as John / ALISON STEADMAN

BBC / 1x60m-e / 1962 25 June

Writer: Evelyn Fraser / Producer: Stephen Harrison 

SciFi drama. A deadly flu virus is on the loose and only one man can provide the antidote.

Dr Cornish........................................ RICHARD LONGMAN

Dr Roberts....................................... BRENDA KAYE

Prof Glenister................................... GILBERT DAVIS

Miss Reid........................................ JEAN ANDERSON

Dr Lowden....................................... RICHARD CARPENTER

George Carter.................................. LESLIE DWYER 

VITAL SIGNS

ITV1 Network-Tiger Aspect / 6x60 minute episodes / 20 April 2006 - / Thursdays @ 9.00pm

Creator: John Forte / Producer: Kate Crowe / Executive Producer: Foz Allan.

Drama series. Tamzin Outhwaite stars as a busy mum with a burning ambition to change her life in Vital Signs. Tamzin plays Rhoda Bradley, a supermarket check out assistant with three children and a hectic home life. Frustrated by her job, Rhoda feels she is sitting on a long, slow conveyor belt watching the world go by. She’s desperate to jump off, and do something worthwhile with her life before it’s too late. An emergency dash to hospital with her daughter leads Rhoda to make the life-changing move she has been looking for. After talking to a mature medical student attending her daughter, Rhoda realises she wants to train to be a doctor. Steven Waddington ( The Curse of King Tut’s Tomb, Breakfast on Pluto, The Baby War) stars as Rhoda’s husband Tony, who fears her dramatic decision will rock their happy family life. Beth Goddard (Frances Tuesday, Take Me, Big Bad World) plays Rhoda’s sister Maddy, a hospital nurse. Maddy has always been jealous of Rhoda, and is furious with her for trying to upstage her by training to be a doctor. 

cast
TAMZIN OUTHWAITE as Rhoda Bradley / STEVEN WADDINGTON as Tony Bradley / BETH GODDARD as Maddy / ANTON LESSER as Dr Linday / EVE BEST as Sarah Cartwight / FRASER AYRES as Vinnie Delaney / HARRY LLOYD as Jason Bradley / WILLIAM BECK as Billy Britten

BBC / 1x105m-e / 1987

Writer: William Nicholson / Director: Norman Stone 

Drama. A former TV news reporter is talked into joining a sinister evangelical satellite TV channel.

With:- DIRK BOGARDE / LEE REMICK / EILEEN ATKINS / LYNDA BELLINGHAM / HELENA BONHAM CARTER

BBC 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1962 2 February - Friday 8.45pm

Writers: Ray Galton,Alan Simpson / Producer: Barry Lupino 

Comedy. A group of hospital patients prepare for visiting day.

Cakebread...................................... BERNARD CRIBBINS

Mother............................................ BETTY MARSDEN

Father............................................ WILFRED BRAMBELL

First Patient.................................... HUGH LLOYD

Nurse Forbes.................................. MOLLY WEIR

Channel 4/Tiger Aspect 'Shockers' / 1x60m-e / 1999 26 October - Tues 10.00pm

Writer: Guy Burt / Music: Nick Bicat / Costume: Jayne Gregory / Producer: Amanda Davis / Director: Audrey Cooke 

Thriller. When three flatmates let in 'Richard' the supposed cousin of their fourth absent flatmate, it sets in motion a disturbing sequence of events.

With:- DANIEL CRAIG as 'Richard' / MIRANDA PLEASANCE as Louise / SHAUN PARKES as Matt / CLARE RUSHBROOK as Terri / THEO FRASER STEELE as Tom's Cousin / STUART MILLIGAN as Mr Jefferson / DEAN BYFIELD as Charlie / CLARE BIFFORD as Publisher

BBC / 1x95m-e / 1987

Writer: Dennis Potter / Producer: Kenith Trodd / Director: Piers Haggard 

Drama. Two ill matched couples share an Italian villa for a strained holiday.

With:- MICHAEL BRANDON / GLYNIS BARBER / NICOLA PAGETT / JON STANDING

ABC / 1x60m-e / 1965 21 March black and white

Writer: Christopher Hodder-Williams / Producer: Leonard White / Director: Guy Verney  

Scifi drama. An astronaut lost in Space believes he has heard the voice of God telling him to destroy the Earth.

Mike Brixton...................................... DENIS GOACHER

Flecker............................................. PAUL DANQUAH

Wallace Vestry.................................. PAUL MAXWELL

Jerry Noble....................................... JACK HEDLEY

Tessa Bright..................................... ANN BELL

Dr McFeelan..................................... MORRIS PERRY

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1955 16 Jannuary black and white

Writer: George F. Kerr / Novel: Robert Crane / Producer: Dennis Vance  

Scifi Drama. In the year 2021 the New World government faces a crisis.

Dr Werner.......................................... WALTER RILLA

Helga Von Horstman........................... URSULA DANERA

Sir Alton Berkeley.............................. TERENCE ALEXANDER

Vernon Cavendish.............................. CARL BERNARD

Prof Mark Harrison............................. WILLOUGHBY GODDARD

Dr Linden........................................... BARRY LETTS

VOLTAIRE IN ENGLAND

1x35m-e / 1969

Period drama. Banished to a distance of 50 leagues from Paris after a quarrel with the aristocratic De Rohan, Voltaire decides to take refuge in England.

With:- JACQUES MAURY as Voltaire / TIMOTHY BATESON / MARY HINTON 

VON TRAPPED

ITV1 'Trapped' / 1x60m / 4 September 2004

Writer: Jonathan Harvey / Producer/Director: Morag Fullerton

Drama. Maria, a Sound of Music aficionado, is given a cash gift by a lottery winning friend and uses it to go to Austria with her mother and daughter on a Sound of Music tour. There she meets up with the father of her daughter who 16 years previously had jilted her at the alter, but discovers he had been victim of a trick by her disapproving mother.

With:- CAROLINE QUENTIN as Maria / UNA STUBBS as Kath / JIM CARTER as Larry Lavelle / PHILIP JACKSON as Torsten / EMMA LOWNDES as Lee / VICKY BINNS as Tammy Jade

ATV / 6x30m-e / 1959-60 12 December 59 - 16 January 60

Writer: Lewis Griefer / Music: Johnny Dankworth / Design: Tom Lingwood / Producer: Quentin Lawrence 

Scifi drama serial. A scientist does battle with a 200 year old Polynesian goddess who has been responsible for unleashing a malaria like virus.

Dr David Whittaker........................ MAURICE KAUFMAN

Marion Whittaker........................... MAXINE AUDLEY

The Malayan................................. ERIC YOUNG

Alice Simms................................. JILL HYEM

Dr Tony Wilson............................. PHILIP BOND

Insp Wilkins.................................. REGINALD MARSH

Renee.......................................... JILL IRELAND

BBC / 3x60m-e / 1989

Writers: David Edgar. Neil Grant / Producer: Carol Parks / Director: James Ormerod 

Period drama serial. A group of off duty soldiers in Egypt in 1943 set up their parliament and debating society much to the disatisfaction of the military top brass.

ACZ Clarke.................................... SIMON ADAMS

Sgt McRae.................................... BILLY HARTMAN

WO Wilson................................... JEFF RAWLE

LAC Atterby.................................. JOHN WHEATLEY

Flt Sgt Carter................................. ROBIN DAVIES

Brigadier....................................... JAMES GROUT

Amiens......................................... MALCOLM McKEE

BBC / 1x90m-e / 1965 black and white

Writer: Dennis Potter / Music: Ronnie Hazlehurst / Director: Gareth Davies  

Drama. Sequel to Stand Up Nigel Barton. Nigel Barton working class but Oxford educated makes plans to get into Parliament as a Labour candidate. Based in part on Potter's own efforts to get into Parliament.

Nigel Barton...................................... KEITH BARRON

Anne Barton...................................... VALERIE GEARON

Jack Hay.......................................... JOHN BAILEY

Archibold Lane.................................. CYRIL LUCKHAM

Hunting Man..................................... DONALD HEWLETT

Mrs Phillips...................................... SONIA GRAHAM

Thames / 1x90m-e / 1982 2 March

Writer: John Mortimer / Producer/Director: Alvin Rakoff 

Drama. The true story of the writer's life (John Mortimer) as he grew up with his blind father Clifford.

With:- LAURENCE OLIVIER as Clifford Mortimer / ALAN BATES as John / JANE ASHER as Elizabeth / ELIZABETH SELLARS as Mother

BBC / 7x50m-e / 1978  31 October - 12 December

Writer: Robert Reid / Music: Wilfred Josephs / Design: Colin Shaw / Costume: Reg Reid / Producer: Christopher Ralling / Director: Martyn Friend

Period drama serial. The story of naturalist Charles Darwin's epic voyage aboard the Beagle and his later writing of On the Origin of the Species.

With:- MALCOLM STODDARD as Charles Darwin / ANDREW BURT as Robert Fitzroy / ROBERT STEPHENS / JOSEPH BLATCHLEY / IAIN CUTHBERTSON / GEORGE COLE / MICHAEL GOVER

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