UK TV - A WHOLLY HEALTHY GLASGOW to WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
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WIDOWS
WILL SHAKESPEARE
WILL YOU LOVE ME TOMORROW
WITHIN THESE WALLS
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SEASON ONE
- 1.CAUSE FOR CONCERN
- 2.LESSON NUMBER ONE
A WHOLLY HEALTHY GLASGOW
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1987
Writer: Iain Heggie / Producer: Bill Bryden / Director: Richard Wilson
Comedy drama. The new over zealous instructor at a health club in Glasgow plans to ruin the cosy lives of his fellow instructors.
With:- TOM WATSON / GERARD KELLY / PAUL HIGGINS / ADAM CROWTHER / TONY BETTS
WHO PAYS THE FERRYMAN
BBC / 8x50m-e / 1977
Creator: Michael J. Bird / Producer: William Slater
Drama serial. After a thirty year gap, Alan Haldane returns to Crete in search of his long hidden past.
With:- JACK HALDANE as Alan Haldane / MARINA SIRTIS / SALLY KNYVETTE
WHOSE BABY?
ITV1 / 1x90m / 25 October 2004
Writer: Rosemary Kay /
Director: Rebecca Frayn / Producer: Simon Passmore
Drama. Karen Jenkins and Barry Flynt have a short relationship always having
protected sex. Then months later he receives a letter from the Child Support
Agency saying he must provide maintenance for his child with her. He discovers
that she impregnated herself using the contents of a used condom and at first
feels immense anger at being "violated" in that way. She wants nothing
to do with him and when he eventually decides he wants to know his child he has
to go to extraordinary lengths to get her to acknowledge his paternal rights.
With:- ANDREW LINCOLN as Barry / SOPHIE OKONEDO as Karen / ESTHER COLES as
Marietta / DERREN TIGHE as Pete / JOY BLAKEMAN as Mel / ANDREW TIERMAN as Dave /
RICHARD VANSTONE as Will
WHOSE LIFE IS IT ANYWAY
Granada / 1x60m-e / 1972
Writer: Brian Clark / Producer: Peter Eckersley / Director: Richard Everitt
Drama. A young paralyzed sculptor declares he would rather not live.
With:- IAN McSHANE
WHO'S WHO
BBC / 1x80m-e / 1979
Devisor/Director: Mike Leigh / Design: Austen Spriggs / Costume: Robin Stubbs / Producer: Margaret Matheson
Comedy drama. The machinations of a group of stock exchange workers.
Nigel.................................................... SIMON CHANDLER
Giles................................................... ADAM NORTON
Alan.................................................... RICHARD KANE
Francis............................................... JEFFREY WICKHAM
Kevin.................................................. PHILIP DAVIS
Anthony............................................. GRAHAM SEED
Lady Crouchurst................................. RICHENDA CAREY
Mr Shakespere................................... SAM KELLY
Caroline............................................. FELICITY DEAN
WHO'S YOUR FRIEND
BBC1 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1970 15 January - Thursday 7.30pm
Writer: Terence Edmond / Producer: Graeme Muir
Comedy. Exploits of escort Jimmy Sampson.
With:- BERNARD CRIBBINS as Jimmy Sampson / MAGGIE FITZGIBBON as Laura Marshall / FRANK THORNTON as Mr Walters
WHY DIDN'T THEY ASK EVANS?
LWT / 2x120m-e / 1980 30 March
Producer: Jack Williams / Novel: Agatha Christie / Directors: John Davies, Tony Wharmby / Music: Joseph Horowitz
Period crime drama. A pair of wealthy 1930's socialites turn amateur tec to solve a murder. Francesca Annis and James Warwick later teamed up again to star in an Agatha Christie series called Partners In Crime.
With:- FRANCESCA ANNIS as Lady Frances Derwant / JAMES WARWICK as Bobby Jones / JOHN GIELDGUD as Rev Thomas Jones / JOAN HICKSON as Mrs Rivington / CONNIE BOOTH as Sylvia Bassington-ffrench / LEIGH LAWSON as / Roger Bassington-ffrench / MADELINE SMITH as Moira Nicholson / BERNARD MILES as Dr Thomas / ERIC PORTER as Dr Nicholson / ROBERT LONGDEN as Badger Beadon / DORIS HARE as Rose Pratt / JAMES COSSINS as Henry Bassington-ffrench / LYNDA MARCHAL as Mrs Roberts / DEDDIE DAVIES as Postmistress / JOHN HORSLEY as Mr Spragge / LEON SINDEN as Mr Owen / RAYMOND FRANCIS as Earl of Marchington / ARTRO MORRIS as Ticket Inspector / ROY BOYD as Alan Carstairs
WICKED WOMEN
BBC / 1970 'Sunday Night Theatre'
Producer/Director: David Cunliffe
An anthology series of dramas looking at lady criminals of the Victorian era.
A WICKED WORLD
ATV 'Studio 64' / 1x60m-e / 1964 black and white
Writer: Giles Cooper / Director: Donald MacWhinnie
Drama.
With:- PETER SALLIS / DAVID BUCK
WIDE EYED AND LEGLESS
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1994
Writer: Jack Rosenthal / Books: Diana's Story and Lost For Words by Deric Longden / Camera: Remi Adefarasin / Design: Tony Burrough / Executive Producer: Margaret Matheson / Director: Richard Loncraine
Drama. The Longden family try to cope when the wife Diana is diagnosed with Chronic Fatigue Syndrome better known as ME. The Longden family were also featured in a later TV play called Lost For Words with Thora Hird repeating her role as Deric Longden's mother.
With:- JULIE WALTERS as Diana Longden / JIM BROADBENT as Deric Longden / THORA HIRD as Deric's Mother / SIAN THOMAS as Aileen Armitage / DINAH HANDLEY as Hospital Receptionist / PETER WHITFIELD as Fred / CANDIDA RUNDLE as Nurse / ANDREW NICHOLSON as Gerald / MARTIN WENNER as Young Doctor / GRAHAM TURNER as Postman / ANDREW LANCEL as Nick Longden / ANN RYE as Joan / MOYA BRADY as Sheila
THE WIDOWING OF MRS HOLROYD
BBC2 'Performance' / 1x90m-e / 1995
Writer: D.H. Lawrence / Producer: Simon Curtis / Director: Katie Mitchell
Period drama. In 1914 unhappily married miners wife Mrs Holroyd is confronted by a tragedy.
Mrs Holroyd...................................... ZOE WANAMAKER
Blackmore........................................ STEPHEN DILLANE
Charles Holroyd................................ COLIN FIRTH
Grandmother.................................... BRENDA BRUCE
Clara............................................... MOSSIE SMITH
Laura.............................................. MELANIE HILL
Rigley............................................. WAYNE FOSKETT
THE WIDOWMAKER
Central / 1x120m-e / 1990
Writer: Jeremy Brock / Director: John Madden
Drama. A seemingly mild mannered married man goes on a shooting spree in a small town.
With:- DAVID MORRISSEY as Rob / ANNABELLE APSION as Kathy / ALUN ARMSTRONG as Dad / KENNETH WELSH as Atkins / PETER LLEWELLYN WILLIAMS as Philip Newsome / JANE GURNETT as Sharon / PETER GUINESS as Detective Sergeant Wills / AL ASHTON as Mr Wilding / COLIN JEAVONS as Mr Crathew / JAMES OTTAWAY as Mourner
WIFE BEGINS AT 40
BBC1 / 1x90m-e / 1987 28 December - Wednesday 9.30pm
Writers: Arne Sultan, Earl Barrett, Ray Cooney / Design: Dinah Walker / Producer/Director: Harold Snoad
Comedy. After 17 years George Harper decides to spice up his marriage.
With:- RAY COONEY as George Harper / LIZA GODDARD as Linda Harper / JOHN HORSLEY as Bernard Harper / JOHN QUAYLE as Roger Dixon / TRICIA GEORGE as Betty Dixon / GRANT PIRO as Leonard Harper
WILD ABOUT HARRY
BBC1 / 1x50m-e / Friday 3 March 2000 (10.25pm)
Producer: Chris Stuart / Director: Paul Islwyn Thomas
Entertainment. A tribute to and look back at the career of Harry Secombe with contributions from Spike Milligan, Bruce Forsyth and Ronnie Corbett. First seen in the BBC Wales region before this national broadcast.
THE WILDE ALLIANCE
ITV Network (Yorkshire) / 13x60m-e / 1978 (17 January - 11 April / Tuesdays @ 9.00pm)
Creator/Producer: Ian Mackintosh / Executive Producer: David Cunliffe / Theme Music: Anthony Issac
Crime drama series. Detective novelist Rupert Wilde and his wife Amy can't help getting involved in real life crime. This easy going series was obviously aiming for a thin man Nick and Nora style relationship for the two leads. Besides Rupert and Amy the only other real semi-regulars were Rupert's literary agent Christopher Bailey and slightly strange Mr Bailey who lived in the flat downstairs and turned out to make soft porn films on the side. Rupert drove a great Triumph TR7. For more details see the episode guide here.
With:- JOHN STRIDE as Rupert Wilde / JULIA FOSTER as Amy Wilde / PATRICK NEWELL as Bailey / JOHN LEE as Christopher Bridgewater
WILDERNESS
ITV / 3x60m-e / 1996
Writers: Andrew Davies, Bernadette Davis / Producer: Tim Vaughan / Director: Ben Bolt
Fantasy drama serial. Alice White is hiding a sinister secret, she turns into a wolf every full month.
Alice White........................................ AMANDA OOMS
Dan Somers...................................... OWEN TEALE
Luther Teale...................................... MICHAEL KITCHEN
Jane Garth........................................ GEMMA JONES
Deborah............................................ CATHERINE RUSSELL
Eleanor............................................. ROSALIND MARCH
WILD OATS
Carlton-Celador / 'Comedy Playhouse' / 1x30m-e / 1993 2 March - Tuesday 8.30pm
Writers: Steve Knight, Mike Whitehill / Producer/Director: Nic Phillips
Comedy. Middle aged lothario Roland Jackson is shocked when his 23 year old son David turns up on his doorstep.
Roland Jackson.............................. LESLIE GRANTHAM
David Jackson................................ JONATHAN MORRIS
Jennifer.......................................... JULIE BRAMALL
Paul.............................................. FRASER JAMES
Deidre........................................... EVE FERRET
WILD THINGS
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1988
Writer: David Pirie / Music: Richard Hartley / Producer: David M. Thompson / Director: Rob Walker
Thriller. A family spend an alarming Christmas at a sinister hotel.
Jane................................................... KAREN YOUNG
Andrew............................................... STUART WILSON
Laura.................................................. WILLOW GRYLLS
Will.................................................... BEN ROBB
Sarah................................................. TUSSIE SILBERG
Brig Buchanan.................................... DONALD CHURCHILL
TV Pundit........................................... ARBEL JONES
WILFRED AND EILEEN
BBC / 4x30m-e / 1978
Writer: Robin Chapman / Producer: Colin Shindler / Director: David Green
Period drama serial. A young couple have their love torn apart by World War One.
With:- CHRISTOPHER GUARD as Wilfred / JUDI BOWKER as Eileen
WILL AMELIA QUINT CONTINUE WRITING 'A GNOME CALLED SHORTHOUSE'
ITV / 1971 28 September One off play
Writer: Roy Clarke / Producer: Jacqueline Davis / Director: James Gatward
Comedy drama. Best selling children's writer Amelia Quint spends more time messing about on holiday than on finishing her latest book, much to the consternation of her publisher.
With:- BERYL REID as Amelia Quint / NORMAN ROSSINGTON / RICHARD VERNON / GEOFFREY CHATER / DAVID WARBECK / SHEILA STEAFEL
WILLIAM AND MARY
ITV1 / 18x60m / 2003-2005 started 23 March 2003
Writer: Mick Ford / Director: Jean Stewart /
Producer: Trevor Hopkins
Romantic drama. William and Mary meet via a dating agency and fall in love. He
is an undertaker and she a midwife. Season three premiered 17 April 2005.
With:- MARTIN CLUNES as William Shawcross / JULIE
GRAHAM as Mary Gilcrest / CHERYL CAMPBELL as Molly Gilcrest / MICHAEL BEGLEY as
Rick / CLAIRE HACKETT as Doris / JUNE WATSON as Mrs Ball / PETA CORNISH as Kate
Shawcross / GEORGINA TERRY as Julia Shawcross
WIMBLEDON GARDEN PARTY
BBC Choice (Digital Channel) / x30m-e / 2000
Light entertainment series shown around the Wimbledon 2000 Tennis tournament taking a light-hearted look at the events going on. Presented by Mark Pugatch, Tony Hawks and Annabel Croft.
THE WIMBLEDON POISONER
BBC1 / 2x70m-e / 1996
Writer: Nigel Williams / Producer: Linda Agran / Director: Robert Young
Comedy thriller. Wimbledon solicitor Henry Farr is being sent round the twist by his wife so he decides to murder her.
With:- ROBERT LINDSAY as Henry Farr / ALISON STEADMAN as Elinor Farr / PHILIP JACKSON as Det Insp Russell Bush / LARRY LAMB as Dr Donald Templeton / ART MALIK as Karim Jackson / SIMON CHANDLER as No 47 / CATHERINE SCHELL as Mrs Gunther / IAN McNEICE as Dent
'WILTONS' - THE HANDSOMEST HALL IN TOWN
BBC2 / 1x45m-e / 1970 26 December - Saturday 6.30pm
Writer: Jimmy Perry / Producer: Michael Mills
Period comedy. A night at a top 18880's theatre is recreated (Wilton's Music Hall) broadcast (after the theatre was revamped) from the theatre itself. Some of the stars appearing on stage were Peter Sellers, Keith Michell, Ronnie Barker, Billy Russell and Pat Kirkwood.
John Wilton........................................ BILL FRASER
E.W. Mackney................................... SPIKE MILLIGAN
Gus Elan........................................... WARREN MITCHELL
J.W. Page......................................... ERIC ROBINSON
THE WINDOW OF VULNERABILITY
BBC2 / 1x20m-e / 1990 25 September - Tuesday 10.10pm
Writer: Gregory Evans / Producers: Phillippa Giles, Vicky Licorish / Director: Bob Blagden
Drama. Two young women (living seperately) begin to lead increasingly isolated lives.
Esther................................................. MAGGIE O'NEILL
Ruth..................................................... VIVIENNE ROCHESTER
WING AND A PRAYER
Channel 5 / 12x60m-e / 1997-98
Creator: Matthew Hall / Producer: Jacinta Peel
Crime drama series. Cases of a hard working law firm.
Michael Freeman.............................. GEORGE IRVING
Amanda Dankworth........................... KATE BUFFREY
Stephen Arlington............................. SEAN ARNOLD
Simon Hudson................................. DAVID BARK JONES
THE WINGLESS BIRD
Tyne Tees / 3x60m-e / 1997
Writer: Alan Seymour / Novel: Catherine Cookson / Producer: Ray Marshall / Director: David Wheatley
Period drama serial. Shopkeepers daughter Agnes Conway falls in love with a man from the wrong side of the tracks just before World War One.
Agnes Conway.................................. CLAIRE SKINNER
Charles Farrier.................................. EDWARD ATTERTON
Reg Farrier....................................... JULIAN WADHAM
Alice Conway................................... ANNE REID
Colonel Farrier................................. DINSDALE LANDEN
Grace Farrier................................... ELSPET GRAY
Aunt Nessie.................................... MOIRA REDMOND
Elaine Farrier................................... AMANDA ROYLE
WINGS
BBC1 / 26x50m-e / 1977-78
Creator: Barry Thomas / Music: Alexander Faris / Producer: Peter Cregeen
Period drama series. Stories of a group of pilots in the Royal Flying Corps during World War One.
Alan Farmer..................................... TIM WOODWARD
Charles Gaylion................................ MICHAEL COCHRANE
Richard Bravington............................ DAVID TROUGHTON
Captain Triggers............................... NICHOLAS JONES
Michael Starling............................... MICHAEL JAYES
Molly Farmer................................... ANNE KRISTEN
Lorna Collins................................... SARAH PORTER
Harry Farmer................................... JOHN HALLAM
Kate............................................... CELIA BANNERMAN
Tom............................................... REG LYE
THE WINNING STREAK
Yorkshire / 6x60m-e / 1985
Writer: Michael J. Bird / Producer: Michael Russell
Drama series. Two brothers run a family garage.
WINSTON CHURCHILL - THE WILDERNESS YEARS
Southern / 8x60m-e / 1981 6 September - 11 October
Creators: Richard Broke, Martin Gilbert / Producer: Richard Broke / Executive Producer: Mark Shivas
Period drama serial. The story of Winston Churchill's years in the political wilderness after his meteoric rise at the start of the 20th Century before again coming to the fore during World War II.
Winston Churchill............................... ROBERT HARDY
Clemintine......................................... SIAN PHILLIPS
Stanley Baldwin................................. PETER BARKWORTH
Bernard Baruch................................. SAM WANAMAKER
Neville Chamberlain........................... ERIC PORTER
Brenda Bracken............................... TIM PIGGOTT-SMITH
Samuel Hoare.................................. EDWARD WOODWARD
Randolph Churchill........................... NIGEL HAVERS
A WINTER HARVEST
BBC / 3x50m-e / 1984
Writer: Jane Beeson / Producer/Director: Colin Goodman
Drama serial. A farmers wife has trouble coping after her husband is admitted to hospital.
With:- CHERYL CAMPBELL / MARK WING-DAVEY / MARK ELLIOT / SHEILA RUSKIN
A WINTER'S TALE
BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x180m-e / 1980
Writer: William Shakespeare / Director: Jane Howell
Romantic drama taking place over two generations.
With:- ANNA CALDER-MARHSALL / JERMEY KEMP / DEBBIE FARRINGTON
WINTER SUNLIGHT
Channel 4-Limehouse / 4x60m-e / 1984
Writer: Alma Cullen / Director: Julian Aymes
Drama serial. A middle aged woman attempts to start a new life after she walks out on her husband.
With:- ELISABETH SELLARS / DEREK FRANCIS / BETTY MARSDEN / DEREK FARR
WINTON'S WONDERLAND
BBC1 / 1x50m-e / Friday 24 December 1999 (10.35pm)
Producer: Helen Tumbridge / Director: Geoff Miles
Entertainment. A look at forty years of festive entertainment with music, archive clips and old ads. Presented by Dale Winton, guests were David Seaman, Anne Robinson, Steps and Culture Club.
WIPE OUT
Granada / 5x60m-e / 1989
Thriller serial. A Home Office investigator has to track and track down a research psychologist who is planning to release a computer virus that could bring the worlds communications.
John Fairling.................................... NIGEL TERRY
Max Raines..................................... IAN McELHINNEY
Khaled Aziz.................................... DEREK BRENCHE
Mika Reynolds............................... CATHERINE NEILSON
WIRE IN THE BLOOD
ITV Network - Coastal / 6x60m (3x2x60m) 8x90m-e / 2002-2005 / 9:00pm
Books: Val McDermid / Executive Producer: Sandra
Joblin
Series of two-part thrillers about clinical psychologist Dr Tony Hill who helped
the police solve cases involving serial killers. He liased with Detective
Inspector Carol Jordan and the pair generally worked together in the fictional
Northern City of Bradfield. In series 2 the format changed to single 90-minute
stories. Premiered 14 November 2002. Robson Green appeared on The Richard and
Judy Show Monday 28 Feb 05 @ 5.00pm to promote the third series of the show
whilst the week previously on Monday 21 Feb 05 @ 10:30am Hermoine Norris
appeared on daytime show This Morning to also promote the show. For more
details see the episode guide here.
With:- ROBSON GREEN as Dr Tony Hill / HERMOINE
NORRIS as DI Carol Jordan
WISH ME LUCK
LWT / 23x60m-e / 1988-90
Creators: Jill Hyem, Lavinia Warner / Music: Denis King / Costume: Sue Formston / Executive Producer: Nick Elliott / Producers: Colin Shindler, Lavinia Warner
Wartime drama series. A group of English women join a spy network in occupied France during World War II alongside various resistance fighters.
With:- KATE BUFFERY as Liz Grainger / SUZANNA HAMILTON as Matty Firman / JANE ASHER as Faith Ashley / JULIAN GLOVER as Col James Cadogan / MICHAEL J. JACKSON as Kit Vanston / LYNN FARLIEGH as Vivien
WISH UPON A STAR
Associated-Rediffusion / 1x50m-e / Wednesday 17 March 1965 (9.40pm) black and white
Executive Producer: Elkan Allan / Director: Joan Kemp-Welch
Entertainment. A variety show starring ITV's 1964 Search For A Star Winner Judi Johnson (this was the winning prize for that show), also appearing were Madeline Bell, Rupert Davies, Keith Finlayson, Keith Fordyce, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Vince Hill, The Mike Sammes singers and the Lennie Mayne Dancers.
WITCHCRAFT
BBC2 / 3x50m-e / 1992
Writer: Nigel Williams / Producer: Carol Parks / Director: Peter Sasdy
Supernatural thriller serial. A 17th Century Witchfinder sets about haunting the crew of a film being made about him.
With:- PETER McENERY / LISA HARROW / CLIVE WOOD
WITCHCRAZE
BBC2 / 1x60m / 29 January 2003 / 9:00pm
Writer/Producer: Mark Hayhurst / Director: James
Kent
A drama-documentary based on original documents telling the tale on the
bloodiest witch-hunt in British history that began in 1589. Filmed as if it were
a docusoap with a camera crew filming the events as they happened.
With:- EWAN STEWART as James Carmichael /
CATHLEEN MCCARRON as Agnes Sampson / JIMMY HARRISON as King James VI / CAS
HARKIND as Lord Bothwell / CHRIS YOUNG as John Fian / IAIN AGNEW as Robert Bruce
WITCH HUNT
BBC2 / 5x25m-e / 1967 29 April - 27 May
Writer: Jon Manchip White / Producer: Alan Bromly / Director: Peter Duguid
Spooky drama serial. When a couple move to a small village they find things there are not as they seem.
With:- PATRICK KAVANAGH / ANNA PALK / JOHN PAUL / DEREK FRANCIS / SALLY HOME
WITHOUT MOTIVE
ITV Network (HTV-United-Alibi) / 12x60m-e / 2000-2002 (Season One: 2 October - 5 November / Mondays 9.00pm then Sundays 9.00pm )
Producer: Chris Kelly / Costume: Sue Yelland / Executive Producers: Linda James, Tim Vaughan, Michele Buck / Music: John Keane / Design: Terry SAckland-Snow / Titles: Christine Buttner
Crime drama series. Detective Constable Jack Mowbray is determined to track down an evil serial killer, pressured by his boss Detective Chief Superintendent Henderson, Mowbray finds the case taking over to such an extent it begins to affect his family life. Season two was more of a straightforward crime drama series.
With:- ROSS KEMP as DC Jack Mowbray / KENNETH CRANHAM as DCS Derek Henderson / JAMIE FORMAN as DC Jim Boulter / HAZEL ELLERBY as Sally Mowbray / DAVID KENNEDY as DC Mickey Lloyd / LOU GISH as DC Linda Harris / SEAN MURRAY as DI Monty Fowler / JANE HAZLEGROVE as WPC Margaret Walkinshaw / IAN BARTHOLOMEW as ACC Ronnie Stocks / JOHN TELFER as DI Keith Chapman / CLAIRE HUCKLE as Paula Mowbray / BUSTER REECE as Stuart Mowbray
WITHOUT YOU
BBC3 / 1x30m / 12 February 2003
Writer: Andrew Kirk / Director: Julian Simpson /
Producer: Paul Rutman
A man murders his wife but then his car is stolen with her body still in the
trunk and he has to gain the trust of the thief's girlfriend in order to get it
back. Repeated the following week on late night BBC1.
With:- LENNIE JAMES / NICOLA STEPHENSON / STEPHEN GRAHAM
WITNESS AGAINST HITLER
BBC1 / 1x75m-e / 1996
Writer/Producer: Jack Emery / Director: Betsan Morris Evans
Wartime drama. German aristocrat Helmuth James von Moltke helps save hundreds of Jews during World War II and also tried to kill Adolf Hitler. Hitler gave the order for his execution in 1945.
Helmuth James von Moltke................... JAMES WILBY
Freya von Moltke................................. HELEN McCRORY
General.............................................. DEREK JACOBI
Judge Freiser...................................... BRIAN COX
Peter Yorck........................................ COLIN BUCHANAN
Harold Poelchaun................................ ALUN ARMSTRONG
Dorothy Poelchau............................... ANNA CALDER-MARSHALL
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
BBC2 / 6x50m-e / 1972
Novel: Elizabeth Gaskell
Period drama serial. In the 19th century Molly Gibson has her life turned upside down when her father remarries and she gains a new mother and stepsister.
With:- ZHIVILA ROCKE as Molly / ROSALIND LLOYD as Cynthia
WIVES AND DAUGHTERS
BBC1/WGBH Boston / 4x75m-e / 1999 28 November - 19 December Sundays 9.00pm
Writer: Andrew Davies / Novel: Elizabeth Gaskell / Producer: Sue Birtwhistle / Music: John Keane / Design: Gerry Scott / Costume: Deidre Clancy / Executive Producers: June Tranter, Rebecca Eaton / Director: Nicholas Renton
Period drama serial. In the early 19th century Molly Gibson has her world turned around when her father remarries, she finds herself with a new mother in Hyacinth Gibson and a beautiful but flighty step sister Cynthia. Both Cynthia and Molly both fall for Roger Hamley (who only has eyes for Cynthia).
With:- JUSTINE WADDELL as Molly Gibson / KEELEY HAWES as Cynthia Kirkpatrick / BILL PATERSON as Mr Gibson / FRANCESCA ANNIS as Hyacinth Kirkpatrick / ANTHONY HOWELL as Roger Hamley / TOM HOLLANDER as Osborne Hamley / MICHAEL GAMBON as Squire Hamley / PENELOPE WILTON as Mrs Hamley / BARBARA FLYNN as Miss Browning / DEBORAH FINDLEY as Miss Phoebe / BARBARA LEIGH-HUNT as Lady Cumnor / IAN CARMICHAEL as Lord Cumnor / IAIN GLEN as Mr Preston / PETER COPLEY as Robinson
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