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A YEAR IN PROVENCE
BBC1 / 12x30m-e / 1993 28 Feb - 16 May
Writer: Michael Sadler / Book: Peter Mayle / Producer: Ken Riddington / Director: David Tucker
Drama serial. Executive Peter Mayle and his wife Annie give up the rat race to live in a farmhouse in France. This much hyped show turned into a bit of a disaster for the BBC on it's UK showing but proved surprising popular in other parts of the world.
Peter Mayle......................................JOHN THAW
Annie Mayle......................................LINDSAY DUNCAN
Colombani........................................JEAN-PIERRE DELAGE
Marcel.............................................BERNARD SPIEGAL
Amadee Clement..............................JO DOUMERG
THE YEAR LONDON BLEW UP: 1974
C4 / 1x120m / 1 September 2005
Director: Edmund
Coulthard / Producer: Mark Hayhurst
Drama documentary re-telling the story of the sustained IRA bombing campaign in
London during 1974 ending in a six-day siege as the bombers hole-up with
hostages.
With:- MICHAEL COLGAN as O'Connell / CHRIS O'DOWD as Dowd / JONJO O'NEILL as
Duggan / JENNY HOWE as Mrs Matthews / TIM PREECE as Mr Matthews
THE YEAR OF THE FRENCH
RTE/FR3 / 6x60m-e / 1982
Writer: Eugene McCabe / Novel: Thomas Flanagan / Music: The Chieftains
Period drama serial. In 1798 an Irish uprising is engineered by French revolutionaries.
With:- ROBERT STEPHENS / NIALL O'BRIEN / ANNE LOUISE LAMBERT / KEITH BUCKLEY
THE YEAR OF THE SEX OLYMPICS
BBC2 'Theatre 625' / 1x105m-e / 1968 29 July
Writer: Nigel Kneale / Design: Roger Andrews / Producer: Ronald Travers / Director: Michael Elliott
Scifi drama. In an England of the future, the population is split in two, those who make TV Programmes and those who watch. One family agree to have their lives broadcast 24 hours a day. Talk about prophetic, the strangeness that is Big Brother has clear echoes of this play.
With:- LEONARD ROSSITER as Co-Ordinator Ugo Priest / SUZANNE NEVE as Deannie Webb / TONY VOGEL as Nat Mender / VICKERY TURNER as Misch / BRIAN COX as Luger Opie
YELLOWBACKS
BBC1(Scotland) 'The Play on One' / 1x80m-e / 1990 30 August
Writer: Malcolm McKay / Design: Alan Wright / Executive Producer: Bill Bryden / Producer: Peter Broughan / Director: Roy Battersby
Scifi drama. In a Britain of the future, a deadly virus (obviously AIDs - although it is never mentioned) is causing a panic throughout the country. Dr Juliet Horwitz is interrogated over a missing homosexual, Martin Pitt, who is suffering from the virus.
Dr Juliet Horwitz................................ JANET McTEER
David Caesar.................................... ROY MARSDEN
Peter Pike........................................ TIM ROTH
Alex McPherson............................... BILL PATERSON
Cheryl Newman................................ IMELDA STAUNTON
Martin Pitt....................................... CIARAN HINDS
Normal Jarvis................................... KENNY IRELAND
Colin Skye...................................... LUKE HANSON
Carol Fairwater................................ LINDA HENRY
Philip Colthard................................ JONATHON PHILLIPS
THE YELLOW SANDPAPER
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1989
Based On The short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman / Adapted By Maggie Wadey / Producer: Sarah Curtis / Director: John Clive
Period thriller. Charlotte is a young wife suffering from what Victorian doctors termed "nervous fatigue". Her physician-husband, John, takes her to a strange country house he rented to help her recover. A strongly creative woman, Charlotte is desperate to work, primarily to write, but her husband will have none of it. He insists her cure lies in doing nothing. Confined to a top-floor room, Charlotte begins to be obsessed by its wallpaper. It's a stickly yellow color that both fascinates and disgusts her as she lies in bed and tries to trace its intricate patterns. Descending rapidly into insanity, she thinks she sees the figure of a woman behind the paper, trapped behind the bars in the paper's design. Slowly but surely the wallpaper's tortuous pattern finds its way into her mind until she finally comes face-to-face with the woman who has been haunting her.
With:- Julia Watson / Dorothy Tutin / Carolyn Pickles
YELLOWTHREAD STREET
Yorkshire / 6x60m-e / 1990
Producer: Ranald Graham
Crime drama series. Cases of a group of cops stationed in Hong Kong.
Vale.....................................................RAY LONNEN
Brady...................................................MARK McGANN
Kelly....................................................CATHERINE NEILSON
Eden....................................................BRUCE PAYNE
Marenta................................................ROBERT TAYLOR
YES, BUT SERIOUSLY
BBC / 1x30m-e / 1963 16 October - Wednesday 6.35pm
Writer: Ken Hoare / Producer: Lennie Mayne
Comedy. A pair of scriptwriters struggle to complete a script for a film star who is to star in a new TV show.
Tony..................................................TONY TANNER
Barbara ............................................BARBARA YOUNG
YESTERDAY'S ENEMY
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1958 14 October black and white
Writer: Peter R. Newman / Design: John Cooper / Producer: Chloe Gibson
Wartime drama. In 1942 a British army unit are stuck in the Burmese jungle.
With:- GORDON JACKSON / ALEX SCOTT / TERENCE BROOK / BARRY FOSTER / BURT KWOUK / LEE MONTAGUE
YOU CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL
ITV Network - Meridian - Blue Heaven 'Ruth Rendell Mysteries' / 1x60m-e / Broadcast 24 December 1998
Writer: Ted Whitehead / Story: Ruth Rendell / Music: Brian Bennett / Costume Design: Rita Angell / Production Design: Christine Ruscoe / Executive Producer: Graham Benson / Producer: Neil Zeiger / Director: Matthew Evans
Psychological thriller. Delia Galway takes in co-worker Rosamund to help with the rent on her flat, Delia is extremely timid and obsessed with making sure that doors are locked and everything is secure. Rosamund is a much younger partying free spirit and when she begins staying out late events begin to take a sinister turn.
Entertaining thriller that is a little like an extended episode of Tales of the Unexpected.
Delia Galway......................................SERENA EVANS
Rosamund.........................................JANE HAZLEGROVE
Gerald Adrain.....................................SIMON CHANDLER
Chris.................................................PAUL BLAIR
Mrs Swanson....................................JUNE BARRIE
Bearded Man.....................................LES DOHERTY
Valerie..............................................KATE BINCHY
Jackie..............................................DEBBIE CHAZEN
YOU CAN'T TAKE IT WITH YOU
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1947 black and white
Writers: Moss Hart, George F. Kaufman / Producer: Joel O'Brien
Comedy. When a wealthy bachelor falls for a girl she introduces him to her eccentric family.
With:- FINLAY CURRIE / WILLIAM KEMP / BESSIE LOVE / CONNIE SMITH / DIANA DECKER
YOU CAN'T WIN
Granada / 7x60m-e / 1966 black and white
Writer: Roy Madron / Books: William Cooper / Producer: Margaret Morris
Period drama serial. Stories of a young would be novelist between the years 1939 and 1949.
Joe Lunn...............................................IAN McSHANE
Myrtle...................................................PATRICIA GARWOOD
Robert..................................................JOHN HUMPHREY
Tom.....................................................PETER BIRREL
YOU CAN'T WIN 'EM ALL
BBC / 1x70m-e / 1962 7 February black and white
Writer: Alun Owen / Producer: John Jacobs
Drama about an out of work sailor. This production led to the series Corrigan Blake.
Corrigan Blake..................................JACK HEDLEY
YOU MUST BE VIRGINIA
ABC (Armchair Mystery Theatre) / 1x60m-e / 1964 6 September - Sunday 9.35pm
Writer: Richard Harris / Design: David Marshall / Director: Don Leaver
Thriller. A young couple find their marriage under strain when a stranger pays them a visit.
With:- RICHARD JOHNSON / TOBY ROBINS / NIGEL STOCK
YOU'LL NEVER SEE ME AGAIN
HTV / 1x60m-e / 1986
Writer: Terence Feely / Story: William Irish / Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole / Producer: Terry Miller
Crime drama. A detective investigates the disappearance of a teenage girl.
With:- LESLIE PHILLIPS as Det Supt Weston / GEORGINA SLOWE as Margaret Alden / DIANA COUPLAND / PETER GILMORE / WANDA VENTHAM
YOU'LL NEVER WALK ALONE
Yorkshire / 1x30m-e / 1974
Writers: Ray Galton, Alan Simpson / Producer: Vernon Lawrence
Comedy. On a train going to London for the FA Cup Final, three mad keen Leeds Utd fans try to persuade three non football fans to join them.
Maurice................................................BRIAN GLOVER
Marjorie................................................MAUREEN LIPMAN
Trevor...................................................GORDON ROLLINGS
YOU ARE HERE
Channel 4 / 1x45m-e / 1998 30 December
Writers: Mark Freeland, Matt Lucas, Robert Roper, David Williams / Producer: Nira Park / Director: John Birkin
Comedy drama. The small community of the village of Here are up in arms when a local bigwig plans to sell off the village.
Ken....................................................KEITH ALLEN
Laura.................................................SALLY PHILLIPS
Pat Magnet........................................MATT LUCAS
Sheldon Cohen...................................NIGEL PLANER
Rita Cohen.........................................KATE ROBBINS
Peter Kegsie......................................JOHN THOMSON
YOU NEVER CAN TELL
BBC (Play of the Month) / 1x90m-e / 1977
Play: George Bernard Shaw
Period comedy. Shaw's comic tour-de-force is set beside the seaside where a holiday atmosphere prevails. Amidst the sunshine and sea air, against a background of a fancy dress party and luncheon, Shaw uses his lightest touch to explore the battle of the sexes, the absurdities of marriage and the generation gap.
The enlightened Mrs Lanfrey Clandon and her three clever and unconventional children have returned to England after eighteen years of living abroad. Whilst staying at a Hotel in Torbay the family bumps into the staunchly traditional father they had previously abandoned. Add into the equation an inpoverished dentist, an eminent QC and a seemingly all-knowing waiter
With:- Cyril Cusack, Patrick Magee, Judy Parfitt, Robert Powell
YOUNG AT HEART
ATV 'The Sound of Laughter' / 1x30m-e / 1977 4 August - Thursday 7.00pm
Writer: Ronnie Taylor / Producer/Director: Les Chatfield
Comedy. A pair of old age pensioners fall out over their grandson.
Albert Sculley..................................STRATFORD JOHNS
Leonard Jarvis..................................RICHARD PEARSON
YOUNG CHARLIE CHAPLIN
Thames / 1x60 5x30m-e / 1989
Writers: Colin Shindler, Stan Hey, Andrew Nickolds / Producer: Colin Shindler
Period drama serial. In the early part of the 20th Century young Charlie Chaplin treads the music hall boards as part of an act with his mother and father.
Charlie Chaplin.................................JOE GEARY
Charlie Chaplin Sr.............................IAN McSHANE
Hannah Chaplin................................TWIGGY LAWSON
Sydney Chaplin................................LEE WHITLOCK
THE YOUNGER GENERATION
Granada / x60m-e / 1961 black and white
Producer: Peter Wildeblood
An anthology series of dramas with a resident cast of up and coming actors, including JOHN THAW, RONALD LACEY, REGINALD MARSH, MARY MILLER, JUDY CORNWELL AND JOHNNY BRIGGS.
THE YOUNG PERSONS GUIDE TO BECOMING A ROCK STAR
Channel 4 / 6x45m-e / 1998 10 November - 15 December
Writer: Bryan Elsley / Producer: Peter Norris / Director: Sheree Folkson
Comedy drama serial. A group of young Glaswegians try to make it big in the music business.
Jez.................................................CIARAN McMENAMIN
Fiona..............................................SIMONE LAHBIB
Psycho...........................................DUNCAN MARWICK
Joe.................................................NICOLA STAPLETON
Wullie.............................................STEPHEN McCOLE
Ossie..............................................FRANK GALLAGHER
Alice...............................................BARBARA RAFFERTY
Himself...........................................NOEL GALLAGHER
THE YOUNG VISITERS
BBC1 / 1x90m / 26 December 2003
Novel: Daisy Ashford / Writer: Patrick
Barlow / Director: David Yates / Producer: Christopher Hall
Period Victorian comedy drama. Alfred Salteena falls for Ethel Monticue whom he
meets on a train. He offers to introduce her to dukes and lords to impress her,
but finds she is just using him to meet a better class of people. So Alfred
attends a finishing school to learn how to be a proper gentleman. Written by
Daisy Ashford when she was 9-years old - the spelling mistake in the title was
her own.
With:- JIM BROADBENT as Alfred Salteena
/ HUGH LAURIE as Lord Bernard Clark / LYNDSEY MARSHAL as Ethel Monticue / BILL
NIGHY as Earl of Clincham / GEOFFREY PALMER as Minnit / SIMON RUSSELL BEALE as
Prince of Wales / SOPHIE THOMPSON as Bessie Topp / SALLY HAWKINS as Rosalind
YOUR CHEATIN' HEART
BBC1 / 6x50m-e / 1990 11 October - 15 November
Writer: John Byrne / Producer: Peter Brougham / Director: Michael White
Comedy drama serial. When her country singer husband is accused of drug traffiking Cissie Crouch determines to prove his innocence.
With:- TILDA SWINTON as Cissie Crouch / JOHN GORDON SINCLAIR as Frank McClusky / KEVIN McMONAGLE as Dorwood / KATY MURPHY
YOU'RE BREAKING UP
BBC2 / 1x30m / 29 October 2003 / 11:20pm
Writer: Bill Dare / Director: Matt Lipsey / Producer: Rob Bullock
Comic drama. A man's life becomes ever more complicated in a series of
mobile-phone conversations. A one-hander with only the man's side of his
conversations heard.
With:- NITIN GANATRA as Deep
YOU'RE NOT WATCHING ME MUMMY
ITV
Network-Yorkshire / 1x50 minutes / Broadcast: Sunday 20 January 1980 @ 10.15pm
Writer: John Osborne / Designer: Jeremy Bear / Executive
Producers: David Cunliffe / Director: James Ormerod
Drama. A typically Osborne piece that goes behind the scenes of a West End play,
with bitchiness and backstabbing well to the fore.
Cast:
Ian Gardiner as Mr. Colbourne / Anna Massey as Jemima / Peter Sallis as Leslie /
Alan Rowe as Dr. Ronald Grove / John Gill as Freddie Lamons / Wanda Ventham as
Susan / David Sterne as Aubrey / Gillian Martell as Mrs. Colbourne / Christopher
Driscoll as Stage Manager / Jeremy Nicholas as Anthony / Tony Goodall as Man in
dressing-room / Kim Fortune, Glory Annen and Christine Shaw as Theatregoers /
Suzanne Bertish as Lena / Ronald Whelan as Stanley Klob / Karen Mayo-Chandler as
Shirley Rose / Douglas Heard as Rene
YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN
BBC1 / x50m-e / 1975
Creators: N.J. Crisp, Gerard Glaister / Producer: Peter Cregeen
Drama series. Ryder an embittered former policeman plots to make his fortune.
Ryder...............................................DENIS QUILLEY
Kathy...............................................JUNE RITCHIE
YOUR MAN FROM THE SIX COUNTIES
BBC 'Play for Today' / 1x90m-e / 1976
Writer: Colin Welland / Producer: Kenith Trodd / Director: Barry Davis
Drama. A young lad from Belfast in an attempt for him to avoid the troubles is sent South to stay with his auntie and uncle.
With:- BRENDA FRICKER
BBC1 / 667 episodes x25/50 m-e / 1962-78
Creator: Troy Kennedy Martin / Music arranged by Bridget Fry and Fritz Spiegl
Crime drama series. Long running and very popular police procedure series following a group of PC's and Detectives in a fictional Liverpool suburb. Major spin off with Softly Softly. The cops squad cars were Ford Zephyrs.
Imported cast members included:- STRATFORD JOHNS as DCI Charlie Barlow / FRANK WINDSOR as DS John Watt / BRIAN BLESSED as PC William 'Fancy' Smith / JEREMY KEMP as PC Bob Steele / JACK ELLIS as PC Bert Lynch / JOSPEH BRADY as PC Jock Weir / COLIN WELLAND as PC David Graham / LEONARD ROSSITER as DI Bamber / JOSS ACKLAND as DI Todd / DAVID DAKER as PC Owen Culshaw / STEPHEN YARDLEY as PC Alec May / STEPHANIE TURNER as WPC Jill Howarth / ALISON STEADMAN as WPC Bayliss
ZERO ONE
BBC1 / 39x30m-e / 1962-65 black and white
Producer: Lawrence P. Bachmann
Action adventure series. Stories of Alan Garnett a detective with International Air Security.
With:- NIGEL PATRICK as Alan Garnett / BILL SMITH as Jim Delaney / KATYA DOUGLAS as Maya
Z FOR ZACHARIAH
BBC 'Play for Today' / 1x120m-e / 1984 28 February
Writer/Director: Anthony Garner
Scifi drama. Following a nuclear war a young girl lives alone in a remote Welsh Valley, until a man turns up from the ravaged city area.
With:- ANTHONY ANDREWS / PIPPA HINCHLEY
ZODIAC
Thames / 6x60m-e / 1974
Creator/Script Editor: Roger Marshall / Producer: Jacqueline Davis / Executive Producer: Kim Mills
Crime drama series. Scotland Yard detective David Gradley uses astrologer Esther Jones to help him on his cases.
With:- ANTON RODGERS as David Gradley / ANOUSKA HEMPEL as Esther Jones
ATV / 6x60m-e / 1973
Creator: Paul Gallico / Theme Music: Paul and Linda McCartney / Producer: Herbert Hirschman
Action adventure series. After a gap of 30 years four former members of a world war II resistance group are reunited to fight crime in the South of France. The title came from their resistance code names. The theme tune was released as the B-side of the Band on the Run classic single.
With:- BRIAN KEITH as Stephen 'Fox' Halliday / JOHN MILLS as Tommy 'Elephant' Devon / BARRY MORSE as Alec 'Tiger' Marlowe / LILLI PALMER as Manouche 'Leopard' Roget / SERETTA WILSON as Jill Burton / MICHAEL PETROVITCH as Lt Georges Roget
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