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Seven
Wonders of the Industrial Age
UK /
BBC2 / 7x50m / started 4 September 2003
Series producer: Deborah Cadbury
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A series of drama-documentaries showing the development and personalities behind some of the greatest technological achievements and endeavours of the industrial age. Narration by Robert Lindsay.
1) The Great Ship (Writer/Director: Christopher Spencer - 4 September 2003)
The story of Isambard Kingdom Brunel's building of the world's largest ship, "The Great Eastern" in the mid-1800s.
With:- RON COOK as Brunel / MICHAEL CARTER as John Scott Russell / ANNA FAMWORTH as Mary Brunel
2) Brooklyn Bridge (Writer/Director: Paul Wilmshurst - 11 September 2003)
The story of how the Roebling family designed and built the longest suspension bridge ever built to connect Manhattan with Brooklyn which was opened in 1883.
With:- GEORGE ANTON as Washington Roebling / DEBORAH WESTON as Emily Roebling / STEVEN BERKOFF as John Roebling / DONALD SUMPTER as Farrington / SHANE RIMMER as William Kingsley
3) The Bell Rock Lighthouse (Writer: Tony Mulholland / Director: Christopher Spencer - 18 September 2003)
The story of how in the early 1800s Robert Stevenson built a lighthouse on the treacherous Bell Rock reef off the east coast of Scotland which remains underwater for 20 hours of the day and was the cause of countless shipwrecks.
With:- ROBERT CAVANAGH as Robert Stevenson / DAVID ROBB as John Rennie / BRUCE McGREGOR as Henderson / KEN DRURY as James Glen
4) Transcontinental Railway (Writer/Director: Paul Bryers - 25 September 2003)
The story of how in the 1800's with huge government grants in the offing two corporations starting at opposite end of the United States built a railway line traversing a continent and transformed the fortunes of their country.
With:- MARCUS D'AMICO as Dodge / MARK CAMERON as Crocker / RICHARD GROSS as Stobridge / ROBERT YOUNG as Durant
5) The Sewer King (Writer: Gregory Evans / Director: Edward Bazalgette - 2 October 2003)
With London stinking from sewage and cholera a rising epidemic this is the story of how in the mid-1800s Joseph Bazalgette built a sewer system underneath London to take the waste safely away. Note: The director was a descendant of Bazalgette.
With:- MARK MCGANN as Joseph Bazalgette / SAM TROUGHTON as H Percy Boulnois / PIP TORRENS AS Dr John Snow / NORMAN LOVETT as William Farr / MARTIN WHITBY as Edwin Chadwick
6) The Panama Canal (Writer: Rachel Wright / Director: Philip Smith - 9 October 2003)
Begun by a French engineer in 1880 and completed by the Americans, the Panama Canal was a mammoth engineering project to provide a short-cut through Panama to link the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. It was completed in 1914.
With:- JOHN WALTERS as Monsieur De Lesseps / ANGUS MACINNES as Goethals / ROBERT JEZEK as Gorgas / JEFF HARDING as Dr John Stevens / STEPHEN MANHAN as Dingler
7) The Hoover Dam (Writer/Director: Mark Everest - 16 October 2003)
The story of how the massive Hoover Dam was built in the path of the mighty Colorado river in the 1930s.
With:- JAUDON BENEDICT as Frank Crowe / COLIN STINTON as Walker young / GARY WEBB as Leonard Blood / ANDREW FULTON as Louis Fagan
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