UK / ITV
(
ATV-Sheldon Leonard) / 17x30m-e /
1972
21 January - 14 May
Creator/Producers: Frank Tarloff, Melville
Shavelson / Producer: Barry Delamaine / Music: Laurie Johnson / Associate Producer: Ronald Rubin
Comedy drama series.
American Shirley Logan moves to London to begin
working as a journalist but seems to spend much of the series in Hong Kong.
Unusually ATV try the half hour format for one of their comedy action
adventure series.
REGULAR CAST
SHIRLEY MACLAINE as Shirley Logan / JOHN GREGSON as
Dennis Croft / KIM SMITH as Rodney
ONE SEASON ONLY
1. THE BERKELEY CLUB
CAPER (Friday 21 Jan 72 @ 10.30pm)
Original Story: Frank Tarloff
/ Director: Ralph Levey
Photographer Shirley Logan arrives in
London to start her new job.
guest cast
Sir Harold: Charles Lloyd Pack
Commissionaire: Erik Chitty
Elderly member: Arthur Howard
Lord Arthur: Rayner Newmark
2. THOU SHALL NOT BE
FOUND OUT (Friday 28 Jan 1972 @ 10:30pm)
Writer: Peter Miller / Director: Ray Austin
Photographer-at-large Shirley Logan uses her own devious methods to patch up a film star's broken marriage.
guest cast
Richard Burley: Nigel Davenport
Henry: Jeremy Lloyd
Mary Burley: Lelia Goldoni
3. THE DEFECTIVE
DEFECTOR (Friday 4 Feb 1972 @ 10:30pm)
Writer: John Muir, Brian Degas
/ Director: Ray Austin
Shirley meets a handsome Russian singer from a Cossack Choir. She suspects that he is trying to defect to the West, but he insists he is only trying to escape from the choir's director so that he can listen to Western music.
Producer: Barry Delmaine
guest cast
Agent: Bill Nagy
Igor Kuraganovitch: Stuart Damon
4. THE LOVERS (Friday 11 Feb 1972 @
10:30pm)
Writer: Peter Miller /
Director: Ray Austin
Shirley unravels a Japanese "arranged" marriage for a couple who don't love each other. The marriage has been fixed by the couple's parents to unite their rival pearl companies, so Shirley sets out to perform a bit of industrial sabotage. But the best laid plans go awry!
guest cast
Tamiko: Akiko Wakabayashi
Morko: Riko Miura
Akira: Shinzo Hotta
Yoshida: Tetsu Nakamura
Nidaido: Koji Kawamura
Coutourier: Keiji Takamiya
5. THE ISLANDERS (Friday 18 Feb 1972 @ 10:30pm)
Writer: Lew Schwarz / Director: Charles Crichton
Shirley gets into a buccaneering spirit on a Scottish island.
guest cast
Duncan MacDonald: Peter Dyneley
Admiral: Richard Caldicot
Air Vice Marshal: Ronald Adam
Angus McRuddy: Roddy McMillan
Lt. Commander: Michael Culver
Prime Minister: Gerald Sim
Catriona MacDonald: Sally Thomsett
Donald MacDonald: Derek Anders
6. THE COLONEL (Friday 25 Feb 1972 @ 10:30pm )
A struggle to save the countryside from the invasion of a new oil refinery sees Shirley involved in the battle for human rights.
Writer: Peter Miller / Director: Charles Crichton
guest cast
Joe Burns: Bill Owen
Sir Matthew Hardcastle: Derek Francis
The Colonel: Michael Trubahawe
7. TO DREAM THE IMPROBABLE DREAM (Sunday 5 Mar 1972 @ 2:10pm)
Shirley's attempts to sponsor a pavement painter prove that patronage of the arts has its problems.
Director: Ralph Levy
guest cast
Mathew Juick: Ron Moody
Beanie: Nicky Henson
8. A HELL OF AN ENGINEER (Sunday 12 Mar 1972 @ 2:15pm)
Shirley plans to photograph a Japanese temple but ends up down on the farm.
Writer: Lew Schwarz / Director: Ray Austin
guest cast
Shunji: Burt Kwouk
Moriko: Yasuko Nagazumi
|
