Crocodile Shoes: Still I Dream (BBC-1 5 Dec 1996, with Christopher Fairbank)

In Still I Dream, Warren Bowles arranges a meeting with Jed’s old record company and plans to arrange an audit of the company (all part of Bowles machinations, the last thing he actually wants is an audit of the company). On another note Lucy tracks down Alan Clarke who has started his own record company and wants to offer Jed a new record contract. Clarke also lets Jed know that Bowles is not to be trusted. Meanwhile Emma marries the odious Pep but on their wedding night realises he hasn’t changed at all and takes a knife to him….

It doesn’t quite ring true that Jed would have been so completely abandoned and potless, reduced in this episode to working for the crooked Pep (although he claims it is only to keep an eye on him) but things are going on in the background, not least with Alan Clarke who genuinely does seem to have Jed’s best interests at heart.

production details
UK / BBC One – Big Boy – Red Rooster / 1×50 minute episode / Broadcast 5 December 1996

Writer: Jimmy Nail / Director: Roger Bamford

Series: Crocodile Shoes Season 2 Episode 4

guest cast
JOHN BOWLER as Pep
GLENN McCRORY as Nigel
JAYNE CHARLTON MacKENZIE as Doctor
RON SENIOR JR as Curtis
ROBERT MORGAN as Warren Bowles
SARA STEWART as Lucy
MOLLY BEAN as Beckie
BRIAN WALSH as Bobby
SAMMY JOHNSON as Archie
JEFFREY KNOX as Omo
PAUL PALANCE as Big Chrissie
SHEILA TAIT as Mary
RICHARD SANDS as Bob
PAT DUNN as Florist
ELIZABETH CARLING as Wendy
DONALD SUMPTER as Pilsbury
JANE DIXON as Tart
CHRIS GOULDING as Lord Mayor
DAVID HADDOW as Project Manager
ROY PATTISON as Walter Fines
CHRISTOPHER CONNEL as Paul
MICKEY HUTTON as Tony
DAVE TAGGART, STEVE ROBSON, JOHN MILES JNR, FRANK GIBBON, PAUL THOMPSON as Band
CHRISTOPHER FAIRBANK as Alan Clarke