Gerard Glaister Archives

Oil Strike North: The Fatal Hours Part 2 (S1EP13 BBC One 18 Nov 1975, Oliver Maguire)

The Fatal Hours Part 2: Nelson One is badly damaged. The lives of seventy men are at risk. Regular Cast: Nigel Davenport (Fraser), Michael Whitney (Frank Ward),...

Episodes8 months ago

Secret Army: Day of Wrath (S2EP13 BBC 28 Dec 1978, John Alkin)

Day of Wrath: Andre De Beers, a Belgian fighter pilot, is taken prisoner by the Gestapo and forced to watch his brother being tortured to death....

Episodes9 months ago

Codename: Target (S1EP2 BBC One 14 Apr 1970, Patrick Allen)

Target: Sir Iain orders lawyer and spy Philip West to escort a professional assassin, Morgan, back from Portugal to England. But West’s assignment is not as...

Howard's Way BBC Drama Maurice Colbourne Jan Harvey, Edward Highmore, Tracey Childs,

TV9 months ago

Howard’s Way (BBC Drama, Maurice Colbourne, Jan Harvey)

Drama series Howard’s Way was a mainstay of Sunday night prime time for most of the late 1980s and Britains answer to the glossy super soaps...

Kessler BBC Drama, Clifford Rose, Alan Dobie

TV9 months ago

Kessler (BBC Drama, Clifford Rose, Alan Dobie)

Thriller serial Kessler was a spin off from Secret Army. 35 Years after the end of World War II, a Belgian TV show producer discovers that...

TV10 months ago

Codename (BBC Thriller, Clifford Evans, Alexandra Bastedo)

Thriller series Codename took us into the cases of a government department known as MI7. The group had as their cover a section of Cambridge College...

TV10 months ago

Secret Army (BBC Drama, Jan Francis, Bernard Hepton)

In wartime drama series Secret Army, a Belgian group called Lifeline set up a resistance movement helping shot down British airmen get back to Blighty. Working...

TV11 months ago

Morgan’s Boy (BBC Drama, Gareth Thomas)

In BBC drama series Morgan’s Boy, young Lee (Martyn Hesford) goes to stay with his Welsh farmer uncle Morgan (Gareth Thomas) who is facing a battle...

Episodes4 years ago

The Fourth Arm Part One (BBC-1 1983, with Roy Boyd)

In the first episode of The Fourth Arm, a series that can be considered something of a companion piece to the BBC’s popular drama Secret Army...

TV4 years ago

Fourth Arm, The (BBC-1 1983, Paul Shelley, Philip Latham)

Wartime drama series The Fourth Arm was set in 1944 and saw British Officer Major Gallagher and a specially selected team sent to France to try...

TV4 years ago

Trainer (BBC-1 1991-1992, Mark Greenstreet, Nigel Davenport)

Drama series Trainer focused on Mike Hardy who is given the chance by horse owner James Brant to start his own racing stables. Against all the...

TV5 years ago

Blood Money (BBC-1 1981, Bernard Hepton, Michael Denison)

Espionage and thriller serial Blood Money was the first of three BBC productions to feature the character of Captain Percival who works for Special Intelligence. In...

TV5 years ago

Cold Warrior (BBC-1 1984, Michael Denison, Lucy Fleming)

After appearing in two six part serials, Blood Money and Skorpion, Captain Percival gets his own fully fledged series in Cold Warrior. Over the course of...