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All Passion Spent (BBC Drama, Wendy Hiller, Maurice Denham)

In period BBC drama serial All Passion Spent, based on the novel by Vita Sackville West, Lord Slane is dead. After a lifetime spent supporting his...

TV3 years ago

Fair Stood The Wind For France (BBC One 1980, Cecile Paoli, David Beames)

Wartime drama serial Fair Stood The Wind For France was set during World War II when an English aircrew stranded in France following the crashing of...

TV4 years ago

Love on a Branch Line (BBC-1 1994, Michael Maloney, Abigail Cruttenden)

Period comedy drama serial Love on a Branch Line was set in the 1950’s when civil servant Jasper Pye (Michael Maloney) is sent to idyllic Arcady...

Episodes6 years ago

Bergerac: Campaign For Silence (BBC-1 8 Nov 1981, with Ian Hendry)

The fabulous Ian Hendry guest stars as Gerald Furneaux in Campaign For Silence. He is a former soldier writing his memoirs with the aid of journalist...

Episodes6 years ago

Bergerac: Picking It Up (BBC-1 18 Oct 1981, with David Savile)

From it’s opening title sequence, excellent theme tune and glossy sheen it’s clear that Bergerac is a cut above the average 1981 crime drama. When Picking...

TV6 years ago

Seaforth (BBC-1 1994, Linus Roache, Lia Williams)

Created by Peter Ransley, Seaforth was a strong Yorkshire set period drama starring Linus Roache in his breakthrough role. Roache played by Bob Longman who in...

Episodes7 years ago

Shoestring: Stamp Duty (BBC-1 1979, David Ashton)

In Stamp Duty Andy Stapleton, a milkman who shared a pyschiatric ward with Eddie, witnesses a possible murder and is then targeted by the killers, the...

TV7 years ago

Titmuss Regained (ITV 1991, David Threllfall, Kristin Scott Thomas)

Comedy drama serial Titmuss Regained was a sequel to Paradise Postponed. Leslie Titmuus, now Tory secretary of State for HEAP(Housing, Ecological & Planning), tries to prevent...

TV7 years ago

Anna of the Five Towns (BBC-2 1985 with Linsey Beauchamp and Peter Davison)

UK / BBC Two / 4×55 minute episodes / Broadcast 9 January – 30 January 1985 Writer: John Harvey / Novel: Arnold Bennett / Music: Nigel...

Episodes8 years ago

Campion: Look To The Lady (BBC-1 with Gordon Jackson)

UK / BBC One – Consolidated Productions / 2×50 minute episodes / Broadcast 22 – 29 January 1989 Writer: Alan Plater / Costumes: Brian Willis /...

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