Richard Vernon Archives | Memorable TV

The Sandbaggers (ITV Drama, Roy Marsden, Ray Lonnen)

Strongly played spy drama series that told of the exploits of a tough no nonsense intelligence outfit known as The Sandbaggers. The team officially known as...

TV3 years ago

Night Train To Murder (ITV Comedy, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise)

Night Train to Murder is the 1980’s swan song from TV legends Morecambe and Wise. When it begins it is 1946 and a pair of ageing...

TV3 years ago

Paradise Postponed (ITV Drama, Michael Hordern, David Threllfall)

With the creation of Leslie Titmuss John Mortimer came up with one of the truly brilliant characters of British TV and provided David Threllfall with the...

TV3 years ago

The Duchess of Duke Street (BBC Drama, Gemma Jones)

In period drama series The Duchess of Duke Street Edwardian cook Louisa Trotter (Gemma Jones) determines to improve herself and eventually becomes the owner of her...

TV3 years ago

The Mind Of Mr J.G. Reeder (ITV Crime, Hugh Burden)

Period crime drama series The Mind of Mr J.G. Reeder took us to the 1920’s, where the J.G. Reeder (Hugh Burden) of the title investigates crimes...

TV3 years ago

The Master (ITV Scifi, Olaf Pooley, Adrienne Posta)

In family scifi drama The Master a pair of teens, Nicky (Paul Guess) and Judy (Adrienne Posta) get marooned on an island that has fallen under...

TV3 years ago

The Man In Room 17 (ITV Drama, Richard Vernon, Michael Aldridge)

Crime drama series The Man In Room 17 detailed the cases of two criminologists, Oldenshaw (Richard Vernon) and Dimmock (Michael Aldridge), who solve baffling crimes from...

TV3 years ago

Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The (BBC Sitcom, Simon Jones)

In scifi sitcom Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, after the Earth is demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent (Simon Jones) finds...

TV3 years ago

Helping Henry (Channel 4 Kids TV, Richard Vernon, Jeremy Hardy)

Kids scifi comedy series Helping Henry saw an alien (voiced by Jeremy Hardy who also co-wrote the series) from the planet Holgon travel to Earth, disguised...

TV4 years ago

Night Train to Murder (ITV 1985, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise)

Night Train to Murder is the 1980’s swan song from TV legends Morecambe and Wise. When it begins it is 1946 and a pair of ageing...

TV4 years ago

Guardians, The (ITV 1971, Gwyneth Powell, Edward Petherbridge)

In scifi drama The Guardians we are in the not too distant future where Britain is in a state of disarray. There has been a major...

Movies4 years ago

Hard Day’s Night, A (UA 1964, The Beatles, Wilfred Brambell)

Comparisons to the Marx Brothers are not inappropriate — each Beatle comes off here as having his own unique, wacky personality. In a tapestry of surreal...

Movies4 years ago

Evil Under The Sun (1982, Peter Ustinov, Diana Rigg)

Director Guy Hamilton follows the tradition established in previous films such as Murder on the Orient Express and Death on the Nile, by taking a an...

TV5 years ago

Roll Over Beethoven (ITV 1985, Nigel Planer, Liza Goddard)

In sitcom Roll Over Beethoven rock star Nigel Cochrane gives up touring and moves to a small village to concentrate on his music, once there he...

Episodes5 years ago

Hadleigh: God Save Us From Moralists (ITV 12 Mar 1976, with Anthony Corlan)

In God Save Us From Moralists James, after his attempt to take a larger shareholding in a merchant bank has gone awry, is on the verge...

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Richard Vernon

The Sandbaggers (ITV Drama, Roy Marsden, Ray Lonnen)

Night Train To Murder (ITV Comedy, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise)

Paradise Postponed (ITV Drama, Michael Hordern, David Threllfall)

The Duchess of Duke Street (BBC Drama, Gemma Jones)

The Mind Of Mr J.G. Reeder (ITV Crime, Hugh Burden)

The Master (ITV Scifi, Olaf Pooley, Adrienne Posta)

The Man In Room 17 (ITV Drama, Richard Vernon, Michael Aldridge)

Hitch-Hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy, The (BBC Sitcom, Simon Jones)

Helping Henry (Channel 4 Kids TV, Richard Vernon, Jeremy Hardy)

Night Train to Murder (ITV 1985, Eric Morecambe, Ernie Wise)

Guardians, The (ITV 1971, Gwyneth Powell, Edward Petherbridge)

Hard Day’s Night, A (UA 1964, The Beatles, Wilfred Brambell)

Evil Under The Sun (1982, Peter Ustinov, Diana Rigg)

Roll Over Beethoven (ITV 1985, Nigel Planer, Liza Goddard)

Hadleigh: God Save Us From Moralists (ITV 12 Mar 1976, with Anthony Corlan)

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