In comedy drama series Firm Friends, middle aged Rose Gutteridge teams up with her house cleaner Jayshree Kapoor to start their own chain of fast food...
Period drama The Fifteen Streets was the first entry in ITV’s reasonably high budget adaptations of Catherine Cookson novels. Set in 1910 in the North of...
Hugely popular saga novel Catherine Cookson had seen surprisingly few of her novels dramatised for film and TV until these high profile, big budget productions came...
Period drama serial. Rural Northumberland 1830:Penniless widow Riah Millican allows her new employer to educate her children but this leads to tragedy. cast Bob Peck as...
Period drama serial. In the 1860’s wealthy Matthew Thornton courts scandal by taking in his illegitimate daughter to raise with his other children. production details UK...
Period drama serial. A factory owner falls in love with her foreman but tragedy awaits them when he is accused of murder. production details UK |...
Period drama serial. On post world war one Tyneside Irish Catholic Bridget McQueen causes scandal by marrying a black merchant seaman, later their daughter has trouble...
Crime drama series about Finney, the one law abiding member of a criminal family who finds himself having to take the reigns of the family ‘business’...
A kind of spin off from Auf Weidersehen Pet which saw Dennis Patterson having to give a heap of bricklayers a talk on the dangers of...
Period drama serial The Gambling Man was based on one of the first novels written by Catherine Cookson and focused on rent collector Rory Connor who...
Shown over three consecutive nights the hard hitting Operation Julie, which is set in the mid 1970’s, follows a team of dedicated (sometimes too dedicated) undercover...
UK / ITV Network – Tyne Tees – Coastal / 1×120 minute episodes / Broadcast Thursday 7 September 2000 at 9.00pm Writer: Eric Deacon / Music:...
Period ITV drama serial Act of Will follows orphan girl Audra (Victoria Tennant) in the 1920′s as she grows up and makes something of herself. She...
UK / Channel 4 – Tyne Tees / 6×55 minute episodes / Broadcast 20 August – 24 September 1983 Writer: Robin Chapman / Novel: William Godwin...