Tower Of London, The: The Innocent (BBC-1 1969, James Maxwell)

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7 years ago

December 25, 2016

Period drama The Innocent was set just after the end of the War of the Roses when the King finds that there is a plot to take the crown away from him and that a prisoner in the Tower may have a rightful claim to Kingship.

A pilot from the Drama Playhouse strand for a hoped for series that never emerged.

production details
UK / BBC One / 1×50 minute episodes / Broadcast Thursday 31 July 1969 at 8.00pm

Writer: Derek Ingrey / Design: Stanley Morris / Producer: Jordan Lawrence / Director: Jonathan Alwyn

Series: Drama Playhouse Season 1 Episode 2

cast
JAMES MAXWELL as Henry VII
BERNARD ARCHARD as Earl of Oxford
PAUL BACON as Count Chamberlain
WOLFE MORRIS as Dr Puebla
SIMON TURNER as Prince Arthur
PETER COPLEY as Archbishop Morton
ROBERT POWELL as Earl of Warwick
PHILIPPA URQUHART as Lady Catherine
CORIN REDGRAVE as Perkin Warbeck
EDWARD KELSEY as Clerk of the Court
PETER WELCH as Robert Cleymound
JOHN ABINERI as Thomas Astwood
ROY PATRICK as Gaoler
LAURENCE JEFFREY as Prince Henry

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