ALL FOR LOVE
Granada / 12x60m-e / 1982-83
Producer: Roy Roberts
An anthology series of dramas with a romantic bias.
Episode titles were:-
Season One (25 July – 29 Aug 1982)
1. A Dedicated Man (Sunday 25 July 82 @ 9.00pm) | Director: Robert Knights
2. Mona (Sunday 1 Aug 1982 @ 9.00pm) | Director: Robert Knights
3. L’Elegance (Sunday 8 Aug 1982 @ 9.00pm) | Director: Jack Gold
4. Combat (Sunday 15 Aug 1982 @ 9.00pm) | Director: Brian Mills
5. A Bit of Singing and Dancing (Sunday 22 Aug 1982 @ 9.00pm) | Director: Brian Mills
6. Lovers of Their Time (Sunday 29 Aug 1982 @ 8.55pm) | Director: Robert Knights
Season Two ( 4 September – 9 October 1983)
1. Down at the Hydro (Sunday 4 Sep 1983 @ 10.00pm) | Writer: William Sansom | Director: John Irvin | With: Jean Simmons Ian Carmichael Joan Sanderson
2. Miss A and Miss M (Sunday 11 Sep 1983 @ 10.00pm) | Writer: Stephen Wakeling | Story: Elizabeth Taylor (not the actress) | Director: Robert Knights | With: Kika Markham, Jennifer Hilary
3. Mrs Silly ( Sunday 18 September 1983 @ 10.00pm) | Writer: Bob Larbey | Story: William Trevor | With: Maggie Smith, Michael Culver
4. Letting The Birds Go Free (Sunday 25 Sep 1983 @ 10.00pm) | Director: Moira Armstrong | With: Lionel Jeffreis Carolyn Pickles Tom Willkinson Martin Stone
5. Fireworks For Elspeth (Sunday 2 Oct 1983 @ 10.00pm) | Director: Alvin Rakoff
6. To The Camp and Back (Sunday 9 Oct 1983 @ 10.10pm) | Director: John Glenister
ALL FOR LOVE
BBC1/Little Bird / 1x90m-e / 1999 / 6 June / Sun 9.00pm / ‘Digital – Widescreen’
Wrier: Allan Cubitt / Novel:St Ives by R.L Stevenson / Producers: Johnathon Cavendish, James Mitchell, / Director: Harry Hook
Period drama. In the 19th century Napoleonic wars dashing French officer Jacques St Ives finds himself captured and stuck in a Scottish Prisoner of War Camp where he soon falls for the beautiful Flora.
With:- JEAN MARC BARR as St Ives /ANNA FREIL as Flora / MIRANDA RICHARDSON as Miss Gilchrist / RICHARD E. GRANT as Chevening / TIM DUTTON as Francois / CECILLE PALLAS as Mathilde / MICHAEL GOUGH as Count / JASON ISAACS as Alain / DESMOND BARRIT as Linlithgow / CHRISTOPHER McHALLEM as Gautier / JIMMY KEOGH as Jean / VERNON DOBTCHEFF as Bonnefoy
ALL GOOD MEN
BBC1 ‘Play for Today’ / 1x65m-e / 1974 31 Jan
Writer: Trevor Griffiths / Design: Peter Brachacki / Producer: Graeme McDonald / Director:Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Drama. An elderly Labour politician, Edward Waite, looks back over his career, in the company of a TV producer.
With:- BILL FRASER as Edward Waite / FRANCES DE LA TOUR as Maria / JACK SHEPHERD as William / RONALD PICKUP as Richard Massingham
ALL GOOD THINGS
BBC1 / 6x30m-e / 1991 14 May – 18 June
Comedy drama series. A 39 year old decides to go about helping people and generally doing good.
With:- BRENDA BLETHYN
ALL IN THE GAME
Carlton / 6x60m-e / 1993
Creator: Gary Lineker, Stan Hey
Drama. A promising English footballer enters a whole new top flight, champagne filled world when he is transferred to top Spanish club Barcelona.
With:- LLOYD OWEN as Darren Matthews / JOHN FORGEHAM as Freddie Matthews / WARREN CLARKE as Kenny Dawes
ALL OR NOTHING AT ALL
Carlton / 3x60m-e / 1993
Writer: Guy Andrew / Producer: Brian Eastman / Director: Andrew Grieve
Drama serial. Leo, a financial advisor loses his clients money by gambling it away on the horses.
With:- HUGH LAURIE as Leo / JESSICA TURNER as Jane / PIPPA GUARD as Marion / CAROLINE QUENTIN as Rebecca / STEVE STEEN as Duncan / BOB MONKHOUSE as Giles / PHYLLIDA LAW as Mrs Timpson
ALL PASSION SPENT
BBC / 3x60m-e / 1988
Novel: Vita Sackville-West / Writer: Peter Buckman / Producer: Colin Rogers / Director: Martyn Friend
Period drama serial. Lord Slane is dead. After a lifetime spent supporting his career as Viceroy of India, Prime Minister, and elder statesman, Lady Slane is free at last to do as she pleases. Downstairs her children are busily deciding her future, assuming gracious compliance but Lady Slane plans to reassert her independence.
With:- Wendy Hiller as Lady Slane / Maurice Denham as Gervase Bucktrout / Phyllis Calvert as Carrie / Faith Brook as Lavinia / John Franklyn-Robbins as Kay / Harry Andrews as Mr. Fitzgeorge / Hilary Mason as Edith / Geoffrey Bayldon as William / Antonia Pemberton as Mabel / Eileen Way as Genoux / Jane Snowden as Deborah / John Saunders / Katherine Stark / John Bott
ALL QUIET ON THE PRESTON FRONT
BBC1 / 19x50m-e / 1994-97
Writer: Tim Firth / Theme Music: Milltown Brothers / Producer: Chris Griffin
Comedy drama series. Stories of a group of part time soldiers, members of the territorial army. Seasons 2 and 3 known as Preston Front.
With:- COLIN BUCHANAN as Hodge / PAUL HAIGH as Eric / STEPHEN TOMPKINSON as Spock(season one) / DAVID MACREEDY as Polson / ADRIAN HOOD as Lloydy / TONY MARSHALL as Diesal / CAROLINE CATZ as Dawn / LUCY AKHURST
ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
BBC (BBC Television Shakespeare) / 1x160m-e / 1980
Writer: William Shakespeare / Music: Stephen Oliver / Producers: Jonathan Miller, Joseph Papp / Director: Elijah Moshinsky
Period comedy. When Bertram, the King of France marries Helena, he sets out a series of tests that must make her prove her love before consumation ofthe marriage takes place.
With:- IAN CHARLESON as Bertram / ANGELA DOWN as Helena / CELIA JOHNSON as Countess of Roussilon / MICHAEL HORDERN as Lafeau / PETER JEFFREY as Parolles / PIPPA GUARD as Diana / ROBERT LINDSAY as 1st French Lord / ROSEMARY LEACH as Widow of Florence / DONALD SINDEN as King of France / PAUL BROOKE as Lavache
ALL THE KING’S MEN
BBC1-WGBH Boston / 1x110m-e /1999 14 Nov – Sun 9.00pm
Writer: Alma Cullen / Music: Adrian Johnston / Costume: Howard Burden / Design:David Woods /Military Advisor:Taff Gillingham / Producer: Gareth Neame / Director: Julian Jarold
Period drama. When world war one breaks out, a group of men working on the Royal Family’s Sandringham estate decide to join up, led by estate manager Frank Beck. On 12 August 1915 the platoon of men went over Sulva Plain in Gallipoli and were never seen again.
With:- DAVID JASON as Capt Frank Back / MAGGIE SMITH as Queen Alexandra / WILLIAM ASH as Sgt Ted Grimes / SONYA WALGER as Lady Frances / EAMON BOLAND as Arthur Beck / DAVID TROUGHTON as King George V / EMMA CUNNIFFE as Peggy Batterbee / PATRICK MALAHIDE as Capt Claude Howlett / GAYE BROWN as Queen Mary / PHYLLIS LOGAN as Mary Beck / JAMIE BEDDARD as Roland Adams /JAMES MURRAY as Pte Will Needham / TOM BURKE as Pte Chad Batterbee / BEN CROMPTON as Pte Davy Croft / JO STONE-FEWINGS as Lt Alec Beck / ADAM KOTZ as Oswald Yeoman
ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE
BBC / 13x50m-e / 1983
A mammoth history of the Theatre from Greek tragedy to the then present day with specially staged excerpts from the classics, presented by playwright Ronald Harwood.
ALL THINGS BRIGHT AND BEAUTIFUL
BBC2 / 1x80m-e / 1984
Writer/Director: Barry Devlin
Period drama. Rural Ireland 1954:10 year old Barry O’Neill, under the influence of an over enthusiastic priest, believes himself to be experiencing visions.
With:- CIARAN FITZGERALD as Barry O’Neill / TOM WILKINSON as Father McAteer / GABRIEL BYRNE as Good Thief
ALMA MATER
BBC (Play For Taday) / 1x60m-e / 1971
Director: James Ferman
Drama.
With:- MAX ADRIAN / JASON KEMP / DINAH SHERIDAN / JOHN WOODVINE
ALTERNATIVE 3
Anglia / 1x60m-e / 1977 20 June
Writer: David Ambrose / Director: Christopher Miles
Spoof documentary that claimed America and Russia had set up a colony of scientists on the Moon, because the Earth was running out of oxygen and was now a lost cause. Many people still believe to this day that the programme was in fact true.
ALWAYS AND EVERYONE
Granada / 40x60m-e / 1999 – 2002
Producer:Francis Hopkinson / Script Editor: Diederick Santer / Costume: Alison Munro(Season 1), Sue Yelland(season 2) / Theme Music: Julian Brookhouse / Design: Taff Batley / Executive Producers: Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis,
Medical drama series. Stories of the doctors working in the hectic A&E department of large city hospital Saint Victors. From season three the title was shortened to simply A & E.
With:- MARTIN SHAW as Robert Kingsford / NIAMH CUSACK as Christine Fletcher / DAVID HAREWOOD as Mike Gregson (to season three) / ESTHER HALL as Louise Macken (to season three) / PAUL WARRINER as Stuart Phelan (to season three?) / DAVID PARTRIDGE as David Scobie (to season three?) / JANE SCAVIN as Cathy Jordan (to season three?) / TAMZIN MALLESON as Kate Brady (to season three) / JANE DANSON as Sam Docherty (from season three) / MICHAEL KITCHEN as Jack Turner (from Season three) / New Season Four regulars:- JAYE GRIFFITHS as Ruth Cole / JAMES MURRAY as Danny Barton / EMILY HAMILTON as Saskia Walker / PARMINDER NAGRA as Sunita Verma / BEN TAYLOR as James Da Costa (season three) – in the context of the show his character is well known as a TV medical boffin.
THE AMAZING DR CLITTERHOUSE
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1947 bw
Writer/Producer: John Glyn Jones / Play:Barre Lyndon
Comedy thriller. To prove his theories correct a top criminologist invites several criminals to stay in his home.
With:- HAROLD WARRENDER / MARJORIE MASS / ELEANOR SUMMERFIELD / HENRY OSCAR
THE AMAZING DR NEWTON
BBC / 1x50m-e / 1977 ‘Horizon’
Drama documentary. A dramatisation of the life of 17th century scientific genius Isaac Newton.
With:- JACK SHEPHERD as Isaac Newton
AMBASSADOR
BBC1-Ecosse-Irish Screen / 12x50m-e / 1998-99
Creator: Russell Lewis / Theme Music: Richard Harvey / Script Editor: Valery Ryan / Exectuie Producers: Jeremy Gwilt, Douglas Rae / Producer: Stephen Smallwood
Drama series. Harriet Smith is assigned to be British Ambassador to Ireland.
With:- PAULINE COLLINS as Harriet Smith / DENIS LAWSON as John Stone / WILLIAM CHUBB as Stephen Tyler / T.P. McKENNA as Taoiseach Healy / OWEN ROE as Kevin Flaherty / PETER EGAN as Michael Cochrane(season 2)
THE AMERICAN
BBC2 / 1x90m-e / 1998 26 Dec
Writer: Michael Hastings / Novel:Henry James / Producer: Fiona Finlay / Director: Paul Unwin
Period drama. Wealthy self made man Christopher Newman visits Paris in the 1860’s where he falls in love with beautiful widow Claire de Cintre.
With:- MATTHEW MODINE as Christopher Newman / DIANA RIGG as Madame de Bellegarde / AISLING O’SULLIVAN as Claire de Cintre / PAUL HICKEY as Henri de Bellegarde / ANDREW SCOTT as Valentin de Bellegarde / BRENDA FRICKER as Mrs Bread / T.P.McKENNA as Marquis de Bellegarde
AMNESIA
ITV1 / 2x90m / 29-30 March 2004
Writer: Chris Lang / Director: Nick Laughland / Producer: Jeremy Guilt
Crime drama. Detective Mackenzie Stone believes a man who suffered complete memory loss and is now living a new life is actually a wanted murderer. Meanwhile Stone’s wife has gone missing and his colleagues start to think that Stone may have had something to do with it.
With:- JOHN HANNAH as DS Mackenzie Stone / BRENDAN COYLE as DC Ian Reid / ANTHONY CALF as John Dean / JEMMA REDGRAVE as Jenna Dean / PATRICK MALAHIDE as DI Sean Brennan / BEATRIZ BATARDA as Lucia Stone
AMONGST WOMEN
BBC2 / 4x60m-e / 1998
Writer: Adrian Hodges / Novel:John McGalvern / Producers: Johnathon Carling, Colin Tucker / Director: Tom Cairns
Period drama serial. In 1950’s rural Ireland overbearing father Moran has an increasingly difficult relationship with his five children.
With:- TONY DOYLE as Moran / GER RYAN as Rose / SUSAN LYNCH as Maggie / GERALDINE O’RAWE as Mona / ANNE-MARIE DUFF as Sheila / BRIAN F. O’BYRNE as Luke / EAMON OWENS as Michael
THE AMY JOHNSON STORY
1x90m-e / 1984
Director: Nat Crosby
Period drama. The true story of aviatrix Amy Johnson who made her first solo flight on 5 May 1930 and later disappeared whilst on a flight.
With:- HARRIET WALTER as Amy Johnson / CLIVE FRANCIS / PATRICK TROUGHTON
THE ANATOMIST
BBC / 1x90m-e / 1939 2nd June / bw
Writer: James Bridie / Producer: Moultrie Kelsall
Period comedy drama. The story of the notorious body snatchers of Victorian times Burke and Hare.
With:- W.G. FAY as Burke / HARRY HUTCHINSON as Hare / ANDREW CRUICKSHANK as Dr Knox
ANCHOR ME
ITV Network-Granada / 2x90m-e / 2000 3-4 September Sunday and Monday 9.00pm
Writer: Ashley Pharoah / Producer: Sita Williams / Music: Christopher Gunning / Costume: Lyn Avery / Camera: Simon Kosoff / Design: Stephen Fineren / Executive Producers: Susan Hogg, Simon Lewis
Drama serial. Architect Nathan returns home with his teenage son Michael to nurse his dying elderly mother – he is son caught up in a relationship with his widowed sister-in-law Jackie.
With:- IAIN GLEN as Nathan / JULIA FORD as Jackie / ANNETTE CROSBIE as Hattie / FRANK WINDSOR as William / LAURA SADLER as Cassie / ANDREW LEE POTTS as Michael / ADAM KOTZ as Billy / ANNA PATRICK as Sarah / RUSSELL TOVEY as Young Nathan / LYNDON OGBOURNE as Young Billy / MICHAEL SHERLOCK as Young Michael / SHERIDAN SMITH as Young Jackie
THE ANCIENTS
BBC Knowledge / 1x30m-e / 2000 (10 November – Friday 9.40pm)
Writer: David Hayles
Period drama based upon the life of famed poet William Blake the man who coined phrases such as ‘Heaven’s Gate’ and ‘The Doors of Perception.
With:- KENNETH CRANHAM as Blake / MEL RAIDO as Samuel Palmer
AND A NIGHTINGALE SANG
Tyne Tees / 1x95m-e / 1989
Writer: Jack Rosenthal / Play: C.P. Taylor / Director: Robert Knights
Period comedy drama. During World War II an innocent Geordie girl is wooed by a soldier.
With:- PHYLLIS LOGAN / TOM WATT / JOAN PLOWRIGHT / PIPPA HINCHLEY / STEPHEN TOMPKINSON / DES YOUNG / VAL McLANE / BOB SMEATON / WILLIE ROSS / LYN DOUGLAS / WILL HAYS / HARRY HERRING / DONALD McBRIDE
AND DID THOSE FEET
BBC / 1x75m-e / 1965 bw
Writer: David Mercer / Director:Don Taylor
Drama. A sucessful businessman is troubled by his illigitimate sons.
With:- DAVID MARKHAM / PATRICK TROUGHTON / WILLOUGHBY GODDARD
AND NO ONE COULD SAVE HER
A-L / 1x75m-e / 1972
Writer: Anthony Skene / Director:Kevin Billington
Thriller. An American woman who is staying in Dublin searches for her missing husband who has mysteriously vanished without a trace.
With:- LEE REMICK / MILO O’SHEA / FRANK GRIMES / JENNIE LINDEN
ANDROCLES AND THE LION
BBC / 1x60m-e / 1938 4 July
Producer: Desmond Davis
Drama. The story of how Androcles removed the thorn from the Lion’s paw.
ESME PERCY as Androcles
THE ANDROMEDA BREAKTHROUGH
BBC / 6x45m-e / 1962 28 June – 2 Aug
Writer: Fred Hoyle, John Elliot / Design: Norman Jones / Producer: John Elliot / Directors:John Elliot, John Knight
SciFi Drama serial. A sequel to A For Andromeda. Having destroyed the computer from the 1st serial, scientist John Fleming is forced on the run with Andromeda, but he and Madeleine Dawney must join forces when a toxic enzyme threatens to destroy the Earth.
With:- PETER HALLIDAY as John Fleming / SUSAN HAMPSHIRE as Andromeda / MARY MORRIS as Madeleine Dawney / WALTER GOTELL as Prof Neilson / GEOFFREY LEWIS as Dr Geers / BARRY LINEHAN as Col Salim / DAVID SAIRE as Dr Abu Zeki / ARNOLD YARROW as President
AND THE BEAT GOES ON
C4-Mersey / 8x60m-e / 1996
Writer: Joe Ainsworth / Music: Steve Wright / Costume: Alex McGregor / Creator/Producer: Mal Young / Executive Producer: Phil Redmond / Director:Jeremy Summers
Period drama serial. Liverpool 1960:Two families have very different lifestyles but find their paths crossing.
With:- DANNY McCALL as Ritchie O’Rourke / LISA FAULKNER as Christine Spencer / JENNY AGUTTER as Connie Spencer / NORMAN ROSSINGTON as Pop / JOHN McARDLE as Charlie Woods / DOMINIC JEPHCOTT as Kenneth Fairbrother / STEPHEN MOORE as Nicholas Spencer
ANGEL PAVEMENT
BBC / 4x50m-e / 1958
Writer: Constance Cox / Novel:J.B. Priestley
Drama serial. The problems of a small London business during the depressed nineteen thirties.
With:- MAURICE DENHAM / ALEC McCOWAN
ANGELS
BBC1 / 57x50m-e( -79) 97x25m-e(79-83) / 1975-83
Creator: Paula Milne / Script Editor: Tony Holland / Medical Advisor:Eileen Scofield / Producer: Ron Craddock, Julia Smith, Ben Rea,
Medical drama series. Stories of a group of hardworking student nurses. The 25 minute episodes were shown twice weekly.
With:- FIONA FULLERTON as Patricia Rutherford / JULIE DAWN COLE as Jo Longhurst / KARAN DAVID as Sita Patel / LESLEY DUNLOP as Ruth Fullman / PAULINE QUIRKE as Vicky Smith / JULIET WALEY as Alison Streeter / ERIN GERAGHTY as Margaret Morahan / CLARE CLIFFORD as Shirley Brent / SHIRLEY CHERITON as Kathy Betts / KATHRYN APANOWICZ as Rose Butchins
ANGELS
ITV – Granada / 1x120m-e / 1992
Writer: Tony Grisoni / Producer: Gub Neal / Director: Philip Saville
Fantasy drama. Three guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.
With:- TOM BELL / ALFRED MOLINA / CATHY TYSON / NIAMH CUSACK / WARREN CLARKE / LOUISE LOMBARD / JAMES PUREFOY
