"to Hong Kong, leaving her behind, Jane begins a romantic flirtation with Lovejoy. They kiss, but never take their relationship beyond that. In the second episode of Series Five, Alexander Felsham returns to England and announces he is bankrupt. As a result, Felsham Hall is sold and is bought by Charlie Gimbert. Jane goes to live in America, where she works as an interior designer, but she returns for the final episode of the series, ""Last Tango in Lavenham"". Lady Jane Felsham Lady Jane Felsham is a character in the British television series ""Lovejoy"", adapted from the novels by Jonathan"
"television serial produced by Barry Letts for the BBC in 1978. The serial ran on BBC One at tea-time from Sunday 10 September 1978 until Sunday 15 October 1978 and was directed by Roger Tucker. Jeremy Clyde played Blake, with Philip Davis appearing as Tinker and Barbara Lott playing Mrs Bardell. Sexton Blake (TV series) ITV aired Sexton Blake starring Laurence Payne as Blake and Roger Foss as Tinker from Monday 25 September 1967 to Wednesday 13 January 1971. In keeping with Sexton Blake's classic print adventures, Payne's Blake drove a white Rolls-Royce named ""The Grey Panther"" and owned a"
"The first version was broadcast in 1951, the second in 1972, with Gabrielle Hamilton as Miss Matty, and the third version in 2007. The 2007 version added material from other writings by Gaskell: ""My Lady Ludlow"", ""Mr. Harrison's Confessions"" and ""The Last Generation in England"". Judi Dench and Eileen Atkins took the leading roles as Miss Matty and Miss Deborah Jenkyns, with Imelda Staunton cast as the town's gossip, Miss Pole, and Michael Gambon as Miss Matty's former admirer, Mr. Holbrook. The BBC sequel, ""Return to Cranford"", was broadcast in 2009 in the UK and 2010 in the USA. Cranford"
"Stackton Tressel Stackton Tressel is a fictional, archetypical English village. Originally featuring in the 1974 Edinburgh Festival and then on the London stage, the exploits of its most notable residents, Doctor Evadne Hinge and Dame Hilda Bracket, were broadcast by the BBC – on both radio and television – during the 1970s and 1980s. The radio series included: There were 21 episodes of ""Dear Ladies"", as the BBC TV programme was called, broadcast for the first time in 1983/4. The writers were George Logan and Patrick Fyffe, who played the starring roles, plus Gyles Brandreth. Stackton Tressel (or simply Stackton)"
"a young son, managing a major syndicated magazine, and at the same time trying to reenter the dating scene. This series was in the vein of other 1960s and 1970s sitcoms that dealt with widowerhood, such as ""The Andy Griffith Show"" and ""My Three Sons"". Eddie was played by novice actor Brandon Cruz. The pair developed a close rapport that translated to an off-camera friendship as well. The core cast was rounded out by Academy Award-winning actress Miyoshi Umeki, who played the role of Tom's housekeeper, Mrs. Livingston; James Komack (one of the series' producers) as Norman Tinker, Tom's pseudo-hippie,"
"Fletcher (Niamh Cusack), appeared throughout all four series. David Harewood, whose character Mike Gregson was credited as the third principal character, appeared throughout the first three series. The first series introduced a total of ten regular cast members and additional ten recurring cast members. All ten regular cast members were also retained for the second series, and two additional regular characters, Andrew Argyle (Dominic Mafham) and Kate Brady (Tamzin Malleson), were introduced. The third series saw a major overhaul in both cast and format, with the series being rebranded as ""A&E"", a new theme being introduced to the opening titles,"
"prominent mystery author John Dickson Carr. One of the series' earliest successes and its single most popular episode is Lucille Fletcher's ""Sorry, Wrong Number"", about a bedridden woman (Agnes Moorehead) who panics after overhearing a murder plot on a crossed telephone connection but is unable to persuade anyone to investigate. First broadcast on May 25, 1943, it was restaged seven times (last on February 14, 1960)—each time with Moorehead. The popularity of the episode led to a film adaptation in 1948. Another notable early episode was Fletcher's ""The Hitch Hiker"", in which a motorist (Orson Welles) is stalked on a"
"Helena Bonham Carter. Chancellor herself has spoken derisively of her lineage, stating: Chancellor had a prominent role in the series ""Kavanagh QC"". She also played Caroline Bingley in the 1995 BBC adaptation of ""Pride and Prejudice"", and Questular Rontok in ""The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"" (2005). The same year, she joined the cast of BBC One television drama series ""Spooks"" as Juliet Shaw. She has also appeared in ""The Vice"", ""Karaoke"", ""Cold Lazarus"", ""The Dreamers"", ""Tipping the Velvet"" and ""Fortysomething"", and had a leading role in the satirical black comedy ""Suburban Shootout"". In 2011, she took a supporting role"
"the times (as did Blake himself). After World War II, his opponents became more ordinary, their personalities and motives less fantastic. Veteran writers John Hunter and Walter Tyrer excelled at this type of writing, but others failed to maintain their standards. There were several Sexton Blake stage plays: ITV broadcast Thames Television's ""Sexton Blake"" featuring Laurence Payne as Blake and Roger Foss as Tinker from Monday 25 September 1967 to Wednesday 13 January 1971. In keeping with Sexton Blake's classic print adventures, Payne's Blake drove a white Rolls-Royce named ""The Grey Panther"" and owned a bloodhound named Pedro. The show"
"and Drama in North London. Harker has acted in both contemporary and classic works, on stage, in movies and in TV series. In 1990–91 she appeared alongside Clive Owen in ""Chancer"". She later played Dinah Morris in the 1991 adaptation of ""Adam Bede"". She starred as Jane Bennet in the 1995 TV adaptation of Jane Austen's ""Pride and Prejudice."" She is featured as Emma Fitzgerald, the love interest of Superintendent Tyburn (Trevor Eve) in the BBC TV series, ""Heat of the Sun"" (1998). She appeared in the play, ""On the Shore of the Wide World"". She played Sapphire in Big"
"continuing adventures of Uncle Mort and Carter Brandon in ""Uncle Mort's North Country"", ""Uncle Mort's South Country"" and ""Uncle Mort's Celtic Fringe"" and a series about poacher Winston Hayballs, his ""bit of fluff"" Nancy and her family adapted from his novel ""Winston"". Liz Goulding, his second wife, played Rosie. A lifelong pipe smoker, Peter Tinniswood died of throat cancer at the age of 66. Since his death, the Writers' Guild of Great Britain and the Society of Authors have jointly administered in his memory the annual Tinniswood Award, to honour the best original radio drama script broadcast in the UK"
"lasting three years. Additionally, many TV series over the years that take place in the present time have characters age faster than normal while other characters age naturally. The character of Eric Forman was written out of the series at the end of the seventh season, as Topher Grace wanted to move on with his career. Ashton Kutcher switched to a recurring guest role when he also chose to depart following the seventh season. However, Kelso had not been written out yet, so to give better closure to the character, Kutcher appeared in the first four episodes of the eighth"
"the same year, when she acted in ""Turnbull's Finest Half-Hour"", a comedy series starring Michael Bates and produced by Hitchcock. Hitchcock died from a pulmonary embolism in February 1974, at the age of 45. Fraser had a half-brother, Philip, 11 years older, the son of her mother from a previous marriage. She supported various charities and was a patron of the London Repertory Company. She died on 6 September 2018 at Royal Brompton Hospital as a result of complications following an operation. Liz Fraser Elizabeth Joan Winch (14 August 1930 – 6 September 2018), known professionally as Liz Fraser, was"
"Sexton Blake (TV series) ITV aired Sexton Blake starring Laurence Payne as Blake and Roger Foss as Tinker from Monday 25 September 1967 to Wednesday 13 January 1971. In keeping with Sexton Blake's classic print adventures, Payne's Blake drove a white Rolls-Royce named ""The Grey Panther"" and owned a bloodhound named Pedro. The show was originally produced by Ronald Marriott for Rediffusion, with Thames Television taking over production in 1968. Pedro was played by one or more bloodhounds (bitches), which doubled as 'Henry', for Chunky dog food adverts with Clement Freud, and were owned by the then secretary of the"
"Mrs. Rouncewell, Jerome Willis as Mr. Woodcourt, Michael Aldridge as Mr. George, Nora Nicholson as Miss Flite, Annette Carell as Mlle. Hortense, and Angela Crow as Charley. The complete series still exists. Bleak House (1959 TV serial) Bleak House (1959) is the first BBC adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel of the same name. It was adapted by Constance Cox as an eleven-part series of half-hour episodes first transmitted from 16 October 1959. It stars Andrew Cruickshank in the role of John Jarndyce, Diana Fairfax as Esther Summerson, Colin Jeavons as Richard Carstone, Elizabeth Shepherd as Ada Clare, Iris Russell"
"years later. The final episode was shown on 24 March, the 368th anniversary of the Queen's death. The series followed the successful ""Six Wives of Henry VIII"" (1970) with several performers, Bernard Hepton as Cranmer, Basil Dignam as Bishop Gardiner, John Ronane as Thomas Seymour, and Rosalie Crutchley as Catherine Parr, reprising their roles in ""Elizabeth R"" (all in the first episode) from the earlier series. In February 1972, ""Elizabeth R"" first aired in the United States on ""Masterpiece Theatre"" which was hosted by Alistair Cooke on PBS. In the summer of 1972, it was rebroadcast with commercials on the"
"K. Palmer, who also wrote many of the scripts, the series often featured Gould-created villains such as Flattop, Shaky, the Mole, Breathless Mahoney, Heels Beals, and Influence, all of whom appeared on film for the first time on this series. Other cast members included Joe Devlin as Sam Catchem, Angela Greene as Tess Tracy (née Trueheart), Martin Dean as Junior, and Pierre Watkin as Chief Patton. Criticized for its violence, the series remained popular. It ended, not in response to criticism, but because of Byrd's unexpected, premature death in 1952. The series was filmed on a low budget, with many"
"series ""Cranford"", which is set in Cheshire. The railway featured in the two-part Christmas special that was first broadcast in December 2009. Judi Dench, who played the part of Matilda 'Matty' Jenkyns, invited several of the main characters to ride on the train in an attempt to alter their opinions about the benefits of the railway being extended into the town of Cranford. The station at Caverswall offers visitor facilities such as a Buffet serving hot and cold food and drinks and a Real Ale bar ""The One Legged Shunter"". Also a museum building displaying a variety of artifacts relating"
"Barkow (Merritt Wever), a spunky, but inexperienced, nursing student from a community college, who ""is the perfect foil for Jackie's sharp angles""; Dr. Fitch Cooper (Peter Facinelli), ""a likable 'golden boy' whose calm façade hides a nervous disposition""; and Eddie Walzer (Paul Schulze), a pharmacist with whom Jackie was having an affair at the beginning of the series. Other characters included the officious hospital administrator Mrs. Gloria Akalitus (Anna Deavere Smith), Jackie's bar owner husband Kevin (Dominic Fumusa), their daughters Grace (Ruby Jerins) and Fiona (Daisy Tahan season 1 — Mackenzie Aladjem seasons 2 through 7), and Thor (Stephen Wallem),"
"in England (""In Crunchthorpe there's a hundred and three per cent unemployment. The Government uses the place to dump nuclear waste...they pile it up in the town centre, outside Freeman Hardy and Willis"") and films ""The Titfield Thunderbolt"" and ""Apocalypse Now"". The script regularly took great delight in the unsophisticated nature of British football, with its traditional emphasis on strength over skill: A running gag in the show was various characters (particularly Sayle) speaking lines from well known pop songs as dialog. The fictional town of Felchester was presumably itself a joke: a reference to felching, conflating that term with"
"three times, first in 1952 by Anthony Asquith who adapted the screenplay and directed it. Michael Denison (Algernon), Michael Redgrave (Jack), Edith Evans (Lady Bracknell), Dorothy Tutin (Cecily), Joan Greenwood (Gwendolen), and Margaret Rutherford (Miss Prism) and Miles Malleson (Canon Chasuble) were among the cast. In 1992 Kurt Baker directed a version using an all-black cast with Daryl Keith Roach as Jack, Wren T. Brown as Algernon, Ann Weldon as Lady Bracknell, Lanei Chapman as Cecily, Chris Calloway as Gwendolen, CCH Pounder as Miss Prism, and Brock Peters as Doctor Chasuble, set in the United States. Oliver Parker, an English"
"to air this series as a two-part special each Sunday at 8:30pm from 11 April until 18 April 2010. The cast features Gemma Arterton as Tess, Hans Matheson as Alec, Eddie Redmayne as Angel, Ruth Jones as Joan, Anna Massey as Mrs d'Urberville and Kenneth Cranham as Rev Clare. David Nicholls first read Hardy's famous novel at the age of 16, but on reapproaching the story over 25 years later he says ""it seemed to cry out for a new screen adaptation"". He described it as ""a wonderfully emotionally-charged story, both intensely romantic and startlingly violent"". In adapting the novel"
"Porridge (TV series) Porridge is a British sitcom, starring Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale, written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and broadcast on BBC One from 1974 to 1977. The programme ran for three series, and included two Christmas specials and a feature film of the same name (in the United States, the film was released under the title ""Doing Time""). The sitcom focuses on two prison inmates, Norman Fletcher (played by Barker) and Lennie Godber (played by Beckinsale), who are serving time at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. The show's title is a reference to both"
"Ectoplasm (radio show) Ectoplasm was a 2000 BBC Radio 4 comedy series written by and starring Dan Freedman and Nick Romero. Unlike the other radio work of Freedman and Romero, this series features single, coherent stories in each episode; certain motifs do, however, appear in all of the tales, e.g. Theremin's murder attempts. The stories follow the adventures of Lord Zimbabwe (Romero), a ""walker in the ether"", or occult investigator; his friend and collaborator Doctor Lilac (Freedman), a German scientist who has invented various machines, including a time machine and a teleporter, and who breaks into megalomaniacal ravings at inopportune"
"selected items for Attenborough and other production staff to examine. Inauthentic items were occasionally included: for example, a stone axe made by the forger 'Flint Jack' or fake Crown Derby ware. On one occasion, Sir Julian Huxley was unable to identify a modern mock-up of a stuffed great auk as a fake, and on another Huxley lost a £1 bet after failing to recognise the egg of the African giant snail. Occasionally the presenter would try to fool the panel with a corroded modern artefact e.g. a part of a pram or a bicycle. The signature music for the series"
"Myrtle (Hillary Bamberger), who has an occasional fling with Eddie. In the final two series, Ada and Alf have an empty nest, move away from Sycamore Street, and run a café, employing Hetty (no mention is made of her husband or daughter). They have a lodger named Major Osbert Rigby-Soames (Hugh Paddick), who always tries to avoid paying his rent. ""The Larkins"" was adapted into a gag-a-day comic in 1960 by Dutch comics artist Alfred Mazure, published in the Sunday Graphic. The series was adapted into a film, ""Inn For Trouble (1960)"" by C.M. Pennington-Richards. Unlike many other British sitcoms"
"at this time. In 2000–2001 the series was remade by Working Title Films for the BBC with a more elaborate storyline, starring Vic Reeves as Hopkirk (once again in a white suit) and Bob Mortimer as Randall, with Emilia Fox as Jeannie. Two series were made. The show was produced and occasionally written by Charlie Higson, who also directed some episodes, and featured numerous writers including Gareth Roberts, Mark Gatiss, Paul Whitehouse and Jeremy Dyson. The premise of the show was the same, but the circumstances of Hopkirk's death were changed. In January 2011, Entertainment Weekly announced that Jane Espenson"
"The film emphasised comedy to a greater degree than the series version at that time. The program's second year (1975) increasingly emphasised comedy, much of it focused on Tony Wild. Enid Parker (Jill Forster) arrived as a jolly but frumpish spinster secretary. Enid was perturbed when her glamorous sister, the scheming Emma (also played by Forster), showed up and impersonated her. Lee had a brief relationship with closeted newsreader John Barnett (Donald McDonald). Cheryl Rixon appeared on a recurring basis in 1975-1976 as television starlet Angela O'Malley, and appeared nude in the series several times. For the 1976 season, Jock"
"hired Dipper after he caught Dipper stealing his watch. Other characters in the series include Dr. Duncan MacGregor, a gruff Scottish-born physician who assists Kestrel in some of his cases; Dipper's sister Sally Stokes, a saucy street prostitute who helps Kestrel and Dipper solve the mysterious death of a ""fallen woman"" in ""A Broken Vessel"" and becomes Kestrel's lover; and Philippa Fontclair, a charming young girl whom Kestrel meets in ""Cut to the Quick"" and corresponds with in later novels. The novels are heavily influenced by other fictional British detectives, such as Lord Peter Wimsey and Sherlock Holmes. Kate Ross"
"produced by Brandon Acton-Bond. In 1964 the BBC filmed a 6-episode TV adaptation under the title ""Smugglers' Bay"", starring future Doctor Who stars Frazer Hines and Patrick Troughton as John Trenchard and Ratsey, respectively. It started airing on BBC1 on 12 July 1964. In 1984 a TV mini-series was filmed, starring Adam Godley and David Daker. There is also a 90-minute BBC radio version, starring Richard Pearce (from BBC Radio's ""The Adventures of Tintin"", as well) as John Trenchard. The Colonial Radio Theatre on the Air released a 300 min. production of the book in May 2009, Starring Jerry Robbins,"
"Sandie Merrick Sandra ""Sandie"" Merrick is a fictional character from the British ITV soap opera, ""Emmerdale"", played by Jenny Mayors-Clark in 1972 and from 1980 until 1989, she was played by Jane Hutcheson. Sandie found romance with Andy Longthorn in 1982. Their love blossomed but Andy could not compete when Sandie was swept off her feet by agricultural student, David Blackmore, who arrived in Beckindale in his flash car to help Joe at NY Estates. Not wanting a serious relationship, she later switched her attentions to unemployed Graham Jelks, a keen mechanic who was a friend of her brother Jackie"
"as herself in the second episode. Many of these radio episodes were recovered by a BBC archivist from a listener's collection of tapes in 2012, and are now being broadcast on Radio 4 Extra. The front of the historic house of Great Fosters was used in the opening title sequence of the TV comedy series behind the name of the fictional Chiselbury School. Most of the show's episodes are missing, presumed lost. Six of the original black-and-white episodes are known to exist today; from the colour revival series of the 1970s, only one is known to have survived. Only 7"
"refined but sometimes the ocker in her slips out. The British version of ""Are You Being Served?"" has always been my favourite comedy series. And I loved Mollie Sugden's performance as Mrs Slocombe, my counterpart."" For the second and final series, produced in late 1980, original regular cast members Judith Woodroffe, who was Mrs Crawford's attractive junior Miss Buxton, and Peter Collingwood who had played the Mr Rumbold-like store manager Mr Dunkley, were unavailable. To replace them, Christine Amor was the new, brassy young female retail assistant Miss Nicholls, and Ken Fraser came in as Mr Fenwick. Christine Amor said"