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Alethea Charlton
Alethea Blow Charlton (9 August 1931 – 6 May 1976) was a British actress. Life She was born in Middlesbrough, North Riding of Yorkshire, England, and attended Ripon, Ripon High School and the Northern Theatre School which was based at the Bradford Playhouse.Kenneth Passingham "How Alethea Sees Herself: I Want the Be Bawdy, Brassy and Beautiful", ''TV Times'', 12–18 July 1975, p.48-49 After working in repertory for a few years in Yorkshire, she moved to London in 1960 before touring American universities as a member of a group. Alethea's family history was traced by people investigating the Naylor family history. The report indicates that she was descended from a line of people with the surname Charlton, as well as Blow, Dickerson, Naylor and Heyes. Acting career Charlton was a cast member in episodes two, three and four of the first ever ''Doctor Who'' serial (''An Unearthly Child'') broadcast in late 1963, as a cavewoman called Hur. She returned playing the character Edit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area. Until the early 1800s, the area was rural farming land. By 1830, a new industrial town and port started to be developed, driven by the coal and later ironworks. Steel production and ship building began in the late 1800s, remaining associated with the town until post-industrial decline occurred in the late twentieth century. Trade (notably through ports) and digital enterprise sectors contemporarily contribute to the local economy, Teesside University and Middlesbrough College to local education. In 1853, it became a town. The motto ("We shall be" in Latin) was adopted, it reflects ("We have been") of the Bruce clan which were Cleveland's mediaeval lords. The town's coat of arms is three ships representing shipbuilding and maritime trade and an azure (blue) lion, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Upstairs, Downstairs (1971 TV Series)
''Upstairs, Downstairs'' is a British television drama series produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV. It ran for 68 episodes divided into five series on ITV from 1971 to 1975. Set in a large townhouse at 165, Eaton Place in Belgravia in central London, the series depicts the servants—"downstairs"—and their masters, the family—"upstairs"—between the years 1903 and 1930, and shows the slow decline of the British aristocracy. Great events feature prominently in each episode but minor or gradual changes are also noted. The show may be regarded as a document of the social and technological changes that occurred during those 27 years, including the Edwardian period, women's suffrage, the First World War, the Roaring Twenties, and the Wall Street Crash. It was a ratings success for ITV and received outstanding acclaim worldwide, winning multiple awards. A BBC Wales and ''Masterpiece''-produced continuation, ''Upstairs Downstairs'', was broadcast by BBC One in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thirty-Minute Theatre
''Thirty-Minute Theatre'' was a British anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. It was produced initially by Harry Moore, later by Graeme MacDonald, George Spenton-Foster, Innes Lloyd and others. ''Thirty-Minute Theatre'' began on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy ''Parson's Pleasure'' (author, Roald Dahl). Dennis Potter contributed ''Emergency – Ward 9'' (1966), which he partially recycled in the much later ''The Singing Detective'' (1986). In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that ''Thirty-Minute Theatre'' became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour. As well as single plays, the series showed several linked collections of plays, including a group of four plays by John Mortimer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Wednesday Play
''The Wednesday Play'' is an anthology series of United Kingdom, British television plays which ran on BBC One, BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic adaptations of fiction (and occasionally stage plays) also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen. Some of British television drama's most influential, and controversial, plays were shown in this slot, including ''Up the Junction (The Wednesday Play), Up the Junction'' and ''Cathy Come Home''. The earliest television plays of Dennis Potter were featured in this slot. History Origins and early seasons The series was suggested to the BBC's Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, by the corporation's director of television Kenneth Adam after his cancellation of the two previous series of sin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Woman In White (1966 TV Series)
''The Woman in White'' is a British drama television series which originally aired on BBC 1 in six 25-minute-long episodes between 2 October and 6 November 1966. It was adapted from the 1860 novel '' The Woman in White'' by Wilkie Collins. As of 2021, none of the six episodes are known to exist in the BBC archives. Plot summary Main cast * Alethea Charlton as Marian Halcombe * Jennifer Hilary as Laura Fairlie * Louis Mansi as Professor Pesca * Nicholas Pennell as Walter Hartright * John Barron as Sir Percival Glyde * Geoffrey Bayldon as Mr. Fairlie * Francis de Wolff as Count Fosco * Alan Collins as Louis * Daphne Heard as Madame Fosco * Anne Dyson as Mrs. Michelson * David Langford as Matthews * Katherine Parr as Mrs Catherick * Elsie Wagstaff Elsie Wagstaff (1 July 1899 – 16 July 1985) was an English actress. Educated at the Guildhall School of Music, her stage work began in the chorus in 1919, and one of her first leading roles was as Sadie Thompson in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hereward The Wake (TV Series)
Hereward the Wake was a British television series, which was produced by the BBC in 1965, and was broadcast weekly on BBC1. It was based on the 1866 novel by Charles Kingsley. Alfred Lynch played the title role. Due to the BBC's policy of erasing video tape for reuse in the 1960s and 1970s, the entire series is lost; no episodes survive in the BBC archive. Cast *Alfred Lynch as Hereward the Wake (16 episodes) *Bryan Pringle as Martin Lightfoot (16 episodes) *Yvonne Furneaux as Torfrida (11 episodes) * John Carson as William the Conqueror (9 episodes) * Alan Rowe as Ivo Taillebois (8 episodes) *Francis de Wolff as Gilbert of Ghent (8 episodes) * Justine Lord as Alftruda (7 episodes) * David Swift as Prior Herluin (7 episodes) * John Collin as Winter (6 episodes) * Peter Needham as Gwenoch (6 episodes) *Aimée Delamain as Lapp nurse (6 episodes) * Clive Graham as Sir Raoul de Selignat (5 episodes) *Dorothy Reynolds as Lady Godiva (5 episodes) *Alan Lake as Edwin (4 episodes) * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV Series)
''Sherlock Holmes'' and ''Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes'' (a.k.a. ''The Cases of Sherlock Holmes'') are two British series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations for television produced by the BBC in 1965 and 1968 respectively. The 1965 production, which followed a pilot the year before, was the second BBC series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations, after one starring Alan Wheatley in 1951. Plot Set in the Victorian era, Sherlock Holmes is a brilliant consultant detective, as well as a private detective. He is consulted by the police and by other private detectives to aid them in solving crimes. He also takes private cases himself, and his clients range from paupers to kings. His deductive abilities and encyclopedic knowledge help him solve the most complex cases. He is assisted in his work by military veteran, Dr. John Watson, with whom he shares a flat at 221B Baker Street. Cast *Douglas Wilmer - Sherlock Holmes (1964–1965) *Peter Cushing - Sherlock Holmes (1968) * Nigel Stock ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Armchair Theatre
''Armchair Theatre'' is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by ABC Weekend TV. Its successor Thames Television took over from mid-1968. The Canadian-born producer Sydney Newman was in charge of ''Armchair Theatre'' between September 1958 and December 1962, during what is generally considered to have been its best era, and produced 152 episodes. History Intent ''Armchair Theatre'' filled a Sunday-evening slot on ITV, Britain's only commercial network at the time, in which contemporary dramas were the most common form, though this was not immediately apparent. The series was launched by Howard Thomas, head of ABC at the time, who argued that "Television drama is not so far removed from television journalism, and the plays which will grip the audience are those that face up to the new issues of the day as well as to the problems as old as civilisation." The original producer of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cluff
Cluff was a BBC TV detective television series set in the fictional town of Gunnershaw in the Yorkshire Dales. Based on the eponymous novels by Gil North, it featured Leslie Sands in the title role as Sergeant Caleb Cluff, and ran for two series between 1964-1965. The series was filmed around Skipton, North's hometown. The entire first series including the pilot is missing from the BBC archives, but the second series has survived. The script for all episodes of this two-part series were written by North himself. Cast * Leslie Sands as Detective Sergeant Caleb Cluff * John Rolfe as Detective Constable Barker * John McKelvey as PC Harry Bullock * Olive Milbourne as Annie Croft * Eric Barker as Inspector Mole (series one) * Michael Bates (actor), Michael Bates as Inspector Mole (series two) * Jack Howlett as Doctor Hamm * Pauline Williams as Mrs Madge Mole * Maggie Lambert as Mary Croft * Clive as Cluff's dog Episodes Series 1 * 6 April 1964: The Drawing Detective (pilot) (missin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergeant Cork
''Sergeant Cork'' is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in ''The Age'' opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its " cellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given. Cast * John Barrie as Sergeant Cork * William Gaunt as Robert 'Bob' Marriott * Charles Morgan as Superintendent Rodway * Arnold Di ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deadline Midnight (TV Series)
''Deadline Midnight'' is a British television series which originally aired on ITV between 1960 and 1961.Vahimagi p.91 It focuses on the employees of a London daily newspaper. Cast Main * Armine Sandford as Jane Smith * Jeremy Young as Neville Crane * Glyn Houston as Mike Grieves * Bruce Beeby as Matt Stewart * Brian Badcoe as 'Robbie' Robinson * Mary Law as Peggy Simpson * Alexander Archdale as Holland * Vincent Ball as Keith Durrant * Peter Vaughan as Joe Dunn * Peter Fraser as Dick Seton * Pat Gilbert as Jill Collins * James Culliford as Tom Douglas * Ballard Berkeley as Desmond * Basil Moss as John Mundy Other A large number of other actors appeared in episodes of the show including Michael Caine, Derek Farr, Harry H. Corbett, Sarah Miles, Nanette Newman, Sydney Tafler, Valerie White, Alethea Charlton, Nyree Dawn Porter, Jane Merrow, George Coulouris, Claire Gordon, Kenneth Cope, Richard Pearson, Dilys Laye, Ronald Lacey, Larry Martyn, Warren Mitchell, Fra ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Cedar Tree
''The Cedar Tree'' was a television serial that ran from 1976 to 1979 on ITV in the United Kingdom. It involved the story of the upper class Bourne family before the turn of the Second World War. The main setting is Larkfield Manor, the family home set in Herefordshire, in the grounds of which is the cedar tree. ''The Cedar Tree'' was made by Associated Television Productions (ATV) and recorded at their studios at Elstree. Two established cast members were the veteran actress Joyce Carey and Susan Skipper, who played one of the Bourne family's daughters. Two other noted actors involved were Philip Latham as Commander Bourne, and Cyril Luckham, as Charles Ashley, the benevolent grandfather. The first two series were shown on ITV in the afternoon in a thirty-minute twice weekly format, the final series was given an evening prime time slot and the episodes were extended to sixty minutes, and in a bizarre bit of casting Jack Watling who had been playing Captain Julian Palmer, an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
