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David Conroy
David Conroy (born 11 April 1937) is a British television producer. He worked as a production assistant on early episodes of ''Dr Who''. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was the producer of classic serials for BBC Two.David Conroy, "Surviving the Mary Whitehouse experience", ''The Guardian'', 1 April 2022 Retrieved 17 August 2022 He is noted for producing dramatisations of historical novels, including '' The Woman in White'' (1966), '' Wuthering Height ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dr Who
''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series depicts the adventures of a Time Lord called the Doctor, an extraterrestrial being who appears to be human. The Doctor explores the universe in a time-travelling space ship called the TARDIS. The TARDIS exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. With various companions, the Doctor combats foes, works to save civilisations, and helps people in need. Beginning with William Hartnell, thirteen actors have headlined the series as the Doctor; in 2017, Jodie Whittaker became the first woman to officially play the role on television. The transition from one actor to another is written into the plot of the series with the concept of regeneration into a new incarnation, a plot device in which a Time Lord "transforms" into a new body when the current one is too badly harmed to heal normally. Each a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC Two
BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television network owned and operated by the BBC. It covers a wide range of subject matter, with a remit "to broadcast programmes of depth and substance" in contrast to the more mainstream and popular BBC One. Like the BBC's other domestic TV and radio channels, it is funded by the television licence, and is therefore free of commercial advertising. It is a comparatively well-funded public-service network, regularly attaining a much higher audience share than most public-service networks worldwide. Originally styled BBC2, it was the third British television station to be launched (starting on 21 April 1964), and from 1 July 1967, Europe's first television channel to broadcast regularly in colour. It was envisaged as a home for less mainstream and more ambitious programming, and while this tendency has continued to date, most special-interest programmes of a kind previously broadcast on BBC Two, for example the BBC Proms, no ... [...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] |
Wuthering Heights (1967 TV Series)
''Wuthering Heights'' is a British television series which first aired on BBC 2 in 1967. It is an adaptation of the 1847 novel '' Wuthering Heights'' by Emily Brontë. Produced and broadcast in colour, the series had its original videotape masters wiped for reuse, although black and white film copies survived destruction and are available on DVD. Plot summary Main cast * Ian McShane as Heathcliff * Angela Scoular as Catherine Earnshaw * John Garrie as Joseph * Anne Stallybrass as Ellen * Anthony Edwards as Robert * James Haswell as Manservant * Jeremy Longhurst as Lockwood * William Marlowe as Hindley * Angela Douglas as Isabella Linton * Drewe Henley as Edgar Linton * Keith Buckley Keith Buckley (born November 19, 1979) is an American singer, best known as the vocalist and lyricist of the now defunct hardcore punk band Every Time I Die and the heavy metal supergroup The Damned Things. He is also a published author. Earl ... as Hareton References Bib ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanity Fair (1967 TV Serial)
''Vanity Fair'' is a BBC television drama serial adaptation of William Makepeace Thackeray's 1848 novel of the same name broadcast in 1967. It was the first drama serial in colour produced by the BBC. ''Vanity Fair'' starred Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp. The serial was also broadcast in 1972 in the US on PBS television as part of ''Masterpiece Theatre'', and Hampshire received an Emmy Award for her portrayal in 1973. This was the second of four television adaptations of ''Vanity Fair'' produced by the BBC; other serials had been transmitted in 1956/57, in 1987, and in 1998. Plot summary For a full length summary of the book, see: ''Vanity Fair'' plot summary. Episodes Cast * Susan Hampshire as Becky Sharp * Dyson Lovell as Rawdon Crawley * Bryan Marshall as Captain Dobbin * Marilyn Taylerson as Amelia Osborne * Roy Marsden as George Osborne * John Moffatt as Jos Sedley * Barbara Couper as Miss Matilda Crawley * Barbara Leake as Mrs. Sedley * Michael Rothwell as Pi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Portrait Of A Lady (TV Series)
''The Portrait of a Lady'' is a British television series which originally aired on BBC One during 1968. An adaptation of the novel ''The Portrait of a Lady'' by Henry James, it starred Suzanne Neve and Richard Chamberlain. The cast also included Edward Fox, Sarah Brackett, Beatrix Lehmann, Kathleen Byron, Rachel Gurney and James Maxwell. Originally broadcast in black and white before BBC One could transmit colour television, the series survived the BBC's archival purge in full colour and is available on DVD. Cast *Richard Chamberlain as Ralph Touchett *Suzanne Neve as Isabel Archer *Sarah Brackett as Henrietta Stackpole *Beatrix Lehmann as Mrs. Lydia Touchett *Rachel Gurney as Madame Merle * James Maxwell as Gilbert Osmond *Kathleen Byron as Countess Gemini *Ed Bishop as Caspar Goodwood * Edward Fox as Lord Warburton *Sharon Gurney as Pansy * Angus MacKay as Mr. Bantling *Alan Gifford as Mr. Daniel Touchett *Susan Tebbs as Constance *Felicity Gibson as Mildred *Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Middlemarch (1968 TV Series)
''Middlemarch, A Study of Provincial Life'' is a novel by English author George Eliot, the pen name of Mary Ann Evans. It appeared in eight installments (volumes) in 1871 and 1872. Set in Middlemarch, a fictional English Midlands town, in 1829 to 1832, it follows distinct, intersecting stories with many characters. Issues include the status of women, the nature of marriage, idealism, self-interest, religion, hypocrisy, political reform, and education. Despite comic elements, ''Middlemarch'' uses realism to encompass historical events: the 1832 Reform Act, early railways, and the accession of King William IV. It looks at medicine of the time and reactionary views in a settled community facing unwelcome change. Eliot began writing the two pieces that formed the novel in 1869–1870 and completed it in 1871. Initial reviews were mixed, but it is now seen widely as her best work and one of the great English novels. Background ''Middlemarch'' originates in two unfinished pieces tha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nana (1968 TV Miniseries)
Nana, Nanna, Na Na or NANA may refer to: People and fictional characters * Nana (given name), including a list of people and characters with the given name * Nana (surname), including a list of people and characters with the surname * Nana (chief) (died 1896), Mimbreño Apache chief * Nana (deejay) (born 1983), Malaysian ''Akademi Fantasia'' contestant * Nana (entertainer) (born 1991), a member of popular South Korean girl group ''After School'' * Nana (rapper) (born 1968), German rapper and DJ * Nana Astar Deviluke, a character in the manga series ''To Love Ru'' * Nana, a member of the South Korean girl group Woo!ah! * Nana, female UK garage singer, most notably on the song "Body Groove" by Architechs * Lulu and Nana (born 2018), pseudonyms for twin Chinese girls, who are allegedly the first humans produced from embryos that were genome-edited * Nana, name used for the Ngaanyatjarra people of Western Australia Arts and entertainment Films * Nana (1926 film), ''Nana'' (1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Roads To Freedom (TV Serial)
''The Roads to Freedom'' is a British 13-part drama serial broadcast on BBC Two in 1970. Based on the trilogy of novels by Jean-Paul Sartre, ''The Roads to Freedom'' deals with the lives of various people in Paris as war with Nazi Germany becomes inevitable. Unusually, the series makes much use of voiceover, using the characters' internal thoughts in the narrative. The series was adapted for television by David Turner and directed by James Cellan Jones. The serial was repeated in 1972 and again in 1977. In July 2022, it was announced that BBC Four would be repeating all 13 episodes. The introduction before the start of this rerun was by Colin Baker, who played the part of Claude. Script and reception David Turner spent fifteen months on the script. While Sartre's trilogy is divided into three more or less equal parts – ''The Age of Reason, The Reprieve and Iron in the Soul'' – Turner's adaptation was divided as ''The Age of Reason'' (6 episodes), ''The Reprieve'' (3 epis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
War And Peace (1972 TV Series)
''War and Peace'' is a British television dramatisation of the 1869 Leo Tolstoy novel ''War and Peace''. This 20-episode series began on 28 September 1972. The BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Anthony Hopkins heads the cast as Pierre Bezukhov, Morag Hood is Natasha Rostova, Alan Dobie is Andrei Bolkonsky and David Swift is Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-reaching consequences for each of them and their families. The twenty-part serial was produced by David Conroy and directed by John Davies. Conroy's aim was to transfer the characters and plot from Tolstoy's novel to television drama to run for a duration of 15 hours. Scripted by Jack Pulman, this version of ''War and Peace'' contained battle sequences, which were filmed in Yugoslavia. The theme tune is the Russian imperial anthem, played by the band of the Welsh Guards. Hopkins received the British Academy Television Award for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982 Film)
''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' is a 1982 British romantic adventure television film set during the French Revolution. It is based on the novels ''The Scarlet Pimpernel'' (1905) and ''Eldorado'' (1913) by Baroness Emmuska Orczy, and stars Anthony Andrews as Sir Percy Blakeney/the Scarlet Pimpernel, the protagonist, Jane Seymour as Marguerite St. Just, the love interest, and Ian McKellen as Chauvelin, the antagonist. In 1792 during the Reign of Terror, the Scarlet Pimpernel rescues French aristocrats while posing as the wealthy but foppish and seemingly empty-headed Sir Percival Blakeney. Percy marries the beautiful French actress Marguerite St. Just, but her previous relationship with Robespierre's agent Paul Chauvelin may endanger the Pimpernel's plans to save the young Dauphin, eldest son of the former King of France. The story differs from the book but is largely inspired by it. Plot In 1792 during the Reign of Terror of the French Revolution, a secret league of brave Englishmen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vincent & Theo
''Vincent & Theo'' is a 1990 biographical drama film about the Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) and his brother Theo (1857–1891), an art dealer. While Vincent van Gogh's artworks are now famous, he was essentially unrecognised in his lifetime, and survived on his brother's charity. The film was directed by Robert Altman, and starred Tim Roth and Paul Rhys in the title roles. The film was made as a four-hour mini-series (200-minute length) for television, and a 138-minute version was released to theatres. Plot ''Vincent & Theo'' has a prelude, which is documentary footage of the 1987 auction of one of Vincent van Gogh's paintings at Christie's, a famed London art business. The painting sells for millions of pounds. The film then cuts to scenes that take place in the period from 1883 through 1891, commencing with Vincent van Gogh's decision to work exclusively as an artist, and concluding with his death and that of his brother Theo a few months later. The film is a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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