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Hilary Crane
Hilary Crane (1933 – June 2009) was an English actress, best known for her role as Nora Jenkins, the mother of Peter 'Tucker' Jenkins in the BBC series ''Grange Hill'' and its sister show, ''Tucker's Luck ''Tucker's Luck'' is a British television series made by the BBC between 1983 and 1985. The series is a spin-off from the school drama ''Grange Hill (TV series), Grange Hill'' and capitalised on the popularity of one of the series' original char ...''. Credits Television Film References External links * {{DEFAULTSORT:Crane, Hilary English television actresses 2009 deaths Actresses from Liverpool 1933 births ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Liverpool
Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the 10th largest English district by population and its metropolitan area is the fifth largest in the United Kingdom, with a population of 2.24 million. On the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary, Liverpool historically lay within the ancient hundred of West Derby in the county of Lancashire. It became a borough in 1207, a city in 1880, and a county borough independent of the newly-created Lancashire County Council in 1889. Its growth as a major port was paralleled by the expansion of the city throughout the Industrial Revolution. Along with general cargo, freight, and raw materials such as coal and cotton, merchants were involved in the slave trade. In the 19th century, Liverpool was a major port of departure for English and Irish emigrants to North America. It was also home to both the Cunard and White Star Lines, and was the port of registry of the ocean li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bergerac (TV Series)
''Bergerac'' is a British crime drama television series. Set in Jersey, it ran from 18 October 1981 to 26 December 1991. Produced by the BBC in association with the Australian Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Jim Bergerac, who is initially a detective sergeant in Le Bureau des Étrangers ("The Foreigners' Office", a fictional department dealing with non-Jersey residents), within the States of Jersey Police, but later leaves the force and becomes a private investigator. Westward Studios executive producer Brian Constantine said the Bergerac reboot was in the final stages of development, possibly airing 2024. Background The series ran from 1981 to 1991. It was created by producer Robert Banks Stewart after an earlier detective series, '' Shoestring,'' starring Trevor Eve, came to an abrupt end. Like ''Shoestring'', the series begins with a man returning to work after a particularly bad period in his life: Eddie Shoestring fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Outside Edge (television Series)
''Outside Edge'' is a play written by Richard Harris about a village cricket team trying to win a game of cricket whilst sorting out their various marital problems. Plot Roger is having trouble getting a team together for the afternoons fixture against the British Railways Maintenance Division Yeading East but this proves to be the least of anyone's worries. Bob is having marriage trouble as he is still doing odd jobs for his ex-wife behind his current wife Ginnie's back. Dennis is also having marital trouble as his wife seems intent on moving house despite the fact they only moved recently. When he finally puts his foot down she sets fire to his new car. Kevin is trying to fight off his over affectionate wife Maggie while at the same time nurse his injured spinning finger and Alex's new girlfriend ends up shutting herself in the toilets having hysterics. Even Roger's seemingly perfect marriage to Miriam hits the skids when she discovers he was playing away from home in more wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eldorado (TV Series)
''Eldorado'' (English: “The Golden”) is a British soap opera created by Tony Holland from an original idea by John Dark and Verity Lambert of a glamorous, upmarket soap focusing on wealthy British expatriates similar to US soaps ''Dallas'' and ''Dynasty''. The show ran for only one year, from 6 July 1992 to 9 July 1993. Set in the fictional town of Los Barcos on the Costa Eldorado in Spain and following the lives of British and European expatriates, the BBC hoped it would be as successful as ''EastEnders'' and replicate some of the sunshine and glamour of imported Australian soaps such as ''Home and Away'' and ''Neighbours''. A co-production between the BBC and independent production company Cinema Verity and J.Dark y J.Todesco, ''Eldorado'' aired three times a week in a high-profile evening slot on the mainstream channel BBC1, filling the slot vacated by Terry Wogan's chat show ''Wogan'', on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 7.00 pm. In spite of a high-profile adve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Fields
''French Fields'' is a British television sitcom. It is a sequel/continuation of the series ''Fresh Fields'' and ran for 19 episodes from 5 September 1989 to 8 October 1991. It was written by John T. Chapman (who created and wrote all the episodes of ''Fresh Fields'') and Ian Davidson and was produced by Thames Television for ITV. Cast The series stars Anton Rodgers and Julia McKenzie as middle-aged, middle-class husband and wife William and Hester Fields and follows the series ''Fresh Fields'', which ran from 1984 to 1986. ''French Fields'' resumes the story three years later as William accepts a position with a French company and the series follows Hester and William as they move from London to Calais. The pair are regularly visited by their daughter Emma (Sally Baxter and Karen Ascoe) and son-in-law Peter (Philip Bird). Bird is the only other ''Fresh Fields'' actor to appear regularly, as Emma only "appeared" via voiceover by Debby Cummings in the original show. Other re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Screen Two
''Screen Two'' was a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1985 to 1998 (not to be confused with a run of films shown on BBC2 under the billing ''Screen 2'' between April 1977 and March 1978). Following the demise of the BBC's ''Play for Today'', which ran from 1970 to 1984, producer Kenith Trodd was asked to formulate a new series of one-off television dramas. However, while ''Play for Today''s style had been a largely studio-based form of theatre on television, the new series was shot entirely on film. This was an attempt by the BBC to repeat the success of Channel 4's television films, many of which had been released in cinemas. From 1989 to 1998, a companion series, ''Screen One'', was broadcast on the more mainstream BBC1. After appearing more sporadically in the mid-1990s, ''Screen Two'' came to an end as the BBC moved its attentions away from single dramas and concentrated production on series and serials instead. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
No Job For A Lady
''No Job for a Lady'' is a British British sitcom, sitcom that aired on ITV Network, ITV between 7 February 1990 and 10 February 1992. Starring Penelope Keith, it was written by Alex Shearer, and directed and produced by John Howard Davies. It was made by Thames Television for ITV Network, ITV. Cast *Penelope Keith – Jean Price MP *Mark Kingston – Geoff Price *Garfield Morgan – Norman (Whip) *Paul Young (actor), Paul Young – Ken Miller *George Baker (British actor), George Baker – Sir Godfrey Eagan MP (series 1 and 2) *Brogden Miller – Freddy *Nigel Humphreys – Harry *Jonathan Dow – Tim (series 1) *Paul Rattigan – Mark (series 2) *Michael Cochrane – Richard (series 3) Note: In the four Series One episodes in which Nigel Humphreys appeared, he was credited as Nigel Humphries. Plot ''No Job for a Lady'' revolves around Jean Price, the newly elected, somewhat rebellious Labour Party (UK), Labour Member of Parliament, MP for an inner-city constituency, and her ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Labours Of Erica
''The Labours of Erica'' is a British television sitcom starring Brenda Blethyn as self-made businesswoman Erica Parsons. The show was first broadcast between 13 March 1989 and 9 April 1990. Premise Businesswoman Erica Parsons finds a list she had made as a young girl of everything she wanted to do before turning 18. Realising she has never done any of them, she resolves to achieve all her aims before her 40th birthday instead. The series premiered on ITV ITV or iTV may refer to: ITV *Independent Television (ITV), a British television network, consisting of: ** ITV (TV network), a free-to-air national commercial television network covering the United Kingdom, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islan ... in the United Kingdom at 8:00pm on Monday 13 March 1989 and ran for two series until 9 April 1990. DVD release The complete series of ''The Labours of Erica'' was released on DVD in the United Kingdom on 2 August 2010. External links * * 1980s British sitcoms 1990s British ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boon (TV Series)
''Boon'' is a British television drama starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV, and was originally broadcast between 1986 and 1995. It revolved around the life of an ex-fireman called Ken Boon. - a motorcycle-obsessed small time businessman who at the same time acts as a private investigator, bodyguard and general troubleshooter. Since 16 January 2017 it has been rerun on UKTV channel Drama. The show was memorable for its theme tune - Hi Ho Silver by Scottish singer Jim Diamond, which became a major UK top ten hit single in 1986. Premise Ken Boon (Elphick) and Harry Crawford (Daker) are both old-fashioned 'smokeys' (firemen) in the West Midlands Fire Service. In episode 1 Crawford takes early retirement and moves to Spain to open a bar, leaving Ken behind. Ken attends a house fire in which a child is trapped upstairs. Realising that he must act quickly, he goes into t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Slinger's Day
''Slinger's Day'' is a British sitcom that aired for two series from 1986 to 1987, made by Thames Television for the ITV network. It was a continuation of '' Tripper's Day'', which had originally come to a natural end after Leonard Rossiter's death, and, despite the overwhelmingly negative response it had drawn from reviewers and a section of the viewing public, was revived this time with Bruce Forsyth as a different character to Rossiter but fulfilling the same role, that of the manager of a London supermarket with largely incompetent staff. Like ''Tripper's Day'', it was created by Brian Cooke, however, in contrast to the previous series, Cooke only wrote two episodes of the twelve episodes, more than half of them being written by Vince Powell with others being written by Alex Shearer and '' Sorry!'' creators Ian Davidson and Peter Vincent, and one episode written by the prolific Andrew Marshall and David Renwick. ''Slinger's Day'' represented Forsyth's only ever situation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bleak House (1985 TV Serial)
''Bleak House'' is a BBC television drama first broadcast in 1985. The serial was adapted by Arthur Hopcraft from the Charles Dickens novel ''Bleak House'' (1853). The series was the second adaptation of ''Bleak House'' by the BBC (the first being in 1959). It ran for eight episodes and starred Diana Rigg as Lady Dedlock, with Denholm Elliott in the role of John Jarndyce. In the United States, the series ran under the ''Masterpiece Theatre'' series umbrella. A notable plot omission in this version is the story of Caddy Jellyby and the Turveydrop family. As opposed to the standard of videotape for studio-based scenes and film for location-based scenes, the series was shot entirely on 16mm colour film. Cast *Robin Bailey – Sir Leicester Dedlock *Suzanne Burden – Esther Summerson *Denholm Elliott – John Jarndyce *Philip Franks – Richard Carstone *Lucy Hornak – Ada Clare * T. P. McKenna – Harold Skimpole *Chris Pitt – Jo *Diana Rigg – Lady Dedlock *Sylvia Coler ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tripper's Day
''Tripper's Day'' is a British television sitcom produced by Thames Television for ITV. The plot centres on Leonard Rossiter as Norman Tripper, a northern manager assigned to a London supermarket with problematic staff. The programme received poor reviews and was Rossiter's final television work; the actor died between the broadcast of the second and third episodes. The series was brought back two years later with Bruce Forsyth in the lead role, under the new title ''Slinger's Day''. In Canada and United States the series had a remake under the title '' Check it Out!'' (1985–1988). In Sweden, comical duo Stefan & Krister starred in ''Full Frys'', a TV series largely based on ''Tripper's Day'' and ''Check it Out!''. The last 2 episodes were transmitted on the original dates only in the London area due to strike action at Thames Television which stopped them from being networked Episodes Home release The complete series of ''Tripper's Day'' was released on DVD The DVD ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
