''All Night Long'' is a British

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starring

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that aired in 1994. It was written by Dick Fiddy and Mark Wallington, and was produced and directed by

Harold Snoad Harold Edward Snoad (born 28 August 1935) is a British television producer, writer and director. He is best known for the television sitcom ''Keeping Up Appearances'', starring Patricia Routledge and Clive Swift. He is also well known for having d ...

, who also produced and directed ''

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''.

Cast

– Bill Chivers *

Maureen Beattie Maureen Jane Beattie (born 14 August 1953) is an Irish-born, Scottish actress of both stage and screen. Early life Beattie was born in Bundoran, County Donegal on 14 August 1953, as the daughter of Scottish actor and comedian Johnny Beattie, ...

– Vanda *

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– Clare *

Angus Lennie Angus Wilson Lennie (18 April 1930 – 14 September 2014) was a Scottish film and theatre character actor with a 50-year career span. His numerous credits include the character of Flying Officer Archibald Ives in '' The Great Escape'', and '' ...

– Tom *Jan Winters – WPC Hannah Jackson *John Phythian – PC Digby *Jacqueline Reddin – Terry *Robert McKewley – Courtney *Paul Grunert – Wally

Plot

''All Night Long'' was set in a bakery in London, and showed the employees working during the night to prepare the bread for local hotels and cafés. Bill Chivers, who owned the business, had learnt bakery while in prison for armed robbery, and was determined to be a law abider. He employed Vanda, a Romanian, Scottish Tom and Courtney who was given a job after breaking into the bakery in the first episode. Clare was a disabled crime writer, who was inspired by the bakery, Wally was a cab driver and PC Digby and WPC Jackson were the local police officers.

Episodes

#''Episode One'' (11 July 1994) #''Episode Two'' (18 July 1994) #''Episode Three'' (25 July 1994) #''Episode Four'' (1 August 1994) #''Episode Five'' (15 August 1994) #''Episode Six'' (22 August 1994)

References

Mark Lewisohn Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English historian and biographer. Since the 1980s, he has written many reference books about the Beatles and has worked for EMI, MPL Communications and Apple Corps.

, "Radio Times Guide to TV Comedy", BBC Worldwide Ltd, 2003
British TV Comedy Guide for ''All Night Long''

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:All Night Long 1994 British television series debuts 1994 British television series endings 1990s British sitcoms BBC television sitcoms Television shows set in London