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United!
''United!'' is a British television series which was produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and was broadcast twice-weekly on BBC One, BBC1. The theme tune was The Tops, a brass band march by Thomas J. Powell. The series followed the fortunes of a fictional second division Association football, football team, Brentwich United. The football scenes were filmed on the grounds of Stoke City F.C., Stoke City with Jimmy Hill acting as a technical advisor, and the efforts to achieve authenticity saw the show being criticised by the then management of Wolverhampton Wanderers F.C., Wolverhampton Wanderers, who complained that the series was based on their team. ''United!'' was not a success, and was cancelled after two series. The programme was generally considered to be too soft to appeal to male viewers, and too male-oriented for the female soap opera audience. As was common television practice at the time, the series' videotapes were Wiping (magnetic tape), wiped for reuse, and it ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ursula O'Leary
Ursula O'Leary (Birmingham, 10 March 1926 – 17 May 1993) was an English stage, radio and television actor.Deaths, The Times, 19 May 1993 O'Leary graduated in stage management from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in 1948. Her stage performances were broadcast live nationwide; on radio she played siren art teacher Jane Petrie in ''The Archers''. Stage management In 1948, while still a student, O'Leary starred as Viola/Cesario in ''Twelfth Night'' directed by Robert Atkins sharing the stage with Patricia Neal, Robert Shaw, Peter Sallis and John Neville. Michael Barry, Head of Drama at BBC Television, adapted the performance for broadcast on 21 March 1948 as ''Scenes from Twelfth Night and Macbeth''. The scenes were transmitted live for BBC Television at a time unrecorded other than still photography. Regional theatre Having graduated in 1948, O'Leary's was performing at Nottingham Playhouse in 1949 in Richard Brinsley Sheridan's ''The Rivals''. In January 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerry Davis (screenwriter)
Gerald Davis (23 February 1930 – 31 August 1991) was a British television writer, best known for his contributions to the science-fiction genre. He also wrote for the soap operas ''Coronation Street'' and ''United!''. Career ''Doctor Who'' From 1966 until the following year, Davis was the story editor of the BBC science-fiction series ''Doctor Who'', for which he created the character Jamie McCrimmon and co-created the popular cybernetic monsters known as the Cybermen, who continue to make appearances in the show, having been revived in the new run. His fellow co-creator of these creatures was the programme's unofficial scientific adviser, Dr. Kit Pedler. Davis briefly returned to writing ''Doctor Who'' in 1975, penning the original script for '' Revenge of the Cybermen'', though the transmitted version was heavily rewritten by then script-editor Robert Holmes. Davis also adapted several of his scripts into novelisations for Target Books' ''Doctor Who'' range. ''Doomwat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robin Wentworth
Robin Wentworth (20 July 1915 – 16 August 1997) was a British television actor, whose most prominent role was that of Ted Dawson in 116 episodes of soap-serial ''United!''. Early life A former Taunton schoolboy, he auditioned at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, only to be told by Sir Barry Jackson to "Go away immediately and get some experience then come back." Upon leaving the Army in 1945, Wentworth continued to write music but really earned his living by acting. Acting career Another prominent role was playing Arthur Dewhurst, who was in a relationship with Elsie Tanner in 12 episodes of ''Coronation Street'' during 1961 before returning eight years later as John Greaves in two episodes. Wentworth's other work includes an episode of the ''Doctor Who ''Doctor Who'' is a British science fiction television series broadcast by the BBC since 1963. The series, created by Sydney Newman, C. E. Webber and Donald Wilson (writer and producer), Donald Wilson, depicts the ad ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Layton
George Layton (born George Michael William Löwy; 2 March 1942) is a British actor, director, screenwriter and author best known for three television roles – junior doctor Paul Collier in the comedy series ''Doctor in the House'' and its sequels '' Doctor at Large'', '' Doctor in Charge'' ''and Doctor at the Top'', Bombardier 'Solly' Solomons in the first two series of '' It Ain't Half Hot Mum'', and Des the mechanic in early episodes of '' Minder''. He also appeared in two episodes of '' The Sweeney'' and played Norman Simmonds in ''EastEnders'' as well as a few early appearances as himself on the light entertainment BBC1 consumer show ''That's Life!''. Life and career Layton was born George Michael William Löwy in Bradford, West Riding of Yorkshire, England to Fritz and Edith Löwy (née Hecht). Both of Layton's parents were Austrian Jews who fled their native Vienna to England just before the outbreak of the Second World War. The family moved to Surrey before settling ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malcolm Hulke
Malcolm Ainsworth Hulke (21 November 1924 – 6 July 1979) was a British television writer and author of the industry "bible" ''Writing for Television in the 70s''. He is remembered chiefly for his work on the science fiction series ''Doctor Who'' although he contributed to many popular television series of the era. Early life Known as "Mac" throughout his life, Hulke was born out of wedlock in 1924 and never knew his father. He later discussed the social stigma of illegitimacy and his personal experiences of it in a 1964 radio documentary and a 1973 op-ed piece in ''The Observer''. He lived with his mother, Marian, until her death in 1943 in Cumberland. In 1945 he was conscripted into the Royal Navy. Impressed by the Russian prisoners of War whom he met in Norway and by the Red Army's defeat of the Nazis on the Eastern Front, Hulke joined the Communist Party of Great Britain in 1945 and worked briefly as a typist in the party's headquarters. He left the party in 1951, objecti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Innes Lloyd
George Innes Llewelyn Lloyd (24 December 1925 – 23 August 1991) was a Welsh television producer and former actor. He had a long career as a producer in BBC drama, which included series such as ''Doctor Who'' and ''Talking Heads''. Early life and career George Innes Llewelyn Lloyd was born on Christmas Eve in the town of Penmaenmawr, Wales. Lloyd received his education from Ellesmere College in Shropshire, England. His ambition was to join the Royal Navy, but was denied entry to Dartmouth Naval College due to his poor eyesight. The outbreak of World War II finally allowed Lloyd to volunteer in the Navy. Acting career Following his naval service, Lloyd decided to pursue acting. He studied at the Central School of Speech and Drama, graduating in 1949. That Christmas, he played the role of the Chinese Emperor in a version of ''Aladdin'' produced in Ashford, Kent. The following year, Lloyd joined a repertory company called the Palace Players, based at the Gaiety Theatre in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Lyons (actor)
John Lyons (born 14 September 1943) is an English stage and screen actor. He played Detective Sergeant George Toolan in the long-running UK detective drama '' A Touch of Frost'' (1992–2010) alongside David Jason. Early life Lyons was born in Whitechapel in 1943, the son of a dock worker and an office cleaner, and the youngest of three children. Aged six, he would help the local milkman deliver milk to the neighbouring block of flats before school. Leaving school at fifteen, Lyons became a labourer for British Rail at Paddington Station. An aspiring footballer, every Sunday morning, he and several hundred others would play football on Hackney Marshes. Aged 17, a member of his team happened to be a journalist who gave him a business card advertising a new drama school, East 15. Lyons attended the drama school for three years after being accepted after an audition. Career Lyons' first acting job out of drama school was in ''Catch Hand''. After this, he worked consistently in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Kingston
Mark Kingston (18 April 1934 – 9 October 2011) was an English actor who made many television and stage appearances over his 50-year career. Biography Kingston's father was a blacksmith and he attended Greenwich Central School and trained as an actor at LAMDA, he then appeared in repertory theatre and at the Old Vic with Vivien Leigh. He played the lecturer Frank in the original stage production of '' Educating Rita'' with Julie Walters. On television he had significant roles in ''United!'', '' Beryl's Lot'', '' A Voyage Round My Father'', '' Shine on Harvey Moon'', and other productions. His film career included roles in ''Invasion'' (1965), '' Love Is a Splendid Illusion'' (1970), '' Hitler: The Last Ten Days'' (1973) as Martin Bormann, '' Saint Jack'' (1979), '' Lady Oscar'' (1979), ''Sphinx'' (1981) and ''Give My Regards to Broad Street'' (1984). Kingston also appeared in an episode of ''Birds of a Feather'' as Sharon's ( Pauline Quirke) Lover (1990). He died at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Hill
James William Thomas Hill, Order of the British Empire, OBE (22 July 1928 – 19 December 2015) was an English football in England, footballer and later a television personality. His career included almost every role in the sport, including player, trade union leader, coach, manager, director, chairman, television executive, presenter, pundit, analyst and Assistant referee (association football), assistant referee. He began his playing career at Brentford F.C., Brentford in 1949 and moved to Fulham F.C., Fulham three years later. As chairman of the Professional Footballers' Association, he successfully campaigned for the abolition of the English Football League, Football League's maximum wage in 1961. After retiring as a player, he took over as manager of Coventry City F.C., Coventry City, modernising the team's image and guiding them from the Third Division to the First. In 1967, he began a career in football broadcasting, and from 1973 to 1988 was host of the BBC's ''Match of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soap Opera
A soap opera (also called a daytime drama or soap) is a genre of a long-running radio or television Serial (radio and television), serial, frequently characterized by melodrama, ensemble casts, and sentimentality. The term ''soap opera'' originated from radio dramas originally being sponsored by soap manufacturers.Bowles, p. 118. The term was preceded by ''horse opera'', a derogatory term for low-budget Western (genre), Westerns. According to some dictionaries, for something to be adequately described as a soap opera, it need not be long-running; but some authors define the word in a way that excludes short-running serial dramas from their definition. BBC Radio's ''The Archers'', first Broadcasting, broadcast in 1950, is the world's longest-running soap opera. The longest-running television soap opera is ''Coronation Street'', which was first broadcast on ITV (TV network), ITV in 1960. According to Albert Moran, one of the defining features that make a television program a soap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brian Hayles
Brian Leonard Hayles (7 March 1931 – 30 October 1978) was an English television and film writer, most notably for the BBC science fiction series '' Doctor Who''. Doctor Who Hayles wrote six stories for '' Doctor Who'' and is best known for his creation of the Celestial Toymaker in the 1966 story of the same name, the Ice Warriors, introduced in the 1967 story of the same name, and the feudal planet Peladon, the setting for '' The Curse of Peladon'' and its sequel '' The Monster of Peladon''. His other stories were '' The Smugglers'' and '' The Seeds of Death''. Novels In addition to script writing for the radio series '' The Archers'', Hayles penned a novel based on the soap called ''Spring at Brookfield'' (Tandem, 1975) set in the period between the two world wars. His other books included novelisations of his '' Doctor Who'' serials '' The Curse of Peladon'' (Target, 1974) and '' The Ice Warriors'' (Target, 1976), an adaptation of his scripts for the BBC drama '' The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beverley Jones (actress)
Beverley Jones (born 17 October 1974) is a Paralympian from Wales competing in category F37 throwing events. Jones won a bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth Games as an EAD in the 100m sprint. Jones has qualified for four Summer Paralympics from 2000 to 2012 finishing fourth twice, in the sprint in 2000 at Sydney and in the shot put at Athens in 2004. History Jones was born in Queensferry, Flintshire in north Wales in 1974. Jones, who has cerebral palsy, first began playing representative sports when she played cricket for Wales, and was in the team that beat England at Lords in 1996. She was introduced to athletics at the Wrexham Sports Club for the Disabled in 1997 and began entering sprinting events in her 1998. In 2000, she was selected for the Great Britain team at the Summer Paralympics, competing in the T38 sprint. She finished 4th in the 100m and 8th in the 200m. In 2004 Jones was reselected for the Great Britain Paralympic team for the Summer games in Athens, this ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
