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Juliet Bravo

Juliet Bravo

Overview
Juliet Bravo is a British television
British television
Public television broadcasting started in the United Kingdom in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of...

 series, which ran on BBC1 between 1980 and 1985. The theme of the series concerned a female police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

 inspector who took over control of a police station
Police station
A police station or station house is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff. These buildings often contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms, temporary holding cells and interview/interrogation rooms.- Facilities...

 in the fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

.
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Juliet Bravo is a British television
British television
Public television broadcasting started in the United Kingdom in 1936, and now has a collection of free and subscription services over a variety of distribution media, through which there are over 480 channelsTaking the base Sky EPG TV Channels. A breakdown is impossible due to a) the number of...

 series, which ran on BBC1 between 1980 and 1985. The theme of the series concerned a female police
Police
The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

 inspector who took over control of a police station
Police station
A police station or station house is a building which serves to accommodate police officers and other members of staff. These buildings often contain offices and accommodation for personnel and vehicles, along with locker rooms, temporary holding cells and interview/interrogation rooms.- Facilities...

 in the fictional town of Hartley in Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

.

Programme name


Despite popular misunderstanding, there never was any character named "Juliet Bravo" in the show. The name of the show is the inspector's radio call sign
Call sign
In broadcasting and radio communications, a call sign is a unique designation for a transmitting station. In North America they are used as names for broadcasting stations...

, "J-B", or "Juliet Bravo" in the phonetic alphabet as practised in European NATO states. The working title of the programme employed by series creator Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

 was "Inspector, Ma'am", a reference to the lead character's rank and title—a title whose use she was forced to insist upon from one of her Sergeants in the first episode of series 1, due to his preference for the informal, and possibly derogatory, "Boss". However, "Inspector, Ma'am" was dropped during filming of the first series.

Concept


The series was devised by Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

, who had already enjoyed success with another police drama series, The Sweeney
The Sweeney
The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London...

. The genre of police/crime dramas was well established on British television by 1980; however the BBC's Juliet Bravo, along with London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television
London Weekend Television was the name of the ITV network franchise holder for Greater London and the Home Counties including south Suffolk, middle and east Hampshire, Oxfordshire, south Bedfordshire, south Northamptonshire, parts of Herefordshire & Worcestershire, Warwickshire, east Dorset and...

's The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of...

which started a few months earlier, dealt with female officers as lead characters having to fight both crime and the prejudice of male colleagues.

Production


Seasons 1 and 2 were produced by Terence Williams. From season 3, the producer changed to Jonathan Alwyn, and was script edited by Chris Boucher
Chris Boucher
Chris Boucher is a British television writer, best known for his frequent contributions to two genres, science fiction and crime dramas.-Biography:...

. Series Four, Five and Six were produced by Geraint Morris
Geraint Morris
Geraint Morris was a Welsh film and television director and producer.His first contribution to film directing came in 1971 when he directed The Onedin Line...

.

The fast-moving theme tune for the programme was arranged by Derek Goom. Bob Cosford was the initial graphic designer who matched the theme tune to opening and closing graphics centred around a revolving police 'star and crown' cap badge which bore the familiar "E II R" device of English police forces, but in place of the force name around the blue circle had instead the generic words "County Constabulary".

Exterior scenes were filmed in the Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

 towns of Colne
Colne
Colne is the second largest town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 20,118. It lies at the eastern end of the M65, 6 miles north-east of Burnley, with Nelson immediately adjacent, in the Aire Gap with two main roads leading into the Yorkshire...

, Bacup
Bacup
Bacup is a town within the Rossendale borough of Lancashire, England. It is located amongst the South Pennines, along Lancashire's eastern boundary with West Yorkshire. The town sits within a rural setting in the Forest of Rossendale, amongst the steep-sided upper-Irwell Valley, through which the...

, Accrington
Accrington
Accrington is a town in Lancashire, within the borough of Hyndburn. It lies about east of Blackburn, west of Burnley, north of Manchester city centre and is situated on the mostly culverted River Hyndburn...

, Nelson
Nelson, Lancashire
Nelson is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Pendle in Lancashire, England, with a population of 28,998 in 2001. It lies 4 miles north of Burnley on the Leeds and Liverpool Canal....

, Burnley
Burnley
Burnley is a market town in the Burnley borough of Lancashire, England, with a population of around 73,500. It lies north of Manchester and east of Preston, at the confluence of the River Calder and River Brun....

, and in Todmorden
Todmorden
Todmorden is a market town and civil parish, located 17 miles from Manchester, within the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Upper Calder Valley and has a total population of 14,941....

, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

. Other locations around east Lancashire
Lancashire
Lancashire is a non-metropolitan county of historic origin in the North West of England. It takes its name from the city of Lancaster, and is sometimes known as the County of Lancaster. Although Lancaster is still considered to be the county town, Lancashire County Council is based in Preston...

 and West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....

 & The Black Country ( Tipton & Dudley )were also used.

Regular cast


The lead role of Inspector Jean Darblay was played by Stephanie Turner
Stephanie Turner
Stephanie Turner is an actress.She is best known for the lead role of Inspector Jean Darblay in the first three series of the 1980s television BBC police drama Juliet Bravo. Prior to this, she had played Dennis Waterman's screen wife, Alison Carter, in early episodes of The Sweeney and WPC Howarth...

 between 1980 and 1982, and her replacement Inspector Kate Longton was played by Anna Carteret
Anna Carteret
Anna Carteret is a British stage and screen actress, born in Bangalore, India the daughter of Peter John Wilkinson and his wife Patricia Carteret . She is married to the television and film director Christopher Morahan and has often worked with him...

 between 1983 and 1985.
  • Stephanie Turner
    Stephanie Turner
    Stephanie Turner is an actress.She is best known for the lead role of Inspector Jean Darblay in the first three series of the 1980s television BBC police drama Juliet Bravo. Prior to this, she had played Dennis Waterman's screen wife, Alison Carter, in early episodes of The Sweeney and WPC Howarth...

     (Insp. Jean Darblay) (1980-82 / Series 1–3 / 44 episodes)
  • David Hargreaves (Tom Darblay) (1980-82 / Series 1–3 / 24 episodes)
  • David Ellison (Sgt. Joseph Beck) (1980-85 / Series 1-6 / 88 episodes)
  • Noel Collins (Sgt. George Parrish) (1980-85 / Series 1-6 / 87 episodes)
  • Mark Drewry (PC Roland Bentley) (1980 / Series 1 / 15 episodes)
  • Tony Caunter
    Tony Caunter
    Anthony Peter "Tony" Caunter is a British actor best known for his role as Jack Shepherd in the Yorkshire TV sitcom Queenie's Castle and also his portrayal of Roy Evans in EastEnders from 1994-2003....

     (DCI Jim Logan) (1980-82 / Series 1–3 / 14 episodes)
  • Gerard Kelly
    Gerard Kelly
    Paul "Gerard" Kelly was a Scottish actor who appeared in many comedies, most notably in City Lights, Rab C Nesbitt, and Scotch and Wry. He had more serious roles, including PC David Gallagher in Juliet Bravo , villain Jimmy in EastEnders and the villainous Callum Finnegan on Brookside...

     (PC David Gallagher) (1981 / Series 2 / 13 episodes)
  • David Straun (PC Martin Helmshore) (1982 / Series 3 / 10 episodes)
  • Anna Carteret
    Anna Carteret
    Anna Carteret is a British stage and screen actress, born in Bangalore, India the daughter of Peter John Wilkinson and his wife Patricia Carteret . She is married to the television and film director Christopher Morahan and has often worked with him...

     (Insp. Kate Longton) (1983-85 / Series 4–6 / 44 episodes)
  • C.J. Allen (PC Brian Kelleher) (1983-85 / Series 4-6 / 41 episodes)
  • Mark Botham (PC Danny Sparks) (1983-85 / Series 4-6 / 44 episodes)
  • Tom Georgeson
    Tom Georgeson
    Tom Georgeson is a British actor, known for his television and film work. His most notable credits have been supporting parts in Between The Lines and in three dramas by Alan Bleasdale; Boys from the Blackstuff Scully and G.B.H....

     (John Holden) (1983 / Series 4 / 10 episodes)
  • Edward Peel
    Edward Peel
    Edward Peel is a British actor.He has mostly appeared on television, his roles include Shogun , Juliet Bravo , Cracker , Emmerdale Farm and London's Burning...

     (DCI Mark Perrin) (1983-85 / Series 4-6 / 21 episodes)


others
  • John Ringham
    John Ringham
    John Henry Ringham was a British character actor of both television and stage who appeared in over a hundred screen appearances in a wide variety of roles....

     (Divisional Supt. Lake) (1980 / Series 1 / 3 episodes)
  • Geoffrey Larder (DS Dave Melchett) (1980 / Series 1 / 5 episodes)
  • Wendy Allnutt (Jennie Randall) (1980 / Series 1 / 3 episodes)
  • Martyn Hesford (PC Ian Skelton) (1980-81 / Series 1-2 / 3 episodes)
  • James Grout
    James Grout
    James Grout is an English actor of radio and television.Grout was born in London, the son of Beatrice Anne and William Grout...

     (Divisional Supt. Albert Hallam) (1981 / Series 2 / 3 episodes)
  • Lloyd McGuire
    Lloyd McGuire
    Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 30 years. He was born in Birmingham. He attended Bournville Tech/Grammar School where he excelled in sporting activities but at that stage displayed no obvious interest in drama...

     (DS Bernie Duckworth) (1981, 83 / Series 2&4 / 7 episodes)
  • David Gillies (PC Peter Sims) (1982 / Series 3 / 7 episodes)
  • Sebastian Abineri (DS Dick Maltby) (1983-85 / Series 4-6 / 6 episodes)
  • Julie Foulds (WPC Sheila Saunders) (1985 / Series 6 / 4 episodes)

Episode list

Episode Title Writer Director Guest stars

Series 1


(BBC1, 30 August to 13 December 1980)
1 Shotgun Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

David Reynolds Joanne Whalley
Joanne Whalley
-Early life:Whalley was born in Salford but brought up in Stockport where she studied at the Braeside School of Speech and Drama, Marple.Whalley first appeared as a child in How We Used To Live and bit parts in soap operas, especially Coronation Street and Emmerdale...

, Tony Melody
Tony Melody
Anthony John "Tony" Melody was an English television actor who appeared in a number of long running comedies and soap operas. He was a prolific character actor with over 100 television roles.-Early life:...

, John Ringham
John Ringham
John Henry Ringham was a British character actor of both television and stage who appeared in over a hundred screen appearances in a wide variety of roles....

2 Fraudulently Uttered Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Derek Lister Patricia Hayes
Patricia Hayes
Patricia Lawlor Hayes, OBE was an English comedy actress.Hayes was born in Streatham, London. As a child Hayes attended Sacred Heart School in Wandsworth....

, Ray Smith
Ray Smith (actor)
Ray Smith was a Welsh actor who notably played the tough-talking police chief, Detective Superintendent Gordon Spikings, in the television series, Dempsey & Makepeace.- Early life :...

, Dicken Ashworth
Dicken Ashworth
Dicken Ashworth is an English actor who has made several appearances in film and television.His film credits include: Force 10 from Navarone, Tess, Krull, and Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit.On television, can be a regular cast member in several soap operas - playing Alan Partridge...

3 The Draughtsman Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Paul Ciappessoni Del Henney
Del Henney
Del Henney is a British character actor, perhaps best known for his role as Charlie Venner in Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs .In addition to film work, he has appeared in numerous television productions....

, John Rowe
John Rowe (actor)
-TV:*BBC Television Shakespeare - Henry VIII *Juliet Bravo *When the Boat Comes In *Chambers *Agatha Christie's Poirot...

, Norman Hartley, John Cannon
4 Coins Ray Jenkins
Ray Jenkins
Ray Howard Jenkins was an American lawyer, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the surrounding region, throughout much of the 20th century...

Pennant Roberts
Pennant Roberts
Pennant Roberts was a British director noted for his work on British television.Roberts was born at Weston-super-Mare to Welsh parents...

George A. Cooper
George A. Cooper
George A. Cooper is an English actor.One of his best-known roles was as the caretaker Mr. Griffiths in the long-running children's TV series Grange Hill...

, Deirdre Costello, Peter Davidson
5 Trouble At T’Mill Brian Finch
Brian Finch
Brian Finch was a British television scriptwriter and dramatist. He had long and/or influential associations with several British dramas. Perhaps his longest relationship was with the ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street, for which he wrote 150 scripts between 1970 and 1989...

Derek Lister Alan Lake
Alan Lake
Alan Lake was an English actor, best known as the third husband of Diana Dors.-Biography:Lake was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 24 November 1940...

, Christine Hargreaves
Christine Hargreaves
Christine Hargreaves was an English actress who was best known for appearing as the character Christine Hardman in the soap opera Coronation Street between 1960-1963....

, Antony Carrick
6 The Runner Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Pennant Roberts
Pennant Roberts
Pennant Roberts was a British director noted for his work on British television.Roberts was born at Weston-super-Mare to Welsh parents...

Julian Briercliffe, Martin Matthews, Eileen Helsby
Eileen Helsby
Eileen Helsby is a British actress with several television credits.She appeared in the Doctor Who serial The Ark,Z Cars, Doomwatch, Survivors, Angels, Juliet Bravo and Bergerac.-External links:...

, David Ashton
David Ashton (actor)
David Ashton is a Scottish character actor who played Dr McDuff in the Granada Television Series Brass and Major Roddy Maclean in the Scottish television series Hamish Macbeth in the 1990s....

, John Rees
7 Coming Back Tony Parker Carol Wilks Bernard Gallagher
Bernard Gallagher
Bernard Gallagher is a British actor known for appearances in television soap operas and dramas. He was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire.Gallagher has appeared in many television series including Crown Court, Heartbeat, The thin blue line and Casualty.- External links :...

, Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately
Kevin Whately is an English actor.Whately is known for his starring role as Neville Hope in the British television comedy Auf Wiedersehen, Pet, his role as Dr Jack Kerruish in the drama series Peak Practice, and as Robert "Robbie" Lewis in the crime dramas Inspector Morse and...

, Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies is a British actress, with numerous television credits to her name from the beginning of the 70s onwards.She has played leading roles in the following series: Boon, The Cuckoo Waltz, Making Out, Band of Gold, Emmerdale, Nice Guy Eddie, Linda Green and The Chase.She appeared in the...

8 Cages Kenneth Clark Jonathan Alwyn David Ryall
David Ryall
David Ryall is an English actor who has appeared on British television since the 1970s. He has had leading roles in Lytton's Diary and Goodnight Sweetheart, as well as memorable roles in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and Andrew Davies's adaptation of To Play the King and The Final Cut, the...

9 Rage John Foster Tristan DeVere Cole
Tristan DeVere Cole
Tristan DeVere Cole is a British director born March 16, 1935 in Redruth, Cornwall, England.He is best known for Orion's Belt , the TV series Z-Cars , and Dykket...

Judy Liebert, Christian Rodska
Christian Rodska
Christian Rodska is an English actor who has appeared in many television and radio series and narrated a number of audiobooks...

10 The One Who Got Away Kenneth Clark Carol Wilks Geoffrey Hutchings
Geoffrey Hutchings
Geoffrey Hutchings was a British stage, film and television actor.-Early life and career:Hutchings was born in Dorchester, Dorset, England. After attending Hardye's School, he studied French and Physical Education at Birmingham University before he became a member of the Royal Academy of Dramatic...

, John Ringham
John Ringham
John Henry Ringham was a British character actor of both television and stage who appeared in over a hundred screen appearances in a wide variety of roles....

, Stephanie Fayerman, Shirley Stelfox
Shirley Stelfox
Shirley Stelfox is an English actress, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She is best known as Edna Birch in British Soap Opera Emmerdale....

11 Expectations Paula Milne
Paula Milne
Paula Milne is a multi-award–winning British screenwriter who has been active since the 1970s. Her notable works include The Politician’s Wife, The Virgin Queen, Chandler & Co, Die Kinder, Second Sight, Driving Ambition, Small Island and Endgame.She also devised the BBC medical drama Angels.Further...

Peter Moffatt
Peter Moffatt
Peter Moffatt was a British television director.His work includes Crane , All Creatures Great and Small and The Gentle Touch...

Sara Sugarman
Sara Sugarman
Sara Sugarman is a Welsh actress and film director whose work includes Disney's Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen and Very Annie Mary...

, Jean Rimmer, Peter Walmsley
12 Home Grown Or Imported? Simon Masters Pennant Roberts
Pennant Roberts
Pennant Roberts was a British director noted for his work on British television.Roberts was born at Weston-super-Mare to Welsh parents...

John Judd, Ivor Danvers
Ivor Danvers
Ivor Danvers is an English actor, best known for his role as Gerald Urquhart in the 1980s BBC drama Howards' Way....

, Eric Richard
Eric Richard
Eric Richard is an English actor.His theatre work includes plays at the Royal Court Theatre and the Theatre Royal, Stratford East, as well as seasons with the Royal Exchange, Manchester, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Sheffield Crucible Theatre and Paines Plough...

13 Family Unit Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Jonathan Alwyn Maggie Ollerenshaw
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Maggie Ollerenshaw is a British actress most famous for her role as Mavis on the sitcom Open All Hours. She also played Mrs. Clegg in the short-lived series, First of the Summer Wine. She became a more familiar television face after playing Florence Ranby in The House of Eliott terrorising the...

, Rio Fanning, Iain Blair
Iain Blair
Iain Blair was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels.-Life and career:Blair was born in Glasgow and spent the first few years of his life there...

, Sheila Raynor
14 Oscar Keith Dewhurst Derek Lister Sherrie Hewson
Sherrie Hewson
Sherrie Lynn Hutchinson is an English actor, broadcaster and novelist.-Early life:Born in Nottinghamshire, Hewson was brought up in a showbusiness family; her father was a singer and her mother a model. She began performing at the age of six, touring the UK's theatres in revues with her own...

, Paul Copley
Paul Copley
Paul Mackriell Copley is an award-winning English actor and voice-over artist.-Early life:Copley was born in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, and grew up beside a dairy farm there. His father, Harold, was involved with local amateur dramatic productions, as were the rest of his family...

, Mary Maddox, George Irving
George Irving (English actor)
George Irving is a British actor who is probably most famous for playing Anton Meyer in Holby City from 1999 to 2002...

15 The Anastasia Syndrome Steven Morgan Pennant Roberts
Pennant Roberts
Pennant Roberts was a British director noted for his work on British television.Roberts was born at Weston-super-Mare to Welsh parents...

Michael Forrest, Hugh Martin, Vivienne Burgess, Jim McManus, Pat Roach
Pat Roach
Francis Patrick "Pat" Roach was an English actor, wrestler and author, from Birmingham. His most famous role is that of West Country bricklayer Brian "Bomber" Busbridge in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. He also played a memorable role as General Kael in Willow...

, Madhav Sharma
Madhav Sharma
Madhav Sharma is an Indian born British actor and theatre director. He was educated at the St. Joseph's College, Bangalore, the Scottish Church College, Calcutta, and Fergusson College, Poona, before winning a merit scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.-Early life:He was born...

, Robert Ashby
16 Relief Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Jonathan Alwyn Michael Stainton, Andrew Burt
Andrew Burt
Andrew Burt is an English actor, who has appeared in many British TV drama series from the 1970s to the present day...

, John Ringham
John Ringham
John Henry Ringham was a British character actor of both television and stage who appeared in over a hundred screen appearances in a wide variety of roles....

, Vincent Brimble

Series 2


(BBC1, 5 September to 5 December 1981)
1 New Arrivals Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Derek Lister Anthony Douse, Ann Curthoys
2 Arlene Brian Finch
Brian Finch
Brian Finch was a British television scriptwriter and dramatist. He had long and/or influential associations with several British dramas. Perhaps his longest relationship was with the ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street, for which he wrote 150 scripts between 1970 and 1989...

Les Chatfield Amanda York, Patsy Rowlands
Patsy Rowlands
Patsy Rowlands was an English actress who is best remembered for her roles in the Carry On films, as Betty in the popular ITV Thames sitcom Bless This House, and as Alice Meredith in the Yorkshire Television sitcom Hallelujah!.-Early years:She was born in Palmers Green, London and attended a...

, Paul Humpoletz, Rosalie Williams
Rosalie Williams
Rosalie Williams is best known for her appearance as Mrs. Hudson in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes TV series produced by Granada Television from 1984 until 1994 alongside Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Edward Hardwicke, and Colin Jeavons....

, Robert Keegan
3 Party Fun Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Leonard Lewis
Leonard Lewis
Leonard Jack Lewis was a British producer and director. He was most active in television. He was the Executive/Series Producer for BBC's EastEnders during the early 1990s, though he had success with many other television programmes for both the BBC and ITV...

Frank Middlemass
Frank Middlemass
Francis George Middlemass was an English actor, who even in his early career played older roles. He is best remembered for his television roles as Rocky Hardcastle in As Time Goes By, Algy Herries in To Serve Them All My Days and Dr. Alex Ferrenby in Heartbeat...

, Ray Mort, Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 30 years. He was born in Birmingham. He attended Bournville Tech/Grammar School where he excelled in sporting activities but at that stage displayed no obvious interest in drama...

, Robert Russell
Robert Russell (English actor)
Robert Russell was an English actor, perhaps best known for a memorable supporting role as John Stearne alongside Vincent Price in the classic British horror film Witchfinder General....

4 Lies And Liars Ray Jenkins
Ray Jenkins
Ray Howard Jenkins was an American lawyer, active primarily in Knoxville, Tennessee, and the surrounding region, throughout much of the 20th century...

Jonathan Alwyn Jean Boht
Jean Boht
Jean Boht is an English actress.She is most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy Bread....

, Jeff Rawle
Jeff Rawle
Jeff Rawle is a British actor, perhaps best known for playing the long-suffering George in the news-gathering sitcom Drop the Dead Donkey...

, Paul Anil
5 A Private Place Colin Haydn Evans Jonathan Alwyn Arthur Hewlett
Arthur Hewlett
Arthur Hewlett was a British actor.He is best remembered for his roles on television, including Quatermass and the Pit, Police Surgeon, The Avengers, The Saint, No Hiding Place, The Baron, The Troubleshooters, Menace, Follyfoot, The Changes, Blake's 7, Doctor Who Arthur Hewlett (12 March 1907...

, David Daker
David Daker
David Daker is an English actor.His is best known for his role as Harry Crawford in the hit series Boon. He also played PC Owen Culshaw in Z-Cars, Jarvis in Porridge, Captain Nathan Spiker in Dick Turpin....

, Norman Bird
Norman Bird
Norman Bird was a British character actor. Often sporting a moustache and an air of worried resignation, he seemed to specialise in downtrodden roles...

, Edward Kelsey
Edward Kelsey
Edward Kelsey is a British actor of stage and screen as well as a voiceover artist. He is perhaps best recognised as the voice of Joe Grundy on the long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers - a role he took over in 1985.On television, he is known for voicing the characters of Colonel K and...

6 Unpicking The Stitches Simon Masters Christopher Barry
Christopher Barry
Christopher Barry is a British television director who was well known for his work on the science fiction series Doctor Who...

Susanna Dawson
7 Clever Boy William Humble Leonard Lewis Malcolm Terris
Malcolm Terris
Malcolm Terris is a British actor.He had a lengthy career in a large number of television programmes. Possibly his best known role was in When the Boat Comes In, a popular 1970s series, where he played the part of Matt Headley...

, Frances White
Frances White
Frances White is a British actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Kate Hamilton in Crossroads and as Miss Flood in the BBC sitcom May to December....

, Anthony Preston
8 Aunt Sally John Foster Les Chatfield Margery Mason
Margery Mason
Margery E. Mason is an English actress and director. She was the Artistic Director of the Repertory Theatre in Bangor, Northern Ireland in the 1960s....

, Alan Bennion
Alan Bennion
Alan Bennion is a British actor. He is best known for his work on the science fiction television series Doctor Who and the police drama Z-Cars...

9 Gorgeous Keith Dewhurst Leonard Lewis Derek Newark
Derek Newark
Derek Newark was an English actor.He appeared in a large number of film and television roles, including The Baron , The Avengers , Z Cars , Barlow at Large in the recurring role of Det. Insp...

, Betty Alberge
Betty Alberge
Betty Alberge was an English actress best known for her soap opera roles as cornershop owner Florrie Lindley in Coronation Street and as Edna Cross in Brookside...

10 Whispers Tony Parker Leonard Lewis Jeremy Nicholas
Jeremy Nicholas (writer)
Jeremy Nicholas is an actor, writer, broadcaster, lyricist and musician. He is President of the Jerome K. Jerome Society.He was born on 20 September 1947 in Wellington, Shropshire, raised in Stafford and educated at Wycliffe College and the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art...

, Elizabeth Power
Elizabeth Power
Elizabeth "Lizzie" Power is a British actress. Power began her career in repertory theatre and went on to appear in several West End musicals. However, she best known for her work on British television, in particular her role as Christine Hewitt in the BBC soap opera, EastEnders . She has since...

, Malcolm Hebden
Malcolm Hebden
Malcolm Hebden is an English television and stage actor best known for his role as Norris Cole in the long-running ITV soap opera Coronation Street.-Early life:...

11 Barriers Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Jonathan Alwyn Jack Watson
Jack Watson (actor)
Jack Watson , was an English actor who appeared in many British films and television dramas from the 1950s onwards....

, Bill Dean
Bill Dean
Bill Dean was a British actor who was born in Everton, Liverpool. He was born Patrick Connolly but took his stage name in honour of Everton football legend William 'Dixie' Dean.- Biography :...

, James Garbutt
James Garbutt
James Garbutt is a British actor, who has been active on television since the 1960s. Originally from the North East of England, he was a key member of the People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne during the 1950s and '60s....

, George Waring
George Waring
George Waring was a British television actor from 1962 to 2000. He also had occasional feature film credits...

, Albert Moses
Albert Moses
Albert Moses is a British-based actor born near Kandy, Sri Lanka. He had begun to act by the 1960s in India where he appeared in several films, then produced and directed his first. From India, he moved to Africa where he undertook work on documentaries...

12 Journeys Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Ben Rea Geoffrey Bayldon
Geoffrey Bayldon
Geoffrey Bayldon is a British actor. After playing roles in many dramas including Shakespeare, he became known for portraying the title role of the children's series Catweazle , after turning down the opportunity to play both the First and Second Doctors in the long-running BBC science fiction...

, Joby Blanshard, Katharine Page, Madhav Sharma
Madhav Sharma
Madhav Sharma is an Indian born British actor and theatre director. He was educated at the St. Joseph's College, Bangalore, the Scottish Church College, Calcutta, and Fergusson College, Poona, before winning a merit scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.-Early life:He was born...

, Frank Jarvis
Frank Jarvis (actor)
Frank Jarvis was a British character actor.He trained at RADA and made his film debut in Mix Me a Person ....

, Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 30 years. He was born in Birmingham. He attended Bournville Tech/Grammar School where he excelled in sporting activities but at that stage displayed no obvious interest in drama...

13 Catching Up John Foster Ken Hannam
Ken Hannam
Ken Hannam was an Australian film and television director.-Career:Born in Melbourne, the eldest of three boys, Hannam lived in his youth in Sydney and was educated at Wollaroi College in New South Wales. He worked in Australian radio and television, then moved in 1968 to England...

John Forgeham
John Forgeham
John Forgeham is a British actor who is probably best known for playing businessman Frank Laslett in the ITV series Footballers' Wives....

, Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker
Brenda Fricker is an Irish actress of theatre, film and television. She had appeared in more than 30 films and television roles...

, Paul Angelis
Paul Angelis
Paul Angelis is an English actor and writer best known for his role as PC Bannerman in the British television series Z-Cars.He provided the voice of Ringo Starr and the Chief Blue Meanie in the movie Yellow Submarine....

14 The Third Man Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Derek Lister Nadim Sawalha
Nadim Sawalha
Nadim Sawalha is a Jordanian-born English actor and father of actresses Julia and Nadia Sawalha.He was born in Madaba in 1935 and came to England from Jordan in the 1950s, to study drama...

, Roderick Smith, Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 30 years. He was born in Birmingham. He attended Bournville Tech/Grammar School where he excelled in sporting activities but at that stage displayed no obvious interest in drama...


Series 3


(BBC1, 4 September to 4 December 1982)
1 Betrayals Nick McCarty Robert Tronson Frank Mills, Jayne Lester, Philip Martin Brown
Philip Martin Brown
Philip Martin Brown is an English actor, born in Manchester. He has starred in many TV shows and movies in a career that has spanned nearly four decades...

, Jean Rimmer, Edward Kelsey
Edward Kelsey
Edward Kelsey is a British actor of stage and screen as well as a voiceover artist. He is perhaps best recognised as the voice of Joe Grundy on the long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers - a role he took over in 1985.On television, he is known for voicing the characters of Colonel K and...

, Peter Welch
Peter Welch (actor)
Peter Welch was a British actor who appeared in various television programmes including Dixon of Dock Green, Z-Cars, Spy Trap, Softly, Softly, Doctor Who, and Danger Man with Patrick McGoohan....

, Richard Steele, Tim Barker
2 Heat John Foster Paul Ciappessoni Terrence Hardiman
3 Amenities William Humble Peter Moffatt
Peter Moffatt
Peter Moffatt was a British television director.His work includes Crane , All Creatures Great and Small and The Gentle Touch...

Richard Hampton, George Little
4 Amateur Night Brian Finch
Brian Finch
Brian Finch was a British television scriptwriter and dramatist. He had long and/or influential associations with several British dramas. Perhaps his longest relationship was with the ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street, for which he wrote 150 scripts between 1970 and 1989...

David Maloney
David Maloney
David John Lee Maloney was a British television director and producer. He was born in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, was educated at King Edward VI Five Ways and served in the Royal Air Force before becoming an actor in the theatre...

John Savident
John Savident
John Savident is a British actor, best known for playing the part of Fred Elliott in the soap opera Coronation Street from 1994 to 2006. And also was a frequent guest on Soccer AM alongside fellow actor Jack 'The Rigger' Spooner....

, Graham Seed
Graham Seed
Graham Seed is an English actor.He trained at RADA and is best known for his role playing Nigel Pargetter in the BBC radio series The Archers from 1983 until January 2011, although actor Nigel Carrington briefly played the role when Graham Seed took a break in the late 1980s...

, Diana Davies, Kenneth Farrington, Charles Pemberton, Donald Pelmear
5 A Breach Of The Peace Robert Holmes
Robert Holmes (scriptwriter)
This entry is about the television scriptwriter. For other people with the same name, see Robert Holmes .Robert Colin Holmes was an English television scriptwriter, who for over twenty-five years contributed to some of the most popular programmes screened in the UK...

Paul Ciappessoni Alan Lake
Alan Lake
Alan Lake was an English actor, best known as the third husband of Diana Dors.-Biography:Lake was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 24 November 1940...

, Bernard Horsfall
Bernard Horsfall
Bernard Horsfall is a British actor.Horsfall was born in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire. He has appeared in many television and film roles including: Guns at Batasi , On Her Majesty's Secret Service , Enemy at the Door , Gandhi , The Jewel in the Crown , The Hound of the Baskervilles Bernard...

, Jack Smethurst
Jack Smethurst
Jack Smethurst is an English TV and film comic actor whose career dates back to the 1950s.-Career:Smethurst made his film debut in 1958's Carry On Sergeant...

, Mela White
6 Family Ties Simon Masters David Maloney
David Maloney
David John Lee Maloney was a British television director and producer. He was born in Alvechurch, Worcestershire, was educated at King Edward VI Five Ways and served in the Royal Air Force before becoming an actor in the theatre...

Bernard Kay
Bernard Kay
Bernard Kay is a British actor with an extensive theatre, television and film repertoire.Kay began his working life as a reporter on Bolton Evening News, and a stringer for The Manchester Guardian. He was conscripted in 1946 and started acting in the army...

, Philip Donaghy, Edward Kelsey
Edward Kelsey
Edward Kelsey is a British actor of stage and screen as well as a voiceover artist. He is perhaps best recognised as the voice of Joe Grundy on the long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers - a role he took over in 1985.On television, he is known for voicing the characters of Colonel K and...

7 Nothing To Report Henry Livings
Henry Livings
Henry Livings was an English playwright and screenwriter, who worked extensively in British television and theatre from the 1960s to the 1990s.-Early life and career:...

Robert Tronson David Daker
David Daker
David Daker is an English actor.His is best known for his role as Harry Crawford in the hit series Boon. He also played PC Owen Culshaw in Z-Cars, Jarvis in Porridge, Captain Nathan Spiker in Dick Turpin....

, John Junkin
John Junkin
John Francis Junkin was an English radio, television and film performer and scriptwriter.In 1960 Junkin joined Joan Littlewood's Stratford East Theatre Workshop, and played the lead in the original production of Sparrows Can't Sing...

, Harold Goodwin
Harold Goodwin (English actor)
Harold Goodwin was an English actor born in Wombwell, Yorkshire, England.Goodwin trained at RADA and was a stage actor at Liverpool repertory theatre for 3 years...

, Mark Strickson
Mark Strickson
Mark Strickson is a British TV producer and actor best known for his acting role as the character of Vislor Turlough on the television series Doctor Who.Strickson was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, England...

, Jean Boht
Jean Boht
Jean Boht is an English actress.She is most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy Bread....

, James Muir, Tony McEwan
8 You Can Go Home Again Allan Prior
Allan Prior
Allan Prior was an English television scriptwriter and novelist, who wrote over 300 television episodes from the 1950s onwards....

Peter Moffatt
Peter Moffatt
Peter Moffatt was a British television director.His work includes Crane , All Creatures Great and Small and The Gentle Touch...

Glyn Owen
Glyn Owen
Glyn Griffith Owen was a British stage, television and film actor, probably best known to British TV viewers for two roles: that of Dr...

, Mary Wimbush
Mary Wimbush
Mary Wimbush was an English actress, whose career spanned sixty years from the 1940s to the 2000s...

, Juliet Cadzow
Juliet Cadzow
Should We Go Home Elizabeth Smith2011 Fast RomanceGabriella Catalano2009 New Town Mrs Showalter2008 Stone of DestinyIan's Mother2007 Wedding Belles Kelly's Ma2006 Still Game Conductress / Gorgeous woman...

9 Past Lives Tony Parker Oliver Horsbrugh
Oliver Horsbrugh
Oliver Horsbrugh was a British Television Director most recently for Emmerdale; but also directing episodes of the top rated ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street from the early 1970s. His early training was at the BBC. He won a BAFTA as part of the Emmerdale team in 2001 when the programme was...

Tenniel Evans
Tenniel Evans
-Family:Walter Tenniel Evans was born in Nairobi, Kenya. His middle name derived from the illustrator Sir John Tenniel, a distant relation. His daughter, Serena Evans, is an actress, and his son, Matthew, is a television director....

, Jeremy Nicholas
Jeremy Nicholas (writer)
Jeremy Nicholas is an actor, writer, broadcaster, lyricist and musician. He is President of the Jerome K. Jerome Society.He was born on 20 September 1947 in Wellington, Shropshire, raised in Stafford and educated at Wycliffe College and the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art...

, Sue Wallace
10 Cause For Complaint Tony Charles Christopher Barry
Christopher Barry
Christopher Barry is a British television director who was well known for his work on the science fiction series Doctor Who...

Peter Jeffrey
Peter Jeffrey
Peter Jeffrey was a British actor with many roles in television and film.Jeffrey was born in Bristol, the son of Florence Alice and Arthur Winfred Gilbert Jeffrey. He was educated at Harrow School and Pembroke College, Cambridge but had no formal training as an actor...

, Mike Savage, Ian Liston
11 Hartley’s Midnight Cowboy Bill Lyons Diarmuid Lawrence
Diarmuid Lawrence
Diarmuid Lawrence is a British television director.Born in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, Lawrence began his career in 1978 as a production assistant on the BBC television drama Pennies from Heaven...

Al Ashton, Heather Tobias
12 The Intruder James Doran Sarah Hellings Colin Baker
Colin Baker
Colin Baker is a British actor who is known for playing Paul Merroney in The Brothers from 1974 to 1976 and as the sixth incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who, from 1984 to 1986.- Background:Colin Baker was born in London, but moved north to...

, Colin Rix
Colin Rix
-Selected filmography:* Strongroom * Panic * The Body Stealers * The Triple Echo * Aces High * The Medusa Touch * Porridge * Eye of the Needle * Dance with a Stranger...

, Brian McDermott
13 Misunderstandings Valerie Georgeson Diarmuid Lawrence
Diarmuid Lawrence
Diarmuid Lawrence is a British television director.Born in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, Lawrence began his career in 1978 as a production assistant on the BBC television drama Pennies from Heaven...

Marlene Sidaway
Marlene Sidaway
Marlene Sidaway was born on Teesside and is a British television and film actress best known for playing Brenda Taylor in the long running soap opera Coronation Street. In 1961 she was accepted into the East 15 Acting School in London...

, Betty Alberge
Betty Alberge
Betty Alberge was an English actress best known for her soap opera roles as cornershop owner Florrie Lindley in Coronation Street and as Edna Cross in Brookside...

14 Where There’s Muck… Chris Boucher
Chris Boucher
Chris Boucher is a British television writer, best known for his frequent contributions to two genres, science fiction and crime dramas.-Biography:...

Sarah Hellings Del Henney
Del Henney
Del Henney is a British character actor, perhaps best known for his role as Charlie Venner in Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs .In addition to film work, he has appeared in numerous television productions....

, Harold Innocent
Harold Innocent
Harold Sidney Innocent was a British actor who appeared in many film and television roles.After attending Broad Street Secondary Modern School in Coventry, Innocent worked for a short time as an office clerk...

, Kenneth Waller
Kenneth Waller
Kenneth Waller was an English actor.-Career:His first role was in the 1959 production Room at the Top, but it was not until 1981 when he played the part of "Old" Mr. Grace in Are You Being Served? that he found real fame. He played the elder of the Grace brothers, after the departure of "Young"...

, Simon Armitt

Series 4


(BBC1, 3 September to 3 December 1983)
1 Teamwork Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin
Ian Kennedy Martin is a British television scriptwriter. He is best known for his creation of the popular 1970s police drama series The Sweeney, produced by Euston Films for Thames Television, which ran on the ITV network from 1975 to 1978. It also spawned two feature film spin-offs...

Peter Cregeen
Peter Cregeen
Peter Cregeen is a British television director, producer and executive. He is possibly best known for being the original director of ITV's successful police drama, The Bill, and his substantial contribution to the serial thereafter...

Dermot Crowley
Dermot Crowley
Dermot Crowley is a Irish stage, film and television actor.-Career:Crowley's stage work has included a leading role in an Olivier Award winning production of Conor McPherson's The Weir, which played in the United Kingdom, Ireland and the United States in the late 1990s...

, Shirley Stelfox
Shirley Stelfox
Shirley Stelfox is an English actress, who trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. She is best known as Edna Birch in British Soap Opera Emmerdale....

, Albert Moses
Albert Moses
Albert Moses is a British-based actor born near Kandy, Sri Lanka. He had begun to act by the 1960s in India where he appeared in several films, then produced and directed his first. From India, he moved to Africa where he undertook work on documentaries...

, Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 30 years. He was born in Birmingham. He attended Bournville Tech/Grammar School where he excelled in sporting activities but at that stage displayed no obvious interest in drama...

2 Teacher’s Pet Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.-Credits:...

Leonard Lewis
3 Retribution Ewart Alexander Leonard Lewis John Woodvine
John Woodvine
John Woodvine is an English stage and screen actor who has appeared in more than 70 theatre productions, as well as a similar number of television and film roles.-Early life:...

, Rosalie Williams
Rosalie Williams
Rosalie Williams is best known for her appearance as Mrs. Hudson in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes TV series produced by Granada Television from 1984 until 1994 alongside Jeremy Brett, David Burke, Edward Hardwicke, and Colin Jeavons....

, William Gaunt
William Gaunt
William Charles Anthony Gaunt is an English actor, sometimes credited as Bill Gaunt.-Early life:...

, Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 30 years. He was born in Birmingham. He attended Bournville Tech/Grammar School where he excelled in sporting activities but at that stage displayed no obvious interest in drama...

, Daphne Oxenford
Daphne Oxenford
Daphne M. Oxenford is an English actress known for her television and radio work.She is possibly best known for being the voice for BBC radio's Listen with Mother from 1950 to 1971, and for being one of the readers on newspaper review programme What the Papers Say for over thirty years...

, Ray Float
4 Solvent Solution Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.-Credits:...

Sarah Hellings Simon Rouse
Simon Rouse
Simon Rouse is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Superintendent Jack Meadows in the long-running ITV police drama The Bill....

5 Who’s Your Friend? Tony Charles Marc Miller Kenneth Cope
Kenneth Cope
Kenneth Cope is an English actor. He is most famous for his roles as Marty Hopkirk in Randall and Hopkirk , Jed Stone in Coronation Street and Ray Hilton in Brookside.- Career :...

, Iain Blair
Iain Blair
Iain Blair was a Scottish actor and author who, using the pen name Emma Blair wrote a series of romantic novels.-Life and career:Blair was born in Glasgow and spent the first few years of his life there...

, David Ashford, Michael McStay, Gordon Reid
Gordon Reid (actor)
James Gordon Reid was a Scottish actor.Reid was born in Hamilton, Lanarkshire, Scotland. Educated at the former Hamilton Academy he then trained at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, graduating in 1962 with the Silver Medal for Acting.His extensive acting credits included the chemist...

, Richard Henry
6 Mates Julia Jones Peter Cregeen
Peter Cregeen
Peter Cregeen is a British television director, producer and executive. He is possibly best known for being the original director of ITV's successful police drama, The Bill, and his substantial contribution to the serial thereafter...

John Quarmby
John Quarmby
John Quarmby is a plain voiced English actor who played the Health Inspector in the Fawlty Towers episode "Basil the Rat" and Henry Tobias in K-9 and Company....

, Ken Sharrock, Maggie Ollerenshaw
Maggie Ollerenshaw
Maggie Ollerenshaw is a British actress most famous for her role as Mavis on the sitcom Open All Hours. She also played Mrs. Clegg in the short-lived series, First of the Summer Wine. She became a more familiar television face after playing Florence Ranby in The House of Eliott terrorising the...

7 Bad Seed John Foster Marc Miller Richard Kay, Jayne Ashbourne, Ann Penfold, Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire
Lloyd McGuire is an English actor who has appeared in film and TV for over 30 years. He was born in Birmingham. He attended Bournville Tech/Grammar School where he excelled in sporting activities but at that stage displayed no obvious interest in drama...

8 Doors Tony Parker Leonard Lewis Elizabeth Mickery, Oliver Smith
Oliver Smith (actor)
Oliver Smith is an English actor. He is probably best known for playing the role of Frank The Monster from the original Hellraiser film in 1987, as well as Mr. Browning and Skinless Frank from Hellbound: Hellraiser II film in 1988...

9 Guilt William Humble Sarah Hellings John Line, Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies
Rachel Davies is a British actress, with numerous television credits to her name from the beginning of the 70s onwards.She has played leading roles in the following series: Boon, The Cuckoo Waltz, Making Out, Band of Gold, Emmerdale, Nice Guy Eddie, Linda Green and The Chase.She appeared in the...

, David Brierly
David Brierly
David Brierly , also known as David Brierley, was an English actor.Born in Yorkshire, he appeared in various television programmes but is most notable for being the voice of the robot dog K-9 during the 1979–1980 season of the BBC science fiction television series Doctor Who...

10 John The Lad Tony Parker Leonard Lewis David Milner, Elizabeth Mickery, Jo Rowbottom
Jo Rowbottom
Jo Rowbottom is a British character actress, best known for guest roles in numerous British TV series, and as James Beck's wife in Romany Jones.-Selected television credits:*Dixon of Dock Green*Z-Cars*The Baron*Mogul...

, Jack Le White, Gabrielle Daye
Gabrielle Daye
Gabrielle Daye was a British television actress, notable for her role as Mrs. Pring on Bless Me Father...

11 Who Says The War Is Over? Douglas Watkinson Marc Miller Leslie Sands
Leslie Sands
Leslie Sands was a British actor and writer of TV and film. Born in Bradford, Yorkshire, Sands usually specialized in dour types in authority, often policemen....

, Peter Childs
Peter Childs (actor)
Peter Childs was a British character actor who shot to fame playing Cockney Detective Sergeant Ronnie Rycott, nemesis of Arthur Daley in the top rated ITV series, Minder....

12 Off Duty William Humble Leonard Lewis James Garbutt
James Garbutt
James Garbutt is a British actor, who has been active on television since the 1960s. Originally from the North East of England, he was a key member of the People's Theatre, Newcastle upon Tyne during the 1950s and '60s....

, Diana Coupland
Diana Coupland
Betty Diana Coupland was an English actress best remembered for her role as Jean Abbott on Bless This House, which she played from 1971 to 1976.-Early life:...

, Jean Boht
Jean Boht
Jean Boht is an English actress.She is most famous for the role of Nellie Boswell in Carla Lane's comedy Bread....

, Gawn Grainger
Gawn Grainger
Gawn Grainger is a leading British stage and screen actor and husband of actress Zoë Wanamaker.-Early life:Some sources indicate he was born in Glasgow, Scotland on 12 October 1937. He is the son of Charles Neil Grainger and his wife Elizabeth...

13 Simple Simon John Foster Marc Miller Stephen McGann
Stephen McGann
Stephen McGann is an English actor - one of a family of acting brothers including Joe, Paul and Mark. He began his professional career in 1982, starring in the West End musical Yakety Yak. He has since worked extensively in British theatre and on screen.In 1989 he starred as Mickey in the West End...

, Roy Holder
Roy Holder
Roy Holder is an English television actor who has appeared in various programmes including Ace of Wands, Z-Cars, Spearhead, the Doctor Who serial The Caves of Androzani and Sorry! His first notable appearance on the screen was in the 1961 film Whistle Down the Wind...

14 Backtrack Ian Kennedy Martin Leonard Lewis John Stratton, David Collings
David Collings
David Collings is a British actor. He has played many different roles on various television programmes, including the leading dramatic role in Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment in 1964....

, Bill McGuirk

Series 5


(BBC1, 1 September to 1 December 1984)
1 Attack Ewart Alexander Marc Miller Stephen Yardley
Stephen Yardley
Stephen Yardley is an English actor, known for his work on British television between 1965 and 2004.Best known for his role as Ken Masters in the British TV drama Howards' Way , Yardley most recently appeared in the British TV comedy Hex .He made early appearances on TV in the 1960s, in series...

, Joe Belcher, Sebastian Abineri
2 There’s None So Blind Tony Charles Michael Custance Leslie Schofield
Leslie Schofield
Leslie Schofield is an English actor who is most famous in the UK for his role as Jeff Healy in the popular soap opera, EastEnders where he played Jeff from 1997 to 2000. His character was famous for unsuccessfully proposing to Pauline Fowler...

, Anne Dyson
3 The Day That The Circus Left Town Tony Parker Michael Custance Fanny Carby, Rita May
Rita May (actress)
Rita May is a British actress. She has appeared in popular television series such as Early Doors and Drop Dead Gorgeous, and radio programmes including Ed Reardon's Week. She apperared as Jimmy Kemp's mother in the acclaimed nuclear war drama Threads...

4 Getting Away With It Don Webb
Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children.-Biography:Don Webb started writing fairly late in life...

Adrian Shergold Del Henney
Del Henney
Del Henney is a British character actor, perhaps best known for his role as Charlie Venner in Sam Peckinpah’s Straw Dogs .In addition to film work, he has appeared in numerous television productions....

, Victoria Fairbrother, Irene Sutcliffe
Irene Sutcliffe
Irene Sutcliffe is an English actress. She is best known for playing Maggie Clegg in ITV's Coronation Street, a role she played from 1968 until 1975...

, David Blake Kelly, Richard Mayes
Richard Mayes
Richard Mayes was an English stage and television actor. A well-known face on British television, he was primarily a theatrical actor. He appeared in many roles on stage and small screen, including roles in Doctor Who and as Jebediah Dingle in Emmerdale...

, David Allister
5 No Peace William Humble Adrian Shergold Neil Morrissey
Neil Morrissey
Neil Anthony Morrissey is an English actor, media personality and businessman. He is best known for his role as Tony in Men Behaving Badly....

, Richard Ireson, Ian Collier
Ian Collier
Ian Collier was a British actor.Collier appeared on stage in "Hamlet" in 1969 at the Lunt-Fontanne in New York City.He appeared in various television programmes including Rentaghost, Hi-de-Hi! and Howards' Way. He appeared in the Doctor Who story The Time Monster...

, Peter Halliday
Peter Halliday
Peter Halliday is a Welsh actor.He is probably best known for his role as Dr. John Fleming in A for Andromeda and its sequel,...

, Lynn Webb-Turner
6 Strike The Father John Foster Graeme Harper
Graeme Harper
Graeme Harper is a British television director. He is best known for his work on the science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he is the only person to have directed episodes of both the original run and revived run of the programme...

Philip Lewis, Adam Kotz, Rosalind Bailey
Rosalind Bailey
Rosalind Bailey is a British actress known for her portrayal of Sarah Headley née Lytton in the 1970/80s BBC television drama When the Boat Comes In....

, Edward Kelsey
Edward Kelsey
Edward Kelsey is a British actor of stage and screen as well as a voiceover artist. He is perhaps best recognised as the voice of Joe Grundy on the long-running BBC radio soap opera The Archers - a role he took over in 1985.On television, he is known for voicing the characters of Colonel K and...

7 Lost And Found Tony Charles Paul Ciappessoni Iain Cuthbertson
Iain Cuthbertson
Iain Cuthbertson was a Scottish character actor. At 6' 4", he was known for his tall imposing build and also his distinctive "gravelly" heavily accented voice.-Early life:...

, Patrick Durkin, John Gill, Norman Hartley
8 Work Force Tony Parker Paul Ciappessoni Jeremy Nicholas
Jeremy Nicholas (writer)
Jeremy Nicholas is an actor, writer, broadcaster, lyricist and musician. He is President of the Jerome K. Jerome Society.He was born on 20 September 1947 in Wellington, Shropshire, raised in Stafford and educated at Wycliffe College and the Birmingham School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art...

, Alan Lake
Alan Lake
Alan Lake was an English actor, best known as the third husband of Diana Dors.-Biography:Lake was born in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire on 24 November 1940...

, Barbara Keogh
Barbara Keogh
Barbara Keogh was a British actress who is possibly best remembered for playing Lilly Mattock in the BBC soap opera EastEnders, as well as playing various roles in comedy sketch-show, Little Britain....

, Derek Benfield
Derek Benfield
Derek Benfield was a British playwright and actor.He was born in Bradford, Yorkshire, and educated at Bingley Grammar School. He was the author of the stage farce Running Riot and the second actor who played Patricia Routledge's character's husband in Hetty Wainthropp Investigates...

9 Halloween Ewart Alexander Marc Miller Tony Anholt
Tony Anholt
Anthony "Tony" Anholt was a British actor best known for his roles as Security Chief Tony Verdeschi in the second season of Gerry Anderson's television series Space: 1999 , Paul Buchet in The Protectors and as Charles Frere in the highly-successful BBC drama series Howards' Way .Anholt was...

, Thelma Whiteley, Peter Laird
10 Alibi Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.-Credits:...

Graeme Harper
Graeme Harper
Graeme Harper is a British television director. He is best known for his work on the science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he is the only person to have directed episodes of both the original run and revived run of the programme...

11 Abuse Susan Pleat Jan Sargeant Linda Polan
12 Ducks In A Row Don Webb
Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children.-Biography:Don Webb started writing fairly late in life...

Marc Miller Ken Sharrock, Melanie Hill
Melanie Hill
Melanie Hill is an English actress from Sunderland, County Durham.-Television:Hill replaced Gilly Coman as the character of Aveline in the last two series' of Carla Lane's BBC television sitcom Bread...

, Hilda Braid
Hilda Braid
Hilda Braid was an English actress who had a long career on British television and became well known in her later years for playing Victoria "Nana" Moon in the BBC One soap opera EastEnders....

, Maggie McCarthy, Andrew Lodge, Martin Matthews
13 Resolution Don Webb
Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children.-Biography:Don Webb started writing fairly late in life...

Marc Miller Melanie Hill
Melanie Hill
Melanie Hill is an English actress from Sunderland, County Durham.-Television:Hill replaced Gilly Coman as the character of Aveline in the last two series' of Carla Lane's BBC television sitcom Bread...

, Helena Little
Helena Little
Helena Little is an English actress who is best known for playing Mary Tomlinson in Casualty and she has also been in The Bill, Boon, Juliet Bravo, Between the Lines, A Touch of Frost, Peak Practice and Dangerfield...

, Roland Oliver, Maggie McCarthy
14 Flowers Tomorrow Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.-Credits:...

Jan Sargeant Rachel Bell
Rachel Bell
Rachel B. Bell is a British actress.Bell has many television credits to her name and has been associated as a long-running character with three series: Margaret Holmes in Grange Hill ; Edith Pilchester in The Darling Buds of May ; and Louise, the overbearing chair of the divorcee support group in...

, George Irving
George Irving (English actor)
George Irving is a British actor who is probably most famous for playing Anton Meyer in Holby City from 1999 to 2002...

, Malcolm Terris
Malcolm Terris
Malcolm Terris is a British actor.He had a lengthy career in a large number of television programmes. Possibly his best known role was in When the Boat Comes In, a popular 1970s series, where he played the part of Matt Headley...


Series 6


(BBC1, 7 September to 21 December 1985)
1 Hostage To Fortune Don Webb
Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children.-Biography:Don Webb started writing fairly late in life...

Andrew Morgan Simon Williams
Simon Williams (actor)
Simon Williams is an English actor known for playing James Bellamy in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. Frequently playing upper-class roles, he is also known for playing Dr...

, Carolyn Pickles
Carolyn Pickles
Carolyn Pickles is an English actress who has appeared in West End theatre and on British television, perhaps most notably in Emmerdale as Shelly Williams.-Life and career:Pickles was born in Wakefield, Yorkshire, England...

, John Challis
John Challis
John Challis is an English actor.-Career:He is probably best known for his role as Terrance Aubrey "Boycie" Boyce in the long running comedy show Only Fools and Horses, and its 2005 spin-off, The Green Green Grass....

, Joseph Marcell
Joseph Marcell
Joseph Marcell is a St. Lucian-born British actor, best known for his work as Geoffrey the English butler on the NBC sitcom The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.-Early life and career:...

2 Scab Ewart Alexander Colin Cant
Colin Cant
Colin Cant is a British television producer and director, best known for his work in the children's department of BBC Television. Within that department, he was for many years involved as both a director and producer of the long-running children's drama series Grange Hill, and also directed...

Geoffrey Hinsliff
Geoffrey Hinsliff
Geoffrey Hinsliff is an English actor best known for his portrayal of Don Brennan in Coronation Street from 16 August 1987 to 8 October 1997. He had previously played other characters in the same programme, in 1963 and 1977....

, Leslie Schofield
Leslie Schofield
Leslie Schofield is an English actor who is most famous in the UK for his role as Jeff Healy in the popular soap opera, EastEnders where he played Jeff from 1997 to 2000. His character was famous for unsuccessfully proposing to Pauline Fowler...

3 Chasing The Dragon John Foster Frank W. Smith Karen Archer, Jonathan Newth
Jonathan Newth
Jonathan Newth is a British actor, best known for his performances in television.Credits include: Emergency Ward 10, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Ace of Wands, The Troubleshooters, Z-Cars, Callan, Van der Valk, The Brothers, Softly, Softly, Poldark, Doctor Who, Notorious Woman, Secret Army , The...

, Sally Whittaker
Sally Whittaker
Sally Dynevor is an English soap opera actress.-Early life and career:...

, David McAlister
4 Talk To Me Tony Charles Michael Owen Morris Mark Wing-Davey
Mark Wing-Davey
Mark Wing-Davey is a British actor and director.-Early life and career:The son of actor and actress Peter Davey and Anna Wing, Wing-Davey went to school at Woolverstone Hall School, before studying at Cambridge University where he was a member of the Footlights from 1967 to 1970.He had a featured...

, Paul Copley
Paul Copley
Paul Mackriell Copley is an award-winning English actor and voice-over artist.-Early life:Copley was born in Denby Dale, West Yorkshire, and grew up beside a dairy farm there. His father, Harold, was involved with local amateur dramatic productions, as were the rest of his family...

5 Friends And Neighbours William Humble Michael Owen Morris Rosalind Ayres
Rosalind Ayres
Rosalind Ayres is an English actress. Active since 1970, Ayres may be best known by a wide audience for her role was in the 1997 film Titanic, in which she played Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon....

, Martin Jarvis, Hilary Mason
Hilary Mason
Hilary Mason was an English character actress who appeared in a wide variety of roles, mainly on UK television....

6 The Cut Don Webb
Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children.-Biography:Don Webb started writing fairly late in life...

Graeme Harper
Graeme Harper
Graeme Harper is a British television director. He is best known for his work on the science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he is the only person to have directed episodes of both the original run and revived run of the programme...

Karl Howman
Karl Howman
Karl Howman is an English actor and also a British voice-over artist.He is well known but notable to many television viewers for his work as Jacko in the mid-1980's and early-90's BBC TV sitcom Esmonde and Larbey's Brush Strokes and as the title character in the series Mulberry .However Howman first...

, Bridget Lynch-Blosse
7 Keys Tony Charles Ron Jones
Ron Jones (television director)
Ron Jones was a British television director.Born in Bristol, he joined the BBC as a studio manager in local radio then became an assistant floor manager on television...

Kevin Lloyd
Kevin Lloyd
Kevin Reardon Lloyd was a British actor, born in Derby, and trained at East 15 Acting School, London. Best known for his part of DC Alfred "Tosh" Lines in Thames Television's The Bill....

, John Gillett
8 Flesh And Blood Don Webb
Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children.-Biography:Don Webb started writing fairly late in life...

Ron Jones
Ron Jones (television director)
Ron Jones was a British television director.Born in Bristol, he joined the BBC as a studio manager in local radio then became an assistant floor manager on television...

John Stratton, Yvette Fielding
Yvette Fielding
Yvette Fielding is a British broadcaster, producer and actress. She is best known for being the presenter of the TV shows Blue Peter, Most Haunted and Ghosthunting With....-Early life and career:...

, Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer
Janet McTeer, OBE is a British actress.-Life and career:McTeer was born in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, United Kingdom, the daughter of Jean and Alan McTeer...

, Donald Pelmear
9 Unlawful Arrest Ewart Alexander Andrew Morgan Mona Hammond
Mona Hammond
Mona Hammond OBE is a Chinese Jamaican actress and co-founder of the Talawa Theatre Company. Born in Jamaica, Hammond emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1959, where she has remained ever since. Hammond has had a long and distinguished stage career...

, David Daker
David Daker
David Daker is an English actor.His is best known for his role as Harry Crawford in the hit series Boon. He also played PC Owen Culshaw in Z-Cars, Jarvis in Porridge, Captain Nathan Spiker in Dick Turpin....

10 Inspection Tony Charles Graeme Harper
Graeme Harper
Graeme Harper is a British television director. He is best known for his work on the science-fiction series Doctor Who, for which he is the only person to have directed episodes of both the original run and revived run of the programme...

Robert Glenister
Robert Glenister
Robert Lewis Glenister is a British actor known for his roles as con man Ash "Three Socks" Morgan in the British TV series Hustle, and Nicholas Blake in the BBC spy drama Spooks.-Career:...

, Nicholas Courtney
Nicholas Courtney
William Nicholas Stone Courtney was an English television actor, most famous for playing Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart in the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.-Early life:...

, Alec Linstead
11 We Are The People Don Webb
Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children.-Biography:Don Webb started writing fairly late in life...

Frank W Smith John Ronane
John Ronane
John Ronane is a British actor.An Emmy nominee for his role in "War of Children" for CBS, he lost to Lord Olivier that year....

, Helena Little
Helena Little
Helena Little is an English actress who is best known for playing Mary Tomlinson in Casualty and she has also been in The Bill, Boon, Juliet Bravo, Between the Lines, A Touch of Frost, Peak Practice and Dangerfield...

, Daphne Oxenford
Daphne Oxenford
Daphne M. Oxenford is an English actress known for her television and radio work.She is possibly best known for being the voice for BBC radio's Listen with Mother from 1950 to 1971, and for being one of the readers on newspaper review programme What the Papers Say for over thirty years...

, Alex Norton
Alex Norton
Alexander Hugh "Alex" Norton is a Scottish actor. He is probably best known for his roles as DCI Matt Burke in Taggart, and Eddie in the Renford Rejects....

12 Turbulence Tony Parker Colin Cant
Colin Cant
Colin Cant is a British television producer and director, best known for his work in the children's department of BBC Television. Within that department, he was for many years involved as both a director and producer of the long-running children's drama series Grange Hill, and also directed...

Malcolm Stoddard
Malcolm Stoddard
Malcolm Stoddard is a British actor who has appeared on television.His credits include: The Voyage of Charles Darwin, Colditz, The Brothers, The New Avengers, Blake's 7, Squadron, By the Sword Divided, Juliet Bravo, Boon, The Bill, Families, Emmerdale, The Campbells, Heartbeat and The...

, Brian Osborne
Brian Osborne
Brian Osborne is an English actor. He is best known for his roles in Upstairs, Downstairs and The Sandbaggers. Osborne has also had minor roles in six Carry On films as well the TV series Carry On Laughing.-Early life:...

13 Girl Talk Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.-Credits:...

Roderick Graham David Garfield
14 Jobs For The Boys Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly
Wally K. Daly is an English writer for television and radio and one time chairman of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain.-Credits:...

Roderick Graham
15 In A Man’s World Tony Charles Colin Cant
Colin Cant
Colin Cant is a British television producer and director, best known for his work in the children's department of BBC Television. Within that department, he was for many years involved as both a director and producer of the long-running children's drama series Grange Hill, and also directed...

Bernard Kay
Bernard Kay
Bernard Kay is a British actor with an extensive theatre, television and film repertoire.Kay began his working life as a reporter on Bolton Evening News, and a stringer for The Manchester Guardian. He was conscripted in 1946 and started acting in the army...

, William Simons
William Simons
William Simons is a Welsh actor, born in Swansea on 17 November 1940.He started acting as a child. But, he is best known for his role as Yorkshireman PC Alf Ventress in Heartbeat, a part he played for its entire 18-year run....

, Jacki Webb, Antony Carrick, Raymond Murtagh
16 Reasons For Leaving Don Webb
Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children.-Biography:Don Webb started writing fairly late in life...

Colin Cant
Colin Cant
Colin Cant is a British television producer and director, best known for his work in the children's department of BBC Television. Within that department, he was for many years involved as both a director and producer of the long-running children's drama series Grange Hill, and also directed...

John Rowe
John Rowe (actor)
-TV:*BBC Television Shakespeare - Henry VIII *Juliet Bravo *When the Boat Comes In *Chambers *Agatha Christie's Poirot...

, Peter Childs
Peter Childs (actor)
Peter Childs was a British character actor who shot to fame playing Cockney Detective Sergeant Ronnie Rycott, nemesis of Arthur Daley in the top rated ITV series, Minder....


DVD release


All six series of Juliet Bravo have now been released on DVD (region 2/4) by 2|Entertain/Cinema Club.

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