Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, but he must also deal with the friends, enemies and family he left behind, and never expected to return to. Sammy Johnson played Spender's sidekick Stick, while Denise Welch played Spender's wife.
Tristram Powell,
Christopher Morahan,
Udayan Prasad,
Piers Haggard,
Stephen Frears,
Mick Jackson,
Michael Caton-Jones,
Pierre Boutron,
Martin Campbell,
Alan Cumming,
Jon Amiel,
Colin Bucksey,
Andy Wilson,
John Madden,
Giles Foster,
John Mackenzie,
Gillies MacKinnon,
Richard Spence,
Tim Fywell,
Malcolm McKay,
David Attwood,
Norman Stone,
Karl Francis,
Richard Eyre,
Ben Bolt,
Guy Jenkin,
Renny Rye,
Ross Devenish,
Jack Clayton,
Patrick Lau,
David Hare,
Leslie Stewart,
Roger Michell,
Jim Goddard,
Chris Bernard,
Alan Clarke,
Barry Devlin,
Jack Gold,
Matthew Jacobs,
Paul Seed,
Philip Saville,
Suri Krishnamma,
Waris Hussein,
Stephen John Whittaker,
Nicholas Renton,
Diarmuid Lawrence,
Adrian Shergold,
Terence Ryan,
Allan Kroeker,
Gavin Millar,
Elijah Moshinsky,
Carl Prechezer,
Peter Barber-Fleming,
Sandy Johnson,
Colin Gregg,
Nigel Finch,
Stuart Burge,
Terry Johnson,
Chris Bould,
Pedr James,
Colin Nutley,
John Glenister,
Jane Howell,
Bill Hays,
Michael Darlow,
Mike Vardy,
Michael Whyte,
Angela Pope,
Lesley Manning,
Les Blair,
Douglas Livingstone,
John Woods,
George Case,
Paul Tickell,
Noella Smith,
Colin Rogers,
Jenny Wilkes,
Jean Stewart,
Alan Dossor,
Tony Smith,
Barbara Rennie,
Tony Bicât,
Mike Alexander,
Richard Monks
Cedric Messina,
Rudolph Cartier,
Gorrie John,
Basil Coleman,
David Hugh Jones,
Anthony Page,
David Giles,
Herbert Wise,
Gareth Davies,
Michael Lindsay-Hogg,
Alan Bridges,
Alan Clarke,
Jack Gold,
Philip Saville,
Waris Hussein,
James Cellan Jones,
Alan Gibson,
Piers Haggard,
Jonathan Miller,
Moira Armstrong,
Christopher Morahan,
Claude Whatham,
Alvin Rakoff,
Stuart Burge,
Michael Elliott,
Philip Dudley,
John Glenister,
Ronald Wilson,
Jane Howell,
Alan Cooke,
William Slater,
Bill Hays,
Michael Darlow,
James Ormerod,
Don Taylor,
Robert Knights,
Terence Dudley,
Raymond Menmuir,
Donald McWhinnie,
Naomi Capon,
James MacTaggart,
Peter Wood
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. more
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina.
Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013. close
Larry Elikann,
Gerald Mayer,
Stephen Gyllenhaal,
Dennis Kane,
Randa Haines,
Ken Kwapis,
Arthur Allan Seidelman,
Michael Ray Rhodes,
Sigmund Neufeld Jr.,
Jay Daniel,
Richard C. Bennett,
Jeffrey Hayden,
William P. D'Angelo
Scott Winant,
Ron Lagomarsino,
Peter Horton,
Ken Olin,
Rob Cohen,
Gary Sinise,
Edward Zwick,
Timothy Busfield,
John Pasquin,
Marshall Herskovitz,
Robert Lieberman,
O'Fallon Peter,
Mel Harris,
Deborah Reinisch,
Martin Nicholson,
Randall Miller,
Lerner Dan,
Melanie Mayron,
Claudia Weill,
Steven Robman,
Mark Cullingham,
Ellen S. Pressman,
Joseph Dougherty,
Richard Kramer,
Joshua Brand,
Victor Du Bois,
Mary Beth Fielder,
Tom Moore,
Ann Lewis Hamilton
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward more
Thirtysomething is an American television drama about a group of baby boomers in their late thirties. It was created by Marshall Herskovitz and Edward Zwick for MGM/UA Television Group and The Bedford Falls Company, and aired on ABC. It premiered in the U.S. on September 29, 1987. It lasted four seasons, with the last of its 85 episodes airing on May 28, 1991.
The title of the show was designed as thirtysomething by Kathie Broyles, who combined the words of the original title, Thirty Something.
In 1997, "The Go Between" and "Samurai Ad Man" were ranked #22 on TV Guide′s 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time.
In 2002, Thirtysomething was ranked #19 on TV Guide′s 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, and in 2013 TV Guide ranked it #10 in its list of The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time. close