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No Trams To Lime Street
''No Trams to Lime Street'' is a 1959 British television play, written by the Welsh playwright Alun Owen for the '' Armchair Theatre'' anthology series. Produced by ABC Weekend TV for transmission on the ITV network, the play was broadcast on 18 October 1959. The original version no longer exists. Set in the northern English city of Liverpool, where Owen had grown up from the age of eight, the play starred Alfred Lynch, Billie Whitelaw, Jack Hedley and Tom Bell. It was directed and produced by two Canadians—Ted Kotcheff and Sydney Newman respectively. Newman was at the time the Head of Drama at ABC. The storyline concerns three sailors on shore leave in Liverpool. The play was a factor in Owen later being hired to write the script for The Beatles' first feature film, '' A Hard Day's Night'' (1964), as they had been impressed with his depiction of their home city in the production. For his work on that film, Owen was nominated for an Academy Award in 1965. In 1965, ''No T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Television
Television broadcasts in the United Kingdom began in 1932, however, regular broadcasts would only begin four years later. Television began as a public service which was free of advertising, which followed the first demonstration of a transmitted moving image in 1926. Currently, the United Kingdom has a collection of free-to-air, free-to-view 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 platforms, b) duplication of services, c) regional services, d) part time operations, and e) audio. For the Sky platform alone, there are basically 485 TV channels, additionally 57 "timeshifted versions", 36 HDTV versions, 42 regional TV options, 81 audio channels, and 5 promotion channels as of mid-2010 for consumers as well as on-demand content. There are six main TV channel owners who are responsible for most material viewed. There are 27,00 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre 625
''Theatre 625'' is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time. Overview Overall, about 110 plays were produced with a duration of usually between 75 and 90 minutes during the series' four-year run, and for its final year from 1967 the series was produced in colour, BBC2 being the first channel in Europe to convert from black and white.There is at least one exception to the 75-90-minute duration rule. ''David, Chapter 2'' (2.12), a Canadian Broadcasting Corporation production first broadcast there on 20 May 1963 is listed at 60 minutes duratiohere Some of the best-known productions made for the series include a new version of Nigel Kneale's 1954 adaptation of George Orwell's '' Nineteen Eighty-Four'' (196 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Scott (songwriter)
Ronnie Scott was a British pop music promoter, group manager and songwriter; known primarily for hit songs co-written with Marty Wilde in the 1960s, and Steve Wolfe in the 1970s. With Marty Wilde In 1966, Scott was working for The George Cooper Agency, whose artists roster included Man (band)#The Bystanders, The Bystanders (who Scott also managed) and Marty Wilde. Scott wrote a number of songs, some on his own, but most co-written with Wilde, demo (music), demos of which were recorded by The Bystanders. One solo effort "Royal Blue Summer Sunshine Day" (1967) and two joint efforts "Have I Offended The Girl" (1966) and "When Jesamine Goes" (published under the pseudonyms of Frere Manston and Jack Gellar) (1968) were issued as singles, but all failed. The Casuals cover version, covered the last song and issued it simply as "Jesamine", which reached No. 2 in the UK Singles Chart in late 1968. Scott and Wilde songs were used by a wide range of musicians including Status Quo (band), S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marty Wilde
Marty Wilde, (born Reginald Leonard Smith; 15 April 1939) is an English singer and songwriter. He was among the first generation of British pop stars to emulate American rock and roll, scoring several 1950s and 1960s hit singles including " Endless Sleep", " Sea of Love" and " Bad Boy". During the late 1960s to early 1980s, Wilde continued to record and, with Ronnie Scott, co-wrote hit singles for others including the Casuals' " Jesamine" and Status Quo's " Ice in the Sun". He is the father of pop singer Kim Wilde and co-wrote many of her hit singles including "Kids in America" with his son Ricky. He continues to perform and record. Career Wilde was born in Blackheath, London. He was performing under the name Reg Patterson at London's Condor Club in 1957, when he was spotted by impresario Larry Parnes. Parnes gave his protégés stage names such as Billy Fury, Duffy Power and Dickie Pride, hence the change to Wilde. From mid-1958 to the end of 1959 Wilde was one of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Greenwood
Paul Greenwood (born 2 August 1943) is a British film, television and theatre actor. He is best known for his role as PC Michael "Rosie" Penrose in the sitcom ''The Growing Pains of PC Penrose'' and its successor ''Rosie (TV series), Rosie'', and as Inspector Yelland in ''Spender''. Career He has appeared in over twenty-five television productions and also in several films; he has also appeared in theatrical productions including the musical theatre, musical ''Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (musical), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang'' and the musical theatre, musical ''The Wizard of Oz (musical), The Wizard of Oz''. In 1973, he was a guest on each edition of the 10-part BBC1 variety series ''Lulu (singer), It's Lulu''. Greenwood is well known for appearing as PC Michael "Rosie" Penrose in all twenty-seven episodes (1977–1981) of TV comedy series ''Rosie (TV series), Rosie''. His film roles include ''Sex and the Other Woman'' (1972), the Hammer Film Productions, Hammer horror ''Captain Kron ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony May
Anthony May (23 May 1946 – 24 December 2021) was an English stage, television and film actor. He trained at R.A.D.A. from 1965 to 1967. Early life May was born in Reigate, Surrey. He played Wick in David Halliwell's ''Little Malcolm'' at the Royal Court Theatre for the National Youth Theatre. Then Zigger in '' Zigger Zagger'', which transferred to the Strand Theatre, for which he was nominated for a Variety Award for most promising newcomer. Career In his first full-length film, he played the Young Poet in Karel Reisz's '' Isadora'' (1968). Roles in TV, including '' The Tenant of Wildfell Hall'' for the BBC and the Wednesday play '' No Trams to Lime Street'' (musical version), followed. Then a film in Czechoslovakia, '' Michael Kohlhaas - Der Rebell'' (1969), with David Warner and Anna Karina, directed by the Oscar-winning director Volker Schlöndorff. He starred opposite Judy Huxtable in the 1968 cult short film '' Les Bicyclettes de Belsize'', directed by Douglas H ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glyn Owen
Glyn Griffith Owen (6 March 1928 – 10 September 2004) was a Welsh stage, television and film actor, perhaps best known to British TV viewers for three roles: that of Dr Patrick O'Meara in '' Emergency Ward 10'' (ITV, 1957–61), Edward Hammond in '' The Brothers'' (BBC, 1972), and Jack Rolfe in '' Howards' Way'' (BBC, 1985–90). Biography Born in Bolton, Lancashire, the son of a Welsh railway guard (and an English mother, making him Anglo-Welsh), Glyn Owen left school aged 14 and worked in a telegraph office. He completed his national service in 1946-48 during which time he acted in the War Office's amateur dramatic company. For the next five years he was a police officer in London's Paddington district, and as a traffic officer he unofficially escorted Richard Attenborough under blue lights to a BBC recording. He continued in amateur dramatics and received acting training at the Actors' Studio in St John's Wood. where agent, Lew Grade signed him as a client. By 1955 he ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemary Nicols
Rosemary Nicols (born Rosemary Claxton; 28 October 1941, in Bradford, England) is a British actress and writer. She comes from a theatrical family and was the author of a 1970 book ''The Loving Adventures of Jaby''. Biography She was educated at Haberdashers' Aske's School for Girls in Acton, west London. She made appearances as a child actress, before studying at the Central School of Speech and Drama and went into rep at Harrogate, Frinton-on-Sea and Wimbledon amongst others. Her first London lead was in ''Something Nasty in the Woodshed''. In films, she featured in '' The Blue Lamp'' (1950), ''The Pleasure Girls'' (1965) and '' The Mini Affair'' (1968), and on stage in ''Fiddler on the Roof'' with Topol. She appeared in numerous television series such as the sci-fi drama '' Undermind'' in 1965, and ''Man in a Suitcase'' in 1968 but her best-known role was as computer expert Annabelle Hurst in the television series '' Department S''. She played assistant vet Sheila Dicken ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Piers Haggard
Piers Inigo Haggard, OBE (18 March 1939 – 11 January 2023) was a British director who worked in film, television, and theatre. Early life A member of the Haggard family, he was born in London, the son of Morna Gillespie and the actor, poet, and novelist Stephen Haggard. He was the great-great-nephew of the writer Sir Henry Rider Haggard. At the age of one, Haggard was evacuated with his mother and older brother Paul to New York where his paternal grandfather Godfrey Haggard was the British consul-general. Shortly after they left, his father wrote his sons a letter, which later that year was published in the '' Atlantic Monthly'' as "I'll Go to Bed at Noon: A Soldier's Letter to His Sons". Haggard and his mother returned to Britain after his brother's death from diphtheria. There a younger brother, Mark, was born. His father was a captain in the British Intelligence Corps. Sent to Egypt, he had an affair with a married woman, and when she broke off the affair, he com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
BBC One
BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC. It is the corporation's oldest and flagship channel, and is known for broadcasting mainstream programming, which includes BBC News television bulletins, primetime drama and entertainment, and live BBC Sport events. The channel was launched on 2 November 1936 under the name BBC Television Service, which was the world's first regular television service with a high level of image resolution. It was renamed BBC TV in 1960 and used this name until the launch of the second BBC channel, BBC2, in 1964. The main channel then became known as BBC1. The channel adopted the current spelling of BBC One in 1997. The channel's annual budget for 2012–2013 was £1.14 billion. It is funded by the television licence fee together with the BBC's other domestic television stations and shows uninterrupted programming without commercial advertising. The television channel had the highest reach ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wednesday Play
''The Wednesday Play'' is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic adaptations of fiction (and occasionally stage plays) also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen. Some of British television drama's most influential, and controversial, plays were shown in this slot, including '' Up the Junction'' and ''Cathy Come Home''. The earliest television plays of Dennis Potter were featured in this slot. History Origins and early series The series was suggested to the BBC's Head of Drama, Sydney Newman, by the corporation's director of television Kenneth Adam after his cancellation of the two previous series of single plays.Oliver Wake"Wednesday Play, The (1964–70)" BFI Scree ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Pratt (actor)
Michael John Pratt (7 June 1931 – 10 July 1976) was an English actor, musician, songwriter and screenwriter. He was known for his work on British television in the 1960s and 1970s, which included co-starring as Randall in '' Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)''. Early life and musical career Early in his career, Mike Pratt worked in advertising, while also taking some part-time acting roles. He left his office job in the mid-1950s. With three friends (including Lionel Bart), he then drove around Europe in an old-style London taxi. Upon returning to England, he earned a living as a jazz and skiffle musician in London clubs. An accomplished guitarist and pianist, in the 1950s, he jammed with the Vipers Skiffle Group at the 2 I's club in London with his friend Tommy Steele. A successful songwriter, Pratt collaborated with Bart and Steele on many of Steele's early hits in the late 1950s and early 1960s. To enable Steele to start to film his life story, co-writers Steele, Bart and P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
