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The Brack Report
The Brack Report is a British television drama series created by Christopher Penfold for Thames Television looking at Nuclear power debate, concerns about nuclear power, and exploring some Sustainable energy, alternative energy sources. It was broadcast over 10 weeks on ITV (TV network), ITV from 6 April 1982 to 8 June 1982 which overlapped with the Falklands War. It stars Donald Sumpter, Patricia Garwood and Jenny Seagrove. Plot After an earthquake causes some damage to a nuclear power station, one of the chief nuclear physicists, Paul Brack, starts to investigate the safety procedures and policies of the station. He is dismayed to discover that there is a lack of real safety processes at the station, and quits his job in disgust. His disillusionment puts a strain on his relationship with his wife, Pat, a fellow researcher and academic. Through a mutual friend, Brack meets and begins to work for energy consultant Harold Harlan, with hopes that Harlan can highlight the issue of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dramatic Programming
In film and television show, television, drama is a category or genre of narrative fiction (or docudrama, semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humour, humorous in tone. The drama of this kind is usually qualified with additional terms that specify its particular super-genre, macro-genre, or micro-genre, such as soap opera, police procedural, police crime drama, political drama, legal drama, historical drama, domestic drama, Drama (film and television)#Teen drama, teen drama, and comedy drama (dramedy). These terms tend to indicate a particular Setting (narrative), setting or subject matter, or they combine a drama's otherwise serious tone with elements that encourage a broader range of Mood (literature), moods. To these ends, a primary element in a drama is the occurrence of Conflict (process), conflict—emotional, social, or otherwise—and its resolution in the course of the storyline. All forms of Film industry, cinema or television that involve Fiction, fiction ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tony Steedman
Anthony Francis Steedman (21 August 1927 – 4 February 2001) was an English character actor, perhaps best known for roles in British TV drama series of the 1970s and 1980s, and for his role as Socrates in '' Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure''. Career In addition to film work, his theatre appearances were extensive, including Ray Cooney's comedy '' Her Royal Highness'' in the West End of London, and he appeared in numerous television productions, including episodes of ''The Feathered Serpent'', '' Thriller'', '' The Professionals'', '' Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased)'', '' Coronation Street'', '' The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes'', '' The Avengers'', '' Babylon 5'', '' The Sweeney'', '' Minder'' and '' Barry Morse presents Strange But True''. He had a recurring role in the British soap opera Crossroads as Dr. Butterworth. He was also a regular in the final two series of BBC sitcom '' Citizen Smith'' (1979–80) as Charlie Johnson. He holds the distinction of portraying Nazi G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Under Suspicion (1991 Film)
''Under Suspicion'' is a 1991 neo noir erotic thriller film directed by Simon Moore and starring Liam Neeson and Laura San Giacomo. Neeson won best actor at the 1992 Festival du Film Policier de Cognac for his performance. Plot Tony Aaron ( Liam Neeson) is a police investigator living in Brighton on the south coast of Great Britain at the end of the 1950s. He has been assigned to watch the house of Powers (Talbot), a local criminal, along with Frank ( Kenneth Cranham), his colleague and friend. Tony leaves Frank to go inside the house and continue an affair with Hazel ( O’Neill), Powers’s wife. When Powers returns home early and discovers the pair, he retrieves his shotgun to shoot the lovers but is disturbed by Frank and in the ensuing chaos shoots another police officer Colin (Grace) killing him. Two years later over Christmas 1959, Tony has left the force and is working as an unsuccessful private detective who is heavily in debt. His specialty is faking evidence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Porterhouse Blue (TV Series)
''Porterhouse Blue'' is a 1987 television comedy series adapted by Malcolm Bradbury from the 1974 Tom Sharpe Porterhouse Blue, novel of the same name for Channel 4 in four episodes. It starred David Jason as Skullion, Ian Richardson as Sir Godber Evans, Barbara Jefford as his wife Lady Mary, Charles Gray (actor), Charles Gray as Sir Cathcart D'Eath, and John Sessions as Zipser. Also appearing were Griff Rhys Jones as Cornelius Carrington, Paula Jacobs as Mrs. Biggs, Bob Goody as Walter, Paul Rogers (actor), Paul Rogers as the Dean, John Woodnutt as the Senior Tutor, Lockwood West as the Chaplain, Willoughby Goddard as Professor Siblington, Harold Innocent as the Bursar and Ian Wallace (singer), Ian Wallace as the Praelector. Plot summary For the television series the events of the novel were updated from 1973 to 1986, with Cornelius Carrington having graduated in 1974, rather than 1938, as in the novel. For the first time in five hundred years, a Master of Porterhouse fails to n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Day Of The Triffids (1981 TV Series)
''The Day of the Triffids'' is a British science fiction drama serial which was first aired by BBC Television in 1981. An adaptation by Douglas Livingstone of the 1951 novel by John Wyndham, the six half-hour episodes were produced by David Maloney and directed by Ken Hannam, with original music by Christopher Gunning. It premiered simultaneously in the UK and in Australia on ABC Television. Plot In late 20th century Britain, a spectacular meteor shower unexpectedly renders most of humanity blind, leading to the collapse of society overnight. Unaware of this, Bill Masen ( John Duttine) has retained his sight by virtue of being in hospital with his eyes bandaged at the time of the shower. Bill works on a triffid farm, where the mobile and carnivorous plants are cultivated for their oil with their deadly stings retained, which improves the oil quality. Prior to the story, Bill was stung by a plant and even though he was wearing protective clothing, some of the poison got into ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rogue Male (1976 Film)
''Rogue Male'' is a 1976 British television film starring Peter O'Toole, based on Geoffrey Household's 1939 novel '' Rogue Male''. Made by the BBC, it was adapted by Frederic Raphael, directed by Clive Donner and also stars Alastair Sim (in his last film role), John Standing and Harold Pinter. It was first broadcast on 22 September 1976. Plot In early 1939, before the start of the Second World War, Sir Robert Hunter (O'Toole) takes aim at Adolf Hitler with a hunting rifle, but hesitates to shoot and is spotted and tackled by a ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) guard. Captured and tortured by the Gestapo, he claims that his aiming at Hitler was simply an intellectual exercise, to see if it could be done. Because of his high status in Britain, his captors intend to shoot him and cover it up as a hunting accident, but, because his body displays clear evidence of torture, they decide instead to throw him off of a cliff to disguise the signs. However, Hunter survives the fall, and, with the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999
1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launched by NASA. * January 25 – The 6.2 Colombia earthquake hits western Colombia, killing at least 1,900 people. February * February 7 – Abdullah II inherits the throne of Jordan, following the death of his father King Hussein. * February 11 – Pluto moves along its eccentric orbit further from the Sun than Neptune. It had been nearer than Neptune since 1979, and will become again in 2231. * February 12 – U.S. President Bill Clinton is acquitted in impeachment proceedings in the United States Senate. * February 16 ** In Uzbekistan, an apparent assassination attempt against President Islam Karimov takes place at government headquarters. ** Across Europe, Kurdish protestors take over embassies and hold hostages after ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Pinner
David John Pinner (born 6 October 1940) is a British actor and novelist. He trained at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and has appeared on stage and television in many roles. As an actor, he is known for ''Emergency Ward 10'' (1962), '' Z Cars'' (1967), ''The Growing Pains of PC Penrose'' (1975), (1985), ''Henry V'' (1979), ''The Prince Regent'' (1979) and ''Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced''. His 1967 novel ''Ritual'' was a major inspiration for Anthony Shaffer's film ''The Wicker Man'' (1973). In 2014 he published ''The Wicca Woman'', a sequel to ''Ritual''. Novels * ''Ritual A ritual is a repeated, structured sequence of actions or behaviors that alters the internal or external state of an individual, group, or environment, regardless of conscious understanding, emotional context, or symbolic meaning. Traditionally ...'' (1967) Hutchinson/Arrow * ''With My Body'' (1969) Weidenfeld & Nicolson/Corgi * ''There'll Always Be An England'' (1985) Anth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bruce Stewart (scriptwriter)
Bruce Robert Stewart (4 September 1925 – ) was an actor and scriptwriter best known for his scripts for television. Originally from New Zealand, he lived for several years in Australia, working in the theatre, before moving to the United Kingdom in the early 1960s. There he worked on many projects for both the BBC and ITV, notably '' Out of the Unknown'' and ''Timeslip''. Biography Stewart was born in Auckland and studied at Mount Albert Grammar. For three years he studied to be a priest at Marist seminary. He then moved into the entertainment industry. Stewart served in the army. He would perform songs and tell stories as a forces entertaininer, then moved into radio in Auckland, where he worked as a radio announcer and actor. Sydney In 1947 Stewart moved to Sydney, Australia where he got work as a radio announcer. He became an actor, appearing in radio dramas, as well as acting in stage plays in the evening. His breakthrough performance as a radio actor was in a pro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
