Kevin Whately

Kevin Whately

Born: February 6, 1951
in Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England, UK
Kevin Whately (born 6 February 1951) is an English actor. He is best known for his role as DS Robert Lewis in the crime drama series "Inspector Morse (1987–2000)" and as DI Robert Lewis in the spinoff "Lewis (2006–2015)".

Movies for Kevin Whately...

Title: The Inheritance
Character: Michael
Released: September 4, 2023
Type: TV
The siblings discover their father has left everything to a woman they have never met. As his death becomes the subject of a police investigation, the siblings hunt for his previous will.
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Title: Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule
Character: Self
Released: March 2, 2017
Type: TV
Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule is a panel show that sees Harry Hill presiding over two teams tasked with saving planet earth from alien invasion! Each team must find clips, people, basically anything that is fun or funny enough for Harry to place in a capsule which, in the event that we're invaded by aliens, we can present to them to demonstrate earthlings are good fun and therefore worthy of saving. Over a series of rounds, the two teams of two present Harry with fun stuff which Harry must adjudicate on and ultimately decide what's in and what's out of the Fun Capsule with the triumphant team winning bragging rights. Along the way there will be sketches, studio items and special guests. And the occasional appearance of an alien.
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Back With The Boys Again
Title: Back With The Boys Again
Character: Himself
Released: December 1, 2013
Type: Movie
In September 2013, members of the cast, writers and crew gathered on Tyneside to reminisce and celebrate the show that captured the imagination of a generation and made it trendy to be a Geordie. Back With The Boys Again – The Story of Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Also on this DVD – Previously unseen footage from Sunday for Sammy 2000 featuring Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail and Brendan Healy. This sketch was the inspiration for Auf Wiedersehen Pet's return and has never been commercially released.
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Title: The Railway: Keeping Britain On Track
Character: Narrator
Released: February 12, 2013
Type: TV
Documentary series revealing the inner workings of Britain's railways, introducing the track-workers, train guards, drivers, police officers and management teams determined to keep the country moving.
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Some Dogs Do
Title: Some Dogs Do
Character: narrator
Released: February 7, 2011
Type: Movie
On the way to school one day, Sid is so full of happiness that he starts to fly. But no one believes him; dogs don't fly. Poor Sid is miserable, until his dad lets him into an amazing secret: some dogs do!
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Joe Maddison's War
Title: Joe Maddison's War
Character: Joe Maddison
Released: September 19, 2010
Type: Movie
Newcastle, 1939. Shipyard worker Joe feels emasculated and past his prime; too old to serve in the war, and he’s shocked when his wife leaves him for a younger naval officer. Needing a new challenge, Joe and his friend Harry reluctantly volunteer to join the Home Guard.
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Sir Bobby Robson: A Knight to Remember
Title: Sir Bobby Robson: A Knight to Remember
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Sir Bobby Robson was a national and international hero whose roots were firmly planted in the coalfields of North East England. His success was based upon his ability to communicate his passion and enthusiasm to those around him. In what became his final filmed interview he looked back on his childhood in County Durham, his love of music and his phenomenal sporting achievements. He also talks about his final great project, The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.
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Cowboy Baby
Title: Cowboy Baby
Character: Narrator
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: Movie
This colourful, exuberant animation brings Sue Heap's book to life. Sheriff Pa says it's bedtime. But Cowboy Baby won't go to bed without his toys, Texas Ted, Denver Dog and Hank the Horse. No sirree! So off he goes to find them. But when he's rounded up his gang, Cowboy Baby decides he doesn't want to go home.
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Little Rabbit Foo Foo
Title: Little Rabbit Foo Foo
Character: Narrator
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: Movie
He's wild, he's wicked, he's Little Rabbit Foo Foo! The bully-boy bunny likes nothing better than to ride through the forest bopping everyone on the head. Wriggly worms, tigers, no one is safe. But here comes the Good Fairy – and she is not amused!
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We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Title: We're Going on a Bear Hunt
Character: Narrator
Released: June 1, 2009
Type: Movie
When Michael Rosen and Helen Oxenbury's family go on a bear hunt, they are full of the bravado and confidence that the knowledge of failure brings: We're going on a bear hunt, We're going to catch a big one. What a beautiful day! We're not scared. Caves, mud, rivers, forest … whatever obstacles the family encounters, they overcome with reassuring ease. But when their quest is successful, they decide bear hunts are not to be repeated.
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Title: The Children
Character: Cameron
Released: September 1, 2008
Type: TV
An eight-year-old girl is found murdered on the patio of her home. Any one of the adults who care for her could have killed her, but which one?
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Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian
Title: Carlo and the Really Nice Librarian
Character: Narrator
Released: May 5, 2008
Type: Movie
Carlo, the young giraffe, goes with his dad and his cat, Crackers, to the new library for the first time. Carlo loves the library with its books and posters and chairs with wheels. But he's a bit scared of the sharp-toothed crocodile librarian Mrs Chinca until he finds out just how much she REALLY loves books.
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Who Gets the Dog
Title: Who Gets the Dog
Character: Jack Evans
Released: December 2, 2007
Type: Movie
A drama about a couple on the edge of divorce, their solicitors, their daughter and of course, their dog.
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The Ravenous Beast
Title: The Ravenous Beast
Character: voice
Released: April 6, 2007
Type: Movie
The ravenous beast is hungry, hungry, hungry. But is he the hungriest animal of all? "Nonsense smonsense," scoff the other animals, and "Hokum Pokum!" But they want to watch out or the ravenous beast might just gobble 'em up and swallow 'em down! Walker Books have collaborated with King Rollo Films to create this gently animated DVD packaged together with the classic picture book. Read by Kevin Whately ("Inspector Morse", "Peak Practice"), with specially composed music, this is an innovative combination that will delight and entertain young viewers again and again.
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Title: Lewis
Character: Detective Inspector Robert 'Robbie' Lewis
Released: February 18, 2007
Type: TV
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
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Title: Legends
Character: Self
Released: November 17, 2006
Type: TV
The story of the big names that have shaped the musical genres, plus an occasional stopgap for the new rock 'n' roll - comedy.
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Title: Live!Girls! present Dogtown
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: TV
Live! Girls! Present Dogtown is a comedy series shown on BBC Three. It tells the story of life for the residents of Horton-le-Hole, a fictional coastal town where things are not all they seem. A controlling optician meets a mild librarian to enact secret fantasies as Oscar-winning movie stars and Olympic champions; a socially inept teacher dreams of becoming a deputy head; a pyromaniac dwarf psychic has set up a business in a bus stop; and, while romantic fiction books are systematically and mysteriously vandalised, one of the greatest love affairs the world has ever known begins to stir in the library. Written by Sunderland twin sisters Emma and Beth Kilcoyne, and starring Emma Kilcoyne and Sam Battersea, who perform in a number of guises, the series is based on their live act, Live! Girls!, which played in Edinburgh to rave reviews. Emma Kilcoyne plays Eenie Thompson, the 73-year-old arsonist dwarf; Bill Taddler, the misguided and overbearing geography teacher; and Denise Taylor, the put-upon librarian with a secret. Sam Battersea plays Sheila Taddler, Bill's long-suffering wife, and Carol Gomez, the unusual optician with the domineering fantasy life. Dogtown's regular supporting cast includes Geraldine McNulty as Sue McCardle, the ruthlessly ambitious "Scale Two" librarian; and James Gaddas as Geoff Torville, her debonair, film noir-ish boss; as well as Rachel Pickup, Madelaine Newton and Dave Johns. The series also features cameo appearances from Kevin Whately and Imelda Staunton.
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Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?
Title: Can't You Sleep, Little Bear?
Character: Narrator
Released: May 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Little Bear can't sleep. He's frightened of the dark, even with the Biggest Lantern of Them All at his bedside. But Big Bear finds an ingenious way to reassure him...
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Dad
Title: Dad
Character: Oliver James
Released: February 24, 2005
Type: Movie
Lucy Gannon (Soldier, Soldier, Bramwell, Trip Trap) has written Dad, the poignant story of Larry James (Richard Briers), a cheery and independent 86-year-old who has been caring single-handedly for his beloved wife Jeannie James (Jean Heywood) who has Alzheimer's disease. When Larry falls and breaks an ankle his life with Jeannie abruptly changes forever. Jeannie is moved into residential care and Larry goes to stay with his son Oliver (Kevin Whately), his daughter-in-law Sandy (Sinead Cusack) and their teenage daughter Millie (Hannah Daniel). But love and consideration wear thin as father and son have to learn to live together all over again.
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Title: Who Do You Think You Are?
Character: Self
Released: October 12, 2004
Type: TV
A British genealogy documentary series in which celebrities trace their ancestry, discovering secrets and surprises from their past.
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Belonging
Title: Belonging
Character: Jacob Copplestone
Released: September 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly relatives, including his mother (Rosemary Harris). Though the relations are demanding, kindhearted Jess -- who selflessly quit her job -- enjoys looking after them. But when Jacob disappears one day, Jess' life falls apart, and she must learn to cope with things on her own in this touching drama.
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The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Title: The Legend of the Tamworth Two
Character: Wolf
Released: April 12, 2004
Type: Movie
Based on a true story, the movie tells the story of two pigs, named Butch and Sundance, who staged a dramatic escape from an abattoir in January 1998 and remained at large for a week ...
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Title: New Tricks
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: TV
New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.
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Promoted to Glory
Title: Promoted to Glory
Character: Maj. Nigel Hurst
Released: December 21, 2003
Type: Movie
An alcoholic falls in love with a Salvation Army captain who is trying to help him.
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Plain Jane
Title: Plain Jane
Character: David Bruce
Released: May 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Drama set in 1911 about a love triangle concerning a father, his son and their maid, Jane.
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Title: Murder in Mind
Character: Nigel Liddy
Released: April 22, 2001
Type: TV
Murder in Mind is a British television thriller drama anthology series of self-contained stories with a murderous theme seen from the perspective of the murderer.
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Purely Belter
Title: Purely Belter
Character: Mr. Caird
Released: November 3, 2000
Type: Movie
Gerry and Sewell are broke. Gerry's still at school and Sewell is unemployed. They both wish for better things in life. Owning two season tickets to their beloved football club is their biggest dream of all. The tickets cost £1000 - they're £1000 short. But they are nothing if not resourceful, and they set themselves a mission to raise the cash. While they think up increasingly outlandish money making schemes - from selling junk to shoplifting and the odd bit of housebreaking - real life begins to interfere with the pair's final scam going hilariously awry landing them in jail, only to discover that their punishment gets them exactly where they want to be!
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Paranoid
Title: Paranoid
Character: Clive
Released: October 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Chloe Keane is an stressed American fashion model living in London who is about to have the worst weekend of her life. She and her boyfriend are invited to attend a party at the house of a former rock-star named Stan and his weird family who live in the countryside. Chloe awakes the next morning only to find her boyfriend has abandoned her at Stan's house and she has been drugged and handcuffed to the bed.
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Title: Pure Wickedness
Character: Geoff Meadows
Released: September 14, 1999
Type: TV
A highly respectable middle-class married woman watches a window cleaner fill his bucket at her kitchen sink and has a sudden urge to rip off his shirt. They make love right there - the mad, bad, no-chance- to-breathe and when-can-we-do-it-next kind of sex. And both she and her windows end up with a special sparkle. then there is trouble. Big trouble. For this is an up-till-then contented doctor's wife, a devoted mother with her own career as an optician. She doesn't DO adultery, especially not with a working class bloke who drinks too much, thinks too little and has a wife and four children, one of whom is her daughter's best pal.
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What Katy Did
Title: What Katy Did
Character: Dr. Carr
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Kevin Whately (The English Patient) stars as Dr. Philip Carr, along with Alison Pill (The Judy Garland Story), as his daughter Katy Carr, Megan Follows (Anne of Green Gables), as her cousin Helen, and long-time favorite Dean Stockwell in this warm family drama that tells the story Katy, a headstrong, energetic thirteen-year-old girl with a feisty, rebellious streak who seems to be more than her father can handle at times, even with the aid of Aunt Izzie (Martha Burns). The arrival of her ill cousin begins to alter Katy's perception of the world; then a serious accident confides Katy to her room, which changes the young girl's outlook on life forever. Based on the classic novel, What Katy Did, by Susan Coolidge.
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Title: The Broker's Man
Released: June 17, 1997
Type: TV
Drama series about an ex-policeman, who now uses his detective skills while working for insurance companies.
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Title: Midsomer Murders
Character: Jeremy Whittingdale
Released: March 23, 1997
Type: TV
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
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Gobble
Title: Gobble
Character: Colin Worsfold
Released: February 15, 1997
Type: Movie
As Christmas celebrations get under way, Britain is rocked by a deadly new food scare - "mad turkey disease".
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The English Patient
Title: The English Patient
Character: Sgt. Hardy
Released: November 14, 1996
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, Count Almásy is a Hungarian map maker employed by the Royal Geographical Society to chart the vast expanses of the Sahara Desert along with several other prominent explorers. As World War II unfolds, Almásy enters into a world of love, betrayal, and politics.
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Trip Trap
Title: Trip Trap
Released: March 9, 1996
Type: Movie
The Armstrong Family - Ian (Whately), Kate (Gonet) and their children Tom and Molly live in a nice country house. But beneath this seemingly normal exterior, Maggie begins to suffer violent abuse at the hands of the normally placid Ian, with dreadful consequences for all the family.
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Skallagrigg
Title: Skallagrigg
Character: Sam Hopkins
Released: March 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. To assist them John is forced to come to terms with his daughter and her friends.
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Title: Peak Practice
Character: Dr. Jack Kerruish
Released: May 10, 1993
Type: TV
Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
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The Mystery of Morse
Title: The Mystery of Morse
Character: Himself
Released: March 1, 1993
Type: Movie
Documentary on the making of the Inspector Morse series.
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B&B
Title: B&B
Character: Steve Shepard
Released: June 19, 1992
Type: Movie
An out-of-work architect turns his house into a bed and breakfast hotel.
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Night Voice
Title: Night Voice
Character: Neil Baldwin
Released: July 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.
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Title: This Morning
Character: Self
Released: October 3, 1988
Type: TV
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
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Title: Comic Relief
Released: February 5, 1988
Type: TV
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Title: Geordie Racer
Released: January 12, 1988
Type: TV
Geordie Racer was an educational BBC Look and Read production, which was first aired on BBC Two in 1988 and has been shown regularly ever since. The story was set in Newcastle-upon-Tyne and the surrounding area, and featured pigeon racers and runners competing in the Great North Run. The main character is Spuggy Hilton, who isn't a runner like the rest of his family, but is a keen pigeon fancier and owns 'Blue Flash' - one of the best birds in Newcastle. He and his friend Janie observe some suspicious activity, and link a spate of local art robberies with obscure messages they find on some of the pigeons, but find they have even more problems when they go to spy on the crooks. Geordie Racer was praised for attempting to bring a grittier edge to educational programmes shown in primary schools. The series also featured Geordie actor Kevin Whately as Spuggy's father. Whately, who went on to star in Inspector Morse, was joined on screen by his real-life wife, Madelaine Newton, who played his on-screen wife. This was not an intentional decision, but merely an accidental coincidence. It also featured the classic tune, 'Build yourself a wall with -ed'.
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Title: Inspector Morse
Character: Detective Sergeant Lewis
Released: January 6, 1987
Type: TV
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
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Title: Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced
Character: Detective Sergeant Fletcher
Released: February 28, 1985
Type: TV
An advertisement announcing the time and place of a forthcoming murder appears among the ads of the paper in the small village of Chipping Cleghorn.
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Title: Miss Marple
Character: Detective Sergeant Fletcher
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: TV
Miss Marple, the spinster detective who is one of the most famous characters created by English crime writer Agatha Christie, is portrayed by Joan Hickson who starred in a dozen television mysteries about Miss Marple over the course of a decade.
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Title: Auf Wiedersehen, Pet
Character: Neville Hope
Released: November 11, 1983
Type: TV
Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.
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Title: Shackleton
Character: Jameson Adams
Released: April 13, 1983
Type: TV
A four-part drama adaptation about the life of polar explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. Based on Shackleton’s own journals. In 1914 Ernest Shackleton chooses to lead a team on their famous journey aboard the Endurance. When the ship is trapped and crushed by pack-ice, Shackleton and five of his men embark on a desperate 800-mile journey from Elephant Island to South Georgia.
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The Return of the Soldier
Title: The Return of the Soldier
Character: Hostile Soldier's Mate
Released: January 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.
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The Dig
Title: The Dig
Character: Bob Smith
Released: April 18, 1980
Type: Movie
' No permissive society the Iron Age ... no messing about in those days.' A gruesome discovery on an archaeological excavation has more than historical interest when the love of a young man for an older woman gets out of hand
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Title: Shoestring
Released: September 30, 1979
Type: TV
Shoestring was a BBC television show set in Bristol. It featured a private detective with his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 one hour-long episodes. Star Trevor Eve decided not to return to the role after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre roles, so the same production team changed the format to be based in Jersey and created Bergerac, also about a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.
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Title: An Audience with...
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 1978
Type: TV
An Audience with... is a British entertainment television show produced by London Weekend Television, in which a host, usually a singer or comedian, performs for an invited audience of celebrity guests, interspersed with questions from the audience, in a light hearted revue/tribute style.
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Title: Angels
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: TV
Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on different departments within Heath Green Hospital and was a highly successful continuing drama.