Alun Armstrong TV Show/Series Credits
A Passionate Woman
Billie Piper, Andrew-Lee Potts, Sue JohnstonA Passionate Woman is a British two-part drama mini-series that aired on BBC One.- David Jason, Richard Wilson, Alun ArmstrongA Sharp Intake of Breath is a British sitcom starring David Jason, Jacqueline Clarke, Richard Wilson and Alun Armstrong which ran from 1977 to 1981. It was made for the ITV network by ATV. The opening titles featured cartoons by Mel Calman. Jason played an everyman character called Peter Barnes and Jacqueline Clarke played his wife Sheila. Wilson and Armstrong played a range of petty officials and bureaucrats whose actions frustrated Barnes' attempts to deal with the necessities of everyday life. The title A Sharp Intake of Breath refers to the reactions of various characters to seemingly simple requests by Peter, generally followed by a denial.
- Zoë Wanamaker, Alison Steadman, Helen BaxendaleAdrian Mole: the Cappuccino Years is a British television series which was first aired on BBC One in 2001. The series was based on the fifth book from the Adrian Mole series, The Cappuccino Years. The series was produced by Tiger Aspect/Little Dancer Production for the BBC.
- Sienna Miller, Meera Syal, Emma PiersonBedtime was a British comedy-drama written and directed by Andy Hamilton and broadcast by the BBC. It ran for three series for a total of fifteen episodes between August 2001 and December 2003. The first two series had six episodes each and the third series had three episodes. All three series have been released on DVD.
- Richard Armitage, Brenda Blethyn, Norman WisdomBetween the Sheets is a 2003 British television mini series. This carnal drama is based around the love life and sexual hangups of several different couples that we find are all linked in some way. Emotional, touching, and sometimes humorous, the story follows the couples as they are forced to face their demons. Hazel Delany walks out on her husband on the eve of her daughter's wedding. Hazel is upset at nightclub owner husband Peter because of his string of affairs. Peter is annoyed at his wife's lack of interest in sex and exasperated that his mother is getting more than he is. They eventually go to see a sex therapist to overcome their difficulties. Peter is hiding a secret about one of his ex-mistresses and Hazel has a sexual awakening in the arms of a younger man. Peter's son Simon has left a long term relationship. His mother pushes him to reconcile and marry his girlfriend after she admits to Hazel that she is pregnant. He is reluctant as he has fallen for one of his father's nightclub hostesses. Highly sexed Alona Cunningham works as a sex therapist yet finds her boyfriend Paul reticent in the bedroom.
- Anna Maxwell Martin, Denis Lawson, Patrick KennedyAdaptation of the classic novel by Charles Dickens.More Bleak House
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Carries War
Alun Armstrong, Lesley Sharp, Geraldine McEwan14-year-old Carrie Willow and her younger brother, Nick, are evacuated from London to a small Welsh town during World War II. Fleeing the German bombing, they are taken in by the strict Mr Evans and his sister, Auntie Lou. Based on the best-selling book by Nina Bawden. Starring Alun Armstrong (Messiah II), Geraldine McEwan (The Magdalene Sisters) and Pauline Quirke (Birds of a Feather).- Ian McKellen, Daniel Radcliffe, Maggie SmithDavid Copperfield is a two-part BBC television drama adaptation of Charles Dickens' novel David Copperfield, adapted by Adrian Hodges. The first part was shown on Christmas Day and the second on Boxing Day in 1999. The production is notable for being the first screen work of actor Daniel Radcliffe, who would later achieve fame as the star of the Harry Potter films, where he would collaborate with his David Copperfield co-stars Maggie Smith, Zoë Wanamaker, Imelda Staunton, Dawn French and Paul Whitehouse. The film was co-produced by BBC America and Boston television station WGBH, and first aired on American television in April 2000, as a feature in the PBS series Masterpiece. It won a Peabody Award in 2000.
- Hugh Bonneville, Alun Armstrong, Nicholas WoodesonFilth: The Mary Whitehouse Story is a 2008 BBC Television docudrama written by Amanda Coe. Set in the 1960s, it recounts the initial campaigning activities of the British morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse. Julie Walters plays the part of Whitehouse, Alun Armstrong her husband Ernest, and Hugh Bonneville plays Sir Hugh Greene, the Director-General of the BBC, who is taken as embodying the liberalizing forces of the "permissive society" against which Whitehouse campaigned. It was broadcast on 28 May 2008 on BBC Two, aired in the United States on 16 November 2008 as part of the Masterpiece series on PBS and was aired in Australia on 31 May 2009 on ABC1. The script drew heavily on the Max Caulfield biography Mary Whitehouse and featured a degree of dramatic licence. For example, Whitehouse and others supposedly called their nascent group "Clean Up National TV" until her husband pointed out the unfortunate acronym - they then changed it to "Clean Up TV." Among the many reviews published in the press were two contrasting examples in The Scotsman and The Sunday Times.
- Andrew Buchan, Lyndsey Marshal, Rupert GravesGarrow's Law is a British period legal drama about the 18th-century lawyer William Garrow. The series debuted on 1 November 2009 on BBC One and BBC HD. A second series was announced on 7 July 2010 and was broadcast from 14 November 2010. A third series consisting of four episodes was commissioned and was aired from 13 November 2011. Garrow's Law was cancelled after three series in February 2012.
- Alun Armstrong, David Calder, Sheila ReidGet Lost! is a British television drama serial made by Yorkshire Television in 1981 for the ITV network. Written by Alan Plater, the plot concerns the disappearance of the husband of Leeds schoolteacher Judy Threadgold. Investigating the disappearance, with the aid of her colleague, woodwork teacher Neville Keaton, Judy learns of the existence of a secret organisation that helps disaffected people leave their unhappy lives behind. Alan Plater's The Beiderbecke Affair started out as a sequel to Get Lost! but was rewritten with new characters when Alun Armstrong proved unavailable to reprise the role of Neville Keaton.
Goodbye Cruel World
Sue Johnston, Alun Armstrong, Brenda BruceGoodbye Cruel World is a 1992 British miniseries starring Sue Johnston, Alun Armstrong and Brenda Bruce. The three-part series was aired on BBC One during January 1992 and was aired again in summer 1993. Johnston played the character of Barbara Grade, a woman who is diagnosed with a terminal degenerative illness, and the series focused on how Barbara and her family and friends deal with her worsening condition. It was written by Tony Marchant and directed by Adrian Shergold and was nominated for Best Drama at the 1993 British Academy Television Awards.- Claire Foy, Matthew McFadyen, Judy ParfitScreenwriter Andrew Davies adapts Charles Dickens' tale of struggle and hardship in 1820s London.More Little Dorrit
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Murder in Eden
Peter Firth, Alun Armstrong, Ian BannenMurder in Eden is a British television series directed by Nicholas Renton and featuring Ian Bannen, Peter Firth and Alun Armstrong. It was first aired on the BBC in 1991 in three episodes of 55 minutes. It was set in a remote part of rural County Donegal where a landlord of a pub murders his barmen. He is blackmailed by one of the other inhabitants, while the police are busy hunting for the killer. It was based on the novel Bogmail by Patrick McGinley.- Dennis Waterman, Tamzin Outhwaite, Denis LawsonDetective Sandra Pullman heads the Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad.More New Tricks
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- Christopher Eccleston, Mark Strong, Gina McKeeThe lives of four friends as they grow from their teens into middle age.
Sparkhouse
Richard Armitage, Celia Imrie, Sarah SmartSparkhouse is a BBC drama, originally shown in 2002, written by Sally Wainwright which is a modern take on Wuthering Heights.The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Peter Ustinov, Roger Rees, Alun ArmstrongThe Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby is a 1982 television miniseries.The Stars Look Down
Alun Armstrong, Christian Rodska, Norman JonesThe Stars Look Down is a 1975 British television adaptation written by Alan Plater from A. J. Cronin's novel The Stars Look Down, which was originally published in 1935. The Granada production was directed by Roland Joffé, Alan Grint and Howard Baker and starred Ian Hastings as David Fenwick and Susan Tracy as his wife, Jenny. Other versions include a 1940 British film and a 1971 Italian television adaptation. Set between 1910 and 1930, the story follows the lives of people from the coal mining town of Sleescale in North East England. David Fenwick and Joe Gowlan both leave the mines hoping for better prospects, while the mine owner's son Arthur Barras comes into conflict with his father.Underworld
Annette Crosbie, Kevin McNally, Alun ArmstrongWhen I'm 64
Alun Armstrong, Paul Freeman, Karl JohnsonWhen I'm 64 is a television film about two older men from different backgrounds who first become friends and then lovers. It was broadcast on BBC2 on 4 August 2004 and was also screened at several LGBT film festivals in 2005 and 2006.
