Sunday, June 7, 2015

The Good Companions

Musical comedy-drama from 1980 based on the 1929 J.B. Priestly book and adapted for TV by Alan Plater. This followed a popular stage presentation in the mid-70's (with Judi Dench as Miss Trant).
Starring Judy Cornwell (as Miss Trant), Jan FrancisVivienne MartinJohn StrattonJeremy NicholasBryan PringleFrank MillsJohn BlytheJo KendellSimon Green, with Margaret CourtenayBarbara YoungDenis Lawson........crikey, this is taking way too long......Nigel Hawthorne (Yes Minister, Mapp & Lucia, Barchester Chronicles, Edward & Mrs. Simpson), Robin Parkinson ('Allo 'Allo!,  Many Wives of Patrick),  Barbara New (Oh Dr Beeching!, You Rang M'Lord?, Split Ends), Keith Clifford (Last of the Summer Wine), Nigel Stock (Sherlock Holmes), Tim Wylton (The Dustbinmen, The Bretts, A Bit Of A Do, As Time Goes By, Wycliffe, My Hero), Paul Luty (Love Thy Neighbour, Rosie, In Loving Memory), Patricia Brake (Going Straight, The Glums, Eldorado, Mann's Best Friends), Fanny Rowe (Life Begins At Forty, Fresh Fields, After Henry), John Barrett (The Dustbinmen, Clochemerle, Not On Your Nellie), Bill Dean (Selwyn Froggitt, The Liver Birds, The Whackers, Brookside), John Comer (I Didn't Know You Cared, Last of the Summer Wine, Murder Most English), Robin Bailey (Potter, Rumpole of the Bailey, Charters & Caldicott, Jane, Sorry I'm A Stranger Here Myself, I Didn't Know You Cared, The Pallisers), Roy Kinnear.......everyone knows him. And so on..............
The Good Companions

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