Edward the Seventh - ITV - April 1, 1975 - July 1, 1975
Historical Drama (13 episodes)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars: (brief listing) (Complete Listing)
Annette Crosbie as Queen Victoria (episodes 1–10)
Timothy West as Albert Edward ("Bertie"), Prince of Wales, later King Edward VII (episodes 5–13)
Helen Ryan as Princess Alexandra, later Queen Alexandra (episodes 6–13)
Robert Hardy as Prince Albert (episodes 1–4)
Felicity Kendal as Bertie's older sister Princess Vicky, later Empress Frederick of Germany (episodes 2–5, 8, 10 and 11)
Michael Byrne as Fritz, later Frederick III, German Emperor (episodes 2–5, 8)
Charles Sturridge as Young Bertie (episodes 2–4)
Simon Gipps-Kent as Younger Bertie (episode 2)
Deborah Grant as Young Alexandra (episodes 4–5)
Christopher Neame as Bertie's nephew Kaiser Wilhelm II (episodes 8 and 10–13)
Gwyneth Strong as Minny (young Dagmar) (episodes 4–5)
Jane Lapotaire as Empress Marie of Russia (older Dagmar; Dagmar was the sister of Bertie's wife Alexandra and later wife of Tsar Alexander III) (episodes 6–8, 10, 12–13)
Alison Leggatt as the Duchess of Kent (episodes 1–3)
Joseph O'Conor as Lord Melbourne (episode 1)
Michael Barrington as Sir Robert Peel (episode 1)
John Welsh as the Duke of Wellington (episode 1)
Arthur Hewlett as the Earl of Aberdeen (episode 2)
André Morell as Lord Palmerston (episodes 2–5)
Peter Collingwood as Lord John Russell (episode 4–5)
Michael Hordern as William Ewart Gladstone (episodes 5–6 and 8–10)
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To Serve Them All My Days - BBC One - October 17, 1980 - Januiary 16, 1981
Drama (13 Episodes)
Running Time: 60 minutes
Stars:
John Duttine as David Powlett-Jones
Frank Middlemass as Algy Herries
Alan MacNaughtan as Howarth
Patricia Lawrence as Ellie Herries
Neil Stacy as Carter
Susan Jameson as Christine Forster
Charles Kay as Alcock
Kim Braden as Julia
John Welsh as Cordwainer
Cyril Luckham as Sir Rufus Creighton
Simon Gipps-Kent as Chad Boyer
Belinda Lang as Beth
Nicholas Lyndhurst as Dobson
David King as Barnaby
Phillip Joseph as Emrys Powlett-Jones
Michael Turner as Brigadier Cooper
Norman Bird as Alderman Blunt
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“Lost Hearts”
Ghost Story for Christmas: Lost Hearts Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark Cast: Simon Gipps-Kent, Joseph O'Conor M.R. .
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The Devil´s Crown (Trailer) with Chubby Oates 1978
A short clip of comedian and actor Chubby Oates in "The Devil's Crown"- This is an excerpt from Episode 7 - "Lion of Christendom"
I will be bringing the full 13 part series to my channel in the next few days
More about The Devil´s Crown
The Devil's Crown was a BBC television series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John Lackland. It is also known as La couronne du diable in French.
The series was shown in the United Kingdom in thirteen 55-minute episodes between 30 April and 23 July 1978.
As a very brief explanation...Henry Plantagenet (later King Henry II), sees his opportunity to seize the crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order. The series stars Jane Lapotaire, Christopher Gable, John Duttine...
More about the plot can be found on my playlist page here
The cast for this series is fairly huge so I will leave you with the main names and as you watch the series you will find each episode´s cast in the information box. Hope you enjoy.
Cast
Brian Cox as Henry II of England
Michael Byrne as Richard I of England
John Duttine as John, King of England
Jane Lapotaire as Eleanor of Aquitaine
Christopher Gable as Philip II of France
Ralph Arliss as Geoffrey, Archbishop of York
Charles Kay as Louis VII of France
Jack Shepherd as Thomas Becket
Kevin McNally as Henry the Young King
Lynsey Baxter as Isabella of Angoulême
Freddie Jones as Bertran de Born
Peter Benson as Blondel de Nesle
Roy Boyd as Ranulf de Glanville
Lucy Gutteridge as Alys, Countess of the Vexin
Michael Hawkins as Richard de Luci
Ian Hogg as William de Braose, 4th Lord of Bramber
Ralph Michael as Hubert Walter
Patrick Troughton as William Marshal, 1st Earl of Pembroke
Simon Gipps-Kent as Arthur I, Duke of Brittany
Bob Goody as Guide
Zoë Wanamaker as Berengaria of Navarre
Lorna Yabsley as Alys, Countess of the Vexin
Susannah Fellows as Rosamund de Clifford
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