Zero One is a British TV series that ran from 1962 to 1965. It starred Nigel Patrick and was produced by Lawrence Bachmann. It was a partnership between BBC and MGM-British. There were 39 episodes. [1] [2]
The series followed adventures of airline detective Alan Garnett. “Zero One” was the call sign of the International Air Security Board, an international air travel security force.
Guests included Harry H. Corbett, Adrienne Corri, Moira Lister, Arthur Lowe, Patrick Magee, Lois Maxwell, Warren Mitchell, Michael Robbins, Margaret Rutherford, Leonard Sachs, Peter Sallis and Victor Spinetti.
Warren Mitchell was an English actor, best known for playing bigoted cockney Alf Garnett in television, film and stage productions from the 1960s to the 1990s. He was a BAFTA TV Award winner and twice a Laurence Olivier Award winner.
Till Death Us Do Part is a British television sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1965 to 1975. The show was first broadcast in 1965 as a Comedy Playhouse pilot, then as seven series between 1966 and 1975. In 1981, ITV continued the sitcom for six episodes, calling it Till Death.... The BBC produced a sequel from 1985 until 1992, In Sickness and in Health.
In Sickness and in Health is a BBC television sitcom that ran between 1 September 1985 and 3 April 1992. It is a sequel to the successful Till Death Us Do Part, which ran between 1966 and 1975, and Till Death..., which ran for one series of six episodes in 1981. The series includes 47 episodes, and, unlike its predecessor, all the episodes have survived and are available on DVD.
Johnny Speight was an English television scriptwriter of many classic British sitcoms.
A Grand Day Out is a 1989 British stop-motion animated short film starring Wallace & Gromit. It was directed, animated and co-written by Nick Park at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and Aardman Animations in Bristol.
The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 for six seasons from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually original works written for television, although dramatic adaptations of fiction also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
Peter John Sallis was a British actor. He was known for his work on British television.
Patrick Cargill was an English actor remembered for his lead role in the British television sitcom Father, Dear Father.
Nigel Dennis Patrick Wemyss-Gorman was an English actor and stage director born into a theatrical family.
Keith Barron was an English actor and television presenter who appeared in films and on television from 1961 until 2017. His television roles included the police drama The Odd Man, the sitcom Duty Free, and Gregory Wilmot in Upstairs, Downstairs.
Till Death... is a British sitcom of six episodes that was produced by ATV and aired on ITV from 22 May to 3 July 1981. It is a continuation of the BBC sitcom Till Death Us Do Part that aired from 1965 to 1975. The title was changed to Till Death... because the title Till Death Us Do Part was controlled by the BBC.
The Alf Garnett Saga is a 1972 British comedy film directed by Bob Kellett and starring Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Paul Angelis and Adrienne Posta. The film was the second spin-off from the BBC TV series Till Death Us Do Part (1965–1975). It starts where the first film finished, but with Angelis and Posta now playing Mike and Rita, the roles previously played by Anthony Booth and Una Stubbs.
Harold Lang was a RADA-trained British character actor of stage and screen. During the 1950s, in particular, played many sly or menacing roles in B-films. At one time he managed his own theatrical company. From 1960, Lang, a devotee of Stanislavski, also taught acting at Central School of Speech and Drama; and director John Schlesinger filmed his work in a documentary, The Class, for BBC TV's Monitor, in 1961. He died of a heart attack in Cairo, Egypt, shortly before he was due to give a lecture.
For the 1952 Fritz Lang film of the same name see Clash by Night.
Black Limelight is a stage play by Gordon Sherry, which has been adapted for television at least four times. However, at least three of these adaptations are now lost.
Incident at Midnight is a 1963 British crime film directed by Norman Harrison and starring Anton Diffring, William Sylvester and Justine Lord. It was written by Arthur La Bern adapted from an Edgar Wallace's short story, and was made at Merton Park Studios as part of the series of Edgar Wallace Mysteries.
Play of the Week is a 90-minute British television anthology series produced for the ITV network by a variety of companies including Granada Television, Associated-Rediffusion, ATV and Anglia Television.
"The See-Through Man" is the fourth episode of the fifth series of the 1960s cult British spy-fi television series The Avengers, starring Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg, and guest starring Moira Lister, Warren Mitchell, Roy Kinnear, and John Nettleton. It was first broadcast in the Southern region of the ITV network on Monday 30 January 1967. ABC Weekend Television, who commissioned the show for ITV, broadcast it in its own regions five days later on Saturday 4 February. The episode was directed by Robert Asher, and written by Philip Levene.
The Sullavan Brothers is a British television drama series created by Ted Willis which originally aired 1964–1965 on ITV in 26 episodes.
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