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    Drama TV Shows - 1970s 3 Mins Read

    Beasts

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    6 x 60 minute episodes

    This series of six effective and concise horror/mystery stories commissioned by ATV from producer Nicholas Palmer and writer Nigel Kneale (creator of Quatermass) was transmitted on Saturday nights.

    Laden with suspense, drama and a thick vein of black humour, each stand-alone play was based on anthropomorphic terrors.


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    This debut episode introduced misfit teenage checkout operator Noreen Beale (Pauline Quirke, pictured at right) who developed an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager, Colin (Geoffrey Bateman).

    Meanwhile, the shop’s cuddly cartoon rabbit mascot (‘Briteway Billy’) has come alive and is causing havoc, with snowstorms of soap powder, geysers of ketchup, machine-gun bursts of cornflakes, winds of small change, a chariot race of shopping trolleys and washing up liquids all piddling away in a row.

    Noreen Beale
    Pauline Quirke
    Colin Grimley
    Geoffrey Bateman
    Arnold Liversedge
    Wensley Pithey
    June King
    Ruth Goring
    Linda
    Shirley Cheriton
    Mickey
    Herbert Norville
    Mrs Ogden
    Madoline Thomas
    Anchovy Lady
    Jane Williams
    Coffee Lady
    Jean Hardwicke
    Joyce
    Ysanne Churchman


    During Barty’s Party

    Suburban couple Roger (Anthony Bate) and Angie (Elizabeth Sellars) Truscott are held under siege in their secluded home (pictured at right) by a pack of frighteningly intelligent rats.

    As the rats gets closer, tough guy Roger begins to crack up and his nervous wife takes control.

    The episode is a feast of sound effects: gnawing, scuttering and squeaking, not to mention four neighbours and a courting couple in a car all being eaten alive.

    Angie Truscott
    Elizabeth Sellars
    Roger Truscott
    Anthony Bate
    Barty Willis
    Colin Bell
    Police Sergeant
    Norman Mitchell
    Peter Newell
    John Rhys-Davies
    James Dodge
    Denis Cleary
    Mr Gibson
    Alan Dudley
    Mrs Gibson
    Elizabeth Counsell
    Gibson children
    Jennifer Brassett
    Steve Fletcher


    Buddyboy

    Playboy nightclub owner, Dave (Martin Shaw,) buys a derelict dolphinarium, where he and Lucy (Pamela Moiseiwitsch) seem to be haunted by the ghost of Buddyboy, a clever dolphin who was the former star attraction until he was killed in mysterious circumstances a few years ago.

    Dave
    Martin Shaw
    Lucy
    Pamela Moiseiwitsch
    Hubbard
    Wolfe Morris
    Jimmy Beattie
    Stuart McGugan
    Ashwell
    Denis Holmes
    Crisp
    Peter Halliday
    Usherette
    Marriane Morris
    Doctor
    Ronald Markham
    Projectionist
    Robert Barker


    Baby

    In arguably the scariest and most disturbing of the six stories, vet Peter Gilkes (Simon MacCorkindale) and his pregnant wife, Jo (Jane Wymark), move to the countryside where they discover a strange mummified animal (a lamb? a pig? a monkey?) sealed in the wall of their cottage.

    Jo increasingly feels that she and her unborn child are in danger.

    Jo Gilkes
    Jane Wymark
    Peter Gilkes
    Simon MacCorkindale
    Dick Pummery
    T P McKenna
    Arthur Grace
    Mark Dignam
    Stan Biddick
    Norman Jones
    Dorothy Pummery
    Shelagh Fraser


    What Big Eyes

    RSPCA officer Bob Curry (Michael Kitchen, pictured at right) is horrified when he discovers pet shop owner Leo Raymount (Patrick Magee) has been conducting experiments on a wolf, searching for proof of lycanthropy.

    Raymount
    Patrick Magee
    Florence Raymount
    Madge Ryan
    Bob Curry
    Michael Kitchen
    Joe Nash
    Gerald James
    Duggie Jebb
    Bill Dean


    The Dummy

    Washed-up actor Clyde Boyd (Bernard Horsfall) has a nervous breakdown after the collapse of his marriage and believes that he really is the 9ft movie monster that he has been hired to play.

    Clyde Boyd
    Bernard Horsfall
    Bunny
    Clive Swift
    Sid
    Glyn Houston
    Sir Ramsey
    Thorley Waters
    Joan Eastgate
    Lillias Walker
    Sheila Boyd
    Patricia Haines
    Peter Wager
    Simon Oates
    Mike Hickey
    Ian Thompson
    Tea Lady
    Ruby Head
    Police Sergeant
    Micheal Sheard
    Vic
    George Malpas

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