This five-part BBC Sunday tea-time adaptation of Thomas Hughes’ novel followed Tom Brown (14-year-old Westminster School pupil Anthony Murphy in his first television role) as a new boy at Rugby Public School.
At Rugby he had to contend with the school’s harsh discipline and accept bullying from 17-year-old Flashman (played by 25-year-old Richard Morant) – Bully of the Fifth – and the older boys.
The director of the series was Gareth Davies, with John McRae producing.
Tom Brown
Anthony Murphy Flashman
Richard Morant Dr Thomas Arnold
Iain Cuthbertson Sunning
Richard Gibson Ned East
Simon Fisher-Turner Diggs
David Hampshire Coates
Christopher Moran Cuthbertson
Mark Rogers Brooke
Barry Stokes Denning
Sean Bury Willoughby
Simon Conrad Reverend Bird
Geoffrey Edwards Sir Richard Flashman
Gerald Flood Mrs Flashman
Elizabeth Wallace Darcy
Christopher Guard Reverend Anstey
Davyd Harries Rosy Redman
Valerie Holliman Cully Redman
Dan Meaden Harker
Mark Jefferis Madman Martin
Robin Langford Thomas
Edward Palmer Ransome
Michael Andrews Matron
Pamela Duncan Clement
Robin Halstead Sir Reginald Harcourt
Lindsay Campbell
Tom Brown
Coates
