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    Drama TV Shows - 1990s 3 Mins Read

    Unknown Soldier, The

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    3 x 60 minute episodes

    During World War I, a group of wounded soldiers returned from France to recuperate in England.

    Among them was a mute amnesiac (Peak Practice star Gary Mavers) who had been found wandering naked through the mines and barbed wire in no-man’s land.

    An officer had saved his life and led him back to the trenches, and he had returned the favour soon after, when – confused or not – he saved the crippled officer and a blinded corporal after they were hit by a German shell. The men christened him “Angel”.

    Back in Britain, Nurse Sophia Carey (Juliet Aubrey) tried to help Angel regain his speech and his memory.

    Sophia was the beautiful young matron of a makeshift hospital for war wounded, set up in her father’s big country house. She had lost her three brothers in the war, and underneath her crisply efficient exterior, she was as damaged as Angel.

    Angel had his speech (but not his memory) restored by brutal electric shock treatment and he sounded and acted like a well-bred officer – but another working-class soldier turned up insisting that he used to know him . . .

    Meanwhile, the scene was set for an intense love affair between Angel and Sophia – until the appearance of Jenny Davis (Aislín McGuckin) – someone from his past who claimed to be his fiancée.

    The third and final episode found Angel in prison while the authorities tried to prove he was Rod King, a looter, deserter and murderer. But Sophie and Jenny – who loved the same man for different reasons – came together to try to save him from court-martial and a firing squad.

    The Unknown Soldier was devised as a vehicle for Mavers by Peak Practice producers Michele Buck and Damien Timmer.

    Angel
    Gary Mavers
    Sophia Carey
    Juliet Aubrey
    Jenny Davis
    Aislín McGuckin
    Sir Francis Carey
    Frederick Treves
    Major Stephen Phelps
    Pip Torrens
    Jeff Quinn
    David Westhead
    Dr Ewan Thomas
    Dafydd Hywel
    Teague
    Dave Kent
    Baker
    Mathew Fraser
    Watts
    Andrew McLay
    Jane Wetherby
    Olivia Caffrey
    David Truman
    John Normington
    Dorothy Truman
    Frances White
    Mrs Teague
    Rachel Scorgie
    RMP Sergeant
    Bill Leadbitter
    Matron Ingoldsby
    Anne Stanton
    Captain Parr
    Mark Drewry
    Major Wetherby
    John Light
    Emily
    Zoe Waites
    Maggie Roberts
    Sophie Stanton
    Urquart
    Paul Brooke
    Mrs Derry
    Alison Fiske
    Christian Derry
    Jonathan Cullen
    Lt Col Powell
    Geoffrey Bateman
    Sergeant Craddock
    David Hounslow
    Sergeant Wright
    Brian Abbott
    Colonel Eelham
    Tom Chadbon
    Florence Davis
    Anna Keaveney
    Brigadier Wheatley
    David Henry
    Narrator
    Barbara New

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