The Plane Makers
The Plane Makers | |
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Created by | Wilfred Greatorex |
Starring | Patrick Wymark |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 58 |
Production | |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | ATV |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 14 February 1963 12 January 1965 | –
The Power Game | |
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Created by | Wilfred Greatorex |
Starring | Patrick Wymark |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
No. of series | 3 |
No. of episodes | 39 |
Production | |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | ATV |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 13 December 1965 1 April 1969 | –
The Plane Makers is a
The Plane Makers
The Plane Makers focused on the power struggles between the
The Power Game
According to one report, it was on Gretorex's advice that the drama "left the factory floor for the executive suite".
Wilder's private life came more to the fore in The Power Game; he has a long-running affair with a civil servant, Susan Weldon (Rosemary Leach), but is aghast when his wife Pamela also plays the field, with engineering expert Frank Hagadan (George Sewell).
The third and final series in 1969 saw Wilder free from Bligh's—but not from Bligh himself—and working for the British government as a 'roving' Foreign Office Ambassador for Trade.
Patrick Wymark died suddenly in 1970 and it was decided not to continue with the series without its most notorious and memorable character.
Archives Status
Only Episode 1 of Series 1 of Plane Makers exists, but series 2 and 3 survive, all as 16mm-film
Regular cast – The Plane Makers
- John Wilder – Patrick Wymark
- Don Henderson – Jack Watling
- David Corbett – Alan Dobie
- Dusty Miller – John Junkin
- Arthur Sugden – Reginald Marsh
- Henry Forbes – Robert Urquhart
- James Cameron Grant – Peter Jeffrey
- Kay Lingard – Norma Ronald
- Pamela Wilder – Barbara Murray, (Ann Firbank some episodes, series 3)
- Laura Challis – Wendy Gifford
- Sir Gordon Revidge – Norman Tyrrell
Regular cast – The Power Game
- Sir John Wilder – Patrick Wymark
- Don Henderson – Jack Watling
- Caswell Bligh – Clifford Evans
- Kenneth Bligh – Peter Barkworth
- Susan Weldon – Rosemary Leach (Series 1-2)
- Justine Bligh – Rachel Herbert (Series 1-2)
- Miss Lingard – Norma Ronald (Series 1-2)
- Lady Wilder – Barbara Murray
- Frank Hagadan – George Sewell (Series 1-2)
- Charles Grainger – Robin Bailey (Series 2)
- Sir Gordon Revidge – Norman Tyrrell
- Sir Jason Fowler – Richard Hurndall (Series 3)
- Lincoln Dowling – Michael Jayston (Series 3)
- Garfield Kane – Barrie Ingham (Series 3)
- Jill (Wilder's secretary) – Deborah Grant(Series 3)
DVD releases
Network has released the following DVD boxsets.
Title | Region | 1st Release Date | No# of Discs | Episodes | Extras | Catalog |
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The Plane Makers – Volume 1 | Region 2 | 2010 | 4 | Series 2 Episodes 1–13 |
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7953275 |
The Plane Makers – Volume 2 | Region 2 | 21 November 2011 | 4 | Series 2 Episodes 14–28 |
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7953607 |
The Plane Makers – Volume 3 | Region 2 | 8 April 2013 | 4 | Series 3 |
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Unknown |
The Plane Makers – Collection | Region 2 | 17 April 2017 | 12 | Series 2 & 3 |
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7954771 |
The Power Game – The Complete First Series | Region 2 | 2005 | 4 | 13 Episodes | Stills gallery | 7952235 |
The Power Game – The Complete Second Series | Region 2 | 2006 | 4 | 13 Episodes |
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7952262 |
The Power Game – The Complete Third Series | Region 2 | 2007 | 4 | 13 Episodes | None | 7952736 |
The Power Game – Series 1–3 – Complete | Region 2 | 7 July 2008 | 12 | All Episodes |
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7952853 |
References
- Down, Richard, and Christopher Perry. 1997. The British Television Drama Research Guide, with Full Archive Holdings, second revised edition. Bristol: Kaleidoscope Publishing. ISBN 1-900203-04-9.
Footnotes
- ^ a b Critchley, Julian. 1969. "A Man for Our Season". The Times (Saturday, 11 January): 19.
- ISBN 0-85112-744-4.
- ^ Down and Perry 1997, DP4–5.
- ^ Down and Perry 1997, DP6.
External links
- The Plane Makers at IMDb
- The Power Game at IMDb
- British Film Institute Screen Online