Fame Is the Spur (TV series)
Fame is the Spur is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1982.[1] It was based on the 1940 novel Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring. It depicts a socialist politician who betrays his early beliefs as he grows older, and was believed to be based upon the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. It had previously been adapted as a film Fame Is the Spur by the Boulting Brothers in 1947.
Fame is the Spur | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Howard Spring (novel) |
Directed by | David Giles |
Starring | Tim Pigott-Smith Julia Sawalha Joanna David |
Composer(s) | Alan Price |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Richard Beynon |
Editor(s) | John Barclay |
Release | |
Original network | BBC1 |
Original release | 8 January – 26 February 1982 |
The series starred Tim Pigott-Smith as Hamer Shawcross, prior to his success in The Jewel in the Crown. Joanna David played Shawcross's wife and George Costigan co-starred as Tom Hannaway.[2]
References
- "Fame is the Spur (1981)". Archived from the original on 29 January 2009.
- Tim Pigott-Smith (1 June 2017). Do You Know Who I Am?: A Memoir. Bloomsbury Publishing. pp. 164–165. ISBN 978-1-4729-3425-3.
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