Late Starter (TV series)

Late Starter
Written by	Brian Clark
Directed by	Barry Davis ; Nicholas Mallett
Starring	Peter Barkworth
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	8
Production
Executive producer(s)	Mark Shivas
Producer(s)	Ruth Boswell
Running time	50 min
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	15 March –; 3 May 1985

Late Starter is a 1985 BBC TV series that ran for 8 episodes. Peter Barkworth played a cuckolded retired university professor who finds himself having to start again in a run down bedsit in North London.[1][2]

Cast

Peter Barkworth – Edward Brett
Akosua Busia – Nicki
Rowena Cooper – Mary Brett
Julia Foster – Liz Weldon
Carol Leader – Penny Johnson
Simon Cowell-Parker – Simon Brett

gollark: Chess but there's a free market for pieces.

gollark: Atomic chess, but with chemical bonding.

gollark: Idea: laser chess, but with ORBITAL lasers.

gollark: That's entirely unrelated. I just like the idea.

gollark: Well, remember how I said that none were safe?

References

Jerry Roberts – 2009 Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors – Page 121 0810863782 "Hannah Gordon and Peter Barkworth starred as the Telfords, him a banker in the stoic vein. ... Davis was on board for another Peake-Jones miniseries, Cockles, and again presented Barkworth as a cuckold in Late Starter, costarring Akosua ..."
Punch – Volume 288 – Page 70 Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor – 1985 – "LATE STARTER – PETER BARKWORTH as Edward Brett JULIA FOSTER as Liz Weldon ROWENA COOK as Mary Brett ... he has now flung himself into the identical breach in Late Starter (BBC1), the pulsating story of a literature professor who is also a dimwit In the bank saga, Barkworth's character stood by while his wife cuckolded him with some oaf from show business."

External links

Late Starter on IMDb

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[1] Jerry Roberts – 2009 Encyclopedia of Television Film Directors – Page 121 0810863782 "Hannah Gordon and Peter Barkworth starred as the Telfords, him a banker in the stoic vein. ... Davis was on board for another Peake-Jones miniseries, Cockles, and again presented Barkworth as a cuckold in Late Starter, costarring Akosua ..."

[2] Punch – Volume 288 – Page 70 Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor – 1985 – "LATE STARTER – PETER BARKWORTH as Edward Brett JULIA FOSTER as Liz Weldon ROWENA COOK as Mary Brett ... he has now flung himself into the identical breach in Late Starter (BBC1), the pulsating story of a literature professor who is also a dimwit In the bank saga, Barkworth's character stood by while his wife cuckolded him with some oaf from show business."