Strangers and Brothers (TV series)

Strangers and Brothers is a 1984 British television series which produced by the BBC. Adapted from the novel series of the same name by C. P. Snow, it ran for a single series of thirteen episodes.[1]

Strangers and Brothers
Genre	Drama
Based on	Strangers and Brothers by C.P. Snow
Written by	Julian Bond
Directed by	Jeremy Summers (7 episodes) Ronald Wilson (6 episodes)
Composer(s)	Kenyon Emrys-Roberts
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Producer(s)	Philip Hinchcliffe
Running time	55 minutes
Production company(s)	BBC
Release
Original network	BBC One
Original release	11 January – 4 April 1984

Cast

• Shaughan Seymour as Lewis Eliot (13 episodes)
• Paul Hastings as Francis Getliffe (10 episodes)
• Edward Hardwicke as Sir Hector Rose (7 episodes)
• Sheila Ruskin as Sheila Eliot (6 episodes)
• Cherie Lunghi as Margaret Eliot (5 episodes)
• James Simmons as Walter Luke (5 episodes)
• Nigel Havers as Roy Calvert (4 episodes)
• Peter Sallis as Leonard March (3 episodes)
• Stephen Riddle as Martin Eliot (3 episodes)
• Martin Jacobs as Charles March (3 episodes)
• Elizabeth Spriggs as Lady Muriel Royce (3 episodes)
• Carmen Du Sautoy as Ann Simon (3 episodes)
• Kathryn Pogson as Joan Royce (3 episodes)
• Neil Stacy as Herbert Getliffe (3 episodes)
• James Cossins as Mr. Knight (3 episodes)
• Emma Jacobs as Katherine March (3 episodes)
• Gawn Grainger as Dr. Pearson (3 episodes)
• John Grillo as Arthur Brown 3 episodes)
• Vivienne Ritchie as Nora Luke (3 episodes)
• Shirley Cassedy as Rosalind Wykes (3 episodes)
• Anthony Hopkins as Roger Quaife (2 episodes)
• Susan Fleetwood as Lady Caroline Quaife (2 episodes)
• Christopher Casson as Austin Davidson (2 episodes)
• Tessa Peake-Jones as Irene Eliot (2 episodes)
• Frederick Treves as Vernon Royce (2 episodes)
• John Carson as Jago (2 episodes)
• Simon Oates as Major Darling (2 episodes)
• Tom Wilkinson as George Passant (2 episodes)
• Tony Britton as Lord Boscastle (2 episodes)
• Joan Greenwood as Lady Boscastle (2 episodes)
• John Normington as Monty Cave (2 episodes)
• Gareth Thomas as Arthur Mounteney (2 episodes)
• John Phillips as Reggie Collingwood (2 episodes)
• Alan MacNaughtan as Winslow (2 episodes)
• Ruth Trouncer as Mrs. Knight (2 episodes)
• Nigel Leach as Eric Sawbridge (2 episodes)
• Peter Marinker as David Rubin (2 episodes)
• Clifford Rose as Crawford (2 episodes)
• Michael Cochrane as Sammikins (2 episodes)
• Alan Downer as Rudd (2 episodes)
• Peter Copley as Despard-Smith (2 episodes)
• Kieran Montague as Kurt Puchwein (2 episodes)
• Tim Wylton as Percy Hall (2 episodes)
• Tom Chadbon as Sir Douglas Osbaldiston (2 episodes)
• Michael Troughton as Jack Cotery (2 episodes)
• Sarah Stephenson as Hanna Puchwein (2 episodes)
• Gillian Bailey as Olive Calvert (2 episodes)
• Jeffry Wickham as Chrystal (2 episodes)
• John Quentin as Nightingale (2 episodes)
• Michael Mellinger as Henriques (2 episodes)
• Hugh Moxey as Speaker of the House of Commons (2 episodes)
• Geoffrey Chater as Thomas Bevill (1 episode)
• Terence Alexander as R.S. Robinson (1 episode)
• Buster Merryfield as Bishop (1 episode)
• Geoffrey Toone as Sir Oulstone Lyall (1 episode)
• Andrew Cruickshank as M.H.L. Gay (1 episode)
• Peggy Ann Wood as Mrs. Doris Seymour (1 episode)
• Ivor Roberts as Mr. Eden (1 episode)
• Phyllida Law as Mrs. Henneker (1 episode)
• Peter Cartwright as Horace Leverett-Smith (1 episode)
• Alec Mango as Professor Brodzinski (1 episode)
• Bernard Brown as Drawbell (1 episode)
• Struan Rodger as Dr. Schäder (1 episode)
• Bernard Horsfall as Dr. Bradbury (1 episode)
• Cyril Luckham as Eustace Pilbrow (1 episode)
• Anna Calder-Marshall as Ellen Smith (1 episode)

Critical reception

In a 1985 review in the New York Times, John J. O'Connor praised only the episode based on the novel The Masters and called the series a "dud" and summarized; "the series as a whole—or at least its first half—fails to ignite with compelling characters and incidents. The themes are big, the issues are important, but Strangers and Brothers is a monumental disappointment."[2]

References

1. Baskin p.203
2. O'Connor, John J. (May 19, 1985). "The British turn out duds, too". New York Times.

Bibliography

• Ellen Baskin. Serials on British Television, 1950-1994. Scolar Press, 1996.

External links

• Strangers and Brothers on IMDb