Oxbridge Blues (1984)
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Cast & Crew.
James Cellan Jones
Producer / Director
Malcolm Stoddard
Crispin / Michael / Philip Geary
Frederic Raphael
Writer
Norman Rodway
Narrator / Alec
Ciaran Madden
Laura / Rachel
Kate Fahy
Eileen / Lizzie
Diane Keen
Carlotta / Sherry Craven
Carol Royle
Ellen / Tory
Christopher Good
Duncan / James
Nancy Roberts
Goldie Pinto / Mrs. Stein
Gavin Asher
Waiter
Roger Hammond
Bald don at party / Father
Rosalyn Landor
Wendy De Souza
Ben Kingsley
Geoff Craven
Jeremy Child
Philip Lord Witham
Alfred Marks
Bernie Pinto
Geoffrey Palmer
Fred
Ken Wynne
Ticket seller
Frances Tomelty
Angela Lane
Holly Aird
Lucy
Natasha Richardson
Gabriella
David Suchet
Colin
Barry Dennen
Dr Stein
Jeff Harding
Rick (voice)
Details.
Release DateNovember 14, 1984
StatusEnded
Seasons1
Episodes7
Running Time1h 20m
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This TV Show Is About.
Wiki.
Oxbridge Blues is a 1984 British television series, produced and broadcast in the UK by the BBC. It is an anthology of seven approximately 75-minute television plays by Frederic Raphael, most of which focus on relationships of one kind or another. Most of the plays except one take place in England; "He'll See You Now" takes place in the U.S., and "Sleeps Six" takes place in England and France. The series was broadcast in the U.S. on A&E in 1986 and on PBS in 1988. In Australia, the series was broadcast on ABC in 1987.The series won the 1987 CableACE Award for Best Dramatic Series. The eponymous first teleplay in the series, "Oxbridge Blues", was nominated for a BAFTA television award for Best Single Drama, and other individual episodes garnered several other awards and nominations.The seven plays were adapted by the novelist Frederic Raphael from the short stories from his own collections Sleeps Six and other stories (1979) and Oxbridge Blues and other stories (1980). He described the television series as "mostly kind of chamber pieces – modest dramas about love and sex and honour and marriage". Raphael directed one episode, James Cellan Jones directed four, and Richard Stroud directed two.
In December 1984, the BBC published the seven scripts together in book form, entitled Oxbridge Blues and Other Plays for Television.