Performance
Season: 1
Episode: 1
Absolute Hell
Air Date:05/10/1991
Black comedy set in Soho, London, right after WW2. Half of the fun is seeing a slew of very familiar faces kick up their heels as gay men, lesbians, party-girls, drunks, and drag queens.
Guest Stars
Name: Judi Dench
Character: Christine Foskett
Department: Acting
Name: Susan Porrett
Character: Doris
Department: Acting
Name: Paul Birchard
Character: Butch
Department: Acting
Name: Sylvia Barter
Character: Julia Shillitoe
Department: Acting
Name: Bill Nighy
Character: Hugh Marriner
Department: Acting
Name: Ronald Pickup
Character: Siegfried Shrager
Department: Acting
Name: Francesca Annis
Character: Elizabeth Collier
Department: Acting
Name: Eileen Page
Character: Mrs. Marriner
Department: Acting
Name: Gregory Floy
Character: Michael Crowley
Department: Acting
Name: Charles Gray
Character: Maurice Hussey
Department: Acting
Name: Nathaniel Parker
Character: Sam Mitchum
Department: Acting
Name: Moyra Fraser
Character: Lettice Willis
Department: Acting
Name: William Osborne
Character: Cyril Clatworthy
Department: Acting
Name: Susan Brown
Character: Bill
Department: Acting
Name: Betty Marsden
Character: R. B. Monody
Department: Acting
Episode: 2
Uncle Vanya
Air Date:12/10/1991
When Vanya's brother-in-law declares his intention to sell the family's house, polite facades begin to crumble and long repressed feelings start to emerge with devastating consequences.
Guest Stars
Name: David Warner
Character: Vanya
Department: Acting
Name: Ian Holm
Character: Astrov
Department: Acting
Name: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Character: Yelena
Department: Acting
Name: Ian Bannen
Character: Serebryakov
Department: Acting
Name: Rebecca Pidgeon
Character: Sonya
Department: Acting
Name: Rachel Kempson
Character: Mariya Vasilyevna
Department: Acting
Name: Sandra Voe
Character: Nanny
Department: Acting
Name: Roger Hammond
Character: Waffles
Department: Acting
Name: Jimmy Flynn
Character: Workman
Department: Acting
Name: James Warrior
Character: Workman
Department: Acting
Episode: 3
Nona
Air Date:19/10/1991
An adaptation of Roberto Cossa's Argentinian drama, the play focuses on a family desperately struggling against inflation and unemployment while trying to assuage the insatiable appetite of their 100-year old grandmother.
Guest Stars
Name: Les Dawson
Character: Nona
Department: Acting
Name: Liz Smith
Character: Anyula
Department: Acting
Name: Jim Broadbent
Character: Carmello
Department: Acting
Name: Timothy Spall
Character: Chico
Department: Acting
Name: Susan Brown
Character: Maria
Department: Acting
Name: Jane Horrocks
Character: Marta
Department: Acting
Name: Maurice Denham
Character: Don Francisco
Department: Acting
Episode: 4
Old Times
Air Date:26/10/1991
A married couple are visited by a friend from their past, who causes them unease and even embarrassment.
Episode: 5
Top Girls
Air Date:02/11/1991
Marlene celebrates her new position as MD of Top Girls Appointment Agency by giving a dinner party for five oddly assorted women from centuries past.
Guest Stars
Name: Deborah Findlay
Character: Isabella Bird
Department: Acting
Name: Beth Goddard
Character: Waitress
Department: Acting
Name: Cecily Hobbs
Character: Pope Joan
Department: Acting
Name: Sarah Lam
Character: Lady Nijo
Department: Acting
Name: Lesley Manville
Character: Marlene
Department: Acting
Name: Anna Patrick
Character: Griselda
Department: Acting
Name: Lesley Sharp
Character: Angie
Department: Acting
Episode: 6
The Trials of Oz
Air Date:09/11/1991
Dramatization of the famous 1971 trial in which the editors of the British underground magazine "Oz" were charged with obscenity.
Guest Stars
Name: Hugh Grant
Character: Richard Neville
Department: Acting
Name: Peter O'Brien
Character: James Anderson
Department: Acting
Name: Kevin Allen
Character: Felix Dennis
Department: Acting
Name: Leslie Phillips
Character: Judge Michael Argyle
Department: Acting
Name: Nigel Hawthorne
Character: Brian Leary
Department: Acting
Name: Simon Callow
Character: John Mortimer
Department: Acting