Fame Is the Spur (TV series)

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Fame is the Spur
Genre	Drama
Written by	Howard Spring (novel)
Directed by	David Giles
Starring	Tim Pigott-Smith; Julia Sawalha; Joanna David
Composer	Alan Price
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Producer	Richard Beynon
Editor	John Barclay
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	8 January –; 26 February 1982

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.

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.

External links[]

Fame is the Spur at IMDb

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[1] "Fame is the Spur (1981)". Archived from the original on 29 January 2009.

[2] 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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