That Uncertain Feeling (TV series)
That Uncertain Feeling | |
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Genre | Comedy drama |
Based on | That Uncertain Feeling by Kingsley Amis |
Written by | Ewart Alexander |
Directed by | Robert Chetwyn |
Starring | Denis Lawson Sheila Gish Brenda Blethyn |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 4 |
Production | |
Producers | Victor Glynn Peter Edwards |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production companies | BBC Wales Quintet Films |
Release | |
Original network | BBC Two |
Original release | 12 March 2 April 1986 | –
That Uncertain Feeling is a British comedy drama television series which originally aired on BBC 2 in 1986. It is based on the 1955 novel of the same title by Kingsley Amis about a married Welsh librarian's entanglement with a sophisticated woman. The story had previously been made into the 1962 film Only Two Can Play. Gish went on to star in another Amis adaptation Stanley and the Women in 1991.[1]
Main cast[]
- Denis Lawson as John Aneurin Lewis
- Sheila Gish as Elizabeth Gruffydd-Williams
- Brenda Blethyn as Jean Lewis
- Miles Anderson as Paul Whetstone
- Ann Beach as Mrs. Davies
- Philip Bowen as Bill Evans
- David Calder as Vernon Gruffydd-Williams
- Richard Davies as Mr. Davis
- as Mervyn the dentist
- as Margot John
- Alison Matthews as Eira Lewis
- as Gareth Probert
- as Stan John
- Sharon Morgan as Dentist's mistress
- as Ken Davies
- Albert Welling as Theo James
- as Dilys
- Hugh Thomas as Ieuan Jenkins
References[]
- ^ Goldman p.433
Bibliography[]
- Lawrence Goldman. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008. OUP Oxford, 2013.
External links[]
Categories:
- BBC television dramas
- 1986 British television series debuts
- 1986 British television series endings
- English-language television shows
- Television shows based on British novels