Will Trotter – What Was Pebble Mill?

The Afternoon Play – Coming Up For Air

This screen grab is from The Afternoon Play, Coming Up For Air, it was transmitted on 28th Jan 2003.

Here is the entry from the Radio Times for the drama, courtesy of the BBC Genome project:

A strange occurrence befalls grieving husband Tom Rourke in Spain.
Written by Matthew Parkhill ; Producer Carson Black ; Director Dominic Keavey

Contributors:

Written By: Matthew Parkhill
Producer: Carson Black
Director: Dominic Keavey
Tom Rourke: Jeremy Sheffield
Iris Rourke: June Whitfield
Sarah: Mandana Jones
Maisey Rourke: Isabella Melling
Jack Rourke: Bruno Melling
Kay Caroline: Lee Johnson

http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3e0f449297a04046a97252ba13ec3090

The play was edited by Neil Roberts.

Thanks to VT editor Ian Collins for making the still available.

Grease Monkeys

Grease Monkeys was transmitted on BBC 3 in 2003-4. The comedy drama featured Ace Bhatti, as Dave Dhillon, shown in these photos. The series tells the story of a dysfunctional Asian family in Manchester.

Will Trotter was the producer of ten episodes, and the editors included James Hey, Adam Trotman, Neil Roberts, Dan Wardle, Russell Parker and Mark Davies.

Thanks to VT editor Ian Collins, for making these screen grabs available.

Doctors titles series 3

These stills are taken from the titles sequence from the continuing drama series, Doctors, series 3, which went out Sept 2001 to May 2002, and consisted of 129 episodes.

Mal Young was the Exec Producer, Carson Black the Series Producer, and Will Trotter the producer.

The characters shown in the stills were played by the following actors:

Ben Kwarme – Ariyon Bakare
Jude Carlyle – Natalie J. Robb
Kate McGuire – Maggie Cronin
Faith Walker – Eva Fontaine
Katrina Bullen – Tabitha Wady

Thanks to the BBC Drama Village for sharing the stills.

Witchcraft – photos by Willoughby Gullachsen

Photos by Willoughby Gullachsen, no reproduction without permission.

‘Witchcraft’ was a drama serial transmitted in 1992. It was produced at Pebble Mill in 1991 by Carol Parks, with Barry Hanson as exec producer. the script was written by Nigel Williams, and directed by Peter Sasdy. John Greening was the 1st AD, with Will Trotter as Location Manager. Jane Barton was the PA. Nigel Jones was the designer, with John Plush his assistant. John Kenway was the lighting cameraman, Herbie Donnelly the lighting gaffer and Tim Everett the sound recordist. John Rosser was the film editor.

The storyline features a film school teacher, Jamie, who chooses 17th-century witchcraft and adultery as the theme of his latest script. As shooting of the film begins, real-life events take on a menacing quality and events from the past seem to be being re-enacted in the present. Fact and fiction blur, and Jamie suffers a breakdown and becomes possessed by the Witchfinder.

The series starred Peter McEnery as Jamie Matheson, Alan Howard as Alan Oakfield, Lisa Harrow as Meg, Georgia Slowe as Judy, Judy Campbell as Juliet, Clive Wood as Rick, Dorian Healy as Derwent, Rosemary McHale as Ruth, Suzannah Lipscomb as Emma, and Kit Owen as Thomasina.

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