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Notes : Stephen Gallagher's first work for television was Warriors Gate, a Season 18 story for Doctor Who, a series which he returned to two years later with Terminus. With the exception of an episode of Rockliffe's Folly in 1988, he didn't write for television again until 1991, when he adapted his first original novel, Chimera, for Anglia Television. In the gap between his two Doctor Who stories and Chimera he had spent most of his time writing novels, and it was his third original novel, Oktober, published in 1988, that he would later adapt and direct for Carnival Films. In 1995 he wrote two episodes of the ITV anthology series Chiller. Prophecy, which he adapted from the novel by Peter James and the superb Here Comes the Mirror Man. In the same year he contributed the first of his ten episode for the BBC's hi-tech action series BUGS, on which he was also credited as a consultant for Seasons 2 and 3. More recently he has written The Kingdom of Bones, a ninety-minute episode of Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes, and is currently developing a new series for the BBC with the working title MICROBOTS.
Notes : During the 1990's Stephen Tompkinson became a familiar face on British television, appearing in a number of high profile roles. The one that first caught the public imagination was that of Damien Day, one of the Globelink News reporters in the Channel 4 series Drop the Dead Donkey. For the BBC he played the part of Father Peter Clifford in the hit series Ballykissangel for three seasons, and has recently appeared alongside Nick Berry as undercover detective Garth O'Hanlon in two seasons of In Deep. Other series he has appeared in include the BBC2 sitcom Mr Charity which was savaged by the critics, All Quiet on the Preston Front and Minder in which he had a regular part as DC Park. He will soon be seen in Ted and Alice, a comedy drama for the BBC in which he plays an alien.
Notes : Before playing Linda in Oktober, Maria Lennon had made guest appearances in a number of series including The Governor, Soldier Soldier, Casualty and an episode of The New Adventures of Robin Hood (Witches of the Abbey). At the time of Oktober's initial transmission she was probably most familiar to viewers from a series of Kleenex adverts. Oktober was Lydzia Englert's first television work after graduating. Michael Bertenshaw has made appearances in a number of programmes including The Return of Sherlock Holmes (The Priory School) and the recent BBC adaptation of The Lost World. As well as being one of the production designers on Oktober, Julian Fullalove has worked on a number of other series including Seasons 3 and 4 of BUGS, The 10th Kingdom and Mike and Angelo. His most famous work however, is the design of the sets for The Teletubbies. Carnival Films have produced a number of cult programmes including BUGS, Crime Traveller and The 10th Kingdom. Other programmes they have been involved with include Poirot, Porterhouse Blue, Traffik (featuring Michael Bertenshaw) and Blott on the Landscape.
The writer and director for all episodes was Stephen Gallagher. No on-screen titles or episode numbers appear. |
 When Jim Harper, a Swiss based English tutor falls for the elder sister of one of his pupils, he finds himself caught up in the machinations of pharmaceuticals company Risinger-Genoud. When he tries to meet Rochelle Genoud at a company seminar high in the Swiss Alps he is mistaken for a spy and accidentally killed. Attempts to revive him involve the use of a contaminated drug which has been seen to exhibit unusual side-effects, most noticeably on a group of Russian soldiers in Chechnya who are now all in a catatonic state, but whose minds appear to be linked. After escaping from the mountain, Jim finds himself pursued by the company as they now regard him as an test subject and they hope that the drug will prove
to be a valuable replacement for their biggest selling product on which
the patent is due to expire. He returns to England, but as he soon
finds out, multinational companies have long arms and will stop at nothing
to achieve their goals. With
Stephen Tompkinson taking the lead role of Jim Harper, the
series received a respectable level of publicity before transmission,
although alterations to the ITV schedule saw it moved back from
its intended start in the February and consequently a number of
magazine articles were caught out. Since its original transmission, Oktober
has been repeated on ITV2, and will be released on video and
DVD by Revelation Films in the 2004.
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