The Charmer (TV series)
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The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, a smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her.
The Charmer | |
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Genre | Drama |
Based on | Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton |
Written by | Allan Prior |
Directed by | Alan Gibson |
Starring | Nigel Havers Bernard Hepton Rosemary Leach Fiona Fullerton |
Theme music composer | Richard Rodney Bennett |
Opening theme | You're the Top – Performed by Paul Jones |
Ending theme | You're the Top – Performed by Paul Jones |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Producer | Philip Hinchcliffe |
Running time | 50 minutes |
Production company | LWT |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 18 October (1987-10-18) – 22 November 1987 (1987-11-22) |
It was made by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV, and loosely based on the 1953 novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy.[1]
The series was repeated in February and March 1990. ITV3 also repeated the series in full at 1:45 a.m. from 5 September 2009. Narrative repeats were on Mondays from 7 September 2009 at 10:05 a.m. It was broadcast in the US on Masterpiece Theater starting 30 April 1989.[1]