Fame Is the Spur (TV series)

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.

Fame Is the Spur
GenreDrama
Written byHoward Spring (novel)
Directed byDavid Giles
StarringTim Pigott-Smith
Julia Sawalha
Joanna David
ComposerAlan Price
Country of originUnited Kingdom
Production
ProducerRichard Beynon
EditorJohn Barclay
Release
Original networkBBC1
Original release8 January (1982-01-08) 
26 February 1982 (1982-02-26)

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

  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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