UK, 8 May-19 June 1977
1 series, 6 episodes, average 25m each
videotape, 16mm film, colour, 4:3
mono, English
A British fantasy television series created by Bob Baker and Dave Martin.
Plot Summary
Roland Wright is a young teenager bullied by Ripper and his gang who hang out in the stairwell of tower block in which he shares a flat with his hippy musician father and stepmother. At school, he's picked on by the callous music masters, Spurgeon and Hawker as he performs in the choir, the snobby teachers and his classmates looking down on him for his working-class background. Fleeing Ripper and his gang one day, Roland hides in an out of order elevator that plummets to the bottom of the shaft, leaving Roland unconscious. When he wakes, he finds himself in a gloomy underworld beneath the eponymous castle from which he spends the rest of the series trying to escape while being aided and hindered by a variety of oddball characters who resemble people from his real life.
Credits
Regular Crew
HTV
Executive Producer: Patrick Dromgoole
Produced by: Leonard White
Written by: Bob Baker, Dave Martin
Designed by: John Biggs
Cast
Philip da Costa (Roland Wright)
Talfryn Thomas (Vine/Vein)
Edward Dentith (Sergeant Tarr/governor)
Paul Nicholson (PC Briggs/guard)
Episodes
8 May 1977
Directed by: Peter Hammond
Guest Cast: Milton Johns (Hawker/Ergon), Fulton Mackay (Spurgeon/Hawkspur), Derek Smith (Voss/Voysey), Patrick Durkin (First Engineer/Chef), David Trevena (Second Engineer/Sous-Chef), Jamie Foreman (Ripper/Warrior), Kevin Hudson (Alf/Alfie), Georgina Keen, Majelia Dennehy, Angela Richards (June/Lady), Sean Lynch (Ron/Lord)
15 May 1977
Directed by: Peter Hammond
Guest Cast: Jamie Foreman (Ripper/Warrior), Fulton Mackay (Spurgeon/Hawkspur)
22 May 1977
Directed by: Terry Harding
Guest Cast: Milton Johns (Hawker/Ergon), Jamie Foreman (Ripper/Warrior), Angela Richards (June/Lady), Patrick Durkin (First Engineer/Chef), David Trevena (Second Engineer/Sous-Chef)
29 May 1977
Directed by: Leonard White
Guest Cast: Angela Richards (June/Lady), Jamie Foreman (Ripper/Warrior), Patrick Durkin (First Engineer/Chef), David Trevena (Second Engineer/Sous-Chef), Derek Smith (Voss/Voysey), Georgina Kean (Betty/Beattie), Majella Dennehy (Della/Delta), Kevin Hudson (Alf/Alfie)
5 June 1977
Directed by: Terry Harding
Guest Cast: Patrick Durkin (First Engineer/Chef), Angela Richards (June/Lady), David Trevena (Second Engineer/Sous-Chef), Derek Smith (Voss/Voysey), Jamie Foreman (Ripper/Warrior), John Hayes, Sean Lynch (Ron/Lord) —- 12 June 1977
Directed by: Leonard White
Guest Cast: Sean Lynch (Ron/Lord), Patrick Durkin (First Engineer/Chef), David Trevena (Second Engineer/Sous-Chef), Derek Smith (Voss/Voysey), Georgina Kean (Betty/Beattie), Majella Dennehy (Della/Delta), Kevin Hudson (Alf/Alfie), Angela Richards (June/Lady), Fulton Mackay (Spurgeon/Hawkspur), Milton Johns (Hawker/Ergon)
19 June 1977
Directed by: Terry Harding
Guest Cast: Angela Richards (June/Lady), Sean Lynch (Ron/Lord), Derek Smith (Voss/Voysey), Fulton Mackay (Spurgeon/Hawkspur), Milton Johns (Hawker/Ergon), Patrick Durkin (First Engineer/Chef), David Trevena (Second Engineer/Sous-Chef), Jamie Foreman (Ripper/Warrior), Majella Dennehy (Della/Delta), Georgina Kean (Betty/Beattie), Kevin Hudson (Alf/Alfie)
