Add to FavouritesAbout this Broadcast
Moving Target
Season 8, Episode 5
The ex-coppers find themselves under the microscope when a psychologist arrives to conduct a study into older men in the workplace - but she soon reveals a more personal reason for her visit. It turns out that five years ago her brother, a cycle courier, was the victim of a hit-and-run that left him unable to recall anything prior to the incident. Now he says he was targeted for the parcel he was carrying, which was stolen at the scene - or so he believes. Sally Phillips guest stars
subtitles
16x9
audio-description
Detective/Thriller
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Alun Armstrong
(Actor)
.. Brian Lane
James Bolam
(Actor)
.. Jack Halford
Amanda Redman
(Actor)
.. Sandra Pullman
Dennis Waterman
(Actor)
.. Gerry Standing
Sally Phillips
(Actor)
.. Samantha Gerson
Tim Plester
(Actor)
.. Darren Gerson
Alexandra Roach
(Actor)
.. Nina Ward
Susan Lynch
(Actor)
.. Claudia Scott
Cavan Clerkin
(Actor)
.. Alan Rendall
Laurence Spellman
(Actor)
.. Kator
Stephen Wight
(Actor)
.. Psycho Chris
Kazia Pelka
(Actor)
.. DCI Melissa Temple
Karen Seacombe
(Actor)
.. Cleaner
Keith Thompson
(Producer)
Philip John
(Director)
Matthew Thomas
(Writer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Alun Armstrong
(Actor)
.. Brian Lane
Born:
July 17, 1946
in
Annfield Plain, near Stanley, Co Durham
Best Known For:
New Tricks.
Early-life:
Alun Armstrong was born in Annfield Plain, near Stanley, Co Durham, on July 17, 1946. His father was from Cumberland and his mother was from Co Durham. He attended Consett Grammar School before going to Newcastle University. Unhappy in academia, he took a job as a gravedigger, where a colleague managed to get him an interview for a behind-the-scenes job with a theatre company. That in turn led to acting work.
Career:
Armstrong's screen debut came in the classic Michael Caine gangster movie Get Carter in 1971. Other early roles included parts in Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Softly, Softly and The Sweeney. His many other TV roles include Austin Donaghue in Our Friends in the North, Detective Chief Inspector Frank Jefferson in In the Red, and George Mole in Adrian Mole: The Cappucino Years, alongside Alison Steadman. Film credits include The French Lieutenant's Woman (1981), Krull (1983), American Friends (1991), Patriot Games (1992) and Braveheart (1995). He has won countless accolades for his classic stage roles. He is currently best known for playing the role of Brian Lane in popular BBC series New Tricks, a part he played for 10 series.
Quote:
"I'm more concerned about losing my marbles than losing parts - especially when it comes to learning lines!"
Trivia:
Armstrong originated the role of Thénardier in the London production of Les Misérables and won an Olivier Award for playing the title role in Sweeney Todd.
James Bolam
(Actor)
.. Jack Halford
Born:
June 16, 1935
in
Sunderland
Best Known For:
Being a Likely Lad.
Early-life:
Born James Christopher Bolam on June 16, 1935, in Sunderland. His father died when he was young. The family left the North East when James was 12, and he attended school in Derby. There was no showbiz influence in his family, but Bolam went to the cinema every Saturday and that inspired him to try acting. He briefly worked as a trainee chartered accountant, before winning a place at the Central Drama School in London. He made his professional stage debut at the Royal Court in 1959.
Career:
Bolam appeared on stage alongside Laurence Olivier and John Gielgud, then followed it up with films The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner and A Kind of Loving, before being cast as cynical Terry Collier in The Likely Lads in 1964. He agreed to reprise the role in Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? nine years later. James went on to star in When the Boat Comes In, Only When I Laugh and Alan Plater's Beiderbecke trilogy. He has also appeared in Clockwork Mice, The End of the Affair, Born and Bred, Grandpa in My Pocket, To Kill a King and controversial feature-length drama Shipman, about serial killer doctor Harold Shipman. He starred in New Tricks between 2003 and 2012 and continues to appear on stage.
Quote:
"I'm suddenly popular again. I don't know why."
Trivia:
He was awarded an MBE in 2009.
Amanda Redman
(Actor)
.. Sandra Pullman
Born:
August 12, 1957
in
Brighton
Best Known For:
At Home with the Braithwaites and New Tricks.
Early-life:
Amanda Jacqueline Redman was born in Brighton on August 12, 1957, the eldest of two children. She poured a saucepan of boiling soup over her torso and left arm when she was 18 months old and needed regular skin grafts until she was five. She studied at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School. She was shattered after her father died suddenly when she was 20.
Career:
Redman first attracted attention in 1981 with her steamy film debut in Richard's Things. Roles proved sporadic in that decade, but her career took off in 1991 when she played Roberta in Spender, and Sally in The Men's Room. Bigger roles followed, such as Dr Joanna Stevens in Dangerfield in 1995. She hit the headlines in 1998, first with Close Relations which featured a ménage à trois, then as Diana Dors for glossy drama The Blonde Bombshell. Her small-screen success was consolidated with roles as a teacher in Hope and Glory and as lottery winner Alison in At Home with the Braithwaites - but she has also appeared in the films Sexy Beast (2000) and Mike Bassett: England Manager (2005). She starred in popular BBC drama New Tricks between 2003 and 2013. More recently, she starred in TV movie Tommy Cooper: Not Like That, Like This.
Quote:
"If you're seen as a strong woman, men think you don't need protecting. Yet, underneath it all, I'm quite vulnerable."
Trivia:
Redman received an MBE in 2012.
Dennis Waterman
(Actor)
.. Gerry Standing
Born:
February 24, 1948
in
Clapham
Best Known For:
The Sweeney, Minder, and New Tricks.
Early-life:
Born February 24, 1948, in Clapham, south London, the youngest of nine children, the son of a British Rail ticket collector. As a child he attended the Corona Theatre School and began his professional career with a role in Snowball, a 1960 Children's Film Foundation production. The same year he made Night Train to Inverness, and was asked to join the Royal Shakespeare Company. Playing William in a TV series based on the Just William books made him a star. He then tried to break into Hollywood.
Career:
At 16, Waterman returned to Britain and concentrated on stage work until an acclaimed performance in 1968's Up the Junction led to more film roles. Low-budget movies (such as Scars of Dracula) and TV shows (including Colditz) followed until, in 1974, he co-starred with John Thaw in Regan, the pilot episode of iconic series The Sweeney, which became a major TV hit. A 10-year stint in comedy drama Minder followed. Other projects include TV shows On the Up, Stay Lucky, and Circles of Deceit. He's also worked on the stage, most notably in Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell, and My Fair Lady. As Gerry Standing, in BBC drama New Tricks, he has introduced himself to a new generation of fans.
Quote:
"If I am not such a hell-raiser any more, it isn't because I've given up. It's just that my energy levels have fallen. I haven't stopped looking at women. I'm not blind."
Trivia:
He has made several records, including, famously, the theme tunes of several of his TV shows.
Sally Phillips
(Actor)
.. Samantha Gerson
Born:
May 10, 1970
in
Hong Kong
Best Known For:
Smack the Pony
Early-life:
Phillips was born in Hong Kong in 1970, the daughter of Tim Phillips, the chairman of the All England Lawn Tennis and Croquet Club who host The Championships, Wimbledon. She was educated at the private Wycombe Abbey School, in Campbell House and then graduated from New College, Oxford with a 1st class degree in Italian. Keen for a career on the stage she was involved in nine consecutive Edinburgh festivals. Her first TV role was in Lee and Herring's Fist of Fun in 1994, shortly after followed by a cameo in Alas Smith and Jones.
Career:
Her role as a receptionist in I'm Alan Partridge proved to be her big break and she was nominated for best female newcomer at the British Comedy Awards that year. She had a starring role in the short-lived 1999 British comedy series Hippies (with Simon Pegg and Julian Rhind-Tutt), and also co-created and wrote Smack the Pony, the all-female, double Emmy Award winning comedy show. She appeared in Bridget Jones's Diary as "Shazzer", and has appeared in such success stories as Jam and Jerusalem and hit comedy Miranda.
Quote:
"Both my boys are obsessed with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and I have spawned the greatest, tiniest Dick Van Dyke impersonators of all time. Me Ol' Bamboo has to be seen to be believed."
Trivia:
She has played the title role in Radio 4 sitcom Clare in the Community since 2004.
Tim Plester
(Actor)
.. Darren Gerson
Alexandra Roach
(Actor)
.. Nina Ward
Susan Lynch
(Actor)
.. Claudia Scott
Born:
June 05, 1971
in
Co Armagh, Northern Ireland
Best Known For:
A string of quality roles.
Early-life:
Susan Lynch was born on June 5, 1971, in Co Armagh, Northern Ireland, to an Italian mother and Irish father. She grew up with four siblings in isolation (one of them is actor John Lynch). With no TV, and a limited electricity supply, the family made their own entertainment. She trained at Central School of Speech and Drama, and made her TV debut in a 1991 episode of The Bill. Following a bit-part in the BBC One play Running Late, she made a memorable appearance in one of the first Cracker episodes, To Say I Love You in 1993. A year later she was cast in critically acclaimed blockbuster Interview with the Vampire, and also starred in The Secret of Roan Inish.
Career:
After a standout turn in small-screen epic Ivanhoe, her 1998 movie Waking Ned became a surprise hit in the United States, and in 2001 she starred with Johnny Depp in Jack the Ripper thriller From Hell. She has since starred in The Mapmaker, Enduring Love, Soundproof, Elizabeth: The Golden Age, and The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister. On stage she has appeared in The Night Season at London's Royal National Theatre, The Last Days of Judas Iscariot at the Almeida, and Dancing at Lughnasa at the Old Vic Theatre, London.
Quote:
"I would always find it much more interesting to play the Al Pacino-type role than the weepy woman victim."
Cavan Clerkin
(Actor)
.. Alan Rendall
Laurence Spellman
(Actor)
.. Kator
Stephen Wight
(Actor)
.. Psycho Chris
Kazia Pelka
(Actor)
.. DCI Melissa Temple
Karen Seacombe
(Actor)
.. Cleaner
Keith Thompson
(Producer)
Philip John
(Director)
Matthew Thomas
(Writer)
