Where the Heart Is: Archangel
04:00 am - 05:50 am, Wednesday, December 24 on ITV3 +1 (Freeview) (58)
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Archangel
Season 7, Episode 9
Dennis Waterman and former Corrie actress Georgia Taylor guest star in this special festive edition of the popular rural drama. A retired mountaineer (Waterman) still grieving over his son's death in a climbing accident gets a pleasant surprise when his student daughter (Taylor) returns for the holidays. But an even bigger shock is yet to come - not only is she pregnant, but the father-to-be is the very man her dad blames for her brother's demise. Meanwhile, the local women grow fed up with their menfolk when they arrive back from a booze run the worse for drink, prompting them to hang up their aprons and hand over all the Christmas organisation to the fellas. Beth doesn't know what to think when a patient predicts the new year will bring her and Tom the joy they have longed for, and romance is in the air for David and Anna. Lesley Dunlop, Philip Middlemiss, Kerrie Taylor and Samantha Giles star
General
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Dennis Waterman
(Actor)
.. Mike Walters
Georgia Taylor
(Actor)
.. Jodie Walters
Lesley Dunlop
(Actor)
.. Anna Kirkwall
Philip Middlemiss
(Actor)
.. David Buckley
Kelly Wenham
(Actor)
.. Jess Buckley
Kerrie Taylor
(Actor)
.. Beth Enright
Julian Lewis Jones
(Actor)
.. Tom Beresford
Danny Seward
(Actor)
.. Joe Beresford
Keith Barron
(Actor)
.. Alan Boothe
Samantha Giles
(Actor)
.. Sally Boothe
Andrew Paul
(Actor)
.. Billy Boothe
Kieran Bew
(Actor)
.. Rob Deyton
John Johnson
(Writer)
Moira Armstrong
(Director)
Ian Hopkins
(Producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Dennis Waterman
(Actor)
.. Mike Walters
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.
Georgia Taylor
(Actor)
.. Jodie Walters
Born:
February 26, 1980
in
Wigan
Best Known For:
Playing Toyah Battersby in Coronation Street and Ruth Winters on Casualty.
Early-life:
Born Claire Jackson on February 26, 1980, in Wigan. After leaving school, she went to Winstanley College in Wigan, where one of her subjects was Theatre Studies. Her first acting role was as a singer alongside Darren Day in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat at the Palace Theatre in Manchester.
Career:
Her big break came in 1997 when she landed the role of Coronation Street's Toyah Battersby, while still studying at college. She trod the famous Weatherfield cobbles for five years, picking up a British Soap Award along the way in 2001. Her first part after leaving Corrie was alongside Dennis Waterman in an episode of Where the Heart Is. Since then, Taylor has appeared in military drama Red Cap, Blackpool, The History Boys (on the big screen) and New Street Law. In 2007, she landed the part of junior doctor Ruth Winters in BBC medical drama Casualty, a role she played until December 2011. She joined the cast of Law & Order: UK in 2013.
Quote:
"I've never regretted my decision to leave the Street, even when I'm not working. I wasn't too worried about being typecast, because the girl who left was different from the one that arrived."
Trivia:
Her theatre credits include Christmas is Miles Away at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
Lesley Dunlop
(Actor)
.. Anna Kirkwall
Born:
March 10, 1956
in
Newcastle upon Tyne
Best Known For:
Where the Heart Is and Emmerdale.
Early-life:
Lesley was born in Newcastle upon Tyne on March 10, 1956, the daughter of TV writer Pat Dunlop. She made her acting debut in 1973 TV drama A Little Princess. Roles followed in Crown Court, ITV Sunday Night Theatre, Oranges & Lemons, The Adventures of Black Beauty and South Riding.
Career:
Dunlop's first adult role was playing Lizzie Hexam in the 1976 BBC version of Our Mutual Friends. She went on to have recurring roles in Angels, Penmarric, Smuggler, Doctor Who, Capstick's Law, May to December, Wokenwell and Where the Heart Is. In 2008, she joined the cast of Emmerdale as Brenda Walker.
Quote:
After shaving her head for a cancer storyline on Emmerdale: "I never realised I had a good shaped head!"
Trivia:
In 2013, Dunlop shaved her head when her Emmerdale character was diagnosed with a brain tumour.
Philip Middlemiss
(Actor)
.. David Buckley
Kelly Wenham
(Actor)
.. Jess Buckley
Kerrie Taylor
(Actor)
.. Beth Enright
Julian Lewis Jones
(Actor)
.. Tom Beresford
Danny Seward
(Actor)
.. Joe Beresford
Keith Barron
(Actor)
.. Alan Boothe
Born:
August 08, 1936
in
Mexborough, South Yorkshire
Best Known For:
Sitcom Duty Free.
Early-life:
Born in Mexborough, South Yorkshire, on August 8, 1936, he was the son of a wholesale provisions merchant who wanted his son to follow in his footsteps. Barron said a sadistic teacher fear forced him to leave school, pushing him into acting. After National Service in the RAF, he joined an amateur dramatics group also attended by Brian Blessed. That led to training at Sheffield Playhouse and his first job with a repertory company in the city, earning £1 a week.
Career:
Barron later moved to London, where he performed in several Dennis Potter plays in the West End. His TV debut came in a 1961 episode of The Avengers. It was the small screen plays Stand Up Nigel Barton, and Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton, both by Potter, that brought him to people's attention in the mid-1960s. His best-known work is on TV, but he has starred in films including The Land That Time Forgot, At The Earth's Core, Nothing But the Night and Voyage Of The Damned. His biggest success came playing philandering husband David in 1980s sitcom Duty Free. He went on to appear in Close Relations, Take Me Home, Where the Heart Is, NCS Manhunt, Brief Encounters and Being Eileen. He died on November 15, 2017 at the age of 83.
Quote:
On being an actor: "You take nothing for granted. The best thing about it is being offered another job. It keeps the whole thing alive."
Trivia:
In 2014, Barron toured with fellow original cast members Gwen Taylor and Neil Stacey in a stage version of Duty Free.
Samantha Giles
(Actor)
.. Sally Boothe
Born:
July 02, 1971
in
Maidstone
Best Known For:
Playing Bernice Blackstock in Emmerdale.
Early-life:
Samantha Elizabeth Giles was born in Maidstone on July 2, 1971. She went on to study a degree in English and Drama at Bristol University. She made her TV debut in the anthology drama series New Voices in 1997.
Quote:
"Bernice is like an old friend in a way, but when I first came back I did find it quite difficult to find her again."
Career:
Giles is best known for playing Bernice Blackstock in Emmerdale, a role she first played between 1998 and 2004. Her other TV credits include Dangerfield, Where the Heart Is, Hollyoaks and Crime Stories. When Giles appeared on Celebrity Mastermind in 2010, her specialist subject was the works of Alfred Hitchcock. Her stage credits include A Taste of Honey, and Season's Greetings. She returned to Emmerdale in 2012.
Trivia:
Giles won a TV Quick Award in the Best Soap Actress category in 2000.
Andrew Paul
(Actor)
.. Billy Boothe
Kieran Bew
(Actor)
.. Rob Deyton
Born:
August 18, 1980
in
Hartlepool, County Durham
Best Known For:
Playing the lead role in Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands.
Early-life:
Born on August 18, 1980 in Hartlepool, County Durham. Kieran attended English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College before going on to train at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. In 1999, he worked as a fight choreographer and captain for productions of Hamlet and Two Noble Kinsmen at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre.
Career:
One of Bew's earliest roles was that of PC Smith in the TV series Bedtime in 2002. Since then, he has appeared in episodes of Hustle, Spooks and Where the Heart Is, as well as the TV films Brush with Fate (2003) and Hans Christian Andersen: My Life as a Fairy Tale (2003). He has also appeared in the feature films AVP: Alien vs Predator (2004) and Green Street (2005). For a short time from 2005 until 2006, Bew played Benjamin Meadows in The Bill. Since then, he has had roles in such TV series as The Street, Crusoe, Personal Affairs, Silent Witness, WPC 56 and Da Vinci's Demons. In 2016, he played the leading role in ITV's Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands. More recently, he was a voice actor for the video game Mass Effect: Andromeda and he appeared in an episode of Doctor Who.
Quote:
"I always love being an actor for the simple fact that, whenever you do a job, you have to read a lot of stuff that you've never read before."
Trivia:
When he was a teenager, he competed in fencing competitions in the United Kingdom and Europe. In 1996, he placed 21st at the Cadet World Championships.
John Johnson
(Writer)
Moira Armstrong
(Director)
Ian Hopkins
(Producer)
