The Inspector Lynley Mysteries: If Wishes Were Horses
11:00 pm - 01:00 am, Saturday, March 7 on U&Drama +1 (60)
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If Wishes Were Horses
Season 3, Episode 4
Feature-length episode. The Lynleys are looking forward to becoming parents, but Helen succumbs to temptation and dabbles in her husband's latest case. However, her past involvement with the victim unwittingly puts her in the firing line, with devastating consequences for everyone. Jemma Redgrave and Barbara Flynn guest star, with Nathaniel Parker, Sharon Small and Lesley Vickerage
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16x9
Detective/Thriller
Movie/Drama
Cast & Crew
Nathaniel Parker
(Actor)
.. Det Insp Thomas Lynley
Sharon Small
(Actor)
.. Det Sgt Barbara Havers
Lesley Vickerage
(Actor)
.. Helen Lynley
Jemma Redgrave
(Actor)
.. Grace Finnegan
Barbara Flynn
(Actor)
.. Maureen Finnegan
Penny Downie
(Actor)
.. Dr Tessa Jellicoe
Oliver Cotton
(Actor)
.. Finnegan
Christopher Fox
(Actor)
.. DC Lee Turner
Paul Copley
(Actor)
.. Noel Shakespeare
George Jackos
(Actor)
.. Peter Stephanopoulos
Jane Hazlegrove
(Actor)
.. Janice Cooke
Lisa Palfrey
(Actor)
.. Lizzie Shakespeare
Albert Welling
(Actor)
.. Max Giles
Abhin Galeya
(Actor)
.. Satnam Gulati
Gillian McCutcheon
(Actor)
.. Judge
Paul Ridley
(Actor)
.. Lawyer
Candida Gubbins
(Actor)
.. Gina Stephanopoulos
Simon Snashall
(Actor)
.. Soco Officer
Jessica Radcliffe
(Actor)
.. Paramedic
Simone Waller
(Actor)
.. Nurse
Graham Christopher
(Actor)
.. Pathologist
Ruth Arnold
(Actor)
.. New mum
Tina Martin
(Actor)
.. Landlady
Simon Booker
(Writer)
Alrick Riley
(Director)
Jenny Robins
(Producer)
More Information
Did You Know..
Nathaniel Parker
(Actor)
.. Det Insp Thomas Lynley
Born:
May 18, 1962
in
London
Best Known For:
His dashing TV roles.
Early-life:
Born in London on May 18, 1962. He's the son of former British Rail Chairman Sir Peter Parker and his wife Jill. One of his brothers, Oliver, is also an actor and director. He was educated at Leighton Park School, where he developed a passion for horse racing. After starring with the National Youth Theatre he went to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts (Lamda). On graduating, he already had his Equity card and landed a theatre job immediately.
Career:
Following a spell with the Royal Shakespeare Company, Parker made his TV debut in 1988's Piece of Cake. He has worked constantly ever since, including a four-year stint abroad during which he appeared in Hollywood films Hamlet and The Bodyguard, although he didn't become a well-known face until ITV's 1998 adaptation of Thomas Hardy's Far from the Madding Crowd. Since then he's starred in the BBC's Vanity Fair, and took over from John Hannah in McCallum. Other notable projects include Othello (directed by his brother), Wide Sargasso Sea, The Haunted Mansion, The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Stardust. More recently, he has starred in Merlin.
Quote:
'I have always thought women were the superior sex. Witnessing childbirth confirmed it for me.'
Trivia:
His theatre work includes Quartermaine's Terms, The Audience, and Wolf Hall.
Sharon Small
(Actor)
.. Det Sgt Barbara Havers
Born:
January 01, 1967
in
Drumchapel, Glasgow
Best Known For:
The Inspector Lynley Mysteries and Mistresses.
Early-life:
Sharon was born in Drumchapel, Glasgow on January 1, 1967. She studied drama at the Adam Smith College in Kirkcaldy and the Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Her first TV credit was a guest role in an episode of Taggart in 1994.
Career:
Guest parts followed in a number of TV shows until Small landed a lead role in BBC comedy drama Sunburn. This lasted for two series and she followed it up with the six-part drama Glasgow Kiss. She went on to star in About a Boy (2002) and Dear Frankie (2004) and had guest parts in Cutting It and Rebus before landing a lead role as DS Barbara Havers in BBC crime drama The Inspector Lynley Mysteries alongside Nathaniel Parker. The series ran from 2001 until 2008. More recently, the in-demand actress has starred in Murderland, Mistresses, Downton Abbey, Kidnap and Ransom, New Tricks, Silent Witness, Call the Midwife, Death in Paradise and Midsomer Murders.
Quote:
'One of the fantastic things and joys of acting is looking for flaws in characters - if you are perfect or too likeable, you are not going to be believable, so hopefully, you bring in flaws as well.'
Trivia:
Small is a classically trained lyric soprano.
Lesley Vickerage
(Actor)
.. Helen Lynley
Jemma Redgrave
(Actor)
.. Grace Finnegan
Born:
January 14, 1965
in
London
Best Known For:
Being a member of the Redgrave acting dynasty.
Early-life:
Born Jemima Rebecca Redgrave on January 14, 1965, in London. She is the daughter of actor Corin Redgrave and his first wife, former model Deirdre Hamilton-Hill. Her parents divorced when she was nine. She has a brother, Luke, who's a cameraman, and two half-brothers from her father's second marriage to actress Kika Markham. Redgrave claims her childhood home was always full of her mother's friends, some of whom she didn't like. The open house nature of her upbringing made her long for discipline and structure. At 18, she enrolled at the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA).
Career:
Redgrave followed her father, grandparents Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson, aunts Vanessa and Lynn Redgrave, and cousins Natasha and Joely Richardson into acting. She started in the theatre, eventually making her movie debut in Dream Demon, and her first TV appearance in Tales of the Unexpected, in 1988. Other early projects include Howards End, Diana: Her True Story, and The Buddha of Suburbia. She became a star thanks to TV series Bramwell, which ended in 1998. Since then she's appeared in such projects as I'll Be There, The Grid, Amnesia, Tom Brown's Schooldays, Frankie and Doctor Who (including the 50th anniversary episode). Redgrave also continues to work on stage.
Quote:
'I think acting can be very self-absorbed, and I find that slightly embarrassing. Sometimes it seems such an uninquiring profession.'
Trivia:
One of Redgrave's hobbies is calligraphy, which she began as a teenager to help improve her poor handwriting.
Barbara Flynn
(Actor)
.. Maureen Finnegan
Penny Downie
(Actor)
.. Dr Tessa Jellicoe
Oliver Cotton
(Actor)
.. Finnegan
Christopher Fox
(Actor)
.. DC Lee Turner
Paul Copley
(Actor)
.. Noel Shakespeare
George Jackos
(Actor)
.. Peter Stephanopoulos
Jane Hazlegrove
(Actor)
.. Janice Cooke
Lisa Palfrey
(Actor)
.. Lizzie Shakespeare
Albert Welling
(Actor)
.. Max Giles
Abhin Galeya
(Actor)
.. Satnam Gulati
Gillian McCutcheon
(Actor)
.. Judge
Paul Ridley
(Actor)
.. Lawyer
Candida Gubbins
(Actor)
.. Gina Stephanopoulos
Simon Snashall
(Actor)
.. Soco Officer
Jessica Radcliffe
(Actor)
.. Paramedic
Simone Waller
(Actor)
.. Nurse
Graham Christopher
(Actor)
.. Pathologist
Ruth Arnold
(Actor)
.. New mum
Tina Martin
(Actor)
.. Landlady
Simon Booker
(Writer)
Alrick Riley
(Director)
Jenny Robins
(Producer)
