Cracker: The Big Crunch (1994)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 31 October 1994 - 14 November 1994
Number of Episodes: 3
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
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PRODUCTION
Production Company / Copyright: Granada Television
Executive Producer: Sally Head
Producer: Paul Abbott
Production Supervisor: Bill Leather
Production Manager: Des Hughes
Production Coordinator: Eileen Wood

SCRIPT
Script: Ted Whitehead
Script Associate: Gwenda Bagshaw
Series Creator: Jimmy McGovern

DIRECTION
Director: Julian Jarrold
1st Assistant Director: John Friend Newman
2nd Assistant: Jude Harrison

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Ivan Strasburg
Steadicam: Alf Tramontin
Focus Puller: Richard Brierley
Chargehand Electrician: David Ratcliffe
Grips: Bob Gregory, Peter Maghie

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Oral Norrie Ottey

MUSIC
Music: David Ferguson

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Phil Smith
Boom Mixer: Tony Cooper
Dubbing Mixer: John Whitworth
Dubbing Editors: John Senior, John Rutherford

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Helen King
Costume Designer: Jean Kelly

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Claire Kenny
Art Director: Chris Coldwell
Props Buyer: Ron Pritchard
Graphic Designer: Phil Buckley

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Dorothy Friend
Chargehand ASM: Frank Massey

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Ken Mair

CASTING
Casting: Gail Stevens, Andy Pryor

CAST
EPISODE ONE
Jim Carter (Kenneth Trant)
Samantha Morton (Joanne Barnes)
Cherith Mellor (Norma Trant)
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Barbara Flynn (Judith Fitzgerald)
Maureen O'Brien (Virginia Trant)
James Fleet (Michael Trant)
Darren Tighe (Dean Saunders)
Samia Ghadie (Rosie)
Doc O'Brien (bus driver)
Geraldine Somerville (Penhaligon)
Colin Tierney (Harriman)
Lorcan Cranitch (DS Jimmy Beck)
Ricky Tomlinson (Wise)
Roger Sloman (Mr Barnes)
Ellie Haddington (Mrs Barnes)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark Fitzgerald)
Tess Thomson (Katie Fitzgerald)
Rosemary Chamney (school secretary)
Emma Cunniffe (Sarah Jennings)
Andy Abrahams (police officer)

EPISODE TWO
Samantha Morton (Joanne Barnes)
Ellie Haddington (Mrs Barnes)
Roger Sloman (Mr Barnes)
Geraldine Somerville (Penhaligon)
James Fleet (Michael Trant)
Darren Tighe (Dean Saunders)
Ricky Tomlinson (Wise)
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Lottie Ward (nurse)
Jeffrey Longmore (local PC)
Nick Fry (doctor)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark Fitzgerald)
Jim Carter (Kenneth Trant)
Maureen O'Brien (Virginia Trant)
Cherith Mellor (Norma Trant)
Colin Tierney (Harriman)
Lorcan Cranitch (DS Jimmy Beck)
Nicholas Blane (Father O'Ryan)

EPISODE THREE
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark Fitzgerald)
James Fleet (Michael Trant)
Ricky Tomlinson (Wise)
Lorcan Cranitch (DS Jimmy Beck)
Colin Tierney (Harriman)
Geraldine Somerville (Penhaligon)
Wilbert Johnson (Skelton)
Jim Carter (Kenneth Trant)
Maureen O'Brien (Virginia Trant)
Cherith Mellor (Norma Trant)
Kevin Fletcher (boy)
Emma Cunniffe (Sarah Jennings)

PLOT SUMMARY

When his relationship with a teenage schoolgirl goes wrong, religious leader Kenneth Trant ends up murdering her and talking the backward Dean into disposing of the body. But the plan goes horribly wrong and Fitz is called in to get to the truth.

1994
October
31: UK - part one television broadcast (on ITV)

November
7: UK - part two television broadcast (on ITV)
14: UK - part three television broadcast (on ITV)

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KEYWORDS

alcoholism, forensic psychologists, infidelity, police, psychologists, religion, sex, teenagers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008