Cracker: One Day A Lemming Will Fly (1993)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 25 November - 2 December 1993
Number of Episodes: 2
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound: Dolby Surround

PRODUCTION
Production Company / Copyright: Granada Television
Production Executive: Craig McNeil
Executive Producer: Sally Head
Producer: Gub Neal
Production Manager: Liam Foster
Production Coordinator: Tracy Lee

SCRIPT
Script: Jimmy McGovern
Script Editors: Catriona McKenzie, Nicola Shindler
Script Associate: Gwenda Bagshaw

DIRECTION
Director: Simon Cellan Jones
1st Assistant Director: Emma Bodger
2nd Assistant Director: Rachel Longhurst

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

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Chris Gill

MUSIC
Music / Performed By: Roger Jackson

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Phil Smith
Boom Operator: Tony Cooper
Re-Recording Mixer: John Whitworth
Dubbing Editor: Max Hoskins at John Wood Sound

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Helen King
Make Up Assistant: Anastasia Shirley
Costume Designer: Janty Yates
Wardrobe Supervisor: Sally Mason

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Chris Wilkinson
Art Director: Deborah Morley
Prop Buyer: Ron Pritchard
Graphic Designer: Phil Buckley

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Dorothy Friend
Production Finance: Gareth Williams
Chargehand ASM: Frank Massey

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Ken Mair

CASTING
Casting Director: Gail Stevens

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Dave Holland

CAST
PART ONE
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Barbara Flynn (Judith Fitzgerald)
Wesley Cook (Tim Lang)
Linda Henry (Mrs Perry)
John Graham Davies (Francis Bates)
Ann Francis (croupier)
Geraldine Somerville (DS Penhaligon)
Lee Philip Hartney (Andy Lang)
Frances Tomelty (Mrs Lang)
John Vine (Lindsay)
Christopher Eccleston (DCI Billborough)
Tim Healy (Mr Lang)
Lorcan Cranitch (DS Beck)
Amelia Bullmore (Catriona Bilborough)
Christopher Fulford (Cassidy)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark Fitzgerald)
Tess Thomson (Katie Fitzgerald)
Geoffrey Hutchings (pathologist)
Tom Urwin (bully boy)

PART TWO
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Geraldine Somerville (DS Penhaligon)
Christopher Fulford (Cassidy)
John Vine (Lindsay)
Tim Healy (Mr Lang)
Lorcan Cranitch (DS Beck)
Christopher Eccleston (DCI Billborough)
Trevyn McDowell (Leslie)
John Graham Davies (Francis Bates)
Frances Tomelty (Mrs Lang)
Edward Peel (Chief Super)
Lee Philip Hartney (Andy Lang)
Amelia Bullmore (Catriona Bilborough)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark Fitzgerald)
Tess Thomson (Katie Fitzgerald)
Barbara Flynn (Judith Fitzgerald)
Stan Finni (Sergeant Smith)

PLOT SUMMARY

A young schoolboy goes missing and the police fear the worst. Public anger is growing as potential lynch mobs besiege the police station. Fitz tries to deal with the boy's estranged parents while the media target a young teacher who, they claim, was sexually attracted to the missing boy.

1993
November
25 : UK - part one television broadcast (on ITV)

December
2 : UK - part two television broadcast (on ITV)

MAGAZINES

Radio Times 25-31 March 1995 p.58 (UK)
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OTHER SOURCES

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KEYWORDS

alcoholism, forensic psychologists, lynch mobs, police, psychologists, teachers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008