Cracker: To Say I Love You (1993)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 4 - 18 November 1993
Number of Episodes: 3
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
Sound:

PRODUCTION
Production Company / Copyright: Granada Television
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: Andy Wilson
1st Assistant Director: Peter Shaw
2nd Assistant Director: Emma Bodger

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

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Editor: Oral Norrie Ottey

MUSIC
Music / Performed By: Roger Jackson
Song Performed By: Cocteau Twins (Pandora (uncredited))

SOUND
Sound Mixer: Phil Smith
Boom Operator: Tony Cooper
Dubbing Mixer: John Whitworth
Dubbing Editors: Phil Bothamley, Tim Vine, John Crumpton

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
Karaoke: Karaoke AV Ltd, Pioneer LDCE Ltd

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Ken Mair

CASTING
Casting Director: Gail Stevens

STUNTS
Stunt Coordinator: Peter Brayham

CAST
PART ONE
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Barbara Flynn (Judith Fitzgerald)
Christopher Eccleston (DCI Billborough)
Lorcan Cranitch (DS Beck)
Geraldine Somerville (DS Penhaligon)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark Fitzgerald)
Susan Lynch (Tina)
Andrew Tiernan (Sean)
Daniel Green (waiter)
David Haig (Graham)
Gavin Muir (Cormack)
Patti Love (Mrs Brien)
Keith Ladd (Mr Brien)
Susan Vidler (Sammy)
Ruth Holden, Margo Stanley (lady on bus)
Timothy Barlow (Judith's father)
Tess Thomson (Kate Fitzgerald)
Stan Finni (Sergeant Smith)
Olivia Jardith (magistrate)
Reg Stewart (neighbour)
Ian Mercer (DS Giggs)
Sarah Keyzor (Nikki Price)
Eve Bland (Mrs Cormack)
Terry Gilligan (Lenny Lyon)
Beryl Reid (Fitz's mum)

PART TWO
Andrew Tiernan (Sean)
Susan Lynch (Tina)
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
David Haig (Graham)
Ian Mercer (DS Giggs)
Lorcan Cranitch (DS Beck)
Geraldine Somerville (DS Penhaligon)
Christopher Eccleston (DCI Billborough)
Richard Stone (shop manager)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark Fitzgerald)
Barbara Flynn (Judith Fitzgerald)
Daniel Green (waiter)
James Quinn (doorman)
Rose English (pathologist)
Stan Finni (Sergeant Smith)
Kate Hunt (Mrs Rivers)
Glen Cunningham (Mr Rivers)
Al T. Kossy (expert in pub)

PART THREE
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Owen Brenman (businessman / Haig)
Susan Lynch (Tina)
Christopher Eccleston (DCI Billborough)
Geraldine Somerville (DS Penhaligon)
Andrew Tiernan (Sean)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark Fitzgerald)
Barbara Flynn (Judith Fitzgerald)
Parvez Quadir (petrol station assistant)
Edward Peel (Chief Super)
Lorcan Cranitch (DS Beck)
Giles Aldershaw (man in house)
Tasmin Heatley (woman in house)
Susan Vidler (Sammy)
Jonathan Wrather (Sammy's boyfriend)
Stan Finni (Sergeant Smith)
Patti Love (Mrs Brien)
Keith :add (Mr Brien)
Steve Halliwell (Fire Officer)

PLOT SUMMARY

Fitz tries to rescue his disastrous marriage while helping the police to interrogate a disturbed teenaged boy who, with his girlfriend, has been on a violent crime spree throughout the city.

1993
November
4: UK - part one television broadcast (on ITV)
11: UK - part two television broadcast (on ITV)
18: UK - part three television broadcast (on ITV)

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KEYWORDS

alcoholism, forensic psychologists, gambling, police, psychologists, serial killers

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008