Cracker: True Romance (1995)

Date(s) of Broadcast: 20 November - 27 November 1995
Number of Episodes: 2
Average Episode Running Times: 50 mins
Format: colour
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PRODUCTION
Production Company / Copyright: Granada Television
Production Executive: Craig McNeil
Executive Producer: Sally Head
Producer: Hilary Bevan Jones
Assistant Producer: Valery Ryan
Production Supervisor: Bill Leather
Production Manager: Des Hughes
Production Coordinator: Tracy Lee

SCRIPT
Script: Paul Abbott
Script Editor: Patrick Spence
Script Associate: Gwenda Bagshaw
Series Created By: Jimmy McGovern

DIRECTION
Director: Tim Fywell
1st Assistant Director: Vinny Fahy
2nd Assistant: Jude Harrison

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Dick Dodd
Camera Operator: Mike Miller
Clapper Loader: Mandy Moles
Focus Puller: Richard Brierley
Lighting Gaffer: David Ratcliffe
Electricians: Gordon Craig, Stuart Grant, Len Holt (credited on part two only)
Grips: Mike Fisher, Gary Stanton

EDITING AND POST-PRODUCTION
Film Editor: Anthony Ham
Assistant Editors: Chris Clarkson, David Boyle (credited on part two only)
Colourist: Neil Parker

MUSIC
Music: Rick Wentworth

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

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up Supervisor: Sue Milton
Make Up Assistant: Anastasia Shirley
Costume Designer: Tudor George
Wardrobe Supervisor: Michael Richards
Dressers: Michael Stringer, Lynne Walsh (credited on part two only)

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Stephen Fineren
Assistant Designer: Rod Gorwood
Art Director: Mark Stonehouse
Production Buyer: Ron Pritchard
Prop Masters: Vic Shirovay, Nigel Place
Standby Carpenter: Nick Thompson (credited on part two only)
Standby Painter: Mike McIntyre (credited on part two only)
Graphic Designer: Phil Buckley

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Sue Wild
Production Secretary: Glenys Bell (credited on part two only)
Chargehand ASM: Tommy Lyons
Forensic Advisor: Russell Stockdale
Script Research: John Stretch
Transport: Jeff Turner, Alan Eccleston, Les Kidd, Sam Pollard, Wolfie Booth, Dave Anforth, Paul Scaife, Martin Watling, Norman Jones (credited on part two only)
Production Runner: Jack Ravenscroft (credited on part two only)

LOCATIONS
Location Manager: Ken Mair

CASTING
Casting: Marilyn Johnson

CAST
PART ONE
Liz Estensen (Reenie Wise)
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Emily Joyce (Janice)
Katie Purslow (Louise)
Kenneth Gilbert (father)
Fleur Bennett (Nena)
Barbara Flynn (Judith)
Kevin Dignam (Colin)
Larry Waller (Dave)
Ian Curtis (John Branaghan)
Biddy Hodson (Carol Barker)
Alan Maher (Frank Weetman)
Iain Mitchell (Vice Chancellor)
Jan Linnik (student)
Rosemary Martin (Irene Jackson)
Ricky Tomlinson (Wise)
Geraldine Somerville (Penhaligon)
Robert Cavanah (Temple)
Will Knightley (pathologist)
Wilbert Johnson (Skelton)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark)
Tess Thomson (Katie)
Clive Russell (Danny)
Jane Lowe (landlady)
Peter Lorenzelli (dog owner)

PART TWO
Emily Joyce (Janice)
Wilbert Johnson (Skelton)
Robert Cavanah (Temple)
Rosemary Martin (Irene Jackson)
Geraldine Somerville (Penhaligon)
Jan Linnik (student)
Robbie Coltrane (Fitz)
Ricky Tomlinson (Wise)
Alan Maher (Frank Weetman)
Barbara Flynn (Judith)
Clive Russell (Danny)
Hetta Charnley (Maureen Kiernan)
Kay Purcell (reporter voice over)
Iain Mitchell (Vice Chancellor)
Kieran O'Brien (Mark)
Tess Thomson (Katie)
Fleur Bennett (Nena)

PLOT SUMMARY

Fitz finds himself the object of a lonely young student's affections. When she can't seem to attract his attention, she turns to serial murder and sets her eyes on a victim way too close to Fitz for comfort...

1995
November
20: UK - part one television broadcast (on ITV)
27:UK - part two television broadcast (on ITV)

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KEYWORDS

alcoholism; forensic psychologists; obsession; police; psychologists; students

Last Updated: 15 October, 2008