Acknowledgements p. vii
Notes on the Contributors p. viii
Editors' Introduction p. 1
1 Contexts Tony Garnett p. 11
Part I Production Contexts p. 25
Editors' Introduction to Part I p. 27
2 Television Drama Series: a Producer's View Irene Shubik p. 42
3 TV Drama: Then and Now John McGrath p. 48
4 Sydney Newman and the 'Golden Age' Shaun Sutton p. 54
5 The 1970s: Regional Variations Barry Hanson p. 58
6 Writing Television Drama--Then and Now Andrew Davies p. 64
7 'The Age of Innocence' Alan Plater p. 68
8 Playing Shops, Shopping Plays: the Effect of the Internal Market on Television Drama David Edgar p. 73
Part II Critical Constructions--Approaches to TV Drama p. 79
Editors' Introduction to Part II p. 81
9 Mapping the Terrain: Troy Kennedy Martin's Edge of Darkness John Bull p. 93
10 Holding On: Signs of the City--The Motif of the Redemptive Jounrney in Tony Marchant's Holding On Peter Billingham p. 100
Coda: Tony Marchant, David Snodin (producer, Holding on, BBC TV) and Michael Wearing (former Head of BBC Drama) discuss Holding On with Peter Billingham
11 'What Truth is there in this Story?': the Dramatisation of Northern Ireland Edward Braun p. 110
12 The Emancipatory Strategies of Reginald Perrin Chris Fox p. 122
13 'Run Over by One's Own Story': Genre and Ethos in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective Antony Hilfer p. 133
14 Power Plays: Gender, Genre and Lynda La Plante Julia Hallam p. 140
15 Too Secret for Words: Coded Dissent in Female-Authored Wednesday Plays Madeleine Macmurraugh-Kavanagh p. 150
16 What do Actors do when they Act? John Caughie p. 162
Coda: Timothy West discusses 'Acting on Stage: Acting on Screen', followed by extracts from the discussion after his and John Caughie's presentations
17 Multiple Authorship in TV Drama: Trevor Griffiths's version of The Cherry Orchard John Tulloch p. 175
Editors' Conclusion p. 185
Select Bibliography p. 190
Index p. 194