Fame Is the Spur (TV series)
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Fame Is the Spur is a British television mini-series consisting of 8 episodes which first aired on the BBC in 1982.[1] It was based on the 1940 novel Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring. It depicts a socialist politician who betrays his early beliefs as he grows older, and was believed to be based upon the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. It had previously been adapted as a film Fame Is the Spur by the Boulting Brothers in 1947.
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Fame Is the Spur | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Howard Spring (novel) |
Directed by | David Giles |
Starring | Tim Pigott-Smith Julia Sawalha Joanna David |
Composer | Alan Price |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Production | |
Producer | Richard Beynon |
Editor | John Barclay |
Original release | |
Network | BBC1 |
Release | 8 January (1982-01-08) ā 26 February 1982 (1982-02-26) |
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The series starred Tim Pigott-Smith as Hamer Shawcross, prior to his success in The Jewel in the Crown. Joanna David played Shawcross's wife and George Costigan co-starred as Tom Hannaway.[2]