Fame Is the Spur (TV series)
Fame is the Spur | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Howard Spring (novel) |
Starring |
Tim Pigott-Smith Julia Sawalha Joanna David |
Composer(s) | Alan Price |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Richard Beynon |
Editor(s) | John Barclay |
Release | |
Original network | BBC1 |
Original release | 8 January 1982 – 26 February 1982 |
Fame is the Spur is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1982.[1] It was based on the 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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