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Paradise Postponed: With Annette Crosbie, Paul Shelley, Peter Egan, David Threlfall. A clergyman, famous for his support of left-wing causes, dies, and surprises his family by leaving a great deal of money to a Conservative Member of Parliament.
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Paradise Postponed (1986) is a British 11-episode TV serial based on the 1985 novel by writer John Mortimer. The series covered a span of 30 years of postwar British history, set in a small village.
Mon, Oct 6, 1986. Henry and Agnes get married and have a child, and the brothers finally reconcile. But as he's coming to terms with his current life, Fred also begins to probe some mysteries in his past.
Apr 12, 2024 · Paradise Postponed (1986) Publication date. 2024-04-12. Topics. Drama, British TV, John Mortimer. A clergyman, famous for his support of left-wing causes, dies, and. surprises his family by leaving a great deal of money to a Conservative. Member of Parliament.
This British series, based on books by John Mortimer, follows the rise of Leslie Titmuss from humble beginnings in the 1950s to Tory cabinet minister in the 1980s. The rise of the slippery Titmuss is contrasted with the more modest progress of his neighbours, the intellectual Simcoxes and the aristocratic Fanners. Made by Eustom Films, a subsidiary of Thames Television for the ITV Network.
It was hard to tell who the heroes were in John Mortimer’s Paradise Postponed, Thames Television’s blockbuster about dotty socialist vicar Simeon Simcox (Michael Hordern) – “The Red Rector” of the village of Rapstone Fanner – and how he died and left all his money (including a fortune in brewery shares) not to his two sons but to ...
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Follow the families' interwoven histories from the years after WWII to the height of the Thatcher era. Nominated for four BAFTAs, Paradise Postponed and its sequel, Titmuss Regained, also star Kristin Scott Thomas (The English Patient), Annette Crosbie (Edward and the King), and Zoe Wanamaker (Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone).
