Adrian Mole: The Complete Series [DVD]

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Sue Townsend (27 January 2000). "Adrian Mole is now aged 32 | Books | The Guardian". London: Books.guardian.co.uk . Retrieved 7 July 2010. Has it really been 40 years since the release of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾? Set in the Thatcher years and referencing events of the time such as the Falklands War and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the book revolved around the diary entries of the self-proclaimed intellectual teen Adrian Mole. Sian and Helen are a couple who run a removal service called "Two Gals 'n' a Van". Adrian hires them to help him move into Rat Wharf. He ignores Helen's advice against taking out store cards, inadvertently contributing to his mounting debt problems.

Netta Flowers is the ex-wife of Michael Flowers. She, like her husband, does not want to waste fossil fuels, and makes foul-tasting foods as a result. She helps her husband at his shop in Leicester High Street. Netta starts having an affair with a man named Roger Middleton, and it is debated whether she and Michael should divorce so Netta can marry Roger or have an open marriage; the eventual outcome is divorce. Michael and Netta had two daughters together, Poppy and Marigold. Adrian describes her as having unnaturally red cheeks.The Secret Diary Of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ was a six-part ITV series broadcast in 1985, based on the book of the same name by Sue Townsend. It was followed by The Growing Pains Of Adrian Mole, another six-part series, based on the second book of the series. Both series dramatise the experiences and misadventures of nerdy teenager Adrian. There are later books in the series and further adaptations, but it’s the 1980s series we’re looking at today. As well as being funny and moving, it’s also a time capsule of life as a 1980s teenager. Toronto film festival 2013: the full line-up". The Guardian. London, UK. 23 July 2013 . Retrieved 24 July 2013. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is a British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend. It aired from 5 January to 9 February 1987 and starred Gian Sammarco, as the title character Adrian Mole, Stephen Moore as Adrian's father George Mole and Lulu as Adrian's mother Pauline Mole.

Who Wants to Be A Millionaire: The Million Pound Question (Documentary), Stellify Media, 22 November 2020 , retrieved 12 May 2022 Adrian’s mum Pauline was just as bad as his dad, being consistently out of a job and wandering off with other partners, but things were more straightforward for those playing her. The Mole family spends New Year's Eve together, with a morose Bert in attendance. Nigel can't decide whether to be heterosexual, bisexual or gay, while an attempted reconciliation between Pauline and George doomed to failure. Christian Palmer is Adrian's live-in landlord/boss. An undercover popular-culture academic with three precocious children and a babysitting problem. He wears his hair in a 'late-period Elvis' style and has a laugh like a barking dog. He keeps studying popular culture, but keeps getting into narrow scrapes and receiving injuries. In August 2014, Mangan was one of 200 public figures who were signatories to a letter to The Guardian expressing their hope that Scotland would vote to remain part of the United Kingdom in that year's referendum on the issue. [60]A stage adaptation was written by Sue Townsend in 1984 of the first book – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾: The Play with music and lyrics by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. It starred Simon Schatzberger as Adrian Mole and Sheila Steafel as Pauline Mole. It was first performed at Phoenix Arts, Leicester and went to Wyndham's Theatre, London in December 1984.

Steve Austin, Astronaut — a man barely alive! We can rebuild him. We have the technology. We can make him better than he was. Better, stronger, faster…. a b Furness, Hannah (13 April 2014). "Olivier Awards: how a tiny theatre in north London trounced the West End". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK. Mangan played Guy Secretan in the BAFTA-winning British sitcom Green Wing. In Channel 4's The World's Greatest Comedy Characters, Guy was voted 34th. He starred as Keith in Never Better, a British television sitcom on BBC Two. He plays a recovering alcoholic Keith Merchant and Kate Ashfield is his long-suffering wife Anita. The series was written by Fintan Ryan for World Productions. [16]

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Mangan starred as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's Theatre [11] alongside Matthew Macfadyen as Jeeves from October 2013 until they were replaced by Mark Heap and Robert Webb in April 2014. [12] The production won the 2014 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. [3] Television [ edit ] Faster than a speeding bullet! More powerful than a locomotive! Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Look, up in the sky! Is it a bird?! Is it a plane?! It’s Superman! Yes, it’s Superman, strange visitor from another planet who came to earth with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men. Adrian's father has no job, his mother is suspected of being involved with Pandora's father physically, his sister, Rosie, is a victim of culture – piercings, unprotected sex etc. and as a result gets pregnant and decides to have an abortion.