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| Man at the Top | |
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| Genre | Drama |
| Created by | John Braine |
| Starring | Kenneth Haigh Zena Walker |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 23 |
| Production | |
| Producers | Jacqueline Davis George Markstein |
| Production company | Thames Television |
| Original release | |
| Network | ITV |
| Release | 14 December 1970 (1970-12-14) – 4 September 1972 (1972-09-04) |
Man at the Top was a British drama television series that originally aired on ITV, lasting for 23 episodes between 1970 and 1972. The series depicted the character of Joe Lampton, the protagonist of John Braine's novels Room at the Top (1957) and Life at the Top (1962), and of the films based on those novels (Room at the Top (1959) and Life at the Top (1965)). In 1973, a spin-off film from the series, Man at the Top, was released.
Cast
- Kenneth Haigh – Joe Lampton
- Zena Walker – Susan Lampton
- Mark Dignam (series 1) / Paul Hardwick (series 2) – Abe Brown
- Avice Landone – Margaret Brown
- Keith Skinner (series 1) / Brendan Price (series 2) – Harry Lampton
- Colin Welland – Charlie Armitage
- James Donnelly – Teddy Soames
- Kim McCarthy – Barbara Lampton
- Janet Key – Dr. Helen Reid
- Ann Lynn – Jonni Devon
- Katy Manning - Julia Dungarvon
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- 1970s British drama television series
- ITV television dramas
- Films based on works by John Braine
- Television shows produced by Thames Television
- Television series by Fremantle (company)
- British English-language television shows
- Television shows shot at Teddington Studios
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