Man at the Top (TV series)

Man at the Top
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 kitchen sink 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

External links

Man at the Top at IMDb

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