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1987 · Sci-fi & fantasy · Action & adventure
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TV series / 1995
Oliver's Travels
Episode directors
Giles Foster
Oliver is a middle-aged lecturer in Comparative Religion, with a passion for trivia, crosswords, and anagrams, and a very strange sense of humour. Having been fired from the University of the Rhondda Valley, and with no family ties, he decides to set off on a quest to find 'Aristotle', a setter of crosswords. He teams up with WPC Diane Priest, who has just been suspended for asking too many questions about a local murder that …
The story
Oliver is a middle-aged lecturer in Comparative Religion, with a passion for trivia, crosswords, and anagrams, and a very strange sense of humour. Having been fired from the University of the Rhondda Valley, and with no family ties, he decides to set off on a quest to find 'Aristotle', a setter of crosswords. He teams up with WPC Diane Priest, who has just been suspended for asking too many questions about a local murder that seems to implicate the Chief Constable. Pursued by 'The Man with No Name', the unlikely duo visit Shrewsbury, North Yorkshire, Durham, Hadrian's Wall, and Kirkleven in the Scottish highlands on their journey to find 'Aristotle' in the Orkney Isles.
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Season 1
Miniseries
Season details
Oliver is a middle-aged lecturer in Comparative Religion, with a passion for trivia, crosswords, and anagrams, and a very strange sense of humour. Having been fired from the University of the Rhondda Valley, and with no family ties, he decides to set off on a quest to find 'Aristotle', a setter of crosswords. He teams up with WPC Diane Priest, who has just been suspended for asking too many questions about a local murder that seems to implicate the Chief Constable. Pursued by 'The Man with No Name', the unlikely duo visit Shrewsbury, North Yorkshire, Durham, Hadrian's Wall, and Kirkleven in the Scottish highlands on their journey to find 'Aristotle' in the Orkney Isles.
Cast
Alan BatesOliver
Sinéad CusackWPC Diane Priest
Bill PatersonBaxter
Morgan JonesMichael Priest
Peter VaughanDelaney
Miles AndersonBaron Kite
Charlotte ColemanCathy
Sophie UlianoSara
Michael ByrneMoody
Sue RoderickNorma Moody
Robert BlytheSgt Willis
Richard DaviesSignwriter
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Muriel PavlowLibrarian
John H. FrancisLandlord
Brinley JenkinsBoswell
Ian TuckerHotel Bellboy
Lisa GeorgeNicola
Noni LewisStudent
Richard HarringtonStudent
James EllisNed
Paul BrookeRowley
Ruth MadocMrs Evans
John ArthurPC Priest
Karl DraperKevin
Mollie SugdenMrs Robson
Charlie HardwickPolicewoman
Jo KendallBus Lady
Harry GlassPriest
Frank GallagherPoliceman
Iain CuthbertsonDavidson
Sheila ReidEileen
John WoodvineMr Gunn
John CaseySgt Ellis
Gerry McLaughlinPC Weir
Sioned MairTV Reporter
John HumphrysTV Newsreader
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