Peter Davison Movies

First telecast over the BBC on January 20, 2000, the weekly, 60-minute dramedy At Home with the Braithwaites zeroed in on a fractious family. Upon winning the national lottery, novice millionaire Alison Braithwaite (Amanda Redman) realized that the money would be ill used by her husband, David (Peter Davison), a mean-spirited loan shark and philanderer; by her lesbian college-student daughter, Virginia (Sarah Smart); and by her other daughters, the whiny Sarah (Sarah Churm) and the bizarre Charlotte (Keely Fawcett), who bought the lottery ticket in the first place. Thus, Alison keeps her newfound wealth a secret from her family, preferring instead to invest the money in "good works." The complications that resulted from this decision were plentiful enough to stretch the series' premise across three seasons. It was during season three that At Home with the Braithwaites made its U.S. bow by way of the BBC America satellite service on September 5, 2003. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

A followup to the 1995 animated special Mole's Christmas, The Adventures of Mole is one of a series of hour-long, British-made cartoons based on Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. In this one, the shy, bookish Mole develops a thirst for excitement. Accompanied by his new friend Rat, excitement is just what he finds, with stopovers at the homes of his compatriots Toad and Badger. Reportedly first telecast on Britain's Channel 4, The Adventures of Mole was given its official US debut over cable's Disney Channel on May 7, 1996, and was nominated for a Cable Ace Award. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Four years after its "official" demise as a weekly series, Doctor Who briefly resurfaced in the form of a two-part, off-length special. Created to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the series' birth, "Dimensions in Time" was shown as a component of two other TV programs. Part One aired November 26, 1993, as an eight-minute segment of the BBC's Children in Need Telethon. In this installment, five of the Doctor's seven incarnations -- played by surviving series stars Jon Pertwee, Tom Baker, Peter Davison, Colin Baker, and Sylvester McCoy -- were pitted against renegade Time Lady Rani (Kate O'Mara, likewise repeating her Doctor Who role), who hoped to determine the outcome of the universe's evolution. This cliffhanger would be resolved the following evening on the series' Noel's House Party. Featured in the cast were several of the Doctor's former "companions," including Nicola Bryant (Peri), Sarah Sutton (Nyssa), Sophie Aldred (Ace), Carole Ann Ford (Susan), Elisabeth Sladen (Sara), and Bonnie Langford (Mel). "Dimensions in Time" was written by John Nathan-Turner and David Roden. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Mystery Mile. An American judge named Crowdy Lobbett (Brian Greene) has been targetted for extermination by a criminal organization known as "Simister" (clearly the villains are dangerous but illiterate). Heading from the US to England, Lobbett crosses the path of Campion, who offers his services. Before this case has reached its conclusion, our hero has been confronted with not one but two sudden and mysterious disappearances. In America, "ystery Mile" was telecast November 22 and 29, 1990, as part of the PBS anthology Mystery! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Dancers in Mourning (published in the US as Who Killed Chloe?. A new musical production starring 1930s song-and-dance favorite Jimmy Sutane (Ian Ogilvy) may never open, due to a particularly vicious practical joker who has been staging several "accidents." Campion and his assistant Lugg (Brian Glover) repair to White Walls, Sutane's country estate, to get to the bottom of the sabotage. What begins as a series of nasty pranks evolves into something far more sinister with the mysterious death of bitchy Chloe Pye (Patricia Brake). Along the way, Campion falls for one of Sutane's coworkers--who promptly vanishes. In America, "ancers in Mourning" was telecast December 13 and 20, 1990, as part of the PBS anthology Mystery! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

All Creatures Great & Small launches its seventh and final season, 12 years after the first episode aired on BBC. Within the context of the storyline, it has been some 17 years since veterinarian James Herriot (Christopher Timothy), then a callow med school graduate, first set foot in Skeldale House, headquarters of irascible Yorkshire vet Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy). Formerly Farnon's assistant, James is now his full partner, demonstrating an even firmer grasp on his profession than Siegfried's more experienced younger brother Tristan (Peter Davison), who after all these years is as much a cut-up and screw-up as ever. As James tackles medical issues involving local sheep, dogs, cats, cows and birds, his wife Helen (Lynda Bellingham) holds down the fort in their humble home, assisted by their steadily growing children, Jimmy (Paul Lyon) and Rosie (Alison Lewis). Sometime in mid season, feisty Rosie announces her ambition to be a vet just like her dad -- and while Helen is supportive of this dream, James is not, believing that his job is not suitable for a proper young lady (he's wrong, of course). The series ends on a quiet, unspectacular note, as Tristan bollixes up another diagnosis, and James and Siegfried go above and beyond the call of duty to lend a neighbor whom they hardly know a helping hand. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel Look to the Lady. Set in Suffolk, England during the 1930s, the story concerns the Gyrth Chalice, a 1000-year-old artifact stolen from a once-prominent family now on its uppers. In his efforts to recover the chalice and restore the Gyrth family's prestige, Campion and his assistant Lugg (Brian Glover) enlist the aid of a shabby drifter named Val (Robin Lermette). The key to the story is "the Daisy"--which also happens to be the name of one of the principal characters. In America, "ook to the Lady" was telecast November 23 and 30, 1989, as part of the PBS anthology Mystery! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Peter Davison stars as bespectacled, aristocratic private detective Albert Campion in this two-part adaptation of Margery Allingham's novel The Case of the Late Pig. The title character is Roland Isidore "Pig" Peters (Mike Charles), a lifelong bully who had been Campion's principal tormentor during his school days in the early 1900s. Although Campion would just as soon never see Peters again, he accepts a curiously poetic invitation to "Pig"'s funeral. Three months later, a former girlfriend of Campion asks him to solve a recent murder -- and the victim is none other than "Pig" Peters, who apparently has died twice! Ingredients essential to the story include the wrong body (and wrong species) in Peters' coffin, a shady information peddler (played by Michael Gough, better known as Alfred the butler in the Batman theatrical films), and a handful of ice cubes. In America, "The Case of the Late Pig" was telecast October 12 and 19, 1989, as the first "Campion" story to appear on the PBS anthology Mystery! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Having ended its initial BBC run in 1980, the weekly, hour-long medical drama All Creatures Great & Small, based on the autobiographical novels by Yorkshire veterinarian James Herriot, was brought back by popular demand in 1988. Returning for this new batch of episodes is Christopher Timothy as Herriot, and Robert Hardy and Peter Davison as his medical partners, Siegfried and Tristan Farnon. However, Lynda Bellingham has replaced Carol Drinkwater in the role of James' wife Helen. Also new to the cast is John McGlynn as James' young accordion-playing assistant Calum Buchanan. The original series ended with season three, as James and Siegfried joined the RAF to fight in World War II. The fourth season takes place several years later, with the fact that the previously footloose and fancy-free Tristan has been appointed Fertility Advisor for the Minister of Agriculture ample proof that everyone has matured considreably since we saw them last. Otherwise, it's business as usual, with James and his colleagues tending to an exhausting variety of sheep, cows, dogs, cats, and even fleas. Meanwhile, rival veterinarian Granville Bennett (James Grout), who owns a thriving animal hospital, is doing everything in his power to woo the talented James away from the Farnon brothers. James does not, however, make his final decision until the season's last episode, "For Richer, For Poorer." ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Halfway between a sitcom and a dramedy, the British series A Very Peculiar Practice was the story of idealistic, newly divorced young doctor Stephen Decker (Peter Davison). Accepting a position with the Student Health Service of Lowlands University, Stephen tried to do his job to the best of his ability, and to pursue romance with a variety of toothsome young ladies, among them student-policewoman Lyn Turtle (Amanda Hillwood) and fellow doctor Greta Growtowska (Joanna Kanska). Unfortunately, Stephen was surrounded by eccentric, backbiting, and downright incompetent co-workers, including nutty vice-chancellor Ernest Hemingway (John Bird), hypersensitive lesbian Dr. Rose Marie (Barbara Flynn), vainglorious Dr. Bob Buzzard (David Troughton), and chronic drunkand Dr. Jock McCannon (Graham Crowden). An endless succession of bizarre events and surreal running gags paraded through the halls of Lowlands, especially after the college was taken over by corporate-invading American Jack B. Daniels (Michael J. Shannon). Debuting May 21, 1986, A Very Peculiar Practice ran for 14 50-minute episodes, the last of which aired on April 6, 1988. A 90-minute spin-off, A Very Polish Practice, was seen on September 6, 1992. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

In the conclusion of Magnum, P.I.'s two-part Season Six opener (originally telecast as a single two-hour episode), Magnum (Tom Selleck) and Higgins (John Hillerman) are still in London, still battling their inner demons. Having had premonitions of the death of his friend Geoffrey St. Clair, Magnum finds himself drawing ever closer to Geoffrey's widow Penelope--which opens the floodgates for even more disturbing visions of the past and the future when the detective discovers that his late friend had been a member of a gang specializing in political assassinations. Meanwhile, Higgins comes face to face with his stern, unforgiving father Albert (also played by John Hillerman), with whom he hasn't spoken since being expelled from Sandhurst in 1934. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide