Alexander the Greatest was a British

United Kingdom

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 sitcom

Situation comedy

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 that aired on ITV

ITV

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 from 1971 to 1972. Starring Gary Warren

Gary Warren

Gary Warren was an English child actor, best remembered for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children. He also played Cedric in the TV series Catweazle , and in the sitcom Alexander the Greatest .Warren is now retired from acting...

, it was written by Bernard Kops

Bernard Kops

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 and made for the ITV network by ATV

Associated TeleVision

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.

Cast

• Gary Warren
  Gary Warren
  Gary Warren was an English child actor, best remembered for his role as Peter in the 1970 film The Railway Children. He also played Cedric in the TV series Catweazle , and in the sitcom Alexander the Greatest .Warren is now retired from acting...
  
   - Alexander Green
• Sydney Tafler
  Sydney Tafler
  Sydney Tafler , was a British film and television actor, first appearing in London's West End in 1936, after two years at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, with Sir Seymour Hicks in The Man in Dress Clothes....
  
   - Joe Green
• Libby Morris
  Libby Morris
  Libby Morris is a Canadian comic actress and clown famous for her facial contortions and fast talking. She appeared in several BBC radio shows of the 1950s and moved into TV and film from the 1960s onwards. She then moved onto London, England, where she starred in her own show doing impersonations...
  
   - Fay Green (series 1)
• Stella Moray
  Stella Moray
  Stella Moray was an English character actress who appeared on stage, film, and television in dramas, comedies, and soap operas....
  
   - Fay Green (series 2)
• Adrienne Posta
  Adrienne Posta
  Adrienne Posta is an English film and television actress and singer, prominent during the 1960s and 1970s. She adopted the surname Posta in 1966. She recorded a number of singles. She is now semi-retired and works as a teacher in the Midlands and at the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts...
  
   - Renata Green
• Peter Birrel
  Peter Birrel
  Peter Birrel was an English actor.He played numerous bit parts in British TV series for nearly forty years....
  
   - Murray (series 1)
• Cyril Shaps
  Cyril Shaps
  -Biography:Shaps was born in Highbury, London; he was of Polish ancestry and his father was a tailor.He was a child broadcaster, providing voices for radio commercials at the age of 12. After grammar school and Army service he trained at RADA and then worked for two years as an announcer, producer...
  
   - Barney (series 1)
• Vic Wise - Archie (series 1)
• David Lodge
  David Lodge (actor)
  David William Frederick Lodge was a British character actor.Before turning to acting he worked as a circus clown...
  
   - Sam (series 2)

Plot

Alexander Green is a 16-year-old boy, who lives in Golders Green

Golders Green

Golders Green is an area in the London Borough of Barnet in London, England. Although having some earlier history, it is essentially a 19th century suburban development situated about 5.3 miles north west of Charing Cross and centred on the crossroads of Golders Green Road and Finchley Road.In the...

 in London

London

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 and who wants to leave his middle-class Jewish

Judaism

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home. He is based on the writer's fourteen-year-old son Adam. Alexander's parents, Joe and Fay Green, try to understand him and he has a sister Renata.

Series One (1971)

1. "A Week to Live" (15 July 1971)
2. "The Third World Starts Tonight" (22 July 1971)
3. "The All Night Party" (29 July 1971)
4. "The Match" (5 August 1971)
5. "The Disengagement of Murray and Renata" (12 August 1971)
6. "Happy Anniversary" (19 August 1971)

Series Two (1972)

1. "Charity Ends at Home" (1 March 1972)
2. "The New Policy" (22 March 1972)
3. "Israel Needs You" (29 March 1972)
4. "Kicking the Filthy Habit" (5 April 1972)
5. "The 21 Year Itch" (3 May 1972)
6. "Sam Leaves Home" (10 May 1972)
7. "Renata's Secret Affair" (31 May 1972)

Archival existence

Though all 13 episodes still exist today, however 11 of the 13 episodes now currently exist in black & white as the original colour tapes where wiped in the mid 70's by ATV, only 2 episodes (1 and 3) from the first series exist in colour, as of March 2010.