Champion House
Encyclopedia
Champion House is a BBC television drama
series.
The series dealt with the Yorkshire
-based Champion family and the dramas surrounding the family textiles firm, Champion Mills. Two series were made between 1967 and 1968. The cast included Edward Chapman
, Nicole Maurey
, Maurice Kaufmann
and Virginia Stride
.
Champion House was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling
, who had previously devised Compact
and Crossroads.
The series was a casualty of the BBC's wiping policy of the era and no longer exists in the BBC archives.
BBC television drama
BBC television dramas have been produced and broadcast since even before the public service company had an officially established television broadcasting network in the United Kingdom...
series.
The series dealt with the Yorkshire
Yorkshire
Yorkshire is a historic county of northern England and the largest in the United Kingdom. Because of its great size in comparison to other English counties, functions have been increasingly undertaken over time by its subdivisions, which have also been subject to periodic reform...
-based Champion family and the dramas surrounding the family textiles firm, Champion Mills. Two series were made between 1967 and 1968. The cast included Edward Chapman
Edward Chapman (actor)
Edward Chapman was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. Wilfred Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.Chapman was born in...
, Nicole Maurey
Nicole Maurey
Nicole Maurey is a French actress, who has appeared in 65 film and television productions between 1945 and 1997. Born in Bois-Colombes, a northwestern suburb of Paris, she was originally a dancer before being cast in her first film role in 1944...
, Maurice Kaufmann
Maurice Kaufmann
Maurice Harington Kaufmann was a British actor of stage, TV and film, particularly well-utilized in whodunnits and horrors who acted from 1954 to 1981, when he retired....
and Virginia Stride
Virginia Stride
Virginia Stride is a British actress of stage and screen who first came to public attention on television in the 1960s...
.
Champion House was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling
Peter Ling
Peter Ling was a British writer in many media, but best known for his work in television, where he was the co-creator of the soap opera Crossroads....
, who had previously devised Compact
Compact (TV series)
Compact is a British television soap opera shown by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. The series was created by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling, who together went on to devise Crossroads....
and Crossroads.
The series was a casualty of the BBC's wiping policy of the era and no longer exists in the BBC archives.