Gareth Armstrong

There we go.

Yes, it's Gareth Armstrong is Giuliano, Tim Spieth is Marco, Norman Jones is Hieronymus, and John Lorimore is Count Federico.

They are a couple, right? I'm not imagining this.

No, you're not imagining it.

Hello and welcome to a podcast of Spurious Morality.

I'm Johnston and with me this week, I have Gareth.

Hello.

And we're embarking on a bit of a new project.

But yeah, it's a story I find kind of slippery.

There are other sort of unambiguously good things in it.

This actress, Alice Haig, plays the princess and is she a princess or is she a queen i can't remember now but um i guess she's a queen but she's brilliant yeah there we go um she's brilliant um you know very forthright character you really believe that she's stuck in this awful position and in the end you're kind of thrilled that she has a degree of independence there um the rest of the cast i have some issues with primarily one which is there's an actor, I think it's Gareth Armstrong, who is just all over this.

And that's what I meant when I said there'd be like an ironic, you know, they don't want to double up William Russell, Maureen O'Brien, Caroline Ford, but they've got actors like that playing about half a dozen parts.

So that is Star 1, which was transmitted Tuesday 3rd April 1979, written by Chris Boucher, directed by David Maloney, and cast, not quite a thousand, but quite a few cast.

Lorena was played by Jenny Twigg, Stop was played by David Webb, Parton by Gareth Armstrong, Durkan by John Brown, Mark Hall by Paul Tootle, Leith by Michael Mayard.

Searchers were Derek Broom and David Kahn.

And the pilot was Michael Spice and the controller was Hugh Dixon.