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Fame Is the Spur (TV series)

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Composer(s)
  
Alan Price

Producer(s)
  
Richard Beynon

First episode date
  
8 January 1982

Number of episodes
  
8

Networks
  
BBC, BBC One

8.1/10
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Genre
  
Drama

Country of origin
  
United Kingdom

Editor(s)
  
John Barclay

Final episode date
  
26 February 1982

Written by
  
Howard Spring

Starring
  
Tim Pigott-SmithJulia SawalhaJoanna David

Cast
  
Julia Sawalha, Tim Pigott‑Smith, Joanna David

Similar
  
Second Thoughts, The Underdog Show, Faith in the Future, Time Gentlemen Please, Press Gang

Fame is the Spur is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1982. It was based on the novel Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring. It depicts a socialist politician who betrays his early beliefs as he grows older, and was believed to be based upon the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. It had previously been adapted as a film Fame Is the Spur by the Boulting Brothers in 1947.

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