Query Solved: The Detective (BBC1/1985)

Update to the post: Unknown Actress in The Detective (BBC1/1985)

Where we left it: See the earlier post for the story so far in which my own research into a clip from the 1985 BBC serial The Detective took me as far as finding that an actress called Julia Stockwell seemed to be the most likely contender for being the girl in the pool with Hugh Grant.  But no further, since it seemed she had done nothing else and I couldn't find any pictures of her to be really sure.

Now thanks to some sterling research by a blog reader, who found a contemporaneous image of Julia Stockwell in the Spotlight Directory for 1985/1986, I think it can now be confirmed.

Here is the new picture of Julia Stockwell, first alone and then again with images from The Detective scene for a side-by-side comparison.

As you can see she has very similar looking chin, eyebrows and hairline.  Taking that in combination with the earlier research that threw up her name as the probable candidate, it seems almost certain she is the actress in the scene.

So this query can now be considered solved.

Missing But Not Forgotten #2: Lovejoy

Continuing the theme that highlights scenes that are nowadays routinely edited out of serial dramas when they are shown on repeat channels to make them suitable for an intended pre-watershed audience. 


LOVEJOY

From 1986 here is Cassie Stuart in a scene from episode 4 of the first series of Lovejoy entitled Friends, Romans and Enemies.

Cassie Stuart in Lovejoy

In the scene she is swimming in an indoor pool when Lovejoy arrives to visit Charlie Gimbert (her brother) who berates her for swimming naked in company which results in her mischievously defying him by jumping up high in the water to contrarily show even more - much to her brother's exasperation.

It is the only episode of Lovejoy with any nudity.

Film Report: Delicious (UK 2013)

Delicious tells the story of a young chef from France called Jacques (Nico Rogner) who comes to England to work for top restaurateur Victor Ellwood (Adrian Scarborough) whom he secretly believes to be his father.  While working there Jacques takes up lodgings in a flat where he meets his abrasive downstairs neighbour Stella (Louise Brealey) whom Jacques soon realises has a severe eating disorder which is making her miserable.  Jacques decides to try to help her by introducing her to the culinary treats his skills can conjure up.

Louise Brealey (known for TV series Sherlock and Casualty) has some nudity in the film.

There are two scenes.  In the first she is standing naked in her flat when Jacques looks in through the window trying to gain her attention when he wants to borrow some coffee and accidentally sees her naked.  In the other scene she is in a bath.

Heads Up #4: Taggart

Coming up on Saturday on the Freeview channel True Entertainment is a 1997 episode of Taggart entitled Apocalypse.

Saturday 16th August 2014 at 9:00pm on True Entertainment
Originally shown: January 1997

This story had a couple of topless scenes featuring actresses Clare Scott-Campbell and Georgina Sowerby.

Clare Scott-Campbell in Taggart: Apocalypse

Georgina Sowerby in Taggart: Apocalypse

Update (Sun 17th Aug)

They showed a different episode!

Checking more closely it seems Apocalypse was originally a 3-part story (three hours with ads) and yet they had scheduled it into a two-hour slot (with ads) so they substituted the episode Out of Bounds in its stead which was originally a single 100-minute episode.

They'll have the same problem with (today's) Sunday's billed episode called Babushka which is another 3-parter but again scheduled for only two hours.