Heads Up #7: Fallen Angel and Others

Three things to mention in the coming week that all happen to be on the Drama Channel.

Next Saturday is the second part of ITV's three-part drama Fallen Angel originally shown in 2007.  This part was the only one with any nudity which comes from both Cara Horgan and Niamh Cusack.


Fallen Angel
Part 2: The Judgement Of Strangers
Saturday 10th January 2015 at 9:00pm on Drama Channel
Originally shown: March 2007 on ITV

Cara Horgan

 

Niamh Cusack



Also on this week is the start of BBC2's 1987 series of adaptations of Dorothy L Sayers' Lord Peter Wimsey stories starring Edward Petherbridge.  The first story Strong Poison has some known nudity from an art model.  All I have to go on for this is a clip from an ITV3 broadcast of it in the mid-2000s.  She is referred to as "Imogen" in the clip in which she is sitting posing for a woman artist with her left breast exposed while the woman artist is chatting to Lord Peter - I am told she was uncredited.  It is a three-part story and I don't know which episode it occurs in - it may be this week or in a subsequent episode over the next two weeks. 


Dorothy L Sayers Mysteries
Story 1: Strong Poison
Begins Thursday 8th January 2015 at 8:00pm on Drama Channel
Originally shown: March 1987 on BBC2

Unfortunately since it is being shown at 8pm it is quite possible the scene will be edited out or adjusted to avoid the topless bit.  If that happens then I suppose this can be taken instead as a "Missing But Not Forgotten" entry.





UPDATE (16/Jan/2015)
The above scene was included intact.  It occured right at the start of episode 2 (shown on 15th Jan). She was indeed uncredited.





Also on this week is the final episode of In Deep.  In this episode Karianne Henderson has an almost, but not-quite, topless scene in an open robe when she attempts to clumsily seduce Stephen Tompkinson. 

In Deep
ep: Character Assassins
Wednesday 7th January 2015 at 11:20pm on Drama Channel
Originally shown: March 2003 on BBC1



Karianne Henderson





This two-part story is being shown as a single feature-length episode - the scene originally occurred in the first part.

Worthy Site Footnotes #9

Here are a couple more Worthy Site Footnotes.


Perdita Avery in Family Affairs
This was a Channel 5 UK soap opera which ran from 1997 to 2005.  She played a regular character called Meredith Lovechild.
This scene is from a 2005 episode .


Perdita Avery














Zoë Eeles in The Vanishing Man
This was a science fiction series made by ITV which lasted just for just one 6-episode series in 1998 following a pilot episode in 1997.  It starred Neil Morrissey as a convict who gains invisibility powers after he is experimented upon in prison.
This scene is from the final episode titled Retribution and takes place in the changing room of a gym.
 

Zoë Eeles












The same scene had some topless women in in who I think are uncredited extras, but if anyone recognises any of them please let me know.

Extras in The Vanishing Man

Heads Up #6: In Deep

Coming up next Wednesday the Drama Channel is an episode of In Deep that had a topless scene featuring Victoria Leigh.


In Deep
Series 2, episode 6 & 7: Abuse of Trust
Wednesday 26th November 2014 at 10:00pm on Drama
Originally shown: Jan 2002 on BBC1



Victoria Leigh












It is being shown as a single feature-length episode although it was originally a two-parter with the topless scene occurring in episode 1.

Heads Up #5: Ultimate Force

Coming up next Friday on the recently added Freeview channel CBS Action is the episode of Ultimate Force that has a topless scene featuring actress Caroline Trowbridge.

Ultimate Force
Series 2, episode 3: Wannabes
Friday 21st November 2014 at 10:00pm on CBS Action
Originally shown: July 2003 on ITV

Caroline Trowbridge in Ultimate Force

The series is being shown every weeknight, so the episodes featuring Heather Peace are also imminent.



Ultimate Force
Series 3, episode 1: Deadlier Than the Male
Thursday 27th November 2014 at 10:00pm on CBS Action
Originally shown: Jan 2005 on ITV

Heather Peace in Ultimate Force (s3)

Also in the same episode were two uncredited bit-part actresses.
They were identified as flight crew in the scene and both had brief lines of dialogue - the first was blonde and unnamed, the other was brunette and named as Geraldine - neither of them were acknowledged in the credits and had no other role in the episode besides this scene.  Their glamour girl type figures hint the possibility they might have been real-life models at the time.
If anyone can put a name to either or both of them that would be useful.



Uncredited Actresses














Series 3 only contained four episodes, so following on pretty swiftly in the following week will be the series 4 opener:-

Ultimate Force
Series 4, Episode 1: The Changing of the Guard
Wednesday 3rd December 2014 at 10:00pm on CBS Action
Originally shown: April 2006 on ITV



Heather Peace in Ultimate Force (s4)












Heather Peace is seen topless again in a bedroom scene in series 4, episode 2: Charlie Bravo, on the next day - but this is only very brief.

Missing But Not Forgotten #4: Wire in the Blood (ITV/2007)

WIRE IN THE BLOOD
Episode: The Names of Angels
First Broadcast: 2007 on ITV

This is a slightly different situation in that the missing scene was never present in the UK transmission in the first place. 

In the UK broadcast actress Leanne Lakey (playing the innocent girlfriend of the killer) did not have any nudity.  However when the American DVD release of it came out it emerged there was a brand new scene that UK viewers never saw.

The missing scene

This Robson Green crime-solving series was one that could only ever be shown post-watershed due to the often grisly nature of the murder scenes.  So the cut had nothing to do with timeslot editing.

I'm unclear whether or not it is now present on any UK DVD releases, but when the episode was shown again on ITV3 this year I checked to see if the scene had been reinstated - but it was still not there.

In the scene she is sitting on a bed naked as her scary boyfriend Luke picks out some jewellery he wants her to put on which he throws onto the bed beside her - the camera tracks up to her unhappy looking face (in a continuous shot) as she prepares to do what he wants.  A portion of the missing scene does appear near the end of the UK episode in a flashback montage but only her face close-up is used from the scene - making it a flashback to something that "never happened".

NOTE: In the above collage, for a better balance, I've reversed the sequence so it looks like it's moving down.  In the actual scene it starts low and moves upwards.

Film Report: More Than Dreams (1998)

More Than Dreams is a low-budget Swiss/UK film from 1998 film which has recently had a restored re-release and has been found to have previously undiscovered nudity involving former Eastenders' actress Leila Birch.

The film tells the story of an out-of work actor called Sean (Nick Gatt) who does part-time bar work while trying to get an acting part.  His relationship with his girlfriend Claudia (Leila Birch) is strained and he is into taking drugs.  He reaches a new low when he catches Claudia in bed with his more successful flatmate Peter (John Pickard) and to escape his troubles he heads off to Switzerland to catch up with some family there with whom he shared a happy childhood.

Whilst it is not an especially engaging film, to its immense credit it does have two topless scenes involving Leila Birch, who it seemed (until now) had never done any nudity.  She appeared in Eastenders as Teresa Di Marco from 1998-2000.

The first scene occurs during the opening credits in which she is seen taking a shower.  This is a well-lit scene although unfortunately her face and breasts are not seen together in a continuous shot.  This would normally lead to immediate suspicions of a body double being used.

However in a later sex scene, her left breast and nipple are seen in the same shot as her face - this scene is not so well lit, but has been brightened for the collage.


Scene 1



Scene 2

Since there was no attempt to utilise a body double in the second scene this lends a degree of credence to it being her during the shower scene.  And while I obviously can't be completely sure, this seems to be supported by the presence of two faint birth marks seen above her right breast which seem to match those seen on a cleavagy lads' mag type photograph of her (in terms of their relative placement and distance apart).

The film also has another topless scene involving a Swiss actress called Céline Pisar who appears in a small role in a scene set in Geneva.

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Thanks to the contributor who discovered this film and let me know about Leila Birch.

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