- Orphans
- A Disapperance
- An Arival
- A Performance
- Redress
Emlyn's Moon
(HTV, five 1/2 hr episodes). Artist Idris Llewellyn, father of sullen Emlyn.
Both Emlyn's Moon and Chestnut Soldier are based on the Snow Spider books by
Jenny Nimmo. The series ran until 4th Oct 1990.
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 Idris and Emlyn (32K)
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Today
Gareth and Jacqueline Pearce are interviewed. Channel not yet known. As to the second picture, we'll leave the caption to you...
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 Gareth and Jackie (38K)
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| Tonight
with Jonathan Ross
(ITV?), Interview with Jacqueline Pearce and Michael Keating. The audience was full of Blake's 7 fans. Jonathan Ross came down to talk with Diane Gies of Horizon. You score a bonus point if you can recognise the person sitting next to Diane. You score two bonus points if you can identify the three roles he played in Blake's 7. |
 During the Interview (71K)
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| We Are Seven.
(HTV) The series concerned a German family in England after WWII. Gareth played
Big Billy Caradog, a drunken, bigoted bully. In the next to last episode he boxes
(in his long johns) in a circus match. (Given date may not be that of the first
episode.)
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 Big Billy (25K) |
Gareth in TV Zone special #4: I'm working with a ferret, which is a very strange little creature. They're like weasels, and if they bite, they don't let go. I told the director that I was a little concerned about that, and he said "Don't worry" and introduced me to the ferret master who was a stage hand at the RSC when I was there.
So I've got this ferret in my hands, and the scene was that I was in a barn, literally underneath a pile of straw. Two people come in; a young man and a young girl, and at one point they're beginning to get together and there's this burping sound. The girl says to the boy "Was that you?" and I sit up and say "It was me!" The fellow says "What the hell are you doing?" and I say "Well I'm with my girlfriend too!" and pull out this ferret. Now we obviously don't have the ferret there all that time because they're not that happy being under straw. We come up to the actual shot where I'm holding the ferret in my hand, when it suddenly opens its mouth. I'm thinking 'Oh shit', but I'm busy acting my arse off, and this thing starts licking me. This little clapper boy comes out and goes wallop amd thank God it went for the clapperboard instead of me!
| Families (possibly Granada?) Gareth plays Detective Superintendant Collins in 5 episodes (perhaps 10?), who is investigating a murder. An Australian produced soap opera/mystery. |
 Collins (38K) |
| Chestnut Soldier
(HTV) Five 1/2 hr episodes, sequel to Emlyn's Moon. By Jenny Nimmo. Gareth
plays artist Idris Llewellyn. He isn't in this as much as Emlyn's Moon but
has a lovely scene with Nia. 20, 27 Nov & 4, 12 Dec 1991.
Titles: A Prince Returns (1), Broken Horses (2), Fiery Dreams (3), Out of the Forest (4).
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 Idris (42K) |
by Dylan Thomas. Gareth played Mog Edwards - this also stars seemingly every
actor and singer in Wales - including Anthony Hopkins, Jonathan Pryce, Sian
Philips, Tom Jones, Bonnie Tyler, Mary Hopkin, Philip Madoc, Windsor Davies,
Sir Geraint Evans, Ruth Madoc, Aled Jones, Ray Smith, Freddie Jones and Sir
Harry Secombe.This recording was released in 1988, a few years later, virtually the identical cast was brought together again and the performance was filmed. We believe that about an hour of this was shown on Television. The audio cassette was re-released at this time and the copyright date was changed to 1992. However the audio tape is not actually a recording of the filmed performance, but simply the 1988 recording re-packaged.
This 1992 performance, may or may not have been the performance of Under Milk Wood that was in aid of the Princes trust. Gareth took part in a production of Under Milk Wood to help raise money for the Prince of Wales Trust, apparently some time in 1994 or 1995. The Prince of Wales Trust helps young people get started in life.
From the Internet Movie Database:
Jeremy Irons and his real-life spouse, Sinead Cusack, play a husband and wife in this intense, involving drama about a country schoolteacher and the tragic, emotional ghosts of his past (inherited across hundreds of years, but governing his own lost youth) which are threatening to destroy his current life. Beautifully directed by Stephen Gyllenhaal; adapted by Peter Prince from the Booker Prize-winning novel by Graham Swift; Waterland costars Ethan Hawke and John Heard.
| Maigret: On Home Ground (Granada, 1 hr.) Series starring Michael Gambon as Georges Simenon's French detective. In this episode, Gareth played Monsieur Gautier, the groundskeeper for a prominent family in the village where Maigret was born. |
 Maigret, Gautier and Emile (36K) |
| Dejavu
by John Osborne,
At the Comedy theatre, in the West End, in London, Gareth played Cliff.
This play may have run to November. Gareth in The Prydonian Renegade (March '96): I was doing a play by a gentleman, a superb writer, who sadly is no longer with us, called John Osborne. I was doing his last play, Deja Vu, and Patrick Stewart came to see it and came round backstage, and I said "You Pillock!" and he said "What, Why?" I said, "Why the hell didn't you tell me you were coming?" and he said, "Well, I was passing through on my way from Italy to America," and I said, "We're playing to half-full houses out here. If I could have turned around and said Blake's 7 and Star Trek in the same theatre at the same time! we could have packed the place." Note: the plays title is really one word but every time you see it mentioned it's written as two words because it is two words in real life. However, John Osbourne meant for his play to be one word.
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| Sparrow (1993.
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli). Based on "A Sparrow's Tale" by Giovanni
Verga. Gareth appears for about ten minutes as Corrado (Nino's father). This
was filmed in Italy. The Italian title is "Storia di una capinera". A young girl is evacuated from her convent during a cholera epidemic, and falls in love with Nino. A few months later she has to return to the convent, but cannot forget him. |
 Corrado (37K) |
Gareth took part
in a production of Under Milk Wood to help raise money for the Prince of Wales
Trust some time in 1994 or 1995. The Prince of Wales Trust
helps young people get started in life. (This may have been the 1992 recording,
confusion exists...)
| Event
Horizon Australia,
SF convention
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| Kevin
Greening Show
With Paul Darrow, he did a number
of voice overs for the Kevin Greening show on BBC Radio 1. This was the first occasion that Gareth and Paul had worked together since filming "Blake". (The guy in the middle is Gareth Randall, who organised the session). |
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Gareth: Yes, there's another eccentric. He was very pleasant, and I only had one scene with him. Funnily enough, the part that Tom Baker was playing was down to either Tom Baker or me. I spent two hours chatting to the producers on Medics, and I was told later on by my agent that it was either me or Tom Baker, and they chose Tom, who had a higher profile, I suppose.
| Mentors: Awakenings
Mentors was intended to be a 45 minute drama series aimed at a family audience.
Storyline (from the Proposal): Although a script was written for a pilot episode "Awakenings" by Austen Atkinson-Broadbelt, all that is known to exist on film is a five minute teaser made for promotional purposes. The pilot episode was written for the Family Channel (satellite TV) It's interesting to note that Gareth's character, Edward Grieg - the villain (an evil bearer) - was originally written as a woman, Mariah Grieg. TV Zone magazine featured Mentors in its Psi-fi special (#18).
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Gareth: Yes, I really enjoyed it. I must confess, I did think of Paul while I was doing it, wondering how he would play it. I do hope that it goes on and they turn it into a series. If they do, I hope to be able to direct a couple of episodes - I'd love to do that.
The second story involves Blake and takes place shortly after Jenna's death. There are some links to the first story - Kane and the mutoid reappear. We also get to meet Tando (one of Blake's fellow bounty hunters). See Merchandise for more details.
| Together Again:
Blake's Back
Audio tape about Blake's 7. Absolutely wonderful interview with Joe Nazzaro
talking to Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow and occasionally Sheelagh Wells. See Merchandise for more details.
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| Crown Prosecutor (BBC) Ten 1/2 hour episodes between 23rd Feb and 27th of April. Gareth was in two episodes, one of which was on 9th March. Dreadful and thankfully shortlived courtroom drama series. Gareth played a magistrate, Harold Thomson, and was probably the best thing in it. David Daker, Michael Praed (Robin of Sherwood) and Tom Chadbon (Del Grant) were regulars. |
 Harold Thomson (32K)
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This included Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow, David Jackson, Jan Chappell, Michael Keating, Sally Knyvette, Stephen Grief and Peter Tuddenham.
At the event, Diane Gies asked: Anything else in the pipeline?
Gareth: I'm doing an episode of Casualty soon. Actually, I missed out on an advert recently. I don't normally do adverts, but I would have done this one as it was abroad - I was up for the part of a Bank Manager in a French Bank. My agent told me that they had picked me out of the final twelve, but then decided that they wanted someone younger so they started seeing a group of 20 year olds. So I'm now officially too old to be a Bank Manager - even in France.
| Unknown Corporate sales tape for the Unique Broadcasting Company (Europe's largest independent radio production company). (If you really want to know, Gareth is holding a printed copy of the WWW homepage of an Australian fan - who is a friend of the photographer). This was an audio tape to run in sync with a powerpoint presentation. |
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| Visions 95 con Chicago, the second con with Paul Darrow. |
 Gareth Thomas (71k) |
Casualty:
Bringing It All Back Home (BBC) Gareth played Tom Arnold, a
retired footballer turned author. He is soon discovered to have a shared
secret with two other members of his old football team, played by Michael
Keating and Stephen Yardley (Investigator Reeve in Sand). Gareth suffers
a fatal heart attack after rescuing another footballer in a boating accident.
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 Tom Arnold (34K) |
| The Storyteller
Rideout Theatre Co., Scottish tour, Dec 1995, Gareth played the storyteller. Deep in the heart of an ancient cave sits an old man. 1000 years ago a spell was cast to keep him asleep forever. Why? What strange powers did he possess? Someone is trying to wake him! Tour dates 8 Dec 95 to 22 Dec 95, performed in various village halls, museums, small theatres etc in Melrose, Duns, Jedburgh, Newcastleton, Galashiels, Kelso, Bowhill, Berwick, Lauder, Peebles and Hawick.
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| Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw.
Scottish tour, by the Royal Lycaeum Theatre company (Edinbugh). It was at the Royal
Lycaeum in Edinburgh until 4th May and then toured Stranraer, Dumfries, Ayr,
Aberdeen, Kirkcaldy, Berwick upon Tweed and finishing in Glasgow on 15th June
1996. Gareth played Colonel Pickering. See More Pictures |
 Col. Pickering (29K) Photo by Sean Hudson (?), supplied courtesy of the Royal Lyceum Theatre. |
| Together Again: Liberatored Audio Tape about Blake's 7. Joe Nazzaro interviews Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow and Michael Keating. | 
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| The Witch's Daughter
Scottish TV.
Gareth has a minor part as a lobster fisherman.
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| Jekyll and Hyde
By David Edgar
based on the story by Robert Louis Stevenson. At the Royal Lycaeum Theatre,
Edinburgh, from 10 Jan 97 to 1 Feb 97. Gareth played Gabriel Utterson. Edgar introduced
two new characters to the story, Jekyll's widowed sister Katherine and a servant girl
called Annie. See More Pictures | 
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| Rebecca Based
on the story by Daphne du Maurier. At the Royal Lycaeum Theatre (Edinbugh),
Gareth Played Giles Lacy from 7 Feb 97 to 1 March 97. See More Pictures | 
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| Neutral Zone '97 Newcastle Upon Type, SF con, only the 4th convention with both Gareth Thomas and Paul Darrow together. This ran to 16th Mar 1997. |
Gareth with the guide dog (73K) |
| Cat on a Hot
Tin Roof by
Tennessee Williams, At the Dundee Rep, 14-31 May 1997, Gareth played Big Daddy.
There were also previews on the 10th and 13th. Newspaper article about Gareth and this role See More Pictures | 
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| Together Again: Action Audio Tape about Blake's 7 with Paul Darrow, Michael Keating and Stephen Grief (Travis I) | 
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| Space Cadets
Recorded on 23rd June, in Glasgow, a quiz show for Channel 4's Space Cadet SF
Quiz show. This was repeated on 20 Aug 1997.
Detailed Review of the Event
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| WOLF 359
Blackpool, Lancashire UK At the SFX (British SciFi magazine) Awards Ceremony at the Wolf 359: The Alliance convention (Babylon 5). Because J. Michael Straczynski had commented in the past that Blake's 7 had left quite an impression on him, it was arranged to have Gareth Thomas appear (in full Blake costume and make-up, a-la final episode and with pyrotechnics on-stage, but without the exploding guts) to give Joe his award as a surprise. JMS appeared quite flabbergasted and deeply moved. Report by Nicolene van den Berg
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| And
Now Over to Our Friends in Wales 2000 - 2030 on BBC 2 in Wales : 'And Now
Over to Our Friends in Wales' (Yes, that's the title of the programme!)
"Continuing the series in which Ruth Madoc delves into the BBC archives and
pays tribute to some Welsh TV greats. Her two guests for this programme are
Angharad Rees and Gareth Thomas." (Thanks to Radio Times.)
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 Gareth reminisces |
| Together Again:
Kingmaker Audio Tape about Blake's 7 with Paul Darrow, Gareth Thomas,
David Maloney and Peter Tuddenham (Zen/Orac/Slave). Tke tape is called "Kingmaker" and is intended as a tribute to Terry Nation. | 
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| Merlin
The Magic Begins
Gareth played Merlin's mentor Blaze in a pilot called "Merlin the
Magic Begins". This was filmed in early October 97. This was intended as the pilot for a series, but it seems extremely unlikely that the series will ever come to pass as the pilot was pretty dire. The pilot also stars Merlin is played by Jason Connery and Deborah Moore. The programme was made by Segull productions a part of Kaleidoscope Media Group. |
Blaze and Merlin (22K) |
| Sleeping
Beauty
Gareth played the King in a pantomime at the Dundee Rep Theatre from 28th
November to 10th January. Review and other things This is a write up of a weekend in Dundee surviving the problems of the fire at Heathrow and other trials and tribulations along the way. This includes a review of Sleeping Beauty. The picture shows Gareth as the King with Janet Michael who plays Mara the nurse. She also stared with Gareth in the production of Cat on a Hot Tin roof at the same theatre, where she played Big Mama, when he played Big Daddy.
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 Gareth with Janet Michael
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| Heartbeat
(Yorkshire TV) Popular period drama about a policeman in 1960s Yorkshire. Gareth
plays a farmer, Nathaniel Clegghorn, in "Local Knowledge" - episode 20 of the
series that ended with Nick Berry's departure. It was filmed in mid October
1997. Clegghorn is in dispute with the disreputable Claude Greengrass, (a regular character) as to which of them has genuine ghosts on his farm. (Point of interest: this was the last episode to feature Nick Berry as PC Rowan, who had been the series' lead character until this point.) Gareth was also in 2 episodes in 1999, and 2 episodes in 2003.
Hollywood or Bust on Sunday 28th Novemeber 1999.
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 Nathaniel Clegghorn (35K) |
| Together Again: Elements Audio Tape about Blake's 7. This tape has Jacqueline Pearce talking to Paul Darrow. The other side has David Maloney, Gareth Thomas, Paul Darrow and Judith Smith. | 
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| Neutral
Zone '98Newcastle Upon Type, SF con.
Gareth is becoming a regular at this con, it is the fourth time he has done it.
Report by Chris Blenkarn |
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| Deliverance Stoke on Trent, Blake's 7 convention
with most of the cast. Many Reviews and lots of Pictures
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 Gareth with Stephen Greif (Travis I)
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| Animal Ark HTV. Gareth
has filmed an episode called Calf in the Cottage for this children's
programme in Bristol. He plays the guest lead, a farmer John Mathews, in episode 12. This was recorded in September 1997. |
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| The Crucible
by Arthur Miller. Gareth plays Deputy-Governor Danforth. Dates:
18-26 September - Churchill Theatre, Bromley (0181 460 6677)
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 Danforth (29K) Photo by Mark Douet.
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| Hosts of Rebecca
Hosts of Rebecca - Gareth Thomas is playing Tomos Treherne (the
narrator/minister) in an adaptation of a Welsh novel by Alexander Cordell.
The novel is the second in Cordell's 'Rape of the Fair Country' trilogy.
It is set in nineteenth century Wales, a time of struggle for the coal miners
and farmers alike. 4/27 February - Theatre Clwyd, Mold (in north Wales) 2/6 March - New Theatre, Cardiff. Review by Chris Blenkarn.
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| Warburton's
Bread
Gareth plays the father of an ice skater from Yorkshire.
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| Together Again:
Solstice Audio Tape about Blake's 7. 'Solstice' features two of the directors who worked on Blake's 7. Pennant Roberts directed early episodes including Spacefall, Time Squad (which was the very first episode to be filmed), Mission to Destiny and Bounty. Mary Ridge directed for the first time in 'Terminal' but was to return for Rescue and Power. She was landed with Animals and Headhunter, and directed the very last episode, Blake. Paul Darrow and Gareth Thomas are there as usual to give their own perspective on events. |
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| Soldiers of Love
- Deathtraps
Soldiers Of Love is a series of CDs containing a new sci-fi comedy drama series. Story
one is called Genesis and among the actors is Michael Keating (Vila)
playing ex-game show host Mydas Mydason. Gareth Thomas and Jacqueline Pearce are in the second story, Deathtraps. Gareth plays The Editor, `Nermal Hammond'. Also Information about Soldiers of Love. Judith sells these CDs.
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| Soldiers of Love - Metamorphs
Gareth, Jan Chappell and Michael Keating are in this episode.
This should be released on November the 8th. Gareth plays The Editor, `Nermal Hammond', a wonderfully over the top villian. Also Information about Soldiers of Love. Judith sells these CDs.
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| Soldiers of Love - Ominous Passage
Gareth, Jan Chappell and Michael Keating are in this episode,
this should be released on December the 1st. Gareth plays The Editor, `Nermal Hammond'. Also Information about Soldiers of Love. Judith sells these CDs.
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| The Clearing
Gareth Thomas played the charcter Solomon in this production,
More details
Review by Judith Proctor
16/25 September - Tron Theatre - Glasgow. (BO 0141 552 4267)
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