Adrian Mole: The Complete Series [DVD]

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Adrian’s dad George was far from a perfect role model for his son and was played with great aplomb by established actor Stephen Moore. Unlike his consistently unemployed character, Stephen was rarely out of work, appearing on both stage and screen from the 1970s until his death in 2019 at the age of 81.

Wayne Drabble is an arsonist who burnt down the local Scout hut. In what Adrian describes as "a daring social experiment", Wayne is put in charge of the fireworks display on the common. The show was successful enough to spawn two follow-up series with The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, in 1987, and the final TV series, Adrian Mole: The Cappuccino Years, more than a decade later in 2001.Sixty Seconds: Stephen Mangan on raising money for the National Brain Appeal". Metro. 4 November 2020 . Retrieved 5 November 2020. Cavendish, Dominic (29 June 2012). "Birthday, Royal Court, review". The Daily Telegraph. London, UK. Author Sue Townsend's new Adrian Mole book goes on sale". Thisisleicestershire.co.uk. Archived from the original on 10 September 2010 . Retrieved 23 August 2010. Has it really been 40 years since the release of The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾? Set in the Thatcher years and referencing events of the time such as the Falklands War and the royal wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, the book revolved around the diary entries of the self-proclaimed intellectual teen Adrian Mole. Even when he gets things wrong, however, the audience is on his side. He asks the librarian for copy of “Prejudice And Pride” by Jane Austen, remarking afterwards that he could tell that she was “dead impressed”. Bullied at school, unappreciated in his home life, who could blame Adrian for retreating into his own little world of his books and his poetry? Every now and then, he receives yet another rejection letter from the BBC for his poetry. Despite his pomposity and pretensions, Adrian’s naïveté and aspirations are endearing.

Commander Shore: Stand by for action! We are about to launch Stingray! Marineville – I am calling "Battle Stations"! Simon is Mangold Parva's local vicar. Adrian sends him the manuscript for his new village play, Plague!. Simon promises to show the manuscript to his wife, once she has finished reading the complete works of Iris Murdoch. Dame Julie starred as Adrian's mum and is one of the most recognisable faces on screen (Image: Samir Hussein/WireImage) Mangan starred as Bertie Wooster in Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the Duke of York's Theatre [11] alongside Matthew Macfadyen as Jeeves from October 2013 until they were replaced by Mark Heap and Robert Webb in April 2014. [12] The production won the 2014 Laurence Olivier Award for Best New Comedy. [3] Television [ edit ] Sian and Helen are a couple who run a removal service called "Two Gals 'n' a Van". Adrian hires them to help him move into Rat Wharf. He ignores Helen's advice against taking out store cards, inadvertently contributing to his mounting debt problems.

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A stage adaptation was written by Sue Townsend in 1984 of the first book – The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾: The Play with music and lyrics by Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley. It starred Simon Schatzberger as Adrian Mole and Sheila Steafel as Pauline Mole. It was first performed at Phoenix Arts, Leicester and went to Wyndham's Theatre, London in December 1984.

Norman is the man in the flat next door to Adrian and Bianca's. He works as a fire-eater at a circus and, much to Adrian's chagrin, practises his act in their shared bathroom. He is annoyed at the sound the couple emit during their lovemaking. The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is a British television series based on the book of the same name written by Sue Townsend. It aired from 5 January to 9 February 1987 and starred Gian Sammarco, as the title character Adrian Mole, Stephen Moore as Adrian's father George Mole and Lulu as Adrian's mother Pauline Mole.A new stage musical adaptation by Jake Brunger and Pippa Cleary opened at Leicester's Curve in March 2015. Townsend had been working with the writers on the project at the time of her death. [10] Set in the shadow of New Labour's 1997 election triumph, Adrian was an offal chef living in Soho, while Pandora had become a thrusting Labour MP, uninterested in her former beau. It's Christmas Day in the Mole house, and Adrian annoys his parents by inviting Bert and Queenie over for the day. He receives a racing bike as a present. Having been made redundant, Adrian's father George gets a job with Manpower Services as a canal bank supervisor. Adrian breaks Pandora's heart by having a brief liaison with a classmate, Barbara Boyer. Stephen James Mangan (born 16 May 1968) [1] is an English actor, comedian, presenter and writer. He has played Guy Secretan in Green Wing, Dan Moody in I'm Alan Partridge, Seán Lincoln in Episodes, [2] Bigwig in Watership Down, Postman Pat in Postman Pat: The Movie, Richard Pitt in Hang Ups, Andrew in Bliss (2018), and Nathan Stern in The Split (2018–2022). Luigi is the Italian maitre'd at Savage's. Luigi is a communist. He greets the guests and shows the guests to their tables. He and Adrian get along well. Luigi develops athlete's foot and is caught washing it in the sink by the health inspectors - violating seventeen of the two-hundred odd counts brought against Savage and his restaurant.

Glenn Bott-Mole, son of Sharon Bott, whom Adrian knew at school and had an affair with as a young man. Sharon represents the underclass of British society. Glenn moves in with his father and it is revealed the boy has a lot of respect for him when Adrian sees the cover of his diary. He eventually joins the army and at the end of the last book is expecting a baby with his fiancée, Finley-Rose. Private Eye parodied the books with their The Secret Diary of John Major, age 47¾, in which Major was portrayed as naïve and childish, keeping lists of his enemies in a Rymans Notebook called his "Bastards Book", and featuring "my wife Norman" and " Mr Dr Mawhinney" as recurring characters. [11] In addition, Adrian Plass's novel The Sacred Diary of Adrian Aged 37¾ and his autobiography The Growing Up Pains of Adrian Plass parody the titles of two of the Mole books.Gay, Verne (28 June 2012). " 'Episodes' review: Matt LeBlanc's a star". Newsday . Retrieved 29 December 2013. After graduating from RADA in 1994, Mangan did not pursue lead roles on screen, preferring to take what he saw as the less limited opportunities on the stage. Between 1994 and 2000, he performed in plays throughout the UK and the West End [7] before joining the theatre company Cheek by Jowl for an international tour of Much Ado About Nothing, earning him a nomination for a National Theatre Ian Charleson Award. He worked again for director Declan Donnellan at the Royal Shakespeare Company in School for Scandal, and at the Savoy Theatre in Hay Fever. [ citation needed]