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Oliver's Travels

Oliver's Travels

DramaComedy
1995, Show
Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995. Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.
Country: United Kingdom
Director:
Giles Foster
Cast:
Peter Vaughan,
Bill Paterson,
Michael Byrne,
Alan Bates
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Giles Foster
Director
Peter Vaughan
As Delaney
Bill Paterson
As Baxter
Michael Byrne
As Moody
Alan Bates
As Oliver
Sinéad Cusack
As WPC Diane Priest
Richard Davies
As Signwriter
Iain Cuthbertson
As Davidson

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When word-game enthusiast and lecturer Oliver's teaching post is made redundant, he decides to visit his favorite crossword compiler, Aristotle, whom he's never met. But when he arrives, he finds Aristotle's house ransacked and empty. Teaming up with a suspended police officer and pursued by a mysterious stranger, Oliver sets out to uncover why Aristotle disappeared, leading him on a surprising adventure full of twists and turns.

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