Acting

Jonathan Caplan

Born April 26, 1959 (age 67)

Jonathan Caplan was born on 26 April 1959. He is an actor, known for Doctor Who (1963), Coronation Street (1960) and The Young Ones (1982).

Known For

Doctor Who: Planet of FireDoctor Who: Planet of Fire · 1984
Doctor Who: Planet of Fire
★ 6.01984
MovieScience Fiction
A strange signal from Earth draws the TARDIS to the island of Lanzarote, where Turlough rescues a young American girl, Peri, from drowning. Among her possessions is an artefact bearing an alien symbol - the same triangular mark that Turlough has branded into his arm. The mystery deepens when Kamelion falls under the control of a powerful mind, and the TARDIS travels to the volcanic world of Sarn. As Turlough is forced to face his past, the Fifth Doctor must stop his oldest enemy from harnessing the revitalising powers of Numismaton gas...
More Bad NewsMore Bad News · 1988
More Bad News
★ 9.81988
MovieComedyMusic
Four years after they were last the subject of a documentary, the heavy metal band Bad News get back together again for another film of their exploits, beginning with a reunion gig at the Flying Horse.
Home-MoviesHome-Movies · 1979
Home-Movies
1979
Movie
A 1979 production from BBC2 Playhouse by Denis Cannan
Patty FattyPatty Fatty · 1981
Patty Fatty
1981
Movie
A play by Kay McManus. Patricia is fifteen and fat, and feels the odd one out...until her brother's friend takes her out for a ride on his motorcycle.
Thin AirThin Air · 1988
Thin Air
★ 7.01988
Movie
Set in a commercial radio station in an enterprise zone called ‘Riverside’, Thin Air involved property development on a massive scale, the disruption and forced exodus of a local community, the stripping away of local authority powers, left-wing activism, designer drugs, media hacks.
Coronation StreetCoronation Street · 1960
Coronation Street
★ 5.31960
SeriesSoap
The residents of Coronation Street are ordinary, working-class people, and the show follows them through regular social and family interactions at home, in the workplace, and in their local pub, the Rovers Return Inn. Britain's longest-running soap.
Doctor WhoDoctor Who · 1963
Doctor Who
★ 7.91963
SeriesDramaAction & Adventure
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
BrooksideBrookside · 1982
Brookside
★ 6.41982
SeriesSoapDrama
The ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.

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Shine on Harvey MoonShine on Harvey Moon · 1982
Shine on Harvey Moon
★ 7.71982
SeriesDrama
Shine on Harvey Moon! is a British comedy-drama series made by Central Television for ITV from 8 January 1982 to 23 August 1985 and briefly revived in 1995 by Meridian. This generally light-hearted series was created by comedy writers Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran. The series is set in the East End of London shortly after the Second World War. Upon being demobbed RAF serviceman Harvey Moon, played by Kenneth Cranham, returns home and finds his family involved in various troubles. His wife Rita, played by Maggie Steed, is not interested in resuming their relationship, and works in a seedy nightclub frequented by American servicemen. He becomes involved with the Labour Party and the union movement. The name of the series is a wordplay on the title of the popular 1908 song 'Shine On, Harvest Moon'. The first series was commissioned and recorded by ATV at their Elstree studios with the remaining series filmed at newly constructed facilities in Nottingham.

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