The Charmer (TV series)

The Charmer
Genre	Drama
Based on	Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton
Written by	Allan Prior
Directed by	Alan Gibson
Starring	Nigel Havers Bernard Hepton Rosemary Leach Fiona Fullerton
Theme music composer	Richard Rodney Bennett
Opening theme	You're the Top – Performed by Paul Jones
Ending theme	You're the Top – Performed by Paul Jones
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producer	Philip Hinchcliffe
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	LWT
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	18 October (1987-10-18) – 22 November 1987 (1987-11-22)
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The Charmer was a 1987 British television serial set in the 1930s, and starring Nigel Havers as Ralph Ernest Gorse, a seducing conman, Rosemary Leach as Joan Plumleigh-Bruce, a smitten victim widow and Bernard Hepton as Donald Stimpson, Plumleigh-Bruce's would-be beau, who vengefully pursues Gorse after he has conned her.

It was made by London Weekend Television (LWT) for ITV, and loosely based on the 1953 novel Mr. Stimpson and Mr. Gorse by Patrick Hamilton, the second work in the Gorse Trilogy.^[1]

The series was repeated in February and March 1990. ITV3 also repeated the series in full at 1:45 a.m. from 5 September 2009. Narrative repeats were on Mondays from 7 September 2009 at 10:05 a.m. It was broadcast in the US on Masterpiece Theater starting 30 April 1989.^[1]