Television
- Thriller – 'File It Under Fear' (1973)
- The Evacuees (1975)
- The Sweeney ("Selected Target") (1976) — Mrs Smedley
- The Knowledge (television film) (1979) - Brenda
- Agony (1979–81) — Jane Lucas
- Smiley's People (1982) — Stella Craven
- On Your Way, Riley (1985) — Kitty McShane
- A Little Princess (1986) — Miss Minchin
- All At No. 20 (1986–7)— Sheila Haddon
- The Enid Blyton Story (1992) — Enid Blyton
- Agony Again (1995) — Jane Lucas
- Eskimo Day (1996) — Shani Whittle
- Coronation Street (2002) — Lilian Spencer
- Jonathan Creek: ("The Tailor's Dummy") (2003) — Louise Bergman
- Doctor Who ("The Idiot's Lantern") (2006) — The Wire
- Casualty (2007) Hannah Liddell
- The Agent (2008) — Charlie
- The Paul O'Grady Show (2008, 2009) — Herself
- Skins (2009) – Aunt Elizabeth
- Minder ("The Art of the Matter") (2009) – Anita Richardson
- Ladies of Letters (2009–present) — Irene Spencer
- Loose Women (2010) — Herself
- Tinga Tinga Tales (2010) Voice of Hummingbird
- Holby City (2011) Bonnie Waters
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Famous quotes containing the word television:
“The technological landscape of the present day has enfranchised its own electorates—the inhabitants of marketing zones in the consumer goods society, television audiences and news magazine readerships... vote with money at the cash counter rather than with the ballot paper at the polling booth.”
—J.G. (James Graham)
“Television ... helps blur the distinction between framed and unframed reality. Whereas going to the movies necessarily entails leaving one’s ordinary surroundings, soap operas are in fact spatially inseparable from the rest of one’s life. In homes where television is on most of the time, they are also temporally integrated into one’s “real” life and, unlike the experience of going out in the evening to see a show, may not even interrupt its regular flow.”
—Eviatar Zerubavel, U.S. sociologist, educator. The Fine Line: Making Distinctions in Everyday Life, ch. 5, University of Chicago Press (1991)
“His [O.J. Simpson’s] supporters lined the freeway to cheer him on Friday and commentators talked about his tragedy. Did those people see the photographs of the crime scene and the great blackening pools of blood seeping into the sidewalk? Did battered women watch all this on television and realize more vividly than ever before that their lives were cheap and their pain inconsequential?”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)