All Night Long: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Bill Chivers is an ex-convict who having learnt bakery in the nick is determined to "go straight". Helping Chivers at the bakery is a motley crew consisting of Vanda, an illegally employed Romanian who is a better baker than her boss; Scottish Tom, a confused man prone to boasting that he 'was once the shortest man ever to work for British Rail'; and Courtney. Much of the action centres around the visitors to the bakers, they include Clare, a wheelchair-bound crime writer; Wally, a shady mini-cab driver; Terry, a stripper; and coppers PC Digby and WPC Jackson.

Series details

• Title: All Night Long
• Format: Scripted
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy
• Premiere date: 1994-07-11
• Final broadcast date listed: 1994-08-22
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: BBC One
• Network country: United Kingdom
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 43032
• IMDb ID: tt0108691
• TVDB ID: 268445

Cast and credited roles

• Keith Barron — Bill Chivers
• Dinah Sheridan — Clare
• Angus Lennie — Tom
• Janis Winters — WPC Hannah Jackson
• John Phythian — PC Digby
• Jacqueline Reddin — Terry
• Robert McKewley — Courtney
• Paul Grunert — Wally
• Maureen Beattie — Vanda

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1994-07-11; final listed air date 1994-08-22; episode order: 6.

Source and licence

Adapted from All Night Long on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.