Shooting the Past

Synopsis

A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.

First Air Date: 1999-01-10

Last Air Date: 1999-01-24

Number of Seasons: 1

Number of Episodes: 3

Created By: Stephen Poliakoff

Networks: BBC Two

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Top Cast

Timothy Spall as Oswald Bates
Lindsay Duncan as Marilyn Truman
Liam Cunningham as Christopher Anderson
Billie Whitelaw as Veronica
Emilia Fox as Spig
Arj Barker as Garnett
Andy Serkis as Styeman

Seasons

Miniseries (1999)

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Episode 1 (1999-01-10)

The staff of the Fallon Photo Library and Collection are left reeling when their new American owners decide to break up the archive and sell off the cherished Man Ray photographs. Archivist Oswald Bates is determined to fight to the end.
Ep. 2: Episode 2 (1999-01-17)

Marilyn has a week to find a buyer, for the collection of photographs, on the condition that Oswald leaves the building and not come back. No buyer is able to take an archive of this size. Oswald decides to take drastic action.
Ep. 3: Episode 3 (1999-01-24)

Marilyn arrives just in time to save Oswald's suicide but he is in a deep coma. With time running out and Anderson wavering the team work on a photo montage about a lost family secret. Anderson changes his mind, saving the archive.