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The Brilliance of Peter Davison (scene from Hope And Glory)

In this clip from 'Hope And Glory', a precursor to Waterloo Road, Peter Davison plays the head of a struggling inner-city school,who is going off to 'better things', driven to the limit by his misbehaving pupils, has a serious breakdown and outburst at his leaving assembly. This scene shows how Peter Davison, who is generally known to the public for his 'nice' roles, such as 'Doctor Who' and 'All Creatures Great And Small', has quite some range. It is a particular favourite role of mine, of his, and the start of a line of dubious characters for Mr Davison, such as the obsessive husband in 'TO BE OR NOT TO B E', David, the cheating sine of a husband in the hugely popular 'AT HOME WITH THE BRAITHWAITES', and a killer in 'NEW TRICKS'. HOPE AND GLORY was a BBC television drama about a comprehensive school struggling with financial, staffing and disciplinary problems, and faced with closure. It starred Lenny Henry as maverick "Superhead" Ian George, enlisted to turn around the school's fortunes. It was created by Lucy Gannon, who had previously created Soldier Soldier, Gannon wrote the series with the intention that it would be transmitted at 8.00pm, before the watershed; however, the BBC instead scheduled it at 9.30pm. There were three seasons of the show produced, 16 episodes in total, being broadcast between 22 June 1999 –5 November 2000. Drama supremo producer Mal Young was a Co-Executive Producer on the show with Lucy Gannon. The series attracted mixed reviews. The Observer's Caroline Boucher praised Gannon's "speedy character establishment" and Henry's "convincing" portrayal. Adam Sweeting in The Guardian was more critical, suggesting it is "old-fashioned melodrama", unfavorably contrasting Gannon with celebrated writers such as Jimmy McGovern and Alan Bleasdale. An out-print DVD set, released in 2006, contained all three seasons. A CD of some of the classical music used in the first series was also released.