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Old 29-08-2008, 12:37 PM
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Need some urgent help please to stop my brain explodiing.

Does anyone remenber an 80s or early 90s tv show based in a Midlands legal firm. The lead actor was possibly Kevin McNally or someone else with a simliar lived-in look (sorry Mr McNally). He played a loveable rogue lawyer, often drunk, with plenty of the usual cliches, but it was well acted and scripted.

The female lead I think was blonde or fair haired.

Can anyone help with a title?


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The first thing that popped into my head was Is it Legal ? but this is later and not set in the Midlands as far as I can remember.
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I'm wondering whether it's 'Kinsey'. That was a legal series set in the Midlands.
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Kinsey??? Don't recognise the title, but my memory plays tricks. My IMDB site is not working - was the lead Kevin McNally or a look alike?

The girl looked at little like the Richardson women, tall, slim and elegant, but with short fair hair.

I'll have to sleep on it.


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Kinsey was played by Leigh Lawson IIRC.



Edit - I was right .... here's a link.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0200776/
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Thanks for the photo and link. Leigh Lawson looks familiar, but Serena Gordon does not. Very pretty but is she tall?

Is there a gallery of British actresses anywhere on the web? Failing that, is there a comprehensive alphabetical list. I might remember a photo or simply a name.


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Kinsey (although I didn't recall the title itself) was the first thing I thought of when I read the first post.

His character was keen on fighting for the poor rather than the money maker, if I recall correctly and I think the female lead joined the practice and gave it some respectability.

Kevin McNally was a probation officer in an ITV series.
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Serena Gordon.

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Kinsey (although I didn't recall the title itself) was the first thing I thought of when I read the first post.

His character was keen on fighting for the poor rather than the money maker, if I recall correctly and I think the female lead joined the practice and gave it some respectability.

Kevin McNally was a probation officer in an ITV series.

Very Interesting. I wonder If I have got my legal/probation characters mixed up?

Do you recall the name of your programme? And the female lead?



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