Blind Ambition (ITV 2000 with Robson Green and Imogen Stubb)

UK / ITV Network – Tyne Tees – Coastal / 1×120 minute episodes / Broadcast Thursday 7 September 2000 at 9.00pm

Writer: Eric Deacon / Music: Evelyn Glennie, Greg Malcangi, Rick Wentworth / Camera: Mark Partridge / Executive Producers: Sandra Jobling, Carolyn Reynolds / Producer: Peter Norris / Director: Richard Standeven

Drama. When athlete Richard Thomas is involved in a car accident that robs him of his sight he decides he wont let it stand in the way of his Olympic dreams and begins training for the Sydney paralympics.

cast
ROBSON GREEN as Richard Thomas
IMOGEN STUBBS as Annie Thomas
MARK WOMACK as Clive Rouse
JONATHAN FERGUSON as Tim Thomas
KAYE WRAGG as Rona Anderson
ERIC DEACON as Derek Lane
KEN BRADSHAW as Gordon Mace
MARGERY BONE as Debbie
DAVID PROSHO as Mike Waite
MARTIN CROCKER as Eric Byron
ANTHONY SCHAEFFER as Mr Stanley
JANINE BIRKETT as Nursing Sister
ALASTAIR IMRIE as Alan Simms
KIM TSERKEZIE as Paul Simms

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