Oliver's Travels (1995)
An eccentric professor and a policewoman pursue criminals and find love.
Synopsis
Oliver's Travels is a five-part television serial written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, SinΓ©ad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995.
Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.
Creator(s)
Alan Plater
Status
Ended
Network
PBS, BBC One Wales
Oliver's Travels
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