The Main Chance
Premiered: Jun 18, 1969 | 4 seasons | 45 episodes
Popularity: 8
| Creator: | Edmund Ward, John Malcolm |
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| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| John Stride | David Main | 45 |
| Glynn Edwards | Walter Clegg | 19 |
| Anna Palk | Sarah Courtney | 16 |
| John Arnatt | Sidney Bulmer | 13 |
| Philip Bond | Peter Findon | 12 |
| Sharon Maughan | Inge Lindstrom | 6 |
| Kate O'Mara | Julia Main | 4 |
| Denis Lill | Stephen Howard | 4 |
| Gary Bond | Andrew Retford | 4 |
| Anna Palk | Lady Sarah Radchester | 4 |
| Frederick Jaeger | Peter Jarratt | 3 |
| Bernard Kay | Patrick Bell | 2 |
| Stuart Wilson | Edward Ransom | 2 |
| Georgina Ward | Edie Semple | 2 |
| Richard Wyler | Tim Cowley | 2 |
| Gerald Sim | Rufus Mansfield | 2 |
| Frederick Treves | Simon Rimsey | 2 |
| Jack Watson | Harry Selby | 2 |
| Ronald Radd | Lord Arkwright | 2 |
| Lyndon Brook | Lt. Col. Brant | 1 |
| Peter Miles | Arthur Wainright | 1 |
| John Collin | Charlie Webster | 1 |
| George Baker | Major Donovan | 1 |
| Bernard Kay | George Dyson | 1 |
| John Normington | George Hargrave | 1 |
| Arthur Brough | County Court Judge | 1 |
| Rowena Cooper | Fiona Kelly | 1 |
| John Welsh | James Renshaw | 1 |
| John Welsh | Sir Stephen Kirwin | 1 |
| Percy Herbert | Gil Vasey | 1 |
| Freddie Jones | Professor Ian Allardyce | 1 |
| Anthony Sharp | Sir Martin Fulford | 1 |
| Robin Askwith | Sammy Cutforth | 1 |
| John Standing | Lord Radchester | 1 |
| Joan Greenwood | Mrs. Hilary Wenn | 1 |
| Stuart Wilson | William Trehearne | 1 |
| Peter Bowles | Roger Lamb | 1 |
| Walter Sparrow | Site Foreman | 1 |
| Bob Hoskins | Workman | 1 |
| John Bennett | Raul Ramira | 1 |
| William Russell | Arnold Galbraith | 1 |
| Phyllida Law | Alison Murray | 1 |
| Patrick Troughton | Frederick Owen | 1 |
| James Hazeldine | Staff Sgt. Timson | 1 |
| Leslie Schofield | Roy Wilson Gibbard | 1 |
| John Savident | Donald Jarram | 1 |
| Michael Sheard | Analyst | 1 |
| Ed Devereaux | Paul Miller | 1 |
| Peter Williams | Judge | 1 |
| Peter Williams | Edward Stainer | 1 |
| Mark Burns | Warren Iveson | 1 |
| Philip Brack | Col. Charles Everett | 1 |
| Philip Brack | Sam Thornaby | 1 |
| Peter Cellier | Braintree | 1 |
| Peter Cellier | Lawrence Wingrove | 1 |
| Walter Gotell | Gilbert Fletcher | 1 |
| Walter Gotell | Raymond Berry | 1 |
| Michael Elwyn | Lord Radchester | 1 |
| Donald Douglas | Philip Betton | 1 |
| Clifton Jones | Manuel Patino | 1 |
| Malcolm Terris | Mr. Page | 1 |
| Vladek Sheybal | Otto Zobel | 1 |
| Michael Gough | Sir George Andrews | 1 |
| Diana Coupland | Mrs. Clifford | 1 |
| Georgine Anderson | Mrs. Kellaway | 1 |
| Peter Arne | Ernest Leggatt | 1 |
| Robin Ellis | Donald Gordon Hopwood | 1 |
| John Horsley | Magistrate | 1 |
| Emrys James | Derek Adams | 1 |
| Felix Aylmer | Judge | 1 |
| David Hutcheson | Sir George More-Litton | 1 |
| John Nettleton | Joseph Shelton | 1 |
| Robert Cawdron | Crispin | 1 |
| Tony Caunter | Harry Rowlands | 1 |
| Ballard Berkeley | Major Dibbyn | 1 |
| Jack May | Derrick Asher | 1 |
| Jack May | Harry Turner | 1 |
| Maurice O'Connell | Det. Sgt. Ray Allington | 1 |
| Frederick Treves | Stanton | 1 |
| Glynn Edwards | Len Smith | 1 |
| Douglas Wilmer | Dr. Lowton | 1 |
| Sharon Maughan | Inge Belbin | 1 |
| Norman Mitchell | Charles Willard | 1 |
| Edward Judd | Det. Insp. Shannon | 1 |
| Nigel Stock | George Fisher | 1 |
| Dave Hill | George Duncan | 1 |
| David Lodge | Det. Chief Supt. Guthrie | 1 |
| David Lodge | Det. Sup. Guthrie | 1 |
| David Lodge | Det. Chief Insp. Guthrie | 1 |
| David Lodge | Det. Ch. Supt. Guthrie | 1 |
| Michael Robbins | Gerry Baxter | 1 |
| Antony Carrick | James Cosgrove | 1 |
| John Turner | Acting Supt. Grover | 1 |
| Gary Bond | Robert Gordon | 1 |
| Hilary Mason | Agnes McLaren | 1 |
| Kathleen Byron | Amanda Retford | 1 |
| Ronald Adam | Sir Charles Braithwaite | 1 |
| Richard Hurndall | Stipendiary Magistrate | 1 |
| Arnold Diamond | Tribunal Chairman | 1 |
| Faith Brook | Susan Crawford | 1 |
| Brian Hall | Sammy Beddowes | 1 |
| Robert Raglan | Judge | 1 |
| George Sewell | Harry Kenton | 1 |
| John Phillips | Arnold Bingley | 1 |
| Simon Oates | Godfrey Allen | 1 |
| Derek Francis | Sir James Darren | 1 |
| Brian Rawlinson | George Langden | 1 |
| Clifford Rose | Lewis Savage | 1 |
| John Westbrook | Charles Wainwright | 1 |
| Peter Gilmore | Anthony Gibbs-Revill | 1 |
| Peter Gilmore | Tony Murray | 1 |
| Aimée Delamain | Alice Greensmith | 1 |
| Hamilton Dyce | Judge | 1 |
| Peter Halliday | John Smith | 1 |
| Anna Palk | Lady Radchester | 1 |
| Tony Melody | Sammy Dayton | 1 |
| Arthur Hewlett | Sir Archibald Maclaren | 1 |
| Frank Mills | Joe Brown | 1 |
| Martin Boddey | Gilbert Ellnet | 1 |
| Edward Evans | Mr. Griffiths | 1 |
| Chloe Franks | Liz Main | 1 |
| Basil Dignam | Mr. Jory | 1 |
| Timothy Carlton | Jeremy Purcell-Browne | 1 |
| Roger Booth | Magnus Tait | 1 |
| Geoffrey Denton | Court Chairman | 1 |
| Jack Watson | Charles Arkwright | 1 |
| Matthew Guinness | Merton | 1 |
| Gillian Hawser | Lady Annabel Andrews | 1 |
| Michael Culver | Roger Lockhart | 1 |
| David Savile | Buckley | 1 |
| David Savile | Edward Bellingham | 1 |
| Ronald Radd | Joseph Elvin | 1 |
| Ray Smith | Joe Holroyd | 1 |
| Morris Perry | Kellaway | 1 |
| John Barcroft | Mark Freedler | 1 |
| John Barcroft | Ian Matthews | 1 |
| Donald Webster | Crump | 1 |
| Gillian Raine | Denise Clegg | 1 |
| Patrick Jordan | Insp. Bertram | 1 |
| Patrick Jordan | Smith | 1 |
| John Crocker | Oliver Griffiths | 1 |
| Pat Heywood | Mrs. Elliott | 1 |
| Patrick Barr | Dr. John Grafton | 1 |
| Anthony Bate | Charles Ian Grady | 1 |
| Anthony Bate | Tom Kelly | 1 |
| Tom Watson | Sandy McGoggie | 1 |
| Marjorie Rhodes | Ruth Paxton | 1 |
| Nicholas Courtney | James Harding | 1 |
| George Innes | George Wilkinson | 1 |
| David Daker | Jacobson | 1 |
| Ralph Truman | Reginald Crowther | 1 |
| Norman Scace | Anthony Markson | 1 |
| Norman Scace | Magistrate | 1 |
| Barrie Cookson | Executive Officer | 1 |
| Jacqueline Chan | Gina Gordon | 1 |
| Elizabeth Shepherd | The Hon. Fiona Cowley | 1 |
| Anthony Baird | Watchman | 1 |
| Preston Lockwood | Ministry Inspector | 1 |
| Brian McDermott | Allan Whittaker | 1 |
| Brian Oulton | George Mynter | 1 |
| Noel Dyson | Janet Harrison | 1 |
| Richard Hampton | William Eversley | 1 |
| Nicholas Pennell | Jeremy Upjohn | 1 |
| Michael Beint | George Seager | 1 |
| Judy Huxtable | Olivia Marrett-Browne | 1 |
| Laurence Payne | James Galbraith | 1 |
| Paul Massie | Richard Swanson | 1 |
| Hugh Moxey | Judge Belling | 1 |
| Barbara Young | Hilda Walker | 1 |
| Malcolm Tierney | Maj. Michael Gardiner | 1 |
| Austin Trevor | Judge | 1 |
| Dorothy Gordon | Mary Cooper | 1 |
| Wensley Pithey | Lord Bennett | 1 |
| Norman Claridge | Stipendiary Magistrate | 1 |
| Ellis Dale | Ticket Collector | 1 |
| Richard Easton | Dr. Milner | 1 |
| Eve Pearce | Mrs Brockford | 1 |
| James Copeland | Johnny Stewart | 1 |
| Basil Henson | Brigadier | 1 |
| William Fox | High Court Judge | 1 |
| John Forrest | Twite | 1 |
| Anthony Woodruff | Crown Court Judge | 1 |
| Laurence Hardy | Edward Main | 1 |
| Michael Gwynn | Judge | 1 |
| Joseph Brady | George Allen | 1 |
| Derek Farr | Robert Douglas | 1 |
| John Atkinson | Magistrate | 1 |
| Alister Williamson | Tom Maxwell | 1 |
| Shirley Dixon | Sally Howard | 1 |
| Gilbert Wynne | Frank Gerrard | 1 |
| Sylvia Barter | Juvenile Court Chairman | 1 |
| Neil Wilson | Prison Doctor | 1 |
| Gwen Cherrell | Annie Selby-Wilson | 1 |
| John Harvey | Chief Supt. Griffin | 1 |
| John Harvey | Mr. Justice Fairburn | 1 |
| David Trevena | Prison Cook | 1 |
| Robert Keegan | Sam Bradshaw | 1 |
| Dorothy Alison | Chairman of Magistrates | 1 |
| Hugh Cross | Coroner | 1 |
| Leslie Sands | Charles Arkwright | 1 |
| John Bown | Neville Carson | 1 |
| Keith Washington | Richard Darren | 1 |
| Michael Hawkins | Harold Layton | 1 |
| Norman Shelley | Sefton Gardiner | 1 |
| Artro Morris | Robert Jordan | 1 |
| Peter Birrel | Michael Coburn | 1 |
| Peter Birrel | Joe Farrell | 1 |
| Robin Hawdon | Alec Grafton | 1 |
| Richard Mathews | Arnold Henderson | 1 |
| Frank Wylie | Yorkie | 1 |
| Richard Burrell | Robert Varney | 1 |
| Peter Jeffrey | Kenneth Manmer | 1 |
| Peter Jeffrey | Hugh Neville | 1 |
| John Stratton | Edward Pendlebury | 1 |
| Allan Cuthbertson | Ian Osborn Utley | 1 |
| Keith Marsh | Arthur Conway | 1 |
| Georgina Hale | Sheila Smith | 1 |
| Bernard Hepton | Bridges | 1 |
| Heather Sears | Mary Wingrove | 1 |
| Carleton Hobbs | Lord Chief Justice | 1 |
| Geoffrey Frederick | Det. Sgt. Ransome | 1 |
| Noel Hood | Aunt Harriet | 1 |
| Windsor Davies | George Halloran | 1 |