Spender
Premiered: Jan 08, 1991 | 3 seasons | 21 episodes
Popularity: 6
| Creator: | Jimmy Nail, Ian La Frenais |
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| Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, but he must also deal with the friends, enemies and family he left behind, and never expected to return to. Sammy Johnson played Spender's sidekick Stick, while Denise Welch played Spender's wife. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Jimmy Nail | Spender | 21 |
| Peter Guinness | DCS Gillespie | 21 |
| Berwick Kaler | DS Dan Boyd | 21 |
| Denise Welch | Frances Spender | 21 |
| Paul Greenwood | Supt Yelland | 21 |
| Sammy Johnson | Stick | 21 |
| Lena Headey | Emily Goodman | 2 |
| Malcolm Terris | Lord Mayor | 2 |
| James Garbutt | George | 2 |
| Robert Pattinson | Frank Nesbitt | 1 |
| Colin McCormack | Staff Sergeant Bob Bamford | 1 |
| Clive Russell | Albie Sloeman | 1 |
| Timothy Spall | Robert Cunningham | 1 |
| Christopher Fairbank | Joe Phelan | 1 |
| Rodney Bewes | Norman Ellerson | 1 |
| Frances Tomelty | Lorraine Hope | 1 |
| Michael Vartan | Paul Ducheyne | 1 |
| Geoffrey Hughes | Kenny Coates | 1 |
| Melanie Hill | Sue Styles | 1 |
| Ewan Stewart | Man from the Dene | 1 |
| Nigel Terry | McDonna | 1 |
| Maurice Roëves | Mal Balmer | 1 |
| Jean-François Balmer | Inspector Calliere | 1 |
| Pauline Melville | Judge | 1 |
| John Woodvine | Berry | 1 |
| Struan Rodger | Peter the Hair | 1 |
| John Bowler | Vourne | 1 |
| Amanda Redman | Roberta 'Bobby' Montgomery | 1 |
| Thomas Craig | Jim Harris | 1 |
| Jean Heywood | Sarah Ellis | 1 |
| Michelle Newell | Angela Balmer | 1 |
| Julie Peasgood | Booney | 1 |
| Elizabeth Edmonds | Eileen | 1 |
| Christian Rodska | Superintendent George Ellis | 1 |
| Stuart McGugan | Alfie | 1 |
| Dallas Campbell | Young College Type | 1 |