Heartbeat (TV series 1992)

Heartbeat is a [British] [drama series] based on the books by [Peter Walker] who under the pseudonym Nicholas Rhea wrote the "[The Constable Series]" where the rights of [Yorkshire Televison] won. It aired from [1992] to [2010], after which the series was cancelled.

It was mainly filmed in Goathland (Aidensfield), Grosmont and Whitby (Ashfordly) in Yorkshire. The fictional Aidensfield, villages where the local police officer had to keep order, and where the Ashfordly police station stood and the police chief and his three or four agents had to maintain the order for the entire region.

The name means the heart of the beat or in the heart of the district. Also indicates the difficulties on the love of the characters in the series.

Production

The series was by Yorkshire Television in The Leeds Studios produced for Independent Television (ITV). On 10 April 1992, the series premiered in England with 12 million viewers and subsequent episodes were good for 10 million viewers. In 2001, the series on the UK TV Ratings in sixth place with 13.8 million viewers, and in 2003 again in sixth place with 12.8 million viewers. In the autumn of 2006 was the 300th episode aired under the sixteenth season. The seventeenth season got off to a break of a few months. On December 24, 2009, 372 episodes broadcast over 18 seasons. Officially there was a break in the series welded to ongetoonde to catch up episodes, the series was unofficially claimed that finally would be cancelled because of the lack of advertising revenue. The spin-off The Royal, which is located in the ruralNorth Yorkshire hospital set, was also put in the closet in 2009. On 25 June 2010, BBC Entertainment reported that the series has now officially been cancelled.

International fame

The series was (or is) also broadcast in a series of other countries, including:

• Belgium (one)
• Denmark (TV2 Charlie) Små og store synder (Small and large sins)
• Germany
• English-speaking countries: Australia: (ABC), Canada: (TV Ontario), Great Britain: (ITV), Ireland: (TV3), New Zealand: (TV One)
• Estonia (ETV) Südameasi (Affairs of the heart)
• Finland (YLE TV1) Sydämen asialla (Affairs of the heart)
• Norway (NRK) Med hjartet på rette staden (With the heart in the right place)
• Netherlands (SBS6)
• Sweden (TV4) Tillbaka till Aidensfield (Back to Aidensfield)

On the Danish channel TV2 Charlie is the series for years daily with two episodes broadcast between 17: 30 and 19: 30 and is still good views.

[1][2]Goathland (Aidensfield station) Station was extensively used in the series.==Structure of the series==

[3][4]Post Office and shops of Goathland, which is often the setting for the series Heartbeat.[5][6]Goathland Hotel is the set for theAidensfield Arms[7][8]Goathland Hotel as Aidensfield Arms If the pub of Aidensfield.[9][10]North York Moors.

The police have always busy with both criminal cases that are worked out by the whole episode and eventually always resolved as well as the small sins of one of the local residents who try to save money everywhere. Each episode has these two story lines as a thread in all seasons of this series. Important landmarks are: Ashfordly Police station, Aidensfield Police house, Aidensfield Arms (the local Inn), Ashfordly Hall and its estate (Lord Ashfordly), Scripps Garage (Bernie Scripps) andBrowhousefarm (House of Claud Jeremiah Greengrass, David, Vernon and Peggy).

Oscar Blaketon begins as sergeant at the police station but after his resignation he soon takes the Adensfield Arms about and tries to play the detective from there along with his former colleague Alf Ventres.

In the first four seasons focused on the policeman Nick Rowan and his wife doctor Kate Rowan. He was assigned to the Aidensfield police House in the heart of North Yorkshire Moor and is attached to the Ashfordly police station. His later successors in the series also retain this function.

The first seasons were some grim in nature, and there were issues such as foot & mouth disease, motorcycle gangs, free sex, domestic violence, protest actions, squatting movements and drug abuse later seasons are based more on child protection, alcoholism, contraceptives, professional crime, gambling addiction and healing.

The doctors and nurses also play an important role in it clear of mysteries or the love life of the agents. Most doctors of Aidensfield come dramatically to life. Doctor Ferrenby Gets a heart attack and drowns, Kate Rowan died of leukemia, Neil Bolton comes to in a fire, Tricia Sommerbee falls from her horse and dies from her injuries and Hellen Trent is an explosion. On the other hand, doctor Liz marries the grantor of Lord Ashfordly and moves to Africa.

Another fixture is the love affair between the agent Phill Bellamy and the owner of his local Inn Gina Ward. That gives problems on regulair area. Seasons was there by those two flirted.

A mystery that has never been solved is Mrs Ventress, the wife of agent Alf Ventress. She was called almost every episode, or spoken over the phone with her. This character, however, never came into view. Nevertheless, a character which Mrs Ventress was better known throughout the series. Alf could count on when he had done something stupid, he better at a colleague could stay overnight. That was the case, for example, at one of its night shifts in the cold winter. He found a snug spot in the train at the station, and fell asleep there. Woken up he noticed soon that he was no longer in Aidensfield. Thereupon he called to the station and instructed his younger colleague to inform his wife that he was on research, and his sergeant to let in limbo. The truth, however, came at the top table.

Claud Jeremiah Greengrass is a thorn in the side of the local police. His small sins are irritating, but never deliver an arrest on his followers Vernon Scripps and Peggy Armstrong also know how one can earn money quickly in many ways. This, however, almost always ran out on nothing.

David, a grown man with a child's brain and gullible, is their helper and was often the victim of.

Location

Heartbeat took place in the village of Aidensfield, that in reality, Goatland is called, and in Ashfordly (Grosmont). Both places are on the train connection Goatland-Grosmont- Pickering - Whitby. Whitby is a port town on the North Sea, and was regularly used for scenes in the series.

Actors

Overview of fixed or recurring actors with 20 or more episodes in the series:

Actor	Role	Place	Year (S)	Number of episodes	Exit
[11] Nick Berry	Nick Rowan	Aidensfield Police House	1992 – 1998	96 episodes	Immigrated to Canada, He was also the singer of the intro movie.
Niamh Cusack	Kate Rowan	Aidensfield Police House	1992-1995	49 episodes	Died of acute leukemia
Derek Fowlds	Oscar Blaketon	Ashfordly Police Station Aidensfield Arms	1992-2009	342 episodes	Last episode
William Simons	Alf Ventress	Ashfordly Police Station	1992 – 2009	355 episodes	Last episode
Bill Maynard	Claude Jeremiah Greengrass	Brow House Farm	1992-2000	155 episodes	Turns out emigrated to Australia
Mark Jordan	Philip Bellamy	Ashfordly Police Station	1992 – 2007	324 episodes	Shot Down
Rupert Vansittart	Lord Charles Ashfordly	Ashfordly Hall	1992 – 2007	75 episodes	Last episode
Stuart Golland	George Ward	Aidensfield Arms	1992 – 1996	67 episodes	Moved by health problems
Frank Middlemass	Alex Ferrenby	Aidensfield practice	1992-1993	20 episodes	Heart attack when fishing and as a result drowned.
Tricia Penrose	Georgina Gina Ward	Aidensfield Arms	1993-2009	338 episodes	Last episode
David Lonsdale	David Stockwell	Brow House Farm Scripps Garage	1993, 1995-2009	259 episodes	Last episode
Anne Stallybrass	Eileen Reynolds	Aidensfield Police House	1993, 1995-1998	42 episodes	-
Juliette Gruber	Jo Weston	Aidensfield Police House	1995-1998	36 episodes	Immigrated to Canada
Alice Jones	Katie Rowan	Aidensfield Police House	1995-1998	32 episodes	Immigrated to Canada
Kazia Pelka	Maggie Bolton	Ashfordly Hospital Nurse	1995-2001	99 episodes	moved to another region
Peter Benson	Bernie Scripps	Scripps Garage	1995-2009	234 episodes	Last episode
David Michaels	Neil Bolton	Ashfordly Hospital	1997-1999	29 episodes	Died in a fire
Jason Durr	Mike Bradley	Aidensfield Police House	1997-2003	128 episodes	Moved to another region
Philip Franks	Raymond Craddock	Ashfordly Police Station	1998-2002	80 episodes	Transfer to another region
Arbel Jones	Mary Clarke	Aidensfield Arms	1998-1999	23 episodes	Moving back to Liverpool
Fiona Dolman	Jackie Lambert	Aidensfield Police House	1998-2001	54 episodes	Moved
Clare Calbraith	Tricia Sommerbee	Aidensfield practice	2001-2002	42 episodes	Falls from a horse and dies of her injuries
Sarah Tansey	Jenny Latimer	Aidensfield practice	2001-2002	69 episodes	Falls into a depression and should thereby move.
Geoffrey Hughes	Vernon Scripps	Brow House Farm Scripps Garage	2001-2005, 2007	88 episodes	Fleeing from the tax office and in scene puts his death. He comes back one more time for some to handle business with his brother.
Duncan Bell	Dennis Iain Merton	Ashfordly Police Station	2002-2005	71 episodes	Must provide for his wife Jenny after that in a depression is hit.
Richard Linter	Ben Norton	Ashfordly Estate	2002-2004	21 episodes	Marries the Liz Merrick and moved to Africa.
Aislín McGuckin	Liz Merrick	Aidensfield practice	2003-2004	46 episodes	Lord Ashfordly and marries the grantor moved to Africa.
James Carlton	Stephen "Steve" Crane	Aidensfield Police House	2003-2004	35 episodes	A child dies in a rescue operation.
[12] Sophie Ward	Helen Trent	Aidensfield practice	2004-2006	40 episodes	By an explosive in her home were murdered.
Vanessa Hehir	Rosie Cartwright	Scripps Garage	2004-2007	72 episodes	Emigrated to Australia Later in the series shows them to have been killed.
Jonathan Kerrigan	Rob Walker	Aidensfield Police House	2004-2007	73 episodes	Moved to another region
Josefina Gabriella	Debbie Bellamy-Black	Aidensfield	2005-2006	10 episodes	Going there with her (ex) of by
Steven Blakeley	Geoffrey Younger	Ashfordly Police Station	2005-2009	102 episodes	Last episode
John Duttine's	George Miller	Ashfordly Police Station	2005-2009	106 episodes	Last episode
Gwen Taylor	Peggy Armstrong	Brow House Farm	2005-2009	98 episodes	Last episode
Clare Wille	Rachel Dawson	HQ	2006-2009	98 episodes	Last episode
Lisa Kay	Carol Cassidy	Aidensfield Police House	2006-2009	71 episodes	Last episode
Joseph McFadden	Joe Mason	Aidensfield Police House	2007-2009	48 episodes	Last episode
Rupert Ward-Lewis	Don Wetherby	Ashfordly Police Station	2007-2009	42 episodes	Last episode
Nikki Sanderson	Dawn Bellamy	Aidensfield Arms	2008-2009	30 episodes	Last episode

[13][14]The train from Pickering to Gromont===Mark Jordon as Phillip "Phil" Montgomery Bellamy and Tricia Penrose as Georgina "Gina" Ward===

Pc Phil Bellamy is there from the first episode at until his exit in the sixteenth season, where he was shot.

Phil Bellamy was the police officer of the local police station in Ashfordly. Ashfordly is his beat (district). In the beginning he is what casual and naive and runs a regular Argus, but was later in the series a policeman.

As George of the Aidensfield Arms get health problems, his niece Gina Ward help him. It will continue from that point on a fixed character of the series. Although in the beginning a normal teenager grows Gina on and teaches the accountability to wear for the pub. Gina is, however, often unlucky in love, and her new boyfriend to have another, or criminal, making him picking up the local police. Also later interfered Oscar regularly with her love life. Gina, is later the owner of the Aidensfield Arms and Phil is her new love and they had a premature baby who died after three days. As a result, they grew apart again.

Phil Bellamy later encounters the single mother of three, Debbie Black, with whom he later marries. However, the marriage will last long if it turns out that the first man of Debbie is not dead but has left her and never with him since the marriage has been dissolved is Phil again a free man.

Phil and Gina come later back together and they eventually marry. Gina turns out a short time later to be pregnant.

Phil was eventually shot dead as he was a boy trying to protect.

William Simons as Alfred "Alf" Ventress

The character Alf Ventress (played by William Simons) has played an important role from the start. Alf is policeman who prefer behind his desk with a hard boiled egg, than that he should venture out. His local knowledge is vast and passes the local police archive. He also smokes a cigarette as often as possible and he sometimes comes in problems with his interest in gambling and betting on horse races.

After his retirement at the police station there was a summer job as a civil agent, where he created more going to focus on the support of the corps and manned the station when the agents are broadcast. Along with Oscar Blaketon who works as a private detective, they solve all kinds of problems, where Oscar on the knowledge of Ventress trusted.

Alf Ventres is married to the much discussed Mrs. Ventress. His wife, however, never comes into focus.

Derek Fowlds as Oscar Blaketon

Oscar Blaketon was in the first seasons in Ashfordly police station sergeant. The police work he takes very seriously until he retires due to heart problems. Short time he works as the owner of the local post office before he teamed up with Gina the Aidensfield Arms goes running. The counterpart in the series, Claude Jeremiah Greengrass, Oscar is a thorn in the side of him and does everything for it to be able to arrest and to lock up under lock and key.

Bill Maynard as Claud Jeremiah Greengrass and David

[15][16]The train from the series Heartbeat, which Claud Jeremiah Greengrass clinched.

Claud Jeremiah Greengrass is an OAF who intends to save a buck anywhere. His grin and Flash it with his eyes, however, prove how it really goes with him. Its fixed line:I'm nearly an old age pensioner was regularly used to want to avoid punishment. Furthermore, he always runs in his old clothes and he is regularly found on Lord Ashfordly's estate, where he hunts pheasants and rabbits.

His most dangerous action stems from an episode where he with his friend Martin Oppeshaw hijacks a drunken local train and they been together for slurring through the countryside drive.

Since David is not the smartest of the class, and his mother can no longer care for him, and Greengrass suspect created there can be abuse of Greengrass takes him under his wing. In turn makes Greengrass or abuse of that situation on certain chores to renovate whereby David often gets into trouble.

Alfred is the dog of Greengrass. This became in the course of the 14 seasons replaced 4 times (incidentally all females). Where David was, there was Alfred also.

Special episodes

• As Nick Rowan and Jo Weston with little Katie in episode 98 to Canada immigrate, a special episode about the new life in Canada and Nicks work in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. There was a video released and the following year it was on tv shows.
• 10 Years of Heartbeat (13 april 2002): If ten years have passed will be shown a documentary with the memories and stories of the current and former actors and employees of the series. Also guest stars stories their memories.
• Heartbeat: Christmas Album (18 december 2005): a special episode where looked back is on the Christmas episodes of recent years. There was also a preview on the Christmas episode of the fifteenth season, Episode 12. This episode named "Auld Acquaintance" (old acquaintances) was broadcast the same evening.
• Heartbeat: Farewell Phil (december 2007): a one off episode to commemorate the character Phil Bellamy. In season 17, Episode 6 "Touch And Go", ended the Heartbeat- Mark Jordan 's career as his character is shot, in a request for to save a child. The evening will be shown to be the documentary in which Mark Jordon look back on the more than 16 seasons Heartbeat with his fellow actors.

[17][18]From Goathland (Aidensfield Station train station)==Prices==

Some nominations and awards:

• 1995 – ITV Programme of the year (TRIC Award)- winner
• 1998 – ITV Programme of the year
• 1998- National Television Award -most popular newcomer-Jason Durr- nomination
• 1999- winner Best prime time drama
• 2007-Best European drama ( NRKs winner Top 10)
• 2008-best British drama (nominated by ITV) winner