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Shooting the Past

TV·1999–1999·1 season, 3 episodes·BBC Two·Drama·52m·Created by Stephen Poliakoff

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A US property developer realises that he has a battle on his hands when he tries to renovate a London building containing a vast photographic collection and discovers that the library employees will resort to anything to thwart him.

Cast

Timothy SpallTimothy SpallOswald BatesLindsay DuncanLindsay DuncanMarilyn TrumanLiam CunninghamLiam CunninghamChristopher AndersonBillie WhitelawBillie WhitelawVeronicaEmilia FoxEmilia FoxSpigArj BarkerArj BarkerGarnettAndy SerkisAndy SerkisStyeman

Episodes by season

Season013Episodes1999Aired—Season avg
  1. S01E01Shooting the Past S01E01Episode 1January 10, 1999—The staff of the Fallon Photo Library and Collection are left reeling when their new American owners decide to break up the archive and sell
  2. S01E02Shooting the Past S01E02Episode 2January 17, 1999—Marilyn has a week to find a buyer, for the collection of photographs, on the condition that Oswald leaves the building and not come back. N
  3. S01E03Shooting the Past S01E03Episode 3January 24, 1999—Marilyn arrives just in time to save Oswald's suicide but he is in a deep coma. With time running out and Anderson wavering the team work on

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