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Man at the Top: Created by John Braine. With Kenneth Haigh, Zena Walker, Paul Hardwick, Avice Landone. The continuing trials and tribulations of Joe Lampton, a Northern lad trying to make it in the South as he wheels and deals in the cutthroat business world of 1970s England.
- (52)
- 1970-12-14
- Drama
- 60
Man at the Top was a British kitchen sink drama television series that originally aired on ITV, lasting for 23 episodes between 1970 and 1972. The series depicted the character of Joe Lampton, the protagonist of John Braine 's novels Room at the Top (1957) and Life at the Top (1962), and of the films based on those novels ( Room at ...
- Drama
Man at the Top, originally screened in the early '70s, continues to chart the progress of Joe Lampton, the aggressively ambitious anti-hero of John Braine's best-selling novel Room at the...
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A hungry bank manager, four pounds in his account and a repossessed car are hardly the attributes of a man at the top. Joe is discovering that nothing fails like failure - even if there are consolations.
Man at the Top picked up the life of Joe Lampton who we had last seen in the film Life at the Top (1965) with Laurence Harvey as the get-on-at-all-costs nasty piece of work. Kenneth Haigh became the man TV viewers loved to hate, with Zena Walker playing his long-suffering wife, Susan.
Man at the Top was a British television series originally aired on ITV lasting for 23 episodes between 1970 and 1972 . The series depicted the character of Joe Lampton, the protagonist of John Braine's novel Room at the Top and two films Room at the Top and Life at the Top.
An intense, compelling series from the early '70s, Man at the Top stars Kenneth Haigh in the continuing story of Joe Lampton, the aggressively ambitious anti-hero of John Braine's bestselling novel Room at the Top.
