Vikki Chambers
Birthday: Born in in Birmingham, West Midlands, England, UK
Deathday: Alive
Vicki Chambers was born in Birmingham and made her television debut in 1972 in the lead role of Marianne in Escape Into The Night. She then became a presenter of the BBC Radio Brum Club before touring the Northern circuit in two one woman shows called Waking Up and Girl Talk. In 1981 she appeared on television as Jan in Tazzer, as an interviewer in Watch Your Language, as Sue in Angels, as Sue in Artemis 81 and as robbery accomplice Michelle Fenton in Coronation Street. In 1983 she returned to Coronation Street as Sally Waterman, secretary and reporter at the Weatherfield Recorder for Ken Barlow. She stayed in the role for two years. Vicki then appeared as The Hag in BBC comedy series The Young Ones and as Sister Prudence in Happy Families. Vicki has worked extensively on radio in many plays and has appeared in more than fifty commercials. Other television work includes Hope It Rains, An Actors Life For Me, Talk, Write and Read, Chalkface, Truckers, Take Me Home, The Goodbye Window and Out of Order. Vicki lives in Birmingham and often works for the Birmingham Repertory Company.
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The Young Ones
Character: Aged and toothless and bent old crone
The misadventures of four lunatic students who live in a shared student house. There's Rick, the overblown political one addicted to Cliff Richard, Vyvyan the experimental scientific one/part-time anarchist, Neil the worried hippy, and Mike the ladies' man (at least he is in his mind)....
Escape Into Night
Character: Marianne
Marianne is in bed after falling from her horse. She occupies herself by doodling in a sketch book, drawing a boy inside a bare house. When Marianne falls asleep, she finds herself outside the very house that she drew....
Star Cops
Character: Lina Margello
Star Cops follows Nathan Spring and the rest of his multinational team of the International Space Police (Star Cops) as they work to establish the Star Cops and solve whatever crimes come their way. Operating in a relatively accurately realised hard SF, near-future, space environment, many of the cases that the Star Cops investigate arise from opportunities for new crimes presented by the technologically advanced future society the series depicts and from the hostile frontier nature of the envir...
Hope It Rains
Character: Amy
After the deaths of her parents, Jace moves in with her godfather Harry, who runs a waxwork museum in a seaside town. He hopes the weather will change for the worse to attract custom....
Happy Families
Character: Sister Prudence
Happy Families was a rural comedy drama written by Ben Elton which appeared on the BBC in 1985 and told the story of the dysfunctional Fuddle family. It starred Jennifer Saunders as Granny Fuddle, Dawn French as the Cook and Adrian Edmondson as her imbecilic grandson Guy. The plot centred around Guy's attempts to find his four sisters - also played by Saunders, for a family reunion....
Angels
Character: Sue
Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on different departments within Heath Green Hospital and was a highly successful continuing drama....
The Basil Brush Show
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A British television series starring puppet character Basil Brush. It ran from 1968-1980 on the BBC and featured Rodney Bewes, Derek Fowlds, Roy North, Howard Williams and Billy Boyle. Many episodes from this series are considered lost due to the BBC "junking" or reusing tapes in the 1960s and 70s....