Oliver's Travels

Oliver's Travels is a five-part television miniseries written by Alan Plater and starring Alan Bates, Sinéad Cusack, Bill Paterson, and Miles Anderson. It first aired in the UK in 1995.

Bates plays the titular Oliver (it's never made clear whether this is his first or last name), a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.

Links and external references

Oliver's Travels at the Internet Movie Database
Oliver's Travels at the PBS Mystery! web site

The works of Alan Plater

Television writing	A Smashing Day (1962) The First Lady (1968-69) Land of Green Ginger (Play for Today, 1973) The Stars Look Down (1975) Oh No, It's Selwyn Froggitt! (1976-77) Trinity Tales (1975) Willow Cabins(1975) By Christian Judges Condemned (1976) Middlemen (1976) The Good Companions (1980) Get Lost! (1981) The Barchester Chronicles (1982) Bewitched (1983) The Consultant (1983) Pride of our Alley (1983) On the Edge of Sand (1985) On Your Way Riley (1985) Crystal Spirit: Orwell on Jura (1985) Miss Marple: A Murder Is Announced (1985) The Beiderbecke Affair (1985) Coming Through (1985) Death Is Part of the Process (1986) Fortunes of War (1987) The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987) The Beiderbecke Connection (1988) A Very British Coup (1988) Misterioso (1991) Selected Exits (1993) Doggin' Around (1994) Oliver's Travels (1995) The Last of the Blonde Bombshells (2000) Joe Maddison's War (2010)

Films	The Virgin and the Gypsy (1970) Juggernaut (1970) It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet (1975) Priest of Love (1981) A Day in Summer (1990) Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1997)

Stage	The Mating Season (1963) The Rainbow Machine (1963) The Referees (1963) Ted's Cathedral (1963) See The Pretty Lights (1965) Shooting The Legend (1965) A Smashing Day (1965) Hop, Step And Jump (1967) Charlie Came To Our Town (1968) Close The Coalhouse Door (1968) The What On The Landing? (1968) And A Little Love Besides (1970) Don't Build A Bridge, Drain The River! (1970) Simon Says! (1970) King Billy Vaudeville Show (1971) The Tigers Are Coming - OK? (1975) Swallows On The Water (1973) Tales Of Humberside (1975) Our Albert (1976) Drums Along The Ginnel (1977) The Fosdyke Saga (1977) Fosdyke 2 (1977) Well Good Night Then. . .. (1978) On Your Way, Riley! (1982) Skyhooks (1982) A Foot On The Earth (1984) Prez (1985) In Blackberry Time (1987) Rent Party (1989) Going Home (1990) Sweet Sorrow (1990) I Thought I Heard A Rustling (1991) All Credit To The Lads (1998) Peggy For You (1999) Greenvoe (2000) Tales From The Backyard (2001) Only A Matter Of Time (2002) Barriers (2003) The Last Days Of The Empire (2003) Charlie's Trousers (2004) Confessions Of A City Supporter (2004) Sweet William (2005) Tales From The Golden Slipper (2007) Looking for Buddy (2009)

Other works	Doggin' Around (autobiography, 2006)