Flickers
Genre	Comedy drama
Written by	Roy Clarke
Directed by	Cyril Coke
Starring	Bob Hoskins Frances de la Tour
Composer	Ron Grainer
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producers	Joan Brown David Reid
Running time	50 minutes
Production company	Associated Television
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	17 September (1980-09-17) – 22 October 1980 (1980-10-22)

Flickers is a British television series which was originally broadcast on ITV in 1980. A comedy drama it stars Bob Hoskins as a pioneering filmmaker and Frances de la Tour as the wealthy, middle-class woman who backs his ambitions. Some critics compared it negatively with Pennies from Heaven which had also starred Hoskins.^[1]

Main cast

• Bob Hoskins as Arnie Cole
• Frances de la Tour as Maud
• Fraser Cains as Llewellyn
• Philip Madoc as Jack Brewer
• Sheila Reid as Lily Brewer
• Dickie Arnold as Corky Brown
• Valerie Holliman as Cora Brown
• Granville Saxton as Max Legendre
• Jim Hooper as Percy Bowden
• Joanna Foster as Clara Brewer
• Teresa Codling as Dotty Brewer
• Tom Cotcher as Hector
• Sheri Shepstone as Violet
• Peggy Ann Wood as Nanny
• Sherrie Hewson as Letty
• Patrick Gordon as Gilbert Winslow
• Maxine Audley as Gwendoline Harper
• Andy de la Tour as Clive