Karin MacCarthy

Acting
1942-11-18
Sutton, Surrey, England, UK

Known For & Full Filmography12 Titles

#1BBC Play of the Month

Drama Series - 1965, 16 episodes as Pat

5.3 / 10
Drama

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.

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#2The Professionals

Drama Series - 1977, 16 episodes as Sara Ryan

7.6 / 10
Action & AdventureCrimeDrama

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

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#3Van der Valk

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Doctor

6.2 / 10
Drama

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

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#4The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

Drama Series - 1971, 16 episodes as Sybil Fitzwilliam

7.5 / 10
MysteryCrimeDrama

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

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#5The Pallisers

Drama Series - 1974, 16 episodes as Kate Vavasor

6.4 / 10
Drama

This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .

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#6The Edwardians

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Lady Charles Beresford

6.2 / 10
Drama

The Edwardians is an eight-part miniseries broadcast in 1972–73. An anthology, each 90-minute episode explores influential figure(s) of the Edwardian era: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; Horatio Bottomley; E. Nesbit; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Baden-Powell; Marie Lloyd; Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick; and David Lloyd George.

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#7The Misfit

Drama Series - 1970, 16 episodes as Marion Allenby-Johnson

9.0 / 10
Comedy

The Misfit is an ATV sitcom created by Roy Clarke, broadcast from 1970 to 1971 on ITV. Basil Allenby-Johnson returns from Colonial Malaya to an England just emerging from the swinging sixties, a home he no longer recognises.

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#8Nicholas Nickleby

Drama Series - 1968, 16 episodes as Fanny Squeers

7.0 / 10
Drama

Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.

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#9The Sextet

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Joan

10.0 / 10
Drama

An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast are featured in each production.

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#10Pride and Prejudice

Drama Series - 1967, 16 episodes as Louisa Hurst

8.0 / 10
Drama

The arrival of a young, well-off, eligible man named Mr. Bingley sends the Bennet household--with five girls of a marrying age--into a tizzy. But it's the introduction of Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy, that sets in motion the fate of Elizabeth Bennet, resolved only after a labyrinth of social and personal complexities.

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#11Dead of Night

Drama Series - 1972, 16 episodes as Zoe

8.0 / 10
DramaMystery

Dead of Night is a British television anthology of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—'The Exorcism', 'Return Flight', and 'A Woman Sobbing'—are known to survive in the Archives. Another programme made by the same production team under Innes Lloyd, 'The Stone Tape', intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the Archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.

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#12The Venturers

Drama Series - 1975, 16 episodes as Dorothy Ayrton

7.0 / 10
Drama

The Venturers is a 1975 British television programme created by Donald Bull. It originated as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The one series–comprised of ten episodes–takes place in the high-pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and deals with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients.

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