DONOVAN QUICK

"Don Quixote was a great madman... when they returned him to sanity, he was nothing."

BAFTA Awards 2001
Nominated, BAFTA TV Award
Best Single Drama
Sue Austen, David Blair, Donna Franceschild
Royal Television Society, UK 2001
Won, RTS Television Award
Best Actor - Female
Katy Murphy
Nominated, RTS Television Award
Best Single Drama

Mental Health Media Award 2001

Won

BASED ON: 'Don Quixote' by Cervantes and 'Donovan Quick' by Donna Franceschild

FILMING LOCATIONS:

Bowling, West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, UK
Dumbarton, Scotland, UK
East Kilbride, Scotland, UK
Glasgow, Scotland, UK
Renton, Scotland, UK

RUN TIME: 104 minutes

DIRECTOR: David Blair	WRITER: Donna Franceschild
PRODUCER: Sue Austen, Barbara McKissack, Jane Tranter	CINEMATOGRAPHER: Peter Sinclair

CAST: Colin Firth - Donovan Quick/Daniel Quinn David Brown - Sandy Pannick Katie Murphy - Lucy Pannick Parminder K Nagra - Radhika Liz Smith - Gran David O'Hara - Clive McFarland Paul Doonan - Jim Pannick Ricky Callan - David Westhead - George Mackey Elizabeth Rider - Grief Stricken Woman Sally Howitt - Audrey Ford Kiernan - Jim Leahy Gavin Mitchell - Mr Clancy Anne Kidd - Kathleen Gorman	PRODUCTION COMPANIES: BBC4

MUSIC: I Will Survive - Donna Summer Sealed With A Kiss - Bobby Vinton Real, Real Gone - Van Morrison Wild Night - Van Morrison We Shall Not Be Moved Come Running - Van Morrison

SUMMARY: The Pannicks are like any other dysfunctional family. Lucy Pannick drinks, her son Jim steals cars, her grandmother forgets to put her clothes on and her learning disabled brother, Sandy, runs model trains in his room all night. But when the mysterious and well-spoken Donovan Quick takes up residence as their new lodger, things will never be the same again.

When the multi-national bus company Windmill Transport takes over the local trains and leaves Sandy with no way to get to his day centre, Donovan starts up a one-bus company with Sandy to replace the lost service. Against all odds, the fledgling Quick and Pannick Buses becomes so successful that the ever-voracious Windmill Transport decides to poach the route for itself.

Donovan Quick, however, doesn't turn out to be the pushover Windmill Transport thought he might be. And, like his inspiration Don Quixote, Donovan manages to thwart Windmill at their own game, galvanising the community and transforming forever the lives of Lucy, Jim, Gran and Sandy Pannick in the process.