Chancer

1990

Chancer

7.4 | en | Drama

Chancer is a British television serial produced by Central Television for ITV. It tells the story of a likable conman and rogue at the end of the yuppie eighties. There were a total of twenty episodes, split into two series which aired on Tuesdays at 21:00 in 1990 and 1991.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP7 Sacrifice

Jun. 04,1991

Derek Love, now working for Franklyn's ailing "build British, buy British" campaign, discovers his main weapon is to pour scorn on the bankers who refuse to back it.

EP6 Fall

May. 28,1991

Tom Franklyn offers Derek Love access to his son in return for accepting a job with him. Having discovered the secret gaming club at Winterleigh, Tom tries to make life difficult for Piers.

EP5 Blood

May. 21,1991

The letter confirming Joseph's paternity finds its way back into Love's hands. But having already crossed paths with Piers over the gaming club, Love finds his world is slowly crumbling around him.

EP4 Remembrance

May. 14,1991

Anna, now on the run, declares her love for Love. Meanwhile, having stolen membership records from Franklyn's gambling operation, Love and Piers start up a gaming club at Winterleigh.

EP3 Secrets

May. 07,1991

Tom Franklyn begins to suspect that Anna may have been involved in Jo's death. Love offers to help Piers save Winterleigh after scamming Tom's casino out of a fortune.

EP2 Ashes

Apr. 30,1991

Devastated by Jo's death, Love is manipulated by Tom after a letter from Jo regarding the paternity of her son mysteriously disappears. Blake continues in his attempts to track down Anna.

EP1 Jo

Apr. 23,1991

Derek Love, now out of prison, decides to make winning back Jo's affections his only goal.

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Reviews

blanche-2 For me, and some others, all you need to see in a cast is the name Clive Owen and you're sold. That being the case, I rented "Chancer" from Netflix.It's my understanding that this series was a hit but that Owen left it when he hit the big time.Owen plays a young man who loses his job due to insider trading and turns to using his skills to help out an ailing company. He becomes involved with the family, their business associates, and ultimately it affects his personal life and decisions he makes.One problem I had with this is -- everyone raves about the music. The music is great except if you watch it the way I did, which is a bunch of episodes at a time. You get so sick of that piano theme you're ready to vomit. It's played every two seconds.Owen is fabulous, very young here (26), and he's everything - romantic, cagey, duplicitous, heroic, a heel, a con man, capable of love and tears. And did I mention he's gorgeous.He's surrounded by an unbelievable cast, which includes Leslie Phillips, Peter Vaughan, Susannah Harker, Louise Lombard, Simon Shepherd, Michael Kitchen, and Caroline Langrishe.Very moody series, dark, with an '80s feels to it. Someone who saw it 20 years ago stated it's probably very dated now. Not really. There are still greedy bankers, failing businesses, and wheeler-dealers. And thankfully, there's still Clive Owen.

cinnamonbrandy Like Harrison Ford, don't we love to watch him win, and don't we love to watch him suffer.We quite like watching him have a nap, wash a car, or have his lip bitten by prettier girls than us...As if we weren't being spoiled enough already, there's an ensemble cast that makes you go 'wow, he/she was in this?' about every five minutes before you finally settle down to enjoy it.There's social commentary to die for - I've yet to see a more succinct analysis of the (tawdry) joys of asset-stripping, or the heady (and extremely dangerous) thrills of teeming and lading.Now admit it, all my accountant friends out there - you've never seen teeming and lading outside of a textbook or a bad client's ledger books, have you? A series brave enough to educate its audience, and gorgeous enough to keep its audience after admitting it was gonna be educational...

ili_varna That was one of the most wonderful film I 've ever seen . It make the spectator remember it long time long. When I talk to my friends about Clive Owen everybody remember him in first movie/for that I am not quite sure/ we saw it here, in Bulgaria. He, and his rule of "The five P" are still in our conscious:). Clive Owen succeeded in amazing way to show the main characteristic of his hero- charming and strong, extremely clever, pushing and gentle, person who never, in no circumstances could lose...We see how under the in first glimpse cynical mask of his heroes man can see sensibility,vulnerability and humanity.He possess worriless charm and mystery.He is enigmatic, strict and masculine Clave Owen is equally convincing as gangster, misanthrope, trickster...and especially for the king. Its not accidentally that all of his heroes are such strong, charming and magnetic persons-is not it?:)

Adrian Bailey My goodness me, look at the cast list! No wonder this series was such a hit. One of the peaks of UK TV drama, people still remember it fondly when you say the name. Of course the suave Mr Owen stole the show, but that was only fair. It'd be interesting to see it again to see how much it's dated, but even if it has I'd recommend it unhesitatingly to any viewer or scheduler looking to spice up their afternoons.