Fame is the Spur (TV series)

Fame is the Spur
Genre	Drama
Written by	Howard Spring (novel)
Starring	Tim Pigott-Smith Julia Sawalha Joanna David
Composer(s)	Alan Price
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Production
Producer(s)	Richard Beynon
Editor(s)	John Barclay
Release
Original network	BBC1
Original release	8 January – 26 February 1982

Fame is the Spur is a British television series which first aired on the BBC in 1982. It was based on the novel Fame Is the Spur by Howard Spring. It depicts a socialist politician who betrays his early beliefs as he grows older, and was believed to be based upon the Labour Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. It had previously been adapted as a film Fame Is the Spur by the Boulting Brothers in 1947.