Season: 1
Year: 2003

Season 1

Season 1, Episode 1: The Great Ship

4 September 2003

Robert Lindsay ... Narrator (voice)
Michael Attwell ... William Hope
Andrew Bannerman ... Minister
John Bennett ... John Donovan
Michael Carter ... John Scott Russell
Ron Cook ... Isambard Kingdom Brunel
Alexander Delamere ... Director
Anna Farnworth ... Mary Brunel
Fred Pearson ... Captain Harrison
Shaun Prendergast ... Ned Hepworth
Jonathan Salter ... Jack Donovan
Jo Stone-Fewings ... William Jacomb

Season 1, Episode 2: Brooklyn Bridge

11 September 2003

Robert Lindsay ... Narrator (voice)
George Anton ... Washington Roebling
Peter Banks ... William Marshall
Steven Berkoff ... John Roebling
Norman Chancer ... Dr. Andrew Smith
Kenneth Jay ... Abram Hewitt
Jeffry Kaplow ... Steinmetz
Eric Loren ... Reporter
Brendan McNamara ... Frank Harris
Johnny Myers ... Doctor
Shane Rimmer ... William Kingsley
Donald Sumpter ... Farrington
Debora Weston ... Emily Roebling

Season 1, Episode 3: The Bell Rock Lighthouse

18 September 2003

Robert Lindsay ... Narrator (voice)
Anthony Allen ... Lighthouse Worker
James Brown ... Lighthouse Worker
Emma Busby ... Stevenson's Daughter
David Buyler ... Lighthouse Worker
Robert Cavanah ... Robert Stevenson

Jean Marie Coffey ... Jean Stevenson
Ken Drury ... James Glen
James Gillan ... James Scott

John Kane ... Commissioner
Michael Kenny ... Lighthouse Worker
Rod Mathew ... Wishart
Bruce McGregor ... Charles Henderson
Michael Moreland ... Henry Dickson
David Robb ... John Rennie
Chloe Robertson ... Stevenson Twin
Johnny Robertson ... Stevenson Twin
Malcolm Shields ... James Dove
Alfie Wellcoat ... Alexander Scott

Season 1, Episode 4: Transcontinental Railway

25 September 2003

Robert Lindsay ... Narrator (voice)
Lorenzo Baca ... Porcupine

Al Cacioppo ... Engineer
Mark Camaren ... Charlie Crocker
Ricky Culbertson ... Thompson
Marcus D'Amico ... Grenville Dodge
Peter Dey ... Eric Usher

David Fine ... William T. Sherman

Justin Gross ... Theodore Judah (as Justin M. Gross)
Richard Gross ... James Harvey Strobridge

Tim Halpin ... General Jack Casement (as Timothy Halpin)

Charlie Holliday ... Kinney

Bob Sáenz ... Leland Stanford (as Robert Saenz)
Nick Scoggin ... Henry Poor
Richard Silberg ... William Ratcliffe

Meaghan Sinclair ... Woman #2
Kirk Uhler ... Charles Adams
Dennis Yap ... Chinese Headman
Robert Young ... Thomas Durant

Season 1, Episode 5: The Sewer King

2 October 2003

Robert Lindsay ... Narrator (voice)
Joseph Bazalgette ... Mudlark
Louis Bazalgette ... Mudlark
Deagaln Brennan ... Bazalgette Child
Julian Brewer ... Cholera Patient
David Dale ... Foreman
John Fearman ... House of Commons Attendant
Charlie G. Hawkins ... Mudlark (as Charlie Hawkins)
Max Hodgkins ... Bazalgette Child
Evan Hoskins ... Bazalgette Child
Ben Kinsella ... Mudlark
Gary Lammin ... Barker
Norman Lovett ... William Farr
Catherine Mack ... Maria Bazalgette
Richard Manlove ... Bricklayer
Mark McGann ... Joseph Bazalgette
Liam Nolan ... House of Commons Attendant
Pip Torrens ... Dr. John Snow
Sam Troughton ... H Percy Boulnois
Martyn Whitby ... Edwin Chadwick (as Martin Whitby)
Peter Whittington ... Prince of Wales
Mark York ... MP

Season 1, Episode 6: The Panama Canal

9 October 2003

Robert Lindsay ... Narrator (voice)
Cora Branley ... Louise-Helene de Lesseps
Daniel Coonan ... Philippe Buñau-Varilla
Claudette de Miller ... Fever Victim's Mother
Jeff Harding ... John Stevens
Tara Hugo ... Marie Gorgas
Robert Jezek ... Dr. William Gorgas
Angus MacInnes ... Colonel George Goethals
Stephen Mangan ... Jules Isidore Dingler
Corine Ricau ... Sister Marie Rouleau
John Walters ... Ferdinand de Lesseps

Season 1, Episode 7: The Hoover Dam

16 October 2003

Robert Lindsay ... Narrator (voice)
Erik J. Anderson ... Frank Anderson
Jay Benedict ... Frank Crowe

Scott Clark Beringer ... Glenn 'Bud' Bodell
John Smith Burnside ... City Official
Ken Byler ... Judge
Andrew Fulton ... Louis Fagan, Highscaler
Karen Coover Gay ... Emma Godbey, Rag Town Woman
John Guerrasio ... Marion Allen, Dam Worker
Del Guidice ... Reporter (as Scott Del Guidice)
Andrew Henderson ... Reporter
Chris Jenkins ... Company Doctor (as Christopher Jenkins)
Tim McNamara ... Worker
Bill Michaels ... Ed Kraus

Colin Stinton ... Walker 'Brig' Young
Kalena Von Schnier ... Prostitute
Gary Webb ... Leonard Blood, Recruiting Officer

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