UK / BBC-2 / 1×90 minute episode / Broadcast 24 April 1980 Writer and Director: Mike Radford / Book: Jessie Kesson / Producer: James Hunter Period drama. A young girl grows up in the North East of Scotland. Phyllis Logan who has one of the pivotal roles here would go on to appear in Radford’s […]
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UK / ITV – London Weekend Television / 1×185 minute episodes / Broadcast 30 March 1980 Writer: Pat Sandys / Producer: Jack Williams / Novel: Agatha Christie / Production Design: Bryan Bagge, Frank Nerini / Music: Joseph Horowitz / Executive Producer: Tony Wharmby / Directors: John Davies, Tony Wharmby Period crime drama. A pair of […]
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UK / BBC-2 / 1×45 minute episode / Broadcast 16 January 1965 Writer, Producer and Director: Douglas Moodie / Music: Bill McGuffie / Lyrics: Bob Halfin A kind of light entertainment fantasia on the life of Robbie Burns. cast Beryl Reid as Maggie Jess Conrad as Bobby Christine Holmes as Elizabeth Pamela Hart as Mary […]
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UK / BBC-2 / 1×85 minute episode / Broadcast 19 November 1975 Producer: Kenith Trodd / Devisor and Director: Les Blair Semi improvised drama. A young trainee jockey faces problems. cast Sean Flanagan as Jimmy Lindsay Dunn as Bobby Mick Dillon as Pat Donovan Milton Johns as Mark Loughton Anthony Trent as Steve Reg Stewart […]
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UK / BBC-4 / 3×30 minute episodes / Broadcast from Thursday 30 May 2013 @ 8.30pm Writer: Jessica Hynes / Executive Producers: Henry Normal, Mark Freeland and Lindsay Hughes / Producer: Emma Strain / Director: Christine Gernon Period sitcom set in 1910 and mostly in the Banbury Church Hall where the Members of the Intricate […]
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UK / ITV – Granada / 1×60 minute episode / Broadcast 12 March 1972 Writer: Brian Clark / Producer: Peter Eckersley / Director: Richard Everitt Series: Sunday Night Theatre Drama. A young paralysed sculptor declares he would rather not live. cast Ian McShane as Ken Harrison Suzanne Neve as Doctor Joan Scott John Welsh as Mr […]
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UK / ITV / 1×60 minute episode / Broadcast Saturday 1 June 2013 @ 8.30pm Executive Producers: Glen Middleham, Claudia Rosencrantz A clever one this, albeit a little bit off. In 1993 when Les Dawson died he was in the midst of recording an edition of An Audience With… Now using the latest modern technology […]
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UK / Channel 4 / 1×60 minute episode / Broadcast Thursday 30 May 2013 @ 8.00pm) Producer and Director: Sophie Harris / Executive Producer: Philip Clarke A Time Team special (even though the series proper has wound up) with Tony Robinson taking us back 8,000 years (to a Tuesday about teatime) when a massive Tsuanami is reckoned […]
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UK / ITV / 1×60 minute episode / Broadcast Sunday 2 June 2013 @ 5.30pm Executive Producer: Emma Read / Producer: Grace Chapman Documentary full of amazing footage (in glorious colour of course) from newly uncovered home movies showing the build up to the 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth. There are contributions from many of […]
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UK / BBC-4 / 1×90 minute episode / Broadcast sunday 2 June 2013 @ 10.00pm Producers: Robbie Cavolina, Ian McCrudden Feature length documentary profile of jazz singer Anita O’Day who died in 2006 aged 87. Despite achieving fame in the 1950′s O’Day battled with addictions to drink and drugs and always put her music before […]
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