Alun Owen was a Welsh playwright, screenwriter and actor, predominantly in television. However, he is best remembered by a wider audience for writing the screenplay of The Beatles' debut feature film A Hard Day's Night (1964), which earned him a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay.
The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero, the Scarlet Pimpernel and his League.
Release Date1955-09-28
Charactersd First Guard (uncredited)
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
The Ronnie Barker Playhouse is a British anthology of six half-hour comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion from 3 April to 8 May 1968. Of the six, two are lost.
Release Date1968-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd The Minister
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Indolent aristocrat Tony employs competent Barrett as his manservant and all seems to be going well until Barrett persuades Tony to hire his sister as a live-in maid.
Release Date1963-11-14
Charactersd People in Restaurant: Curate
Vote Count377
Naive Stanley Windrush looks for a career in a family business. Much to his dismay, he finds work at a munitions factory where he has to start from the bottom, while both the management and the labor union use him as a tool in their fight for power.
Release Date1959-08-18
Charactersd TV Producer
Vote Count82
A little Welsh village is sundered by rival factions when a coveted contralto role in the "Messiah" is given to Mrs. Davies instead of Mrs. Lloyd. Based on a stage play "Choir Practice".
Release Date1953-06-08
Charactersd Pritchard
Vote Count1
Release Date1978-01-29
Charactersd Ianto
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
A short documentary filmed in 1957 at the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower market, then located in the Covent Garden area of East central London. It was directed by Lindsay Anderson and produced by Karel Reisz and Leon Clore under the sponsorship of Ford of Britain, the first of the company's "Look At Britain" series.
Release Date1957-05-25
Charactersd Narrator (voice)
Vote Count13
An unfortunate sailor gets implicated in a murder he never committed. After a bookie is murdered, the sailor is caught in an ever-tightening vice that would trap him as the killer unless he can clear himself. Along the way to struggling free and tracking down the real culprits, several unsavory characters cross his path as well as a rather interesting woman who sets romantic sparks flying.
Release Date1959-06-30
Charactersd Ferris
Vote Count1
Liverpool, a sleeping city, awakens under the glow of a musical revolution. Four boys, known as the Beatles, turn their dream into an odyssey. This documentary is a visual symphony that traces their meteoric rise, the challenges that darken their path, and the eternal mark they leave on the history of music. A moving poem.
Release Date2025-04-07
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Vote Count1
A documentary on the making of the Beatles' 1964 film "A Hard Day's Night," featuring director Richard Lester, music producer George Martin, screenwriter Alun Owen, and cinematographer Gilbert Taylor.
Release Date2002-09-30
Charactersd Self (archive footage)
Vote Count2
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date1970-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Release Date1965-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Release Date1964-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Release Date1969-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
Release Date1967-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Release Date1964-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
Release Date1965-10-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
A series of television plays, some original, some based on pre-existing plays or novels.
Release Date1988-01-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
18 short plays written especially for TV, an opportunity for up-and-coming directors such as floor manager Alan Clarke, who ended up doing 10 of the episodes. Some top ranking performers were attracted to the series.
Release Date1967-05-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
Release Date1964-07-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count744
An anthology series wherein the ten commandments are interpreted in contemporary scenarios by different writers. It was transmissioned from 30 March to 1 June 1971 on ITV Yorkshire.
Release Date1971-03-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Lydia is unlucky in love and retreats to the Welsh countryside with her friend Betty. But the beautiful scenery holds its own humour and passion.
Release Date1989-04-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The Company of Five is a 1968 British anthology drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV, featuring a repertory cast of five actors—John Neville, Gwen Watford, Ann Bell, Cyril Luckham, and Ray Smith—who appear in different roles each week.
Release Date1968-11-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
A lady catches the attention of a compulsive gambler.
Release Date1968-07-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Norma is a woman who appears to be leading a very complicated emotional life; she's involved with no less than four men. Michael is the friend she turns to for help in her emotional crisis.
Release Date1974-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Hark at Barker is a 1969 British programme combining elements of sitcom and sketch show, which starred Ronnie Barker. It was made for the ITV network by LWT. Each show began with a spoof news item read by Barker as a continuity announcer. He would then introduce the main part of the programme, a lecture to be given by Lord Rustless on a different topic each week from his stately home, Chrome Hall. Helped and hindered by Rustless' secretary Bates, his Butler Badger, his bad-tempered Cook, his incoherent gardener Dithers and his buxom, near-mute maid Effie, these lectures invariably degenerated into farce, and were frequently interrupted by comic sketches on film or videotape which also starred Barker in various roles. Barker reprised the role of Lord Rustless in the BBC series His Lordship Entertains, and played very similar characters in Futtock's End and the Two Ronnies specials The Picnic and By the Sea.
Release Date1969-04-11
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count3
Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womaniser; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cornelius; and an ageing barrister, Emlyn, who is enchanted by Mary's youthful vitality and charm. Only one of these men will win her heart in the end... Featuring rare television performances from Sean Connery, Michael Caine and Paul Scofield, this trilogy of plays forms a dramatic and controversial study in male behaviour. Differs slightly from the omnibus version that aired 3 Jan 1969 on NBC (US).
Release Date1969-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Short series of plays by leading British dramatists.
Release Date1978-01-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'The Company of Five' anthology series.
Release Date1968-12-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A woman seeks shelter from the rain in a park conservatory but is forced into conversation with a man who wants to know what else she is sheltering from.
Release Date1967-05-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
James has come in search of his feckless older brother, Charlie, to ask him to come home and settle down.
Release Date1968-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A young woman befriends a lonely millionaire with a disfigured face whose ruthless business practices are threatening to ruin her father. A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast.
Release Date1961-10-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Stella escapes an unhappy relationship to live in a bedsit. She meets another man which forces her to make decisions about her life.
Release Date1968-06-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
“Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'Lucky' Ubooto, a half African, half Irish man in his 20s whose decidedly unlucky career as a criminal has resulted in a series of stretches in prison for theft. The story follows Lucky on the day of his release from his latest sentence. As he wanders around Liverpool, not really belonging anywhere, it becomes clear that he is still waiting for his father, a man who has long since abandoned Lucky and his family, to return and take him back 'home' to Africa.” - Richard Parkin
Release Date1974-02-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Release Date1956-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count6
Six of Britain's top television playwrights were given the opportunity to write the plays they had always wanted to write.
Release Date1969-09-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.
Release Date1960-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
When a robbery at a racetrack goes wrong ex-con Johnny Bannion is caught and sent back to prison. He won't tell the rest of the gang where he has stashed the loot leading to violent consequences.
Release Date1960-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count41
Release Date1969-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A man is interviewed by a young widow as a potential lodger, and learns some disturbing facts about the woman's relationship with her dead husband.
Release Date1967-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Never trust a man whoever he is. This is the bitter lesson learned by Mary MacNeil in her relationships with three different men: her father, a mendacious womanizer; a smooth-talking office flirt, Cornelius; and an aging barrister, Emlyn, who is enchanted by Mary's youthful vitality and charm.
Release Date1969-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Humorous situations on location with little or no dialogue.
Release Date1968-08-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Tough merchant seaman Pat Greevey returns to his family in Liverpool to find the key to a recent death.
Release Date1962-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Release Date1969-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Play about two brothers who both want their Welsh grandfather to live with them.
Release Date1960-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Drama series about a newspaper columnist and the stories she pursues.
Release Date1976-07-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
In London, Tom and Phyl are self-assured and in control of the situation whenever they meet their friends Huw and Tegwen. But when they're not on home ground and when they accept an invitation to visit Huw and Tegwen’s home in Wales, relationships change more than a little Huw, a London barrister, whose heart is in the Welsh hills, is truly king of his castle, and shocks and excites Phul with some of his "Cassanova" qualities. And Tegwen's relationship with her husband intrigues Tom, whose marriage is more of an easy companionship. But why have they been invited for the weekend?
Release Date1971-11-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
Release Date1971-12-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Three young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
Release Date1970-03-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The programme ran on BBC in 1952-53, returning in '55 after a hiatus. "Before Your Very Eyes" featured comic monologues and simple skits, of the sort which had been popular in English music hall between the wars. Askey was ably assisted by Dickie Henderson, soon to become a major comedian in his own right.
Release Date1952-04-06
Episode Count3
