Peter Goodchild (Producer)

Horizon

Horizon tells amazing science stories, unravels mysteries and reveals worlds you've never seen before.

Release Date1964-02-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1019

Vote Count34

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Release Date1985-01-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

Oppenheimer

This seven-part series highlights scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer from 1938 to 1953 as he develops the Atomic bomb.

Release Date1980-10-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count13

Microbes and Men

Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.

Release Date1974-09-18

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

The Billion Dollar Bubble

The Billion Dollar Bubble is a 1976 film made for the BBC series Horizon and directed by Brian Gibson about the story of the two billion dollar insurance embezzlement scheme involving Equity Funding Corporation of America. The movie stars James Woods in the role of the actuary.

Release Date1978-06-08

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Vote Count2

The Wizard Who Spat on the Floor

Examines the life and work of the American inventor Thomas Alva Edison.

Release Date1972-05-01

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Murder in Oakland

Oakland, California is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are new additions to the police department's five overworked homicide teams. When they investigate a seemingly motiveless prostitute killing, they find themselves drawn into the centre of a fight for survival among Oakland's dangerous drug gangs.

Release Date1991-07-31

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Adam Bede

Rich and languorous, this adaptation of George Eliot's classic tale perfectly evokes rural England in the 18th Century. But beneath the tranquil surface of this pastoral idyll run deep passions and the bitter gall of betrayal.

Release Date1992-03-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count15

Trust Me

Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong.

Release Date1992-10-25

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count2

The Great British Drought

Documentary from 1976 that explores the drought crisis of that year, going behind the scenes to discover its impact on farming, the landscape and industrial and domestic consumers.

Release Date1976-05-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Return to Blood River

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 hours of arriving in Johannesburg. Over the following week. the East Rand riots claimed 600 lives.

Release Date1994-04-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

The Drifting of the Continents

Scientists now know where each continent was in relation to the Poles at any given time. These developments have come from discoveries in paleomagnetism, oceanography and seismology, and they are affecting every earth science from geochemistry to earthquake engineering.

Release Date1970-04-01

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Black Easter

Continuing the Screen Two series of dramas is David Pirie's futuristic thriller starring Trevor Eve Germany, March 2000: Detective Alex Fischer investigates the murder of a young Danish woman, whose body has been slashed from head to foot. On the ground beside her are the words in Arabic: "We are crossing. "As the threat grows of a mass exodus of refugees caused by civil war in Russia, Fischer sets out on a hazardous search for the truth with refugee Anna.

Release Date1995-06-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1