Anthony Steven (Writer)
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Works
Doctor Who
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.
Release Date1963-11-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count706
BBC Play of the Month
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
ITV Playhouse
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 Count1
Vote Count3
All Creatures Great and Small
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
Release Date1978-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count11
Vote Count49
Sunday-Night Play
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
Release Date1960-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count2
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a BBC television series that was broadcast from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.
Release Date1962-08-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Release Date1971-09-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count11
Redcap
Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television for ITV. John Thaw stars as Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police. It ran for 26 episodes over two series between 1964 and 1966, being about 50 minutes in a 60 minute time slot. Surprisingly for a 1960s ABC Weekend Television programme, 23 of the 26 episodes still exist.
Release Date1964-10-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Regiment
The Regiment is a 1972 BBC One television drama series starring Christopher Cazenove and follows the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families.
Release Date1972-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Boy Meets Girl
Anthology series of love stories.
Release Date1967-08-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Hereward the Wake
Hereward, son of Duke Leofric and Lady Godiva, fought a long and ultimately hopeless guerilla war against the invading forces of William the Conqueror in the fens of Lincolnshire, betrayed not only by his allies but by his own weaknesses.
Release Date1965-09-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count16
Vote Count1
The Three Musketeers
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
Release Date1966-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness
Death hits close to home when Lord Peter’s future brother-in-law is murdered. Complicating matters is the man who stands accused: Gerald Wimsey, Lord Peter’s brother.
Release Date1972-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count5
Vote Count5
Fanny by Gaslight
Fanny by Gaslight is a four-part British television miniseries adapted by Anthony Steven from Michael Sadler's 1940 novel of the same mame, directed by Peter Jefferies, and produced by Joe Waters. It initially broadcast from 24 September to 15 October 1981 on BBC One. Victorian orphan Fanny Hooper navigates hardship and scandal, eventually discovering her true parentage and finding love amidst the city's demi-monde.
Release Date1981-09-24
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
The Man in the Iron Mask
A completely lost BBC1 miniseries adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 19th century historical adventure novel of the same name. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
Release Date1968-07-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Swallows and Amazons
While on holiday, the Walker children spot an island. Borrowing a boat, they meet pirates seeking their uncle's trunk. After adventures with storms and cakes, the children and pirates learn friendship.
Release Date1963-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Woodstock
The series is set during the 17th-century English Civil War and the subsequent Commonwealth period. It centres on the political and personal struggles affecting the lives of Sir Henry Lee (Clive Morton), the loyal Royalist Ranger of Woodstock, and his family as they navigate the shifting tides of political power, the execution of King Charles I, and the ascent of Oliver Cromwell.
Release Date1973-01-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
The Crossfire
Tension increases among French settlers in Algeria. A secret ultranationalist group decides to take action against a doctor who treats Muslim patients.
Release Date1967-02-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Count of Monte Cristo
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Release Date1964-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Tom Brown's Schooldays
In 1830s England, Tom Brown attends a rugby boys' school, where his moral and personal growth is formed through friendship, bullying–particularly from the cruel Flashman–and the influence of headmaster Dr Thomas Arnold.
Release Date1971-11-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count4
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted by Scottish Television into a seven episode television serial for ITV in 1978 that featured Geraldine McEwan in the lead role. From Wikipedia.
Release Date1978-01-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Kenilworth
In 1575, ambitious 1st Earl of Leicester, Robert Dudley, decides to keep his marriage to the love of his life, Amy Robsart, secret in order to gain favour with Queen Elizabeth I. This leads to tragedy. Based on fact-based novel.
Release Date1967-07-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma
A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his people's eggs throughout the galaxy, and he kidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessary mathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang are dispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is the sole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan III. A newly regenerated Doctor and Peri become involved and help Jaconda's elderly former ruler Professor Edgeworth, who is really a Time Lord named Azmael, to defeat Mestor and free the planet's bird-like indigenous people from the gastropods' reign of terror. Azmael, however, sacrifices his life in the process.
Release Date1984-03-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Lord Peter Wimsey: Five Red Herrings
Dorothy L. Sayer's amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates and solves murder cases.
Release Date1975-07-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
The Count of Monte Cristo
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Release Date1964-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Call on Kuprin: Part 2
Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed.
Release Date1961-06-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Oracle
An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.
Release Date1953-06-01
DepartmentCrew
JobAdditional Dialogue
Vote Count3
The Double Agent
In London, a traitor is selling information. In Moscow, a Yorkshire cloth salesman is approached by the KGB, who believe he has more to sell than cloth.
Release Date1969-05-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Life in Her Hands
A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.
Release Date1951-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1