Bill Craig

Agatha Christie's Poirot

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Release Date1989-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count558

Play for Today

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 Count2

Vote Count10

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

Release Date1984-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count1

Vote Count261

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

Release Date1981-10-18

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count23

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

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JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count11

Sergeant Cork

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

Release Date1963-06-29

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

Shoestring

Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.

Release Date1979-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

House on the Hill

A series of six plays centred on a house in Glasgow, from 1878 to the 1980s.

Release Date1981-07-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Duchess of Duke Street

In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.

Release Date1976-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count14

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

In Victorian London, consulting detective Sherlock Holmes wields not only powers of observation and deduction but also vast knowledge on anything relevant to solve mysteries, including crimes. Cases that would stump most detectives are merely short work for Holmes, who is ably assisted by his friend and colleague Dr John H. Watson.

Release Date1984-04-24

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JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Vital Spark

In the western isles of 1930s Scotland, Peter 'Para Handy' MacFarlane, captain of the puffer Vital Spark, treks around the coastal waters of west Scotland and variously schemes himself and his crew into mischief.

Release Date1965-08-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count21

Vote Count2

The Borderers

The Borderers is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1970.

Release Date1968-12-31

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JobCreator

Vote Count1

Sunset Song

A young woman in rural Scotland faces hardship after hardship as she struggles to keep her family farm going through personal losses and the devastation of World War I.

Release Date1971-03-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

The Scobie Man

Scobie becomes caught up in an arson attack on an art gallery.

Release Date1972-02-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of his land. ‘Smeddum’ is the story of a matriarch’s attempt to control her brood. ‘Greenden’ is the story of a city woman moving to the country with her husband.

Release Date1976-02-24

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JobWriter

Vote Count2

Strathblair

Black Watch Sergeant Alec Ritchie and his new wife Jennifer move to a rundown sheep farm in the Scottish countryside.

Release Date1992-05-03

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JobCreator

Vote Count1

Cloud Howe

Dramatisation of the second part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy, in which Chris is now married to the minister of a small industrial town.

Release Date1982-07-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Grey Granite

Final part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Chris is now running a boarding house, while her son Ewan is drawn into political activism.

Release Date1983-08-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

A Gift from Nessus

Salesman Edie Cameron experiences setbacks in his work and personal life.

Release Date1980-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter