Lynda La Plante
Lynda La Plante, CBE, is an English author, screenwriter and former actress, best known for writing the Prime Suspect television crime series.
Works
Z-Cars
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Release Date1962-01-02
Charactersd Janey Hinden (as Lynda Marchal)
Episode Count3
Vote Count7
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
Charactersd Lisa Reynolds
Episode Count1
Vote Count23
The Professionals
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Release Date1977-12-30
Charactersd Viv Copeland
Episode Count1
Vote Count47
The Sweeney
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
Release Date1975-01-02
Charactersd Eve Fisher
Episode Count1
Vote Count27
The Doctors
The Doctors is a British television drama produced by the BBC. A twice-weekly broadcast from November 1969 to June 1971, it was a highly authentic, serious medical drama set in a North London group practice, aiming to depict realistic medical environments without the antiseptic sentimentality often seen in American medical shows of the era.
Release Date1969-11-19
Charactersd Molly Dolan
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Beasts
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected save for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United Kingdom and broadcast in 1976. The series avoids typical monster horror clichès, moreso focusing on psychological and supernatural themes.
Release Date1976-10-16
Charactersd Young Woman
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
The Sunday Drama
Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.
Release Date1977-05-29
Charactersd Jenny Hiketier
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Out
Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the finger on him, but Ross is determined to find out and seeks revenge on those who betrayed him. Little by little, Ross pieces together the trail that leads to a dramatic conclusion.
Release Date1978-07-24
Charactersd Angela
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Educating Marmalade
Marmalade Atkins is the naughtiest girl in the world. In fact, she's so wicked that her parents and social worker decide that the only thing to do with her is to blast her into space. But, knowing Marmalade, it's not going to be that easy!
Release Date1982-10-25
Charactersd Mrs Atkins
Episode Count10
Vote Count2
Armchair Theatre
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
Charactersd Lena
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
High Road to China
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a struggle against a Chinese warlord.
Release Date1983-03-18
Charactersd Lina
Vote Count105
Send in the Girls
Stories of girls on a Sales Promotion Team.
Release Date1978-03-01
Charactersd Vera
Episode Count1
Why Didn't They Ask Evans?
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the mystery behind a tale of murder, suspense and false identities. And the only clues the two have to go on are the puzzling last words of a dying man. Featuring characters created by Agatha Christie, Why Didn't They Ask Evans is a classic crime thriller sure to please murder-mystery fans.
Release Date1980-03-30
Charactersd Mrs. Roberts
Vote Count18
The Draughtsman's Contract
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from monetary compensation, the arrangement includes a sexual liaison offered to Neville by Virginia while her estranged husband is away. But when the murdered body of Mr Herbert is discovered at the estate, mysterious clues found in Neville's drawings point to the identity of the killer.
Release Date1982-11-12
Charactersd Mrs Clement
Vote Count267
Sheppey
Sheppey, an ordinary working-class waiter, wins a fortune in a sweep-stake, and elects to use the money to help the unfortunate.
Release Date1980-06-01
Charactersd Bessie Legros
Beasts: Special Offer
A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come alive and is causing havoc. Created as an episode of Nigel Kneale’s “Beasts” horror anthology miniseries.
Release Date1976-10-16
Charactersd Young Woman
Vote Count1
1+1=1.5
The population of the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century is static, thanks to computerised population control, but the wife of the Population Officer becomes pregnant for the second time.
Release Date1969-03-04
Charactersd Miss. Harvey
Our Young Mr. Wignall
Young Mr. Wignall is on a business trip to northern England. He is keen to pull some local girls while there. His unassuming boss, meanwhile, has organised his calendar to meet with a different lady each day he is there.
Release Date1976-11-17
Charactersd Vera
Coming Out
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't come out yet and he doesn't want to alienate his mainly female fan-base. The article is a great success and leads to a huge amount of reactions, mainly from other gay men who are leading a double life. He decides to meet a number of these letter writers and eventually is forced to come out.
Release Date1979-04-10
Charactersd Cecilia Plasche (as Lynda Marchal)
Vote Count5
This Morning
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and competitions.
Release Date1988-10-03
Charactersd Self
Episode Count2
Vote Count23
Goodbye Granadaland
As ITV's move from its iconic base on Quay Street to the Orange Tower at MediaCityUK nears completion, this tribute looks back at 56 years of Granada television. Beginning from its inception in 1954, including rare archive footage of its co-founders, brothers Sidney and Cecil Bernstein, replays archive clips of some of the programmes and performances filmed and produced there - from Coronation Street, Prime Suspect, Jewel In the Crown, and Stars In Their Eyes, to the television debuts of The Sex Pistols, Take That, and the Beatles.
Release Date2013-06-15
Charactersd Self
Prime Suspect
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
Release Date1991-04-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count99
Trial & Retribution
Devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police detectives in England as they investigate crimes and the trials that come about as a result.
Release Date1997-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count30
Vote Count13
Screen One
Anthology drama series.
Release Date1989-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Above Suspicion
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the male-dominated police department by solving a trail of gruesome murders left by an unknown serial killer. Each series is based on a novel by Lynda La Plante: Above Suspicion (2009), The Red Dahlia (2010), Deadly Intent (2011), and Silent Scream (2012).
Release Date2009-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count11
Vote Count33
Prime Suspect 1973
Jane Tennison is a probationary WPC in 1973 London, where she faces sexism while working her first murder case. Follow her early career, her relationship with her boss DI Len Bradfield, and her determination to prove herself in a male-dominated police force, as she will eventually achieve the rank of Detective Superintendent.
Release Date2017-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count6
Vote Count40
Unnatural Causes
An anthology of seven psychological dramas, each with a different cast and crew, exploring deaths in unusual circumstances.
Release Date1986-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Widows
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind by their spouses' criminal activities. Hoping to forge a future on their own terms, they join forces to pull off a heist.
Release Date2018-11-06
DepartmentWriting
JobOriginal Story
Vote Count2492
Killer Net
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
Release Date1998-05-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count10
Widows
Armed robbers Harry, Terry, and Joe die when the security van that they're robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their widows–Dolly, Shirley, and Linda–find their husbands' schematics and decide to stage it themselves.
Release Date1983-03-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count8
The Commander
Clare Blake, a high-ranking, ambitious officer in the Metropolitan Police's Serious Crimes Unit, leads complex murder investigations that often blur the line between her professional and personal lives.
Release Date2003-02-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count7
Imagine Me & You
During her wedding ceremony, Rachel notices Luce in the audience and feels instantly drawn to her. The two women become close friends, and when Rachel learns that Luce is a lesbian, she realizes that despite her happy marriage to Heck, she is falling for Luce. As she questions her sexual orientation, Rachel must decide between her stable relationship with Heck and her exhilarating new romance with Luce.
Release Date2006-01-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1118
Prime Suspect
Detective Jane Timoney finds that being a homicide detective in New York City is tough enough and having to contend with a male-dominated police department to get respect makes it that much tougher. She's an outsider who has just transferred to a new precinct dominated by an impenetrable clique of a boys' club. Timoney has her own vices too – with a questionable past – and she tends to be forceful, rude and reckless. But she's also a brilliant cop who keeps her eye on one thing: the prime suspect.
Release Date2011-09-22
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count42
The Governor
Maximum security prison Barfield has recently nearly been destroyed by a riot. Helen Hewitt, the first woman put in charge of the prison, is determined to clean up the place despite being greeted with open hostility.
Release Date1995-05-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count2
Framed
On holiday in Spain, London police officer Lawrence Jackson recognises absconded criminal turned informant Eddie Myers, now a wealthy art dealer under the pseudonym Phillip von Joel. Extradited back to England after a nerve-wracking Scotland Yard Operation, Myers agrees to tell what he knows — but only if Jackson is his interrogator. So begins a deadly game of cat and mouse between the master criminal and his determined minder. Which comes first — duty or temptation?
Release Date1992-11-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count8
Civvies
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
Release Date1992-09-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
She's Out
Dolly Rawlins is free again. She has served the eight year prison sentence for her husband's murder and is now set to collect the six million pounds worth of diamonds that she stashed before she was sent down. The money will enable her to follow her dreams and start a new life. But her former cell mates have their own ideas...
Release Date1995-03-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
Comics
Down-and-out American comedian Johnny Lazar tries to regain his status as an international superstar by embarking on a tour of working men's clubs and universities in England. But on his first night, Johnny is witness to a gangland murder and finds himself having to go on the lam as he becomes the target of hitmen out to eliminate any chance of them being identified.
Release Date1993-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Mind Games
A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Her unorthodox approach means that she has to deal not only with solving a murder but also winning the trust of her sceptical colleagues.
Release Date2001-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Widows
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of stealing the painting.
Release Date2002-08-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Bella Mafia
Following the brutal murder of her husband and male kin, Sophia unites with her mother-in-law and sisters-in-law, in a fierce quest for vengeance against their enemies.
Release Date1997-11-16
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count28
The Lifeboat
The lives and missions of the crew of a Welsh rescue boat.
Release Date1994-04-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Framed
New York detective Mike Santini is enjoying a holiday with his family when he spots Eddie Meyers a fugitive from justice who might be the key witness in a high profile case involving money laundering. Santini plays a major role in capturing Meyers which prompts the wiley criminal to request Santini to be the interrogating officer. The two size each other up in the interrogation room in a thriller that provides a number of unexpected twists.
Release Date2002-02-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count17
Supply and Demand
A by-the-rule police officer must team up with a streetwise cop and go undercover in an operation to bust a major drug ring in Manchester. This becomes the start of a continuing partnership.
Release Date1998-09-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Seconds Out
When boxer Murray Ritchie is framed for rape, he loses his chance of a long-awaited title fight. Released too late by the police, he blames Jack, his veteran trainer and manager, and goes over to rival promoter Tony Farrington. Needing the money, Murray is encouraged to turn to the rough and seedy unlicensed circuit for a fight that would see him banned from professional bouts.
Release Date1992-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
The Prosecutors
Drama (and prospective pilot) about the lives of three women who work in the New York City DA's office: one a brilliant prosecutor of high-profile cases whose husband is shot and killed in an armed robbery; a second, her tough, bitter, chain-smoking, boozing, wheelchair-bound former mentor; a third, a Latina who is an ambitious legal intern.
Release Date1996-12-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Seekers
Seekers is a four-part TV mini-series released in 1992 about a police officer who disappears, and when his wife tries to find him, she discovers... another wife. They team up to search for him. It starred Brenda Fricker and Josette Simon, and was written by the celebrated novelist and screenwriter Lynda La Plante who also wrote the book of the same name. It was produced by Sarah Lawson.
Release Date1993-04-25
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
The Warden
Release Date2001-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Above Suspicion 2: The Red Dahlia
Anna Travis investigates a copycat killer in this three-part crime series from Lynda La Plante.
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count7
Hidden Talents
Nellie (Pat Phoenix) is weak and bedridden in her aging, decrepit house due to a bad heart. Living out of her front room, Nellie is looked after by her son Harold (Tom Bell) who is going deaf and prone to eccentric and emotional outbursts following a motorbike accident some years previous. Relations are tense and fractious between Nellie and Harold, a state of affairs which isn't helped by Nellie's affectionate recollections of her estranged son Stanley (Tom Georgeson) who left many years before, taking with him Nellie's savings.
Release Date1986-11-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
The Paul O'Grady Show
The Paul O'Grady Show is a British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada Television and was broadcast on ITV before moving to Channel 4, where the show was produced by Olga TV. The programme is a teatime chat show consisting of a mixture of celebrity guests, comic stunts, musical performances, and occasionally viewer competitions.
Release Date2004-10-11
Episode Count1
Vote Count12
The Gentle Touch
Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.
Release Date1980-04-11
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Rentaghost
Rentaghost was a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred on the antics of a number of ghosts who worked for a firm called Rentaghost, which rented out the ghosts for various tasks.
Release Date1976-01-06
Episode Count58
Vote Count8
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime
Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
Release Date1983-10-09
Episode Count1
Vote Count17
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced exile from political position during the 1920s and 30s. It was written and directed by Ferdinand Fairfax and Churchill was played by Robert Hardy. Hardy's brilliant performance as Churchill won critical acclaim and a BAFTA award in 1982. He reprised the role in The Sittaford Mystery, Bomber Harris and War and Remembrance and at the 50th anniversary celebrations of the end of World War II in 1995 when he quoted a number of Churchill's wartime speeches in character.
Release Date1981-09-06
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
An Audience with Freddie Starr
A celebrity audience pays tribute to the inimitable Freddie Starr, one of Britain's zaniest comedians.
Release Date1996-03-02
Vote Count2