Peter Dews (Director)
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Works
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Thirty-Minute Theatre
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
An Age of Kings
A linking together of Shakespeare's history plays — Richard II, 1 Henry IV, 2 Henry IV, Henry V, 1 Henry VI, 2 Henry VI, 3 Henry VI, and Richard III — chronicling the rise and fall of monarchs over the 86 years between Richard II and Richard III.
Release Date1960-04-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count15
Vote Count4
The Spread of the Eagle
A nine-part serial adaptation featuring dramatisations of three of William Shakespeare's iconic plays: Coriolanus, Julius Caesar, and Antony & Cleopatra.
Release Date1963-05-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count9
The Ginger Man
The often racy misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, a young American living in Dublin with his English wife and infant daughter and studying law at Trinity College.
Release Date1962-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
For Amusement Only
Humorous situations on location with little or no dialogue.
Release Date1968-08-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
The Taming of the Shrew
The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
Release Date1982-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Cruel Necessity
A story of choices leading to redemption or further from it, set against a backdrop of human nature and societal constraints.
Release Date1962-08-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Stretch
Everyone always looked after Maureen. But her husband comes home after two years in prison and finds she has grown up and he's not ready for the change.
Release Date1973-06-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector