Ronald Wilson (Director)
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Works
The Saint
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
Release Date1962-10-04
Charactersd Hotel Bartender
Episode Count1
Vote Count134
Studio 4
Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.
Release Date1962-01-22
Charactersd Peter Rackam
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Out of This World
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode is introduced by actor Boris Karloff. Many episodes are adaptations of stories by sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology Out of the Unknown.
Release Date1962-06-24
Charactersd DS Grant
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
The Dam Busters
The story of the conception of a new British weapon for smashing the German dams in the Ruhr industrial complex and the execution of the raid by 617 Squadron 'The Dam Busters'.
Release Date1955-05-16
Charactersd Flight Lieutenant D. J. Shannon, D.S.O., D.F.C.
Vote Count160
The Ambassadors
Lambert Strether goes to France to rescue a young American from a European adventuress - only to fall under the spell of Europe himself. 1965 BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel.
Release Date1965-01-01
Charactersd Jim Pocock
Vote Count1
The Hand
During World War II, a group of British soldiers are captured by the Japanese, tortured and their hands are cut off. Years later, a mad killer terrorizes London by cutting off the hands of his victims.
Release Date1960-10-01
Charactersd Doctor
Vote Count13
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 Count3
Vote Count10
EastEnders
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
Release Date1985-02-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count229
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count7
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
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Release Date1969-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Angels
Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on different departments within Heath Green Hospital and was a highly successful continuing drama.
Release Date1975-09-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
The Pallisers
This sprawling BBC saga follows an aristocratic family through three generations of power, wealth, intrigue, and scandal in Victorian England. Based on Anthony Trollope’s “political” novels .
Release Date1974-01-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count16
Vote Count5
The Expert
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
Release Date1968-07-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count2
Softly Softly: Task Force
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars. The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply Task Force, but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became Softly, Softly: Task Force.
Release Date1969-11-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Paul Temple
Paul Temple is a British-German television series . It features Francis Matthews as Paul Temple, the fictional detective created by Francis Durbridge, who solves crimes with the assistance of his wife Steve. Paul Temple used overseas locations in France, Malta, Germany and elsewhere.
Release Date1969-11-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
United!
United! was a British television series which was produced by the BBC between 1965 and 1967, and was broadcast twice-weekly on BBC1. The series followed the fortunes of a fictional second division football team, Brentwich United. The football scenes were filmed on the grounds of Stoke City with Jimmy Hill acting as a technical advisor, and the efforts to achieve authenticity saw the show being criticised by the then management of Wolverhampton Wanderers, who complained that the series was based on their team.
Release Date1965-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
The Brothers
The Brothers is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976.
Release Date1972-03-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count5
Campion
Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.
Release Date1989-01-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count10
City '68
Forward thinking anthology of dramas about the emerging problems of a city.
Release Date1967-12-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
When the Boat Comes In
When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a veteran of The Great War who returns to his poverty-stricken (fictional) town of Gallowshield in the North East of England. It dramatises the interwar political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the impact of national and international politics upon Ford and those around him.
Release Date1976-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
The Newcomers
The Newcomers was a late 1960s BBC soap opera which dealt with the subject of a London family, the Coopers, who moved to a housing estate in the fictional country town of Angleton. It was broadcast in bi-weekly half hour episodes from 5 October 1965 until 28 November 1969. It was initially produced by Verity Lambert. In the series, a fictional light industrial manufacturing company called Eden Brothers decides to relocate to the rural location. There are conflicts with the older members of the existing community, as well as some lighter moments as urbanites encounter "country characters". Many of the relocated workers have trouble living outside the city. As the series progresses, problems on the factory floor spill over into the community. Throughout this the Coopers strive to raise their daughter and two sons, who are having their own issues.
Release Date1965-10-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Private Affairs
Series of plays about the romantic entanglements hidden behind the public images of famous historical figures.
Release Date1975-05-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Drummonds
Drummonds was a British television drama produced for the ITV by London Weekend Television, ehich ran for two seasons between 1985 and 1987. Set in a mid-1950s boys' boarding school, the series follows the lives of the students and staff, particularly headmaster George Drummond and his wife, Mary.
Release Date1985-08-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
To Serve Them All My Days
To Serve Them All My Days is a 1980-81 British television drama serial, adapted by Andrew Davies from R. F. Delderfield's 1972 novel of the same name. David Powlett-Jones, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, becomes a teacher at an elite English boarding school, Bamfylde. The drama explores his personal growth, relationships, and evolving views on society over his 20-year career at the school.
Release Date1980-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
The First Lady
The First Lady is a British television drama produced for BBC One, starring Thora Hird as crusading local councillor Sarah Danby, set around the fictional Lancashire borough of Furness. Capitalising on the popularity of its lead actress, The First Lady was a down-to-earth series exploring the inner workings of local government.
Release Date1968-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Mallens
The Mallens is a British television drama based on four Catherine Cookson novels, The Mallen Streak, The Mallen Girls, The Mallen Secret, and The Mallen Curse. Produced by Granada Television for ITV1, it ran for thirteen episodes from 10 June 1979 to 3 July 1980. A ruthless 19th-century Northumberland squire, Thomas Mallen of High Banks Hall, has a genetic white streak (poliosis) in his hair and fathers numerous illegitimate children, all of whom inherit the white streak and live disastrous lives.
Release Date1979-06-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Codename
Codename, which premiered in April 1970, was about the secretive MI17 Spy Organisation of the same name based in the residential hall of a Cambridge College. Eventually the series attained a more international flavour, although its base was always in Great Britain. Primarily Codename dealt with the themes of espionage and counter-espionage at the time of the Cold War of the sixties. Its cast contained many of Great Britain's most versatile and talented actors.
Release Date1970-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle
Murder Most English: A Flaxborough Chronicle (often referred to simply as Murder Most English) is a seven-part British detective miniseries based on Colin Watson's Flaxborough novel series. While Martin Lisemore receives billing on all episodes, he died midway through filming, and was replaced by Bill Sellars, who refused credit. Flaxborough, near the sea, near the countryside, seems such a nice town, so quiet, so charming. But underneath its placid surface, all kinds of scandalous things go on.
Release Date1977-05-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count4
The Bretts
1920s family of actors deals with the day to day of the theatre business.
Release Date1987-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
Mickey Dunne
Mickey Dunne followed the misadventures of the titular gambling streetwise Cockney wide-boy who managed to survive on his wits and gift of the gab as he picked his way from one female companion to the next whilst talking himself into as many free dinners as possible.
Release Date1967-05-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
You're On Your Own
Denis Quilley is John Ryder a former senior police officer who resigned from the force under a cloud due to conflict with his senior officer. Setting up as a consultant operating out of Kathy's nightclub whose owner is also his lover, Ryder takes on cases from protecting visiting businessmen to retrieving stolen paintings whilst remaining within the boundaries of the law. Always in need of money due to his divorce, Ryder finds himself on the receiving end of some violent assaults in the course of his endeavours.
Release Date1975-03-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Strangers and Brothers
As World War II looms in Europe, an ambitious young English lawyer embarks on his tempestuous career, and even stormier romantic life. Based on the novel series of the same name by C.P. Snow.
Release Date1984-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
How Green Was My Valley
How Green Was My Valley is a six-part television miniseries adapted by Elaine Morgan, based on Richard Llewellyn's eponymous 1939 novel. The serial is produced by the BBC and 20th Century Fox Television for BBC Two—the latter's involvement is due to their ownership of the rights to the novel and its subsequent Oscar-winning 1941 film. Huw Morgan, the academically inclined youngest son in a proud family of Welsh coal miners, witnesses the tumultuous events of his young life during a period of rapid social change. At the dawn of the 20th-century, a miners' strike divides the Morgans: the sons demand improvements, and the father doesn't want to rock the boat.
Release Date1975-12-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
The Mill on the Floss
The Mill on the Floss is a British television drama adaptation of George Eliot's 1860 novel of the same name about the lives of rural 19th century siblings Maggie and Tom Tulliver.
Release Date1978-12-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
The Black Tower
The Black Tower is a 1985 mystery television mini-series based on the book 'The Black Tower' by P.D. James. The title role of Commander Adam Dalgliesh was played by Roy Marsden.
Release Date1985-11-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
Owen, M.D.
Owen, M.D. is a BBC 1 television series that ran from 1971 to 1973. It centred on the eponymous lead character's new country practice, following his departure from The Doctors, which had been set in north London.
Release Date1971-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
This Year Next Year
Public relations consultant Harry Shaw has to face the challenge of starting afresh in his mid-forties. Disillusioned with the values of city life, he returns to his father's farm in Yorkshire to think over his future.
Release Date1977-01-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Visitors
In 1951 Milly Purdoe, wife of a member of a British mission, arrives with her family to live for the first time in a country behind the Iron Curtain.
Release Date1972-06-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
The Union
A dramatised impression of the events surrounding the Electrical Trades Union ballot rigging case of the late 1950s and early 1960s.
Release Date1981-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Escape
Anthology of plays on themes related to escaping from situations.
Release Date1967-08-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
The Devil's Crown
The Devil's Crown was a BBC limited series which dramatised the reigns of three medieval Kings of England: Henry II and his sons Richard the Lionheart and John. It was broadcast in thirteen 55-minute episodes between 30 April and 23 July 1978. Henry Plantagenet (latterly Henry II), sees his opportunity to seize the crown of England and create a kingdom of law and order. He cuts a deal with King Stephen in which Stephen will name him his heir, excluding his sons Eustace and William in exchange for a fragile truce. Stephen's sudden death elevates Henry to the throne. He may have been King of England, but the bulk of the Angevin Empire was in France, and it was this that Henry regarded as the Jewel in his Crown, maintained through a series of political marriages and complex allegiances. Henry pays homage to Louis VII, King of the Franks, for these lands, but it is clear that Henry is the shrewder and more ambitious of the two kings, having married Louis' ex-wife Eleanor of Aquitaine.
Release Date1978-04-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
London Embassy
Spencer Savage, newly released from his Malaysian duties, takes a position with the American embassy in London. He runs into several unusual diplomatic situations both within the embassy (and the "spooks" on the third floor and the Coach), and outside (with beautiful women, Honorables, tourists, spies, defectors, a tomb-desecrater, and co-worker dinners).
Release Date1987-10-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries: The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
When General Fentiman is found dead in his chair a the posh Bellona Club, the cause seems straightforward: a heart attack brought on by old age. The Lady Dorland, the General's sister, dies on the same day. Is it a startling coincidence or something more sinister? Called in to investigate, Lord Peter becomes suspicious of the general's grandson, whose peculiar behavior and whereabouts on the night of the deaths seem incriminating. But these suspicions are overshadowed by the discovery that Miss Dorland, Lady Dorland's niece, has an abiding interest in poisons.
Release Date1973-12-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count5
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Peg Woffington and David Garrick have an affair while appearing in stage in Drury Lane.
Release Date1975-05-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Frost in May
Adaptation of a series of novels by Antonia White about a young girl challenging her authoritarian Catholic environment as she grows up.
Release Date1982-05-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Lives of Girls & Women
A coming of age story for Del Jordan, growing up first on the outskirts, and later in the centre, of the small, southern Ontario town of Jubilee. Del is portrayed as something of an outsider, unsatisfied with small-town life though unwilling to acknowledge the similarities between herself and her mother, who also seeks to expand her mind beyond the limited experiences of Jubilee.
Release Date1996-02-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Mallens
Adaptation of the Mallen series of novels by Catherine Cookson.
Release Date1979-06-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
The Mill on the Floss
Adaptation of the George Eliot novel.
Release Date1978-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
One Day at a Time
An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
Release Date1977-11-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
True Patriot
Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe.
Release Date1977-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Mallen Streak
The first part of the Mallen family saga. Thomas Mallen, the Squire of High Banks Hall, fathers many illegitimate sons, each of whom inherit a distinctive streak of white hair. Forced to sell the Hall, Thomas moves to humbler surroundings, taking with him his wards, Barbara and Constance, and their governess, Anna Brigmore. The young girls find romance with the Radlet brothers, one of whom, Donald, is acknowledged by Thomas as his bastard son.
Release Date1979-06-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Shall I Be Mother?
Susan and Jenny are aged 13 and 14 and in care. Jenny's mother has died, Susan hasn't seen hers for years. Both influence the close, stormy relationship that develops between the two girls.
Release Date1983-04-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The World of Suzie Wong
A Hong Kong prostitute tries modeling and falls for the artist who's painting her.
Release Date1960-11-10
Vote Count43