Malcolm Bradbury (Writer)

The Modern World: Ten Great Writers

This documentary series uses drama and commentary to shed light on the lives and works of Joseph Conrad, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Proust and Virginia Woolf.

Release Date1988-01-10

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Episode Count1

Vote Count1

A Perfect Carry On

A retrospective of the Carry On films on the 40th anniversary of the first, Carry on Sergeant (1958).

Release Date1998-09-30

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Vote Count2

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

A Touch of Frost

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

Release Date1992-12-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count4

Vote Count77

Playhouse

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Release Date1974-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Dalziel and Pascoe

In the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton, the unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-China-shop-copper DS Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick DS, later DI, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining down-to-Earth wit and humour.

Release Date1996-03-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count28

In the Red

In the Red is a three-part BBC Two black comedy crime miniseries adapted by Malcolm Bradbury from Mark Tavener's novel of the same name, which had been inspired by the writer's early experiences working for the BBC and the Liberal Party. The serial stars Warren Clarke as BBC Reporter George Cragge and Alun Armstrong as Police Superintendent Frank Jefferson, investigating a series of murders of London bank managers, a small political party contesting a by-election, and a plan to overthrow the Director-General of the BBC.

Release Date1998-05-26

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count3

Vote Count7

Cold Comfort Farm

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

Release Date1995-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count80

The History Man

The History Man is a four-part 1981 British television drama miniseries written by Christopher Hampton, based on Malcolm Bradbury's 1975 novel of the same title. Ardently left-wing, or so it seems, Howard Kirk subtly extends his power over students and colleagues alike at a redbrick university.

Release Date1981-01-04

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Episode Count4

Vote Count7

Anything More Would Be Greedy

The story of a group of Cambridge students and their lives in the ten years following their graduation.

Release Date1989-07-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

The Gravy Train

A four-part comedy about bureaucratic bribery and corruption in the European Union.

Release Date1990-06-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

Blott on the Landscape

A thwarted Lady Maud runs off to her solicitor to start divorce proceedings and that gives Sir Giles his bright idea-why not run the proposed bypass for the area through their very own Cleene Gorge, thereby wrecking Lady Maud's ancestral home and copping rather a lot of compensation from the government to boot? Witness the frolics of the bumbling dundridge - the Y-front clad man from the ministry, Sir Giles' versatile Mrs Forthby - Mediterranean harlot and naughty schoolgirl extraordinaire, not forgetting Blott himself, gardener and mystery man, casting his enigmatic eye over the eccentricities of the great British aristocracy... Starring, George Cole, Geraldine James, David Suchet, Simon Cadell and Julia McKenzie

Release Date1985-02-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

The Gravy Train Goes East

A fictitious Balkan state adaps to life after Communism.

Release Date1991-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count2

The Green Man

An alcoholic pub landlord has visions of a 17th-century doctor of the occult, beginning a monumental clash between good and evil. Adapted from the novel by Kingsley Amis.

Release Date1990-10-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count10

Porterhouse Blue

Cambridge, Great Britain, 1980s. When the headmaster of Porterhouse College dies without naming a successor, the government appoints a former graduate whose ideas clash with the extreme conservatism that reigns at the institution.

Release Date1987-06-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count14

Standing in for Henry

At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?

Release Date1980-12-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Enigma

When John Fielding, MP, disappeared on the way home to his country estates he was, perhaps, cracking the first good joke of his life. Sergeant Jennings, left to pursue the investigation, finds little humour or help amongst Fielding's friends or family. Only Isobel could believe that Fielding might have wanted to disappear.

Release Date1980-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Blott on the Landscape

Bawdy adaption of Tom Sharpe's comic tale. A landowning MP attempts to have a motorway built through the grounds of his wife's ancestral home.

Release Date1985-02-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Love on a Gunboat

In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.

Release Date1977-01-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Stones

From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).

Release Date1976-10-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The After Dinner Game

Vice-Chancellor Bartley Humbolt has problems. His young university is almost bankrupt, his wife is threatening to leave him, his protege professor from industry is threatening to overshadow him, and his prestigious professor of history is threatening to resign. But Bartley is a born manipulator. And when he gives a dinner party, he has something very special in mind - for afters.

Release Date1975-01-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Cuts

A British TV company wants to make a big blockbuster TV series and to add to their chances of success they call in the services of Henry Babbacombe, a nervous man who has only written a small book on nature before. As the production on the series continues, Henry has to make many changes on his scripts as things change on the series and he falls in love with Cynthia Hyde-Lennon. However both she and the TV company wants Henry to write and do stuff that is completely against his morals but he finds itself going along until the TV company and Cynthia turns and savagely stabs him in the back...

Release Date1996-12-31

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel