Mike Vardy was born on October 21, 1934 in Sheffield, Yorkshire, England, UK. He was a director and producer, known for Sadie, It's Cold Outside (1974), Spring & Autumn (1972) and Mystery and Imagination (1966). He was married to Sandra Vardy. He died on February 28, 2026.
Explore the events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and hear from some of the actual participants in this riveting program. After an American naval blockade intercepted Soviet submarines on a secret mission to set up a military base in Cuba, the two nations engaged in a tense standoff that led the world to the brink of nuclear war. Submariners from both sides talk about the conflict, and viewers get a look inside their subs and the U.S. war room.
Release Date2002-01-01
Charactersd Ketov (uncredited)
Vote Count1
Nearly ten years in the making, This Man Alone is a brand-new feature-length documentary on one of television's highest-rated series. Featuring a remarkable central performance by Edward Woodward, Callan grew from a cult favourite into one of Britain's favourite shows, and this documentary tells the story of its creation and development, its success on television and extended life in film and books. Narrated by Peter Woodward, This Man Alone features contributions from Peter Mitchell, Reginald Collin, Mike Vardy, James Goddard, Piers Haggard, Patrick Mower, Trevor Preston and more
Release Date2016-02-01
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Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.
Release Date1979-10-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count29
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Release Date1985-01-06
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JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Release Date1974-03-13
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JobDirector
Episode Count1
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ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
Release Date1967-09-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
Release Date1987-08-02
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JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count12
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Release Date1975-12-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count24
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count27
Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.
Release Date1965-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
Release Date1972-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count10
A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
Release Date1977-09-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
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
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Release Date1974-12-30
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JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.
Release Date1996-01-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count20
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count11
Special Branch is a British police drama centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.
Release Date1969-09-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
Release Date1966-01-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Anthology of stories set in a timeshare flat.
Release Date1984-05-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.
Release Date1978-01-28
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JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
A series of six plays centred on a house in Glasgow, from 1878 to the 1980s.
Release Date1981-07-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.
Release Date1977-05-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Hazell is a British television drama based on the novel series by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams (collectively known as P.B. Yuill), and starring Nicholas Bell as James Hazell, a 'smart parody' of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. The program ran for 2 series, from January 1978 to July 1979.
Release Date1978-01-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
Sunday night dramas on subjects as diverse as a dodgy doctor and a tale of cat lovers and the social circle they inhabit.
Release Date1986-08-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
An anthology of six standalone plays presented relationships either beginning or ending in love – but the outcome was not always marriage (or happiness). A second series of five episodes aired in 1986.
Release Date1984-01-08
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JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Series of One-Off dramas produced by various companies for Channel 4.
Release Date1989-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Seasoned politician Francis Urquhart tries to establish his legacy before retirement by negotiating an end to the Cyprus, but the island hides secrets from his past that could destroy him.
Release Date1995-11-05
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JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count48
Australian ex-cop Jack Bartholomew goes to Britain when he discovers he's heir to a family title; when he doesn't get on with his new family, he starts working as a private detective.
Release Date1986-09-05
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JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder is based on a character created by Edgar Wallace in a series of 1925 short stories of the same name, Hugh Burden played the titular character – A mild-mannered investigator with the Department of Public Prosecutions.
Release Date1969-04-23
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JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
A middle-aged doctor has an affair with the student actor she's housing during the Edinburgh Festival.
Release Date1982-05-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Newly-divorced Jennifer Holt moves with her teenage son to a rural veterinary practice in Devon , where she has to prove herself to her colleagues and local farmers.
Release Date1995-05-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count6
Westway is a British television series made by HTV for ITV in 1976. The series dealt with the lives of three families living together in a commune in Bristol, and explored issues of self-sufficiency also addressed by BBC series of the period such as The Good Life and Survivors.
Release Date1976-04-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local politics.
Release Date1972-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Arthur is a confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Ann Mitchell his fixed attitudes are severely challenged.
Release Date1982-06-19
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JobDirector
1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to conjure with them and offers a dark glimpse of what the future could really bring.
Release Date1985-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Nick Thorne, a successful businessman whose company markets games, is pulled by his former partner Magnus into a game which appears far too real... The One Game is a four-part 1988 British television drama serial, produced by Central Independent Television and broadcast on ITV from 4 June to 25 June 1988. Set and filmed in Birmingham, it starred Patrick Malahide, Stephen Dillane, Pippa Haywood and Kate McKenzie, and was written by John Brown from a concept by Tony Benet.
Release Date1988-06-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
As they go by lorry to start their apprenticeship as Royal Naval Artificers, Pike and Brooks take a tacit dislike to one another. It's going to end in a fight.
Release Date1981-11-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
'I always wanted to be what you brought me up to be, what you called a grain of sand in the eye of the world. I wanted to be it so I could feel terror; the terror you feel on a big dipper; the terror you feel when you are starting an affair.'
Release Date1985-08-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
John Prothero, internationally famous for his witty and iconoclastic TV criticism, now treats us to an outrageously comic helping of autobiography, Scenes from a Welsh Adolescence.
Release Date1985-07-30
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JobDirector
Prince Florizel of Bohemia discovers a secret club where desperate men gamble with their lives, and vows to bring it to an end.
Release Date1970-02-09
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JobDirector
Vote Count1
Battalion Commander of the Third Wiltshire Light Infantry is Colonel Keyser. On recent evidence, he is either a psychopathic personality or something very close to it. He could turn out to be the best battalion commander in the division. As the Allies prepare for invasion in 1944, will his reputed psychopathic personality be a good or bad thing, when leading his men into D-Day?
Release Date1972-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.
Release Date1985-12-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman’s companies and makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide...
Release Date1973-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.
Release Date1985-02-17
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JobDirector
A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apartment.
Release Date1970-06-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A tale of cat lovers, the social circle they inhabit and the power struggles between them.
Release Date1987-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Mary Abbott is a schoolteacher whose husband has to go away for the night on business. After returning home from a party she has an unexpected caller.
Release Date1971-08-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
During the course of a live radio broadcast, a disc-jockey is made forcibly aware that he's getting old.
Release Date1978-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.
Release Date1978-02-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.
Release Date1971-09-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
In a fictitious English parliament, various tactics are employed in the pursuit of power, even to the extent of bismerching member's of a politician's family.
Release Date1970-07-13
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JobDirector
Thomas Chadwick is a man of dignity. He knows what's right and nothing will deter him from it. Unfortunately he cannot quite find the right job to go with his ideals, and he tries just about everything.
Release Date1967-09-26
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