Julia Jones
Julia Jones (27 March 1923 – 9 October 2015) was a British television writer and actress.
Works
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Release Date1964-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Mrs Laughlin
Episode Count2
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
Charactersd Mrs Bottomley
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Main Chance
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
Release Date1969-06-18
Charactersd Mary Walton
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Faith and Henry
A coming of age story of an interracial relationship. Lancashire lad Henry finds himself attracted to Faith, an independent-thinking black school friend of Jamaican heritage.
Release Date1969-12-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Ada
Lay Down Your Arms
Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.
Release Date1970-05-23
Charactersd Mrs Hawk
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 Count4
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
The Wednesday Play
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Release Date1964-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count5
City '68
Forward thinking anthology of dramas about the emerging problems of a city.
Release Date1967-12-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Churchill's People
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Sharing Time
Anthology of stories set in a timeshare flat.
Release Date1984-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
The Duchess of Duke Street
In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.
Release Date1976-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count14
Q.E.D.
Q.E.D. is a 1982 short-lived adventure series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill. The Professor was a scientific detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and the series had a smattering of what would later be called steampunk. In the show, the lead character was known primarily by his initials, Q.E.D; the reference here is that Q.E.D. usually stands for quod erat demonstrandum, a statement signalling the end of a proof. The show aired on the CBS network in the United States, and on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.
Release Date1982-03-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Cottage to Let
Series of plays about the comic and tragic situations of people who rent a country cottage.
Release Date1977-06-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Miss Marple: The Moving Finger
The residents of a quiet English village begin to receive nasty, threatening letters. The wife of the local vicar calls in her friend Miss Marple to investigate.
Release Date1985-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count36
Away from It All
An anthology of self-contained plays focused on the personal experiences of characters who find themselves taking a break from their normal lives—such as going on holiday, taking a retreat, or travelling.
Release Date1973-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Discretion Assured
Three American businessmen have a problem with their Brazilian company: someone is embezzling millions of dollars. Michael is having an affair with Frank's wife Paige, but wants to end it. Paige is not so accommodating, and causes trouble with Michael's wife Kitty and his new interest, local artist Miranda. When someone is murdered Michael becomes a suspect, and must try to find the murderer and catch the embezzler while sorting out the wreckage of his personal life.
Release Date1994-08-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count6
Echoes
Echoes is a four-part Irish drama miniseries based on the novel of the same name by Maeve Binchy. It was produced for Channel 4 by Working Title Films in association with RTÉ.
Release Date1988-05-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count4
Ladies in Charge
Ladies in Charge is a 1986 British television drama, an expansion from a 1985 pilot in the Storyboard anthology programme. Produced by Thames Television for ITV, the six-episode programme stars Carol Royle, Julia Hills, and Julia Swift. After serving as World War I ambulance drivers, three women start a private agency in London to solve problems for clients, blending mystery and drama with a lighthearted tone. They take on various cases, from finding lost items to uncovering secrets, often challenging societal expectations for women of the era.
Release Date1986-05-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Our Mutual Friend
After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fakes his death to avoid the marriage and the threats on his life. He returns as John Rokesmith and becomes the secretary for the Boffins, who inherit Harmon's estate following his alleged death.
Release Date1976-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count1
The Sherman Plays
"The Sherman Plays" is a series of television adaptations of plays originally staged at the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff. The series, produced by HTV, ran from 1993 to 1997. It featured a variety of dramas, some of which were specifically written for the series.
Release Date1993-04-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
The Swish of the Curtain
Seven kids form a theatre troupe, staging plays for family and friends. Seeking recognition and the coveted Seymore Trophy, they utilize their talents while overcoming parental doubts.
Release Date1980-04-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Tom's Midnight Garden
Forced to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, Tom Long is lonely and bored, until one night he hears the clock strike 13. He suddenly finds himself transported to a magical Victorian garden of the 1880s and meets a girl.
Release Date1989-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count4
Border Country
Series of plays set in the Welsh border country.
Release Date1979-08-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
The Piano Tuner
A film by Alan Clarke for the 'Sunday Night Theatre' anthology series.
Release Date1969-03-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Bit of Crucifixion, Father
A doctor advises a woman not to proceed with her latest pregnancy, contrary to her strict Catholic upbringing.
Release Date1968-10-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Quiet as a Nun
A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a convent. She had recently inherited a fortune. The reporter next leans off an apparition that haunts the hallways at night and seems to portend death. Flashlight in hand, she goes off in search of the "Black Nun."
Release Date1978-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The Chestnut Soldier
Gwyn can feel danger coming in the wind. Somehow he knows the warnings have to do with the broken toy horse that holds the evil spirit of a prince who lived long ago. When Gwyn discovers that the prince's dark soul has escaped from the horse and is seeking revenge Gwyn, Emlyn, and Nia have to figure out how to save the mysterious soldier who claims to be Nia's distant cousin. With the help of the Snow Spider, can they recapture the prince's soul without hurting the Chestnut soldier?
Release Date1991-11-20
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count2
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Little Silver Trumpet
A sad and sudden event brings to an abrupt end the happiness shared by Mrs Jessop and her younger daughter, Alison, in their cottage by the sea. One room over a laundry in the slums of London is to be a very different life for them both.
Release Date1980-11-19
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
Tom's Midnight Garden
Forced to stay with his aunt and uncle for the summer holidays, Tom Long is lonely and bored, until one night he hears the clock strike 13. He suddenly finds himself transported to a magical Victorian garden of the 1880s and meets a girl.
Release Date1989-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
The Snow Spider
On his ninth birthday, young Gwyn (Osian Roberts), who lives on a remote hill farm in Wales, receives five strange gifts from his grandmother (Siân Phillips): a piece of seaweed, a yellow scarf, a tin whistle, a metal brooch and a small broken horse. Gwyn offers the brooch to the wind and receives back a tiny silvery spider - Arianwen, the snow spider - confirming that, as his grandmother had already guessed, he has inherited magical powers from his Celtic ancestor Gwydyon, a powerful magician whose exploits are described in the fourth book ("Math Son of Mathonwy") of the Mabinogion. With the help of the snow spider, Gwyn embarks on adventures involving other worlds of snow and silver, as he attempts to solve the five-year-old mystery of his sister Beth's disappearance in a snow storm.
Release Date1988-11-26
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count1
Still Waters
A middle-aged couple who are fairly tired of each other go out on a picnic for the day. However, they row, and Maud wanders off and talks to other people she meets. Eventually, the couple come together again, and the day has helped them to understand each other a little better.
Release Date1972-01-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Back of Beyond
Olwen lives in a tumbledown farm up in the mountains - a lonely widow, virtually a recluse. Her only human contact is with the occasional shopkeeper and young Rachel, who delivers her papers. For Rachel, her visits to Olwen are half adventure, half honest friendship. But they also mean a time to 'put aside childish things.'
Release Date1974-11-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Emlyn's Moon
Young magician Gywn and his friend Nia have been warned to stay away from Emlyn Llewelyn, the strange boy who claims his mother lives on the moon. And yet, a mysterious magic continues to draw them to him. But why? It's up to Gwyn and Nia to solve the mystery, with the help of Arianwen, the Snow Spider.
Release Date1990-09-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
The Piano
Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all their lives, but may be forced to as they live in a designated redevelopment area. The major point as far as they're concerned is that their piano won't fit in one of the new council places they have been offered.
Release Date1971-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Till Death Us Do Part
This English follows the East End working-class Garnett family, headed by patriarch Alf, a reactionary working-class man who wields racist and anti-Socialist views. His long-suffering wife Else manages to keep things in control... for the most part. Their progressive daughter Rita lives with them, as does her Irish husband Mike, who, with an array of liberal worldviews, often quarrels with his father-in-law. It inspired the American show "All In The Family" and several other international variations on the same theme.
Release Date1966-06-06
Episode Count1
Vote Count28