Philip Mackie (Writer)
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Works
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Release Date1969-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
ITV Play of the Week
A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.
Release Date1955-09-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count51
Vote Count5
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count11
Raffles
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one. In Victorian-era London, gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, a renowned cricketer, and his friend, the eager but naive Bunny Manders, test their skills in relieving the wealthy of their valuables whilst avoiding detection, especially from the persistent Inspector Mackenzie.
Release Date1977-02-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count13
Vote Count5
Napoleon and Love
Napoleon and Love is a British television miniseries produced by Thames Television for ITV, lasting for nine episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series stars Ian Holm in the title role as Napoleon and depicts his relationships with the women who featured in his life as a backdrop to his rise and fall.
Release Date1974-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
Black and Blue
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. The show consisted of six 50–60 minutes episodes, each a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the finale on 18 September 1973. The first, Secrets, was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the master by producer Mark Shivas.
Release Date1973-08-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Liars
Follows a group of liars, outrageous liars in fact, who try to outdo each other with the most fanciful lies they can dream up.
Release Date1966-01-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
The Cleopatras
The Cleopatras is a 1983 BBC Television historical drama serial created and written by Philip Mackie. Set in Ancient Egypt during the latter part of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, the eight-part series follows the lives of a series of queens belonging to the Ptolemaic Dynasty of ancient Egypt, culminating in its final active ruler Cleopatra VII. Intended to be the I, Claudius of the 1980s, The Cleopatras met with a decidedly negative critical reaction, and was regarded and portrayed as a gaudy farce. It also produced a number of complaints due to scenes of nudity.
Release Date1983-01-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count4
Mr. Rose
Retirement has given Mr Rose the time not only to cultivate a cottage garden in Eastbourne but also to write his memoirs. And it’s the impending publication of those memoirs that brings a number of figures crawling out of the woodwork and back into his life: criminals and former colleagues alike, who know that his vast personal library of case files holds a wealth of incriminating detail.
Release Date1967-02-17
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count2
Shades of Greene
Shades of Greene is a British television series based on short stories written by the author Graham Greene. The series began in 1975, with each hour-long episode featuring a dramatisation of one of Greene's stories, many of which dealt with issues such as guilt and the Catholic faith, as well as looking at life in general. Actors to have appeared in the series include John Gielgud, Leo McKern, Virginia McKenna, Paul Scofield, and Roy Kinnear. The series began on 9 September 1975 and ran for two seasons.
Release Date1975-09-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
The Caesars
The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
Release Date1968-09-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count6
The Naked Civil Servant
Story of the life of Quentin Crisp, an Englishman who was brave enough to live his life according to his own style even in the hostile days of WW2.
Release Date1975-12-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count43
An Englishman's Castle
In an alternate 1978 wherein Germany won World War II and has occupied the United Kingdom, successful television writer Peter Ingram works on a popular soap opera, An Englishman's Castle, set in Blitz-era London. Ingram lives a quiet, boring life, deliberately oblivious to the subtle rule of the local Nazis. His eyes are opened when the woman he is involved with reveals that she is not only a Jew but also a member of the Underground.
Release Date1978-06-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
Good Girl
Do-gooder Angie Botley is a ministering angel whose mission in life is to help people become happier and better human beings.
Release Date1974-07-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
The Organization
The Greatrick Organization is a faceless, multi-million-pound concern dedicated to making more millions. In its headquarters are an assortment of middle and junior executives. Their lives may look cozy enough, but appearances are deceptive. All they have to do is carry on being loyal corporate slaves until they're 60, but there are a hundred different ways to put a foot wrong...
Release Date1972-04-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count2
Therese Raquin
Therese, an attractive young woman married to her sickly cousin Camille, leads an extremely monotonous life until Camille brings home Laurent, an old schoolmate.
Release Date1980-03-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count10
A Marriage
A columnist throws a dinner party. One of the guests is his mistress, who is his research assistant. He tells his wife he had been having an affair and she is devastated, but they both agree that the party should go ahead.
Release Date1972-06-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
All the Way Up
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his family more socially acceptable.
Release Date1970-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Malice Aforethought
Malice Aforethought is a four-part 1979 BBC Two miniseries by Philip Mackie, adapted from Anthony Berkeley Cox's (pen name Francis Iles) 1931 noir novel of the same name. For ten years, Julia Bickleigh has despised and bullied her husband. For ten years Dr Bickleigh has dreamed of romance ... and escape.
Release Date1979-03-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
Praying Mantis
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
Release Date1982-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
The Brain
After the mysterious crash of a millionaire's private plane, scientists secretly harvest the dying man's brain and keep it alive in a laboratory in order to communicate via telepathy.
Release Date1962-09-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count16
The Whole Truth
On the French Riviera, movie producer Max Poulton is on location shooting a film starring his lover, Gina Bertini. But when the rueful Max ends his fling with Gina to return to his loyal wife, Carol, the jilted actress threatens to reveal details of their affair to Carol. Later, at a party at Max's villa, investigator Carliss arrives with news that Gina has been killed and that Max is a murderer suspect.
Release Date1958-07-29
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
Vote Count16
The Share Out
A gang of high class corporate thieves use blackmail to induce their victims to sell property at knock-down prices.
Release Date1962-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
The £20,000 Kiss
An up and coming politician is caught in a compromising photograph taken by a maid, who turns out to be part of a sophisticated blackmail ring. When the girl is found murdered, he holds an incriminating old dueling pistol.
Release Date1962-12-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
The Limbo Connection
Mark Omney is a struggling writer, and has a drink problem; his wife Clare is more successful as a journalist. After a dinner-party they host ends badly, they part company the next morning on separate business. Clare becomes ill after an interview assignment, and crashes her car; meanwhile Mark meets former girlfriend Annabelle in the pub. After Clare is taken to a private clinic nearby by Good Samaritans, Mark finds she seems to have mysteriously disappeared
Release Date1978-05-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The Right Person
In Copenhagen, a former resistance fighter seeks the traitor responsible for betraying his comrades during World War II.
Release Date1955-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Number Six
An international criminal arrives in London, and a detective is anxious to pin something on him for some unprovable murders of former lovers. The villain starts to suspect servants and henchmen of being a police spy known as "Number Six".
Release Date1962-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Clue of the Silver Key
The police investigate the murder of a wealthy old man.
Release Date1961-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
The Middle-of-the-Road Roadshow for All the Family
A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he gets someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street.
Release Date1973-08-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Clue of the Twisted Candle
A man is murdered in a room with no windows and a steel lined door which locks only from the inside.
Release Date1960-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Man at the Carlton Tower
The police investigate the murder of an officer, killed during a jewel robbery.
Release Date1961-07-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Clue of the New Pin
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
Release Date1961-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Across a Crowded Room
Two egotistical superstars develop a grand passion which threatens to disrupt a West End theatre production.
Release Date1978-03-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Big Killing
Peter Ashbury is a young man who lives on Palm Beach, Sydney, with an expensive wife Mary and house he cannot afford. Their neighbours and close friends are Liz and Charles Barcher. He makes a £25,000 bet to murder Liz, the wife of the wealthy Charles. When the wife dies, blame attaches to Peter and then to his wife Mary.
Release Date1965-04-21
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play