William Slater (Director)
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Works
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 Count6
Vote Count228
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 Count5
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
Emmerdale
The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
Release Date1972-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count100
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Tales of the Unexpected
A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.
Release Date1979-03-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count50
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
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
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 Count3
Vote Count4
Softly, Softly
Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.
Release Date1966-01-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a BBC television series that was broadcast from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.
Release Date1962-08-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count3
The Onedin Line
The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in Liverpool from 1860 to 1886 and deals with the rise of a shipping line, the Onedin Line, named after its owner James Onedin. Around this central theme are the lives of his family, most notably his brother and partner, shop owner Robert, and his sister Elizabeth, giving insight into the lifestyle and customs at the time, not only at sea, but also ashore. The series also illustrates some of the changes in business and shipping, such as from wooden to steel ships and from sailing ships to steam ships. It shows the role that ships played in affairs like international politics, uprisings and the slave trade.
Release Date1971-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
The Troubleshooters
The Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the transition from black and white to colour transmissions. The series was based around an international oil company – the "Mogul" of the title. The first series was mostly concerned with the internal politics within the Mogul organisation, with episodes revolving around industrial espionage, internal fraud and negligence almost leading to an accident on a North Sea oil rig.
Release Date1965-07-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Detective
A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.
Release Date1964-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Jupiter Moon
Jupiter Moon was a science fiction television series first broadcast by British Satellite Broadcasting's Galaxy Channel from 26 March 1990 until December the same year. 150 episodes were commissioned, but only the first 108 were broadcast by BSB. It was commissioned to fulfill the perceived need for a soap opera in BSB's line-up and, as such, it was shown three times a week, with an omnibus edition at weekends. In the year 2050, the spaceship Ilea lies in semi-permanent orbit above the space city on Jupiter's moon Callisto. The Ilea is home to a university and many of the main plot strands revolve around the students, helping the programme to deal with more mundane issues despite its far-flung setting. A secondary plot deals with an attempt to travel to the stars known as the Daedalus Project.
Release Date1990-03-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count5
Spijkerhoek
Release Date1989-01-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count2
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 Count1
Vote Count5
Londoners
London itself takes the starring role in this series of plays from the BBC – a role which varies between hero and villain, enchantress and harpy. The series features extensive location filming, ranging from Soho to the Law Courts, Wembley to the docks. Of the twelve episodes, eleven are believed to be lost.
Release Date1965-05-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Tycoon
Tycoon is a British television drama created by John Sichel, broadcast from 18 September to 11 December 1978. Instead of taking on her late husband Sydney's job, Diana Clark loyally turns her talents to writing his biography, dredging up plenty of twists and turns along the way.
Release Date1978-09-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
The Spies
A spin-off/rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies is a more conventional espionage thriller than its predecessor, being explicitly concerned with the actual operations of British secret service agents stationed in the fictional European country of Amalia.
Release Date1966-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Adam Adamant Lives!
Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series which ran from 1966 to 1967 on the BBC, starring Gerald Harper in the title role. Proposing that an adventurer born in 1867 had been revived from hibernation in 1966, the show was a comedy adventure that took a satirical look at life in the 1960s through the eyes of an Edwardian.
Release Date1966-06-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
W. Somerset Maugham
An anthology series based on the varied stories by W. Somerset Maugham divided into three categories: "Rule Britannia" about colonial life, "Women of the World" which focus on female characters, and "Victims of Fate".
Release Date1969-06-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Colditz
Colditz is a British television series co-produced by the BBC and Universal Studios and screened between 1972 and 1974. The series deals with Allied prisoners of war imprisoned at the supposedly escape-proof Colditz Castle when designated Oflag IV-C during World War II, and their many attempts to escape captivity, as well as the relationships formed between the various nationalities and their German captors.
Release Date1972-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count13
Solo
Series of 20-minute monologues by famous British actors, portraying historical characters or reading poetry.
Release Date1970-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
The Mask of Janus
In the fictional European country of Amalia, the political interests of the British, American and Communist espionage communities are explored. Eschewing the action formula of its ITV contemporaries, the series dealt more politically oriented plots such as defections to the west, awakening "sleeper" agents and the leaking of official secrets.
Release Date1965-10-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
The Regiment
The Regiment is a 1972 BBC One television drama series starring Christopher Cazenove and follows the story of a British Army regiment from the view of two families.
Release Date1972-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
On Trial
A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
Release Date1960-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Boy Meets Girl
Anthology series of love stories.
Release Date1967-08-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Maigret at Bay
Inspector Maigret responds to a call from a young woman in the middle of the night, but he then finds himself accused of raping her. He is forced to clear his name, and search for what had really taken place that night.
Release Date1969-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Who Pays the Ferryman?
Who Pays the Ferryman? was a television series produced by the BBC in 1977. The title of the series refers to the ancient religious belief and mythology of Charon the ferryman to Hades. In ancient times it was the custom to place coins in or on the mouth of the deceased before cremation so that the deceased could pay the ferryman to go to Hades. The eight-part series was written by Michael J. Bird.
Release Date1977-11-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Vote Count8
Vendetta
Intrigue from the Mediterranean Islands as Danny Scipio dispenses his own brand of revenge against organized crime outfits around Europe.
Release Date1966-11-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
The Millionairess
One of Shaw's later plays, The Millionairess explores his fascination with the machinations of capitalism. Epifania is glamorous, clever... and also the richest woman in the world. Brought up by a money-mad father, she will only consider a man for marriage if he can convert £150 into £50,000 within six months. But when she meets an intriguing Egyptian doctor, he has his own money-making challenge for her...
Release Date1972-09-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Circus
Children's thriller set in a circus.
Release Date1975-11-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Bam! Pow! Zap!
A young man bitterly regrets his part in an attack on a bank cashier.
Release Date1969-03-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1