Alistair Bell (Writer)
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Works
Bergerac
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.
Release Date1981-10-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count23
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
King of the River
A completely lost BBC1 drama series centred on the King family, who love, live, fight and work around a harbour in the Thames estuary.
Release Date1966-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Beau Geste
Brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste join the Foreign Legion, where they fall under the rule of tyrannical Sergeant Markoff. Beau and John are assigned to Fort Zinderneuf, where Markoff tries to break their spirit, aware of a dark family secret concerning a fabulous jewel one of them carries. As tensions rise, Arabs attack the fort and rivalries must be thrown aside in a desperate battle for life.
Release Date1982-10-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count2
Little Women
Little Women is a 1970 BBC television miniseries, based on Louisa May Alcott's 1868-69 two-volume novel of the same name about four sisters who come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War. The third BBC adaptation of the novel, the nine-part series is often considered—while not particularly widely acknowledged—one of the more faithful adaptations.
Release Date1970-10-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count9
Vote Count2
The Legend of King Arthur
Dark Ages wizard Merlin, weary of the barbarism around him, creates a new order of enlightenment and justice with a youthful Arthur at its head. Merlin gifts Arthur with the magic legendary sword Excalibur to help him defeat the nobles who oppose his rule. But Arthur must also beware his half-sister Morgan, a sorceress who has sworn to kill him to avenge her father's death. As Morgan intensifies her plans for revenge, she uses magic to draw Lancelot and Guinevere into a passionate affair. However, it is the still more traitorous Mordred who will ultimately determine the fate of Arthur's rule.
Release Date1979-10-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Episode Count8
Vote Count2
The Legend of Robin Hood
The Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.
Release Date1975-11-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
The Moonstone
A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close to Rachel's heart.
Release Date1972-01-16
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Episode Count5
Vote Count2
The Old Curiosity Shop
The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Release Date1979-12-09
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Episode Count9
Vote Count2
The Elusive Pimpernel
Foppish Sir Percy Blakeney, who secretly leads a double life as the daring rescuer of French aristocrats from the guillotine during the French Revolution, fights to save his brother-in-law while his wife is manipulated by the villainous Chauvelin into helping capture him, unaware of her husband's true identity.
Release Date1969-04-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Episode Count10
Vote Count1
Hawkeye, the Pathfinder
During the French-Indian War, colonial scout Pathfinder becomes involved with a British sergeant's daughter and must protect her from a Tuscarora brave who wants her for himself.
Release Date1973-11-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
The Witch's Daughter
Perdita, an orphaned teenage girl, lives on a remote island in the Hebrides.
Release Date1971-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
The Moonraker
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.
Release Date1958-08-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count10
The Moonstone
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close to Rachel's heart.
Release Date1972-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count2