Michael Russell (Writer)
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Works
Midsomer Murders
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Release Date1997-03-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count360
Heartbeat
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Release Date1992-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count33
A Touch of Frost
Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.
Release Date1992-12-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count10
Vote Count77
Foyle's War
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
Release Date2002-10-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count108
All Creatures Great and Small
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
Release Date1978-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count49
The Chief
The Chief is a British crime drama transmitted on ITV from 20 April 1990 to 16 June 1995. Produced by Anglia Television, it centred on the politics at the top of a typical English police force in its continual battle to solve the problems the times, in this case the fictional Eastland of East Anglia.
Release Date1990-04-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Between the Lines
Detective Superintendent Tony Clark is an ambitious member of the Complaints Investigation Bureau, an internal organisation that investigates claims of corruption inside the police in England and Wales. Along the way Clark overcomes strong influence from his superiors and problems in his private life, most notably the break-up of his marriage following an affair with WPC Jenny Dean.
Release Date1992-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count13
Runaway Bay
Runaway Bay was a children's adventure television series, which ran from 1992 to 1993. The series followed a group of friends having adventures while living on the island of Martinique in the Caribbean. The show was principally produced by Lifetime Productions International Ltd with Ellipse Productions for the television networks Antenne 2, CBS Television, and Yorkshire Television. In the UK, the show was screened on ITV. The character of Shuku was one of Naomie Harris's first television roles.
Release Date1992-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
A Certain Justice
Inspector Dalgliesh and his team investigate the murder of a top flight lawyer with an abrasive reputation and turbulent private life.
Release Date1998-07-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
Airline
Airline is a British television drama created by Wilfred Greatorex and lasted for nine episodes broadcast from 3 January to 28 February 1982. Produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV1, the series stars Roy Marsden as Jack Ruskin, a pilot demobbed after the end of the Second World War who starts up his own air freight business.
Release Date1982-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Royal
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Release Date2003-01-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count10
DDU: District Detective Unit
DDU is a serial police drama that was first aired on RTÉ in 1997 as "Making the Cut" and ran for 8 episodes. It starred Sean McGinley.
Release Date1999-10-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count1