Martin Worth (Writer)
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Works
Drama 61-67
Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year. It alternated with Armchair Theatre from ABC in the Sunday evening slot. The series was described at the time as epitomising ATV drama.
Release Date1961-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.
Release Date1965-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
Doomwatch
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.
Release Date1970-02-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count6
Orson Welles' Great Mysteries
Orson Welles’ Great Mysteries is a British television anthology series produced by Anglia Television for the ITV network and broadcast between 1973 and 1974. The series presents standalone adaptations of classic mystery, crime, and supernatural stories drawn from literary sources including Dickens, Conan Doyle, Wilkie Collins, Balzac, Maugham, O. Henry, and others. Each episode is framed by original introductory and closing sequences performed by Orson Welles, who serves as the series’ host and sole recurring on-screen presence. These segments, written and directed by Welles (uncredited), function as stylized narrative framing devices rather than dramatic participation in the stories themselves. The dramatic content of each episode is performed by separate casts and directors, with no continuing characters or serialized narrative, establishing the series as a unified television anthology rather than a collection of standalone films.
Release Date1973-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
The Adventures of William Tell
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment.
Release Date1958-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Poldark
Poldark is a television drama based on Winston Graham's novels of the same title. It was first transmitted on BBC Two across two seasons between 1975 and 1977. The adaptation covered all seven novels (of the eventual twelve) published up to the time. In late 18th-century Cornwall, Ross Poldark loses his fiancée, well-bred beauty Elizabeth, to his cousin Francis. He ends up marrying his servant, Demelza Carne, but his passion for Elizabeth simmers on for years. Meanwhile, he strives to make his derelict copper mines a success. Life is hard, smuggling is rife, and Ross finds himself taking the side of the underclass against the ruthless behaviour of his enemies, the greedy Warleggan clan.
Release Date1975-10-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count17
Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense
A short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. Co-produced by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, it is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all episodes feature American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It first broadcast in the UK on ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various regions.
Release Date1984-09-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Survivors
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
Release Date1975-04-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count25
Warship
Written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 1970s, most stories focus on the Captain and his fellow officers, with subplots dealing with life on the lower decks. Episodes typically featured a variety of events at sea (the Cold War, smuggling, the evacuation of civilians from crisis-hit places, etc.), as well as the personal lives of officers and ratings and the impact their personal lives had on their professional lives and duties.
Release Date1973-06-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Menace
This is a series of thrillers designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
Release Date1970-09-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
City '68
Forward thinking anthology of dramas about the emerging problems of a city.
Release Date1967-12-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Drummonds
Drummonds was a British television drama produced for the ITV by London Weekend Television, ehich ran for two seasons between 1985 and 1987. Set in a mid-1950s boys' boarding school, the series follows the lives of the students and staff, particularly headmaster George Drummond and his wife, Mary.
Release Date1985-08-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Borderers
The Borderers is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1970.
Release Date1968-12-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Heidi
Orphaned Heidi lives with her reclusive grandfather in the Swiss Alps, where she befriends goatherd Peter. She eventually moves to the city, where she's taken to be a companion to a sickly girl named Clara.
Release Date1974-10-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
The Master of Ballantrae
The plot revolves around what happens after the brothers toss a coin to see who joins Prince Charlie and who remains to oversee the family estate. The faithful servant is the main narrator and is torn between the outrageous Master and all his social wiles versus his employer, the brother of the Master who has more traditional values. The enmity between the fraternal rivals and the love, for both, of the stalwart Steward is the main theme.
Release Date1975-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Trial
Drama series depicting a murder trial.
Release Date1971-08-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count13
The Last Witness
A man, Harris, wakes up in a hotel on a small island after a shipwreck. He keeps recognising flashes of what he sees, until he realises his visions are of actions yet to come, culminating in murder.
Release Date1971-06-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Distant Scream
Lying on his deathbed, an elderly man who has spent most of his life in prison for the murder of the woman he loved is granted a supernatural chance to go back to that fateful weekend and attempt to discover what really happened...
Release Date1984-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Microbes and Men
Dramatised stories of the founders of modern medicine. Until the 1840s, medicine had remained basically unchanged since the days of the ancient Greece. In the 60 years following it was transformed into a modern science.
Release Date1974-09-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
The Circus Connection
In the middle of the Augustów Forest, tarpans are bred - small wild forest horses, found in the wild only in Poland. An old abandoned fort near the port of Gdynia is used by smugglers and international wildlife traders as a hideout to store livestock.
Release Date1996-10-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Who Pays?
After a scout troupe is tragically mowed down by a truck, responsibility passes around the driver, the poorly sited roadworks and the scout master for allowing his charges on the main road.
Release Date1968-01-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Cult of Doomwatch
With new interviews with the actors and production team, this documentary reveals the inspiration for stories, outlines how the team knew they were upsetting the government and big business, and explains why Robert Powell left at the height of its popularity.
Release Date2006-11-21