Gerald Savory (Writer)
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Works
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
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count5
Vote Count8
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count49
ITV Playhouse
ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
Release Date1967-09-25
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
JobAdaptation
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
NET Playhouse
NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.
Release Date1966-10-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count3
Churchill's People
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Release Date1974-12-30
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count26
Vote Count2
Hammer House of Horror
Each self-contained episode features a different kind of horror, varying from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also includes non-supernatural themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.
Release Date1980-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count1
Vote Count73
The Agatha Christie Hour
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.
Release Date1982-09-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count18
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
The Jazz Age
An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One.
Release Date1968-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Private Affairs
Series of plays about the romantic entanglements hidden behind the public images of famous historical figures.
Release Date1975-05-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Mapp & Lucia
Mapp & Lucia is a British television comedy, based on E. F. Benson's novels, beginning with the eponymous 1931 entry for series 1, with Lucia's Progress and Trouble for Lucia for series 2. Mrs Emmeline Lucas (nicknamed Lucia) has just moved to the small English town of Tilling where she comes into conflict with the social ambitions of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Until now, Miss Mapp has led (and controlled) the social life of Tilling, but that was before they met Lucia.
Release Date1985-04-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count8
Romance
Television adaptations of six books by well-known romantic novelists.
Release Date1977-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Love in a Cold Climate
The unconventional lives and loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh, dominated by the eccentric, irascible Uncle Matthew. The story encompasses the economic and political crises of the Thirties and the upheavals of the Second World War.
Release Date1980-10-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Vote Count5
Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Release Date1956-07-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Young and Innocent
When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.
Release Date1937-02-17
DepartmentWriting
JobDialogue
Vote Count255
Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson
Release Date1980-11-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
A Choice of Coward
Noël Coward hosts these four episodes, each an adaptation of one of his plays.
Release Date1964-08-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Count Dracula
Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.
Release Date1977-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
For King and Country: Out There
1915: Determined to do her bit for the country, young Annie Hudd has a burning desire to go to France to help the wounded soldiers but suffers many setbacks before her ambition to become a nurse on the battlefields is realized.
Release Date1963-08-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Cherry Orchard
Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.
Release Date1971-12-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Take Three Women
The series is based on the lives of three single girls living in bed-sit land in London W11. It follows their relationships – with each other, their families and boyfriends – and their progress in their chosen careers.
Release Date1982-09-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
South
A made-for-television play about an exiled Polish Army lieutenant faced with his darkest secret.
Release Date1959-11-24
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count1
Count Dracula
Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.
Release Date1977-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count35
Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington
Peg Woffington and David Garrick have an affair while appearing in stage in Drury Lane.
Release Date1975-05-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
George et Margaret
In a quiet corner of the English countryside, lives the Smith family. Their quietude is disturbed by the arrival of a beautiful young woman.
Release Date1993-06-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Romance: Three Weeks
Television adaptation of the 1907 novel, Three Weeks by Elinor Glyn
Release Date1977-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.
Release Date1960-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count1
Nathan and Tabileth
A portrait of two old people whose dialogue is echoed by internal monologue. A visitor, possibly their nephew, disrupts the routine of their day.
Release Date1970-02-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Adventures Of Don Quixote
A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.
Release Date1973-01-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Mad Jack
Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War
Release Date1970-02-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
A Ferry Ride Away
Heather Massie is on holiday with her crippled mother in the Isle of Wight. She meets a middle-aged doctor in search of romance, and has to make some agonising decisions.
Release Date1981-07-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Choice of Coward: The Vortex
Nicky Lancaster must deal with the problem of his youth-obsessed aging socialite mother.
Release Date1964-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Der Mann mit der Puppe
Release Date1966-05-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
A Choice of Coward: Blithe Spirit
While holding a séance for skeptical novelist Charles Condomine, self-proclaimed 'spiritualist medium' Madame Arcati inadvertently summons the spirit of his deceased first wife Elvira, leading to an increasingly complex love triangle with Ruth, his current wife of five years.
Release Date1964-08-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Urge to Kill
A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.
Release Date1960-03-01
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count3
George and Margaret
The Frictions of a suburban family come to boiling point.
Release Date1940-11-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1