Charles Wood (Writer)
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Works
Last Summer by the Seaside
The seaside was quite a headline topic last summer, not only because of the remarkably hot weather but because of the Mod and Rocker riots and the girls who braved the new fashion of topless swimsuits. Tonight's film looks back at what went on in seaside resorts ranging from Brighton to Blackpool, from Pwllheli to Margate. More particularly you can follow playwright Charles Wood and his family on their annual holiday visit to his parents on the Isle of Wight.
Release Date1964-12-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Charactersd Self and Narrator
Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties
Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.
Release Date1993-09-05
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date1970-10-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
Inspector Morse
Inspector Morse is a detective drama based on Colin Dexter's series of Chief Inspector Morse novels. The series starred John Thaw as Chief Inspector Morse and Kevin Whately as Sergeant Lewis, as well as a large cast of notable actors and actresses.
Release Date1987-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count143
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
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 Saturday Night Theatre
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Release Date1969-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Sharpe
Sharpe is a British series of television dramas starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe is the hero of a number of novels by Bernard Cornwell; most, though not all, of the episodes are based on the books. Produced by Celtic Films and Picture Palace Films for the ITV network, the series was shot mainly in Turkey and the Crimea, although some filming was also done in England, Spain and Portugal. The series originally ran from 1993 to 1997. In 2004, as part of ITV's new set of drama, ITV announced that it intended to produce new episodes of Sharpe, in co-production with BBC America, loosely based on his time in India, with Sean Bean continuing his role as Sharpe. Sharpe's Challenge is a two-part adventure; part one premiered on ITV on 23 April 2006, with part two being shown the following night. With more gore than earlier episodes, the show was broadcast by BBC America in September 2006.
Release Date1993-05-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count36
Kavanagh Q.C.
John Thaw dons the silks as barrister James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most highly respected criminal advocates in London, commanding admiration from colleagues and opponents alike. However, all this has come at a price as his dedication to work has taken its toll on his private life… Going beyond traditional courtroom dramas, “Kavanagh Q.C.” uncovers the pressures of legal battles and the problems of defining the truth, providing a compelling representation of the euphoric ups and costly downs of success and failure in the legal world.
Release Date1995-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count11
Screen One
Anthology drama series.
Release Date1989-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Sunday Premiere
Sunday night dramas on subjects as diverse as a dodgy doctor and a tale of cat lovers and the social circle they inhabit.
Release Date1986-08-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Iris
True story of the lifelong romance between novelist Iris Murdoch and her husband John Bayley, from their student days through her battle with Alzheimer's disease.
Release Date2001-12-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count220
Time for Murder
Time for Murder is a 1985 British anthology crime series produced by Granada Television, featuring six standalone, hour-long mystery episodes with twists, dark humour, and macabre elements, starring popular actors like Charles Dance and Claire Bloom. Each episode presents a different story, such as a tutor becoming a murder suspect or a writer's spa vacation turning sinister, all united by the theme that 'there is always a time for murder'.
Release Date1985-11-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Wagner
A huge panorama of Wagner's life and work, from before the 1848 Revolution, through his exile in Switzerland, his rescue by the besotted King Ludwig II of Bavaria to the final triumph at Bayreuth.
Release Date1983-10-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count8
The Ten Commandments
An anthology series wherein the ten commandments are interpreted in contemporary scenarios by different writers. It was transmissioned from 30 March to 1 June 1971 on ITV Yorkshire.
Release Date1971-03-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Cuba
A British mercenary arrives in pre-Revolution Cuba to help train the corrupt General Batista's army against Castro's guerrillas while he also romances a former lover now married to an unscrupulous plantation owner.
Release Date1979-12-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count53
Help!
An obscure Eastern cult that practices human sacrifice pursues Ringo after he unknowingly puts on a ceremonial ring (that, of course, won't come off). On top of that, a pair of mad scientists, members of Scotland Yard, and a beautiful but dead-eyed assassin all have their own plans for the Fab Four.
Release Date1965-07-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count354
Don't Forget to Write!
Once a successful playwright, George Maple is now procrastinating, lacking self-confidence and suffering from writer's block. He is seen at home with his supportive wife Mabel, son Wilfred and daughter Kate. They're frequently visited by neighbour Tom Lawrence, a confident, suave and successful playwright, and cleaner Mrs Field.
Release Date1977-04-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count4
The Charge of the Light Brigade
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by the overbearing Lord Cardigan, engages in an infamously reckless strategic debacle against a Russian artillery battery.
Release Date1968-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count78
The Other Man
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Release Date2008-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count245
The Root of All Evil?
An anthology series of TV plays with a monetary theme.
Release Date1968-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
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
My Family and Other Animals
Young Gerald explored his passion for the animal kingdom with his inspirational tutor, Dr Theodore Stephanides. The backdrop was sunshine, happiness and the love and laughter of a doting, slightly eccentric family
Release Date1987-10-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count7
The Bed Sitting Room
In the hazy aftermath of World War III, the fallout from a 'nuclear misunderstanding' is producing strange mutations amongst the survivors, and the noble Lord Fortnum finds himself transforming into a bed sitting room.
Release Date1969-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count53
An Awfully Big Adventure
Liverpool. 1947. Right after World War II, a star struck naive teenage girl joins a shabby theatre troupe in Liverpool. During a winter production of Peter Pan, the play quickly turns into a dark metaphor for youth as she becomes drawn into a web of sexual politics and intrigue and learns about the grown-up world of the theater.
Release Date1995-05-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count70
Masquerade
A television series consisting of five original plays, all set at parties.
Release Date1974-04-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Sharpe's Company
Spain, 1812. The Duke of Wellington plans to lay siege to Badajoz. A murderous figure from Sharpe's past uses a beautiful woman to revenge himself on Sharpe, now the father of her child. Sharpe has reason to be happy, he holds his daughter for the first time and is given command of the Light Company again, together with his captaincy. But will his happiness be short lived?
Release Date1994-05-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count37
The Knack... and How to Get It
A nebbish schoolteacher begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal to teach him 'the knack' – how to score with women. Serendipitously, the men meet up with a new girl in town, as well as a friendly lunatic who can’t help but paint things white.
Release Date1965-06-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count78
Sharpe's Regiment
June, 1813. Major Richard Sharpe's men are in mortal danger - not from the French, but from the bureaucrats of Whitehall. Unless reinforcements can be brought from England, the depleted South Essex will be disbanded, their troops scattered throughout the army. Determined not to see his regiment die, Sharpe returns to England and uncovers a nest of well-bred, high-ranking traitors, any one of whom could utterly destroy his career with a word, or a stroke of the pen. Sharpe is forced into the most desperate gamble of his life - and not even the influence of the Price Regent may be enough to save him.
Release Date1996-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count29
Sharpe's Waterloo
France, 1815. Sharpe seems to have settled down for life on a tranquil French farm with his new partner Lucille when the sudden news of Napoleon's return from exile compels him to go back to the army to fight in the great Battle of Waterloo. He joins the staff of Wellington's ally, the Prince of Orange. Once again reunited with the Chosen Men, Sharpe abandons his inept commander to organise the defence of the British key positions on the farm of La Haie Sainte and plays a courageous and important role in securing one of Britain's most famous victories.
Release Date1997-05-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count30
How I Won the War
An inept British WWII commander leads his troops to a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Release Date1967-10-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count39
Tumbledown
The film centers on the experiences of Robert Lawrence MC, an officer of the Scots Guards during the Falklands War of 1982. While fighting at the Battle of Mount Tumbledown, Lawrence is shot in the head by an Argentine sniper and left paralyzed on his left side. He then must learn to adjust to his new disability.
Release Date1988-05-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count17
Monsignor Renard
Monsignor Renard was a four-part ITV television drama set in occupied France during World War II. It starred John Thaw as Monsignor Augustine Renard, a French priest who is drawn into the Resistance movement. The series was later shown in the U.S. as part of Masterpiece Theatre.
Release Date2000-03-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
England, My England
The story of Henry Purcell.
Release Date1995-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Red Monarch
British comedy satirising Stalin's inner circle as an absolute monarchs court. In the face of rampant abuse of power and poisonous distrust some still manage to keep faith with the Bolshevist creed until the very end. In front of the firing squad a stalwart bolshevist of the first hour exclaims: "Even in the best democracy errors are being made!"
Release Date1983-06-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
A Breed of Heroes
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
Release Date1994-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Drums Along The Avon
A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.
Release Date1967-05-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The Long Day's Dying
Three British soldiers and their German captive trek through the European countryside.
Release Date1968-05-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count19
Puccini
In Torre del Lago, by Lake Massaciuccoli, Puccini is writing "The Girl of the Golden West" when his wife Elvira accuses him of a dalliance with their maid, Doria Manfredi, a young women from town. Although the maestro is frequently unfaithful, he denies the affair; Elvira insists she's right and publicly hounds Doria. Between scenes in this domestic drama that turns tragic, we watch a Scottish company rehearse and stage "Turandot," Puccini's last opera. The film finds parallels between the two stories and suggests that in the opera, Puccini expresses love for his wife and guilt in Doria's fate. Three local gentlemen provide a spoken chorus as Puccini's score plays throughout.
Release Date1984-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Love Lies Bleeding
Theo and Rowena are giving a dinner party - but outside their house a death occurs. Drama set against the backdrop of a dinner party. The guests are a mixture of the stupid and intelligent, imaginative and unimaginative. One of them is a major politician. However, outside the comfort of the party... is death.
Release Date1977-07-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Do as I Say
A quietly unhappy housewife finds a stranger in her house and is raped at knife-point by him. But when she turns to friends, neighbours and her parents-in-law for sympathy, they all seem preoccupied by other matters.
Release Date1977-01-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Prisoner and Escort
Private Jupp is under arrest for a long list of charges and is being escorted by train to Catterick Camp. A girl is invited to share their compartment on the long train journey and the encounter reveals the truth about the escort as well as the prisoner.
Release Date1964-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1