David Cunliffe (Producer)
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Works
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count3
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Release Date1969-01-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count7
New Scotland Yard
New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.
Release Date1972-04-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Wilde Alliance
Wilde Alliance is a 1978 British television programme created by Ian Mackintosh and produced by Yorkshire Television for l ITV. The light-hearted mystery series follows husband-and-wife amateur detectives Rupert and Amy Wilde.
Release Date1978-01-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count13
Vote Count3
Fall of Eagles
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
Release Date1974-03-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count10
The Sunday Drama
Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.
Release Date1977-05-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Sandbaggers
The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.
Release Date1978-09-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count12
Raffles
Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one. In Victorian-era London, gentleman thief A. J. Raffles, a renowned cricketer, and his friend, the eager but naive Bunny Manders, test their skills in relieving the wealthy of their valuables whilst avoiding detection, especially from the persistent Inspector Mackenzie.
Release Date1977-02-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count5
The Lotus Eaters
Follows the lives of British expatriates living on the island of Crete, where their secrets will soon rise to the surface.
Release Date1972-04-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Love and Marriage
An anthology of six standalone plays presented relationships either beginning or ending in love – but the outcome was not always marriage (or happiness). A second series of five episodes aired in 1986.
Release Date1984-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Dickens of London
A 13-episode miniseries from Yorkshire Television, about Charles Dickens, by now an internationally renowned novelist, during an 1869 tour of America, looking back over his life.
Release Date1976-09-28
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count3
Number 10
Follows the private lives of seven British PMs who lived at Number 10 Downing Street between the 1780s and the 1920s: William Pitt the Younger, the Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley), Benjamin Disraeli, William Ewart Gladstone, David Lloyd-George, Herbert Henry Asquith and James Ramsay MacDonald.
Release Date1983-02-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Flambards
In early 20th-century England, young orphan Christina Parsons is sent to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and has two sons. Mark, the elder, is a wastrel, a roue and, like his father, loves to hunt. The younger, William, lives to fly aeroplanes. Christina finds herself struggling with the ideas of classism as she falls in love with country life, the hunt, and one of her cousins. But after an impulsive marriage, when her husband is called away by the First World War, Christina must keep Flambards afloat by herself.
Release Date1979-02-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count6
Celebrity Playhouse
Yorkshire Television's Celebrity Playhouse anthology series.
Release Date1981-12-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Harry's Game
British undercover agent Harry Brown is sent to Northern Ireland to infiltrate the IRA to find (and terminate) the assassin of a British Cabinet Minister. Harry is alone, the army hasn't been told he is being put in place, his wife is fed up with him and his job, and his sole new friend, an Irish woman who falls for him, will be consumed by his relentless search for the assassin.
Release Date1982-10-25
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count14
Oliver's Travels
Bates plays the titular Oliver, a keen word-game enthusiast and lecturer in comparative religion. After his teaching post is made redundant, he resolves to make use of his new wealth of free time by going to visit his favourite crossword compiler, 'Aristotle', with whom he has corresponded but whom he has never met. When he arrives, however, he finds Aristotle's house has been ransacked and its occupant has departed for parts unknown, and he sets out to discover why.
Release Date1995-06-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count5
Vote Count4
One Summer
One Summer is a 1983 British television drama serial written by Willy Russell and directed by Gordon Flemyng. It stars David Morrissey and Spencer Leigh as two 16 year old Liverpool boys from broken homes who escape from their lives by running away to Wales one summer. It also starred James Hazeldine and Ian Hart. The series was shown in five 50-minute episodes on Channel 4 from 7 August to 4 September 1983. It was later repeated on ITV in April 1985.
Release Date1983-08-07
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count5
Vote Count8
The Beiderbecke Affair
Trevor Chaplin teaches woodwork and likes to listen to jazz. Jill Swinburne teaches English and wants to help save the planet. Trevor tries to buy some jazz records but this leads to meeting a 'dazzlingly beautiful platinum blond'.
Release Date1985-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count9
After Julius
Adaptation of Elizabeth Jane Howard's novel about the family of a publisher, killed in World War II, who discover unwelcome truths about him twenty years later in the course of a weekend at his widow's home.
Release Date1979-04-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
The Good Companions
Discontent with his home, his work and his football team, Jess Oakroyd tears up his insurance card and disappears into the night. Intent on going to Nuneaton, he instead finds himself on the ragged edges of showbusiness. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns, industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.
Release Date1980-11-14
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
The Contract
A British spy helps a Russian scientist to defect from the Soviet Union by taking a perilous journey through the Eastern Bloc.
Release Date1988-01-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Sorrell and Son
Heartfelt story of a father making sacrifices to help his son over the years. Remake of one of films great "lost films"
Release Date1984-06-06
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
Bloomfield
Comedy drama series by Roy Clarke about unsuccessful private eye Billy Gibbs and his ex-wrestler assistant Bloomfield.
Release Date1983-01-04
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Horace
Horace had a learning disability, and he used to like "fish n chips for tea." It was arguably the first mainstream UK TV serial that had a person with a learning disability as the protagonist.
Release Date1982-04-13
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
The Boxwallah
Edwin and Nancy Coote live in a dingy flat in Kensington, but still live in the reflected glory of the Indian Raj.
Release Date1982-07-31
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Plays for Pleasure
A series of six plays about relationships.
Release Date1981-03-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
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
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count9
Vote Count2
It's a Woman's World
Short series of plays focusing on women of different ages.
Release Date1964-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Get Lost!
Get Lost! is a 1981 British television drama serial produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV. Written by Alan Plater, the plot concerns the disappearance of the husband of Leeds schoolteacher Judy Threadgold. Investigating the disappearance, with the aid of her colleague, woodwork teacher Neville Keaton, Judy learns of a secret organisation that helps disaffected people leave their unhappy lives behind.
Release Date1981-06-12
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
The Beiderbecke Tapes
The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part 1987 British television comedy-drama serial written by Alan Plater. The second installment in The Beiderbecke Trilogy, it stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. When a tape recording of a conversation about nuclear waste inadvertently falls into Chaplin's hands, he and Swinburne find themselves being pursued by national security agents.
Release Date1987-12-13
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count2
Vote Count9
Village Wooing
Adaptation of the play by George Bernard Shaw. (Synopsis) Richard Briers tries to woo Judi Dench in this play by George Bernard Shaw.
Release Date1979-04-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Breadwinner
Charles Battle has been 'hammered' in the London Stock Exchange, to the point where he may be bankrupted.
Release Date1982-07-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Good Girl
Do-gooder Angie Botley is a ministering angel whose mission in life is to help people become happier and better human beings.
Release Date1974-07-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
You're Not Watching Me, Mummy
A world-weary actress is attended by her homosexual dresser as various visitors come to her dressing room.
Release Date1979-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Scab
Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.
Release Date1987-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Sutherland's Law
Alec Duthie arrives in Glendoran as depute to Sutherland and uncovers the truth about a death at sea.
Release Date1972-08-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Hedda Gabler
Stuck in a loveless marriage to intellectual George Tesman, the ambitious Hedda Gabler hungers for a life her husband can't provide. Then a former flame, the successful Eilert, enters the picture, violence and blackmail aren't far behind.
Release Date1981-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Forget Me Not
Drama series about a newspaper columnist and the stories she pursues.
Release Date1976-07-18
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count6
Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.
Release Date2005-12-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Shell Seekers
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
Release Date2007-10-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count7
The Inside Man
The Inside Man, produced by Derek Granger and David Cunliffe, offers more of a reimagining than a direct replacement of its predecessor's concept. The series features Frederick Jaeger as Dr. James Austen, a psychiatrist and criminologist who alternates between working for Basil Henson's character, Dawnay, from "the Department," and taking on cases from private clients. Petra Davies plays Sarah Worth, Austen's dependable 'girl Friday.' In the third episode, *Crosscheck*, Robin Ellis joins the cast as Michael Barnett, a spy whom the Department insists Austen should approve. However, every detail about Barnett is an obvious fabrication, adding layers of intrigue to the storyline.
Release Date1969-01-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count12
The Arcata Promise
A down on his luck actor is haunted by his failed career and the promise he made to a young girl he loved but couldn’t keep thanks to his abusive and destructive behaviour.
Release Date1974-09-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Professional
An insignificant little middle-aged man strikes a heinous bargain with an underworld expert. The man has a problem: his wife. A professional killer would seem to be the answer.
Release Date1973-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Potting Shed
The patriarch of the family is dying and James, his estranged son, appears unexpectedly. He can remember nothing about a mysterious moment that occurred in the family's potting shed when he was age 14. Family members who recall the event are unwilling to describe it to him.
Release Date1981-12-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Spaghetti Two-Step
A waiter hurrying from table to table in a crowded Italian restaurant picks up titbits of conversation from the varied clientele.
Release Date1977-02-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Best of Enemies
In Occupied France, a cultured civilised German ofi ccer is billeted out and stirs up conflicting emotions in the household.
Release Date1977-07-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Christmas Tree
A dying woman recalls the happier days of her past.
Release Date1986-12-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Wicked Women
Dramas about women who made the headlines of Victorian newspapers.
Release Date1970-02-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
The Blacktoft Diaries: True or False?
Spoof story, set in the 1950s, about espionage in a humberside village.
Release Date1979-04-10
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Reunion
Sally meets some old friends of Murray's from his life in South Africa whom he has never mentioned. A pleasant reunion disguises the real purpose of a visit; revenge.
Release Date1982-07-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter
Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue.
Release Date1980-04-22
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Who Killed Lamb?
A popular member of the Oxford community is killed and nobody figure out why. A police inspector is called in from Scotland Yard and discovers there may be more to the victim than anyone knows.
Release Date1974-02-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
The Ruffian on the Stair
Joyce (Judy Cornwell), a fragile former prostitute, lives a life of quiet desperation with her "husband" Mike (Michael Bryant), a thuggish, zealously Catholic hitman who uses his van for "irregular contracts." Their stagnant domesticity is shattered by the arrival of Wilson (Billy Hamon), a menacingly polite young man who has his own motives for visiting...
Release Date1973-04-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Rod of Iron
Harry Watson has kept his feelings for his children to himself.
Release Date1980-04-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Daughters of Albion
Three biscuit factory girls mix with students at a party.. Boozing, smoking, jaunty cross-talk and invitations to come to bed follow.
Release Date1979-05-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Casting the Runes
The producer of an investigative television programme which is critical of an occultist finds out that he has a curse put on her.
Release Date1979-04-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue
Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world.
Release Date1980-04-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Going Back
A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoon skies to Jack, her blind husband. "The sun is almost setting. The sky is blue, with ... those little puffy clouds like meringues. There are still leaves on the trees. Oh . quite a few birds are gathering . " All is peaceful. As they talk, a small figure appears walking towards the cottage on the moorland road. Slowly it becomes recognisable as the Armstrong's son David. David's arrival is unexpected. He left home three years ago, and Faith and Jack have heard nothing from him until now. Things at home have changed a lot in those three years. His father has gone blind, and his brother Malcolm is now engaged 'to Heather. David's former girlfriend. The family are curious. Why has David suddenly decided to return home? How long is he staying? Is he in trouble?
Release Date1979-07-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer
The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made about him by a pupil. There was still gossip about him in the town. Mr Faulkner teaches Peter a lot about literature and introduces him to poetry and when Peter returns to school the two of them correspond. The friendship between them is threatened when Peter starts going out with Sue who disapproves of him spending time with the old man.
Release Date1980-04-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy
Two long distance truck drivers talk about their sexual escapades to each other using CB Radio.
Release Date1982-07-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Salad Days
A boy, a girl, a tramp and a piano with the most amazing effect on people, find each other in a park in a heatwave.
Release Date1983-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Specialist
A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home?
Release Date1980-07-12
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Winter Ladies
When a new arrival, a titled lady no less, arrives to shatter the genteel status quo of the St. Elmo Hotel, the entrenched residents are soon sharpening up their knitting needles for battle.
Release Date1979-05-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Houseboy
Both George and Eric, lovers for a number of years, seek to recapture their lost youth with the new hotel houseboy, at the expense of each other.
Release Date1982-07-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Ghosts
Adaptation of Ibsen’s play. Mrs Alving’s son is ill - but what with?
Release Date1977-11-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Too Close to the Edge
Play by Michael Ferguson and Howard Lawrence about an executive on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
Release Date1980-05-13
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer