Jack Rosenthal (Writer)
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Works
Omnibus
Omnibus was an arts-based BBC television documentary series, broadcast mainly on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The programme was the successor to the long-running arts-based series 'Monitor'. It ran from 1967 until 2003, usually being transmitted on Sunday evenings. During its 35-year history, the programme won 12 Bafta awards. Among the series' best remembered documentaries are Cracked Actor, a profile of David Bowie, and Rene Magritte, a graduate film by David Wheatley, 'Madonna: Behind the American dream', a film produced by Nadia Hagger, and a profile of the British film director Ridley Scott. For a season in 1982, the series was in a magazine format presented by Barry Norman. The series was replaced by 'Imagine' hosted by Alan Yentob.
Release Date1967-10-13
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
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 Count3
Vote Count10
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 Count2
Vote Count3
Thirty-Minute Theatre
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
Release Date1965-10-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
London's Burning
London's Burning is a British television drama programme produced by London Weekend Television for the ITV network that focused on the lives of members of the London Fire Brigade, principally those of the Blue Watch at a fictional fire station called Blackwall.
Release Date1986-12-07
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count6
Chicken Run
The creators of Wallace & Gromit bring you an exciting and original story about a group of chickens determined to fly the coop–even if they can’t fly! It’s hardly poultry in motion when Rocky attempts to teach Ginger and her feathered friends to fly…but, with teamwork, determination and a little bit o’ cluck, the fearless flock plots one last attempt in a spectacular bid for freedom.
Release Date2000-06-23
DepartmentCrew
JobThanks
Vote Count5453
ITV Saturday Night Theatre
Anthology series of dramatic works.
Release Date1969-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Screen One
Anthology drama series.
Release Date1989-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
Comedy Playhouse
Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975. Many episodes later graduated to their own series, including Steptoe and Son, Till Death Us Do Part, All Gas and Gaiters, The Liver Birds, Are You Being Served? and Last of the Summer Wine, which is the world's longest running sitcom, having run from January 1973 to August 2010.
Release Date1961-12-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
The Duchess of Duke Street
In Victorian London, Louisa Leyton works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St James's.
Release Date1976-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count14
Laurence Olivier Presents
Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the National Theatre during the period when Olivier was Artistic Director. In addition to distinguished English actors, the casts assembled for these productions included several Hollywood stars, such as Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton.
Release Date1976-12-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Dustbinmen
The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred Bryan Pringle, Trevor Bannister, Graham Haberfield, and Tim Wylton. The show was a spin-off from a one-off 90-minute TV film "There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah" written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted. This led to the sitcom which ran for three series between 1969 and 1970. Rosenthal wrote all of the episodes of the first two series.
Release Date1969-09-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count12
Vote Count4
Friday Night
This Granada series featured seven new plays by young Northern writers, including Anthony Linter, Jack Rosenthal, Dennis Woolf, David Halliwell and Peter Eckersley.
Release Date1963-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Village Hall
Village Hall is a drama anthology series made by Granada between 1974 and 1975. It is entirely set in a village hall, with each episode highlighting a different use to which the space is put by local people. Writers include Jack Rosenthal and the actor Kenneth Cope.
Release Date1974-07-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
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 Count2
Vote Count6
The Evacuees
The experiences of two young Jewish boys evacuated from Manchester to Blackpool during the Blitz.
Release Date1975-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Continental Divide
A hard-nosed Chicago journalist has an unlikely love affair with an eagle researcher.
Release Date1981-09-18
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Vote Count128
About Face
About Face is a series of twelve unconnected half-hour sitcoms all starring Maureen Lipman in the lead role. Each episode featured a guest cast of well known actors and actresses. The episodes were written by Richard Harris, Geoffrey Perkins, Chips Hardy & John Henderson, Astrid Ronning, John Wells, Paul Smith & Terry Kyan, Jack Rosenthal, Carol Bunyan and Ian Hislop & Nick Newman. It was made for the ITV network by Central Independent Television.
Release Date1989-11-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Yentl
In a time when girls were forbidden to study religious scriptures, a Jewish girl masquerades as a boy to enter religious training and unexpectedly finds love along the way.
Release Date1983-11-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count262
Seven Faces of Woman
Series of plays examining various aspects of contemporary woman at different ages. The theme song, sung by Charles Aznavour, was a big hit in the summer of 1974.
Release Date1974-06-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Hindle Wakes
In the best play of 1912, the conventional morals and manners of a North England mill town are overthrown by a young woman with ideas far ahead of her time.
Release Date1976-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Forever Young
A lonely young boy idolizes his local priest. An old acquaintance of the priest shows up one day, and the boy learns that his idol isn't exactly what he seems to be--it turns out that many years before, the priest had betrayed his friend, and now his friend has come back for revenge.
Release Date1983-01-07
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count1
The Velvet Glove
A series of plays about strong women.
Release Date1977-01-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Those Glory Glory Days
Girls growing up in 1960-61 London develop a passion for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club, the first British team in the 20th century to win the English league and FA Cup "double". Twenty years later, one of the girls tracks down players of the '60-'61 Spurs for a documentary.
Release Date1983-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count9
Red Letter Day
It happens in almost everyone's life. There is a special day - a day of unusual significance. A turning point in life, perhaps in career, romance or fortune; a day to remember. This anthology of plays, each as individual as the people and events portrayed, looks at seven such Red Letter Days.
Release Date1976-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count2
Well Thank You, Thursday
Miss Shepherd of the registry office is getting a new desk, but things don't go entirely as expected.
Release Date1976-01-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
And a Nightingale Sang
Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.
Release Date1989-04-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Hot Fat
Three men meet in a sauna bath - one is a busy estate agent, one is in the middle of a sympathetic pregnancy and one is an annoying eccentric. The play shows how they spoil each other's relaxation.
Release Date1974-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Wide-Eyed and Legless
Diana and Deric have an ideal marriage: they thrive in each other's company, they're funny, and they enjoy their two grown children and Deric's dotty mother; the trouble is, Diana can no longer walk and her malady defies medical diagnosis. To care for Diana, Deric is letting his business slide, but at a civic luncheon, he is seated next to Aileen Armitage, a novelist who is blind. They have a nice time, and on the sly, Diana contacts Aileen to made an odd request. Diana's declining health and her resolve bring this triangle of unlikely friends to a surprising place.
Release Date1993-09-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang
Summer, 1948. 14-year-old Alan has just three wishes: that there will be lasting peace, that England will win the Ashes, and that he will finally kiss classmate Ann. So when he's cast opposite her in a play that requires a kiss and England seem to be doing well in cricket, life couldn't be better.
Release Date1982-11-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count21
Sadie, It's Cold Outside
Sadie is tired of her domestic chores and wants more out of life. But her husband, Norman isn't listening - he's too busy watching TV.
Release Date1975-04-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count1
Bye Bye Baby
Exploring the often hilarious world of a young Jewish lad conscript and how he survives the Russians, the Royal Navy and the relationship with his girl back home – all the while aided and abetted by the most famous sex symbol the world has ever known.
Release Date1992-11-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
The Lovers
The ups-and-downs of a young courting couple's relationship.
Release Date1970-10-27
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count6
London's Burning: The Movie
It's Josie Ingham's first day at Blackwall Firestation but things aren't going so well being the only female firefighter in an all-male team. Not only does she have to prove to them that she can do the job, problems at home complicate her life even further. Outside, in the heart of the city, tensions are rising to the extreme, Blue Watch have a long night ahead.
Release Date1986-12-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
Remake of the 1976 TV drama by Jack Rosenthal. An extra in a TV drama is finally given a line to say. He goes on to cause mounting chaos
Release Date2004-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Cold Enough for Snow
Doting parents must adjust to life without their children as their offspring leave for college and form relationships.
Release Date1997-12-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Chain
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
Release Date1984-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
The Knowledge
Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.
Release Date1979-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
Captain Jack
Rebellious and irreverent, Captain Jack is a man on a mission. Come hell or high water, he's determined to follow in the footsteps of Whitby's unsung hero, Captain Scoresby, who set sail from the town bound for the Arctic in the 18th Century. Assembling a crew of oddballs and misfits, the cantankerous captain weighs anchor and voyages into the unknown. His ship has been certified unseaworthy, and he's pursued by the Royal Navy, NATO and journalists, but nothing is going to stop Captain Jack fulfilling his wildest dream.
Release Date1999-05-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Spend Spend Spend
Based on the book "Spend, Spend, Spend" by Vivian Nicholson and Stephen Smith. Story of pools winner, Vivian Nicholson.
Release Date1977-03-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Secrets
An enjoyable story of a 13-year-old girl, Louise, who lives alone with her widowed mother. Louise is sent off to a boarding school, but not before she discovers some secret documents kept hidden by her father. A curious look reveals that her father was a member of the secret order of Freemasons. When she finally gets to school, she tries to explain to her friends what the Freemasons are. Later, Louise's mother discovers a box of condoms in her daughter's room and wrongly presumes that the girl is sexually active.
Release Date1983-05-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count5
There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.
Release Date1968-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Eskimo Day
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
Release Date1996-04-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
The Lovers!
Reprising the television series roles which first made them household names, Richard Beckinsale and Paula Wilcox star as Geoffrey Scrimshaw and Beryl Battersby, a hesitant, inexperienced, young couple attempting to negotiate the sexual minefield of the ‘permissive’ society. This big-screen transfer of Jack Rosenthal’s hugely likeable sitcom sees old-fashioned girl Beryl continuing to slap down the advances of her frustrated boyfriend, whose clumsy attempts to initiate ‘Percy Filth’ suggest he’s not quite up to speed himself! Like everyone else, Geoffrey and Beryl want to fall in love – or they think they do; like everyone else, since Adam and Eve. But Adam and Eve didn’t live in Manchester in 1972…
Release Date1973-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
Mrs Capper's Birthday
Sweet Hilda Capper spends her birthday fending off the well-meaning intrusions of family and friends.
Release Date1985-11-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
The Fools on the Hill
This is a dramatisation of the events surrounding the opening night of British television on November 2, 1936 at Alexandra Place in London. It was produced to commemorate its 50th anniversary.
Release Date1986-10-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Another Sunday and Sweet F.A.
Mr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
Release Date1972-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Day To Remember
Wally is spending Christmas with his wife Hilda at the house of their daughter and son-in-law. Wally is hoping that he will miraculously regain his memory during the festive season.
Release Date1986-12-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Lucky Star
In the war-torn Netherlands, a local Jewish boy has vivid escapist fantasies of being in a Hollywood western where good always triumphs.
Release Date1982-05-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1
Lucky Jim
A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.
Release Date2003-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Compensation Alice
Alice is determined to buy a flash new hat despite her husband not giving her the money.
Release Date1967-07-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Arthur's Hallowed Ground
Arthur is the groundsman. He's a perfectionist who has lovingly tended the cricket pitch for 45 years. Now he is given a new assistant.
Release Date1984-10-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count5
Nightingale's Boys
Seven-part drama series about a group of friends, reunited by their 6th form teacher Mr. Nightingale 25 years after leaving school.
Release Date1975-01-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
The Five Pound Orange
For many men edging on middle-age a mistress is a wistful pipe-dream. Gilbert has made fantasy into fact. But he becomes increasingly uncomfortable when his mistress makes him go against his code of ethics and forces him to burgle his wife's flat.
Release Date1976-01-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Bar Mitzvah Boy
On the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.
Release Date1976-09-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Ready When You Are, Mr McGill
A film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
Release Date1976-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Experience Preferred... But Not Essential
A shy, introverted young girl takes a summer job at a seaside resort in Wales, where she finds the staff, the owners and patrons unlike anyone she has ever met before.
Release Date1982-12-22
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count5
The Night Before The Morning After
Susan and Neville begin to have doubts the evening before their wedding.
Release Date1966-04-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Your Name's Not God, It's Edgar
Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.
Release Date1968-12-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1