Hugh Whitemore (Writer)
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Works
Midsomer Murders
The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.
Release Date1997-03-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count363
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 Count2
Vote Count10
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
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count1
Vote Count8
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 Count3
Vote Count5
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Release Date1964-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count5
BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
American Playhouse
American Playhouse is an anthology television series periodically broadcast by Public Broadcasting Service in the United States.
Release Date1982-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count8
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 Count2
Vote Count8
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
Sunday-Night Play
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
Release Date1960-09-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Centre Play
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Release Date1973-07-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
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 Count2
Vote Count8
Jane Eyre
After a bleak childhood, Jane Eyre goes out into the world to become a governess. As she lives happily in her new position at Thornfield Hall, she meets the dark, cold, and abrupt master of the house, Edward Rochester. Jane and her employer grow close in friendship and she soon finds herself falling in love with him. Happiness seems to have found Jane at last, but could Rochester's terrible secret be about to destroy it forever?
Release Date1996-01-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count247
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count10
A Dance to the Music of Time
A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
Release Date1997-10-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count7
Elizabeth R
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Release Date1971-02-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count22
Londoners
London itself takes the starring role in this series of plays from the BBC – a role which varies between hero and villain, enchantress and harpy. The series features extensive location filming, ranging from Soho to the Law Courts, Wembley to the docks. Of the twelve episodes, eleven are believed to be lost.
Release Date1965-05-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
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 Count2
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Release Date1951-12-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
Country Matters
An anthology series adapted from plays and short stories by A.E Coppard and H.E. Bates, depicting English country life and rural romance at the turn of the 20th-century. It presents unsentimental stories of human relationships and raw emotions – heartfelt passions, crippling frustrations, unspoken love and destructive jealousy.
Release Date1972-08-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
Romance
Television adaptations of six books by well-known romantic novelists.
Release Date1977-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count1
The Sextet
An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast are featured in each production.
Release Date1972-06-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
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
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 Count2
The Guardians
In a near-future 1980s, England is under autocratic rule by a government that uses a paramilitary force known as The Guardians to maintain control, while a fragmented resistance group tries to provoke the state into revealing its true brutality.
Release Date1971-07-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Late Night Horror
A short-lived horror anthology broadcast in the United Kingdom weekly from 11 April until 16 May 1968 on BBC Two. However, following viewer complaints of its unsuitability, it was pulled, with four of six episodes believed lost (the third episode resurfaced as a 16mm black-and-white film telerecording in 2016, and the first in 2026).
Release Date1968-04-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Root of All Evil?
An anthology series of TV plays with a monetary theme.
Release Date1968-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Dead of Night
Dead of Night is a British television anthology of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It ran for a single series; of its seven 50-minute episodes, only three—'The Exorcism', 'Return Flight', and 'A Woman Sobbing'—are known to survive in the Archives. Another programme made by the same production team under Innes Lloyd, 'The Stone Tape', intended to be the eighth episode, does survive in the Archives but was not broadcast under the Dead of Night banner.
Release Date1972-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
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
84 Charing Cross Road
When a humorous script-reader in her New York apartment sees an ad in the Saturday Review of Literature for a bookstore in London that does mail order, she begins a very special correspondence and friendship with Frank Doel, the bookseller who works at Marks & Co., 84 Charing Cross Road.
Release Date1987-02-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count229
David Copperfield
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships. A co-production with Time-Life Television Productions, the miniseries was first broadcast on BBC 1 in weekly parts from 1 December 1974 to 5 January 1975. It is the earliest BBC adaptation to exist in its entirety; the 1956 adaptation is completely lost, whilst only four of the 1966 adaptation's eight episodes are known to exist.
Release Date1974-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
The Wednesday Thriller
A collection of one-off thrillers, each ending with a disturbing twist.
Release Date1965-08-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Gathering Storm
A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Release Date2002-04-22
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count76
My Cousin Rachel
A young Englishman becomes convinced that his friend and guardian has been murdered by his mysterious second wife.
Release Date1983-03-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Rebecca
Rebecca is a four-part British television miniseries dramatised by Hugh Whitemore, adapted from Daphne du Maurier's eponymous 1938 mystery novel (which had famously been interpreted to film by Alfred Hitchcock in 1940). A naive young woman marries a wealthy widower, but grows haunted by his late wife's legacy and the sinister housekeeper's obsession with the deceased Rebecca.
Release Date1979-01-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
All for Love
Anthology of stories about love, many adapted from short stories or novels.
Release Date1982-07-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Shoulder to Shoulder
Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.
Release Date1974-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Return of the Soldier
The horrors of World War I have robbed returning veteran Chris Baldry of his memory. The traumatized soldier doesn't even recognize his own wife, Kitty, or remember their years together. While Baldry attempts to cope with the unfamiliar surroundings of his own home, he seeks out the company of an old flame from his childhood, Margaret Grey. His amnesia also makes him a ready target for the affections of his older cousin, Jenny.
Release Date1983-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count22
Concealed Enemies
Concealed Enemies is an American television docudrama of the events leading to the arrest, conviction, and imprisonment of former U.S. State Department official Alger Hiss.
Release Date1984-05-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Into the Storm
This powerful follow-up to “The Gathering Storm” follows Churchill from 1940 to 1945 as he guided his beleaguered nation through the crucible of the war years--even as his marriage was encountering its own struggles.
Release Date2009-05-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count90
The Boy in the Bush
n the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony of Western Australia. When he arrives, he is met at the dock by Mr. George, who introduces him to his mother's relatives. Jack's life is to be full of adventures, including taming horses and fighting kangaroos. Jack also competes for the love of two cousins.
Release Date1984-02-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
The Blue Bird
Peasant children Mytyl and Tyltyl are led on a magical quest for the fabulous Blue Bird of Happiness by the fairy Berylune. On their journey, they're accompanied by the anthropomorphized presences of a Dog, a Cat, Light, Fire, and Bread, among other entities.
Release Date1976-04-30
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count30
Biography
Anthology series of plays about significant incidents in the lives of famous people.
Release Date1970-10-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Brensham People
3 Part Mini-series based on novels by John Moore on life in a Gloucestershire town.
Release Date1976-12-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
The Rector's Wife
Three-part dramatization of the novel by Joanna Trollope. A clergyman's wife shocks the church establishment and infuriates her husband by taking a job in a supermarket. She attracts the passionate interest of three very different men: a newly-appointed archdeacon; his younger brother, a philosopher and academic; and a wealthy businessman new to the village.
Release Date1994-03-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Office Romances
Angela is insecure and gawky, overawed by her new job at an advertising agency. Her boss, Pam, is poised and sophisticated - the epitome of a successful career woman. Together both women share an emotional vulnerability. For while Angela falls prey to the office Romeo, Pam continues an unsatisfying affair with a married colleague. Office Romances is an engaging look at the many secrets of love and relationships that lead to tormented love. It's an honest, sensitive view of romance and human nature!
Release Date1983-05-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
No Exit
Anthology series of plays dealing with the themes of fear and entrapment
Release Date1972-07-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Daphne Laureola
A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.
Release Date1978-01-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
My House in Umbria
Emily Delahunty is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
Release Date2003-05-25
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count37
The Final Days
The Final Days concerns itself with the final months of the Richard Nixon presidency.
Release Date1989-10-29
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count7
Separate Tables
A play by Terence Rattigan about the stories of several people staying at a seaside hotel in Bournemouth which features dining at "Separate Tables."
Release Date1970-03-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Macready's Gala
The Headmaster and governors of a boarding school are accidentally locked in the new memorial room with the convicted Great Train Robbers.
Release Date1966-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Contract
George is a leading industrialist, respected and feared by many. Billy, however, has no fear of him, as he shows when chance brings them together.
Release Date1981-07-15
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
All Creatures Great and Small
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1930s. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous brother Tristan—already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures during his work, which are just as often caused by the characters of the county, including the Farnon brothers, as the animals in his care.
Release Date1975-07-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count24
Cider with Rosie
An enchanting tale of childhood in a sleepy Cotswold village during and immediately after the First World War.
Release Date1971-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count12
Goodbye
"All I said was the gramophone's too loud." Tony and Zoe Lyle 's silly row starts like any other, but Tony finds that Zoe means it this time. She's walking out and he's got a week to save a marriage that he hasn't looked at in 18 years, and with it all the trappings of a good life in Maida Vale.
Release Date1975-03-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
All Neat in Black Stockings
A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
Release Date1969-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Breeze Anstey
Two woman pursue an idyllic herb-farming life in the country, forming a bond that for Breeze, the younger woman, is romantically and sexually imbued.
Release Date1972-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count1
Moll Flanders
All kinds of misfortune befall Moll Flanders in 18th-century England; but she's a great survivor.
Release Date1975-11-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Unexpectedly Vacant
A husband and wife acting team face the growing realisation that they will never be better than mediocre during a summer spent in rep.
Release Date1970-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
State of Emergency
Thriller series set in a parallel Great Britain run by a fascist dictatorship
Release Date1975-12-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
Utz
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.
Release Date1992-03-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count6
Three Dangerous Ladies
Three unrelated horror shorts from 1975 UK horror anthology series "Classics Dark and Dangerous" edited together into one horror film anthology with three segments. Each story features a woman who willingly or unwillingly spreads evil.
Release Date1977-06-05
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count4
Breaking the Code
A biography of the English mathematician Alan Turing, who was one of the inventors of the digital computer and one of the key figures in the breaking of the Enigma code, used by the Germans to send secret orders to their U-boats in World War II. Turing was also a homosexual in Britain at a time when this was illegal, besides being a security risk.
Release Date1996-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count18
A Moment in Time
Colonel Hunt is a widower in his 60s. It is in search of health, not romance, that he books in for a week at the Elm Park Hydro and submits himself to a regime of rest, exercise, and starvation rations. When he meets the attractive Deidre Mackay, he finds himself experiencing emotions he never thought he'd feel again. From each other they learn how to live and how to love. They relive their youths-pulling pranks, laughing and dreaming. With a love so powerful, their time together is of no consequence. For it is a moment that stands still in time. A Moment In Time will make you laugh and cry and share a love that you'll never forget!
Release Date1983-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Too Many Cooks
Dr Andrew Cook, inventor of a process for making living replicas of human beings, has unwittingly duplicated himself and becomes a secret weapon in the Solar System's struggle for economic survival against a powerful alien culture, the Sentients.
Release Date1966-12-15
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
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
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count1
The Haunting of Helen Walker
TV remake of the Henry James' classic tale "Turn of the Screw", with changes in location and character names. A live in nanny discovers two children haunted by the spirits and deeds of their former care givers.
Release Date1995-12-03
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count5
A Dedicated Man
Edith is a hotel waitress, single and in her mid-forties, with a major infatuation on Maurice Silcox, the hotel's head waiter. But Edith becomes distraught when she learns that Maurice has been offered a more prestigious job at a luxury hotel. Maurice explains to Edith that he can only take the position if he is married. Unaware Edith's crush, Maurice proposes. She accepts and they set up a household for business purposes only -- complete with a photograph of a make-believe son. As Edith continues to live with this charade, her obsession with Maurice and the "son" grows, leading to a shocking and disturbing outcome!
Release Date1982-03-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Man at the Top
Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman’s companies and makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide...
Release Date1973-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count8
84 Charing Cross Road
Adaptation of the Helene Hanff memoir, presented as part of Play for Today.
Release Date1975-11-04
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count2
Pack of Lies
A British couple are shocked out of their suburban malaise when British intelligence agent Stewart shows up at their door and wants to use their house for a stakeout. Stewart reveals that their neighbors are undercover Russian KGB spies, part of a Soviet espionage network.
Release Date1987-04-26
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
Vote Count9
I Remember Nelson
Vice Adm. Horatio Nelson's remarkable naval career and troubled personal affairs are brought to life in this miniseries, which tells his famous story through the narratives of those who knew him best.
Release Date1982-04-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Frankenstein Mark 2
A stranger calls at the home of divorcée Anna Preston, asking to collect some of her ex-husband's belongings. Anna agrees, but is suspicious, and tries to contact her 'ex' at the space-research establishment where he worked. But none of his colleagues can tell her where he is and the authorities block all her efforts to find out. Anna grows more convinced that he is in danger, but the truth is more horrifying than even she can imagine.
Release Date1966-10-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Thinking Man as Hero
A television producer encounters personal problems while making a documentary about the philosopher Wittgenstein.
Release Date1973-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Stevie
For a poet with a gift for crafting words into barbs, Stevie Smith lives a relatively conventional life. Sheltered in a London suburb, she spends her days engaged in tedious housework, crafting verse and conversing with her aunt. But while her body may be committed to drudgery, Stevie's mind is constantly trying to break free, which causes her to rail against religion and middle-class values, and prevents her from finding happiness with a man interested in her.
Release Date1978-09-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count9
A Bit of Singing and Dancing
Freed at last by death from tyranny of an elderly, querulous mother, Esme Fanshaw is persuaded to take a man, Amos Curry, into her house as a paying guest. At first wary of him, Esme becomes increasingly fond of this dapper little man with his mysterious summer occupation. When she finally learns the nature of this occupation she is at first shocked then sympathetic.
Release Date1982-08-22
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Dummy
Documentary drama based on a true story, highlighting the difficulties faced by a young deaf woman, Sandra, whose attempts to use sign language are prevented in a time when deaf people were encouraged to lip read and speak. Unable to communicate adequately, Sandra becomes a target for abusive men.
Release Date1977-11-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Down at the Hydro
Diedre and The Colonel separately attend a health spa and find themselves falling in love.
Release Date1983-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Decline and Fall ...of a Birdwatcher
A young man's attempts at seduction and social climbing lead to mayhem.
Release Date1968-10-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
The Pearcross Girls
Four plays about the four daughters of a comfortable middle-class household in Hampshire.
Release Date1973-03-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
The Simple Life
A country cottage is the cause of marital strife.
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
The Bells of Hell
After three months of marriage, Phrynne and Gerald Banstead stay at the Bell Inn, a picturesque pub in East Anglia. When they arrive, the place seems to be all but deserted apart from the lonely sound of a church bell.
Release Date1968-05-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Lovers of Their Time
A bittersweet tale of timid, gentle lovers, one of whom is unhappily married, who conduct a clandestine affair.
Release Date1982-08-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
William Wilson
Throughout his life, William Wilson finds himself being shadowed by another William Wilson, who seems to resemble him in more than name.
Release Date1976-12-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty?
Pompous film director David lives a boring life with his children's books writer wife Hilary but also has a glamorous girlfriend, Caroline. When Hilary finds out about Caroline she decides to befriend her and then update him.
Release Date1967-02-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Mrs. Amworth
A vampire terrorizes a quiet English town.
Release Date1975-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Exiles
In the 1920s, Michael Arlen was one of the most popular and acclaimed writers in the world, but he mysteriously stopped writing altogether. His son tries to work out why this was.
Release Date1977-09-28
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count1