Known for
6.7Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
Grange Hill
1978
7.1Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985
7.0An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
7.2Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not well-known gives them the advantage to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature in its early years is that few episodes feature the entire team, with most using just two or three regulars in any major role.
Strangers
1978
7.7Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.
Shoestring
1979
Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.
The Sunday Drama
1977
Film credits
1990s · 3 titles
6.9The family of Raymond, his wife Val and her brother Billy live in working-class London district. Also in their family is Val and Billy's mother Janet and grandmother Kath. Billy is a drug addict and Raymond kicks him out of the house, making him live on his own. Raymond is generally a rough and even violent person, and that leads to problems in the life of the family.
Nil by Mouth
1997
5.6Six London school-leavers attempt to make it in the world, balancing the challenge of trying to make a name for themselves in the music industry against the pressures and tragedies of everyday life.
G:MT Greenwich Mean Time
1999
4.5George, wheelchair and hospital bound, is released by Cherry and a group of Hell's Angels.
Deptford Graffiti
1991
1980s · 9 titles
5.6When a small British owned island in the Caribbean is invaded and the world's most dangerous terrorist kidnaps a member of the Royal family, the countdown to World War 3 begins. If anyone can prevent the oncoming apocalypse it's the American President, but her closest ally the British Prime Minister appears to have gone stark raving mad.
Whoops Apocalypse
1986
6.3In the throes of a midlife crisis, a man buys a new Jaguar, and it immediately becomes his new love. What he doesn't know is that his wife is as attracted to the Jaguar salesman as he is to the car.
Car Trouble
1986
6.0Unemployed youngsters spend their days at the roller disco, circling round and round, before being called to take up low-paid jobs as they become available. For others, it's a subsistence existence of vending machine food, video games, with sex and drugs freely available as distractions.
Stars of the Roller State Disco
1984
5.6A largely dialogue-free drama set around a platoon of British soldiers from the Parachute regiment patrolling the bandit country of South Armagh, off the rural border between Northern Ireland and the Republic.
Contact
1985
6.7A down on his luck Irishman in London decides to play snooker for money.
Number One
1985
6.0While his parents are renovating a cottage in an English village, teenager Tim and his friend Rebecca uncover information about the mysterious death of a 15-year-old boy who lived in the house decades prior, and as they dig deeper, Tim begins to find events from the past being mirrored in his own life.
A Pattern of Roses
1983
5.3Mobsters and the IRA chase a stagestruck London cabby (Tim Curry) who has found a briefcase full of cash.
Blue Money
1985
Episodes from the life of British Author, J.R. Ackerley.
We Think the World of You
1980
A film from the novel by Jennifer Johnston introducing Joe is an 11-year-old boy growing up on the Bogside of Derry, Northern Ireland. A chance meeting with a girl on his way home from school promises to open up his life in an unexpected and exciting way.
Shadows on Our Skin
1980
1970s · 14 titles
7.1Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.
Scum
1979
7.0Based on the 1973 rock opera album of the same name by The Who, this is the story of 60s teenager Jimmy. At work he slaves in a dead-end job. While after, he shops for tailored suits and rides his scooter as part of the London Mod scene.
Quadrophenia
1979
7.2Carlin is a new reform school inmate with a reputation as a hard case. The authorities encourage gang leader Pongo to humble Carlin, but Carlin overtakes Pongo as Daddy of the ward. The guards institute a reign of terror and neglect, with Carlin emerging as an unlikely leader.
Scum
1977
NR"Why don't you keep that missus o' yours under control? She ain't exactly doin' you a packet o' good, is she? If she was mine I'd bloody put 'er right, I'll tell yer." The marriage of an introverted Scottish army sergeant and his loving, but independent wife is threatened by military life.
The Vanishing Army
1978
10.0At a famous London disco venue, a competition is announced to select two dancers to star in a new film.
The Music Machine
1979
7.5After being harassed by a couple of punks, a young woman picks up an old lady standing at the roadside in the rain.
Panic
1978
6.5A British-born younger son of an immigrant family from Trinidad finds himself adrift between two cultures.
Pressure
1976
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part Five, Thirty Years Younger
1972
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part One, Happy Days
1972
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part Six, Blackboard Jungle
1972
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part Three, Trial of Strength
1972
A trio of journalists look into the murder of a young girl in a seaside town. For the men though it’s more about who gets the big story than solving the crime. (Memorable TV)
A Good Human Story
1977
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part Four, Parents' Day
1972
A series of six short films concerning the adventures of form 2B and their inventive science master, Mr Potter
The Trouble with 2b: Part Two, On the Air
1972
Series credits
6.7Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
Grange Hill
1978
7.1Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Screen Two
1985
7.0An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
7.2Strangers is a 1978–82 ITV police procedural created and principally written by Murray Smith, based on characters created by Kenneth Royce in his novel series and subsequent 1977–78 television adaptation The XYY Man. Don Henderson and Dennis Blanch reprise their roles, respectively, of Detective Sergeant (DS) George Bulman and Detective Constable (DC) Derek Willis. A group of police officers are brought together from across the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they're not well-known gives them the advantage to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature in its early years is that few episodes feature the entire team, with most using just two or three regulars in any major role.
Strangers
1978
7.7Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.
Shoestring
1979
Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.
The Sunday Drama
1977
6.6A bittersweet sitcom about a couple who meet again five years after he jilted her at the altar.
Just Good Friends
1983
7.8Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the finger on him, but Ross is determined to find out and seeks revenge on those who betrayed him. Little by little, Ross pieces together the trail that leads to a dramatic conclusion.
Out
1978