Peter Cregeen

Directing

Peter Cregeen

Born 1940-01-28 · Wandsworth, London, England, UK

Peter Cregeen (born 28 January 1940 in London, England) is a British television director, producer and executive. He was the original director of ITV's successful police drama The Bill, and made a substantial contribution to the series thereafter. He also served as Head of Series for BBC television drama between 1989 and 1993, which included cancelling Doctor Who after its 26th season and several years of poor viewing figures.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Chopper poster
NR

The vengeful spirit of a dead motorcyclist is reluctant to leave his wrecked machine and manifests itself to a woman journalist as motorbike noise.

The Chopper

1971

Private Practice poster
8.0

Why does Sylvia Payne, with her successful husband and luxurious home, get in such a flap about her daughter's schoolfriend coming to visit?

Private Practice

1973

No artwork available
NR

A woman who can use remote viewing to locate the bodies of missing people starts experiencing a feeling of strangulation

Strangled

1982

Get Off My Cloud poster
NR

A bed-bound Science Fiction author finds himself within one of his own fantasies after a mental breakdown.

Get Off My Cloud

1969

No artwork available
NR

Holiday work in the countryside brings three young friends peace and tenderness. The richness and innocence of their experience carries with it the seeds of painful disintegration.

Scarborough

1972

Broken Glass poster
NR

A private detective caring for his wife who is suffering from dementia investigates the disappearance of a young girl. Soon, however, he begins digging up the girl's dark family secrets.

Broken Glass

1982

No artwork available
8.0

A former journalist begins to experience distressing flashbacks, to the alarm of people close to him.

Blunt Instrument

1981

No artwork available
8.0

A former journalist begins to experience distressing flashbacks, to the alarm of people close to him.

Blunt Instrument

1981

No artwork available
NR

A man and a woman (both married to other people) are found dead in a show home in what appears to have been double suicide. Their respective children investigate this supposed affair but the surviving spouses seem unaffected

A Gift of Tongues

1982

No artwork available
NR

A man and a woman (both married to other people) are found dead in a show home in what appears to have been double suicide. Their respective children investigate this supposed affair but the surviving spouses seem unaffected

A Gift of Tongues

1982

No artwork available
NR

A petty criminal decides to turn into an informant, a grass, after he learns about a crooked chief inspector. But instead of getting paid all he gets is trouble for himself and his family.

Grass

1982

No artwork available
NR

A man returns home from a business trip to find his wife is gone. He assumes she's left him after years of rowing and affairs but everyone else seems to be convinced that he's killed her.

Where Is Betty Buchus?

1982

No artwork available
NR

A man returns home from a business trip to find his wife is gone. He assumes she's left him after years of rowing and affairs but everyone else seems to be convinced that he's killed her.

Where Is Betty Buchus?

1982

Woodentop poster
7.0

It's the first day on the job at Sun Hill police station for probationary P.C. Jim Carver, but by no means an uneventful one…

Woodentop

1983

The Man in My Head poster
10.0

A team of soldiers break into an enemy missile base. Such is the secrecy of their mission that they have been hypnotically programmed with their orders and will only remember each stage of the operation when they hear a pre-arranged signal. It seems foolproof, but gradually doubt and paranoia begin to overtake them.

The Man in My Head

1971

No artwork available
NR

A blind man is tormented by a mysterious visitor who moves into his house and kills his dog but seems only interested in playing vicious mind games.

A Walk in the Dark

1982