Acting
Peter Woods
Born — Died
1930-11-07 — 1995-03-22
Place of birth
Romford, Essex, England, UK
Known for
Acting
Credits
14 titles
Peter Woods was born on 7 November 1930 in Romford, Essex, England, UK. He was a British journalist, reporter and newsreader. He was one of the BBC's best known broadcasters of his day. He was the biological father of BBC broadcaster Justin Webb. Woods was readily seen as an archetypal British newsreader, and was used as such in comedy sketches and films throughout the 1970s and 1980s. These included Monty Python, There's a Lot of It About, The New Statesman, and Jonnie Turpie's 1987 film Out of Order. He also appeared (again as a newsreader) in an advertising campaign for KP Cheese Dips in the mid-1980s. Along with all the other BBC newsreaders of the time, Woods participated in the 1977 Ch…
Known for
6.7A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.
Simon & Simon
1981
7.4The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
7.5The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
The New Statesman
1987
7.3Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982
A series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.
Life at Stake
1978
5.4Sir Paul Berowne - a prominent Government Minister - turns to his old friend Adam Dalgleish following a series of threatening letters delivered to his London home. The minister's wife is in an adulterous affair with a prominent surgeon and she makes no secret of it. Berowne's only daughter is involved in left-wing politics and rejects her conservative father. Adding to his woes, his own mother favoured her son who was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush over Paul. The informal investigation has barely began when Dalgliesh is faced with a series of bizarre deaths that turn the case into an urgent assignment. —DumbeBlonde
A Taste for Death
1988
Film credits
2000s · 5 titles
NRAnother volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Here you have a chance to relive some of the great trains of the past, featuring a visit to Perth Shed and trains at Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Railway Roundabout 1960
2006
NRFirst volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Here you have a chance to see the Bristol line as it looked during 1958.
Railway Roundabout 1958
2006
NRAnother volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Here a bevvy of beautiful locomotives take the enthusiast back in time, including a journey from Ryde to Ventnor and the chance to take a spin on the Cumbrian Coast Express.
Railway Roundabout 1962
2006
NRAnother volume of highlights from the 1950s and 1960s television series about the vanishing train lines. Here you have a chance to relive some of the great train journeys in this nostalgic trip which looks at the closing of the Wye Valley, and includes a trip on the 'Brighton Belle' and a visit to King's Cross shed.
Railway Roundabout 1959
2006
NRA volume of additional footage from the 1950s and 1960s series. Highlights include an insider's view of York signal box, the new 'Midland Pullman', and steam over Shap in 1963.
Railway Roundabout Revisited
2006
1980s · 2 titles
NREddie Monsoon is a South African entertainer who, following the failure of several pilot shows for TV in his homeland, faked his suicide, went to Brazil and then to England where he attracted notoriety with his explicit sex farces on the stage and shocking TV shows which even Channel 4 banned.
Eddie Monsoon - a Life?
1984
Set on the international tennis circuit, tension mounts in the dressing room as a major quarter-final approaches.
Singles
1983
Series credits
6.7A.J. Simon is a polished fellow with a taste for classic cars and tailored suits. Rick Simon is his less refined (but still pleasant) older brother who has a taste for cowboy boots and four-wheel drive pickups. The two of them live in San Diego, where they own a private detective agency.
Simon & Simon
1981
7.4The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who do parodies of films, literature and sometimes major events.
The Comic Strip Presents...
1982
7.5The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
The New Statesman
1987
7.3Sketch comedy show starring Kenny Everett.
The Kenny Everett Television Show
1982
A series of eight dramatic reconstructions of stories which made the headlines.
Life at Stake
1978
5.4Sir Paul Berowne - a prominent Government Minister - turns to his old friend Adam Dalgleish following a series of threatening letters delivered to his London home. The minister's wife is in an adulterous affair with a prominent surgeon and she makes no secret of it. Berowne's only daughter is involved in left-wing politics and rejects her conservative father. Adding to his woes, his own mother favoured her son who was killed in an IRA terrorist ambush over Paul. The informal investigation has barely began when Dalgliesh is faced with a series of bizarre deaths that turn the case into an urgent assignment. —DumbeBlonde
A Taste for Death
1988
Spike Milligan sketch series created after the BBC apparently thought another 'Q' would confuse people - continues in the same anarchic & often politically incorrect vein.
There's A Lot Of It About
1982