Directing

Alan Bromly

Born 1915-09-13 · Godalming, Surrey, England, UK

Alan Bromly (1915–1995) was a British television director, producer and actor. Bromly also directed two feature films, The Angel Who Pawned Her Harp and Follow That Horse!. Amongst the television series he produced was Out of the Unknown for the BBC. He was married to the actress June Ellis.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

The Fosters poster
NR

Mr Foster and his sister live quietly in the suburbs but are not what they seem, possessing scientific knowledge far in advance of humanity.

The Fosters

1969

Target Generation poster
NR

The Ship contains a generation, and only one inheritor knows what must be done when the tremor is felt throughout the metal cylinder.

Target Generation

1969

The Uninvited poster
9.0

A Middle-aged couple are disturbed during the night by a series of unwelcome visitations.

The Uninvited

1971

Immortality Inc poster
NR

The very rich can buy eternal life: all that's needed is someone desperate enough to donate, for a high price, a young body into which their personality can be transferred.

Immortality Inc

1969

Welcome Home poster
NR

Dr Frank Bowers has been looking forward to returning home after a long stay in a psychiatric ward. But when he gets there, he finds that not only does no one recognize him, but another man called Frank Bowers is living in his place.

Welcome Home

1971

Deathday poster
NR

Adam Crosse is a reporter for a local paper. A neurotic under-achiever, the last straw comes when he discovers his wife Lydia is having an affair and she coolly tells him she has no intention of either giving up her lover or divorcing Adam. The top crime story of the moment is a serial murderer nicknamed "The Kitchen Killer". Adam sets out to murder his wife and blame it on this shadowy psycho

Deathday

1971

Liar! poster
NR

The positronic brain of robot RB-34 (Herbie) has an unforeseen 'extra': he can read human thoughts. So his take on the First Law of Robotics is unorthodox: he tells human beings only what he believes will not hurt their feelings. Can renowned robopsychologist Dr. Susan Calvin 'fix' RB-34? Or are there areas of her own psyche where she would rather not hear the truth?

Liar!

1969

Random Quest poster
NR

Following an explosion in a laboratory accident, physicist Colin Trafford is sent to a parallel universe where he enters the body of his counterpart, a popular writer married to an attractive woman who hates him.

Random Quest

1969

Beach Head poster
7.0

On his thirty-seventh mission, Commandant Tom Decker and his colleague Ensign Warner-Carr become alarmed at what they find when their spaceship lands on Planet 0243/B.

Beach Head

1969

Taste of Evil poster
NR

Stephen Chambers, a new master of Warby Stones school for the 'ultra-intelligent boys', finds strange things happening to him. Reason tells him that they must be linked with the boys' Psychic Phenomena Club.

Taste of Evil

1971

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

The Naked Sun poster
10.0

Earth police detective Lije Baley and his robot associate, R. Daneel Olivaw, investigate an impossible murder on a planet where physical proximity is taboo but nudity is not.

The Naked Sun

1969

1+1=1.5 poster
NR

The population of the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century is static, thanks to computerised population control, but the wife of the Population Officer becomes pregnant for the second time.

1+1=1.5

1969

The Shattered Eye poster
NR

A chance meeting with an old tramp brings a violent force into a young painter's life.

The Shattered Eye

1971

Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden poster
6.3

A freak accident leaves two dangerously unstable spacecraft locked together, and a horde of monsters unleashed on their passengers.

Doctor Who: Nightmare of Eden

1979

Something in the Cellar poster
NR

Professor Monty Lafcado, haunted by the memory of his late mother, sets out to construct a mighty computer in his basement, much to the concern of his friend, Dr Pugh.

Something in the Cellar

1969

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior poster
7.4

When scientists start to go missing in the 20th century, the Doctor is called in by the Brigadier to investigate. His investigations lead him to deduce that they are being kidnapped through time and he sets off in pursuit, unknowingly kidnapping journalist Sarah Jane Smith in the process. Arriving in the middle ages, the Doctor and Sarah find themselves caught up in the machinations of the robber baron Irongron and his man from the stars. The alien, a Sontaran named Linx, is arming him with modern weapons in return for helping him repair his damaged ship, and it's up to the Doctor and Sarah to stop him from ruining the Earth's timeline.

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

1974

The Last Witness poster
NR

A man, Harris, wakes up in a hotel on a small island after a shipwreck. He keeps recognising flashes of what he sees, until he realises his visions are of actions yet to come, culminating in murder.

The Last Witness

1971

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

The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow poster
NR

The small East Anglian village of Plampton has one distinction - a famous unsolved murder. A cynical journalist decides to go there to see what he can stir up. But Plampton is a community linked by telepathy and led by a witch.

The Sons and Daughters of Tomorrow

1971

The Yellow Pill poster
9.0

A murderer is examined by psychiatrist John Frame, who is surprised to find the criminal knows many details of his private life.

The Yellow Pill

1969

The Last Lonely Man poster
8.0

What if it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someone still alive? Then the big new problem would be, into whom?

The Last Lonely Man

1969

The Government Inspector poster
6.0

Gogol's comedy of errors, satirizing human greed, stupidity, and the extensive political corruption of Imperial Russia.

The Government Inspector

1958

To Lay a Ghost poster
7.0

Eric and Diana Carver move into a new home in the country, but a series of strange events soon cause Diana to suspect the house is haunted by the ghost of a man. A ghost who seems to be interested in her particularly.

To Lay a Ghost

1971