Known for
6.6Play 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.
Play for Today
1970
7.0Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973
7.3Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.
The Wicker Man
1973
6.2Take the High Road was a British soap opera produced by Scottish Television, set in the fictional village of Glendarroch, which started in February 1980 as an ITV daytime soap opera, and was dropped by the network in 1993, although various members of the ITV Network continued to screen the programme, while others had no interest in doing so. The programme has developed a cult following.
Take the High Road
1980
6.0The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.
Heading Home
1991
6.5The true story of Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man.
A Sense of Freedom
1985
Film credits
1990s · 2 titles
6.0The story of a woman who falls in love with two very different men in post World War II London.
Heading Home
1991
7.0Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become convinced that the children are part of a ritual child abuse network, the small community is thrown into disarray.
Flowers of the Forest
1996
1980s · 1 titles
1970s · 4 titles
7.3Police sergeant Neil Howie is called to an island village in search of a missing girl whom the locals claim never existed. The investigation is further complicated as Howie’s religious views clash with those of the island’s residents.
The Wicker Man
1973
A man sees a newspaper advert for a rotavator. He visits the seller and is invited to an allotment.
Allotment
1971
NRAn elderly couple try to decide if a young woman who has come to visit would make a suitable wife for their son.
A Wily Couple
1976
When Alison unexpectedly falls pregnant after a brief encounter with Alex (David Hayman's first TV role) they decide to marry. The joining of two seemingly different families opens into a witty and audacious tale, which caused uproar after its first broadcast in 1972. An early triumph for Peter McDougall, when it was proclaimed the most exciting writing debut since John Osborne's Look Back in Anger.
Just Your Luck
1972
Series credits
6.6Play 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.
Play for Today
1970
7.0Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Centre Play
1973
6.2Take the High Road was a British soap opera produced by Scottish Television, set in the fictional village of Glendarroch, which started in February 1980 as an ITV daytime soap opera, and was dropped by the network in 1993, although various members of the ITV Network continued to screen the programme, while others had no interest in doing so. The programme has developed a cult following.
Take the High Road
1980