Known for
7.0A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974
7.8World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Secret Army
1977
7.0A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
Target
1977
7.5This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Elizabeth R
1971
8.5A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.
The Frighteners
1972
8.0Follows the exploits of young Kay Harker, who finds himself drawn into a world of magic and danger when he encounters an old Punch and Judy man.
The Box of Delights
1984
Film credits
1980s · 3 titles
6.2Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Hamlet
1980
7.0The adventures of a group of nineteenth century homeless children who operate as pickpockets in the Smithfield area of London
Captain Stirrick
1982
NRThe producer and director are delighted with their television play about a comprehensive school. It seems truthful, authentic, really lifelike. But as rehearsals progress, a tense difference of opinion emerges between the author and the young schoolboy actor.
Lifelike
1980
1970s · 3 titles
NRAhead of a screening of his latest film a director converses with a prostitute, whilst his female star and estranged wife talks to a writer, his brother. Intercut are scenes from the film, and the making of it.
An Afternoon at the Festival
1973
8.0When Harriet Zapper is hired to find the identity of Karel Duval, and the true heir to the Duval family fortune, a bloody trail of murders leads the Big Zapper from London to the South of France and into a hornet's nest of betrayal and death.
The Swordsman
1974
A suicidal teen and an openly gay youth strike up an unlikely rapport in a foster home.
Michael and Liam
1979
Series credits
7.0A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974
7.8World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Secret Army
1977
7.8World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.
Secret Army
1977
7.0A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
Target
1977
7.5This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Elizabeth R
1971
8.5A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.
The Frighteners
1972
8.0Follows the exploits of young Kay Harker, who finds himself drawn into a world of magic and danger when he encounters an old Punch and Judy man.
The Box of Delights
1984