Directing

Roger Tonge

Place of birth

Basel, Switzerland

Known for

Directing

Credits

30 titles

Roger Tonge is a producer/director best known for the BBC schools series Scene .Buddy (serial) ,Look and Read ,(Skyhunter) ,Working with Youth

Known for

Film credits

Behind the camera

Ties poster
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Karen and her older sister Sandra both take a trip to Brighton due to unforeseen circumstances.

Ties

1982

Judo Champ poster
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John Stewart is Scottish Junior Judo Champ. He has come to London to live. His new club and his new school want him to win competitions for them. His Dad wants him to bring glory to Scotland. The school bully badly needs teaching a lesson. But John no longer seems to enjoy tough competitive judo where the aim is to beat someone else. He wants something else - a different style, a deeper satisfaction. But few understand.

Judo Champ

1981

Judo Champ poster
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John Stewart is Scottish Junior Judo Champ. He has come to London to live. His new club and his new school want him to win competitions for them. His Dad wants him to bring glory to Scotland. The school bully badly needs teaching a lesson. But John no longer seems to enjoy tough competitive judo where the aim is to beat someone else. He wants something else - a different style, a deeper satisfaction. But few understand.

Judo Champ

1981

Ungentlemanly Conduct? poster
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For more than 100 years rugby union was for men only - until women, like those from the South Wales village of Magor, started their own teams.

Ungentlemanly Conduct?

1986

Good Neighbours poster
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Lorrie's father is keen on the idea of an anti-crime Neighbourhood Watch, but Lorrie has his doubts. A play for the BBC schools anthology Scene written by Leslie Stewart.

Good Neighbours

1984

Buddy poster
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Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It starred Wayne Goddard as Buddy Clark, a teenager dealing with various life problems, Roger Daltrey as his father Terry and pupils from the Cavendish School in Eastbourne. Daltrey reprised his role in the 1991 film Buddy's Song with Chesney Hawkes as Buddy.

Buddy

1986

The Cage poster
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Written by Ray Jenkins. Paula is the only girl in the assessment centre who doesn't know the date she can leave. Paula worries about what will happen to her

The Cage

1983

The Cage poster
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Written by Ray Jenkins. Paula is the only girl in the assessment centre who doesn't know the date she can leave. Paula worries about what will happen to her

The Cage

1983

On Yer Bike! poster
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Four friends fancy a cycle trip to the country. It's unknown territory for them and Benny in particular looks forward to impressing the 'natives' with a new racing bike. But the experience affects the group in ways they hadn't foreseen.

On Yer Bike!

1981

And Mum Came Too poster
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Gate-crashing and drinking have turned some teenage parties into nightmares. When it's Sandra's turn to have a party, Mum insists on coming too. Sandra is horrified - will any of her friends come?

And Mum Came Too

1980

And Mum Came Too poster
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Gate-crashing and drinking have turned some teenage parties into nightmares. When it's Sandra's turn to have a party, Mum insists on coming too. Sandra is horrified - will any of her friends come?

And Mum Came Too

1980

Patty Fatty poster
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A play by Kay McManus. Patricia is fifteen and fat, and feels the odd one out...until her brother's friend takes her out for a ride on his motorcycle.

Patty Fatty

1981

Two of Us poster
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Matthew is a boy who just left school. He is handsome and athletic and believes himself to be gay. He retains a friendship with only one school friend, Phil, who has stuck by Matthew despite hostile reactions from his peers. As their relationship grows more intense, Phil's girlfriend Sharon and his classmates become vindictive and aggressive. The two friends find themselves ostracized by both friends and family and decide to run away.

Two of Us

1987

Funny People poster
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Scene spent a week in a school in Bristol finding out about those people who make their classmates laugh. Why does every class have its clown? What do the comedians gain from being funny? Once you've got it, can you get rid of the role of the joker?

Funny People

1981

Funny People poster
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Scene spent a week in a school in Bristol finding out about those people who make their classmates laugh. Why does every class have its clown? What do the comedians gain from being funny? Once you've got it, can you get rid of the role of the joker?

Funny People

1981

Girls' Gang poster
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Scene follows a group of five friends - Teresa, Lisa, Marlene, Caroline and Susan through a week of their lives. How does each of them fit into the group, and what do they get out of it?

Girls' Gang

1987

The Kids Are Ok poster
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Drama about two teenage children whose parents' marriage is breaking apart. Kenny and Jill are both, in their own ways, distracted and doing poorly at school. When they come home they see their parents arguing, and overhear their mother crying at night, but they have difficulty talking about it with each other. A year later, after the father has left home and everybody seems to have settled down. The children spend weekends with their father, but things become strained when he introduces his new friend Doreen.

The Kids Are Ok

1980

Janna - Where Are You? poster
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'I left home about six weeks ago. Came home from school, washed, changed and went. I had enough of being grateful. When I said we ought to shoot the horse and make it into hamburgers for Africa, Dad laughed. Mum thought it was an ungrateful thing to say' Janna leaves home, but is life on the streets better than life at home?

Janna - Where Are You?

1987

Janna - Where Are You? poster
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'I left home about six weeks ago. Came home from school, washed, changed and went. I had enough of being grateful. When I said we ought to shoot the horse and make it into hamburgers for Africa, Dad laughed. Mum thought it was an ungrateful thing to say' Janna leaves home, but is life on the streets better than life at home?

Janna - Where Are You?

1987

Believe It or Not poster
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Mention the paranormal and everyone has an opinion - from the believers to the sceptics. who claim 'it's all trickery'. Scene looks at the growing interest in psychic phenomena

Believe It or Not

1989

To Turn a Blind Eye poster
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Written by Farrukh Dhondy. Blind Mr. Homersham lives alone with no one to care for him, but then he meets young Jamshyd. Being blind Mr. Homesham does not know or care that Jamshyd is Asian, until his son introduces prejudice into the relationship. 

To Turn a Blind Eye

1982

Why Can't We Live Together? poster
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One in three marriages in Britain ends in divorce; perhaps more would if it weren't for the couples staying together for the children. How does it affect the kids? Are their views taken into account? Scene investigates and interviews parents, children and young adults.

Why Can't We Live Together?

1987

A Visitor from Outer Space poster
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A group of boys serving Community Service orders are working on the conversion of an old railway station, when a local magistrate comes to visit them.

A Visitor from Outer Space

1983

Other People's Families poster
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If you lived in a children's home, had step-parents, just one parent or lived in a 'community' what would the word 'family' mean to you?

Other People's Families

1989

This Year's Model poster
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'Look, I'm not being horrible or nothing, Sadie, but all you've got is a body. You've got to make the most of it. It's not enough just to like the idea of being a model. You've got to be businesslike about it.' How does 16-year-old Sadie react to her friend Mary's advice? Where - in the glamour model world - will she end up?

This Year's Model

1987

Wide Games poster
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After a 14 day survival exercise, Jet decides to leave home.

Wide Games

1983

The Breakaway poster
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The closeness of three girlfriends is shattered when Pat takes a sudden shine to a boy she knew, now back on leave from the army.

The Breakaway

1983

My Brother David poster
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David Scarboro, who played Mark Fowler in EastEnders (1985), fell to his death at Beachy Head in 1988. Simon, his younger brother, presents this tribute, featuring David's achievements as a young actor as well as his problems.

My Brother David

1989

My Brother David poster
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David Scarboro, who played Mark Fowler in EastEnders (1985), fell to his death at Beachy Head in 1988. Simon, his younger brother, presents this tribute, featuring David's achievements as a young actor as well as his problems.

My Brother David

1989