
Known for
5.2A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
BBC Play of the Month
1965
7.0A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974
7.0An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
5.0Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Churchill's People
1974
NRAn anthology of six plays, contemporary twists on well-loved tales with dark endings.
Bedtime Stories
1974
7.5Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
Going Gently
1981
Film credits
1970s · 6 titles
9.0A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Love's Labour's Lost
1975
NRCarmel's new surroundings are not what she was expecting from a mental health institution.
Shall I See You Now?
1978
10.0A team of soldiers break into an enemy missile base. Such is the secrecy of their mission that they have been hypnotically programmed with their orders and will only remember each stage of the operation when they hear a pre-arranged signal. It seems foolproof, but gradually doubt and paranoia begin to overtake them.
The Man in My Head
1971
4.5A woman's unfulfilling marriage leads her into a passionate affair with a wealthy extramarital lover.
Secrets
1971
NRA salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course.
Ackerman, Dougall & Harker
1972
7.0An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BBC's "BBC2 Playhouse".
The Breakthrough
1975
Series credits
5.2A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
BBC Play of the Month
1965
7.0A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Playhouse
1974
7.0An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
BBC2 Play of the Week
1977
5.0Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Churchill's People
1974
NRAn anthology of six plays, contemporary twists on well-loved tales with dark endings.
Bedtime Stories
1974
7.0A sweeping tale of love, hate, and ambition centered on the Cornish estate of Penmarric, with Mark Castallack torn between his wife Janna and his mistress, leading to family conflict and tragedy.
Penmarric
1979
A series of one-off sitcoms intended to be developed into series.
The Sound of Laughter
1977
Behind the camera
7.5Play about two elderly cancer patients suffering in hospital.
Going Gently
1981
NRA teenage girl takes care of a former soldier suffering from the effects of being gassed in the First World War.
Mona
1982
NRMiss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold. Florence, for the first time in her life, refuses to go off with her selfish old father. Miss Howard has some momentous news, and the Colonel must make a very brisk about-turn.
Paying Guests (Part 2)
1986
NRSpend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romance. Gossip, bicycle rides, rounds of golf, bridge in the evenings and preparations for the charity concert all make time pass most pleasantly - don't they?
Paying Guests (Part 1)
1986
NRIn a small town in occupied France in 1941, the German officer, Werner Von Ebrennac is billeted in the house of the uncle and his niece. The uncle and niece refuse to speak to him, but each evening the officer warms himself by the fire and talks of his country, his music, and his idealistic views of the relationship between France and Germany.
The Silence of the Sea
1980
NRIn 1919 the carnage of the First World War has left the country desperately short of young men. Maud, who runs the farm for her crippled father, decides that it is time for her young sister Clara to be married, and a husband could provide a strong pair of hands around the place. Stan the pigman seems to fix most things, why not this?
The Pigman's Protege
1982
3.3A mother wants her son to marry but has to accept he is living with a man.
Combat
1985
