Cast: John Thaw

Direction Tony Richardson

Cast Tom Courtenay · Michael Redgrave · James Bolam · Avis Bunnage

Synopsis A Borstal boy has nothing going for him except the ability to run. He is selected to compete against a public school and starts a training programme, during which he relives his troubled past and plans how to show his...

Direction John Madden · Peter Hammond · Herbert Wise · Adrian Shergold

Cast John Thaw · Kevin Whately · James Grout · Peter Woodthorpe

Synopsis TV Series (1987-2000). 33 episodes. A grouchy but cultured police detective (John Thaw) and his easy going partner (Kevin Whately) investigate crimes around the British community of Oxford. Twenty one years ago a young, fresh-faced detective climbed into an old...

Direction Jack Gold

Cast John Thaw · Nick Robinson · Annabelle Apsion · Thomas Orange

Synopsis We're in an English village shortly before Dunkirk. "Mr. Tom" Oakley still broods over the death of his wife and small son while he was away in the navy during WWI, and grief has made him a surly hermit. Now...

Direction Peter Hammond

Cast Jeremy Brett · Edward Hardwicke · Robin Hunter · Alf Joint

Synopsis A young lady, Miss Mary Morstan, contact Sherlock Holmes for his help regarding her father, captain Morstan, who disappeared 10 years ago. Since his disappearance she annually receives a valuable pearl by post from an unknown person. The mystery leads...

Direction Robert Fuest

Cast Vincent Price · Robert Quarry · Peter Jeffrey · Fiona Lewis

Synopsis The vengeful Doctor rises again, seeking the Scrolls of Life in an attempt to resurrect his deceased wife.

Direction Gordon Flemyng

Cast Stanley Baker · Alex Cord · Honor Blackman · Richard Attenborough

Synopsis Two soldiers of fortune, Harry Grigsby and Kip Thompson, used to be the best of friends when they fought side by side in the Congo. But now Kip has changed sides and Grigsby does not forgive him for what he...

Direction Tom Clegg

Cast John Thaw · Dennis Waterman · Denholm Elliott · Ken Hutchison

Synopsis Second cinematic spin-off from the popular 70's police series. Regan & Carter head a Flying Squad investigation into a series of bank raids by a team of well-armed villains who are flying in from the continent.

Direction David Giles

Cast Leonard Rossiter · George Costigan · John Thaw · Claire Bloom

Synopsis The reign of England’s King John is threatened by Phillip of France who demands that John’s nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to placate the French, but there are others who seek to...

Direction Michael Darlow

Cast John Thaw · Robert Hardy · Frederick Treves · Bernard Kay

Synopsis Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.

Direction David Wickes

Cast John Thaw · Dennis Waterman · Barry Foster · Ian Bannen

Synopsis Cinematic spin-off from the popular TV series. Hard-bitten Flying Squad officer Jack Regan gets embroiled in a deadly political plot when an old friend asks him to investigate the death of his girlfriend. Framed on a drunk-drive charge and suspended...

Direction Michael Raeburn

Cast Karen Black · John Thaw · John Kani · Patrick Mynhardt

Synopsis A city-woman moves to a foreign country with her future husband, giving up all the comforts of cosmopolitan life. Life in the countryside finally takes its toll on her, and she finds herself involved sexually with another man.

Direction David Reynolds

Cast John Thaw · Reece Dinsdale · Elizabeth Bennett · Joan Blackham

Synopsis TV Series (1985–1990). 4 Seasons. Generation-gap comedy about 18 year old Matthew Willows who, seven years after his parents divorce, turns up on his father Henry’s doorstep and announces his intention to live with him. Matthew claims that he can...

Cast John Thaw · Jay Simon

Synopsis TV Miniseries narrated by John Thaw. Three episodes: Darkest Hour, The Beginning of the End, and Unknown Warriors. In this documentary and newsreel film of World War II, much of the footage here was shot unofficially by servicemen and civilians...

Direction Adrian Shergold

Cast John Thaw · Dominique Jackson · Wil Johnson · Rachel Davies

Synopsis Harry Jenkins is a self-made business man, who one day receives a message that his only daughter has died in a car crash. Last time he saw his daughter was at his wife's funeral. When trying to deal with his...

Direction Ian Kennedy Martin · Tom Clegg · Douglas Camfield · David Wickes

Cast John Thaw · Dennis Waterman · Tony Aitken · Garfield Morgan

Synopsis British police series which revolutionised the genre on UK television in the mid 1970s. Jack Regan is a hard edged detective in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police (called 'the Sweeney' from the Cockney rhyming slang 'Sweeney Todd'). He...

Direction Jack Gold

Cast John Thaw · Tom Towndrow · Vida Garman · Abigail Cruttenden

Synopsis Harry Barnett is a failed businessman who used to run a garage until he went bankrupt. He is now living on the island of Rhodes, looking after the villa of a friend, Alan Dysart, a former government minister. After Heather...

Direction Raymond Menmuir · Guy Verney · Bill Bain · Laurence Bourne

Cast John Thaw · Keith Barron · David Battley · Garfield Morgan

Synopsis The cases and adventures of tough Sergeant John Mann, officer of Royal Military Police Special Investigation Branch.

Direction Jack Gold

Cast Nicol Williamson · Ian Holm · David Warner · Peter Vaughan

Synopsis A national service NCO (David Warner) who comes face to face with an embittered Irish Gunner (Nicol Williamson) who is determined to humiliate him.