Direction: Claude Whatham

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast Bill Bixby · Lesley-Anne Down · Olivia de Havilland · Helen Hayes

Plot A mathematician and author, Luke Williams, is travelling up to London on a train when he meets a old lady, Lavinia Fullerton, who is also going to London, to Scotland...

Direction Desmond Davis · Stephen Frears · Jack Cardiff · Michael Tuchner

Cast Gillian Blake · Steve Hodson · Christian Rodska · Desmond Llewelyn

Plot Young Dora is sent to stay with her uncle on his farm in rural England while her parents travel overseas for a year. Seeing as she has a love for...

Direction Claude Whatham · Mike Newell · Peter Plummer · Bob Hird

Cast Richard Vernon · Michael Aldridge · Jill Booty · James Ottaway

Plot Sequel series to "The Man in Room 17" ; having resigned from the "Room 17" department Oldenshaw rejoined his former partner Dimmock at the Peel Research Fellowship at All Saints...

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast Ian McShane · Rosemary Leach · Mary Peach · John Carlisle

Plot Ian McShane stars as Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in this Emmy-nominated period biopic. His career marred in scandal, Disraeli rose from humble beginnings to become the 19th Century's most scandalous...

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast David Essex · Ringo Starr · Rosemary Leach · James Booth

Plot Abandoned by his father at an early age, Jim MacLaine seems to have inherited the old man's restlessness. Despite his apparent intelligence, Jim decides not to take the exams that...

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast Virginia McKenna · Ronald Fraser · Simon West · Suzanna Hamilton

Plot On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp...

Direction Dennis Abey · Edward Bennett · William Brayne · Tom Clegg

Cast Jill Gascoine · Leslie Ash · Rosalyn Landor · Tracy-Louise Ward

Plot An all-female detective outfit, the "Eyes Enquiry Agency", is formed as a front for the Home Office's new security operation the Covert Activities Thames Section (or CATS for short). The...

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast John Hargreaves · Judy Davis · Dennis Miller · Wendy Hughes

Plot True story about a jailed bank robber who pretends he's become blind to get an early release. Cops don't believe him, but a lonely minister's wife arrives to teach him...

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast Rosemary Leach · Stephen Grendon · Philip Hawkes · Peter Chandler

Plot A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast Sam Waterston · Jenny Agutter · Anna Massey · Arthur Lowe

Plot A young woman has a perfect love affair with a zealous writer. When she finds out that he's also a highly manipulative womanizer, it's too late - she's already too...

Direction Cliff Owen · Michael Scott · Henry Kaplan · Silvio Narizzano

Cast Andrew Faulds · William Mervyn · George Skillan · Ballard Berkeley

Plot TV Series (1960). 10 episodes. A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.

Direction Moira Armstrong · Gilchrist Calder · Guy Verney · James Cellan Jones

Cast Anna Massey · Joss Ackland · Rossano Brazzi · Amanda Murray

Plot TV Series (1969-1970). 2 seasons. 26 episodes.

Direction David Boisseau · Peter Plummer · Claude Whatham · David Cunliffe

Cast Richard Vernon · Michael Aldridge · Denholm Elliott · Willoughby Goddard

Plot Crime series about a secret government department, "Room 17", set up to deal with crimes that baffle police and government agencies. Headed by veteran World War II Agent Oldenshaw (Richard...

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast Simon Ward · Anthony Hopkins · Lisa Harrow · Brian Stirner

Plot 1937. Newly-qualified veterinarian James Herriot (Simon Ward) travels to Yorkshire to apply for the post of assistant in Siegfried Farnon’s (Anthony Hopkins) practice. He soon learns the facts of country...

Direction Simon Langton · Alan Cooke · Peter Sasdy · Claude Whatham

Cast Andre Van Gyseghem · Billie Whitelaw · Ian Hendry · Charles Kay

Plot Chilling anthology series where membership to the secret society, The Club of the Damned, is granted through telling horror stories.

Direction Claude Whatham

Cast Ali MacGraw · Billie Whitelaw · Hywel Bennett · Ray Lonnen

Plot An English woman returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.

Direction Barry Davis · Alan Clarke · John Mackenzie · Philip Saville

Cast Alison Steadman · Nigel Hawthorne · Tony Caunter · David Daker

Plot TV Series (1970-1984). 14 Seasons. Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series. It was produced by the BBC and it was transmitted on BBC1 between 1970 and...