Direction: Robert Knights

Direction Barbara Machin · Andy Hay · Edward Bennett · David Thacker

Cast Trevor Eve · Sue Johnston · Wil Johnson · Tara Fitzgerald

Synopsis One of the BBC's most popular dramas, Waking the Dead regularly draws audiences of over 8 million in the UK. It's twice been nominated for an International Emmy and in 2004 won the award for Best Drama Series, with specific...

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Rebecca Pidgeon · Anthony Hopkins · Hugh Grant · Jean Simmons

Synopsis The film opens with Angus Barrie (Anthony Hopkins), a Irish Republican Army member, walking through hills, and coming to rest on a beach, where there is a little hut. Meanwhile, Nancy Gulliver (Rebecca Pidgeon) having just left school, burns all...

Direction Paul Annett · Simon Langton · Don Taylor · Rodney Bennett

Cast Peter Barkworth · Anna Cropper · Bernard Brown · Sylvia Kay

Direction Donald McWhinnie · Roger Bamford · Julian Amyes · Robert Tronson

Cast Leo McKern · Jonathan Coy · Julian Curry · Marion Mathie

Synopsis (1978-1992). 7 seasons. Horace Rumpole is an "Old Bailey Hack," one of the underpaid barristers who ply the courtrooms of the Old Bailey, London's criminal court. Rumpole refused to handle most suits and will never prosecute. Each of his trials...

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Kim Cattrall · Gale Hansen · Macha Méril · Naveen Andrews

Synopsis The telepathy between identical twins: conventional Caroline lives with her dad and is engaged; Lisa is hard-drinking, devil-may-care, living in London as a high-class call girl. Caroline has horrid dreams of Lisa dying, so she flies to London to help....

Direction Robert Knights

Cast David Jason · Ian Richardson · Paul Rogers · John Woodnutt

Synopsis For the first time in five hundred years, the master of Porterhouse fails to name his successor on his deathbed before dying. He succumbs to a Porterhouse Blue - a stroke brought about by overindulgence in the college's legendary cuisine....

Direction Robert Knights · Moira Armstrong · John Irvin · Jack Gold

Cast Maggie Smith · Jean Simmons · Rupert Graves · Joan Plowright

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Antony Sher · Geraldine James · Isla Blair · Laura Davenport

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1981). 4 episodes.

Direction Mark Cullingham · Robert Knights · Peter Wood

Cast Tim Curry · Paul Freeman · John Normington · Ron Cook

Direction Waris Hussein · Robert Knights

Cast Tom Conti · Barbara Kellerman · Mark Wing-Davey · Clive Merrison

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1976). 6 episodes. Twenty years in the lives of some Cambridge undergraduates, who all find that the real world of a changing Britain is a hard place.

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Joan Plowright · Phyllis Logan · Tom Watt · John Woodvine

Synopsis A touching and richly comic account of one Geordie family's war. While Mam worries about the church being bombed, Grandpa mourns his dead whippet and Dad turns communist, while their daughters experience the agonies of first love.

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Peter Strauss · Mary Steenburgen · John Heard · Sean Young

Synopsis Dick and Nicole Diver are a glamorous couple who take a villa in the South of France and surround themselves with a circle of friends, mainly Americans. Also staying at the resort are Rosemary Hoyt, a young actress, and her...

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Laurence Olivier · Roger Rees · Greta Scacchi · Toyah Willcox

Synopsis A young artist goes to interview an older painter who lives in the south of France with two young women. He gets caught up in the painter's Bohemian lifestyle and begins examining his own attitudes towards life and art.