Direction: John Gorrie

Direction Sydney Newman · Douglas Camfield · David Maloney · Christopher Barry

Cast William Hartnell · Patrick Troughton · Jon Pertwee · Tom Baker

Synopsis TV Series (1963-1989). 26 Seasons. 696 Episodes. The quintessential "mortgage lifter" for many a financially flagging PBS station, the long-running British science fiction series Doctor Who was not always a big favorite in America. The series detailed the wide-ranging adventures...

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Synopsis TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by Roald Dahl), with lots of prestigious guest stars starring in...

Direction Michael Kerrigan · Andrew Morgan · Tony Kysh · Tim Leandro

Cast Jemima Rooper · Marco Williamson · Paul Child · Laura Petela

Synopsis This TV series features the adventures of a group of young children — Julian, Dick, Anne and Georgina (George) — and their dog Timmy.

Direction John Gorrie

Cast William Hartnell · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford · Jacqueline Hill

Synopsis On the planet Marinus, the scientist Arbitan locks the Doctor, Susan, Ian and Barbara out of the TARDIS in a desperate bid to convince them to embark on a quest to find a lost set of keys. These keys power...

Direction Silvio Narizzano · George R. Foa · Naomi Capon · John Gorrie

Cast Yootha Joyce · Kenneth Griffith · Sheila Hancock · George Benson

Synopsis A collection of one off thrillers, each ending with a disturbing twist.

Direction John Gorrie

Cast Alec McCowen · Penelope Keith · Polly Adams · Donald Pickering

Synopsis Amanda and Elyot used to be tempestuously married to each other. Now, each has remarried, and they find themselves in adjoining suites at the same hotel.

Direction Peter Hammond · Simon Langton · John Glenister · John Gorrie

Cast Norma West · Kate Harper · Michael Shannon · Annette Wilkie-Miller

Synopsis An anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.

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 John Gorrie

Cast Timothy West · Annette Crosbie · Helen Ryan · Felicity Kendal

Synopsis TV Series (1975). 13 episodes. The life of Edward VII (1841-1910), the King of the United Kingdom. Before becoming the king he developed a reputation of a playboy which angered his mother, Queen Victoria. He was a reformer and modernizer,...

Direction John Gorrie

Cast Michael Hordern · Derek Godfrey · David Waller · Warren Clarke

Synopsis Prospero, the true Duke of Milan is now living on an enchanter island with his daughter Miranda, the savage Caliban and Ariel, a spirit of the air. Raising a storm to bring his brother – the usurper of his dukedom...

Direction John Gorrie · Christopher Hodson · Tony Wharmby

Cast Francesca Annis · Catherine Feller · Peggy Ann Wood · Anton Rodgers

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1978). 13 episodes. Lillie Langtry, trapped in a loveless marriage, takes full advantage of her beauty, attracting many lovers and admirers including the Prince of Wales and Oscar Wilde. As her husband slowly drinks himself to death, Lillie...

Direction John Gorrie

Cast Alec McCowen · Robert Hardy · Felicity Kendal · Annette Crosbie

Synopsis Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia,...

Direction Christopher Hodson · Paul Annett · Philip Casson · Bryan Izzard

Cast Jerome Willis · Mona Bruce · Denys Hawthorne · Googie Withers

Synopsis Drama inside a women's prison.

Direction Cedric Messina · John Gorrie · Rudolph Cartier · Waris Hussein

Cast Charles Gray · Lally Bowers · Eileen Atkins · Janet Suzman

Synopsis TV Series (1965-1983). 16 seasons. 120 episodes

Direction Henric Hirsch · John Gorrie

Cast William Hartnell · Jacqueline Hill · William Russell · Carole Ann Ford

Synopsis The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 - one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the...

Direction Mary Ridge · Stephen Butcher · Patrick Tucker · Derek Martinus

Cast Carol Holmes · Kathryn Apanowicz · Julia Williams · Pauline Quirke

Synopsis TV Series (1975-1983). Angels was originally a British television seasonal drama series dealing with the subject of student nurses and was broadcast by the BBC between 1975 and 1978. The show's format then switched to a twice weekly soap opera...

Direction John Gorrie

Cast George Benson · James Maxwell · David Langton · Willoughby Goddard

Synopsis Time travel may still be impossible, but the Chronoscope, sensing the nearly imponderable tracks of ancient photons, allows a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope...

Direction Brian Mills · John Gorrie · Sarah Harding

Cast David Robb · Jeremy Child · Tom Wilkinson · James Faulkner

Synopsis Political drama about the parallel careers of four MPs who all join Parliament in the mid-1960s.

Direction Peter Hammond · Roger Jenkins · Naomi Capon · John Gorrie

Cast Peter Copley · Geoffrey Palmer · Erik Chitty · Charles Tingwell

Synopsis TV Series (1965–1971). Features adaptations of stories by famous sci-fi authors such as Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Fredrik Pohl, John Wyndham and others.

Direction Sydney Newman · Gilchrist Calder · Ken Loach · James Ferman

Cast Edwin Brown · Neville Smith · Eileen Atkins · Colin Blakely

Synopsis TV Series (1964-1970). 171 episodes. Series of one-off plays made by BBC television which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 60s. The series often addressed controversial issues.