Alan Plater

Jess (Brenda Blethyn) and town handyman Jacob (Kevin Whately) have been happily married 20 years, recently taking in a trio of Jacob's elderly rela...

12 de set. de 2004

11 de out. de 1981

After Elizabeth's husband dies, she begins to play her tenor saxophone again, and remembers when she was 15 and a member of the Blonde Bombshells, ...

26 de ago. de 2000

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in t...

18 de nov. de 1976

25 de set. de 1974

Pesquisador sueco cria equipamento para detectar submarinos. O invento é roubado e o serviço de segurança sueco investiga o cientista. Espiões de d...

31 de ago. de 1984

01 de jun. de 1970

While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns ab...

27 de dez. de 1985

Faced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment f...

15 de jan. de 1973

Gordon Comstock is a copywriter at an ad agency, and his girlfriend Rosemary is a designer. Gordon believes he is a genius, a marvelous poet and qu...

20 de nov. de 1997

Um dos maiores mafiosos de Boston misteriosamente desaparece, e o horror se instala nas ruas. Com o mundo do crime sem uma liderança forte, perigos...

19 de set. de 2010

Biopic of Arthur Lucan, who portrayed Old Mother Riley for over twenty years on stage and screen.

02 de jan. de 1985

The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years pre...

16 de out. de 1994

On the death of her mother, a young woman in northern England learns that her father is actually her step-father. She embarks on a search for her b...

25 de jul. de 1991

As lutas de intelectuais brancos e seus amigos ativistas negros no apartheid da África do Sul durante os anos 1950.

01 de jan. de 1986

The story is set in a small English coastal town, around the turn of the century. A young woman, thought by many in the village to be a witch, dies...

08 de jul. de 1983

A writer seeking seclusion takes rooms in a remote farmhouse. Soon his quiet is broken by sounds and then sightings of a small child...

03 de jun. de 1983

A remote farmhouse on an isolated island. Strangers with English accents. Quarrels and a lonely child. The year is 1946. The man is George Orwell. ...

12 de dez. de 1983

Alan Plater looks at the various adaptations of J.B. Priestley's 'The Good Companions', in the company of the author himself.

09 de nov. de 1980

The new owners of a Manor House discover a legend that whoever is carried across the threshold shall unleash unknown forces...

10 de jun. de 1983

Um investigador veterano e um jovem sargento investigam assassinatos na comunidade de Midsomer.

British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlik...

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kir...

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of reg...

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend ...

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.

Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.

In the early 1900s in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, who owns the country estate of Flambards, and h...

Frank Stubbs (Timothy Spall) is a down-at-heel ticket tout with grand ideas. He has an ambition to become a 'high class' promoter of famous and ta...

It was a time when England was a nation on the cusp of change, an evolving landscape tht lay between Victorian England and the First World War. 'Th...

Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama se...

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 198...

A Very British Coup is a British political thriller series based on the novel by Chris Mullin. It stars Ray McAnally as the newly elected left-wing...

The lives of the Pankhurst women and their role in the Suffragette Movement.

The Beiderbecke Affair is a television series produced in the United Kingdom by ITV during 1985, written by the prolific Alan Plater, whose lengthy...

Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, l...

The Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1988. It is the third and final part of...

Jess Oakroyd, discontented with his home, his work and his football team, tears up his Insurance Card and disappears into the night. He intends to ...

Against the sumptuous background of Peterborough Cathedral and its environs, one is carried into Trollope's world of the intriguing machinations of...

The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1987. It is the second serial in The Be...

Adapted from Peter Lovesey's Sergeant Cribb novels and set in Victorian London around the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, Alan Dobie s...

Mini series about a Northumberland mining village - the daily lives of the inhabitants and the tragedies and disasters that befell them.

Leeds schoolteacher Judy Threadgold investigates the disappearance of her husband with the aid of her colleague, woodwork teacher Neville Keaton.

A series of plays specially written for television.