Willis Hall (Writing)

Peter Pan: A Musical Adventure

Based on J.M. Barrie’s beloved tale about the boy who wouldn’t grow up, this heartwarming musical dazzles with a score written by George Stiles and lyrics by Anthony Drewe—the award-winning songwriting duo behind Broadway’s smash hit Mary Poppins. Sail away on a high-flying journey with Peter, Wendy, John, and Michael to the enchanted world of Neverland—but beware of Captain Hook and the ticking crocodile.

Release Date:2020-12-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Hollywood U.K.: British Cinema in the Sixties

Five programmes that trace a remarkable decade in British film-making through interviews with its stars and directors.

Release Date:1993-09-05

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Worzel Gummidge Down Under

Worzel Gummidge Down Under, adapted from the books written by Barbara Euphan Todd and the children's television programme produced and broadcast in the United Kingdom named Worzel Gummidge, starring Jon Pertwee. The story continued in New Zealand when Aunt Sally was sold to a Museum owner.

Release Date:1987-10-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:3

The Return of the Antelope

The Return of the Antelope was a UK TV series aired on ITV between 1986 and 1988. It was a children's fantasy series about two English children, circa 1899, who befriend a group of shipwrecked Lilliputians.

Release Date:1986-01-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Mitch

Mitch is a newspaper reporter with a difference, he cares about the people he reports.

Release Date:1984-08-31

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

A Cup O' Tea An' A Slice O' Cake - Worzel Gummidge Christmas Special

Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una Stubbs), hoping to invite her to the Scarecrow Ball, but before he can find her he runs into his old friend Saucy Nancy (Barbara Windsor), herself heading for a spell in panto. Then, before he gets much further, our multi-headed hero gets sidetracked again when he runs into angry Scots scarecrow Bogle McNeep (Billy Connolly) and his anti-Christmas brigade. Will Worzel ever get to enjoy the season with his beloved?

Release Date:1980-12-27

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

Minder

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.

Release Date:1979-10-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:24

The Danedyke Mystery

In the village of Danedyke St Mary the Reverend Septimus Treloar, a former Chief Inspector, investigates mysterious goings on linked to his church.

Release Date:1979-06-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Worzel Gummidge

Worzel Gummidge is a children's comedy series, produced by Southern Television for ITV, based on the books by Barbara Euphan Todd. Starting in 1979, the programme starred Jon Pertwee in the title role and ran for four series in the UK until 1981. Channel 4 reprised the show in 1987 as Worzel Gummidge Down Under, which was set in New Zealand.

Release Date:1979-02-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:29

Vote Count:12

Saturday, Sunday, Monday

One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.

Release Date:1978-01-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Secret Army

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Release Date:1977-09-07

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:10

Laurence Olivier Presents

Laurence Olivier Presents is a British television series made by Granada Television which ran from 1976 to 1978. The plays, with the exception of Hindle Wakes, all starred Laurence Olivier. Some of the plays were based on productions staged at the National Theatre during the period when Olivier was Artistic Director. In addition to distinguished English actors, the casts assembled for these productions included several Hollywood stars, such as Natalie Wood, Robert Wagner, Joanne Woodward and Maureen Stapleton.

Release Date:1976-12-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Matchfit

A grumpy Scottish soccer boss meets a young fan in a TB sanatorium.

Release Date:1976-02-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Song at Twilight

Eddie Ritchie once ' played for England,' or did he? The team have their doubts.

Release Date:1973-02-05

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Villa Maroc

A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.

Release Date:1972-02-17

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Budgie

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.

Release Date:1971-04-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Lock Up Your Daughters

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.

Release Date:1969-03-29

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:2

Pretty Polly

Miss Polly decides to spend a few months with her wealthy spinster aunt as a traveling companion. While in Singapore her aunt's demise leaves her alone to pursue her freedom and explore an arm's length romance with a local boy.

Release Date:1967-10-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:4

Man in the Middle

In a remote jungle outpost in the Far Eastern theater of World War II, a hotheaded American soldier murders an allied British sergeant in cold blood. Stalwart American Lt. Colonel Barney Adams (Mitchum) is dispatched to defend him in the ensuing court martial. But when Lt. Adams starts encountering roadblocks in his search for evidence, and his key witnesses start disappearing one after another, he soon realizes he's merely a pawn in a mysterious conspiracy that could extend to the highest levels of military power.

Release Date:1964-01-27

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:19

West 11

Joe Beckett, seasoned citizen of the bedsitter belt, aged about 22, is the renegade son of modest, respectable parents and, to use his own description, 'an emotional leper'. He decides that he needs a violent shock to shake him back into life, and as a result accepts a commission to carry out the murder of a total stranger for a man he meets in a coffee bar...

Release Date:1963-10-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:11

Billy Liar

A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.

Release Date:1963-08-15

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:112

A Kind of Loving

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

Release Date:1962-04-12

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:56

Whistle Down the Wind

When an injured wife-murderer takes refuge on a remote Lancashire farm, the farmer’s three children mistakenly believe him to be the Second Coming of Christ.

Release Date:1961-07-25

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:52

The Long and the Short and the Tall

Based on a play by Willis Hall. A troop of British soldiers are out in the jungle to record jungle noises and troop noises in the jungle so that the recordings can be played back by other troops to divert the enemy to their whereabouts. As they progress to what they think is closer to the base camp they find themselves farther and farther from radio range until the only channel they can get clearly is that of a Japanese broadcast. They now realize they are probably only 10 to 15 miles from a Japanese camp! The tension is added to by rowdy and openly admitted "non-hero" Private Bamforth who has nothing good to say about anyone and especially Corporal Johnstone (who holds an equal dislike for Bamforth). When a Japanese soldier is taken as their prisoner, the true colours of each man comes to the surface

Release Date:1961-02-28

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:25

Inside George Webley

Department:Writing

Job:Writer