Keith Waterhouse (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 Date1993-09-05

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

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 Date1979-02-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count29

Vote Count12

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 Date1971-04-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count24

Vote Count5

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 Date1961-07-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count52

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 Date1964-01-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count20

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 Date1976-12-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

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 Date1963-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count12

Andy Capp

Andy Capp is a British sitcom based on the cartoon Andy Capp. It starred James Bolam and ran for one series in 1988. It was written by Keith Waterhouse. Unusually, for a sitcom, there was no studio audience during the filming of Andy Capp. It was made for the ITV network by Thames Television. Andy Capp is a slothful man from Hartlepool, whose life consists of drinking, sleeping, watching TV, betting, going to the pub and occasionally playing football. His wife, Flo, is constantly annoyed by her lazy husband and frequently uses a rolling pin as a weapon.

Release Date1988-02-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count4

This Office Life

On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled. There was a luncheon voucher scheme, a pension fund, paid holidays - and (apparently) nothing much doing between the hours of nine to five. Then his colleagues began to take an unhealthy interest in him. They asked questions he couldn't answer, and answered questions he hadn't asked. Only the lovely Pam made life bearable, but even she was not quite what she seemed....

Release Date1984-12-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charlie Muffin

Charlie Muffin, top British Intelligence operative, has just broken up a major Soviet spy network in England. However, a new Director with new ideas takes over and wants Charlie out. But then a high-ranking Soviet spy-master hints that he wants to defect, and both British Intelligence and the CIA want him and will do anything to get him. Charlie may be the only man who can bring the defection off successfully, but is the whole thing an elaborate set-up? And when your so-called allies are stabbing each other and you in the back to get this prize, whom can Charlie trust on either side?

Release Date1979-12-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

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 Date1987-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count3

There Is a Happy Land

Keith Waterhouse's near autobiographical tale about characters from his childhood.

Release Date1974-05-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Lock Up Your Daughters

Three sailors on leave turn a British town upside down.

Release Date1969-03-29

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count2

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 Date1967-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

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 Date1963-08-15

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count117

Queenie's Castle

The lives and, often illegal, activities of the residents of a tower block in early 1970s Leeds, West Yorkshire, with the brassy matriarch, Queenie Shepherd, ruling the roost over her neighbours.

Release Date1970-11-05

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

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 Date1980-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

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 Date1962-04-12

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count57

Inside George Webley

Release Date1968-09-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

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 Date1978-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

West End Tales

A look at Soho life through the eyes of likeable rogue Fiddler and his two cronies, Bishop and Checkie.

Release Date1981-02-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

The Upchat Line

Mike Upchat is an unsuccessful novelist who lives out of a railway station locker - he has the gift of the Gab and changes his life story every episode to impress different women - basically he reinvents himself to score.

Release Date1977-09-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count2

Charters and Caldicott

Charters and Caldicott is a 1985 BBC mystery series featuring the characters Charters and Caldicott from the film The Lady Vanishes. It featured six 50 minute episodes broadcast on BBC1 at 9.25pm on Thursdays from 10 January to 14 February 1985.

Release Date1985-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count3

Jeffrey Bernard Is Unwell

Peter O'Toole stars as the complex, funny, charming, and hard-drinking Jeffrey Bernard in this live performance at the Old Vic Theatre in London.

Release Date1999-12-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Plunder

Release Date1990-03-05

Episode Count1