Bill Hays (Directing)
Little is known about Bill Hays, a figure with a modest footprint in Directing. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Hothouse
A medical drama set in a New England psychiatric clinic includes father-and-son discord between the head of the facility and its business manager.
Release Date:1988-06-30
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Wish Me Luck
The second world war experiences of brave women recruited as undercover agents behind enemy lines.
Release Date:1988-01-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:15
Vote Count:5
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
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.
Release Date:1987-08-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:10
Quartermaine's Terms
TV adaptation of the play set in a Cambridge School of English for Foreigners in 1962. St John Quartermaine is a rather ineffective but kindly teacher at the school who, becuase of his gentle character, has hardly any enemies - in fact, the rest of the staff confide in him or generally pplay on his good nature. Then Derek Meadle arrives on the scene. He is a new part-time teacher who really wants to be full-time, but people like Quartermaine are in the way.
Release Date:1987-03-29
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Time After Time
'Oh I was naughty. And I'm still naughty so take care.' And so Leda was, all those years ago when she was the childhood friend of Jasper and his three sisters April, May and June. Now she returns to add a little spice to life in their crumbling Irish country house.
Release Date:1986-01-26
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Boon
Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.
Release Date:1986-01-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:13
Lovejoy
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Release Date:1986-01-10
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:49
Death Is Part of the Process
Release Date:1986-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
EastEnders
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
Release Date:1985-02-19
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:34
Vote Count:210
Bird Fancier
There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.
Release Date:1985-01-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Bill
The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Release Date:1984-10-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:38
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.
Release Date:1983-01-01
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Shades
1999: A tower block contains youths ‘bought off’ by the government, in a climate of microchip-created endless leisure, who experience (often pornographic) virtual reality-style fantasies by donning the titular ‘shades’, until a 1980s theme party (they predicted that right, at least) leads to ideology and political thought seeping in under the dazed lifestyle.
Release Date:1982-05-11
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Play for Tomorrow
Play for Tomorrow is a British television anthology science fiction series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 in 1982. It spun off from the anthology drama series Play for Today after the success of The Flipside of Dominick Hide on that strand. Each of the six episodes paints a vision of life in a future year, near the end of the 20th Century or at the beginning of the 21st.
Release Date:1982-04-13
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:1
Out of Step
A keen ballroom dancer begins to drink heavily when she discovers she's infertile
Release Date:1982-02-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Random Moments in a May Garden
A middle-aged couple give a dinner party to their friends. In the room is a photograph of another group of people, taken in a garden in May.
Release Date:1981-05-22
Department:Directing
Job:Director
A Turn for the Worse
Simon Simpson runs an entertainment agency in Liverpool. At one of his regular auditions in The Bootle Railway Club he sees an aggressive young man fresh from the dole queue who dreams of becoming a professional comedian. Simpson believes the boy has talent and starts to groom him for 'stardom'.
Release Date:1981-04-28
Department:Directing
Job:Director
The Good Companions
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 go to Nuneaton, but instead finds himself on the ragged edges of show business. We share with him the trials and tribulations of the Good Companions as they tour seaside towns, industrial cities and rural backwaters in their search for success and stardom.
Release Date:1980-11-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:9
The Serpent Son
Adaptation of the Aeschylus trilogy by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish.
Release Date:1979-03-07
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:1
Jumbo
"1975 was the year of the disaster movie, yeah? So what stops 1976 being the year of the disastrous disaster movie?"
Release Date:1976-05-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Practical Experience
'I'm unusual. I really want to be an architect. Always have done. Always wanted to build fine buildings and fine cities where people can work and eat and sleep and be happy. But the rules of the game say before you can do that you've got to start a firm. Employ people. Turn it into a career. I like architecture. I hate careers. The minute you make it a career you build a ladder and people want to climb it. Sometimes they stand on your fingers. It's hard to draw with flattened fingers. Spoils your draughtsmanship.'
Release Date:1976-04-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Rock Follies
Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a musical drama shown on British television in the 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and two series, followed the ups and downs of a fictional female rock band called the "Little Ladies" as they struggled for recognition and success. The series starred Rula Lenska, Charlotte Cornwell and Julie Covington as the Little Ladies, with support from Emlyn Price, Beth Porter, Sue Jones-Davies, Stephen Moore and Little Nell among others. The series was made with a very low budget for Thames Television, with a style inspired by fringe theatre. The series was a success, winning three BAFTA Awards and the soundtrack album reaching No.1 in the UK Charts.
Release Date:1976-02-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:4
Rumpole of the Bailey
Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Release Date:1975-12-17
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:17
Looking for Clancy
Release Date:1975-05-24
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:5
Fall of Eagles
"Fall of Eagles" is a 13-part British television drama aired by the BBC in 1974. The series portrays historical events from 1848 to 1918, dealing with the collapse of the ruling dynasties of Austria-Hungary (the Habsburgs), Germany (the Hohenzollerns) and Russia (the Romanovs).
Release Date:1974-03-15
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:8
If There Weren't Any Blacks You'd Have to Invent Them
Set in a cemetery, the film tells the story of a young man whom a blind man wrongly imagines to be black, and explores the nature of human prejudice.
Release Date:1974-03-03
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Trouble in Tahiti
Leonard Bernstein's 1952 opera is a biting satire on the emptiness of materialist values and the false promise of suburban comforts. This production, conducted by the composer himself, presents a live-action cast performing on an animated set. Inspired by jazz and American musical comedy, the score is a path-breaking fusion of lyric art with popular entertainment.
Release Date:1973-12-23
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Thriller
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
Release Date:1973-04-14
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:11
Lady Killer
A shy, lonely American girl marries a charming man she meets while on vacation in England, unaware that he has sinister plans for her.
Release Date:1973-01-18
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Vote Count:3
Codename
Codename, which premiered in April 1970, was about the secretive MI17 Spy Organisation of the same name based in the residential hall of a Cambridge College. Eventually the series attained a more international flavour, although its base was always in Great Britain. Primarily Codename dealt with the themes of espionage and counter-espionage at the time of the Cold War of the sixties. Its cast contained many of Great Britain's most versatile and talented actors.
Release Date:1970-04-07
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Softly, Softly
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 regional crime squads, plain-clothes CID officers based in the fictional region of Wyvern, supposedly in the Bristol area of England.
Release Date:1966-01-05
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:1
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.
Release Date:1962-08-16
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:2
Z-Cars
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 Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Release Date:1962-01-02
Department:Directing
Job:Director
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:5