Bill Hays (Director)
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Works
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 Date1985-02-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count34
Vote Count218
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 Date1984-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count43
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 Date1975-12-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count20
Playhouse
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Release Date1974-03-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
BBC Play of the Month
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Release Date1965-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count7
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 Date1973-04-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count11
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 Date1962-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count6
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 Date1986-01-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count51
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 Date1987-08-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count11
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Release Date1964-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
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 Date1966-01-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
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 Date1986-01-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count13
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 Date1962-08-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
When the Boat Comes In
When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a First World War veteran who returns to his poverty-stricken (fictional) town of Gallowshield in the North East of England. It dramatises the interwar political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the impact of national and international politics upon Ford and those around him.
Release Date1976-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
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 Date1986-01-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1985-01-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Flights
'Imagine. The whole sky filled with silent sportsmen.' Henry is a teacher, and a very good one, but his dream of man-powered flight, and his habit of destroying the odd greenhouse on his test runs, threatens his career. Also there's his daughter Ruth, who would dearly love to retrieve her bicycle wheels from his flying machine.
Release Date1985-08-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1974-03-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count9
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 Date1988-06-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Out of Step
A keen ballroom dancer begins to drink heavily when she discovers she's infertile
Release Date1982-02-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1973-12-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1970-04-07
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Wish Me Luck
Focuses on the lives of British women recruited as secret agents in occupied France during World War II. The series follows their training, missions, and the dangers they face while working with the French Resistance.
Release Date1988-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count15
Vote Count5
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 Date1973-01-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
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 Date1982-05-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Jumbo
"1975 was the year of the disaster movie, yeah? So what stops 1976 being the year of the disastrous disaster movie?"
Release Date1976-05-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1976-02-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
The Good Companions
The Good Companions is a nine-part British television miniseries based on J. B. Priestley's 1929 novel of the same name. Produced by Yorkshire Television for ITV, the series stars John Stratton, Jeremy Nicholas, Frank Mills, John Blythe, and Leslie Sands. Discontent with his home, his work and his football team, Jess Oakroyd tears up his insurance card and disappears into the night. Intent on going to Nuneaton, he instead finds himself on the ragged edges of showbusiness. 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 Date1980-11-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.
Release Date1983-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Looking for Clancy
Frank Clancy goes from penniless working-class idealist in the 1930s to superstar journalist and editor in the London of the swinging '60s — but at what cost to his integrity?
Release Date1975-05-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
The Serpent Son
Adaptation of the Aeschylus trilogy by Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish.
Release Date1979-03-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
The Gingham Dog
A liberal white Southern man and a black woman from Harlem, a once happily married couple, are suffering through the first days of their separation. Will the couple separate for good or is there hope for reconciliation?
Release Date1970-07-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Death Is Part of the Process
South Africa in the 60s. The campaign of sabotage is halted and the arrests continue. The Special Branch obviously have inside Information.
Release Date1986-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Just in Time for Christmas
43-year-old Janet Nottage tells her husband, pompous academic Leo, that she is having a baby. This throws him into turmoil. Later, on seeing Janet next to a freezing lake, he decides on a decisive course of action.
Release Date1972-12-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1982-04-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
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 Date1987-03-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1974-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
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 Date1976-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1981-04-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
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 Date1981-05-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector