Derek Bennett
Derek Bennett (5 November 1930 — 2005) was an English television director and producer.
Works
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
Upstairs, Downstairs
Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.
Release Date1971-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count11
Vote Count29
The Investigation
Television adaptation of Peter Weiss's play about the Frankfurt Auschwitz trials.
Release Date1967-03-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Out of the Shadows
A U.S. Embassy worker is helped by an Interpol agent to prove herself innocent of a murder in the Greek isles.
Release Date1988-09-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes
An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.
Release Date1971-09-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count10
The Main Chance
The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.
Release Date1969-06-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count3
ITV Playhouse
ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
Release Date1967-09-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
The Square of Three
An army private decides one day that he's not taking any more orders, precipitating a crisis of confidence for the Medical Corps major assigned to investigate his case.
Release Date1973-10-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Children of the Gods
A strange religious cult has an effect on a young girl.
Release Date1979-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Odd Man
The first of a trilogy of police procedurals produced in the 1960s by Granada TV, linked by the presence of pompous but increasingly genial police Chief Inspector Charles Rose, The Odd Man initially dealt with the investigations of theatrical-agent-cum-detective Steve Gardiner, and his encounters with the police in the form of Chief Inspector Gordon and DS Swift. By season three, Rose takes Gardiner's place.
Release Date1960-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count8
Bad Bad Jo Jo
Kayo Hathaway created a wildly successful comic strip featuring "Bad Bad Jo Jo", a murderous hulking white racist, and his cackling mother. Hathaway is about to go into tax exile but decides to entertain a couple of fans. Hathaway is louche and cynical. The two fans like to dress up as the characters and act out their fantasies. Hathaway is their next victim.
Release Date1970-12-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Catching Complaint
The perfect middle-class couple are holding a dinner party when Nicholas gets a telephone call from Sheila, the mother of his teenage daughter Joan, saying that she can no longer stand to be with her and he must look after her now.
Release Date1966-09-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Sandbaggers
The Sandbaggers is a British television drama series about men and women on the front lines of the Cold War. Set contemporaneously with its original broadcast on ITV in 1978 and 1980, The Sandbaggers examines the effect of the espionage game on the personal and professional lives of British and American intelligence specialists.
Release Date1978-09-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
Mutinies
Gerald works in publisling. He was a pilot in World War 2 and enjoys talking about his aerial battles. His employees dislike him, apart from his loyal secretary. One evening, his wife tells him about her depression. Gerald has a solution: gin and tonic. He complains to her about the state of modern society, but his own problems are about to worsen...
Release Date1974-07-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Napoleon and Love
Napoleon and Love was a 1974 British television series originally aired on ITV and lasting for 9 episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series starred Ian Holm in the title role as Napoleon I and depicts his relationships with the women who featured in his life as a backdrop to his rise and fall.
Release Date1974-03-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Wilde Alliance
Wilde Alliance is a British television series created by Ian Mackintosh and produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network in 1978. The programme was a light-hearted mystery series about husband-and-wife amateur detectives Rupert and Amy Wilde.
Release Date1978-01-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Grandad
A comedy of an old man's attempt to get his own way.
Release Date1982-08-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Museum Attendant
Michael Abbensetts’ first play for TV is a powerful, funny and shocking exposé of the racism faced by a black museum attendant in his place of work.
Release Date1973-08-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Caesars
The Caesars is a British television series produced by Granada Television for the ITV network in 1968. Made in black-and-white and written and produced by Philip Mackie, it covered similar dramatic territory to the later BBC adaptation of I, Claudius, dealing with the lives of the early emperors of Ancient Rome, but differed in its less sensationalist depictions of historical characters and their motives.
Release Date1968-09-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
It's Dark Outside
This spin-off from The Odd Man (1962) starred William Mervyn as the acerbic Inspector Rose, who, alongside the soft-hearted pensive Det. Sgt. Swift (Keith Barron), are joined by Anthony (John Carson) and Alice Brand (June Toblin), a barrister and his journalist wife, though not for long. By the second season, the Brands and Swift departed, leaving the calm, cold Rose in prime position, supported by newcomers DS Hunter (Anthony Ainley), his girlfriend Claire (Veronica Strong), and her boozy reporter friend Fred Blaine (John Stratton).
Release Date1964-01-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count8
Born and Bred
Two large, interrelated south London families struggle to believe that blood is thicker than water.
Release Date1978-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
The Pueblo Affair
A reconstruction of an event in 1968 when a converted cargo ship the USS Pueblo was seized by the North Korean Navy as a spy ship. It was supposed to be protected by the US Pacific Fleet but they are out of range at this time. The play concerns Captain Bucher and his crew left on their own to deal with duty, their own lives and preventing another Korean War.
Release Date1970-01-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Lytton's Diary
Peter Bowles gives a memorable performance as Fleet Street's most successful gossip columnist, Neville Lytton. Co-created by Bowles, this highly popular drama started life as a single play in the Storyboard anthology before continuing through two critically acclaimed series. Featuring appearances by Gwen Taylor, Ralph Bates, Pamela Salem, Jean Kent, Elspet Gray and Lee Patterson, this set comprises both series alongside the original Storyboard play. Suave, shrewd and with an instinct for a good story (tempered by a strong sense of fair play and occasional threats of litigation...), Neville Lytton is justly famed for the Gossip Diary that peps up the pages of The Daily News. Society tit-bits often give way to high-profile exposés, however, when Lytton and his colleagues stumble upon shady dealings, corruption at the highest levels, cover-ups and con-artists...
Release Date1985-01-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Missing Persons
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
Release Date1990-05-30
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Hot Fat
Three men meet in a sauna bath - one is a busy estate agent, one is in the middle of a sympathetic pregnancy and one is an annoying eccentric. The play shows how they spoil each other's relaxation.
Release Date1974-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Chelsea Murders
When a barmaid and part-time model becomes a murderer's third victim in Chelsea, the only apparent links are to a local reporter, Mary, and three art graduates financing a film with local part-time jobs.
Release Date1981-12-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
A Splinter of Ice
Fay Weldon's play about adultery, middle age, and ambition.
Release Date1972-05-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Dogfood Dan and the Carmarthen Cowboy
Two long distance truck drivers talk about their sexual escapades to each other using CB Radio.
Release Date1982-07-24
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer