Rex Firkin (Producer)

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

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count68

Vote Count27

Journey to the Unknown

A British television anthology series with a fantasy, science fiction and supernatural theme, similar to the American television series The Twilight Zone, and deals with normal people whose everyday situations somehow become extraordinary.

Release Date1968-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

C.A.T.S. Eyes

C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987.

Release Date1985-04-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count30

Vote Count3

Within These Walls

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison TV series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the prison staff rather than the inmates. The lead character was the well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell, and episodes revolved around her attempts to liberalise the prison regime while managing her personal life at home. Another prominent character was her Chief Officer, Mrs. Armitage. Googie Withers left after three series; in Series Four her character was replaced as governor by Helen Forrester, who in turn left to be replaced in the final Series Five by Susan Marshall. The creator and writer of the programme, David Butler, played the prison chaplain, the Rev Henry Prentice, in some episodes. As of November 2011 Network DVD have released all five series in the UK, with the exception of "Nowhere for the Kids", an episode from Series Two which appears to have been wiped from the archives.

Release Date1974-01-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count72

Vote Count3

Manhunt

Manhunt is a World War II drama series consisting of 26 episodes, produced by London Weekend Television in 1969 and broadcast nationwide.

Release Date1970-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Sergeant Cork

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ITV. It was a police procedural show that followed the efforts of two police officers and their battle against crime in Victorian London. In all 66 hour-long episodes were aired during the five-year run, although the last episode was not broadcast until January 1968, 16 months after the others. Journalist Tom Sutcliffe has credited it as a first example of the use of the Victorian-era policeman in a television crime series. A 1969 review in The Age opined that rather than suspense, the strengths of the series were its "excellent period settings and wonderfully thick pea-soupers" which "add up to splendid evocative stuff", as well as the performance of star John Barrie. At no time during the whole series is Sergeant Cork's first name given.

Release Date1963-06-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Family life is turned upside down when it's revealed that the daughter's pregnant by her teacher.

Release Date1976-01-06

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count2

The Power Game

Sir John Wilder ruthlessly pursues boardroom machinations and tangled relationships.

Release Date1965-12-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count26

Affairs of the Heart

Anthology series of one-hour love stories based on the short stories of Henry James.

Release Date1974-09-29

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

The Guardians

The Guardians is a television drama series of 13x60 minute episodes made by London Weekend Television and broadcast in the UK on the ITV network between July 10, 1971 and October 2, 1971. The opening titles and closing credits included a memorable theme tune composed by Wilfred Josephs.

Release Date1971-07-10

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

The Death of Adolf Hitler

The final days in the Bunker, with Hitler becoming more and more paranoid, plumbing the depths of his madness and reaching his well deserved fate.

Release Date1973-01-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Brenda

Brenda is 20 and has moved back to her parents' house in an attempt for some stability in her life.

Release Date1973-11-11

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Front Page Story

This ATV series took viewers into the offices of a (fictitious) daily newspaper – The Globe – on Fleet Street, which at that time was the centre of the British newspaper industry. Made by Rex Firkin (who also produced The Plane Makers), Front Page Story starred London-born actor John Bennett as Ray Boscombe, the ambitious, power-seeking editor.

Release Date1965-01-19

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator