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 Count29

Within These Walls

Within These Walls is a British television drama programme created and written by David Butler. Produced by London Weekend Television for ITV, broadcast between 1974 and 1978, the series portrays life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the staff rather than the inmates. Plots typically revolve around well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell's attempts to liberalise the regime while managing her private life.

Release Date1974-01-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count42

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. A spin-off of the series The Gentle Touch, Maggie Forbes leads an all-female detective agency called "Eyes" that secretly operates as a Home Office team known as C.A.T.S. (Covert Activities Thames Section).

Release Date1985-04-12

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count30

Vote Count4

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

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

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 Count3

The Power Game

The Power Game is an ITV drama spin-off from The Plane Makers (1963–65), created by Wilfred Greatorex. Broadcast for three 13-episode series, Patrick Wymark reprised his role as Sir John Wilder, who here ruthlessly pursues boardroom machinations and tangled relationships.

Release Date1965-12-13

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count26

The Plane Makers

The Plane Makers is a British television series created by Wilfred Greatorex and produced by Rex Firken. ATV made three series for ITV between 1963 and 1965. It was succeeded by The Power Game, which ran for an additional three series from 1965 to 1969. Firkin continued as producer for the first two series, and David Reid took over for series 3.

Release Date1963-02-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count59

Vote Count2

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

Let's Marry Liz

Liz, a,highly successful theatrical designer is invited to spend her 30th birthday weekend with her sister Sarah and brother-in-law Peter. Sarah believes that it is time Liz found herself a husband and has invited a former mutual friend, Robert, an accountant, along too..

Release Date1974-06-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Front Page Story

A glimpse into the offices of (fictitious) daily newspaper – The Globe – on Fleet Street, which at that time was the centre of the British newspaper industry.

Release Date1965-01-19

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

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

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

Harpers West One

Harpers West One is an ATV television drama series created by John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman about a fictional department store, Harpers, in the West 1 district of London. The show ran in one-hour episodes from 1961 to 1963. It was introduced by ATV while Probation Officer, was being rested but became an immediate success. Press releases described it as "shopping with the lid off". A combination of drama and soap opera, it has also been described as presaging corporate dramas such as The Brothers for its depiction of power struggles at board level.

Release Date1961-06-26

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count13

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

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

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