David Wheatley (Director)

The Fifteen Streets

In northern England around 1900, the worker John O'Brien lives near poverty in a small house in the worker's district. He falls in love with Mary, the teacher of his highly intelligent younger sister Kathy and daughter of a rich family. Their love is doomed by the social difference, but the vigorous Mary refuses to allow outer circumstances destroying their love.

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Charactersd Gilbert Culbert

Vote Count4

The Mystery of Men

Four middle-aged men concoct a scheme which involves them insuring their lives, so that if one of them dies the others inherit a tidy sum. Suddenly fate throws a darkly comic chain of mishaps their way:

Release Date1999-08-30

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Dalziel & Pascoe

British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.

Release Date1996-03-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count27

Fat Friends

Fat Friends is an ITV drama created by Kay Mellor, broadcast from 12 October 2000 to 24 March 2005. It follows a group of overweight people, their laughter and pain and addresses the absurdities of dieting in our modern age. It examines people and how they relate to one another and use body weight as an excuse for all sorts of failings in their relationships, or not living their lives to the full. Four cast members—Ruth Jones, James Corden, Sheridan Smith, and Alison Steadman—went on to appear in Gavin & Stacey.

Release Date2000-10-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count6

Journey to Knock

Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

Release Date1991-09-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The March

A group of several thousand Africans migrate westward across northern Africa and sail across the Strait of Gibraltar to Europe. Their message is: "We are poor because you are rich."

Release Date1990-05-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Hostages

True account of the six men held hostage by religious extremists in Beirut during the Reagan-Bush era.

Release Date1992-09-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count9

Starhunter

Starhunter is a Canadian science fiction television

Release Date2000-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count8

The Girl

Adaptation of Catherine Cookson's novel. In mid-19th century Yorkshire, Hannah Boyle is left with the family of Matthew Thornton, the man her dying mother claims fathered her. Ill-treated by Thornton's bitter and vindictive wife Anne, who views Hannah only as evidence of her husband's infidelity, she is married off to the village butcher, whose waspish mother torments her further. But through her patience, intelligence and strength, she wins her freedom and the man she loves.

Release Date1996-02-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count6

Prince

Story of how a family is affected very greatly by their Alsation dog Prince

Release Date1991-10-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Tide of Life

Tide of Life is a three-part miniseries adaptation of Catherine Cookson's 1976 novel of the same name. Produced by the BBC, it was broadcast on ITV1 over three Fridays in January 1996. Young housekeeper Emily Kennedy learns about relationships with three very different men. Forced from home of her first employer, Sep McGilby, after his plans to marry her come to tragic end, Emily finds work for farmer Larry Birch. Another misfortune occurs, and when Nick Stuart inherits the farm owned by Birch's wife, Nick gives Emily a new future.

Release Date1996-01-05

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count4

The Rag Nymph

It’s 1854 and ten-year-old Millie is taken in by ‘Raggie Aggie’ after her mother dies in a Newcastle brothel. The spirited young Millie is exposed again to the corrupting influences of the streets of Newcastle.

Release Date1997-10-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count8

King Leek

A comic tale of competitive leek growing in the north of England, where the stakes are high and the tactics are dirty. Vegetable mad Malcolm has just one ambition in life - to grow the biggest leek in the region. But will he be crowned 'King Leek'?

Release Date1997-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobIdea

The Wingless Bird

On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barriers and help her sister Jessie marry a good boy from a family of dockside toughs. Is she strong enough to break them again when Charles Farrier, a gentleman, courts her over his parents' opposition? Agnes faces an added dilemma when she finds her heart divided between Charles and his soldier brother Reginald.

Release Date1997-01-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

ScreenPlay

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Release Date1986-07-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Starlings

Starlings are the charlatans of the bird world; they change their tune to match their company. In this comedy, Gary Wilson is the changeling; he loses his factory job, retrains as a butler and, under the patronage of a wealthy young woman, finds success in the City.

Release Date1988-09-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Monsignor Renard

Monsignor Renard was a four-part ITV television drama set in occupied France during World War II. It starred John Thaw as Monsignor Augustine Renard, a French priest who is drawn into the Resistance movement. The series was later shown in the U.S. as part of Masterpiece Theatre.

Release Date2000-03-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Land

The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are evicting peasants from their land. The peasants look to the priest for help, and are contemplating taking up arms. A stranger arrives who provides an answer to their plight.

Release Date1987-07-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Imogen's Face

The beautiful Imogen has just given birth to twins, and asks her sister Amanda to cover for her while she spends time with her lover.

Release Date1998-07-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count1

Profile of a Writer: Borges

This documentary examines Borges' extraordinary life and work, using dramatizations of his most memorable stories and rare interview footage with the author at his Buenos Aires home.

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Brick Is Beautiful

Steve thinks there is a fortune in reclaimed bricks. But how will his ambition affect his girlfriend, Maureen, and his mates, Brad, Dez and Snapper?

Release Date1986-07-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Nobody's Children

An American couple's battle through bureaucracy to adopt a Romanian child.

Release Date1994-03-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Magic Toyshop

After her parents are killed, a young girl is sent to London to live with her uncle and his family. Her uncle, who is a toymaker, secretly has the power to make his toys come to life, but he also maintains dictatorial control over his family and intends to exercise the same control over the new arrival.

Release Date1987-11-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count5