James Cellan Jones (Director)
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Works
Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date1970-10-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count9
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 Count4
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 Count2
Vote Count1
BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count1
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 Count5
Vote Count7
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 Count1
Vote Count6
Ice Age
' You should have thrown the hand-grenade.' ' I've still got it!' An unexpected stranger arrives at the old people's home in Norway where a famous writer is kept in confinement after the war. Should he be brought to trial for collaborating with the Nazis? Or will the young partisan carry through his original plan to kill him?
Release Date1978-05-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
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 Count2
Vote Count11
Harnessing Peacocks
Sir John Mills, Peter Davison and Serena Scott Thomas star in this warm, funny and romantic story of a woman forced to make a new life for herself in a Cornish seaside town. Based on Mary Wesley’s bestselling novel, «Harnessing Peacocks» is adapted by the multi-award-winning Andrew Davies.
Release Date1993-11-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
The Forsyte Saga
The Forsyte Saga is a 1967 BBC television adaptation of John Galsworthy's series of The Forsyte Saga novels, and its sequel trilogy A Modern Comedy. The series follows the fortunes of the upper middle class Forsyte family, and stars Eric Porter as Soames, Kenneth More as Young Jolyon and Nyree Dawn Porter as Irene. It was adapted for television and produced by Donald Wilson and was originally shown in twenty-six episodes on Saturday evenings between 7 January and 1 July 1967 on BBC2, at a time when only a small proportion of the population had television sets able to receive this channel. It was therefore the repeat on Sunday evenings on BBC1 starting on 8 September 1968 that secured the programme's success with 18 million tuning in for the final episode in 1969. It was shown in the United States on public television and broadcast all over the world, and became the first BBC television series to be sold to the Soviet Union.
Release Date1967-01-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count6
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 Count1
Vote Count4
C2H5OH
Play on the problems of alcoholism.
Release Date1980-10-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story; some were created for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.
Release Date1965-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
Married 2 Malcolm
Malcolm tries to keep his dual lives -- and two wives -- separate, but when both of his spouses want to attend the same concert, he runs into a big problem.
Release Date2000-05-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Unity
Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
Release Date1981-03-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Ambassadors
Lambert Strether goes to France to rescue a young American from a European adventuress - only to fall under the spell of Europe himself. 1965 BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel.
Release Date1965-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Little Piece of Sunshine
Sunshine, an idyllic and almost forgotten island under British rule, is shortly to become independent. But a few days before this event is to take place, the British governor of the island is shot. Her Majesty's secret service is called in and Sam McCready asks Desmond Hannah of Scotland Yard to take charge of the case.
Release Date1990-11-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Arms and the Man
First produced on the London stage in 1894, "Arms and the Man" immediately established Shaw's reputation as one of the greatest wits in London drama. This beautifully remastered BBC production brings to life an uproarious comedy that still resonates in its critique of warfare and romance.
Release Date1989-04-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Ambassadors
Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate mission. A chance meeting on arrival with the engaging Maria Gostrey provides him with much-needed support.
Release Date1977-03-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Touch of the Tiny Hacketts
Three a.m. A crash of breaking glass ... the slow creak of a door opening ... is it a burglar? Raymond Collis finds out the hard way.
Release Date1978-10-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
School Play
Life in an English public school - with all the parts played by adults.
Release Date1979-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Maigret
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.
Release Date1992-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count15
Bequest to the Nation
Set before the Battle of Trafalgar, this is the story of relationship between Admiral Lord Nelson and Lady Hamilton during the Napoleonic Wars.
Release Date1973-04-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Release Date1971-09-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Piano
Play about an elderly couple who don't want to be moved from the house in which they have lived all their lives, but may be forced to as they live in a designated redevelopment area. The major point as far as they're concerned is that their piano won't fit in one of the new council places they have been offered.
Release Date1971-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Fine Romance
A Fine Romance is a British situation comedy starring husband-and-wife team Judi Dench and Michael Williams. Dench's sister was played by Susan Penhaligon. It was produced by London Weekend Television and written by Bob Larbey. It was first broadcast on 8 November 1981. It lasted for 26 episodes over four series; the final episode being broadcast on 17 February 1984. The series takes its name from a song in the 1936 film Swing Time, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, which Dench recorded as the theme music. The series was nominated for nine BAFTA British Academy Television Awards and a winner of two, both for Dench's performance in 1982 and 1985.
Release Date1981-11-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count7
The Edwardians
The Edwardians is an eight-part miniseries broadcast in 1972–73. An anthology, each 90-minute episode explores influential figure(s) of the Edwardian era: Charles Rolls and Henry Royce; Horatio Bottomley; E. Nesbit; Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; Robert Baden-Powell; Marie Lloyd; Daisy Greville, Countess of Warwick; and David Lloyd George.
Release Date1972-11-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Sea-Change
An elderly man and his only son continue to interact, following the death of the son in World War 2.
Release Date1976-09-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Release Date1974-11-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Release Date1951-12-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
Fortunes of War
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC miniseries adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels of the same name. English literature lecturer Guy Pringle and his wife Harriet navigate the early years of WWII in Bucharest. They become involved in anti-fascist politics and are forced to flee as the war escalates, crossing paths with various characters along the way. Starring an ensemble cast led by Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson, the seven-part series follows its source material relatively faithfully, with no major plot departures.
Release Date1987-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count13
The Adams Chronicles
The Adams Chronicles is a thirteen-episode miniseries by PBS that aired in 1976 to commemorate the American Bicentennial.
Release Date1976-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
Caesar and Cleopatra
Adaptation of the play by Bernard Shaw.
Release Date1976-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Class Act
Class Act is a British comedy-drama series produced by Verity Lambert, and starring Joanna Lumley, Nadine Garner, and John Bowe. The series ran for two seasons of seven episodes each. Broadcast on ITV1, the first premiered on 7 April 1994, until 19 May. The second ran from 7 September to 19 October 1995. Desperate times call for desperate measures when aristocratic Kate Swift's rich husband disappears and she is forced to give up her champagne lifestyle.
Release Date1994-04-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill
Lee Remick stars as Jennie Jerome, born in the United States in 1845, who eventually became Lady Randolph Churchill, and gave birth to Sir Winston Churchill in this seven-part, seven-hour biographical mini-series.
Release Date1974-11-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
Vote Count3
Oxbridge Blues
An anthology series of seven linked plays about the lives of people connected with the universities of Oxford and Cambridge.
Release Date1984-11-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Golden Bowl
The Golden Bowl is a six-part British television miniseries based on Henry James' 1904 novel of the same name. Adapted by Jack Pulman and directed by James Cellan Jones, the serial stars Barry Morse, Jill Townsend, Daniel Massey, Gayle Hunnicutt, Kathleen Byron, and Cyril Cusack. Wealthy American widower Adam Verver and his daughter Maggie live a refined life in Europe, surrounded by art. Maggie marries impoverished Italian Prince Amerigo, while Adam marries Maggie's friend Charlotte Stant. The Prince and Charlotte are having an affair, which Maggie discovers and navigates through a silent, psychological battle of wills, ultimately using her cunning to preserve her marriage and protect her father.
Release Date1972-05-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
Black and Blue
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. The show consisted of six 50–60 minutes episodes, each a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the finale on 18 September 1973. The first, Secrets, was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the master by producer Mark Shivas.
Release Date1973-08-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Brighton Belles
On her husband's demise, attractive Bridget suddenly finds she can't meet the financial demand of her Sussex country house in Brighton without his income. Her solution: take in lodgers. Two other "belles" answer her offer. Annie, also a widow, is a dim but friendly, likable farmer's daughter from a small village; Frances is a sardonic, sarcastic teacher whose husband Gilbert left her for a younger woman, taking the house. Later, Frances' tactless, overprotective mother Josephine moves in as well, to hover over and generally annoy her daughter. The women bond and Bridget shows her seductive side and she searches for a new mate.
Release Date1993-03-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Theatre Night
A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.
Release Date1985-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
The Gravy Train Goes East
A fictitious Balkan state adaps to life after Communism.
Release Date1991-10-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
The Roads to Freedom
Taboo-busting adaptation for television of Jean-Paul Sartre's trilogy.
Release Date1970-10-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count13
Vote Count6
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame is a 1966 television series and an adaptation of the novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo.
Release Date1966-03-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count7
A Perfect Hero
Starring Nigel Havers as a recovering WWII pilot trying to adapt to life after being shot down. After suffering horrific facial burns when the bomber he is piloting is shot down, Hugh Fleming (Havers)'s once promising future lies in ruins. Abandoned by his girlfriend, and forced to sit out the war while his former colleagues fight on, Fleming's only hope lies with an offer of help from renowned plastic surgeon Angus Meikle (James Fox). Based on the 1980 Christopher Matthew book 'The Long-Haired Boy'. Loosley based on the true story of Richard Hillary with some aspects adapted from Hillary's 1943 book 'The Last Enemy'.
Release Date1991-05-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count3
The Portrait of a Lady
TV adaptation of the Henry James novel
Release Date1968-01-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
The Comedy of Errors
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
Release Date1983-12-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
The Day Christ Died
A dramatization of the events from the Last Supper through the arrest and trial of Jesus to the Crucifixion.
Release Date1980-03-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The Vacillations of Poppy Carew
When Poppy Carew is faced with having to organize a funeral by herself, she finds new strength and learns much about love's true meaning. Adaptation of the novel by Mary Wesley.
Release Date1995-03-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Mrs. Silly
Mrs. Silly, a woman who has lost her husband to another, is now about to lose her son to an expensive boarding school, compliments of her ex's money. Confronted with these losses, Mrs. Silly realizes she must regain her identity. Desperately trying to keep up appearances, to be cheerful, busy, and dignified, she only succeeds in living up to the derisive nickname she invented for herself.
Release Date1983-09-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Dr. Watson and the Darkwater Hall Mystery
While Holmes is away recuperating, Watson is left to help a damsel in distress.
Release Date1974-12-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Beach Head
On his thirty-seventh mission, Commandant Tom Decker and his colleague Ensign Warner-Carr become alarmed at what they find when their spaceship lands on Planet 0243/B.
Release Date1969-01-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Secrets
Secrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production line.
Release Date1973-08-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
The Kingfisher
An elderly couple are reunited after fifty years.
Release Date1983-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Forum
Recording of a tense discussion between three people around the question of "revolution". Steve Ben Israel (member of the Living Theatre), James Cellan (BBC director) and David Autie (sculptor) confront each other in a debate that provoked a strong political and radical awareness among the students of the Royal College of Art in London. The screening of the document led to the return to school of five students who had been unjustly expelled by the school administration.
Release Date1969-02-27