Michael Chaplin (Writing)
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Works
Robin Hood
An updated series following the life of Robin Hood and his Merry Men in Sherwood forest. Together they steal from the rich and give to the poor - all the while avoiding their enemies Sir Guy of Gisborne and the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Release Date:2006-10-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:107
Pickles: The Dog Who Won the World Cup
The fictional story about the little dog that discovered the FIFA World Cup Trophy after it was stolen in 1966.
Release Date:2006-06-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Walk
Charity walkers raising funds for cancer research by crossing the Sahara Desert argue and squabble over their relationships in the past. However when one of their number gets lost each walker begins to put their life in perspective and make decisions on where their real priorities lie.
Release Date:2005-02-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Monarch of the Glen
Archie MacDonald, a young restaurateur is called back to his childhood home of Glenbogle where he is told he is the new Laird of Glenbogle.
Release Date:2000-02-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:9
Vote Count:20
Grafters
Two English brothers with different, clashing personalities become live-in home renovators for a notoriously finicky couple with strong opinions.
Release Date:1998-10-27
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
Drovers' Gold
This show is about a couple broken and cheated Welsh families that decide in order to live they need to drive their cattle beasts to London for the best price. Unfortunately, there's the evil landholder that wants to kick everyone out of the valley and see the good families starve and go to workhouses. His conniving treachery enables several issues to arise while the fellas and a few more travellers in their party attempt to persevere. Talk about cattle plague and cholera outbreaks, punishment for driving cattle on a Sunday, and other interesting issues are just a fraction of what six episodes will bring you. Adventure, horses, and a young Ray Stevens without a shirt on.
Release Date:1997-05-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:5
Original Sin
Commander Adam Dalgliesh is consulted by one of his literary heroes when Peverell Press staff fall victim to a rash of hate mail. When the body of an editor is discovered and another member of the venerable firm is found dead soon after, Dalgliesh and his team—Detective Inspectors Kate Miskin and Daniel Aron—turn to the past to track down a murderer who seems prepared to kill and kill again.
Release Date:1997-03-20
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:1
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 Date:1996-03-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:24
Dandelion Dead
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
Release Date:1994-10-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:1
The Black Velvet Gown
In the 1830's in northern England, Riah Millican, a widow with three children, takes a job as housekeeper to a reclusive former teacher, Percival Miller. Miller makes Riah the gift of a black velvet gown, and even educates her children. But when Riah discovers the reason behind Miller's gifts, she vows to leave his house, but Miller has a hold on her, even after his death, when he leaves his house to her on the condition that she never marry. Riah's daughter, Biddy, grows up and becomes a laundress in a large house where her education keeps her from fitting in and makes her a target. But it also catches the eye of a son of the house, and with Miller's legacies, Biddy may yet find her way to happiness.
Release Date:1991-06-02
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:5
The Black Candle
Lily Whitmore is the heir to a crumbling factory that she's determined to restore to its former glory. Unfortunately, Lily must instead turn her attention to the conniving Lionel Filmore who's determined to marry into the family no matter what.
Release Date:1991-01-01
Department:Production
Job:Executive Producer
Vote Count:4
Act of Betrayal
An IRA informer and his family are given new identities and new lives in Australia but the IRA are still determined to track them down.
Release Date:1988-09-18
Department:Writing
Job:Novel
Episode Count:2
Wish Me Luck
The second world war experiences of brave women recruited as undercover agents behind enemy lines.
Release Date:1988-01-17
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:5