Anthony Steven (Writer)

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Works

Doctor Who

The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.

Release Date1963-11-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count678

All Creatures Great and Small

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

Release Date1978-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count11

Vote Count45

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

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count7

The Man in the Iron Mask

A completely lost BBC1 miniseries adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' 19th century historical adventure novel of the same name. Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.

Release Date1968-07-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count9

Sunday-Night Play

BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.

Release Date1960-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count2

Dr. Finlay's Casebook

Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.

Release Date1962-08-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

Release Date1971-09-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count10

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark's classic novel The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie was adapted by Scottish Television into a seven episode television serial for ITV in 1978 that featured Geraldine McEwan in the lead role. From Wikipedia.

Release Date1978-01-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Lord Peter Wimsey: Clouds of Witness

Death hits close to home when Lord Peter’s future brother-in-law is murdered. Complicating matters is the man who stands accused: Gerald Wimsey, Lord Peter’s brother.

Release Date1972-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count5

Vote Count4

Fanny by Gaslight

Fanny by Gaslight is a four-part British television miniseries adapted by Anthony Steven from Michael Sadler's 1940 novel of the same mame, directed by Peter Jefferies, and produced by Joe Waters. It initially broadcast from 24 September to 15 October 1981 on BBC One. Victorian orphan Fanny Hooper navigates hardship and scandal, eventually discovering her true parentage and finding love amidst the city's demi-monde.

Release Date1981-09-24

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

The Three Musketeers

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends three legendary musketeers—Athos, Porthos, and Aramis—and together, they become embroiled in the political intrigue surrounding King Louis XIII and his adversaries, particularly the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.

Release Date1966-11-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count1

Lord Peter Wimsey: Five Red Herrings

Dorothy L. Sayer's amateur detective, Lord Peter Wimsey investigates and solves murder cases.

Release Date1975-07-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Life in Her Hands

A woman blames herself for her husband's death. To overcome her grief and her guilt she becomes a nurse but then a patient dies while under her care.

Release Date1951-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Count of Monte Cristo

A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbé Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbé tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbé dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbé told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.

Release Date1964-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Tom Brown's Schooldays

Tom Brown, as a new boy at Rugby Public School, has to contend with the school's harsh discipline and accepted bullying from the older boys, the cruellest being Flashman.

Release Date1971-11-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count3

Hereward the Wake

Hereward, son of Duke Leofric and Lady Godiva, fought a long and ultimately hopeless guerilla war against the invading forces of William the Conqueror in the fens of Lincolnshire, betrayed not only by his allies but by his own weaknesses.

Release Date1965-09-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count16

Swallows and Amazons

While on holiday, the Walker children spot an island. Borrowing a boat, they meet pirates seeking their uncle's trunk. After adventures with storms and cakes, the children and pirates learn friendship.

Release Date1963-09-03

DepartmentWriting

JobTeleplay

Episode Count6

The Oracle

An Irish "oracle" foretells the next day's track results to a newspaperman, resulting in a national uproar.

Release Date1953-06-01

DepartmentCrew

JobAdditional Dialogue

Vote Count2

Doctor Who: The Twin Dilemma

A race of giant Gastropods has taken over the planet Jaconda. Their leader, Mestor, now intends to cause an enormous explosion in order to spread his people's eggs throughout the galaxy, and he kidnaps juvenile twin geniuses from Earth to work out the necessary mathematical equations. Space fighters led by Lieutenant Hugo Lang are dispatched to get the twins back, but they come under attack and Lang is the sole survivor when his ship crashes on the asteroid Titan III. A newly regenerated Doctor and Peri become involved and help Jaconda's elderly former ruler Professor Edgeworth, who is really a Time Lord named Azmael, to defeat Mestor and free the planet's bird-like indigenous people from the gastropods' reign of terror. Azmael, however, sacrifices his life in the process.

Release Date1984-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count4

The Count of Monte Cristo

Release Date1964-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Double Agent

In London, a traitor is selling information. In Moscow, a Yorkshire cloth salesman is approached by the KGB, who believe he has more to sell than cloth.

Release Date1969-05-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Call on Kuprin: Part 2

Smith and Laye-Parker meet Kuprin and find he is less anxious to leave Russia than they supposed.

Release Date1961-06-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter