Derek Granger (Producer)
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Works
Granada: From the North
The story of Granada, the company responsible for Britain's most enduring soap opera Coronation Street, the current affairs series World in Action, and highly praised drama from Brideshead Revisited to Prime Suspect. With contributions from Jeremy Isaacs, Gus Macdonald, David Plowright, Michael Parkinson, Gerry Robinson and Sir Denis Forman. Director David Thompson
Release Date1992-12-28
Charactersd Self
The Unforgettable Pat Phoenix
Profile of the actress who found fame in Coronation Street and whose life offscreen was as colourful as that of Elsie Tanner, the character she played for 21 years. Close friends and co-stars including Julie Goodyear, Helen Worth, Tony Booth, and Tony Warren, the creator of Coronation Street, share their touching and hilarious memories of this larger-than-life, spirited woman.
Release Date2000-04-07
Charactersd Self
Brideshead Revisited
Agnostic Charles Ryder is seduced by the allure of the Flytes, a wealthy aristocratic family. Although he finds himself at odds with their strong Catholicism, his ties to the family deepen for the decades between the two world wars.
Release Date1981-10-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count11
Vote Count70
The Up Series
A series of documentaries that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old.
Release Date1964-05-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count1
Country Matters
An anthology series adapted from plays and short stories by A.E Coppard and H.E. Bates, depicting English country life and rural romance at the turn of the 20th-century. It presents unsentimental stories of human relationships and raw emotions – heartfelt passions, crippling frustrations, unspoken love and destructive jealousy.
Release Date1972-08-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count13
Vote Count4
World in Action
World in Action was Granada Television’s flagship ITV current affairs series, running from 7 Jan 1963 to 7 Dec 1998, and built a reputation for film-led investigative reporting and a forceful editorial stance. Its journalism produced major public and political repercussions—including investigations associated with miscarriages of justice such as the Birmingham Six—and it also served as a platform for landmark documentary projects, including the first broadcast of “Seven Up!” as part of the strand in 1964.
Release Date1963-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count40
Vote Count1
Breeze Anstey
Two woman pursue an idyllic herb-farming life in the country, forming a bond that for Breeze, the younger woman, is romantically and sexually imbued.
Release Date1972-09-24
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Where Angels Fear to Tread
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Release Date1991-06-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count27
The Collection
Set in the rarefied world of West End boutique owners and fashion designers, The Collection takes as its departure point the moment when four elegant lives are suddenly shaken by the suggestion of infidelity. The sinister anonymous phone call that disturbs Harry Kane at four o'clock in the morning becomes increasingly hard to establish...
Release Date1976-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count5
A Handful of Dust
English aristocrat Tony Last welcomes tragedy into his life when he invites John Beaver to visit his vast estate. There Beaver makes the acquaintance of Tony's wife, Brenda. Together, they continue their relationship in a series of bedroom assignations in London. Trusting to a fault, Tony is unaware that anything is amiss until his wife suddenly asks for a divorce. With his life in turmoil, Tony goes on a haphazard journey to South America.
Release Date1988-06-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count41
Daphne Laureola
A young man becomes infatuated with the exotic Lady Pitts whose much older husband is not pleased.
Release Date1978-01-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Seven Up!
A group of British children aged 7 from widely ranging backgrounds are interviewed about a range of subjects. The filmmakers plan to re-interview them at 7 year intervals to track how their lives and attitudes change as they age.
Release Date1964-05-05
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count108
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
An alcoholic ex-football player drinks his days away, having failed to come to terms with his sexuality and his real feelings for his football buddy who died after an ambiguous accident. His wife is crucified by her desperation to make him desire her: but he resists the affections of his wife. His reunion with his father—who is dying of cancer—jogs a host of memories and revelations for both father and son.
Release Date1976-12-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count6
Come Back, Little Sheba
An emotionally remote recovering alcoholic and his dowdy, unambitious wife face a personal crisis when they take in an attractive lodger.
Release Date1977-12-31
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Haunted: The Ferryman
A horror novelist and his wife go to a house in the country for a short vacation. However, they soon find that one of his novels is coming true when they are haunted by the ghost of a drowned ferryman.
Release Date1974-12-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count5
Haunted: Poor Girl
An Edwardian governess finds herself trapped inside a haunted house.
Release Date1974-12-30
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
No Man's Land
'No Man's Land' is a play by Harold Pinter written in 1974 and first performed in 1975. In this 1978, TV adaptation, a seedy poet shows up at the home of a rich writer and they start reminiscing about the 'past,' in a menacing, Pinteresque fashion.
Release Date1978-10-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
The Four Beauties
Henry Batley, a bored young journalist in a small town is attracted to both Christie Davenport and her sister Sophie, whilst younger sister Tina is determined to make him hers.
Release Date1973-03-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Ten Days That Shook the World
An epic presentation of the turbulent days leading to the Russian Revolution. Based on the classic work by John Reed, this important documentary makes use of rare footage and little-known information, stirringly narrated by Orson Welles.
Release Date1967-01-01
DepartmentCrew
JobScript
Vote Count4
Craven Arms
David Masterman is an artist and a teacher who has the pleasure of teaching an art class to a group of lovely young women. Three in particular are of interest to him.
Release Date1972-08-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Crippled Bloom
A bookmaker moves in with two sisters. He gets more than he bargained for.
Release Date1972-09-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Face on the Cover
The life of the world’s top model Jean Shrimpton and her svengali photographer David Bailey.
Release Date1964-05-10
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Ring of Truth
After his father's death, George Pickard has a strange dream where his father tells him he's traveling to the small town of Skelby Moor. His father, Albert, was a traveling salesman who worked a large territory but the name is familiar to him. He takes his holiday there staying at the same hotel his father used.
Release Date1973-03-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Black Dog
A daughter visits her father after being estranged for 3 years and schemes to destroy his relationship with another woman.
Release Date1973-02-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Watercress Girl
Mary stands trial for throwing vitriol in the face of Elizabeth, her rival for the love of Frank.
Release Date1972-09-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Simple Life
A country cottage is the cause of marital strife.
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Mill
At 17 years of age, Leslie Hartop's parents decide the time has come for her to move out and make her way in the world. She moves in with the Hollands who live in a old mill.
Release Date1972-08-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Little Farm
A farmer who lives alone decides to advertise for a companion-housekeeper to come and live with him.
Release Date1973-01-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
An Aspidistra in Babylon
Summer in Dover 1919: Christine's mother runs a boarding house, in which Christine feels like the dull aspidistras which clutter the rooms, until Captain Blaine arrives to find rooms for his rich aunt.
Release Date1973-02-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Higgler
Harvey Whitlow has been back from World War I for a year and he's been having a hard time making a go of it.
Release Date1973-02-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Sullens Sisters
Tommy Adams has become quite the grown man. Now 19 years old, he is the man of the house, working full-time and supporting his widowed mother. He has also taken quite a fancy to Rachel Sullens, a 26 year old woman who lives with her 19 year old sister, Lindy.
Release Date1972-09-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer