Ken Riddington (Producer)

House of Cards

Frustrated at a new moderate Conservative government and deprived of a promotion to a senior position, chief whip Francis Urquhart prepares a meticulous plot to bring down the Prime Minister then to take his place.

Release Date1990-11-18

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Episode Count4

Vote Count161

Anna Karenina

Anna Karenina was a 1977 BBC television adaptation of Leo Tolstoy's novel & tragic story of the love affair between Vronsky, a Russian Count and Anna Karenina, a married upper class woman. Nicola Pagett takes the role of Anna, a young woman who is married to a man twenty years her senior (Eric Porter), and who begins a passionate affair with the handsome Count Vronsky (Stuart Wilson). When she falls pregnant, Anna decides to dissolve her marriage and wed Vronsky, but true happiness proves elusive.

Release Date1977-09-25

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Episode Count10

Vote Count7

A Very Peculiar Practice

A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.

Release Date1986-05-21

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Episode Count14

Vote Count6

To Play the King

Francis Urquhart's survival at the top is threatened by the new king's populist agenda.

Release Date1993-11-21

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Episode Count4

Vote Count62

The Final Cut

Seasoned politician Francis Urquhart tries to establish his legacy before retirement by negotiating an end to the Cyprus, but the island hides secrets from his past that could destroy him.

Release Date1995-11-05

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Episode Count4

Vote Count48

Diana

The very different lives of Jan Leigh, a poor but studious young country lad, and Diana Gayelorde-Sutton, the equally single minded daughter of a rich landowner, from the 1920s through to post-war Britain.

Release Date1984-01-12

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Episode Count10

Vote Count2

A Year in Provence

Annie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.

Release Date1993-02-28

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Episode Count12

Vote Count6

Breakaway

Detective Inspector Sam Harvey investigates intricate murder cases while contemplating retirement to pursue his passion for writing children's books.

Release Date1980-01-11

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Episode Count12

To Serve Them All My Days

To Serve Them All My Days is a 1980-81 British television drama serial, adapted by Andrew Davies from R. F. Delderfield's 1972 novel of the same name. David Powlett-Jones, a shell-shocked World War I veteran, becomes a teacher at an elite English boarding school, Bamfylde. The drama explores his personal growth, relationships, and evolving views on society over his 20-year career at the school.

Release Date1980-10-17

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Episode Count13

Vote Count4

A Horseman Riding By

A Horseman Riding By is a 13-part BBC television serial produced by Ken Riddington, and adapted by Arden Winch, Alexander Baron, and John Wiles from R.F. Delderfield's 1966-68 historical novel series of the same name. Having been invalided out of the Boer War, Paul Craddock buys Shallowford, a manor house and estate in Devon, with money from his late father's scrapyard business. He soon becomes a much-respected 'Squire' determined to treat all his tenant farmers fairly, unlike his predecessor.

Release Date1978-09-24

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Episode Count13

Vote Count2

The Legend of King Arthur

Dark Ages wizard Merlin, weary of the barbarism around him, creates a new order of enlightenment and justice with a youthful Arthur at its head. Merlin gifts Arthur with the magic legendary sword Excalibur to help him defeat the nobles who oppose his rule. But Arthur must also beware his half-sister Morgan, a sorceress who has sworn to kill him to avenge her father's death. As Morgan intensifies her plans for revenge, she uses magic to draw Lancelot and Guinevere into a passionate affair. However, it is the still more traitorous Mordred who will ultimately determine the fate of Arthur's rule.

Release Date1979-10-07

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Episode Count8

Vote Count2

Mother Love

A seemingly perfect couple's life unravels when the husband's eccentric mother acts on intense jealousy, seeking revenge through a series of incidents implicating her ex-husband, his new wife, and an old friend, then leading to murder.

Release Date1989-10-20

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Episode Count4

Vote Count8

Late Call

Elderly couple Sylvia and Arthur Calvert are forced to move in with their widowed son and his children in Carshall New Town.

Release Date1975-03-01

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Episode Count4

Vote Count1

An Unofficial Rose

Release Date1974-12-28

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Episode Count4

A Very Polish Practice

Screen One movie that is a continuation of Andrew Davies' brilliant series A Very Peculiar Practice. Dr. Daker feels finally settled in his life in Poland with his new wife and son, but he soon find things to be just as tumultuous, not least because Bob Buzzard is still around. And is that those nuns again?

Release Date1992-09-06

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