Edmund Ward (Creator)

A Prayer for the Dying

Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.

Release Date:1987-09-11

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:98

Bergerac

Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.

Release Date:1981-10-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:17

Kings and Desperate Men

A group of terrorists take a radio disk jockey and his wife and child hostage in order to get their manifesto out to the world.

Release Date:1981-08-22

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

The Professionals

The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

Release Date:1977-12-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:42

The Hanged Man

After surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.

Release Date:1975-02-15

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:2

Justice

Justice is a British drama television series which originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had previously also played a barrister. The theme music was Crown Imperial by William Walton.

Release Date:1971-10-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:2

Goodbye Gemini

Unnaturally close, jet-setting twins become enmeshed in the Swinging London scene, where their relationship is strained after they befriend a predatory hustler and his girlfriend.

Release Date:1970-08-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:10

The Main Chance

The Main Chance was a British television series which first aired on ITV between 1969,1970,1972 and 1975. A drama, it depicts the sudden transformation in the life of solicitor David Main who relocates from London to Leeds.

Release Date:1969-06-18

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:22

Vote Count:3

The Violent Enemy

During the troubles in Ireland an IRA bomb plot is hatched to blow up a British power station. Sean Rogan (Tom Bell) is an IRA bomb expert and escapes from prison to try and stop the destruction.

Release Date:1967-05-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2