Bill Craig

Agatha Christie's Poirot

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Release Date1989-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count523

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

Release Date1984-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count1

Vote Count241

Bergerac

Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons Bergerac has a knack of finding trouble, and sometimes causing it.

Release Date1981-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count21

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

JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

Shoestring

Shoestring is a BBC detective drana set in Bristol and starring Trevor Eve as private detective Eddie Shoestring, who operatee his own show on Radio West, the local radio station. The programme ran between 30 September 1979 and 21 December 1980, in two series with 21 hour-long episodes. Eve opted not to return after two series, as he wanted to diversify into theatre, so the production team changed the setting to Jersey and created Bergerac, also following a detective returning to work after a bad period in his life.

Release Date1979-09-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of his land. ‘Smeddum’ is the story of a matriarch’s attempt to control her brood. ‘Greenden’ is the story of a city woman moving to the country with her husband.

Release Date1976-02-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

The Borderers

The Borderers is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1970.

Release Date1968-12-31

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Strathblair

Black Watch Sergeant Alec Ritchie and his new wife Jennifer move to a rundown sheep farm in the Scottish countryside.

Release Date1992-05-03

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

House on the Hill

A series of six plays centred on a house in Glasgow, from 1878 to the 1980s.

Release Date1981-07-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Sunset Song

A young woman in rural Scotland faces hardship after hardship as she struggles to keep her family farm going through personal losses and the devastation of World War I.

Release Date1971-03-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Cloud Howe

Dramatisation of the second part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy, in which Chris is now married to the minister of a small industrial town.

Release Date1982-07-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Grey Granite

Final part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy. Chris is now running a boarding house, while her son Ewan is drawn into political activism.

Release Date1983-08-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

The Vital Spark

The Vital Spark is a British television comedy set in the western isles of 1930s Scotland, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. Starring Roddy McMillan as Peter 'Para Handy' MacFarlane, captain of the puffer Vital Spark, the series followed its adventures around the coastal waters of west Scotland and the various schemes that Para Handy would get himself and his crew involved in. The programme first broadcast in August 1965 as an episode of Comedy Playhouse. Two series, of six and seven episodes respectively, were commissioned by BBC Scotland and transmitted in early 1966, and autumn 1967, in black-and-white. In March 1973, an hour-long TV special was made, in colour, featuring the same cast. After the success of this, a further six episodes (essentially remakes of previous scripts but in a more contemporary setting) were commissioned, broadcast in the autumn of 1974.

Release Date1965-08-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count21

Vote Count1

A Gift from Nessus

Salesman Edie Cameron experiences setbacks in his work and personal life.

Release Date1980-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter