Ray Lawler (Writer)

Theatre Night

A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.

Release Date1957-01-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Barney Ibbot

Episode Count1

Churchill's People

Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

Release Date1974-12-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

The Love School

The Love School is a BBC television drama miniseries originally broadcast from 22 January to 26 February 1975 about the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. The series was written by John Hale, Ray Lawler, Robin Chapman, and John Prebble, and directed by Piers Haggard, John Glenister and Robert Knights. The drama was a significant influence on the subsequent 2009 series Desperate Romantics. It was also the basis of the historical novel of the same name by Hale.

Release Date1975-01-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Cousin Bette

In 19th century Paris, Bette Fischer, a poor and homely spinster, forms an alliance with the seductive courtesan Valerie Marneffe to orchestrate revenge on her handsome and wealthy relatives.

Release Date1971-08-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count4

Sinister Street

Sinister Street is a 1969 British television miniseries based on Compton Mackenzie's 1913-14 novel of the same name. Dramatised by Ray Lawler, the six-part serial stars Brett Usher, Gillian Hawser, Kate Lansbury, and Jo Kendall. Being the sole televised adaptation produced, all episodes were wiped and are believed to be lost. A psychological coming-of-age drama, two children, Michael Fane and his sister Stella, are born out of wedlock, something considered taboo at the time, but to rich parents.

Release Date1969-05-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont

Mrs Palfrey tries hard to be accepted by the other residents at the Claremont. But then she meets Ludo and a real friendship begins.

Release Date1973-10-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Husband to Mrs. Fitzherbert

1799: George, Prince of Wales and heir to the throne of mad King George III, awaits the Pope's judgement on his marriage to the twice-widowed Mrs. Fitzherbert.

Release Date1975-05-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Summer of the Seventeenth Doll

Four friends grapple with aging and the march of time in this opera based on Ray Lawler's iconic Australian play. For years, cane cutters Roo and Barney (Gary Rowley and Barry Ryan) have bunked with barmaids Olive (Gillian Sullivan) and Nancy in the summer. But Nancy's moved on, replaced by newcomer Pearl (Elizabeth Campbell). Vacation's no longer the unending party it once was as each member of the quartet arrives at a new understanding of life.

Release Date1979-01-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter