Robert Murphy (Writer)

Strike Back

The series follows John Porter, a former British Special Forces soldier, who is drafted back into service by Section 20, a fictional branch of the Secret Intelligence Service.

Release Date2010-05-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count364

Shetland

Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows DI Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing.

Release Date2013-03-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count181

The Living and the Dead

Somerset 1894. When a pioneering Victorian psychologist brings his vivacious young wife to live on his family's estate, he is confronted by one disturbing case after another. Are these strange events linked merely by coincidence, or is there something more sinister - more supernatural - going on at Shepzoy?

Release Date2016-06-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count54

McDonald & Dodds

Two detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown together and forge a rumbustious friendship and entertaining partnership.

Release Date2020-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count53

Fake or Fortune?

Journalist Fiona Bruce teams up with art expert Philip Mould to investigate the provenance or attribution of notable artworks.

Release Date2011-06-19

DepartmentEditing

JobEditor

Episode Count4

Vote Count10

DCI Banks

A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.

Release Date2011-09-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count71

The Real History of Science Fiction

The series heads to the very frontiers of space and science to produce the definitive television history of science fiction, told through its impact on cinema, television and literature, with the help of filmmakers, writers, actors, and graphic artists. Each episode will explore one of the enduring themes of science fiction: time travel; the exploration of space; robots and artificial intelligence; and aliens.

Release Date2014-04-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count19

Meadowlands

The Brogan family enters a witness protection program and are moved to a bucolic neighborhood to begin a new life, but they soon realize that it's not so easy to escape the past.

Release Date2007-06-17

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count14

Murder City

Murder City is a British police drama that centres on two mismatched detectives who scour London solving complex cases.

Release Date2004-03-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count10

Vote Count6

The Near Room

Charlie Colquhoun is a burnt out journalist. His old school friend Harris Hill is a lawyer at the top of his game. Their lives are smashed together by one name - Tommy Stirling, Charlie's daughter, a fostered teenage pregnancy who has become embroiled in an alleged child pornography scandal with a top ranking police officer. As the trail to Tommy begins to heat up, so the bodies begin to mount up. Allegiances fall by the wayside as Charlie's life begins to spiral out of control and the deadly world of drugs, blackmail and murder that lies in the deepest heart of the underworld threatens to consume him and his missing daughter forever.

Release Date1997-04-11

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count9

Meet Me in Montenegro

A comedy centered on a failed American writer who enters into an affair after a chance encounter with a European dancer.

Release Date2015-07-10

DepartmentCamera

JobDirector of Photography

Vote Count10

Varda, the Peregrine Falcon

A Seminole Indian captures a falcon on its yearly migration, but it yearns to be free.

Release Date1969-11-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter