Douglas Livingstone (Writer)

The Saint

Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

Release Date1962-10-04

Charactersd Watters

Episode Count1

Vote Count127

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Release Date1985-01-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Mr. Bardsley

Episode Count3

Vote Count7

The Night Caller

The inhabitants of Ganymede need to find mates from another world or they will become extinct. They soon discover a suitable breeding stock amongst the females of planet Earth.

Release Date1965-12-31

Charactersd 2nd R / T soldier

Vote Count22

The Password Is Courage

Sergeant-Major Charles Coward, a brave British soldier is captured by German forces during World War II. When he's thrown into a prisoner of war camp, he immediately plans his escape. Masquerading as a wounded German soldier, he makes it as far as the medical tent, where the deceived enemy forces award him the Iron Cross. Though he is ultimately discovered, he goes on to courageously pursue his freedom with a whimsical and undying audacity.

Release Date1962-06-01

Charactersd Bennett

Vote Count24

A Kind of Loving

As Vic Brown vacillates between infatuation and disinterest for his co-worker Ingrid Rothwell, she finds out that she is pregnant and Vic has to reconcile how he thought his life would go with what life actually has in store for him.

Release Date1962-04-12

Charactersd Window Cleaner (uncredited)

Vote Count60

The Fishing Party

Three miners plan a weekend fishing.

Release Date1972-06-01

Charactersd Abe

Vote Count2

Shakespeare or Bust

Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.

Release Date1973-01-08

Charactersd Abe

Vote Count1

Inappropriate Behaviour

Jo teaches ‘difficult’ children—American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse-riding—Cotswold style. Who is going to learn the most?

Release Date1987-03-08

Charactersd Mr Bardsley

Three for the Fancy

Art has a rabbit, Ern a guinea pig and Abe, a mouse. They're off to astound the world of the Fancy with a triple triumph... but what about the Entwhistles!

Release Date1974-04-11

Charactersd Abe

Vote Count1

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Release Date1997-03-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count356

The Ruth Rendell Mysteries

The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.

Release Date1987-08-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count12

ITV Playhouse

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Release Date1967-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

ITV Saturday Night Theatre

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Release Date1969-01-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Public Eye

Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.

Release Date1965-01-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

ScreenPlay

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Release Date1986-07-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Budgie

Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network between 1971 and 1972. The series was created by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall . The show was produced by Verity Lambert, Rex Firkin was the Executive producer.

Release Date1971-04-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

Chillers

A 1990 horror anthology series, with host Anthony Perkins presenting and screening tales based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories that display a sinister atmosphere, and delve into the darkest depths of human nature.

Release Date1990-01-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count6

Armchair Mystery Theatre

Armchair Mystery Theatre is a 60-minute United Kingdom television anthology mystery series. Thirty-four episodes aired from 1960-65. It was hosted by Donald Pleasence and produced by Leonard White.

Release Date1960-06-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Frighteners

A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.

Release Date1972-07-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

The Cazalets

The Cazalets is a 2001 television drama series about the life of a large privileged family in the years 1937 to 1947. Most of the action takes place in London, and at the family's large estate in Sussex. The drama was based on the novels of Elizabeth Jane Howard, and adapted by the screenwriter Douglas Livingstone. The series was originally produced by Cinema Verity for BBC One and is available on DVD.

Release Date2001-06-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count6

Clayhanger

Clayhanger is a British television drama based on Arnold Bennett's novel series of the same name, published between 1910 and 1918, dramatised by Douglas Livingstone for ITV. Produced by Associated Television, the 26-episode programme is a coming-of-age story set in 19th century England. Edwin Clayhanger aspires to be an architect but is expected to join his father's printing business. His personal growth, eventual acceptance of the family business, and his romantic entanglement with Hilda Lessways are explored. Clayhanger was ITV's longest-ever drama at the time. While some found the pacing slow, it was nonetheless praised for its faithful adaptation, excellent acting, and atmospheric sets.

Release Date1976-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count26

Vote Count2

Half Hour Story

18 short plays written especially for TV, an opportunity for up-and-coming directors such as floor manager Alan Clarke, who ended up doing 10 of the episodes. Some top ranking performers were attracted to the series.

Release Date1967-05-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count2

The Day of the Triffids

After an unusual meteor shower leaves most of the human population blind, a merchant navy officer must find a way to conquer tall, aggressive plants which are feeding on people and animals.

Release Date1981-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count6

Vote Count38

The Sunday Drama

Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.

Release Date1977-05-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Wessex Tales

An anthology series based on the Wessex Tales, a collection of short stories by novelist Thomas Hardy.

Release Date1973-11-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

Shoulder to Shoulder

Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer Verity Lambert. A dramatisation of the history of the women's suffrage movement in Britain, focusing on the Pankhurst family and their fight for women's right to vote, the six-part series, starring Siân Phillips as Emmeline Pankhurst, is considered a landmark in feminist television drama.

Release Date1974-04-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count2

Born and Bred

Two large, interrelated south London families struggle to believe that blood is thicker than water.

Release Date1978-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count1

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

Release Date1956-07-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count6

The Sextet

An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast are featured in each production.

Release Date1972-06-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

A Question of Guilt

Dramatisations of three different women, three different cases—Constance Kent (episodes 1–8), Mary Blandy (9–14), and Adelaide Bartlett (15–22)—all 18th- and 19th-century murderesses.

Release Date1980-03-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count16

Ending Up

A traditional rural English Christmas, reluctantly spent with the predominantly geriatric family (who all have their quirks and eccentricities) ends in tragedy after a practical joke goes horribly wrong.

Release Date1989-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Heavy Weather

At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.

Release Date1995-12-24

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count3

Between the Wars

Six plays adapted from English short stories written in the nineteen-twenties and thirties.

Release Date1973-05-11

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Final Quest

Three old friends reminisce about their old haunts. Hearing that a coffee bar they frequented in their youth is reopening with a rock 'n' roll theme, Dave, Charlie and Ronno decide to pay a visit. Third film in The Quest Trilogy.

Release Date2004-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

The Impossible Spy

This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.

Release Date1987-11-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count8

The Second Quest

Three old friends are reunited after one was involved in an accident. They reminisce about their motorbike trip to the Isle of Man to ride the TT course. Second movie in The Quest Trilogy.

Release Date2004-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Crest of a Wave

Recently made redundant, Jim takes his wife Bridget to meet his old scouting pal Nifty. As well as campfire memories to swop, there just might be the possibility of a job.

Release Date1978-09-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

The Treat

Episode of The Frighteners: It was meant to be a great day out for three veterans and the male nurse. But their uneasy friendship soon became savage enmity.

Release Date1972-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

After Loch Lomond

Mickey Grant is the life and soul of the many coach trips he has taken. After his latest journey, he meets his travelling companions in a London station buffet and together they recall the journey from Loch Lomond.

Release Date1973-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Touch of the Victorians

An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.

Release Date1972-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Quest

Three elderly men, Dave, Ronno and Charlie, meet at Charlie's retirement party and reminisce about their teenage "quest" in the 1950s to get laid. This had involved travelling on their motorbikes up to the Lake District "where all the girls shag like rabbits" - but things hadn't turned out quite as they had planned. First movie in The Quest Trilogy.

Release Date2002-04-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Drums Along Balmoral Drive

'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'

Release Date1986-08-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Run for the Lifeboat

When unmarried mother Maggie takes her son Terry on holiday to the Welsh fishing village of Gorbay, they meet Gareth, a member of the local lifeboat crew. But Terry's admiration of Gareth leads to tragedy.

Release Date1988-04-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

I Can't See My Little Willie

When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge...

Release Date1970-11-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Everybody Say Cheese

Comedy play about a seaside photographer, Henry Hunter, who goes to Margate every year to work, staying with his friends Frank and Hylda. However, he is getting older, and his trade is dying out as people have their own instamatic cameras.

Release Date1971-06-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

If You Could See What I Can See

Trevor returns to his old home town to see his estranged wife and son, but fails to see why she is afraid of him.

Release Date1974-05-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Competition

An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.

Release Date1971-10-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Return to Blood River

Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 hours of arriving in Johannesburg. Over the following week. the East Rand riots claimed 600 lives.

Release Date1994-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

We'll Support You Evermore

A father is intent on finding the truth as to how his soldier son met his death while serving in Northern Ireland.

Release Date1985-07-14

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count4

Mummy and Daddy

Arthur takes early retirement, and with his wife Marion, moves into a bungalow by the sea, bought by their son. However, disillusionment sets in after a year when the plans he had do not work out and life is not what they expected or hoped.

Release Date1973-11-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter