Douglas Livingstone (Writer)
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Works
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 Count121
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
The Fishing Party
Three miners plan a weekend fishing.
Release Date1972-06-01
Charactersd Abe
Vote Count1
Shakespeare or Bust
Three miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.
Release Date1973-01-08
Charactersd Abe
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 Count23
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 Count58
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
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 Count338
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.
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Public Eye
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
Release Date1965-01-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
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 Count5
The Day of the Triffids
Following mysterious bright lights in the sky, the human race is rendered blind and helpless. The survivors find themselves stalked by sentient flesh-eating plants.
Release Date1981-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count6
Vote Count36
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
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
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 Count4
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
The Frighteners
A horror anthology series, with each episode featuring a different eerie tale.
Release Date1972-07-07
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
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
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
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 Count1
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 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 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 Count6
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
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 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 Count2
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
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
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 Count3
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
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
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 Count1
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
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