Don Shaw (Writer)

BBC2 Play of the Week

An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

Release Date1977-09-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Playhouse

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

Release Date1974-03-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

Van der Valk

Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.

Release Date1972-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count9

Bomber Harris

Biography of Arthur Harris (aka "Bomber Harris") of RAF Bomber Command, during WW2 - in particular his strategy of heavy bomber "Millenium Raids" on German cities.

Release Date1989-09-03

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

Hammer House of Horror

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.

Release Date1980-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count71

Doomwatch

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.

Release Date1970-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count5

The Falklands Factor

Is there nothing new under the sun? 1770. The South Atlantic. A fleet sets sail from Buenos Aires to expel the British forces and reconquer the Falkland Islands. A major international crisis explodes. What follows may sound strangely familiar, but is firmly based on the historical record and the actual speeches and writings of the time.

Release Date1983-04-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Dangerfield

Dangerfield is a British drama series about a small town doctor / police surgeon, which ran for 6 series, between 1995 and 1999. Originally Nigel Le Vaillant played the central role, but this character later left the series, the focus switching to his replacement, played by Nigel Havers. The BBC decided to end the series in November 1999 when Nigel Havers announced his decision to quit. The BBC felt viewers would not find the series credible if the main character was changed for a second time. The show like a number of other BBC dramas of the 1980s and 1990s also featured a number of borderline fantasy episodes. These included "Tricks", "Angel" and "Haunted". The TV trailers for Dangerfield were heavily parodied by The Fast Show in which the character was called Monkfish and would appear as a tough uncompromising Doctor, Policeman, vet and even as an interior designer with titles mixed in with other BBC shows of the time.

Release Date1995-01-27

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Survivors

Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.

Release Date1975-04-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count22

Sovereign's Company

Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.

Release Date1970-04-21

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Ackerman, Dougall & Harker

A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course.

Release Date1972-02-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Danger UXB

Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is titled and partly based on the memoirs of Major A. B. Hartley, M.B.E, RE, Unexploded Bomb - The Story of Bomb Disposal, with episodes written by Hawkesworth and four screenwriters. The series chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become a bomb disposal unit. As with all his fellow officers, Ash must for the most part learn the techniques and procedures of disarming and destroying the UXBs through experience, repeatedly confronted with more cunning and deadlier technological advances in aerial bomb fusing. The storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.

Release Date1979-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count7

Jumbo

"1975 was the year of the disaster movie, yeah? So what stops 1976 being the year of the disastrous disaster movie?"

Release Date1976-05-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Kites

Lawrence Hastings, retired prep school headmaster, has few pleasures in life. One is flying a kite, until that too is spoilt by the intrusions of an irritating small boy

Release Date1976-03-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Mark of Satan

Edwyn sees the number nine everywhere and is convinced that forces of evil are at work.

Release Date1980-12-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Beyond Fear

The true story of Stephanie Slater, a British estate agent who was kidnapped, raped, and held for ransom by Michael Sams, who imprisoned her in a coffin-like box for eight days.

Release Date1997-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

True Patriot

Dietrich Bonhoeffer , theologian, academic and pastor, was convicted and hanged for being implicated in plots against Hitler. He was hanged in April 1945, one month before the end of the war in Europe.

Release Date1977-10-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Foreign Affairs

Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Susan and Viktor - a reunion which leads to unforeseen complications.

Release Date1978-01-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Judge the Bloody City

British soldiers are captured and interrogated in post-World War 2 Palestine.

Release Date1975-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter