Don Shaw (Writing)

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 Date:1997-03-30

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

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 Date:1995-01-27

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

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 Date:1989-09-03

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:2

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 Date:1983-04-26

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

The Mark of Satan

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

Release Date:1980-12-06

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Danger UXB

Danger UXB is a 1979 British ITV television series about World War II developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. 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 been made 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 series primarily featured military story lines, with a romantic thread featuring an inventor's married daughter, Susan Mount, with whom Ash falls in love, and other human interest vignettes. The programme was 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 was filmed in 1978 in and around the Clapham, Streatham and Tooting areas of South London. The programme appeared on the U.S. PBS as a segment of Masterpiece Theatre from January 4 to April 5, 1981. It was also screened in Australia on the public broadcaster ABC Television.

Release Date:1979-01-08

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:6

Foreign Affairs

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

Release Date:1978-01-25

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

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 Date:1977-10-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Jumbo

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

Release Date:1976-05-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

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 Date:1976-03-19

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Judge the Bloody City

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

Release Date:1975-09-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

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 Date:1975-04-16

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:4

Vote Count:21

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 Date:1972-09-13

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:9

Ackerman, Dougall & Harker

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

Release Date:1972-02-10

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

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 Date:1970-04-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:1

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 Date:1970-02-09

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:3