Neil Munro (Actor)

The Twilight Zone

This 1980s revival of the classic sci-fi series features a similar style to the original anthology series. Each episode tells a tale (sometimes two or three) rooted in horror or suspense, often with a surprising twist at the end. Episodes usually feature elements of drama and comedy.

Release Date1985-09-27

Charactersd Don

Episode Count1

Vote Count242

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents

The New Alfred Hitchcock Presents is an American anthology series that aired on NBC from 1985 to 1986, and on the USA Network from 1987 to 1989. The series is an updated re-imagining of the classic 1955 series Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

Release Date1985-09-29

Charactersd Russ Bennett

Episode Count1

Vote Count56

Friday the 13th: The Series

Micki and Ryan with the help of their friend Jack try to recover cursed antiques so they can store them in safety inside the antique store's vault.

Release Date1987-10-03

Charactersd Warren Voss

Episode Count1

Vote Count225

The Ray Bradbury Theater

A Canadian-produced fantastic anthology series scripted by famed science-fiction author Ray Bradbury. Many of the teleplays were based upon Bradbury's novels and short stories.

Release Date1985-05-21

Charactersd Father

Episode Count1

Vote Count37

Murder by Phone

A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.

Release Date1982-12-01

Charactersd Winters

Vote Count22

Confidential

The year is 1949 and reporter Hugh Jameson is looking for a story. He focuses on Emma Porter, a woman who was accused of the axe murder of her father thirty seven years earlier. Jameson disappears during his search and his wife hires Charles Ripley P.I. to find him. Ripley's search leads him to Emma's son who has his own nasty secrets to protect.

Release Date1986-01-01

Charactersd Hugh Jameson

Vote Count6

Going to War

Based on a short story by Timothy Findley.

Release Date1985-01-01

Charactersd Max Cable

Gate II

It's been five years since Terry's friend Glen discovered The Gate to hell in his backyard. Glen has now moved away and Terry begins practicing rituals in Glen's old house and eventually bringing back demons through The Gate and leading to demoniac possession and near world domination.

Release Date1990-05-24

Charactersd Art

Vote Count103

The Valour and the Horror

Mini-series investigating three significant Canadian battles in World War II.

Release Date1992-01-12

Charactersd Rod Keller

Episode Count1

Beethoven Lives Upstairs

When his mother rents their vacant room to a peculiar composer, Christoph can't believe his bad luck. But as the abrasive boarder, Ludwig Van Beethoven, begins creating his masterful 9th Symphony, Christoph is won over by the majesty of his music. This lighthearted family drama was awarded the 1993 Emmy for Outstanding Children's Program.

Release Date1992-09-30

Charactersd Ludwig Van Beethoven

Vote Count11

Street Justice

A forgotten CIA agent escapes after 12 years and returns to his corrupt New Jersey hometown.

Release Date1987-01-01

Charactersd Marty Evanoff

Mistress Madeleine

Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.

Release Date1986-12-12

Charactersd Charles

The Women of Windsor

Sisters-in-law Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, and Diana Spencer, the Duchess of Windsor, lead glamorous, often tumultuous lives under the watchful eye of their mother-in-law, the Queen.

Release Date1992-10-25

Charactersd Tony

John and the Missus

A small Canadian town is devasted when a local mine--the town's only source of income--is closed. One man incurs the wrath of the townsmen when he stubbornly refuses the small amount of settlement money offered by the government.

Release Date1987-10-23

Charactersd Tom Noble

Vote Count1

Dancing in the Dark

To all outward appearances, Edna Cormick is the perfect housewife.... She's married to a man who'll stand up in public and say, "This is my wife," so that there'll be no confusion as to who she is. Edna has no identity without Harry, an ambitious, successful salesman who seems to love and care for Edna long after other men might become worried about her housewifely obsessions... Edna is reviewing her life - in neatly chronological flashbacks - from the room in the psychiatric hospital where she's been confined ever since Harry's sudden death.

Release Date1986-05-14

Charactersd Harry

Vote Count4

The Vital Spark

The Vital Spark is a British television comedy set in the western isles of 1930s Scotland, based on the Para Handy books by Neil Munro. Starring Roddy McMillan as Peter 'Para Handy' MacFarlane, captain of the puffer Vital Spark, the series followed its adventures around the coastal waters of west Scotland and the various schemes that Para Handy would get himself and his crew involved in. The programme first broadcast in August 1965 as an episode of Comedy Playhouse. Two series, of six and seven episodes respectively, were commissioned by BBC Scotland and transmitted in early 1966, and autumn 1967, in black-and-white. In March 1973, an hour-long TV special was made, in colour, featuring the same cast. After the success of this, a further six episodes (essentially remakes of previous scripts but in a more contemporary setting) were commissioned, broadcast in the autumn of 1974.

Release Date1965-08-12

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Peep Show

An anthology of half-hour drama programs by new and emerging Canadian writers and directors.

Release Date1975-11-20

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Dirty Leather

The newest member of a biker gang incurs the wrath of its leader when he strikes up a romance with the man's ex-lover.

Release Date1988-01-01