Tony Grounds (Writer)
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Works
Our Girl
Drama following the extraordinary adventures of female medics in the British Army.
Release Date: 2014-09-21
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Vote Count: 48
Our Girl
On the evening of her 18th birthday, Molly Dawes finds herself drunk and is sick in the doorway of an army recruitment office. She looks into the window of the office and sees a life-sized photograph of an army girl, everything that Molly isn't but wants to be - respected. The following morning, Molly finds herself back in the recruitment office and is eventually persuaded to complete an aptitude test. No-one thinks she can stick it out, including herself. But slowly and surely, Molly is maturing and learning to believe in herself. She digs in and finds a strength that she never thought she had.
Release Date: 2013-03-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 34
The Dinner Party
Young couple Jackie and Leo move from North London to a suburban home in the green belt paradise of Southern England. At the birthday party of a neighbor, they soon discover the strict social hierarchies of village life.
Release Date: 2007-09-09
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
A Class Apart
An outspoken single mum is determined her son will go to the school of her choice, and he ends up at a private school. Only then does she discover the headmaster offered a place merely to win a bet.
Release Date: 2007-03-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
A Class Apart
A working class single mother appeals to send her son to the best state school in her area. When the headmaster of a local private school hears of her campaign, he is intrigued, and offers her son a place at his school, betting that he can turn the boy's life around.
Release Date: 2007-03-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 2
All In The Game
A passionate manager is torn apart between loyalty to his son, a dodgy football agent, and his hometown club. This football drama gives you insight to the dark side of the game.
Release Date: 2006-05-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 5
When I'm Sixty-Four
When widowed cabbie Ray and retired teacher Jim meet by chance, they discover they long for the same things from life: adventure, challenge and love. Together Ray and Jim discover that being 64 means a new beginning: it's time to try the things they never dared in their youth.
Release Date: 2004-08-04
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 14
Family Business
Release Date: 2004-02-11
Department: Creator
Job: Creator
Bodily Harm
Mitchel, a mild-mannered suburban stockbroker spirals out of control after losing his job, finding his wife in flagrante with a sleazy neighbour, and discovering his dad is dying of cancer, all on the eve of his 44th birthday.
Release Date: 2002-10-14
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 2
Vote Count: 1
The Martins
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!
Release Date: 2001-09-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 15
Last Christmas
A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.
Release Date: 1999-12-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 1
Births, Marriages and Deaths
The lives of long-time friends Alan, Terry and Graham are turned around after they play a drunken prank on their old headmaster.
Release Date: 1999-02-22
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 3
Our Boy
A parent's grief has no bounds. Our Boy tells the moving and tragic story of one couple’s struggle to come to terms with the disappearance and death of their only son. Woody, Sonia and their son, Lee, live contentedly in West Ham, London. When Lee is killed in a hit-and-run everyone grieves but Woody’s grief has no limit. His best friend, Phil, counsels revenge, while in the view of the ambitious Detective Constable Spence, Woody himself is the prime suspect. Woody searches for a way to react with extraordinary and touching results. Features award-winning performances by Ray Winstone and Pauline Quirke.
Release Date: 1998-02-15
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Character: Plasterer
Vote Count: 4
Sex & Chocolate
Bev Bodger is a married teacher tempted by an old school boyfriend to enjoy a little sex and chocolate in Paris.
Release Date: 1997-10-26
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
Gone to Seed
The Plant family has run a garden centre in Rotherhithe since Dickens’ time, surviving both war and redevelopment. But now, family rivalry threatens to poison their unlikely paradise when matriarch Mag refuses to hand over control to her triplet children. Frumpy Hilda has only one passion in life: Milwall FC. Country and Western singer Monty dreams of turning the run-down nursery into a floral oasis in the heart of Docklands, whilst his one-eyed jobless builder and part-time wrestler Winston doesn’t know a begonia from a buttercup! A local conman, Wesley Willis, lurks in the shadows and knows the true-worth of prime-location London real-estate.
Release Date: 1992-11-13
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 4
Gone to the Dogs
Comedy drama about rivalry in the lucrative world of greyhound racing. Self-made millionaire Larry Patterson is powerful and charismatic, with the best dogs in the greyhound racing world. Jim Morley is one of life’s losers, always ‘just one business away’ from making his fortune; his only link to the world of greyhound racing is a three-legged dog called Highland Fling. On the financial scale, they’re as far removed as it’s possible to be. But they have one thing in common: they both love the same woman…
Release Date: 1991-11-29
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Episode Count: 6
Vote Count: 2