Mike Vardy (Director)

Callan: This Man Alone

Nearly ten years in the making, This Man Alone is a brand-new feature-length documentary on one of television's highest-rated series. Featuring a remarkable central performance by Edward Woodward, Callan grew from a cult favourite into one of Britain's favourite shows, and this documentary tells the story of its creation and development, its success on television and extended life in film and books. Narrated by Peter Woodward, This Man Alone features contributions from Peter Mitchell, Reginald Collin, Mike Vardy, James Goddard, Piers Haggard, Patrick Mower, Trevor Preston and more

Release Date2016-02-01

Charactersd Himself

Cold War Submarine Adventures: Cuban Missile Crisis - Secret Subs

Explore the events of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis and hear from some of the actual participants in this riveting program. After an American naval blockade intercepted Soviet submarines on a secret mission to set up a military base in Cuba, the two nations engaged in a tense standoff that led the world to the brink of nuclear war. Submariners from both sides talk about the conflict, and viewers get a look inside their subs and the U.S. war room.

Release Date2002-01-01

Charactersd Ketov (uncredited)

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Release Date1979-10-29

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count3

Vote Count25

Playhouse

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

Release Date1974-03-13

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Sweeney

Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.

Release Date1975-01-02

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count25

Rumpole of the Bailey

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.

Release Date1975-12-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count20

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count7

Vote Count9

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

Release Date1996-01-03

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count18

City Sugar

During the course of a live radio broadcast, a disc-jockey is made forcibly aware that he's getting old.

Release Date1978-11-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Anywhere but England

Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local politics.

Release Date1972-10-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Man at the Top

Northerner Joe Lampton becomes involved with Lord Ackerman, the powerful chairman of a pharmaceutical concern, his beautiful wife Alex, and daughter Robin. But trouble starts when Joe is made Managing Director of one of Ackerman’s companies and makes a shocking discovery: his predecessor committed suicide...

Release Date1973-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count7

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

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes

An anthology series produced by Thames Television, comprised of short mystery, suspense or crime adaptations featuring, as the title suggests, detectives who were literary contemporaries of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes.

Release Date1971-09-20

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

Bon Voyage

Roddy and Lola strike up a romance on the cruise liner SS Mara as it heads to Hong Kong from San Francisco.

Release Date1985-12-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Something's Got to Give

Arthur is a confirmed bachelor. But when he meets Ann Mitchell his fixed attitudes are severely challenged.

Release Date1982-06-19

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Enemy at the Door

Enemy At The Door is a British television drama series made by London Weekend Television for ITV. The series was shown between 1978 and 1980 and dealt with the German occupation of Guernsey, one of the Channel Islands, during the Second World War. The programme generated a certain amount of criticism in Guernsey, particularly for being obviously filmed on Jersey despite being ostensibly set on Guernsey. The series also marked the TV debut of Anthony Head as a member of the island resistance. The theme music was by Wilfred Josephs.

Release Date1978-01-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count4

Churchill's People

Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

Release Date1974-12-30

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JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Time and the Conways

1919: the World War is over. Kay Conway celebrates her 21st birthday and all the family look forward with hope and confidence. Then Time begins to conjure with them and offers a dark glimpse of what the future could really bring.

Release Date1985-04-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Target

A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.

Release Date1977-09-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count3

Hazell

Hazell is a British television drama based on the novel series by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams (collectively known as P.B. Yuill), and starring Nicholas Bell as James Hazell, a 'smart parody' of Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade. The programme ran for two series, from January 1978 to July 1979.

Release Date1978-01-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count2

Vote Count4

Northern Lights

A middle-aged doctor has an affair with the student actor she's housing during the Edinburgh Festival.

Release Date1982-05-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Special Branch

Special Branch is a British police drama centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.

Release Date1969-09-17

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JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count3

House on the Hill

A series of six plays centred on a house in Glasgow, from 1878 to the 1980s.

Release Date1981-07-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count6

A Still Small Shout

'I always wanted to be what you brought me up to be, what you called a grain of sand in the eye of the world. I wanted to be it so I could feel terror; the terror you feel on a big dipper; the terror you feel when you are starting an affair.'

Release Date1985-08-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Call Me Mister

Australian ex-cop Jack Bartholomew goes to Britain when he discovers he's heir to a family title; when he doesn't get on with his new family, he starts working as a private detective.

Release Date1986-09-05

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JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

The Suicide Club

Prince Florizel of Bohemia discovers a secret club where desperate men gamble with their lives, and vows to bring it to an end.

Release Date1970-02-09

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder

The Mind of Mr. J.G. Reeder is based on a character created by Edgar Wallace in a series of 1925 short stories of the same name, Hugh Burden played the titular character – A mild-mannered investigator with the Department of Public Prosecutions.

Release Date1969-04-23

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JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Up Among the Cuckoos

A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apartment.

Release Date1970-06-07

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JobDirector

Pythons on the Mountain

John Prothero, internationally famous for his witty and iconoclastic TV criticism, now treats us to an outrageously comic helping of autobiography, Scenes from a Welsh Adolescence.

Release Date1985-07-30

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JobDirector

The Breaking of Colonel Keyser

Battalion Commander of the Third Wiltshire Light Infantry is Colonel Keyser. On recent evidence, he is either a psychopathic personality or something very close to it. He could turn out to be the best battalion commander in the division. As the Allies prepare for invasion in 1944, will his reputed psychopathic personality be a good or bad thing, when leading his men into D-Day?

Release Date1972-10-17

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JobDirector

The Unknown Soldier

The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.

Release Date1985-02-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Loving Lesson

Mary Abbott is a schoolteacher whose husband has to go away for the night on business. After returning home from a party she has an unexpected caller.

Release Date1971-08-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Claws

A tale of cat lovers, the social circle they inhabit and the power struggles between them.

Release Date1987-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick

Thomas Chadwick is a man of dignity. He knows what's right and nothing will deter him from it. Unfortunately he cannot quite find the right job to go with his ideals, and he tries just about everything.

Release Date1967-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Prime Minister's Daughter

In a fictitious English parliament, various tactics are employed in the pursuit of power, even to the extent of bismerching member's of a politician's family.

Release Date1970-07-13

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JobDirector

Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee

In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.

Release Date1971-09-07

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The O'Hooligan File

' He's wasted his life and yours, Olive, on this sort of idiocy. He could have been a headmaster by now, if he'd stuck to teaching.' Jack Dunn is determined to beat the system with pen and postage stamp.

Release Date1978-02-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

The Grudge Fight

As they go by lorry to start their apprenticeship as Royal Naval Artificers, Pike and Brooks take a tacit dislike to one another. It's going to end in a fight.

Release Date1981-11-27

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector