Peter Tabern

Peter Tabern is a British television producer, director and writer. After working for a number of ITV regions such as Thames Television on primarily children's and educational programming during the 1970s and 80s, Tabern formed his own independent production company, Childsplay Productions, in 1984. As head executive, he produced the vast majority of its output. Before retiring from the television industry in 2008, Tabern additionally co-created and wrote a number of series for Shine TV.

Works

Demons

Luke Rutherford is your average teenager - until his dead father's best friend, Rupert Galvin turns up to reveal his secret destiny: he's the great-grandson of Abraham Van Helsing, the infamous vampire hunter. Luke is set to inherit the family mantle as a warrior against the supernatural entities that lie deep beneath the streets of modern-day London.

Release Date: 2009-01-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 2

Vote Count: 24

Clay

Adaptation of the book by David Almond, set in 1960s Tyneside. Two 14-year-old boys team up against Mouldy, the town bully. Turning Crazy Mary s garden shed into a workshop, they discover that the sculptures they create come to life. Together they raise a golem, a creature fashioned from clay, capable of dispatching anyone, even Martin Mould. But when Mouldy winds up dead, the boys have to deal with the awful power they may have unleashed and the perils of getting what you wish for.

Release Date: 2008-03-30

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 4

Johnny and the Bomb

Johnny Maxwell stumbles upon a time machine when he helps an old woman, but little does he know that his journeys back to 1941 cause a chain of events which alter history. Johnny and his friends must go back in time to reverse the changes and save his own existence.

Release Date: 2006-01-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 5

Hex

The show opens with a girl who yearns to be popular and liked in her school. She wishes she was in the "in-crowd", however, she goes about unnoticed in school everyday. The only girl who truly notices her is her best friend Thelma. For some strange reason though, Cassie feels like she is being followed by a man. This is only the beginning of her problem...

Release Date: 2004-10-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 53

Feather Boy

Robert Nobel is the butt of classroom jokes and a victim of Niker the classroom bully. He is haunted by dreams that seem to tell the future as well as the past. His life changes when a storyteller invites some of his class to Mayfield House, a place Robert has already dreamed about. There he meets a spiky old lady called Edith Sorrel who chooses him as her partner. He embarks on a series of events that will change their lives forever.

Release Date: 2004-03-16

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 1

Stig of the Dump

Release Date: 2002-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 3

Life Force

Two psychic children, two parentless siblings, and their environmentalist guardian try to rescue the globally warmed world of 2025, protect vulnerable lives, and stay ahead of an oppressive government in a dramatic sci-fi thriller.

Release Date: 2000-01-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 2

Children of the New Forest

A colonel during the 1640s English Civil War gets killed, leaving his four children in the care of their aunt. For fear of their safety the children were sent to a forester's home in the forest. While there they encounter numerous adventures, including assisting King Charles who has also escaped from captivity.

Release Date: 1998-11-15

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 6

Pirates

Pirates is a British children's television sitcom about a family of pirates living in a council house. It featured a number of bizarre characters, such as the "Man in a Sack" and a baby in a pram which was never seen, but gave off a mysterious green glow. The series ran from 1994 to 1997 on Children's BBC, and featured Liz Smith as "Gran".

Release Date: 1994-10-06

Department: Directing

Job: Director

Episode Count: 18

Eye of the Storm

A father and daughter's search for a covered-up threat to the environment collides with a malevolent old local woman, her disturbed young boy, and the evil legacy of his seventeenth century alchemist ancestor in a fantastical eco-thriller.

Release Date: 1993-01-08

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 6

Vote Count: 2

Streetwise

Drama about the lives of a team of bicycle couriers in London.

Release Date: 1989-09-25

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Episode Count: 27

Vote Count: 1