John Hawkesworth (Writer)

Korda: I Don't Grow on Trees: Part One

Part 1 of a documentary about when Alexander Korda was asked about who might replace him when he has resigned as a chief of the production of the British Lion.

Release Date1993-10-05

Charactersd Self - Interviewee

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes uses his abilities to take on cases by private clients and those that the Scotland Yard are unable to solve, along with his friend Dr. Watson.

Release Date1984-04-24

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Vote Count238

Upstairs, Downstairs

Upstairs: the wealthy, aristocratic Bellamys. Downstairs: their loyal and lively servants. For nearly 30 years, they share a fashionable townhouse at 165 Eaton Place in London’s posh Belgravia neighborhood, surviving social change, political upheaval, scandals, and the horrors of the First World War.

Release Date1971-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

Vote Count29

State Secret

While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious East-European country) to receive an award and demonstrate his life-saving surgery. Unwittingly caught in the middle of a dangerous and corrupt series of political events, Marlowe then becomes the object of a shoot-to-kill, vicious pursuit. Fleeing, he seeks help from an English-speaking actress, Lisa Robinson, and the two attempt to escape across the treacherous mountains of Vosnia.

Release Date1950-09-11

DepartmentArt

JobAssistant Art Director

Vote Count17

The Third Man

In postwar Vienna, Austria, Holly Martins, a writer of pulp Westerns, arrives penniless as a guest of his childhood chum Harry Lime, only to learn he has died. Martins develops a conspiracy theory after learning of a "third man" present at the time of Harry's death, running into interference from British officer Major Calloway, and falling head-over-heels for Harry's grief-stricken lover, Anna.

Release Date1949-08-31

DepartmentArt

JobAssistant Set Designer

Vote Count2017

Tiger Bay

In Tiger Bay, the docklands of Cardiff, rough-and-tumble street urchin Gillie witnesses the brutal killing of a young woman at the hands of visiting Polish sailor Korchinsky. Instead of reporting the crime to the authorities, Gillie merely pockets a prize for herself — Korchinsky's shiny black revolver — and flees the scene. When Detective Graham discovers that Gillie has the murder weapon, the fiery young girl weaves a web of lies to throw him off course.

Release Date1959-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count54

The Hound of the Baskervilles

When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, detective Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.

Release Date1988-08-31

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count75

The Man Who Never Was

The true story of a British effort to trick the Germans into weakening Sicily's defenses before the 1943 attack. A dead soldier is dressed as a British officer and outfitted with faked papers showing that the Allies were intending to invade occupied Greece. His body is put into the sea where it will ultimately drift ashore and the papers be passed along to German Intelligence.

Release Date1956-04-03

DepartmentArt

JobArt Direction

Vote Count93

The Prisoner

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.

Release Date1955-04-19

DepartmentArt

JobArt Direction

Vote Count20

The Sound Barrier

A young RAF pilot tests his father-in-law’s prototype supersonic aircraft to the limit, at a time of intense development in the field of aviation, just as commercial jet airliners are about to enter service.

Release Date1952-07-22

DepartmentArt

JobArt Direction

Vote Count57

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

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count1

Vote Count10

Pandora and the Flying Dutchman

Pandora Reynolds is a woman who has never fallen in love – but one who men kill and die for. When she meets dashing and mysterious ship's captain Hendrik van der Zee, he pushes her to commit the ultimate act of love.

Release Date1951-04-13

DepartmentArt

JobSet Dresser

Vote Count119

Campion

Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.

Release Date1989-01-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count8

The Tale of Beatrix Potter

Biography based on the life of the author Beatrix Potter.

Release Date1983-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Flame Trees of Thika

Elspeth and her unconventional parents decide to settle down in Kenya and begin a coffee plantation. This is a time of discovery for Elspeth, as she encounters the incredible beauty and cruelty of nature, and new friendships with both Africans and British expatriates. A side plot involves the beautiful and bored British Lettice Palmer who enters into an affair with a handsome safari guide. Eventually, however, the excitement of Elspeth's life is disrupted by the onset of WW I, and the changes it brings.

Release Date1981-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count2

Father Brown

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Release Date1954-06-08

DepartmentArt

JobArt Direction

Vote Count29

The Duchess of Duke Street

Set in London between 1900 and 1925, the story follows Louisa Leyton/Trotter, the eponymous "Duchess", who works her way up from servant to renowned cook to proprietress of the upper-class Bentinck Hotel in Duke Street, St. James's.

Release Date1976-09-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count31

Vote Count12

Danger UXB

Danger UXB is a 1979 British television series developed by John Hawkesworth and starring Anthony Andrews as Lieutenant Brian Ash, an officer in the Royal Engineers. The programme is 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 chronicles the exploits of the fictional 97 Tunnelling Company which, as a result of thousands of unexploded bombs in London during the Blitz, has become 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 storylines were primarily military, with a romantic thread between Ash and an inventor's married daughter, and other human interest vignettes.

Release Date1979-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count7

Q.E.D.

Q.E.D. is a 1982 short-lived adventure series set in Edwardian England, starring Sam Waterston as Professor Quentin Everett Deverill. The Professor was a scientific detective in the mold of Sherlock Holmes, and the series had a smattering of what would later be called steampunk. In the show, the lead character was known primarily by his initials, Q.E.D; the reference here is that Q.E.D. usually stands for quod erat demonstrandum, a statement signalling the end of a proof. The show aired on the CBS network in the United States, and on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom.

Release Date1982-03-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count7

Vote Count3

Saadia

Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she has the "evil eye" and brings disaster to all who love her. French doctor Henrik takes her to his clinic, for rehabilitation purposes, and falls in love with her as does his friend, Si Lahssen, the reigning prince of this small Moroccan state. When a plague falls on the town, Saadia is convinced she is responsible, and rides alone into the mountain country to retrieve the plague serum being held for ransom by bandits. The love triangle dominates most of the rest of the film.

Release Date1953-12-01

DepartmentArt

JobArt Direction

Vote Count4

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's non-Sherlock Holmes stories embodying the author's interest in boxing, the supernatural, and medical matters.

Release Date1967-01-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count12

By the Sword Divided

This classic period drama series follows the fortunes of the aristocratic Lacey family, living peacefully in Arnescote Castle until the onset of the English Civil War in 1640. Sir Martin Lacey, the head of the family, is steadfastly loyal to the King. However the family is torn apart when his eldest daughter Anne weds John Fletcher - son of a merchant family who support the forces of Cromwell.

Release Date1983-10-16

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count1

Mrs. 'Arris Goes to Paris

Ada Harris, a London charwoman in the 1950's, sees a Dior dress and decides that she's going to own one. First, she scrimps and saves her money, but when she has enough, and takes a trip to Paris, she learns that buying an original couture creation is a little harder than simply plunking down cash. Along the way to her goal, she manages to befriend a count, unite young lovers, and dodge customs.

Release Date1992-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

The Sign of Four

Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance. This leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.

Release Date1987-03-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count73

Oscar

In the summer of 1891, Oscar Wilde first met Lord Alfred Douglas — an encounter that will dramatically and tragically change both of their lives.

Release Date1985-03-26

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count4

The Gold Robbers

Tough cop Detective Chief Superintendent Cradock is assigned to track down & bring to justice the criminals behind the daring theft of five and half million pounds worth of gold bullion from an airfield in the South of England.

Release Date1969-06-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count13

Vote Count3

Late Night Horror

A short-lived horror anthology broadcast in the United Kingdom weekly in 1968 from 11 April until 16 May 1968 on the BBC. After complaints that is was not suitable for audiences, the series was pulled, with five of the six episodes believed lost.

Release Date1968-04-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

The Return of Sherlock Holmes

Series of adaptions of Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories.

Release Date1986-07-09

DepartmentCrew

JobScript

Episode Count11

Vote Count5

The Last Days of Dolwyn

An old woman fights a group of industrialists who are planning to build a dam and flood the valley where she grew up.

Release Date1949-04-13

DepartmentArt

JobAssistant Art Director

Vote Count6

The Tale of Beatrix Potter

Release Date1982-11-01

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Rowlandson's England

England of Thomas Rowlandson's day, seen through his drawings and cartoons.

Release Date1955-01-01

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes is a collection of short stories by Arthur Conan Doyle. The stories involve the peculiar exploits of the sharp-witted detective Sherlock Holmes, whose fierce energy and acute observation and reasoning skills enable him to solve the strangest of crimes.

Release Date1984-04-24

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator