Jonathan Alwyn (Director)
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Works
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
Public Eye
Public Eye is a British television drama broadcast from 1965 to 1975 on ITV1. Produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four, the programme follows the investigations and cases handled by the unglamourous enquiry agent Frank Marker.
Release Date1965-01-23
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count5
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a BBC television series that was broadcast from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella Country Doctor, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.
Release Date1962-08-16
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
Doomwatch
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.
Release Date1970-02-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
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 Count7
Vote Count10
Mystery and Imagination
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
Release Date1966-01-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count18
Vote Count4
Maigret
Based on the novels by Georges Simenon, Michael Gambon plays the eponymous detective from the Sûreté in this 1992 revival of the 1960s BBC drama series. Maigret is an intuitutive detective, who investigates his cases by watching and listening, getting to know everyone on his list of suspects until someone makes a slip or breaks down and confesses.
Release Date1992-02-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count6
Vote Count15
Redcap
Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television for ITV. John Thaw stars as Sergeant John Mann, a member of the Special Investigation Branch of the Royal Military Police. It ran for 26 episodes over two series between 1964 and 1966, being about 50 minutes in a 60 minute time slot. Surprisingly for a 1960s ABC Weekend Television programme, 23 of the 26 episodes still exist.
Release Date1964-10-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
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 Count6
Vote Count4
Out of This World
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode is introduced by actor Boris Karloff. Many episodes are adaptations of stories by sci-fi writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology Out of the Unknown.
Release Date1962-06-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Napoleon and Love
Napoleon and Love is a British television miniseries produced by Thames Television for ITV, lasting for nine episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series stars Ian Holm in the title role as Napoleon and depicts his relationships with the women who featured in his life as a backdrop to his rise and fall.
Release Date1974-03-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
When the Boat Comes In
When the Boat Comes In is a British television period drama produced by the BBC between 8 January 1976 and 21 April 1981. Taking place between 1919 to 1937, Jack Ford is a First World War veteran who returns to his poverty-stricken (fictional) town of Gallowshield in the North East of England. It dramatises the interwar political struggles of the 1920s and 1930s, and explores the impact of national and international politics upon Ford and those around him.
Release Date1976-01-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
The Enigma Files
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for a single series of fifteen episodes in 1980. Detective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis is tasked with investigating unsolved crimes.
Release Date1980-04-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Bedtime Stories
An anthology of six plays, contemporary twists on well-loved tales with dark endings.
Release Date1974-03-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Armchair Theatre
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Release Date1956-07-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count18
Vote Count5
Dracula
A asylum patient intrudes upon a house party referring to the guest of honor—Count Dracula—as "Master." Moments later he insists he does not know the Count and is led back to his cell. Dr. Van Helsing is called to consult on the case. Hypnotized, the patient recounts events in Transylvania, including an attack by Dracula's brides…
Release Date1968-11-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Curse of the Mummy
An archaeologist unearths the mummy of an Egyptian queen. He doesn't realize that his daughter has a strong resemblance to the dead queen, and soon the mummy awakens. Complications ensue.
Release Date1970-02-23
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Fall of the House of Usher
A young man seeks the woman he has fallen in love with at an isolated old house, and comes into conflict with her neurotic brother.
Release Date1966-02-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Trial of Lady Chatterley
A docudramatisation of the 1960 obscenity trial in the United Kingdom of Penguin Books for publishing D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.
Release Date1980-10-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Foreign Affairs
Moscow is the setting for a reunion between Susan and Viktor - a reunion which leads to unforeseen complications.
Release Date1978-01-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Snag
When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic center, only Emma Mannering's corset shop stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead, he's double-crossed.
Release Date1963-08-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Man Who Came to Die
Michael and Jo Richardson are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a secluded country cottage. Jo discovers the body of their friend Edward Fellowes in the bedroom and calls Dr Clarkeson, but finds his behaviour very strange.
Release Date1965-04-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Uncle Silas
After her father's death, Maud, a young heiress, is sent to live with her Uncle Silas. She finds her new guardian living in a gothic nightmare of a mansion, and soon realizes that he wishes to murder her and claim her inheritance.
Release Date1968-11-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Tower of London: The Innocent
The story of the Earl of Warwick and Perkin Warbeck, during the reign of King Henry VII.
Release Date1969-07-31
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
On Call
Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her.
Release Date1972-10-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Open Door
Colonel Mortimer returns to his family after a long spell in India to find his young son in bed ill, and tormented by a wailing voice... but is it in the boy's imagination or not?
Release Date1966-02-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Last Word on Julie
Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disaster but when friends and family receive letters they fear she may have committed suicide.
Release Date1964-01-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Second Interview
A man who has become a slave to buying luxuries tells his wife that he is being interviewed for a higher-paid position at work.
Release Date1970-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Swindler
Teacher Alec Waterman is released from jail after a sentence for fraud. Dick Sothers gets him a job with Lucas Builders but when Alec starts to make new friends he becomes trapped between his old life and his new life.
Release Date1963-12-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Stumbling Block
Alfred decides to move with the times and improve his family business. However, he finds that it's bad enough to be up against strong-minded relations without the biggest stumbling block of all - his own stupid, but well-meaning, son.
Release Date1972-12-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Left Overs
A blossoming friendship between a businessman and one of his flatmate's ex-girlfriends is challenged when she answers a phone call and inadvertently reveals to his boss that he has been fraudulently claiming expenses.
Release Date1972-08-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Cult of Doomwatch
With new interviews with the actors and production team, this documentary reveals the inspiration for stories, outlines how the team knew they were upsetting the government and big business, and explains why Robert Powell left at the height of its popularity.
Release Date2006-11-21