Tony Marchant
Tony Marchant is a British playwright and television dramatist.
Works
Lovejoy
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Release Date1986-01-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count51
Garrow's Law
The true tale of pioneering 18th century barrister William Garrow, who acted as counsel for the accused, introducing the concept of 'innocent until proved guilty' at London's Old Bailey.
Release Date2009-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count8
Holding On
The lives of a seemingly unconnected group of Londoners are strangely affected by the murder of a young woman. While some are able to take a newfound hope from the remains of the tragedy, others, including food critic Gary Rickey, simply watch on as despair begins to unravel in the light of the aftermath.
Release Date1997-09-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count1
Leaving
A bond between a troubled 25-year-old Aaron Simmons and Julie Ranmore a 44-year-old mother of two, whose marriage has lost all passion, has profound implications for both.
Release Date2012-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count12
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Release Date1999-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count20
The Secret Agent
London, 1886. Unbeknownst to his loyal wife Winnie, Verloc, a Soho store owner, works as a secret agent for a powerful foreign government.
Release Date2016-07-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count13
Public Enemies
Public Enemies explores the relationship between 28-year-old Eddie, recently released on life licence from prison after serving 10 years, and his probation officer, Paula, returning from suspension following a shocking crime committed by an offender under her supervision.
Release Date2012-01-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count5
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr. Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Release Date1999-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Butterfly
From a young age, 11-year-old, Max, has identified as a girl and as puberty looms, she begins to present increasing signs of gender variance. When Max was eight, her father, Stephen, left the family home. But as Max’s conviction that she’s in the wrong body intensifies, her distress escalates, and Stephen seizes the opportunity to return to live at the family home and support his daughter.
Release Date2018-10-14
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count19
The Mark of Cain
After a bomb kills their company commander in Iraq, British soldiers Treacle and Shane are ordered to round up suspects and use torture on the detainees. Back home, the press gets the story and the pair achieves instant infamy.
Release Date2007-10-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count37
Diverted
On September 11th, 2001, 38 planes headed to New York City were diverted to Gander, Newfoundland, Canada. A town of 9,000 took in 7,000 passengers for 4 days until American airspace reopened.
Release Date2009-03-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count7
Passer By
Joe Keyes ignores a woman in distress in his rush to get home to his family. His decision to remain a passer-by has terrible consequences.
Release Date2004-03-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Death of a Son
The true story of Pauline Williams, who struggled to bring the people who supplied her son with the illegal drugs that caused his death to justice.
Release Date1989-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Never Never
John Parlour and Jo Weller form a credit union but John's predatory lending scheme threatens both the poor residents of a London council estate and their own business.
Release Date2000-11-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Different for Girls
Paul and Kim meet when their vehicles collide. Paul is fascinated with the attractive Kim. It turns out that the two were childhood friends in Catholic boys' school, but back then, before the operation, Kim was named Karl.
Release Date1996-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count37
Crime and Punishment
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess.
Release Date2002-02-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
The Moneymen
Drama about the world of deregulated financial trading in the City of London during the Thatcher era.
Release Date1988-07-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Recovery
Alan and Tricia Hamilton are blissfully happy. Until one day their perfect life is torn apart when Alan steps in front of a passing car, and he is left with a brain injury that completely transforms his personality.
Release Date2007-02-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count[ 3 ]
Vote Count21
Goodbye Cruel World
Goodbye Cruel World is a 1992 British miniseries starring Sue Johnston, Alun Armstrong and Brenda Bruce. The three-part series was aired on BBC One during January 1992 and was aired again in summer 1993. Johnston played the character of Barbara Grade, a woman who is diagnosed with a terminal degenerative illness, and the series focused on how Barbara and her family and friends deal with her worsening condition. It was written by Tony Marchant and directed by Adrian Shergold and was nominated for Best Drama at the 1993 British Academy Television Awards.
Release Date1992-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count1
Speaking In Tongues
Tony Marchant's eloquent and painful play about the changes to how people are employed, and what that does to their sense of self.
Release Date1994-07-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Reservations
Linda: When are we going? Gary: Next Friday. Linda: Have you booked? Gary: It's called making a reservation. Linda: I feel excited Gal. My stomach feels all funny. Gary: If it feels funny now, wait till next Friday ...
Release Date1985-09-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
This Year's Model
'Look, I'm not being horrible or nothing, Sadie, but all you've got is a body. You've got to make the most of it. It's not enough just to like the idea of being a model. You've got to be businesslike about it.' How does 16-year-old Sadie react to her friend Mary's advice? Where - in the glamour model world - will she end up?
Release Date1987-12-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Attractions
When Danny, 'one of Maggie's wandering minstrels', visits a seaside horror museum, he is rather disappointed. 'It's all about victims. Now people are interested in who done it, not who it got done to ...' So begins a process of disintegration which culminates in a new type of exhibit, 'an attraction' for the modern age.
Release Date1989-07-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Remembers…
What are the secrets of our favourite TV shows? Famous names from both sides of the camera reflect on making some of the most popular and influential programmes of all time.
Release Date2022-06-29
Episode Count1
Tony Marchant Remembers... Take Me Home
Writer Tony Marchant looks back on his 1989 drama Take Me Home, a troubled love story set amidst a political backdrop of changing attitudes, technological advances and residential development.
Release Date2025-04-02