Neil McKay (Writing)
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Works
The Reckoning
The life of Jimmy Savile, a man who, for decades, became one of the UK’s most influential celebrities, but in death has become one of the most reviled figures of modern history following revelations of extensive and horrific abuse.
Release Date:2023-10-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:17
Four Lives
The true story of the courageous families of four young gay men who lost their lives to killer Stephen Port. Facing police failings, they fought for justice for their loved ones.
Release Date:2022-01-03
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:33
Dream Horse
The inspiring true story of Dream Alliance, an unlikely race horse bred by small town bartender, Jan Vokes. With very little money and no experience, Jan convinces her neighbors to chip in their meager earnings to help raise Dream and compete with the racing elites. Their investment pays off as Dream rises through the ranks and becomes a beacon of hope in their struggling community.
Release Date:2021-05-21
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:126
Isolation Stories
A series of four short dramas depicting life in lockdown. Each episode will be 15 minutes in duration and will reflect what families are going through after weeks of isolation. The series will be filmed observing the strict rules of lockdown with actors and their families filming the scenes themselves watched remotely by the directors. Each of the directors — Paul Whittington, Paul Andrew Williams, Louise Hooper and David Blair — will be watching footage via their mobile phones and giving advice to the actors and their family members about camera positioning, scene composition and lighting as they record the scenes.
Release Date:2020-05-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:4
Vote Count:2
The Moorside
A two-part drama about the search in 2008 for missing Yorkshire schoolgirl Shannon Matthews.
Release Date:2017-02-07
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:22
The Murder in Angel Lane
When Mr. Whicher, a retired policeman, helps a country lady to find her niece, he is drawn into a disturbing case of murder which brings him up against wealthy and powerful figures and throws him into conflict with his former police colleagues.
Release Date:2013-05-12
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:23
Appropriate Adult
The extraordinary story of Gloucester housewife Janet Leach who played a key role in the uncovering of the crimes of Fred and Rosemary West.
Release Date:2011-09-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:44
The Murder at Road Hill House
In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.
Release Date:2011-04-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:48
Mo
A docudrama about the life of the former UK Secretary of state for Northern Ireland, Mo Mowlam.
Release Date:2010-01-31
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:9
See No Evil: The Moors Murders
See No Evil: The Moors Murders is a British two-part television serial directed by Christopher Menaul. It was produced by Granada Television and broadcast on ITV during May 2006. It tells the story of the Moors Murders, which were committed during the 1960s by Myra Hindley and Ian Brady, from the view of Hindley's sister Maureen Smith and her husband David.
Release Date:2006-05-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:37
Titanic: Birth of a Legend
Release Date:2005-05-05
Department:Art
Job:Other
Vote Count:5
Planespotting
Television drama based on a true story about a group of planespotters wrongly accused of being spies. 14 planespotters are arrested for behaving 'suspiciously' at an air base in Greece and are accused of being spies because of the telescopes, radio scanners and aircraft serial numbers they have in their possession. They plead their innocence but the farce turns into a nightmare when the group are held in squalid Greek prisons.
Release Date:2005-02-20
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:1
In Denial of Murder
Dramatisation of the Stephen Downing case which involved the conviction and imprisonment in 1974 of a 17-year-old council worker, Stephen Downing, for the murder of a 32 year old legal secretary, Wendy Sewell, in the town of Bakewell in the Peak District in central England. Following a campaign by a local newspaper, his conviction was overturned in 2002, after Downing had served 27 years in prison. The case is thought to be the longest miscarriage of justice in British legal history, and attracted worldwide media attention.
Release Date:2004-02-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Dunkirk
Major factual drama telling the story of history's greatest maritime evacuation, after the World War II Battle of Dunkirk in May and June 1940.
Release Date:2004-02-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:20
Wall of Silence
The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
Release Date:2004-01-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
The Royal
Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Release Date:2003-01-19
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:9
Hot Money
Three women, Bridget, Liz and Jackie, embark on a plan to steal thousands of pounds of banknotes that were due to be destroyed at the Bank of England's incinerating plant in Essex. Fictionalised account of a real-life case.
Release Date:2001-12-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:3
This Is Personal: The Hunt for the Yorkshire Ripper
Dramatisation of the real-life investigation into the notorious Yorkshire Ripper murders of the late 1970s, showing the effect that it had on the health and career of Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield who led the enquiry.
Release Date:2000-01-26
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:5
Wuthering Heights
Gipsy boy Heathcliffe is adopted by a god-fearing landowner in northern England and grows up as the soul-mate of the daughter, Cathy Earnshaw. When father dies, stern son Hindley returns and bans Heathcliffe to the stables; when they spy upon their upper class neighbors, Edgar Linton sends the dogs upon them and chases Heath but starts an affair -love comes only from him- with her. When Hindley's socialite wife Frances dies in childbirth, he is completely embittered, becomes a drunk unable to care for his son Hareton and has to sell Wuthering Hights- to Heathcliffe. After a misunderstanding Cathy marries Linton, Heath retorts by a loveless match with his sister. Even Cathy's death doesn't stop the cycle of spite, grief and harm so it poisons the next generation's lives as well while she keeps haunting Heathcliffe
Release Date:1998-09-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:28
Maisie Raine
Maisie Raine was a drama series originally broadcast on BBC1 for 2 series from 28 July 1998 – 9 July 1999. Pauline Quirke took the lead role as DI Maisie Raine, an unorthodox detective whose hands on and down to earth approach was not always appreciated by her superiors. When she took on a case, she did it her way, regardless of whose toes she stepped on and who she offended. Each episode would see the team investigating a crime and often uncovering more about the perpetrators and the victims histories with DI Raine often becoming personally involved or bending the rules to get the results she wanted. Also starring alongside Quirke were Ian McElhinney, Steve John Shepherd, Rakie Ayola and Richard Graham.
Release Date:1998-07-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Heartbeat
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Release Date:1992-04-10
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:11
Vote Count:31
Casualty
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
Release Date:1986-09-06
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:80