Jimmy Nail

Lindisfarne’s Geordie Genius: The Alan Hull Story

Brit Award-winner Sam Fender goes in search of a musical hero from another era - the late, great, Alan Hull of Lindisfarne, in this one-off BBC Four documentary.

Release Date:2021-11-26

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Great North: A Run. A River. A Region.

GREAT NORTH: A RUN. A RIVER. A REGION is a documentary film about the Great North Run, a half marathon from Newcastle to South Shields.

Release Date:2021-09-08

Character:Self

Made in Britain

From the mass produced to the hand crafted, Made in Britain is a behind the scenes look at how Britain's most iconic brands are made.

Release Date:2018-09-25

Character:(Narrator)

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:1

Back With The Boys Again

In September 2013, members of the cast, writers and crew gathered on Tyneside to reminisce and celebrate the show that captured the imagination of a generation and made it trendy to be a Geordie. Back With The Boys Again – The Story of Auf Wiedersehen Pet. Also on this DVD – Previously unseen footage from Sunday for Sammy 2000 featuring Tim Healy, Kevin Whately, Jimmy Nail and Brendan Healy. This sketch was the inspiration for Auf Wiedersehen Pet's return and has never been commercially released.

Release Date:2013-12-01

Character:Himself

Sir Bobby Robson: A Knight to Remember

Sir Bobby Robson was a national and international hero whose roots were firmly planted in the coalfields of North East England. His success was based upon his ability to communicate his passion and enthusiasm to those around him. In what became his final filmed interview he looked back on his childhood in County Durham, his love of music and his phenomenal sporting achievements. He also talks about his final great project, The Sir Bobby Robson Foundation.

Release Date:2009-11-12

Character:Self

Parents of the Band

Parents of the Band is a 2008 British comedy television series, created by Jimmy Nail and Tarquin Gotch and shown on BBC One. The show stars Jimmy Nail, and is set around a teenage musical band, which each band member's parents are trying to manage.

Release Date:2008-11-28

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Phil

Episode Count:6

The 10th Kingdom

Virginia and Tony, a father and daughter living in Manhattan, find themselves in a parallel universe where Snow White, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood are struggling to maintain order. Their kingdoms have been fragmented by trolls, giants and goblins.

Release Date:2000-02-27

Character:Clayface the Goblin

Episode Count:5

Vote Count:242

Still Crazy

In the seventies Strange Fruit were it. They lived the rock lifestyle to the max, groupies, drugs, internal tension and an ex front man dead from an overdose. Even their demise was glamorous; when lightning struck the stage during an outdoor festival. 20 years on and these former rock gods they have now sunk deep into obscurity when the idea of a reunion tour is lodged in the head of Tony, former keyboard player of the Fruits. Tony sets out to find his former bandmates with the help of former manager Karen to see if they can recapture the magic and give themselves a second chance.

Release Date:1998-10-30

Character:Les Wickes

Vote Count:110

Brunch

Release Date:1997-04-06

Episode Count:2

Evita

The hit musical based on the life of Evita Duarte, a B-movie Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president and dictator Juan Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.

Release Date:1996-12-14

Character:Agustín Magaldi

Vote Count:481

TFI Friday

TFI Friday was an entertainment show broadcast on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2000. The show was produced by Ginger Productions, written by Danny Baker and hosted by Chris Evans, for the first 5 series. The final series was hosted by a number of guest presenters. It was broadcast on Fridays at 6pm from 9 February 1996 to 22 December 2000, with a repeat later that night. The title officially stood for "Thank Four It's Friday", but was widely understood to mean "Thank Fuck It's Friday" and was a reference to the popular phrase "Thank God it's Friday". The show's theme tune was Ron Grainer's theme from Man in a Suitcase, in keeping with Evans's frequent use of 1960s television themes in his work.

Release Date:1996-02-09

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:8

Crocodile Shoes

Crocodile Shoes is a British 7-part television series made by the BBC and screened on BBC One in 1994. The series was written by and starred Jimmy Nail as a factory worker who becomes a country and western singer. A sequel, Crocodile Shoes II followed in 1996 and the theme tune "Country Boy" was a hit for Nail too.

Release Date:1994-11-10

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:6

TOTP2

Fast-moving music show mixing classic performances from the Top of the Pops archives with exclusive live performances.

Release Date:1994-09-17

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Spender : The French Collection

Spender Christmas Special: Spender is sent to France to escort Tommy Thornton who has been extradited to the UK.

Release Date:1993-12-29

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Freddie Spender

Live & Kicking

Live & Kicking was a BBC Saturday morning children's magazine programme, running from 1993 to 2001. The fourth in a succession of Saturday morning shows, it was the replacement for Going Live!, and took many of its features from it, such as phone-ins, games, comedy, competitions and the showing of cartoons. Once Live & Kicking had become established in series two, it reached its height in popularity during series four, when it was presented by Zoë Ball and Jamie Theakston; their final episode won a BAFTA award. After this the series ratings dropped with the launch of SMTV Live on ITV and was eventually cancelled in 2001.

Release Date:1993-10-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:6

GMTV

GMTV is the name of the national Channel 3 breakfast television contractor/licensee, broadcasting in the United Kingdom from 1 January 1993 to 3 September 2010. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of ITV plc in November 2009. Shortly after, ITV plc announced the programme would end. The final edition of GMTV was broadcast on 3 September 2010.

Release Date:1993-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:12

Pebble Mill

Pebble Mill was a re-launched version of the 1970s daily chat show Pebble Mill (also known as Pebble Mill At One for a while) which aired on BBC1 in the United Kingdom. The series premiered on October 14, 1991. The show was a mixture of celebrity guests and music. Alan Titchmarsh was a presenter on the show throughout it's complete run. Other presenters included Judi Spiers, Gloria Hunniford and Ross King.

Release Date:1991-10-14

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:4

Spender

Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, but he must also deal with the friends, enemies and family he left behind, and never expected to return to. Sammy Johnson played Spender's sidekick Stick, while Denise Welch played Spender's wife.

Release Date:1991-01-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Spender

Episode Count:21

Vote Count:3

Danny the Champion of the World

Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.

Release Date:1989-04-29

Character:Rabbetts

Vote Count:22

Dream Demon

As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.

Release Date:1988-10-06

Character:Paul

Vote Count:32

Just Ask for Diamond

Thirteen-year-old Nick and his slightly dense older brother Herbert run the Diamond Private Detective Agency above Camden Town Tube Station in north-central London. When a master criminal called The Falcon dies, they come into possession of his box of chocolate Maltesers, which contains the secret key to a fabulous cache of diamonds. Can they unravel the mystery and avoid the clutches of seedy lowlifes Brenda Von Falkenberg, Gott and Himmell, The Fat Man and the dogmatic Chief Inspector Snape, all of whom want to find the swag first.

Release Date:1988-09-01

Character:Boyle

Vote Count:3

Crusoe

Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and he finds himself all alone on a tropical island. With a few tools he manages to rescue from the wreck he has to learn to support himself until help arrives.

Release Date:1988-06-30

Character:Tatik

Vote Count:11

Comic Relief

Release Date:1988-02-05

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:2

Going Live!

Going Live! was a Saturday morning magazine show, broadcast on BBC1 between 1987 and 1993. It was presented by Phillip Schofield and Sarah Greene. Other presenters included Trevor and Simon, Peter Simon, Emma Forbes, and puppet Gordon the Gopher. The show was broadcast during the autumn to spring seasons, with other shows such as the 8:15 from Manchester and Parallel 9 taking over during the summer months. It was preceded by Saturday Superstore, and succeeded by Live & Kicking. In 1988, when the second series started, Greene was hurt in a helicopter crash with her then boyfriend, Mike Smith. Guest presenters stood in for her including T'Pau's Carol Decker. Similarly, in 1992-93 during the final series, Schofield was starring in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and was unable to present the show. A third presenter took his place. Originally, Neighbours actor Kristian Schmid took the role but soon left after problems with his work permit. Various other celebrities to stand in included Shane Richie and Robbie Williams during his Take That days.

Release Date:1987-09-26

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

Sacrée soirée

Release Date:1987-09-02

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Shoot for the Sun

Set in the bleak backdrop of Edinburgh a low level drug dealer strives for making a living and surviving the natural elements of such an environment day to day.

Release Date:1987-03-16

Character:Geordie

Lenny Henry Tonite

Release Date:1986-09-04

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Educating Oz

Educating Oz, is a very rare chapter in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet history. Mostly unseen by many viewers it stars Jimmy Nail as Oz, and Tim Healy as Dennis, Educating Oz, is a short public information film made in 1986 to highlight the issue of AIDS and how important it is to practice safe sex, using the characters of the popular TV series.

Release Date:1986-01-01

Character:Oz

Howling II: Stirba - Werewolf Bitch

When a young journalist dies in violent circumstances, her brother soon learns, by way of the mysterious Stefan Crosscoe, that his sister has succumbed to the werewolf curse.

Release Date:1985-08-28

Character:Punk

Vote Count:204

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

The story of Raoul Wallenberg, a Swedish diplomat responsible for saving thousands of lives from the Nazi Holocaust.

Release Date:1985-04-07

Character:Vilmos

Vote Count:1

Morons from Outer Space

The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by...

Release Date:1985-03-29

Character:Desmond Brock

Vote Count:42

Blott on the Landscape

A thwarted Lady Maud runs off to her solicitor to start divorce proceedings and that gives Sir Giles his bright idea-why not run the proposed bypass for the area through their very own Cleene Gorge, thereby wrecking Lady Maud's ancestral home and copping rather a lot of compensation from the government to boot? Witness the frolics of the bumbling dundridge - the Y-front clad man from the ministry, Sir Giles' versatile Mrs Forthby - Mediterranean harlot and naughty schoolgirl extraordinaire, not forgetting Blott himself, gardener and mystery man, casting his enigmatic eye over the eccentricities of the great British aristocracy... Starring, George Cole, Geraldine James, David Suchet, Simon Cadell and Julia McKenzie

Release Date:1985-02-06

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

Auf Wiedersehen, Pet

Seven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.

Release Date:1983-11-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Leonard 'Oz' Osborne

Episode Count:38

Vote Count:34

Crocodile Shoes II

Crocodile Shoes II is a British six part television series made by the BBC and screened on BBC One in 1996. The follow-up to Crocodile Shoes, it was written by Jimmy Nail with Nick Mead as script associate. Where Crocodile Shoes followed Jed Shepperd on his journey from Newcastle to Nashville and all the way back, Crocodile Shoes II showed Jed trying to prove he didn't kill his manager Ade Lynn. During Crocodile Shoes II Shepperd was also sent to prison, became engaged to Wendy and was nearly killed in an accident.

Department:Creator

Job:Creator

Vote Count:1

Aspel & Company

Release Date:1984-06-09

Episode Count:1

Spyship

When an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor is determined to find out why.

Release Date:1983-11-09

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Wogan

Chat show hosted by Terry Wogan, featuring live studio interviews with famous and notable personalities.

Release Date:1982-05-04

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:6

Minder

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.

Release Date:1979-10-29

Character:Nathan Loveridge

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:24

Top of the Pops

The biggest stars, the most iconic performances, the most outrageous outfits – it’s Britain’s number one pop show.

Release Date:1964-01-01

Character:Self

Episode Count:12

Vote Count:42