John Bowen (Writing)

Hetty Wainthropp Investigates

Instead of spending her golden years lying down, the indomitable Hetty Wainthropp found her calling late in life. Combining common sense, her husband, and her pocketbook, this senior sleuth takes on all the cases the police deem too minor.

Release Date: 1996-01-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 16

The McGuffin

Paul Hatcher has a habit of spying on the neighbors across the way, something that gets him into deep trouble. Hatcher is a movie critic, and for awhile it looks like his main problem is keeping reality and the silver screen separate. But then a double murder occurs across the street after some mobsters cannot find an incriminating negative. After Hatcher discovers where the negative is hidden, he is bumped to the top on the assassins' hit list.

Release Date: 1986-01-12

Department: Writing

Job: Novel

Vote Count: 1

Dark Secret

An ex-scientist has prepared a report on a carcinogenic baby milk formula. She now runs a restaurant in the Cotswolds. The management of the manufacturer despatches an undercover operative to silence her.

Release Date: 1981-01-18

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

One Chance in Four

Play which examines the conflict between the generations of a Greek-Cypriot family. Dimitri and Trulla are to be married. All seems well for the newly-weds, but there is a mystery surrounding Trulla's cousin Janni. An element of the play concerns the genetically-inherited disease thalassaemia. One effect of the disease is that survivors continue to have the appearance of 14-year-olds, even in their 20s. Due to the impossibility of simulating this, thalassaemic patients take part in the play.

Release Date: 1980-08-26

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Hands

Pam receives an unusual birthday present from her 23 year old daughter, `The Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality'.

Release Date: 1980-08-20

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Kiss and Tell

Quin and Sophie are happily married but haven't been abroad since their honeymoon. When Quin is sent to Paris on business he finds the experience unsettling - and decides to look up an old flame.

Release Date: 1980-08-05

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Looking for Vicky

A woman is alone in an isolated house. She receives constant phone calls for Vicky, but she doesn't know who Vicky can be.

Release Date: 1980-07-29

Department: Production

Job: Producer

Lindsey

Mary and Barry Case's second child, Lindsey, has spina bifida. They must decide whether to allow an operation which would save her life but leave her permanently crippled, or leave her fate to nature.

Release Date: 1980-07-22

Department: Production

Job: Producer

The Specialist

A small boy runs away from home for no apparent reason. The police find his body in London having died of exposure. Why did he leave home?

Release Date: 1980-07-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Ice House

After his wife leaves him, Paul seeks solace at a sophisticated health spa run by a pair of sinister siblings. Strangely attracted by the scent of a vine that grows on the old ice house in the spa's grounds, Paul is drawn ever deeper into a horrifying mystery.

Release Date: 1978-12-24

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 10

Armchair Thriller – Rachel in Danger

A political assassin murders a man and assumes his identity, not knowing that the man’s estranged daughter is coming by train to meet him that afternoon.

Release Date: 1978-02-21

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

A Photograph

A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.

Release Date: 1977-03-22

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

The Treasure of Abbot Thomas

The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an abbey library. While studying a stained glass window, they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced abbot.

Release Date: 1974-12-23

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 12

Brief Encounter

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

Release Date: 1974-11-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 11

Bedtime Stories

Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.

Release Date: 1974-03-03

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

The Emergency Channel

Dean has a rare talent. He can be made happy. He exudes happiness and confidence like a rare blossom. Both Sarah in the past, and Julia now, could do this for him. But where are they now that he is alone in Battersea Park with two suitcases and no memory?

Release Date: 1973-11-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Dead of Night: A Woman Sobbing

Jane is an discontented middle-class wife and mother. One night in her bedroom she hears a woman crying, though her husband hears nothing. Is it a symptom of her depression or is her home haunted? In her attempts to discover the truth she becomes increasingly paranoid.

Release Date: 1972-12-17

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

A Ghost Story for Christmas

A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.

Release Date: 1971-12-24

Department: Writing

Job: Adaptation

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 5

Robin Redbreast

After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country.

Release Date: 1970-12-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 15

Freedom to Love

It is a sex education film of sorts dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.

Release Date: 1969-08-29

Character: John Bowen

Vote Count: 13