John Bowen (Writer)
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Works
Freedom to Love
A sex education film dedicated to all forms of human sexuality.
Release Date1969-08-29
Charactersd Self
Vote Count14
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 Date1996-01-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count11
Vote Count17
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 Date1971-12-24
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Heil Caesar
The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
Release Date1973-11-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Bedtime Stories
Modern-day interpretation of fairy tales, with a contemporary, darker twist.
Release Date1974-03-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Brief Encounter
Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.
Release Date1974-11-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
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 Date1986-01-12
DepartmentWriting
JobNovel
Vote Count1
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 Date1973-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Dying Day
A lonely man with punctilious habits listens to a tape cassette of ambient barroom sounds, which include the hushed tones of two men plotting to kill him; but when a policeman listens, all the sounds are there except those of the two men. Later, Skipling receives an unwanted visit from a doctor and a welcome visit from his "befriender
Release Date1980-02-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Photograph
A man's life is turned upside down when he receives a mysterious photograph in the post.
Release Date1977-03-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Robin Redbreast
After the break-up of a long-term relationship, urban sophisticate Norah seeks refuge in a remote house in the country.
Release Date1970-12-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count15
Hands
Pam receives an unusual birthday present from her 23 year old daughter, `The Nationwide Study of Female Sexuality'.
Release Date1980-08-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
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 Date1974-12-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count13
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 Date1978-12-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
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 Date1980-07-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date1980-07-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
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 Date1980-08-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
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 Date1978-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date1980-08-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
A Dog's Ransom
A quiet, middle-aged couple living in Chelsea start to receive threatening letters through the post - and then things take a sinister turn as their beloved poodle, Tina, is kidnapped. A smart young copper from the local force decides to investigate -
Release Date1978-03-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date1981-01-18
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
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 Date1980-07-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer