James MacTaggart (Producer)
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Works
BBC Play of the Month
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Release Date1965-10-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count5
Vote Count7
Theatre 625
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Release Date1964-05-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
The Wednesday Play
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Release Date1964-09-30
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count9
Vote Count4
Churchill's People
Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.
Release Date1974-12-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Akropolis
A performance based on Stanisław Wyspiański’s dramatic epic poem, first presented at Teatr Laboratorium, Wrocław, Poland, October 10, 1962. Filmed in 1968.
Release Date1968-11-11
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
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
The Pistol
A young private with a pistol deals with the aftershock of the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Release Date1965-06-16
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Studio 4
Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.
Release Date1962-01-22
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count4
Vote Count1
Orkney
Three stories reflecting life in the Orkney Islands, two set in the past, and one in the present.
Release Date1971-05-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Alice
In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Dennis Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.
Release Date1965-10-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
The Bond
Newlyweds Chris and Sally are young and attractive, with successful careers and a beautiful home. Their future is rosy. However, trying to make marriage work is not easy.
Release Date1965-12-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Moving On
A soldier faces a court-martial for killing his friend.
Release Date1965-03-24
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Still Waters
A middle-aged couple who are fairly tired of each other go out on a picnic for the day. However, they row, and Maud wanders off and talks to other people she meets. Eventually, the couple come together again, and the day has helped them to understand each other a little better.
Release Date1972-01-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Baby Blues
Lavinia has been yearning and trying for ten years to conceive, and finally gives birth to a live baby. However, she finds that things are not as she dreamed and envisaged, and she suffers from depression after the birth,beginning to have dangerous feelings of love towards her child.
Release Date1973-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Man Friday
Play based on the tale of Robinson Crusoe, examining the relationship between Crusoe and Man Friday, with a new twist by which both characters believe they are teaching the other.
Release Date1972-10-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
First Night
A series of contemporary television dramas by new writers.
Release Date1963-09-22
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Moonstrike
An anthology of self-contained stories about acts of resistance in occupied Europe during the Second World War. Producer Gerard Glaister drew upon his own wartime experiences, having served as a pilot in the RAF.
Release Date1963-02-21
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Tomorrow, Just You Wait
Jimmy is young, earning good money and going out with a smashing girl. What more could a man wish for?
Release Date1965-11-24
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
The Girl Who Loved Robots
Night club girl Victory Ducann is found murdered, the main suspect is an astronaut, but police are prevented from approaching him as he is due to fly off to the Moon.
Release Date1965-10-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Up the Junction
The lives and loves of three young working class women, set in the pubs, terraced houses and factories of Battersea, South London.
Release Date1965-11-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count8
Fable
In Great Britain a reversal of African apartheid comes into place, and the country is governed by black people with whites as the subservients.
Release Date1965-01-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Importance of Being Earnest
Adaptation of the play by Oscar Wilde.
Release Date1974-02-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
All the Way Up
Fred Midway may be a bit short on brains, but he's got plenty of ambition. However, before he can gain promotion as a salesman, he must make his family more socially acceptable.
Release Date1970-06-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
Alice Through the Looking Glass
1973 BBC TV movie adaptation of the book by Lewis Carroll.
Release Date1973-12-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The Bone Yard
Extraordinary things happen at an ordinary police station.
Release Date1964-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Knight in Tarnished Armour
Tom is a working class Scots teenager, but he dreams of much more.
Release Date1965-07-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Moonlight on the Highway
Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
Release Date1969-04-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Three Clear Sundays
Ken Loach production for The Wednesday Play, reflecting contemporary debates surrounding the abolishment of capital punishment.
Release Date1965-04-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Stand Up, Nigel Barton
Semi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which apall him.
Release Date1965-12-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Man in the Sidecar
Examines the relationship between Edith, a famous and successful novelist, and her writer husband, and how her own domestic situation is paralleled in her latest book about a woman enjoying the self-destruction of her husband.
Release Date1971-05-27
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Auto Stop
A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
Release Date1965-04-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Way Off Beat
Arthur Bradshaw is a successful fixer, with plans to start a night club.
Release Date1966-06-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
And Did Those Feet ?
Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.
Release Date1965-06-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The End of Arthur's Marriage
In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.
Release Date1965-11-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count6
Drums Along The Avon
A liberal white man becomes a Muslim to promote racial harmony.
Release Date1967-05-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
A Little Temptation
A writer is having an affair with a married woman and gets embroiled with the other women in her life.
Release Date1965-03-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Duchess of Malfi
The Duchess of Malfi is recently widowed and her greedy brothers are determined she will not marry again, so they employ Daniel De Bosola, a murderer in their pay to spy on her.
Release Date1972-10-10
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Coming Out Party
When a boy discovers that both his parents are in prison, he sets out to find them.
Release Date1965-12-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
A Tap on the Shoulder
Ken's Loach's first production for The Wednesday Play is a story of a group of criminals planning a robbery, with the unwitting aid of a wealthy, well-connected society acquaintance. But who is the greater villain?
Release Date1965-01-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Man Without Papers
Years ago, it was Roscoe who kept his friends alive in a Korean prison camp. Now, he's penniless and without papers in London - will his now-prosperous former friends help him?
Release Date1965-06-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Franchise Trail
Release Date1968-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Portsmouth Defence
Release Date1966-03-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Ashes to Ashes
Barbara is an assertive, clever, liberated woman, her own boss. Who'd think she could be swept off her feet by a handsome stranger for whom she'd give up her career, London, everything? Especially as her new husband maybe wants to kill her.
Release Date1965-02-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Interior Decorator
An interior decorator takes a millionaire's wife on a guided tour of her new home.
Release Date1965-04-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Wear a Very Big Hat
A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Release Date1965-02-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer