David Joss Buckley was born on June 17, 1948 in Leicester, Leicestershire, England as David Ian Buckley. He is a writer and actor, known for Emmerdale (1972), Down to Earth (2000) and A Mind to Kill (1994). He has been married to Mary Winifred Jones since May 24, 1973. They have three children.
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Release Date1977-12-30
Charactersd Devlin
Episode Count1
Vote Count43
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
Release Date1980-04-11
Charactersd First Policeman
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
A a serial in ten parts on the lives of one of the most intriguing families in history.
Release Date1981-10-14
Charactersd Giovanni Orsini
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.
Release Date1986-01-14
Charactersd James Karadia
Episode Count1
Vote Count13
Four girls share a flat together in London. Having nothing in common aside from their gender, they barely manage to co-exist.
Release Date1985-10-23
Charactersd Mario
Episode Count1
Vote Count6
Rock Follies, and its sequel, Rock Follies of '77, was a musical drama shown on British television in the 1970s. The storyline, over 12 episodes and two series, followed the ups and downs of a fictional female rock band called the "Little Ladies" as they struggled for recognition and success. The series starred Rula Lenska, Charlotte Cornwell and Julie Covington as the Little Ladies, with support from Emlyn Price, Beth Porter, Sue Jones-Davies, Stephen Moore and Little Nell among others. The series was made with a very low budget for Thames Television, with a style inspired by fringe theatre. The series was a success, winning three BAFTA Awards and the soundtrack album reaching No.1 in the UK Charts.
Release Date1976-02-24
Charactersd Chris
Episode Count4
Vote Count4
A 12 hours miniseries adapted from Anthony Burgess's novel The Kingdom of the Wicked.
Release Date1985-03-31
Charactersd Matthew
Episode Count4
Vote Count11
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
Release Date1982-11-12
Charactersd Mr. Porringer
Vote Count241
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 Date1985-03-29
Charactersd TV Presenter
Vote Count43
A Quintet Film in association with the National Theatre
Release Date1984-12-27
DepartmentSound
JobMusic
Charactersd Chibiabos
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 Date1986-09-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count13
Vote Count83
Down to Earth was a BBC One television series first broadcast in 2000 about a couple who start a new life on a Devon farm. The early episodes of the series were based on a series of books written by Faith Addis about their real-life move from London to Devon. The music in the series was composed by Sheridan Tongue, and had the song "After All this Time" as its opening and closing credits in series 2 and 3.
Release Date2000-08-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Tom Mathias comes to Aberystwyth having abandoned his life in London. He's a brilliant but troubled man. Despite his faults he is an excellent detective, who knows that the key to solving the crime lies not in where you look for truth, but how you look.
Release Date2013-10-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count91
Two young Finnish women in London are drawn inexorably together via the Studio - a clandestine group dedicated to bringing justice to those beyond the law. But, as their battle against exploitation, violence and corporate greed intensifies, will the Studio's ends continue to justify its means?
Release Date2020-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count7
Comedy-drama series about a woman looking for Mr.Right.
Release Date1999-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count5
Satellite City was a Welsh sitcom which started out originally as a radio show on BBC Radio Wales in 1994 and then evolved into a TV version made by BBC Wales and was first broadcast in 1996. The setting was an imaginary small town in the South Wales Valleys. The plot centred on the arrival of Randy, an American visitor, who was taken in by the Price family
Release Date1996-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobStory Consultant
Episode Count5
Spatz is a children's comedy series that ran on CITV during the 1990s, produced by Thames Television and created by Andrew Bethell. The show originally ran from 21 February 1990 to 10 April 1992. The show centred around a fast food restaurant situated in a fictional shopping mall in Cricklewood, London. It was operated by two Canadians, Karen Hansson, Spatz International's European Co-ordinator, and Thomas "TJ" Strickland, the restaurant's manager. Vas Blackwood, Stephanie Charles, Jonathan Copestake, Sue Devaney, Joe Greco, Katy Murphy and Ling Tai appeared as Spatz restaurant employees. Guest stars included David Harewood, Rhys Ifans, Gary Lineker, Danny John-Jules and Nicholas Parsons.
Release Date1990-02-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
A Mind to Kill is a police detective series set in Wales, UK. It was developed from a 1991 pilot which starred Philip Madoc as DCI Bain, and Hywel Bennett. The series ran from 1994 to 2004 and first aired as Yr Heliwr on S4C, the Welsh language TV channel, before being broadcast on the UK Network channel, Channel 5. The series was filmed in English and in Welsh, with each scene being shot first in one language and then in the other. It has since been dubbed into more than a dozen languages and shown all over the world. The 21 episodes have been divided into 3 series which are now available on DVD. The pilot episode is also available on DVD.
Release Date1994-11-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Brought together by professional and personal heartache, two plucky ladies plant the seeds for a brighter future. Rosemary Boxer, with a doctorate in plant pathology, and Laura Thyme, a former police constable and avid gardener, discover their shared love of green-thumbness and start a gardening business. As they restore various English gardens back to their lavish states, the inquisitive pair also find themselves uncovering an assortment of mysteries.
Release Date2003-08-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count26
Thief Takers was a police drama series made by Central Independent Television for the ITV network. The show depicted the work of a team in the Metropolitan Police Service's Flying Squad. Each case was a stand alone episode or sometimes spread over two episodes and continuing drama was provided by the depiction of the personal lives of the officers in the team and their families. Production comprised a pilot aired in 1995 followed by the commissioning of three series between 1996 and 1997.
Release Date1996-01-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
