Roger Marshall (Writer)
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Works
The Avengers
A quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners. Jonathan Steed - an urbane, proper gentleman spy - teams with various assistants throughout the series' run, including Dr. David Keel, Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King, to repeatedly save the world from diabolical schemes plotted by equally diabolical evil-doers (among them robots and man-eating monsters).
Release Date1961-01-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count145
The Professionals
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count44
The Sweeney
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
Release Date1975-01-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count25
Van der Valk
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
Release Date1972-09-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count9
Lovejoy
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Release Date1986-01-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count51
Dempsey and Makepeace
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
Release Date1985-01-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count28
Public Eye
Public Eye is a British television series that ran from 1965 to 1975. It was produced by ABC Television for three series, and Thames Television for a further four series. The series depicted the investigations and cases handled by the unglamorous enquiry agent Frank Marker, an unmarried loner who is in his early forties when the series begins. In the words of an ABC trailer for the third series: "Marker isn't a glamorous detective and he doesn't get glamorous cases—he doesn't even get glamorous girls. What he does get is people who are in trouble—the sort of trouble you can't go to the police about, even if you are innocent."
Release Date1965-01-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count5
Five to One
Alan Roper tells Bookie Larry Hart that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him. What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal.
Release Date1963-12-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Target
A crime drama set in Southampton following a team of detectives and the cases they solve.
Release Date1977-09-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
What Became of Jack and Jill?
Two young people plot to get their hands on grannie's money, but rather than simply pushing her down the stairs they hatch an elaborate plot to convince her that radical youth have taken over England are planning to do away with "oldies" like her.
Release Date1972-06-16
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count9
Survivors
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
Release Date1975-04-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count22
The Mask of Janus
In the fictional European country of Amalia, the political interests of the British, American and Communist espionage communities are explored. Eschewing the action formula of its ITV contemporaries, the series dealt more politically oriented plots such as defections to the west, awakening "sleeper" agents and the leaking of official secrets.
Release Date1965-10-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Hello-Goodbye
A car salesman journeys to France and encounters an apparently lonely woman. He immediately begins to successfully woo her only to learn that she is actually a baron's wife. Fortunately, the baron believes in open marriages and winds up hiring the Englishman to teach his son (from an earlier marriage) everything about automobiles. Meanwhile the car salesman finds himself falling seriously in love with the wife. The baron really doesn't mind as he himself is involved with another.
Release Date1970-07-12
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count11
Shadows of Fear
Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people.
Release Date1970-06-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
Shadows
Shadows is a British Supernatural television anthology series produced by Thames Television for ITV between 1975 and 1978. Extending over three seasons, it featured ghost and horror dramas for children. Guest actors included John Nettleton, Gareth Thomas, Jenny Agutter, Pauline Quirke, Brian Glover, June Brown, Rachel Herbert, Jacqueline Pearce and Gwyneth Strong. The series was also notable for reviving the character of Mr. Stabs. Notable writers for the series included J. B. Priestley, Fay Weldon and PJ Hammond.
Release Date1975-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
The Set Up
Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a curious proposition. Arthur should participate in a fake robbery and remove some imitation jewellery from the stranger's own safe.
Release Date1963-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Who Was Maddox?
A publisher is nearly framed for murder, but he appears to have been goaded by the blackmailer who has also blackmailed the publisher's wife.
Release Date1964-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Invasion
Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His fabulous tale of being an escaped prisoner from an alien spaceship takes a turn for the sinister when the hospital staff realise that they're under a state of siege...
Release Date1965-10-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count13
The Man Outside
Bill MacLean is a former CIA agent living in London. He had been fired when he stuck up for one of the men in his command who turned out to be branded a Russian defector. The embittered ex-agent combines forces with another operative to deliver a top Russian secret police official for a price. Before he can deliver the Russian, a trail of corpses and double crosses changes his plans. When his partner who concocted the scheme is murdered, MacLean returns the check to the CIA. They offer him his old job back, but the proud man refuses.
Release Date1967-08-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Mitch
Mitch is a newspaper reporter with a difference, he cares about the people he reports.
Release Date1984-08-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count1
Special Branch
Special Branch is a British police drama centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police.
Release Date1969-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Ricochet
Solicitor Alan Phipps formulates a plan to blackmail his wealthy and unfaithful wife, Yvonne, and at the same time, get revenge against her boyfriend, John Brodie, by setting him up to appear that he is the blackmailer and for Yvonne to kill him.
Release Date1963-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count2
Game for Three Losers
A politician is set up by his secretary and blackmailed by her brother.
Release Date1965-04-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Zodiac
Zodiac was a six-part series transmitted by ITV in 1974. Starring Anton Rogers and Anouska Hempel as cynical detective David Gradley and his astrologer associate Esther Jones, the unusual astrological premise set this show apart from the humdrum detective dramas of the time. Little seen since its original broadcast, the series has garnered something of a cult status.
Release Date1974-02-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Attack Force Z
Sent to rescue survivors from the site of a plane crash in the South Pacific during WWII, Captain Kelly and his elite squad of Australian commandos must keep tabs on a defecting Japanese official who could hold the secret to peace.
Release Date1982-06-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count65
Twisted Nerve
Martin Durnley is a young man with an infantilizing mother, resentful stepfather and an institutionalized brother with Down's syndrome. To cope, he retreats into an alternate child personality he calls Georgie. After being caught during a theft attempt at a department store, he befriends a female customer who is sympathetic to him, but his friendship soon turns into obsession.
Release Date1968-12-20
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count57
Floodtide
Floodtide is a British television crime drama was produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on ITV from 14 June 1987 to 12 February 1988. The series focuses on a dogged inspector's pursuit of a group of cocaine smugglers across Europe and his bid to bring them to justice. A total of thirteen episodes aired over the course of nine months. Co-produced and partly filmed in France, it was one of the first ITV dramas to be co-produced with an international production company. Written by acclaimed The Sweeney scriptwriter Roger Marshall, the series was released on DVD by Network DVD for the first time on 19 July 2010. Although further series of the programme were planned, lead actor Phillip Sayer was diagnosed with cancer in 1988 and eventually died in 1989. Marshall concluded that it would be wrong to re-cast the part and instead decided to bring the series to a natural close.
Release Date1987-06-14
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Theatre of Death
The Theatre of Death in Paris specialises in horror presentations. A police surgeon finds himself becoming involved in the place through his attraction to one of the performers. When bloodless bodies start showing up all over town he realises there could be links with the theatre.
Release Date1967-07-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count24
And Now the Screaming Starts!
In the late 18th century, two newlyweds move into the stately mansion of the Fengriffen family. The young bride is victim of terrifying visions and apparitions, threatening her very sanity. A London psychiatrist comes to her help and uncovers the terrible secret that haunts the estate.
Release Date1973-04-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count66
Missing from Home
A middle-aged housewife and mother of two has to cope alone when her husband disappears.
Release Date1984-03-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count1
Whatever Became of Me?
Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?
Release Date1972-08-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Wednesday's Child
A doctor takes an attractive nurse into his home to help his wife through her convalescence.
Release Date1970-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Busman's Holiday
A Scottish bus driver takes a holiday up the length of Scotland - by bus.
Release Date1959-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Solo for Sparrow
A group of crooks accidentally kill an elderly shop assistant while stealing the keys to the jewellery shop where she works. When his superiors think that the case is better handed over to Scotland Yard, the local detective inspector, Sparrow, decides to go solo to investigate the crime himself.
Release Date1962-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Where Is Betty Buchus?
A man returns home from a business trip to find his wife is gone. He assumes she's left him after years of rowing and affairs but everyone else seems to be convinced that he's killed her.
Release Date1982-12-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
A Prize of Arms
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
Release Date1962-12-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
Two Letter Alibi
Charles Hilary is in love with Kathy Forrester, a beautiful television personality, but is married to Louise, an alcoholic with as many lovers as whisky bottles. His pleas for a divorce are met with threats and abuse. "You'll have to murder me first", Louise tells him and three hours later she is found dead, shot with her husband's pistol. When Charles is arrested, Kathy desperately sets to work to prove his innocence.
Release Date1962-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1