William Ivory

William Ivory is a writer and actor from Nottinghamshire. As a writer he is best known for his 90s drama series Common as Muck and the film Made in Dagenham. As an actor, he is best known for Resnick and Coronation Street.

Works

All Creatures Great and Small

The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

Release Date1978-01-08

Charactersd Harold Peart

Episode Count1

Vote Count48

Made in Dagenham

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.

Release Date2010-10-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Reporter 2

Vote Count328

Night Flight

Night Flight was a powerful drama set in 1943 and the present telling the story of two World War II veterans. Harry Peters piloted a Lancaster bomber at just 20. His now middle-class world is thrown into disarray when former comrade Vic Green lands. A tale of secrets, scandal and corruption based on ghosts as yet not laid to rest.

Release Date2002-02-02

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Keys Sergeant

Vote Count1

Resnick: Rough Treatment

A kilo of cocaine. Hardly what two small-time crooks were expecting to find when they broke into TV director Harold Roy's shabby mansion. But nor was Harold's frustrated wife expecting to fall in love with one of the intruders. Now she's going to make a deal with him - for both her husband and the drugs. But the precious powder belongs to someone else. And he wants it back. So if he feels he's been double-crossed, there's no telling what might happen. Detective Inspector Resnick has a hunch that there's more to this story than meets the eye. And as his investigations lead him down the mean streets of the TV industry and an inner-city drugs ring, it's obvious that more than one person is dancing on thin ice.

Release Date1993-07-25

Charactersd DC Mark Divine

Care

A man struggles to piece together his life after suffering years of abuse in a children's home - a personal battle made doubly difficult by crusading reporters determined to expose the scandal.

Release Date2000-10-08

Charactersd DS Devlin

Vote Count7

Resnick: Lonely Hearts

Shirley Peters is dead. Murdered. Her body is found twelve hours later in her own home. Just one of the many sordid domestic crimes hitting the city. Tony Macliesh, her rejected boyfriend, is the obvious prime suspect and he’s just been picked off the Aberdeen train and put straight into custody. But then another woman is sexually abused and throttled to death. And suddenly there appears to be one too many connections between these seemingly unrelated crimes. Detective Inspector Resnick is sure that the two murders are the work of one sadistic killer – two lonely hearts broken by one maniac. And it’s up to Resnick to put the record straight – and put the bastard where he belongs

Release Date1992-03-31

Charactersd DC Mark Divine

Ice Dance

A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.

Release Date1989-03-12

Charactersd Lad in Disco

The Merrihill Millionaires

They were a top team - five miners who together had mined a million tons of coal but now they must face up to redundancy.

Release Date1993-09-23

Charactersd Ken Ashton

King Leek

A comic tale of competitive leek growing in the north of England, where the stakes are high and the tactics are dirty. Vegetable mad Malcolm has just one ambition in life - to grow the biggest leek in the region. But will he be crowned 'King Leek'?

Release Date1997-09-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Teacher

Deptford Graffiti

George, wheelchair and hospital bound, is released by Cherry and a group of Hell's Angels.

Release Date1991-02-16

Charactersd Ted

Vote Count4

Sardines

Davy Kotowski is a petty officer aboard submarine HMS Wolverine. Following a rigged arm-wrestling contest, half the crew are in slings. Kotowski is then brought before the Captain, Alec McCleod for the ninth time. He is sentenced to denial of shore leave and 20 hours laundry duty, most of which he delegates to his bunkmate Chris Cheese. Kotowski then plots his revenge on Lionel Pinner and Cheese ends up having a £100 grudge darts match with Pinner on Kotowski's behalf. Meanwhile McCleod's watch has gone missing.

Release Date1995-07-24

Charactersd Chris Cheese

Whiskers and Jane

A middle-aged ex rocker realises he must put the magic back into his relationship, or risk losing his partner for good.

Release Date2017-01-01

Charactersd Keith Salt

Minder

Roguish comedy drama following the misadventures of small-time crook Arthur Daley.

Release Date1979-10-29

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count28

Common As Muck

Common As Muck is a gritty BBC comedy drama serial focusing on the lives of a crew of bin men and their management staff. It ran for two series. The first series was screened in 1994 and the second in 1997. Both were nominated for a BAFTA for Best Drama.

Release Date1994-09-07

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Episode Count12

Vote Count8

The Sins

Len Green is a former bank robber and getaway driver who has retired from the criminal life and joined the undertakers run by his uncle. However, his resolve to stay out of the criminal world is tested by temptations based on the seven deadly sins.

Release Date2000-10-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count7

Vote Count2

Women in Love

Powerful adaptation of DH Lawrence's novels The Rainbow and Women in Love, focusing on the lives of two sisters as they struggle with love, passion and commitment in the build-up to WWI.

Release Date2011-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count10

The Great Escaper

In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Release Date2023-10-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count166

A Thing Called Love

A Thing Called Love is a six-part 2004 British television drama serial set in Nottingham. Hopeless romantic Gary Scant, a decorator from Nottingham, is on a quest to find real love. Close to his friends and family, and happy with this long-term girlfriend Melanie, life seems almost perfect. But when a night out with the lads takes an unexpected turn, he soon realises that the path of true love does not run smoothly.

Release Date2004-09-28

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count3

Truckers

Funny, moving and at times painful - Truckers tells stories of real life, ordinary people pushed to extremes. In each episode, one character undertakes a journey and we are along for the ride. In an age when technology would make us seem ever more connected, the series uses the truck driver, alone in his cab, as a way to explore how isolated we can become within modern society and the importance of real human connection. These are powerful, moving stories, but the tone is always joyous and each story is one of redemption.

Release Date2013-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count2

Isolation Stories

A series of four short dramas depicting life in lockdown. Each episode will be 15 minutes in duration and will reflect what families are going through after weeks of isolation. The series will be filmed observing the strict rules of lockdown with actors and their families filming the scenes themselves watched remotely by the directors. Each of the directors — Paul Whittington, Paul Andrew Williams, Louise Hooper and David Blair — will be watching footage via their mobile phones and giving advice to the actors and their family members about camera positioning, scene composition and lighting as they record the scenes.

Release Date2020-05-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count4

Burton and Taylor

Legendary acting duo and married couple Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor prepare for a 1983 theatrical production of the play "Private Lives."

Release Date2013-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count58

Torvill & Dean

Biopic of the British ice dancers and British, European, Olympic and World champions, Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean.

Release Date2018-12-25

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count9

The Closer You Get

Irish lads send an ad to the Miami Herald inviting fit and enticing women, between the ages of 20 and 21, to live in their isolated Donegal village. The whole town knows about the ad, and it sharpens everyone's sense of the opportunities for happiness already at hand. Kate, a publican with a young daughter, is separating from her husband and catches the eye of a bachelor sheep farmer. Kieran the butcher realizes that his assistant Siobhan is comely, and then he discovers she's fiery as well. Ollie sends off for Dutch skin magazines that the village postmistress won't release to him. The men, and women, find counsel in their movie-loving priest. Will anyone answer the ad?

Release Date2000-12-27

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count13

Bert & Dickie

Thrown together just five weeks before the final of the 1948 London Olympics, Bert Bushnell (Doctor Who's Matt Smith) and Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare) defied all the odds and made history in the double sculls. This is the story of how they did it - not only by pushing physical and emotional limits, but also by overcoming their vast professional and personal differences.

Release Date2012-07-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count5

Faith

A gripping story of love, deceit, betrayal and survival set against the backdrop of the Miners' Strike of 1984-85. Michelle is married to Gary, a young miner who goes on strike as soon as the dispute between the Thatcher government and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) begins. Meanwhile, her sister Linda's husband Paul is a local policeman. Paul becomes more and more voluble in his opposition to the strike, while Linda looks around her and witnesses the women of her community suddenly find a voice and independence. The scene is set for political and personal conflicts which would change their lives forever.

Release Date2005-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Journey to Knock

Journey to Knock humourously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

Release Date1991-09-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1