William Corlett (Writer)

ITV Playhouse

ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

Release Date1967-09-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count3

The Agatha Christie Hour

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

Release Date1982-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count18

Barriers

Teenage Billy Stanyon faces the loss of his parents in a sailing accident, only to discover that he was adopted. Billy then sets off on a journey to find his biological parents that takes him across Europe.

Release Date1981-01-04

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count20

Vote Count2

Love and Marriage

An anthology of six standalone plays presented relationships either beginning or ending in love – but the outcome was not always marriage (or happiness). A second series of five episodes aired in 1986.

Release Date1984-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

Release Date1956-07-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

The Magician's House

Cousins William, Mary, and Alice stay at their uncle's old house, Golden House, and discover a hidden room where they meet Stephen Tyler, a 16th-century magician who has travelled through time. They must help him protect the valley from his wicked apprentice, Matthew Morden, who seeks to disrupt the magical and ecological balance.

Release Date1999-10-31

DepartmentWriting

JobBook

Episode Count12

Vote Count5

Ten from the Twenties

A series of short plays, all originally written in the 1920s.

Release Date1975-06-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Winter Solstice

Release Date2003-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count2

Vote Count1

The Watch House

Anne, miserable and rebellious at her parents' recent separation, finds herself drawn to the Watch House, the home of the Garmouth Life Brigade. Something, or someone, is trying to reach her. But what do they want?

Release Date1988-12-07

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Vote Count2

Moonacre

Moonacre is a 1994 British miniseries loosely based on Elizabeth Goudge's 1946 children's fantasy novel The Little White Horse. Produced and directed by Robin Crichton, and dramatised by William Corlett, the six-part serial stars Camilla Power, Jean Anderson, and Noah Huntley. When Maria Merryweather is orphaned, she must move to Moonacre Manor with her ever-faithful governess, Miss Heliotrope, and her Spaniel, Wiggins. Maria isn't at the Manor long before she discovers that her new home has a tragic past, which she becomes determined to correct.

Release Date1994-04-06

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

The Machine Gunners

During the Second World War, a group of youth in the Northeast England town of Garmouth regularly suffer from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the children raids a crashed German aircraft and takes a fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress. Playing with it causes a German plane to crash-land; the kids befriend the pilot, who is unaware that they had caused him to crash.

Release Date1983-02-23

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count15

Winter Solstice

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

Release Date2003-12-25

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count10

Dreams Lost, Dreams Found

A young American widow is mysteriously drawn to a historic castle in the Scottish Highlands and finds herself at the center of a 200-year old ghost story.

Release Date1987-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

The Gate of Eden: Part One - Mr. Falconer

The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made about him by a pupil. There was still gossip about him in the town. Mr Faulkner teaches Peter a lot about literature and introduces him to poetry and when Peter returns to school the two of them correspond. The friendship between them is threatened when Peter starts going out with Sue who disapproves of him spending time with the old man.

Release Date1980-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Going Back

A remote stone house nestles peacefully on the edge of the Yorkshire moors. In the garden. Faith Armstrong describes the flowers and the late afternoon skies to Jack, her blind husband. "The sun is almost setting. The sky is blue, with ... those little puffy clouds like meringues. There are still leaves on the trees. Oh . quite a few birds are gathering . " All is peaceful. As they talk, a small figure appears walking towards the cottage on the moorland road. Slowly it becomes recognisable as the Armstrong's son David. David's arrival is unexpected. He left home three years ago, and Faith and Jack have heard nothing from him until now. Things at home have changed a lot in those three years. His father has gone blind, and his brother Malcolm is now engaged 'to Heather. David's former girlfriend. The family are curious. Why has David suddenly decided to return home? How long is he staying? Is he in trouble?

Release Date1979-07-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Christmas Tree

A dying woman recalls the happier days of her past.

Release Date1986-12-21

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Vote Count1

The Gate of Eden: Part Two - Sue

Part two of the three-part play by William Corlett about a young man's emergence into the adult world.

Release Date1980-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

The Gate of Eden: Part Three - Peter

Peter feels he has to choose between his friend, Mr Falconer, and his new girlfriend, Sue.

Release Date1980-04-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter