Richard Cooper (known_for_department.creator)

Meridian: The First Year

Fred Dinenage looks back at some of the highlights of Meridian's first year on air.

Release Date1994-01-02

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Shadow of the Noose

Shadow of the Noose is a 1989 BBC One legal drama miniseries starring Jonathan Hyde as real-life English barrister Sir Edward Marshall Hall. The eight-episode serial depicts Marshall Hall's high-profile, controversial cases, earning him the nickname 'The Great Defender', while also exploring his personal struggles, particularly those related to his unhappy first marriage.

Release Date1989-02-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Knights of God

Knights of God was a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by Richard Cooper, who had previously worked in both children's and adult television drama. In 2020, Britain is ruled by the Knights of God, a fascist religious order – founded by the Prior Mordrin – that came to power during a brutal civil war that began in 2000, during which the Royal Family were supposedly all slaughtered by Brother Hugo and the civilian government collapsed, leaving the Knights free to step into the power vacuum.

Release Date1987-09-06

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count13

Vote Count3

Eye of the Storm

A father and daughter's search for a covered-up threat to the environment collides with a malevolent old local woman, her disturbed young boy, and the evil legacy of his seventeenth century alchemist ancestor in a fantastical eco-thriller.

Release Date1993-01-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

Codename Icarus

Codename Icarus is a five-part British television serial produced by the BBC. Combinijg elements of teen drama and Cold War era conspiracy thriller, young prodigy Martin Smith is recruited by the mysterious Icarus Foundation, a shadowy organisation that exploits gifted children to develop advanced weapons, including a 'quark bomb'. The serial was broadcast twice-weekly, on Tuesdays and Wednesdays, from 8-9 December, 15-16 December, and 22 December. It is well remembered for being intelligent and hard-hitting, respectful of its young audience, and tackling complex themes, primarily the militarisation of science.

Release Date1981-12-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count5

Vote Count1

With My Little Eye

Pete sees an old man mugged and recognises the mugger. But if he tells the police, will the mugger come after him too?

Release Date1982-09-28

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter