Donald Bull (Writer)
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Works
Westward Ho!
Wartime short promoting the evacuation if urban children to rural areas.
Release Date1940-05-05
Charactersd Commentary
Vote Count1
Dr. Finlay's Casebook
Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country Doctor’, the storylines centred on a general medical practice in the fictional Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s. Cronin was the primary writer for the show between 1962 and 1964.
Release Date1962-08-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
BBC Play of the Month
A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983.
Release Date1965-10-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count7
Maigret
BBC series based on the novels by Georges Simenon which starred Rupert Davies as Inspector Maigret, a French police detective who preferred to watch and listen in order to solve crimes. The series ran from 1960-63 on British television.
Release Date1960-10-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count11
Crown Court
Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Release Date1972-10-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count5
Warship
Written and filmed to reflect the reality of life in the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines in the 1970s, most stories focus on the Captain and his fellow officers, with subplots dealing with life on the lower decks. Episodes typically featured a variety of events at sea (the Cold War, smuggling, the evacuation of civilians from crisis-hit places, etc.), as well as the personal lives of officers and ratings and the impact their personal lives had on their professional lives and duties.
Release Date1973-06-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
King of the River
A completely lost BBC1 drama series centred on the King family, who love, live, fight and work around a harbour in the Thames estuary.
Release Date1966-07-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
The Venturers
The Venturers is a British television series produced by the BBC in 1975. The series, created by Donald Bull, had started out as an edition of Drama Playhouse in 1972 before being commissioned as an ongoing series. The Venturers took place in the high pressure world of Prince's Merchant Bank and dealt with the intricacies of high finance amongst its millionaire clients. Geoffrey Keen starred as director Gerald Lang, in a virtual reprise of his role as oil executive Brian Stead in Mogul / The Troubleshooters. Other major cast members included James Kerry, David Buck, Cyril Luckham and William Squire. The Venturers lasted for a single series of ten episodes.
Release Date1975-01-07
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Storm in a Teacup
A local politician in Scotland tries to break the reporter who wrote a negative story about him, and who is also in love with his daughter.
Release Date1937-02-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count28
Anna Karenina
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexei Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexei Vronsky falls in love with her. Television adaptation of a play based on Leo Tolstoy's novel by Marcelle Maurette.
Release Date1961-11-03
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Vote Count4
Dear Mr. Prohack
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
Release Date1949-09-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
The Arsenal Stadium Mystery
During a charity football match between Arsenal and touring amateur side Trojans, the Trojan's new star player collapses and dies. Inspector Slade of Scotland Yard is called in and declares it was murder. It takes all his ingenuity and another death before the motive is discovered and the killer revealed.
Release Date1939-11-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count10
South Riding
Winifred Holtby realised that Local Government is not a dry affair of meetings and memoranda:- but 'the front-line defence thrown up by humanity against its common enemies of sickness, poverty and ignorance.' She built her story around six people working for a typical County Council:- Beneath the lives of the public servants runs the thread of their personal drama. Our story tells how a public life affects the private life; and how a man's personal sufferings make him what he is in public. " Corruption, intrigue and romance in a Yorkshire setting. A country squire whose wife is in a mental hospital becomes attracted to a crusading local schoolmistress.
Release Date1938-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
Cheer Boys Cheer
Shades of "Romeo and Juliet" with rival British Brewery owners who hate each other and their children who fall in love.
Release Date1939-08-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5
Miss Grant Goes to the Door
Two sisters encounter a German spy. A public service film showing how to thwart the enemy.
Release Date1940-09-01
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Vote Count2
Just Joe
A shy detergent factory employee unexpectedly finds his feet.
Release Date1960-07-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Dreams Come True
A popular opera singer falls in love with a gangly farm boy. Anton's father is left all alone when his son runs off to the Big City with Ilona. Things really get sticky when Albert becomes obsessed with the notion that Ilona is actually his own illegitimate daughter!
Release Date1936-12-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Yesterday Is Over Your Shoulder
A wartime short encouraging workers to join free, government-organised engineering training schemes.
Release Date1940-05-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter