Denis Constanduros (Writer)
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Works
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
The Railway Children
Set in Yorkshire at the dawn of the 20th century, the comfortable lives of three Edwardian children are shattered when their father is arrested on suspicion of betraying state secrets. The children and their mother are forced to move to a modest cottage in the Yorkshire countryside, where their new lives centre around the local steam railway line.
Release Date1968-05-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count2
Little Women
British adaptation of Louisa May Alcott's novel.
Release Date1970-10-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count9
Vote Count1
The Jazz Age
An anthology of 1920s set plays and musicals, transmissioned from 10 September to 10 December 1968 on BBC One.
Release Date1968-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
The Spoils of Poynton
Adele Gereth has taken young Fleda Vetch under her wing. Adele is intensely houseproud, and sees a potential future mistress of the house in Fleda, and an inheritor of her life's work.
Release Date1970-04-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Emma
After arranging a friend's marriage, the incorrigible Emma Woodhouse turns her attention to matching Mr. Elton, the local vicar, with Harriet Smith, her new protégé.
Release Date1972-07-20
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count6
Sense and Sensibility
A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility.
Release Date1981-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count7
Vote Count9
Sense and Sensibility
A story of two sisters attempting to find happiness in the tightly structured society of 18th century England. Elinor, disciplined, restrained and very conscious of the manners of the day, represents sense. Outspoken, impetuous, emotional Marianne represents sensibility.
Release Date1971-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Here Come the Huggetts
The Huggetts have their first telephone installed, sleep rough on The Mall whilst waiting for the Royal Wedding and deal with a fire at the 'Oatibix' factory.
Release Date1948-12-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
The Ambassadors
Lambert Strether goes to France to rescue a young American from a European adventuress - only to fall under the spell of Europe himself. 1965 BBC adaptation of the Henry James novel.
Release Date1965-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
29 Acacia Avenue
The Robinsons are two respectable middle class parents living with their children in a suburban house in Acacia Avenue. Preferring to holiday every year in Bognor, they are pressed into booking a cruise for their annual vacation and thereby leaving their teenage children free run of their house. As the youngsters enjoy their newfound freedom and discover the angst of teenage life, Mr. and Mrs. Robinson begin to have second thoughts about their cruise and decide to return home early.
Release Date1945-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobOther
Vote Count3
Vote for Huggett
A firm of solicitors do battle with the head of the local council over a parcel of river front land, owned by the Huggett family, in order to build a lido/community center.
Release Date1949-02-01
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
The Huggetts Abroad
Life is not going well for the Huggetts. Father has lost his job. Jimmy and his wife cannot get to South Africa where he has a new job. So the family decide that they should go to South Africa by truck. With their travelling companion they travel across the desert which includes a brush with the law.
Release Date1949-03-21
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count5
The Ambassadors
Dramatisation of Henry James's novel. Lambert Strether comes to Europe on a difficult and delicate mission. A chance meeting on arrival with the engaging Maria Gostrey provides him with much-needed support.
Release Date1977-03-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Thomas Hardy: A Haunted Man
Drama documentary from 1978 exploring the private feelings of novelist Thomas Hardy through the poems of love and remorse that he wrote after the death of his first wife, Emma.
Release Date1978-03-05
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count1