John Gould

Maine Biographies: L.L. Bean

Profiling L.L. Bean, the Maine outdoorsman turned entrepreneur who created one of the most iconic brands in American history.

Release Date2002-01-01

Charactersd Self

The Blockhouse

A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert

Release Date1973-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count13

First Love

The story of two young lovers takes a tragic turn as the girl falls in love with the boy's father.

Release Date1970-10-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count6

The Expert

The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.

Release Date1968-07-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count8

Vote Count1

Who?

After an American scientist is severely injured and scarred in a car crash along the border with East Germany, he is captured by East German military. The scientists use metal implants to save him. Once he's back in the States, no one can tell if it's really him, so an intelligence specialist must determine who is under the "mask".

Release Date1974-04-18

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count25

The Mask of Janus

In the fictional European country of Amalia, the political interests of the British, American and Communist espionage communities are explored. Eschewing the action formula of its ITV contemporaries, the series dealt more politically oriented plots such as defections to the west, awakening "sleeper" agents and the leaking of official secrets.

Release Date1965-10-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Doomwatch

Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.

Release Date1970-02-09

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count5

The Only Way

In April 1940, the armies of Nazi Germany invaded Denmark. The Danish government promised peaceful cooperation on the condition that Denmark's Jews remained free. The Nazis agreed. In October 1943, the agreement was broken... This is the true and magnificent saga of Denmark's valorous actions to save Danish Jews from Nazi extermination at peril of death!

Release Date1970-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count9

Detective

A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.

Release Date1964-03-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScript Editor

Episode Count1

The Spies

A spin-off/rebranding of the previous 1965 series The Mask of Janus, The Spies is a more conventional espionage thriller than its predecessor, being explicitly concerned with the actual operations of British secret service agents stationed in the fictional European country of Amalia.

Release Date1966-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Journey Into Darkness

"Journey Into Darkness" is a television movie which consists of two episodes from the UK TV series "Journey to the Unknown 1968)": 'The New People (1968)" (Episode 1.1) and "Paper Dolls (1968)" (Episode 1.16).

Release Date1968-01-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

State of Emergency

Thriller series set in a parallel Great Britain run by a fascist dictatorship

Release Date1975-12-04

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Episode Count3

Vote Count2

The Donati Conspiracy

Contemporary thriller series set in a parallel Britain where the country is ruled by a fascist dictatorship.

Release Date1973-09-14

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count1