Keith Richardson
Keith Richardson is an English television executive who is Controller of Drama for ITV Yorkshire and is notable for being Executive Producer of the station's primetime soap, Emmerdale.
Works
Heartbeat
Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Release Date1992-04-10
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count32
Emmerdale
The lives of several families in the Yorkshire Dales revolve around a farm and the nearby village. With murders, affairs, lies, deceit, laughter and tears, it's all there in the village.
Release Date1972-10-16
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3568
Vote Count99
Super Gran
Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.
Release Date1985-01-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count26
Vote Count15
Cloud Waltzing
Journalist Meredith travels to Europe to do a story on vineyard owner Francois De Paul and won't stop until she learns his secrets.
Release Date1987-02-14
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count2
Harold Shipman: Doctor Death
James Bolam portrays serial killer Dr. Harold Shipman in this made-for-TV drama. The film follows the story of Shipman, a general practitioner who throughout his career is believed to have killed as many as 250 of his patients. When the high death rate of his practice was investigated, it was discovered that he had given lethal doses of diamorphine to a vast number of his patients. He was put on trial where he was convicted of 15 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.
Release Date2002-07-09
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count3
Magic Moments
A successful magician is approached to do a TV special, which he has not done before. He and the beautiful producer of the show fall in love with each other, much to the disappointment of her possessive guardian (who is the person she works for). He sets out to wreck their happiness.
Release Date1989-03-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Missing Persons
During a visit to childhood friend Edith, retired housewife Hetty Wainthropp discovers that Edith's husband, Frank, has a son by a previous marriage. Hetty decides to turn amateur detective to trace him. When this gives her a taste for detection, Hetty decides to set up a private detective agency.
Release Date1990-05-30
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Operation Julie
A TV movie directed by Bob Mahoney. Based on the book by Dick Lee & Colin Pratt it tells the true story of a long running Police investigation which resulted in the arrests of 120 people and jail sentences of 170 years for the manufacture and distribution of £100M of LSD.
Release Date1985-01-02
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count3
Emmerdale: Don't Look Now! - The Dingles in Venice
Emmerdale's Dingle family take on Venice!
Release Date1999-11-15
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Secret
Freddie Musgrave's life is in turmoil when a letter implicates him in murder, things are further complicated by his feelings towards his bosses daughter, Belle, who is married to a madman.
Release Date2000-01-21
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
Emmerdale: The Dingles Down Under
When a young, wealthy Australian crashes (literally) into their lives and whisks them off to Australia, Mandy's thinking wedding bells, Zak looks for his long lost relative Crocodile Dingle, Vic and Terry find someone new to fight over and even Butch finds romance in the most unexpected of places.
Release Date1997-11-17
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Shoot to Kill
Shoot to Kill is a four-hour drama documentary reconstruction of the events that led to the 1984–86 Stalker Inquiry into the shooting of six terrorist suspects in Northern Ireland in 1982 by a specialist unit of the Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC), allegedly without warning (the so-called shoot-to-kill policy); the organised fabrication of false accounts of the events; and the difficulties created for the inquiry team in their investigation.
Release Date1990-06-03
DepartmentProduction
JobAssociate Producer
Tilly Trotter
In 1830s rural England, a courageous young girl envied by women for her beauty, lusted after by men, is accused of witchcraft and forced to rise above the prejudice of many people in the community in which she lives.
Release Date1999-01-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count2
Lost for Words
Deric Longden and his wife, Aileen, come to terms with the fact that his mother, Annie, is getting too old to live on her own. Annie suffers her first stroke and a nursing home is the obvious solution, but which one and where?
Release Date1999-01-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
The Rag Nymph
It’s 1854 and ten-year-old Millie is taken in by ‘Raggie Aggie’ after her mother dies in a Newcastle brothel. The spirited young Millie is exposed again to the corrupting influences of the streets of Newcastle.
Release Date1997-10-03
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count8
Yellowthread Street
Yellowthread Street is a 1990 ITV police procedural developed by Ranald Graham. Adapted from the novels by William Leonard Marshall, the thirteen episode series revolves around the Triad-busting cases of a group of Royal Hong Kong Police Force detectives, based in the colony’s Yellowthread precinct. Despite being a critical and ratings hit, Yellowthread Street never caught on, perhaps the result of the exotic setting and expensive production (it was shot on 35mm). It also seemed caught between two eras: conceived in the 1980s and produced at the turn of that decade, its philosophy and look seemed a little dated compared to other modern shows of the genre (i.e. The Bill).
Release Date1990-01-13
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count13
Vote Count1
Emmerdale: Revenge
Roy is a little too quick to accept Pollard's generous offer of a trip to London. It soon becomes clear they both have ulterior motives. Just what shady deal is Pollard cooking up this time, and who is the mystery man Roy is obsessed with finding? Meanwhile Kathy intends to enjoy her prize weekend away but her wild plans are hampered when she finds herself chaperoned by the well-meaning Marlon. Will he let her appreciate the bright city lights to the full or will he stifle the aroma of romance which lingers in the air? A relaxing weekend of fun becomes a matter of life and death as they are drawn into an intriguing web of deceit and extreme danger. Suddenly life in Yorkshire begins to seem little more than a distant and happy memory as ghosts from the past haunt the present and death lurks around every corner.
Release Date1998-11-20
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
The Wingless Bird
On the eve of World War I, Agnes Conway manages both the business and the problems of her troubled family. She finds the strength to break class barriers and help her sister Jessie marry a good boy from a family of dockside toughs. Is she strong enough to break them again when Charles Farrier, a gentleman, courts her over his parents' opposition? Agnes faces an added dilemma when she finds her heart divided between Charles and his soldier brother Reginald.
Release Date1997-01-12
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count3
Vote Count2
1914 All Out
A village cricket team plays its last match before most of its players go off to fight in World War I, confident that "it will all be over by Christmas".
Release Date1987-11-08
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count1
Scab
Drama based on events during the 1984/85 miners strike. One of the first dramatised accounts, it was written by Geoffrey Case and directed by Gordon Flemyng for Yorkshire Television and won the Rai award at the Prix Italia and the Prix Futura at the Berlin Film Festival in 1987.
Release Date1987-01-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Beiderbecke Connection
The Beiderbecke Connection is a four-part British television serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1988. It is the third and final part of The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne. Now with a baby in tow, Jill and Trevor are asked by Big Al to look after a refugee called "Ivan".
Release Date1988-11-27
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Episode Count4
Vote Count5
Black Velvet Band
Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship, however, docks in South Africa and the gang manage to make their escape. The film starred Nick Berry, Chris McHallem and Todd Carty, who had all previously appeared in EastEnders together. The initial idea came from McHallem, whilst Nick Berry, thanks to being the darling of ITV at the time because of his hit show Heartbeat, had the clout to get it made.
Release Date1997-12-24
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count2
The Cater Street Hangman
With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
Release Date1998-12-19
DepartmentProduction
JobExecutive Producer
Vote Count4