John Goldsmith (Writer)
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Works
NOVA
PBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.
Release Date1974-03-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count133
Space: 1999
The crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from orbit into deep space.
Release Date1975-09-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count145
The Professionals
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.
Release Date1977-12-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count44
Coming Home
Drama about the Dunar and Carey-Lewis families, before during and after WW2.
Release Date1998-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count9
The New Avengers
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
Release Date1976-10-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count47
Return of the Saint
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
Release Date1978-09-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count4
Vote Count8
Young Blades
Young Blades follows D'Artagnan (Hugh Dancy), a young arrogant swordsman; Radegonde (Sarah-Jane Potts), a clever girl he meets in the woods; and a trio of Musketeers as they attempt to thwart a plot to send France and Spain into war.
Release Date2001-02-23
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count6
Lovejoy
The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Release Date1986-01-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count51
Singapore Sling
John Stamford, an expatriate Australian, now a private detective in Singapore, becomes involved in a fake pharmaceuticals case and a dangerous love triangle.
Release Date1994-03-09
DepartmentWriting
JobStory
Agnes Browne
Set in Dublin in 1967, the story of feisty woman, who along with her seven children, learns to cope with adversity after the unexpected death of her husband.
Release Date1999-11-08
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count32
Nancherrow
The basic story involves Loveday's struggle to keep the estate Nancherrow in the family after the death of her father.
Release Date1999-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
John Silver's Return to Treasure Island
Ten years after the events of 'Treasure Island,' an adult Jim Hawkins once again encounters his old adversary Long John Silver and the pirate Joseph Savage.
Release Date1986-04-05
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Vote Count3
The Protectors
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation. The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.
Release Date1972-09-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count12
Paradise Found
Paradise Found is a biography about the painter Paul Gauguin. Focusing on his personal conflict between citizen life and his family life and the art scene in Frane. In an incredible imagery montage Gauguin manages to make a successful living in the South Pacific, while being in opposition to France.
Release Date2003-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobAuthor
Vote Count29
The Old Curiosity Shop
A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Release Date1995-03-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
Danny the Champion of the World
Somewhere in England, in the Autumn of 1955, a widowed father and his son live an idyllic life together. Only their gas station happens to sit on a piece of land that a local developer wants to buy. And when he won't take no for an answer, and sets government inspectors and social works onto Danny and his father, Danny and his father decide to get even with Hazell and his pheasant- shooting friends in a manner in keeping with their own family tradition.
Release Date1989-07-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count23
Victoria & Albert
The passionate love story that was Queen Victoria and Prince Albert's lengthy marriage. Beginning in 1837, the year of King William IV's death and 18-year-old Victoria's ascension to the throne, the series charts the tumultuous period in 19th Century England where Victoria comes to terms with the enormous duties that lay ahead of her, while also falling deeply in love with her beloved Albert of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. The marriage and birth of their nine children are featured, as is Albert's frustration by the inactivity he experienced in the early years of his role as Prince Consort.
Release Date2001-08-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count12
The Gospel of John
A word for word depiction of the life of Jesus Christ from the Good News Translation Bible as recorded in the Gospel of John.
Release Date2003-09-11
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count124
In the Beginning
In the Beginning is a 2-part biblical television miniseries directed by Kevin Connor. It stars Martin Landau and Jacqueline Bisset and it premiered on NBC on November 12, 2000.
Release Date2000-11-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count8
A Bear Named Winnie
Based on the true story of a Canadian soldier, enroute to World War I from Winnipeg, who adopts an orphaned bear cub at White River Ontario. It is namned Winnie (for Winnipeg) and eventually ends up at the London Zoo where it became the inspiration for A.A.Milne's Winnie The Pooh stories.
Release Date2004-12-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count25
Coming Home
Alone and without her parents, Judith Dunbar spends her school days in a boarding school. When her friend Loveday invites her to Gut Nancherrow one day, it is love at first sight for Judith. The elegant lady of the house Diana, her husband Colonel Cary-Lewis and Loveday's siblings Edward and Athena immediately fall in love with her and treat her like family. But the outbreak of the Second World War put an end to the idyll on Nancherrow overnight. A long, thorny road lies ahead of Judith until she finally finds happiness in a family of her own...
Release Date1998-04-12
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
The Island on Bird Street
Alex is an 11-year old boy who, during WWII, hides in the Jewish ghetto from Nazis after all his relatives have been sent to the concentration camp. The movie portrays the ghetto through his eyes.
Release Date1997-04-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count65
Catherine the Great
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves a skillful political infighter and rises to become Catherine the Great.
Release Date1996-04-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count32
Rosamunde Pilcher - Magic of Love
It's true that a hotel can hardly look more impressive and be more beautifully situated than Rhives Castle, but all beginnings are difficult. The young manager Carrie, who wants to lead the house to new splendor, has to realize this as well. That's why she worries a lot when she realizes that she is pregnant. What will her financier and life partner Sam say about this? As a newspaper publisher, he has his hands full trying to dissuade bestselling author Alexia White from suing for defamation: one of his employees accused her of plagiarism. The writer has it in her hands to financially destroy him and Carrie. Carrie's jealousy and the pressure from his bank don't make Sam's negotiations with the woman whose honor has been violated any easier.
Release Date2005-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Summer Solstice
Summer Solstice is a collection of love stories about, and for, people of all different ages and generations. Each character's tale connects, weaving in and out of the others, mirroring and countering them so that, as the long hot summer draws to its close, each is forced to examine their lives and decide to whom their loyalties lie or else risk loosing everything they hold so dear.
Release Date2005-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Great Expectations
Orphan Pip discovers through lawyer Mr Jaggers that a mysterious benefactor wishes to ensure that he becomes a gentleman. Reunited with his childhood patron, Miss Havisham, and his first love, the beautiful but emotionally cold Estella, he discovers that the elderly spinster has gone mad from having been left at the altar as a young woman, and has made her charge into a warped, unfeeling heartbreaker.
Release Date1989-07-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count4
Stormworld
Follows two boys, Jason and Lee, after they are transported to an alien world with three suns, through a vortex while on a boat trip that started in Vancouver, Canada. The boys receive help from Flees a seasoned veteran of living on Stormworld who has a special boat named Stormrider. The boys, as new arrivals or "access crashers" as the local inhabitants call them, find shelter at The Settlement.
Release Date2009-03-18
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
The Ice Princess
This is another variation of the Cinderella story: the bright and beautiful Ella lives in the household of a lord since her mother died. She's unhappy because the lord's daughters treat her like their servant. The country is in problems, because the prince is a dreamer and doesn't realize that his chancellor abuses his power. When the day nears the prince is forced by law to find a wife, a celebration on a frozen lake is arranged. Ella manages to skate on the lake for him too, hiding her identity. The prince falls in love with her, so he tries to find her. His chancellor attempts to hinder them, since he knows about Ella's critical thoughts.
Release Date1996-12-12
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count3
David Copperfield
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relationships.
Release Date2001-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count23
The Apocalypse Watch
A CIA analyst takes over a case from his brother, a field agent who was killed in the line of duty, in this thriller based on a Robert Ludlum novel.
Release Date1997-03-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count7
La bella otero
Born into a humble family of Galician peasants, Carolina Otero decided to run away from home at the age of ten after suffering sexual abuse. In her personal quest for happiness and success, she traveled to countries such as France, the United States, and Russia, earning a living as an exotic dancer under the stage name "Bella Otero." In her eagerness to climb the social ladder, she became the mistress of very influential and powerful figures. Her true identity, age, and origins remain a mystery to this day, which she herself took care to perpetuate. Adapted from a fictionalized biography by Carmen Posadas.
Release Date2008-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Something to Believe In
Reports of a weeping Madonna in Italy reach Las Vegas, where blackjack dealer Maggie has just learnt she has only weeks to live. With a massive leap of faith she convinces herself that seeing the Madonna with her own eyes could lead to her salvation, and travels to Europe to find it. Hitching through Italy, she meets pianist Mike, who is also en route to what he believes could be a life-changing event - a performance at the Barbarina concert in Naples.
Release Date1998-05-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count2
Darwin's Darkest Hour
In 1858 Charles Darwin struggles to publish one of the most controversial scientific theories ever conceived, while he and his wife Emma confront family tragedy.
Release Date2009-10-06
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Vote Count8
A Waltz Through the Hills
When Sammy Dean and her older brother Andy are suddenly orphaned, they fear that they will be separated and placed in foster homes. So they set off along on foot, hoping to reach a ship that will take them to England and their only surviving relatives. The two young runaways must make their dangerous journey through some of the world’s harshest terrain-the wilds of the Australian outback.
Release Date1988-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count5