Gerald Savory (Writer)

Tales of the Unexpected

A British television anthology of stories, often with sinister and wryly comedic undertones, and a twist at the end. With early episodes written and presented by Roald Dahl, the series featured a plethora of big name guest stars.

Release Date1979-03-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count48

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

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count5

Vote Count7

ITV Play of the Week

A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.

Release Date1955-09-27

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Episode Count1

Vote Count5

The Agatha Christie Hour

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.

Release Date1982-09-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count10

Vote Count15

Count Dracula

Jonathan Harker visits the Count in Transylvania to help him with preparations to move to England. Harker becomes Dracula's prisoner and discovers Dracula's true nature. After Dracula makes his way to England, Harker becomes involved in an effort to track down and destroy the Count, eventually chasing the vampire back to his castle.

Release Date1977-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count32

Hammer House of Horror

Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.

Release Date1980-09-13

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Episode Count1

Vote Count71

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.

Release Date1960-01-03

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

The Adventures Of Don Quixote

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.

Release Date1973-01-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Churchill's People

Churchill's People is a British anthology series based on A History of the English-Speaking Peoples, Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. 26 episodes were produced by the BBC and initially broadcast from 30 December 1974 to 23 June 1975.

Release Date1974-12-30

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count26

Vote Count1

George and Margaret

The Frictions of a suburban family come to boiling point.

Release Date1940-11-30

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Adaptation of the novella by Robert Louis Stevenson

Release Date1980-11-20

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count3

Urge to Kill

A psychopathic killer murders three girls before police catch him.

Release Date1960-03-01

DepartmentWriting

JobNovel

Vote Count2

The Cherry Orchard

Madame Ranevskaya is a spoiled, aging aristocratic lady who returns from a trip to Paris to face the loss of her magnificent Cherry Orchard estate after a default on the mortgage. In denial, she continues living in the past, deluding herself and her family, while the beautiful cherry trees are being axed down by the re-possessor Lopakhin, her former serf, who has his own agenda.

Release Date1971-12-19

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

George et Margaret

In a quiet corner of the English countryside, lives the Smith family. Their quietude is disturbed by the arrival of a beautiful young woman.

Release Date1993-06-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

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

Count Dracula

Count Dracula is a British television adaptation of the novel Dracula by Bram Stoker. It first aired 22 December 1977. It is among the more faithful of the many adaptations of the original book. Louis Jourdan played the title role.

Release Date1977-12-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count5

Love in a Cold Climate

The unconventional lives and loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh, dominated by the eccentric, irascible Uncle Matthew. The story encompasses the economic and political crises of the Thirties and the upheavals of the Second World War.

Release Date1980-10-29

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count8

Vote Count4

Mr. Garrick and Mrs. Woffington

Peg Woffington and David Garrick have an affair while appearing in stage in Drury Lane.

Release Date1975-05-16

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Ferry Ride Away

Heather Massie is on holiday with her crippled mother in the Isle of Wight. She meets a middle-aged doctor in search of romance, and has to make some agonising decisions.

Release Date1981-07-22

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

For King and Country: Out There

1915: Determined to do her bit for the country, young Annie Hudd has a burning desire to go to France to help the wounded soldiers but suffers many setbacks before her ambition to become a nurse on the battlefields is realized.

Release Date1963-08-06

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

South

A made-for-television play about an exiled Polish Army lieutenant faced with his darkest secret.

Release Date1959-11-24

DepartmentWriting

JobAdaptation

Vote Count1

Young and Innocent

When a young writer is falsely accused of murdering a famous actress, he escapes custody and joins forces with the daughter of a police constable to prove his innocence.

Release Date1937-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobDialogue

Vote Count242

Nathan and Tabileth

A portrait of two old people whose dialogue is echoed by internal monologue. A visitor, possibly their nephew, disrupts the routine of their day.

Release Date1970-02-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Mad Jack

Play dealing with the life of British Army lieutenant Siegfried Sassoon, and his protests against the inhumanity of the First World War

Release Date1970-02-04

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Take Three Women

Release Date1982-09-21

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Episode Count4

Der Mann mit der Puppe

Release Date1966-05-25

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Choice of Coward: Blithe Spirit

Adapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Ruth, are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost.

Release Date1964-08-17

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

A Choice of Coward: The Vortex

Nicky Lancaster must deal with the problem of his youth-obsessed aging socialite mother.

Release Date1964-08-24

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter