David Pirie (Writer)

The Woman in White

The lives of two half-sisters and their drawing master get caught up in a deadly conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed all in white.

Release Date: 2018-04-22

Department: Production

Job: Co-Executive Producer

Episode Count: 5

Vote Count: 16

Murderland

Murderland is a three-part British television series created by David Pirie and directed by Catherine Morshead. The series also marks a return to ITV for Robbie Coltrane. The series was filmed in June 2009 and the first episode was transmitted on Monday, 19 October 2009.

Release Date: 2009-10-19

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 3

Vote Count: 11

The Strange Case of Sherlock Holmes & Arthur Conan Doyle

What led Arthur Conan Doyle to create, and then destroy the world famous detective, Sherlock Holmes? This compelling drama explores the dark secrets that surround the author and his creation.

Release Date: 2005-09-08

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 4

The Safe House

The brutal murder on her parents leaves daughter and only witness, Finn, injured and traumatised. The police places her at the remote house of trauma psychologist, Dr. Sam Graham. As Finn begins to recover, the cleaner who had first discovered the murdered couple dies suspiciously. When Finn and Sam's boyfriend, Danny, disappears, Sam must put herself and her little daughter at risk to uncover the truth.

Release Date: 2002-10-28

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes

If Arthur Conan Doyle based Sherlock Holmes on a real person to any degree, it was on his former professor, forensic pathologist Dr. Joseph Bell. This series recounts the fictional murder investigations that Bell might have undertaken with the assistance of young student Doyle.

Release Date: 2001-09-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 13

The Wyvern Mystery

After precipitating the death of a tenant with whom he has been feuding, Squire Fairfield brings the dead man's young daughter to live in Wyvern Manor. Alice grows up thinking the squire is her kind benefactor, and falls in love with one of his two sons.

Release Date: 2000-10-12

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 8

Murder Rooms: The Dark Beginnings of Sherlock Holmes

Arthur Conan Doyle reveals the story behind Sherlock Holmes and his mysteries by telling about Dr. Joseph Bell, from whom he drew his inspiration, after meeting him as a medical student in Edinburgh. This TV movie served as the pilot for the later released minisseries Murder Rooms: Mysteries of the Real Sherlock Holmes produced by the BBC. The series then picks up with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's time as a general practitioner in Southsea, solving mysteries with the help of his mentor, Dr Joseph Bell, who is still based in Edinburgh.

Release Date: 2000-01-05

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Vote Count: 1

The Woman In White

Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and greed stand between the two women and happy lives. Their only hope is the secret the woman in white waits to tell them.

Release Date: 1997-01-01

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 23

Element of Doubt

A woman has doubts about the intentions of her husband, even to the point where she thinks he might kill her.

Release Date: 1996-12-30

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Vote Count: 3

Breaking the Waves

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.

Release Date: 1996-07-05

Department: Writing

Job: Co-Writer

Vote Count: 1020

Black Easter

Continuing the Screen Two series of dramas is David Pirie's futuristic thriller starring Trevor Eve Germany, March 2000: Detective Alex Fischer investigates the murder of a young Danish woman, whose body has been slashed from head to foot. On the ground beside her are the words in Arabic: "We are crossing. "As the threat grows of a mass exodus of refugees caused by civil war in Russia, Fischer sets out on a hazardous search for the truth with refugee Anna.

Release Date: 1995-06-04

Department: Writing

Job: Writer

Agatha Christie's Poirot

From England to Egypt, accompanied by his elegant and trustworthy sidekicks, the intelligent yet eccentrically-refined Belgian detective Hercule Poirot pits his wits against a collection of first class deceptions.

Release Date: 1989-01-08

Department: Writing

Job: Screenplay

Episode Count: 1

Vote Count: 500

Hammer: The Studio That Dripped Blood

A retrospective of the films of Britain's Hammer Studios, renowned for making stylish horror films in the 1950s, '60s and '70s. Included are clips from Hammer productions and interviews with actors, actresses, directors and producers who worked on these films.

Release Date: 1987-06-26

Character: Self

Vote Count: 7

Rainy Day Women

In 1940, during World War II, an officer is sent to investigate rumours of German spies in a sleepy village where various people are the victims of war hysteria.

Release Date: 1984-04-10

Department: Writing

Job: Writer