Clive Exton (Writing)
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Works
Rosemary & Thyme
Brought together by professional and personal heartache, two plucky ladies plant the seeds for a brighter future. Rosemary Boxer, with a doctorate in plant pathology, and Laura Thyme, a former police constable and avid gardener, discover their shared love of green-thumbness and start a gardening business. As they restore various English gardens back to their lavish states, the inquisitive pair also find themselves uncovering an assortment of mysteries.
Release Date:2003-08-31
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Vote Count:25
The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells
On a night in London in 1946, newspaper reporter Ellen McGillivray arrives at the home of legendary literary figure, Herbert George Wells. Expecting to hear of the events and people who formed his prophetic imagination, she is informed of a world in which known scientific boundaries no longer exist. It begins a half-century earlier at London's Imperial College of Science where Wells meets Jane Robbins, a scientist equally fascinated by unnatural phenomenon, and a woman who immediately captures Wells' heart. Through midnight experiments and secret investigations into the paranormal, through the follies of chance and the miracles of fate, Wells and Robbins find themselves slipping into whirlpools of time, both past and present.
Release Date:2001-08-05
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:5
Jeeves and Wooster
Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories. It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
Release Date:1990-04-22
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:23
Vote Count:113
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:Teleplay
Episode Count:3
Vote Count:486
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries
The Ruth Rendell mysteries is a British television series made by TVS and Meridian Television for ITV between 2 August 1987 and 11 October 2000.
Release Date:1987-08-02
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:10
Vote Count:10
Red Sonja
The tyrant Gedren seeks the total power in a world of barbarism. She raids the city Hablac and kills the keeper of a talisman that gives her great power. Red Sonja, sister of the keeper, sets out with her magic sword to overthrow Gedren.
Release Date:1985-04-09
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:846
The Awakening
When a British archaeologist violates an Egyptian queen's tomb, her evil spirit enters his daughter.
Release Date:1980-07-09
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:74
Henry Intervening
Today, Henry's usually dull journey to work is eventful enough to catapult him into the headlines.
Release Date:1979-11-29
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Casting the Runes
The producer and her team are in danger from evil forces and must figure out how to save themselves
Release Date:1979-04-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:1
Stigma
A young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.
Release Date:1977-12-28
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:15
The Crezz
The Crezz is a British television drama produced by Thames Television and shown on the ITV network in 1976. Created by Clive Exton, The Crezz was set in a fictitious West London crescent, Carlisle Crescent. The series was 12 one-hour programmes each focused on a different household.The series was broadcast on ITV at 9pm to start with but midway through it was put back to 10.35pm because the series didn't quite get the viewing figures that were hoped for.
Release Date:1976-09-16
Department:Creator
Job:Creator
Survivors
Survivors is a British post-apocalyptic fiction television series devised by Terry Nation and produced by Terence Dudley at the BBC from 1975 to 1977. It concerns the plight of a group of people who have survived an accidentally released plague – referred to as "The Death" – that kills nearly the entire human population of the planet.
Release Date:1975-04-16
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:2
Vote Count:21
The Breakthrough
An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BBC's "BBC2 Playhouse".
Release Date:1975-01-08
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
The House in Nightmare Park
Comedy legend Frankie Howerd stars as the victim of sinister shenanigans in this hilarious spoof of British horror films of the early ‘70s. Starring Hugh Burden and Oscar winner Ray Milland, and written by Terry Nation. Foster Twelvetrees, a struggling tragedian who scrapes a living by giving hammy performances from the classics, can hardly believe his luck when he’s invited to give a dramatic reading at the country home of a well-off family. Joy soon turns to outraged horror when he discovers dead bodies, foul intentions, lots of snakes and a madwoman in the attic. Can he uncover the hidden family secret before he comes to a sticky end..?
Release Date:1973-03-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:29
Friß, Pappi, friß!
Release Date:1972-06-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Running Scared
When an undergraduate commits suicide, his best friend is sent down from university because he did nothing to prevent the death, which he felt was a choice his friend had a right to make.
Release Date:1972-05-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Doomwatch
The waters surrounding an island become contaminated by chemical dumping, and people who eat fish caught in those waters become deformed and violent.
Release Date:1972-03-01
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:23
A Ghost Story for Christmas
A strand of annual British short television adaptations of classic ghost stories, referencing the oral tradition of telling supernatural tales at Christmas. First broadcast on BBC One from 1971 to 1978, and revived in 2005 on BBC Four.
Release Date:1971-12-24
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:4
The Rainbirds
After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relatives.
Release Date:1971-02-11
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
10 Rillington Place
The story of British serial killer John Christie, who committed most or all of his crimes in the titular terraced house, and the miscarriage of justice involving Timothy Evans.
Release Date:1971-02-10
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:198
Play for Today
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Release Date:1970-10-15
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:8
Entertaining Mr. Sloane
A woman and her closeted brother meet a man sunbathing on a gravestone and invite him to be their lodger. Their elderly father, however, recognises him as the killer of his old boss. Past sins could be forgiven if he agrees to the siblings' demands.
Release Date:1970-04-08
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:21
Isadora
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
Release Date:1968-09-14
Department:Writing
Job:Screenplay
Vote Count:31
The Desperate Hours
The Hilliards are a middle class family whose lives are put in danger when escaped convict Glenn Griffin invades their home. Griffin is crazed, tormenting the Hilliards with his meek brother Hank and sadistic Robish.
Release Date:1967-12-13
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:2
ITV Playhouse
ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.
Release Date:1967-09-25
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:2
ABC Stage 67
ABC Stage 67 is the umbrella title for a series of 26 weekly shows that included dramas, variety shows, documentaries, and original musicals. It premiered on American Broadcasting Company on September 14, 1966 with Murray Schisgal's The Love Song of Barney Kempinksi, directed by Stanley Prager and starring Alan Arkin as a man enjoying the sights and sounds of New York City in his last remaining hours of bachelorhood. Arkin was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance By An Actor in a Leading Role in a Drama and the program was nominated as Outstanding Dramatic Program. Future programs included appearances by Petula Clark, Bobby Darin, Sir Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Peter Sellers, David Frost, and Jack Paar. ABC's effort to bring culture to the masses was a noble but unsuccessful experiment. Scheduled first against I Spy on Wednesdays and then The Dean Martin Show on Thursdays, the show consistently received low ratings. Its last production, an adaptation of Jean Cocteau's one-woman play The Human Voice starring Ingrid Bergman, aired on May 4, 1967. "Stage 67" was not actually a part of the primary ABC facilities in Los Angeles. It was produced at the old Monogram Studios backlot that was later sold to KCET.
Release Date:1966-09-14
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:4
The Human Voice
A monologue of a woman talking on the phone with her longterm lover who is about to marry another girl.
Release Date:1966-08-12
Department:Writing
Job:Teleplay
Vote Count:4
Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story. Some were written directly for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror/fantasy stories. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time. A large number of episodes are still missing but some do turn up from time to time; for instance, Level Seven from series two, originally broadcast on 27 October 1966 was returned to the BBC from the archives of a European broadcaster in January 2006.
Release Date:1965-10-04
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Episode Count:1
Vote Count:6
The Three Faces
Italian comedy film made of three segments directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, Mauro Bolognini and Franco Indovina. First segment: Il Provino; second segment: Gli amanti celebri; third segment: Latin Lover.
Release Date:1965-02-12
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:5
The Bone Yard
Extraordinary things happen at an ordinary police station.
Release Date:1964-09-30
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
The Trial of Dr. Fancy
A Harley Street doctor is charged following the death of a patient. The court case exposes a series of bizarre operations.
Release Date:1964-09-13
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Night Must Fall
A psychotic killer gets in the good graces of his aging invalid employer, and worms his way into the affection of her beautiful daughter, with unpleasant results for all.
Release Date:1964-03-18
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:24
A Place to Go
Set in contemporary Bethnal Green in east London, A Place to Go charts the dramatic changes that were happening in the lives of the British working-class at the time.
Release Date:1963-07-01
Department:Writing
Job:Writer
Vote Count:8
I'll Have You to Remember
A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.
Release Date:1960-10-23
Department:Writing
Job:Writer