Alan Seymour
Alan Seymour (6 June 1927 - 23 March 2015) was an Australian writer and producer in Australian television series, mini-series and movies.
Works
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
JobTeleplay
Episode Count1
Vote Count49
The Wednesday Play
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Release Date1964-09-30
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count5
The House of Eliott
Two sisters who set up a London fashion house for society of the early 1920s.
Release Date1991-08-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count14
BBC2 Play of the Week
An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.
Release Date1977-09-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Chronicles of Narnia
The Chronicles of Narnia is a British television miniseries adapting four of C.S. Lewis's books, blending live-action with animation for fantasy elements like Aslan and the creatures. The first series—The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe—aired from 13 November to 18 December 1988; the second—Prince Caspian and The Voyage of the Dawn Treader—aired from 19 November to 24 December 1989; and the third—The Silver Chair—from 18 November to 23 December 1990. Each series consists of six episodes each.
Release Date1988-11-13
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count18
Vote Count20
Centre Play
Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
Release Date1973-07-19
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
NET Playhouse
NET Playhouse is an American dramatic television anthology series produced by National Educational Television. NET subsequently merged with WNDT Newark, New Jersey to form WNET and was superseded by the Public Broadcasting Service. American television anthology series of wide range of genres, from history and drama, to fantasy, and science fiction. Fiction novels, stories, stage plays, fairytales, and historic events are dramatized in each episode.
Release Date1966-10-07
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count3
Sara Dane
Sara Dane is a 1982 Australian television miniseries about a woman transported from England to Australia for a crime she did not commit.
Release Date1982-05-31
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Vote Count3
The Box of Delights
Patrick Troughton stars in this children's fantasy tale with dark undertones. When a young schoolboy is given a box for safekeeping by a mysterious magician, little does he know the wondrous things he’ll soon discover.
Release Date1984-11-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count12
The Cinder Path
In a heroic journey of epic proportions, everyman Charlie McFell wrestles with his demons — including a coldhearted wife, economic hardship, the horror of the world's first Great War, and a painful secret he'd rather forget.
Release Date1994-04-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count7
The Glass Virgin
In 19th century England, wealthy young Annabella Lagrange lives a comfortable and secluded life on her family's country estate, where her parents own a glass works. As a child, she develops a special friendship with the charming stable boy Manuel Mendoza. When she turns 18, she marries her cousin Stephen and sees what the world is really like.
Release Date1995-01-06
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count4
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count3
Vote Count3
The Potato Factory
The Potato Factory tells the story of three strong-willed people battling against a background of hardship and poverty to escape a past that tries to catch up with them. Based on the best-selling novel by iconic Australian author Bryce Courtenay.
Release Date2000-07-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count1
Tudawali
Tells the story of Robert Tudawali who starred in the first ever Australian technicolour feature film, "Jedda". Station hand, actor and then Aboriginal activist, Tudawali died in 1967 at the age of 38 in tragic circumstances.
Release Date1988-09-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
The Trial and Torture of Sir John Rampayne
An elderly right-wing politician is kidnapped, seemingly as part of a student prank. But his captors have a more alarming agenda.
Release Date1965-11-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Another Day
The London of bed-sits, rundown housing, a world of the eccentric and the lonely. Since her husband walked out Eileen battles on her own to make a life for her children. She needs someone-but some people don't think George is the right man.
Release Date1978-11-22
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Willie's Last Stand
Every man needs just one night out, off the leash. Willie's attempt to prove himself provides a painfully funny and painfully sad comment on the battle of the sexes.
Release Date1982-02-23
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Care of Time
Robert Halliday is coerced into helping Karlis Zander, an international fixer, into editing a Russian terrorist's memoirs and ghostwriting an exposé of modern terrorists.
Release Date1990-08-26
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count4
Piano Lessons
Sally and George appear a happy middle class couple. However, they are childless, which is starting to cause tension. While George ponders an illegal business venture, Sally starts to grow closer to her piano teacher.
Release Date1976-08-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Network
What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?
Release Date1979-12-20
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count1
Auto Stop
A young couple go on a hitch-hiking tour of Europe.
Release Date1965-04-21
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
Fairies
'I'd stake my reputation on it. These photographs are not faked.' But how could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls, have momentous implications for man's understanding of the world?
Release Date1978-09-27
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Vote Count1
England, Summer, Sunday
A play from 1976
Release Date1976-01-31
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
A Man of Morality
A moral philosopher at a university finds his own morals under scrutiny.
Release Date1976-08-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1