Hugh Leonard (Writer)
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Works
Festival
An anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels.
Release Date1963-10-09
Charactersd Crony
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
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
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count7
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 created 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 and fantasy. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time.
Release Date1965-10-04
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Vote Count7
Widows' Peak
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Release Date1994-04-15
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count19
Story Parade
Story Parade specialized in adaptations of modern novels. It was broadcast on June 5, 1964 and repeated on August 28, 1964. The teleplay was by Terry Nation (who invented "Blake's 7" and the Daleks in Dr. Who), and Elijah Baley was played by the late Peter Cushing. It also starred John Carson John Carson as R. Daneel Olivaw and Kenneth J. Warren. The master tapes of the program were erased, however a few clips from the production have turned up in various documentaries about Isaac Asimov's work.
Release Date1964-04-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Da
A New York playwright is summoned to Ireland to bury his father. While at his boyhood home, he encounters his father's spirit and relives memories both pleasant and not.
Release Date1988-04-29
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count11
The Informer
The Informer is a British crime drama series broadcast on ITV from August 1966 to December 1967. Created by John Whitney and Geoffrey Bellman, it stars Ian Hendry as former barrister Alex Lambert, disgraced and disbarred, who has to rebuild his life. He utilises his former contacts on both sides of the law to become a paid informer. Living well from the rewards paid by insurance companies, Lambert still has to hide his activities from both his wife and others behind a new persona in the guise as a business consultant. Two seasons were produced, totalling 21 episodes. Only two episodes are known to exist, the remainder presumably wiped.
Release Date1966-08-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Wuthering Heights
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Release Date1978-09-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count3
Six Dates with Barker
Six Dates with Barker is a 1971 ITV series of six one-off, half-hour situation comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. Three of the stories were further developed: The Phantom Raspberry Blower of Old London Town was made into a serial as part of the 1976 sketch comedy programme The Two Ronnies; The Odd Job Man was adapted as a feature film, titled The Odd Job; and The Removals Person became Barker's final programme Clarence.
Release Date1971-01-08
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count4
Seven of One
Seven of One is a 1973 BBC2 comedy anthology starring Ronnie Barker. 7 of 1 is a series of seven separate comedies that would serve as possible pilots for sitcoms, three of which were picked up for a full series run. Originally called Six of One, which Barker planned to follow up with another series called Half Dozen of the Other.
Release Date1973-03-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count5
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
Father Brown
Father Brown was a Catholic priest who doubled as an amateur detective in order to solve mysteries.
Release Date1974-09-26
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count7
Vote Count9
Shadows of Fear
Anthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people.
Release Date1970-06-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count2
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 Date1967-01-22
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count10
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Release Date1968-02-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count13
Black and Blue
Black and Blue was a BBC TV comedy-drama series, first broadcast in 1973. The show consisted of six 50–60 minutes episodes, each a separate self-contained playlet. The only connection was the Black and Blue humour theme. The first episode was broadcast on 14 August 1973, with the finale on 18 September 1973. The first, Secrets, was wiped, only surviving thanks to a domestic videotape copy made from the master by producer Mark Shivas.
Release Date1973-08-14
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Country Matters
Adapted from tales by A.E Coppard and H.E. Bates – two of the great masters of the short story – Country Matters unarguably remains a high point for television drama, winning the award for Best Drama at the 1973 BAFTAs. An anthology series of plays about English country life and rural romance at the turn of the twentieth century, it presents unsentimental stories of human relationships and raw emotions – heartfelt passions, crippling frustrations, unspoken love and destructive jealousy all feature unsparingly in one of the 1970s' most memorable drama series. Available on DVD for the first time, Country Matters includes memorable performances from Ian McKellen, Rosalind Ayres, Peter Firth, Penelope Wilton, Pauline Collins, Gareth Thomas, Bryan Marshall, Barbara Ewing, Prunella Scales, Zena Walker, Michael Kitchen and Jeremy Brett, among others.
Release Date1972-08-20
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Episode Count2
Vote Count4
Nicholas Nickleby
Nicholas Nickleby, a young boy in search of a better life, struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his coldheartedly grasping uncle.
Release Date1977-03-27
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count6
Vote Count2
Late Night Horror
A short-lived horror anthology broadcast in the United Kingdom weekly in 1968 from 11 April until 16 May 1968 on the BBC. After complaints that is was not suitable for audiences, the series was pulled, with five of the six episodes believed lost.
Release Date1968-04-19
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count2
Wuthering Heights
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Release Date1967-10-28
DepartmentWriting
JobTeleplay
Episode Count4
The Moonstone
A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close to Rachel's heart.
Release Date1972-01-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count5
Vote Count1
Wuthering Heights
Young orphan Heathcliff is adopted by the wealthy Earnshaw family and moves into their estate, Wuthering Heights. Soon, the new resident falls for his compassionate foster sister, Cathy. The two share a remarkable bond that seems unbreakable until Cathy, feeling the pressure of social convention, suppresses her feelings and marries Edgar Linton, a man of means who befits her stature. Heathcliff vows to win her back.
Release Date1967-10-28
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The Verdict Is Yours
'The Verdict Is Yours' premiered on September 2, 1957, in the CBS Daytime lineup. Unscripted, the show featured real lawyers playing the lawyers and judge. The defendants and witnesses on the program were professional actors who ad-libbed their dialogue, although they were given a general outline of what they were supposed to say. Sportscaster Jim McKay was the original reporter, providing commentary on the trials. He was succeeded in 1960 by newsman Bill Stout.
Release Date1958-05-28
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Editor
Episode Count29
The Liars
A ‘lost’ series from Granada Television in which the four stars of the show, William Mervyn, Isla Blair, Nyree Dawn Porter and Ian Ogilvy are all liars. Outrageous liars in fact, who try to outdo each other with the most fanciful lies they can dream up.
Release Date1966-01-07
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
The Ronnie Barker Playhouse
The Ronnie Barker Playhouse is a British anthology of six half-hour comedies showcasing the talents of Ronnie Barker. All were broadcast by Associated-Rediffusion from 3 April to 8 May 1968. Of the six, two are lost.
Release Date1968-04-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Insurrection
The events of the Easter Rising, told in the style contemporary news broadcasts and a series of dramatic reconstructions.
Release Date1966-04-10
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count8
Percy
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends...
Release Date1971-02-18
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count12
Love Life
Can Theodore Quill, a self-styled Casanova, face the truth of his affairs?
Release Date1967-07-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Strumpet City
Strumpet City was a 1980 television miniseries produced by Irish broadcaster RTÉ, based on James Plunkett's 1969 novel Strumpet City. It was RTÉ's most ambitious and expensive production to date. The script was written by Hugh Leonard, and Peter O'Toole played James Larkin, the union leader.
Release Date1980-03-16
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count7
Vote Count2
Great Catherine
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, Russia, he is stunned by the palace's disorderly condition. The severely intoxicated Prince Potemkin concludes that the handsome Edstaston would be a suitable lover for Catherine, and he coerces the bewildered visitor into her bedchamber. Edstaston manages to escape, but he is repeatedly recaptured and delivered to the mischievous Catherine.
Release Date1968-11-29
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count8
Our Miss Fred
Danny La Rue stars in this 1970s drag comedy as Fred Wimbush, a Shakespearean actor who is drafted into WWII and is appearing in a camp show in France when the Nazis advance. Unless he continues in his female costume, Fred is certain to be shot as a spy. The risque gags and double entendres fly as he attempts to make his escape in the company of a troupe of Girl Guides.
Release Date1972-12-14
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Vote Count9
Dombey and Son
Charles Dickens' classic novel is given its first television adaptation in this classic 1969 BBC production. Paul Dombey is a well-to-do shipping firm owner, who lacks a son to take over the family business. After rejecting his daughter's affection, he reconciles with her before his death.
Release Date1969-08-17
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count1
Interlude
A young female journalist in London falls in love with a married orchestra conductor.
Release Date1968-05-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count11
The Moonstone
Adaptation of the classic novel. A priceless jewel, originally plundered from a Hindu shrine, is presented to Rachel Verinder on her 18th birthday. The jewel goes missing and suspicion falls over the household, threatening to destroy someone close to Rachel's heart.
Release Date1972-01-01
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count1
The Possessed
Adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel about liberal discussion versus revolutionary action in a provincial Russian town in the mid-nineteenth century.
Release Date1969-05-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Virgins
Three middle-aged Irish bachelors - Shemm, Cloggy and Ambrose - put drinks before sex. Even Mrs Ryder can't shatter their celibacy.
Release Date1974-06-24
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Four Beauties
Henry Batley, a bored young journalist in a small town is attracted to both Christie Davenport and her sister Sophie, whilst younger sister Tina is determined to make him hers.
Release Date1973-03-11
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Broth of a Boy
An Irish codger, 110, wants a piece of the action for doing a British producer's TV show.
Release Date1959-02-06
DepartmentWriting
JobTheatre Play
Vote Count1
The Little Farm
A farmer who lives alone decides to advertise for a companion-housekeeper to come and live with him.
Release Date1973-01-28
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
The Sullens Sisters
Tommy Adams has become quite the grown man. Now 19 years old, he is the man of the house, working full-time and supporting his widowed mother. He has also taken quite a fancy to Rachel Sullens, a 26 year old woman who lives with her 19 year old sister, Lindy.
Release Date1972-09-03
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
Silent Song
Life in a Trappist monastery offers a life of contemplation and hard labour.
Release Date1966-02-02
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Me Mammy
Me Mammy is a British sitcom that aired on BBC1 from 1968 to 1971. Starring Milo O'Shea, it was written by Hugh Leonard.
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count1
The Corpse Can't Play
Ronnie's party is going well, but his mother Alice is waiting for her husband Tom to return from the office to help supervise. The doorbell rings, but instead of Tom it's Simon Potter, a strange little boy who Ronnie dislikes, and who knows some unusual and horrifying variations of children's party games.
Release Date1968-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Vote Count3
The Watercress Girl
Mary stands trial for throwing vitriol in the face of Elizabeth, her rival for the love of Frank.
Release Date1972-09-17
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
A Life
Desmond Drumm, a highly intelligent but bitterly cynical civil servant, must try to make sense of his life after learning that he has a terminal illness.
Release Date1984-11-11
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
The Higgler
Harvey Whitlow has been back from World War I for a year and he's been having a hard time making a go of it.
Release Date1973-02-11
DepartmentWriting
JobAdaptation
The Late Arrival of the Incoming Aircraft
At Dublin Airport it's ten minutes to take-off, and Josie is determined to go to London. Her departure is delayed and this gives her irate husband and a nervous priest time to try to make her change her mind.
Release Date1965-12-25
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter