Mick Ford

Midsomer Murders

The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his young sergeant to calmly and diligently eliminate the innocent and ruthlessly pursue the guilty.

Release Date1997-03-23

Charactersd Frank Lightbourne

Episode Count1

Vote Count327

Silent Witness

A team of exceptional forensic pathologists and scientists investigate heinous crimes and use their skills to catch the people responsible.

Release Date1996-02-21

Charactersd Peter Ross

Episode Count8

Vote Count98

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 Date1970-10-15

Charactersd Frank

Episode Count2

Vote Count9

A Touch of Frost

Jack Frost is a gritty, dogged and unconventional detective with sympathy for the underdog and an instinct for moral justice who attracts trouble like a magnet. Despite some animosity with his superintendent, Norman “Horn-rimmed Harry” Mullett, Frost and his ever-changing roster of assistants manage to solve cases via his clever mind, good heart, and cool touch.

Release Date1992-12-06

Charactersd Bill Ford

Episode Count1

Vote Count71

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense

Hammer House of Mystery and Suspense was a short-lived anthology television series from Hammer Studios. Though similar in format to the 1980 series Hammer House of Horror, the Mystery and Suspense series had feature-length episodes, usually running around 70 minutes without commercials. The series was a co-production by Hammer Studios with 20th Century Fox Television, and is known in the United States as Fox Mystery Theater. Unlike 1980's Hammer House of Horror, all the episodes had American actors as either the leads or in key roles. It was first aired in the UK by ITV in 1984, though was not simulcast and was shown in different timeslots throughout the various ITV regions.

Release Date1984-09-05

Charactersd Tony Graham

Episode Count1

Vote Count8

The Adventures of Frank: Seeds of Ice

In his further adventures Frank finds success and unhappiness.

Release Date1980-11-11

Charactersd Frank

The Racing Game

Sid Halley, champion steeplechase jockey, suffers a devastating injury in a fall that ends his career. He sinks into self-pity until his aristocratic father-in-law bullies him into trying something new: becoming a private detective. A great literary gumshoe emerges as Halley regains his dignity, faces his vulnerability, and finds new meaning in life.

Release Date1979-11-21

Charactersd Chico Barnes

Episode Count6

Vote Count2

The Fourth Protocol

Led by Kim Philby, Plan Aurora is a plan that breaches the top-secret Fourth Protocol and turns the fears that shaped it into a living nightmare. A crack Soviet agent, placed under cover in a quiet English country town, begins to assemble a nuclear bomb, whilst an MI5 agent attempts to prevent its detonation.

Release Date1987-03-20

Charactersd Sergeant Bilbow

Vote Count184

Scum

Powerful, uncompromising drama about two boys' struggle for survival in the nightmare world of Britain's notorious Borstal Reformatory.

Release Date1979-09-12

Charactersd Archer

Vote Count198

How to Get Ahead in Advertising

Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.

Release Date1989-05-05

Charactersd Richard

Vote Count102

Caleb Williams

Release Date1980-12-02

Charactersd Caleb Williams

Episode Count4

Kim

A friendly street kid in India, during the last years of the nineteenth century, looks and considers himself Indian, but is in fact a Brit. The Brits discover his true origin, and train him as a spy.

Release Date1984-05-16

Charactersd Cpl. Bruce

Vote Count1

The Boy with the Topknot

Born to traditional Punjabi parents and growing up in Wolverhampton, Sathnam Sanghera moves to London after graduating from Cambridge University. Now in his late 20s he is planning to reveal to his family that he will defy expectations of an arranged marriage - but instead learns a painful family secret.

Release Date2017-11-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Laura's Father

Vote Count8

The Knowledge

Four men attempt "The Knowledge" examination to qualify as London taxi drivers.

Release Date1979-01-01

Charactersd Chris Matthews

Vote Count9

Naming the Names

Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that...

Release Date1987-02-08

Charactersd Jack

The Late Nancy Irving

A famous US golfer with an extremely rare blood type is taken to a private hospital after falling ill. Her recovery prolongs and she befriends the people there. One day, she sees a TV news report on her death and realizes she's trapped.

Release Date1984-11-26

Charactersd Tony Graham

Vote Count1

The Sailor's Return

Based on the 1925 novel The Sailor's Return by David Garnett. A sailor returns to his hometown to open a pub bringing with him his new black wife. Very quickly they find themselves ostracised by the community.

Release Date1978-11-15

Charactersd Tom Madgwick

Vote Count5

Light Years Away

A young drifter meets up with a strange old man who claims that he has been taught to fly by birds

Release Date1981-05-20

Charactersd Jonas

Vote Count7

Next Week

A grandson struggles to connect with his granddad with Alzheimers.

Release Date2018-05-23

Charactersd Grandad

The Gourmet

A rich, bored gourmand who has tasted all there is of exotic meals, even human flesh, gets a tip-off from a rich midget. The midget had tasted everything out of this world, and even something not of this world. In other words, a ghost. The gourmand becomes very interested…

Release Date1986-01-04

Charactersd David

Vote Count2

Desert of Lies

The fortunes of two expeditions a century and a half apart become mysteriously linked in the same desolate stretch of Kalahari Desert. In 1848 the Broon family are sent by the London Missionary Society to look for and convert a legendary race of strangely deformed savages. In 1983, a team of three people go off in search of what really happened.

Release Date1984-03-13

Charactersd Jake

The Adventures of Frank: Everybody's Fiddling Something

Frank, a young lad from Sheffield, leaves home to seek his fortune in London; he finds the big city not all what he had expected

Release Date1980-11-04

Charactersd Frank

Bad Hats

In this routine drama, two men (a crass Brit and a slow Frenchman) decide to evade the war in 1917, but their flight on a stolen boat goes awry and they end up on the coast of France, close to the fighting they wanted to leave behind. Once on shore, they make the acquaintance of a like-minded young widow who begins an affair with both men (she just wants to have a child by each) -- but their unusually idyllic existence is threatened with imminent tragedy as the French army advances ever closer.

Release Date1982-09-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Chapin

Hitting Town

Ralph decides to give his sister Clare a night on the town to cheer her up. They visit a burger bar and a disco in a modern precinct, and Clare gets slightly drunk. At the end of the evening, they both end up at Clare's flat.

Release Date1976-04-26

Charactersd Ralph

Caleb Williams

Release Date1980-12-02

Charactersd Caleb Williams

Vote Count4

The Stranger

A web of secrets sends family man Adam Price on a desperate quest to uncover the truth about the people closest to him.

Release Date2020-01-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count496

Ashes to Ashes

Crime drama series featuring Life On Mars' DCI Gene Hunt. After being shot in 2008, DI Alex Drake lands in 1981, where she finds herself in familiar company.

Release Date2008-02-07

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count106

Inspector George Gently

Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.

Release Date2008-04-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Vote Count59

The Five

When they were twelve years old, Mark, Pru, Danny and Slade were out together in the park. Mark’s five-year-old brother, Jesse, was annoying them. They were mean – told him to get lost. Jesse ran away. He was gone. Never seen again. Twenty years later, Danny – now a detective – learns some shocking news. Jesse’s DNA has been found at a murder scene. He is alive and out there. Somewhere.

Release Date2016-04-15

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count92

Sharman

Sharman is a television series starring Clive Owen, based on the "Nick Sharman" books written by London based author Mark Timlin. Nick Sharman is a disillusioned, down-at-heel private investigator. An instinctive loner with a shady past, he can also be charming, quick-witted, determined and, despite his faults, he has an undeniable attraction for many of the women he encounters.

Release Date1995-04-05

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count1

Living the Dream

A British family, the Pembertons, decide it’s time to leave rainy England and move to the sunshine state of Florida. They've bought an RV Park with plans for a booming family-run business, but it soon turns out that they are not going to be living the dream they hoped.

Release Date2017-11-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count6

Vote Count6

Fear

Excited to make a fresh start away from London, Martyn and Rebecca move into a beautiful house in Glasgow with their two young children. At first, the new home seems idyllic, but when their neighbour Jan makes unnerving comments to Rebecca it turns out to be the start of something far more intimidating.

Release Date2025-03-04

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count3

Vote Count7

After the Flood

Joanna finds an unidentified man dead in a lift in a underground car park after a devastating flood, police assumes that he became trapped as the waters rose, but she is obsessed with discovering what happened to him.

Release Date2024-01-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Vote Count25

Hunter

Hunter is a two-part BBC One police drama. Hugh Bonneville and Janet McTeer reprised their roles as the dysfunctional detective double-act following on from the 2007 series Five Days. The series aired in the UK on Monday 18 January 2009 on BBC One at 9pm and achieved an average of 5.4m viewers during first episode. It was simulcast on BBC HD.

Release Date2009-01-18

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count2

Vote Count6

Single Father

Dave is facing the seemingly impossible job of bringing up four kids alone after the sudden death of his wife. And things get even more complicated when he falls in love with his wife's best friend, Sarah. Single Father asks how soon is too soon to fall in love again?

Release Date2010-10-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count4

Vote Count14

The Last Weekend

When Ian and Em receive a surprise invitation from their old friend Ollie to spend a weekend in the Suffolk countryside, they expect an idyllic holiday. But the competitive edge to the men's relationship soon rises to the surface, with irreversible consequences.

Release Date2012-08-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count3

Vote Count9

The Only Way Out

Jeremy Carlisle's ex-wife Lynn is trying to stay away from her dangerously disturbed ex-boyfriend Tony, and Jeremy does all he can do protect his family.

Release Date1993-12-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

One Way Out

James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.

Release Date1989-09-10

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Shoot the Revolution

During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth". The question isn't how did she die, but why?

Release Date1990-12-16

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

The Passion

During a rural representation of The Passion of Christ, a young actor and a married costume designer start a romance.

Release Date1999-05-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Big Bad World

Release Date1999-06-20

Episode Count16

Vote Count1