From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Claude Whatham (born 7 December 1927 in Manchester - died 4 January 2008) was an English Film and television director mainly known for his work on dramas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Whatham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.
Release Date1974-03-13
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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
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Episode Count2
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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
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Episode Count7
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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
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Episode Count1
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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
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Episode Count3
Vote Count45
C.A.T.S. Eyes is a British television series made by TVS for ITV between 1985 and 1987. A spin-off of the series The Gentle Touch, Maggie Forbes leads an all-female detective agency called "Eyes" that secretly operates as a Home Office team known as C.A.T.S. (Covert Activities Thames Section).
Release Date1985-04-12
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Episode Count1
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Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones. The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Release Date1951-12-24
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Episode Count1
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This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Release Date1971-02-17
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Episode Count1
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Anthology series in which a prospective “Club of the Damned” member is required to tell a horror story, their application for membership being judged on how frightening it was.
Release Date1977-06-11
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Episode Count8
Vote Count7
Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
Release Date1978-09-05
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Episode Count4
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American computer whiz Luke Williams meets elderly Lavinia Fullerton on a London-bound train. She reveals she's discovered the identity of a serial killer in her village and is going to report it to Scotland Yard. When she is murdered after disembarking the train, Williams vows to pursue the case himself.
Release Date1982-01-02
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Vote Count16
Britain, 1958. Restless at school and bored with his life, Jim leaves home to take a series of low-level jobs at a seaside amusement park, where he discovers a world of cheap sex and petty crime. But when that world comes to a shockingly brutal end, Jim returns home. As the local music scene explodes, Jim must decide between a life of adult responsibility or a new phenomenon called rock & roll.
Release Date1973-05-13
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Vote Count19
Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
Release Date1981-11-05
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Vote Count5
James Herriot is a vet in Yorkshire, England, during the 1940's. He is assigned to the practice of Siegfried Farnon, who—together with his mischievous brother Tristan—already have a successful business. James undergoes a variety of adventures during his work, which are just as often caused by the characters of the county, including the Farnon brothers, as the animals in his care.
Release Date1975-07-27
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Vote Count22
'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
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Episode Count48
An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.
Release Date1985-01-01
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Vote Count2
On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
Release Date1974-06-01
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Vote Count18
One pill, and you're floating on air. A different one, and you're full of lead. Married, mortgaged, broke, a love-affair gone sour - which drug can help Alec?
Release Date1976-03-23
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William McClusky (Sam Waterston) is a dashing and eccentric Scotsman whose charms rapidly overwhelm the sweet and naive Ann Walton (Jenny Agutter), but she nearly as quickly begins to comprehend that her new beau is anything but a one-woman man. In addition to his two ex-wives, with whom he remains remarkably close, William exhibits a disturbing attraction for nearly any female who crosses his path -- Ann's friends among them.
Release Date1980-04-11
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An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Catherine Lacey (the Countess), Ian Richardson (Bertram), Lynn Farleigh (Helen), Clive Swift (Parolles) and Sebastian Shaw (the King), it was broadcast on 3 June 1968.
Release Date1968-03-06
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Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.
Release Date1968-01-02
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The wife of a British army officer discovers his affair with a Polish countess in Germany circa 1918.
Release Date1983-02-11
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John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
Release Date1981-01-08
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John Mortimer's play about the tangled love life of an East London pub landlord.
Release Date1972-06-19
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An enchanting tale of childhood in a sleepy Cotswold village during and immediately after the First World War.
Release Date1971-12-25
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Vote Count10
Disraeli is a British four part serial about the great statesman and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Benjamin Disraeli.
Release Date1978-09-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Friends arrange a dinner party to introduce two single friends, Rita and Piers, neither of whom are particularly keen.
Release Date1976-03-16
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Buddy is an aspiring teenager who is a very good musician and has pressure to go further than his Dad's teddy boy rocker days...
Release Date1991-03-01
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Vote Count5
'Caesar and Claretta' dramatises the last few hours in the lives of Benito Mussolini (El Duce, played by Robert Hardy) and his mistress Claretta (played by Helen Mirren).
Release Date1975-05-08
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Vote Count1
Part of BFI collection "They Stand Ready."
Release Date1985-01-02
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Adapted from the play by the British playwright Arthur Wing Pinero, as part of BBC Play of the Month. It depicts the vicissitudes of a reformed philanderer attempting to embark on monogamy.
Release Date1983-06-13
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Barry Reckord adapted his stage play for TV and his brother Lloyd plays the central character – a Jamaican new to London. When he begins a relationship with a white woman, he finds himself in conflict with his mother, who has great expectations for him. The very early intimate portrayal of this interracial relationship broke new ground, and is believed to feature one of the world's first examples of an interracial kiss on TV.
Release Date1962-06-05
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A moody drama concerning the lonely but luxurious imprisonment of Napoleon Bonaparte on St Helena.
Release Date1978-09-23
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Michael Frayn play part of TV series The Wednesday Play.
Release Date1969-01-02
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Follows a PE teacher, whose attempt to impress the need for self-control on his pupils verges on the sadistic.
Release Date1970-05-09
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Two TV Plays by Vaclav Havel, one called 'Audience', and one called 'Private View'.
Release Date1978-11-21
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Play by Arthur Hopcraft about Christmas in a Northern town, and the relationship within a family.
Release Date1973-12-13
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A social satire in which advertisers realise that having a blind beggar as the public face of charities would help make them seem more appealing to donors.
Release Date1971-11-11
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Play about a student, taken from his point of view, and his reactions to the pressures and vacuums of student life.
Release Date1971-01-14
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When Mr Coleman was alive he found it hard to talk to his son. Since his death he finds it strangely easier.
Release Date1977-05-24
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In the snooker room at a genteel gentleman's club, the mood darkens when adultery becomes the subject of conversation.
Release Date1975-01-13
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Winsome art critic Peter visits married artists Gilberto and Vera in Brazil for Christmas. Gilberto and Peter are more than friends though, and jealous romantic entanglements ensue when it becomes apparent that Gilberto’s marriage is not over just yet.
Release Date1980-08-12
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Series "Polyvinyl 33 1/3", was created three years ago, aims to bring together all their broadcasting those whose hobby of collecting plates showed different approaches and attitudes toward, compared to today, when there is a huge variety of sound . Given the fact that today's young people do not even know what a single plate, what is the album, and what a record player, the show itself is the story of more than a hundred previous participants in this series had an opportunity to become familiar with the basic concepts of Hi-Fi technology and the development of sound records on 78 rpm to latest mp3 editions.
Release Date2006-01-07
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