Michael Simpson

Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of...

The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as...

Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...

Barlow at Large is a British television programme created by Troy Kennedy Martin and Elwyn Jones. It broadcast from September 1971 to February 1975,...

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...

Three elegant murder mysteries adapted from the crime novels of Dorothy L. Sayers. Set in the 1930s, the relationship of amateur sleuth Lord Peter...

This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had...

The first United Kingdom television series to be set in the psychiatric unit of a hospital.

Family drama series about a middle aged couple (Ray Brooks and Sharon Duce) who, with their own three children in their teenage years, decide to...

A made-for-television adaptation of the J. B. Priestley play of the same title.

A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a...

Prince Regent is a British period television series that first aired on the BBC in 1979. It depicted the life of George IV from his youth, time as...

Second Verdict is a six-part 1976 BBC television series, a dramatised documentaries of classic criminal cases and unsolved crimes from history...

Anthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.

In Britannia in 130, a young Roman officer named Marcus Flavius Aquila and his freed slave Esca search for the Ninth Legion's gold eagle standard,...