Don Henderson

Don Henderson

Born: November 10, 1932
Died: June 22, 1997
in Leytonstone, London, England, UK
Born Donald Francis Henderson in Leystonstone, 1931, Don Henderson was an English actor of stage, television and screen. He was best known for playing both "tough guy" roles and authority figures, and is remembered for his portrayal of detective George Bulman between 1976 and 1987 in a trilogy of popular Granada Television police drama series; The XYY Man, Strangers, and Bulman. Following the end of Bulman, Henderson starred as the priest Frank Kane in the BBC drama series The Paradise Club, penned by Bulman creator Murray Smith. Henderson starred in several cult and sci fi serials and films, most notably in the first Star Wars movie in which he played General Tagge, and Doctor Who and Red Dwarf. Prior to acting, Henderson was a dental technician in the army and a detective sergeant in the Essex constabulary, but he resigned when he found he had sympathy for the criminals he was obliged to arrest. He was married twice, firstly to Hilary who died in 1977, and then to the actress Shirley Stelfox, whom he met filming The XYY Man. The pair set up home in Stratford-Upon-Avon and appeared together professionally many times until his death from throat cancer in 1997.

Movies for Don Henderson...

Preaching to the Perverted
Title: Preaching to the Perverted
Character: Commander Cope
Released: July 4, 1997
Type: Movie
A computer wizard infiltrates a London sex club to get evidence for a shutdown, but falls for the proprietress.
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The Wind in the Willows
Title: The Wind in the Willows
Character: The Sentry
Released: October 16, 1996
Type: Movie
Jailed for his reckless driving, rambunctious Mr. Toad has to escape from prison when his beloved Toad Hall comes under threat from the wily weasels, who plan to build a dog food factory on the very meadow sold to them by Toad himself.
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Danielle Steel's Zoya
Title: Danielle Steel's Zoya
Character: Feodor
Released: September 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A young Russian countess escapes the 1917 revolution and, despite hardship, makes a new life for herself in America.
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The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
Title: The Doctors: 30 Years of Time Travel and Beyond
Released: September 1, 1995
Type: Movie
More than 30 years have now passed since a certain time traveling police box first materialized on our television screens, and the exploits of its various crews have enthralled audiences ever since. Here is the story of Britain's Number 1 Science Fiction programme told in order of the various actors who have played the Doctor.
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Title: Dandelion Dead
Released: October 30, 1994
Type: TV
This is a dramatisation of the true story of Major Herbert Rowse Armstrong, a solicitor and magistrate's clerk who lived in the small Welsh town of Hay-on-Wye. In 1921 he was arrested and charged with poisoning his domineering wife, Catherine, and later attempting to poison a business rival, Oswald Martin, by administering arsenic to them. At his trial, Armstrong claimed that he had bought the arsenic simply to kill the dandelions on his lawn. However he was convicted of murder and executed in 1922.
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Pat and Margaret
Title: Pat and Margaret
Character: Billy
Released: September 11, 1994
Type: Movie
Unexpected events occur when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her auto-biography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, Margaret her plain and frumpy younger sister. The meeting is painful for both women highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with an uncaring, errant mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the whereabouts of the long lost parent.
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No Escape
Title: No Escape
Character: Killian
Released: April 29, 1994
Type: Movie
In the year 2022, a ruthless prison warden has created the ultimate solution for his most troublesome and violent inmates: Absolom, a secret jungle island where prisoners are abandoned and left to die. But Marine Captain John Robbins, convicted of murdering a commanding officer, is determined to escape the island in order to reveal the truth behind his murderous actions and clear his name.
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Liberation: Salvation
Title: Liberation: Salvation
Character: Lord Curzon
Released: April 28, 1994
Type: Movie
It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.
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Liberation: Beginning of the end
Title: Liberation: Beginning of the end
Character: Lord Curzon
Released: April 21, 1994
Type: Movie
It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.
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White Angel
Title: White Angel
Character: Inspector Taylor
Released: April 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Ellen Carter's career is on the rocks. She hasn't written a worthy novel since her husband went missing and she was suspected by the police of murdering him. To top it all off, she has reason to believe that her new tenant Leslie Steckler is the serial killer responsible for a number of deaths in the region. But what she doesn't know is that, in the meantime, Steckler has discovered a little secret about her...
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Liberation: Flood of Blood
Title: Liberation: Flood of Blood
Character: Lord Curzon
Released: April 14, 1994
Type: Movie
It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.
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Liberation: Resurrection
Title: Liberation: Resurrection
Character: Lord Curzon
Released: April 7, 1994
Type: Movie
It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.
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Liberation: Between Two Fires
Title: Liberation: Between Two Fires
Character: Lord Curzon
Released: March 31, 1994
Type: Movie
It is the story of a nation's resurrection and victory, in which the War of Independence is told.
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Tomorrow Calling
Title: Tomorrow Calling
Character: Mervyn Kihn
Released: October 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A photographer hired to shoot photos of "futuristic Americana" starts having visions of an alternate reality that looks like the covers of pulp science fiction novels. An adaption of William Gibson's short story 'The Gernsback Continuum' for Channel 4.
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Title: Cracker
Character: Hennessy Senior
Released: September 27, 1993
Type: TV
The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.
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The Baby of Mâcon
Title: The Baby of Mâcon
Character: The Father Confessor
Released: September 17, 1993
Type: Movie
Set halfway through the 17th century, a church play is performed for the benefit of the young aristocrat Cosimo. In the play, a grotesque old woman gives birth to a beautiful baby boy. The child's older sister is quick to exploit the situation, selling blessings from the baby, and even claiming she's the true mother by virgin birth. However, when she attempts to seduce the bishop's son, the Church exacts a terrible revenge.
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The Trial
Title: The Trial
Character: The Flogger
Released: June 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Joseph K. awakes one morning, to find two strange men in his room, telling him he has been arrested. Joseph is not told what he is charged with, and despite being "arrested," is allowed to remain free and go to work. But despite the strange nature of his arrest, Joseph soon learns that his trial, however odd, is very real, and tries desperately to spare himself from the court's judgement.
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Title: The Detectives
Character: Brother Ryan
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: TV
The absurd adventures of two defective detectives, who - despite unbelievable incompetence - somehow manage to solve their cases (or be nearby when the cases are solved) and retain their jobs.
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As You Like It
Title: As You Like It
Character: The Dukes
Released: October 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.
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Carry On Columbus
Title: Carry On Columbus
Character: The Bosun
Released: October 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Christopher Columbus believes he can find an alternative route to the far East and persuades the King and Queen of Spain to finance his expedition...
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Black and Blue
Title: Black and Blue
Character: Daddy Brett-Smith
Released: September 27, 1992
Type: Movie
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
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My Friend Walter
Title: My Friend Walter
Character: Bertie Borrowbill
Released: April 24, 1992
Type: Movie
Bess Throckmorton, a farmer's daughter from Devon, encounters an ancient relative who soon reveals himself to be the ghost of Sir Walter Raleigh, determined to escape the Tower of London once and for all and return to Devon. When Sir Raleigh learns that a pair of dastardly brothers have designs on his ancestors' farm, he devises a plan to thwart them.
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Title: 2Point4 Children
Character: Frank
Released: September 3, 1991
Type: TV
They're just your average family. Stressed mum Bill, daft dad Ben, and two troublesome teens. Plus just a few crazy ideas, escapades and mishaps. The classic 90s sitcom.
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How's Business
Title: How's Business
Character: Mr. Bailey
Released: January 12, 1991
Type: Movie
During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country.
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Miss Queencake
Title: Miss Queencake
Released: January 2, 1991
Type: Movie
A tragi-comic boat movie in which Beauty and The Beast live out their own particular fairytales.
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The BFG
Title: The BFG
Character: Bloodbottler / Fleshlumpeater / Sergeant (voice)
Released: December 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Sophie is snatched from her orphanage early one morning by the BFG (Big Friendly Giant), whom she witnesses engaged in mysterious activities. She is soon put at ease, as she learns that BFG's job is to collect, catalog and deliver pleasant dreams to children. She joins him that night, but a mean giants follow them, planning to eat the children of the world.
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Tank Malling
Title: Tank Malling
Character: Percy
Released: December 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Tank is an investigative reporter and jailbird, framed on scant evidence supplied by the London mob. Helen is the sensuous call-girl who offers Tank ammunition and retribution. But, retaliation is swift and brutal, in the guise of Sir Robert Knights and his equally lethal lawyer, Dunboyne. A series of hideous murders follow as the devil protects his own. Only Malling and Helen can halt the onslaught. But, for how long, and at what price?
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Title: The Paradise Club
Character: Frank Kane
Released: September 19, 1989
Type: TV
The Paradise Club is a BBC television drama starring Don Henderson and Leslie Grantham as Frank & Danny Kane. Two series were produced and were broadcast between 1989 and 1990. The show focuses upon two brothers, Frank & Danny Kane. Their mother, Ma Kane, is the matriarch of a criminal gang in South London, helped by her son Danny. Frank has become a priest but leaves the church; he inherits The Paradise Club on the death of their mother and returns to London to try and steer Danny away from crime.
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Title: Making Out
Released: January 6, 1989
Type: TV
Making Out is a British television series, shown by the BBC between 1989 and 1991. The series, created by Franc Roddam, written by Debbie Horsfield, mixed comedy and drama in its portrayal of the women who worked on the factory floor at New Lyne Electronics in Manchester, tackling the personal lives of the characters as well as wider issues of recession, redundancy and retrenchment as the factory goes through various crises and take-overs. The music for the series was composed by New Order. The main theme for the show is an adaptation of the song "Vanishing Point". There is a specific mix of this song called the Making Out Mix.
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Title: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Character: Commander
Released: December 7, 1988
Type: Movie
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences with his band of misfits.
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Blanc de Chine
Title: Blanc de Chine
Character: Malcolm
Released: April 20, 1988
Type: Movie
Mathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of Paris. With Chinese and Vietnamese engaged in a bloody slaughterfest, the key to the mystery lies with the orphan girl who Mathieu helped to escape during the fall of Saigon in 1975. Now a beautiful young woman, Mathieu is reunited ten years later with the refugee, and together they attempt to solve the case. He uncovers a CIA plot that has carried over from the last days of the Vietnam War and that is related to the Paris murders.
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Maigret
Title: Maigret
Character: Barge Captain
Released: February 22, 1988
Type: Movie
Jules Maigret, a meticulous Parisian police detective, is a famous literary character. In this film adaptation of his stories, he's trying to solve a murder of a friend, a P.I. who was looking into an industrialist and his family.
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Title: Red Dwarf
Character: Rogue Simulant
Released: February 15, 1988
Type: TV
The adventures of the last human alive and his friends, stranded three million years into deep space on the mining ship Red Dwarf.
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Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
Title: Doctor Who: Delta and the Bannermen
Character: Gavrok
Released: November 16, 1987
Type: Movie
The Doctor and Mel go for a holiday trip to Shangri-La aboard a Nostalgia Tours bus, only to get dragged into the battle against genocide of their fellow passenger Delta, a Chimeron Queen fleeing from the Bannermen who wish to make her species extinct.
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Title: The New Statesman
Character: Brigadier Miljanic
Released: September 13, 1987
Type: TV
The New Statesman is a British sitcom of the late 1980s and early 1990s satirising the Conservative government of the time.
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Title: Knights of God
Released: September 6, 1987
Type: TV
Knights of God was a British science fiction children's television serial, produced by TVS and first broadcast on ITV in 1987. It was written by Richard Cooper, a writer who had previously worked in both children's and adult television drama. Set in the year 2020, it showed a Britain ruled by the Knights of God, a fascist and anti-Christian religious order that came to power during a brutal civil war twenty years previously. It starred George Winter as Gervase Owen Edwards, the Welsh son of a resistance leader, and John Woodvine as the Prior Mordrin, leader of the titular cult. Patrick Troughton played Arthur, the apparent leader of the English resistance, and Julian Fellowes played Mordrin's ambitious and ruthless second-in-command, Brother Hugo.
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The Secret World of Polly Flint
Title: The Secret World of Polly Flint
Character: Old Mazy
Released: February 16, 1987
Type: Movie
A young girl escapes her loneliness by retreating to The Magical World of Another Time, which can only be reached by using your imagination.
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Title: Casualty
Character: Jerry Hunter
Released: September 6, 1986
Type: TV
Drama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.
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Title: Dead Head
Character: Detective Inspector Malcolm
Released: January 15, 1986
Type: TV
London based petty crook, Eddie Cass agrees to pick up a package and courier it across the capital. When nobody answers the door at the drop off address Eddie opens the package and finds a woman’s severed head in a hatbox. He panics and dumps it in the River Thames. Returning home Cass is kidnapped by the mysterious Eldridge and his heavies who inform Eddie that he has been framed for the murder.
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Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Title: Billy the Kid and the Green Baize Vampire
Character: The Wednesday Man
Released: November 25, 1985
Type: Movie
Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional snooker again.
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Title: Bulman
Released: June 5, 1985
Type: TV
Bulman is a Granada TV series which ran from 1985–1987 and followed the fortunes of the major character from the earlier XYY Man and Strangers series. Bulman was based - increasingly loosely - on the character featured in the XYY Man novels by Kenneth Royce. In this incarnation, Don Henderson appeared again as former Detective Chief Inspector George Bulman, ostensibly retired from police work and repairing old clocks but active as a private investigator, with Lucy McGinty as his assistant. They are frequently drawn into the clandestine world of the secret service through the machinations of security chief Dugdale or Bulman's one-time police boss Lambie.
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Brazil
Title: Brazil
Character: First 'Black Maria' Guard
Released: February 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
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Title: Dempsey and Makepeace
Character: Don
Released: January 11, 1985
Type: TV
Dempsey and Makepeace is a British television crime drama made by London Weekend Television for ITV, created and produced by Ranald Graham. The leading roles were played by Michael Brandon and Glynis Barber, who later married each other on 18 November 1989. The series combined elements of previous series such as the mis-matching of British and American crime-fighters from different classes as seen in The Persuaders! and the action of The Professionals.
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Murder Elite
Title: Murder Elite
Character: Sgt Jessop
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
An English woman (Ali MacGraw) returns to her homeland after losing her fortune in America, and is stalked by a serial killer.
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Title: Annika
Character: Mr Daniels
Released: August 10, 1984
Type: TV
Isle of Wight deck chair attendant meets Swedish exchange student and after a holiday romance follows her back to Sweden.
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Squaring the Circle
Title: Squaring the Circle
Character: Kuron
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
An account of how Lech Walesa and the "Solidarity" trade union confronted the might of Communist dictatorship in Poland.
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Atlantis
Title: Atlantis
Character: Eddie
Released: March 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Goff and Lytton have a dream - a canal boat of their own on which to cruise the inland waterways: The reality is the boatyard of Josh Adkins and a rusting hulk called Atlantis.
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Title: Take the Stage
Character: Self
Released: November 12, 1981
Type: TV
Reparatory theatre people compete against television actors in panel games of improvisation.
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The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
Title: The Kamikaze Ground Staff Reunion Dinner
Character: Tokkotai
Released: February 17, 1981
Type: Movie
On August the 15th, 1945, after the official surrender of the Empire of Japan, Admiral Matome Ugaki led the last Special Attack Force pilots across the Pacific, to crash into American ships. Thirty-five years later, the men who serviced the aeroplanes are still meeting up for their annual dinner. Now settled into civilian jobs - dentist, baker, taxi-driver, insurance salesman - and with children and grandchildren, they bemoan the decay of traditional Japanese values. Hard liquor is imbibed, toasts raised to the memory of the heroic dead, and old rivalries resurface. The survivors' dissatisfaction with post-war life comes to a head when, in a moment of drunken inspiration, Tokkotai the airline pilot decides on a symbolic gesture to show that the kamikaze spirit lives on.
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The Island
Title: The Island
Character: Rollo
Released: June 13, 1980
Type: Movie
David Nau leads a band of modern day pirates who raid yachts and sail boats of people on vacation in the Caribbean. When reporter Blair Maynard and his son arrive to investigate the mystery of the disappearing boats, Nau and his band of raiders decide to induct them into their tribe.
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Title: The Enigma Files
Released: April 15, 1980
Type: TV
The Enigma Files is a British television detective drama that ran for one series of fifteen episodes in 1980.
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Title: Minder
Character: Billy Lynch
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Title: Dick Turpin
Released: January 6, 1979
Type: TV
Richard O'Sullivan stars as Dick Turpin in this action-filled adventure series chronicling the exploits of England's most celebrated highwayman.
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Title: Strangers
Character: George Bulman
Released: June 5, 1978
Type: TV
Strangers is a UK police drama that appeared on ITV between 1978 and 1982. After the success of the TV series The XYY Man, adapted from books by Kenneth Royce, Granada TV devised a new series to feature the regular characters of Detective Sergeant George Bulman and his assistant Detective Constable Derek Willis. The result was Strangers. The series began as a fairly standard police drama series with Bulman as its eccentric lead. Its premise was that a group of police officers have been brought together from different parts of the country to the north of England. There, the fact that they are not known locally gives them the opportunity to infiltrate where a more familiar local detective could not. Initially, the team consisted of Bulman, Willis and Linda Doran. Their local liaison was provided by Detective Sergeant David Singer; their superior was Chief Inspector Rainbow. Despite being based around a comparatively small team of detectives, a regular feature of the programme in its early years was that few episodes featured the entire team, with most using just two or three of the regulars in any major role.
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Title: Scorpion Tales
Character: Easterman
Released: April 29, 1978
Type: TV
Scorpion Tales was a British thriller television series, originally screened in 1978. Produced by ATV, the series was transmitted on the ITV network. It lasted just one season.
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Danton's Death
Title: Danton's Death
Character: Mercier
Released: April 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Danton's Death is arguably the most dramatic and penetrating study of revolution ever written. Georg Büchner concentrates on that moment in 1794 when the Reign of Terror, already well established, spills over into a total blood-bath. The play, adapted by director Alan Clarke and Stuart Griffiths, both highly imaginative and closely documentary, shows how the great hero of the early phase of the Revolution, Danton, sickened by the excesses of the guillotine, which he helped to create, wants to call a halt. But Robespierre and Saint-Just, leaders of the Jacobins, with a ferocious puritanical zeal, spur on 'the wild horses of the Revolution'.
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The Big Sleep
Title: The Big Sleep
Character: Lou
Released: March 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a case of blackmail involving the two wild daughters of a rich general, a pornographer and a gangster.
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One Day at a Time
Title: One Day at a Time
Character: Jack
Released: November 22, 1977
Type: Movie
An Alcoholics Anonymous meeting
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The Prince and the Pauper
Title: The Prince and the Pauper
Character: Burly Ruffian
Released: June 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Tom Canty is a poor English boy who bears a remarkable resemblance to Edward, Prince of Wales and son of King Henry VIII. The two boys meet and decide to play a joke on the court by dressing in each other's clothes, but the plan goes awry when they are separated and each must live the other's life.
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Star Wars
Title: Star Wars
Character: General Taggi
Released: May 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Princess Leia is captured and held hostage by the evil Imperial forces in their effort to take over the galactic Empire. Venturesome Luke Skywalker and dashing captain Han Solo team together with the loveable robot duo R2-D2 and C-3PO to rescue the beautiful princess and restore peace and justice in the Empire.
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Gotcha / Campion's Interview
Title: Gotcha / Campion's Interview
Character: Sellors
Released: April 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Two stories about school. Gotcha by Barrie Keeffe: On his last day at school, a 'no hope' 16-year-old pupil holds his teachers hostage using a motor-bike petrol tank as a bomb. Campion's Interview by Brian Clark: A headmaster takes on the Education Authorities on behalf on his pupils, exposing the political pressures behind the creation of a comprehensive school.
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The Finishing Line
Title: The Finishing Line
Released: January 29, 1977
Type: Movie
When a schoolboy's day-dream of a fantasy sports day includes events where acts of vandalism and trespass are required, dire consequences ensue. Originally created as an educational film, this somewhat surrealist short has a serious message at its core. This won't be a lesson you'll forget in a hurry.
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Voyage of the Damned
Title: Voyage of the Damned
Character: Engineering Officer
Released: December 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A luxury liner carries Jewish refugees from Hitler's Germany in a desperate fight for survival.
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Title: The XYY Man
Character: George Bulman
Released: July 3, 1976
Type: TV
The XYY Man began life as a series of novels by Kenneth Royce, featuring the character of William 'Spider' Scott, a one-time cat-burglar who leaves prison aiming to go straight but finds his talents still to be very much in demand by both the criminal underworld and the British secret service. Scott has an extra "y" chromosome that supposedly gives him a criminal predisposition - although he tries to go straight, he is genetically incapable of doing so. Royce's original books were : The XYY Man; Concrete Boot; The Miniatures Frame; Spider Underground and Trap Spider, though he returned to the character in the 80s with The Crypto Man and The Mosley Receipt. Regular characters included Scott's long-suffering girlfriend Maggie Parsons; British secret service head Fairfax; Detective Sergeant George Bulman, the tenacious policeman who wants nothing more than to see Scott back behind bars; journalist Ray Lynch; gay photographer Bluie Palmer and KGB chief Kransouski. In 1976 the first of Royce's novels was transferred to British television by Granada TV, in a three-part adaptation with Stephen Yardley playing Scott. The adventures of Scott caught the public imagination and ten more episodes followed in 1977. He is often co-opted into working for shadowy civil-servant and MI5 officer Fairfax. Doggedly on his trail is his nemesis Bulman and his assistant, Detective Constable Derek Willis.
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The Littlest Horse Thieves
Title: The Littlest Horse Thieves
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
When the owner of a Yorkshire coal-mine decides to mechanize to increase profits, the mine's pit ponies are scheduled to be destroyed. So, three children plan to steal them to keep them safe. But when they're caught, it's up to the mine owners and the miners themselves to decide what's right.
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Title: Poldark
Character: Tom Carne
Released: October 5, 1975
Type: TV
Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local industrialist George Warleggan, and the two women in their lives. Based on the books by Winston Graham.
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Title: Angels
Released: September 1, 1975
Type: TV
Angels is a BBC medical soap-opera which launched on 1st September 1975 and was the blue print for such medical soaps as Casualty, Holby City, plus daytime soap, Doctors. The medical soap focuses on different departments within Heath Green Hospital and was a highly successful continuing drama.
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The Ghoul
Title: The Ghoul
Character: The Ghoul
Released: July 11, 1975
Type: Movie
A former clergyman (Peter Cushing) in 1920s England tries to keep his cannibalistic son locked in the attic.
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Brannigan
Title: Brannigan
Character: Geef
Released: March 21, 1975
Type: Movie
Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture this mobster with both a price tag on his head and a stuffy old London cop to contend with.
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A Killer in Every Corner
Title: A Killer in Every Corner
Released: November 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A criminal psychologist invites three psychology students to his English countryside home to view some of his research on the criminal mind. Unbeknownst to the students, they are actually guinea pigs in a mind-control experiment he is conducting and the servants of the house are not what they appear to be.
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Footsteps
Title: Footsteps
Character: Policeman
Released: October 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Gemma Jones stars as a woman suffering from hyperacusis, which affects the muscles of the ears. As a result she has become highly sensitive to noise, a condition that is only exacerbated by living in a crowded boarding house.
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Regan
Title: Regan
Character: Strip Club Heavy
Released: June 4, 1974
Type: Movie
Rough, tough and politically incorrect in the way that only the best 70's dramas can be, Regan was a pilot film for The Sweeney - one of the major television successes of the last fifty years. Featuring John Thaw as the irascible Detective Inspector Regan and Dennis Waterman as his loyal 'oppo' Detective Sergeant Carter, Regan was an immediate critical and ratings hit, resulting in four series of The Sweeney and two successful feature films. Jack Regan is a good copper, but his tough, intuitive style is becoming unfashionable in a Scotland Yard seeking a new image. When a policeman is mysteriously murdered, Regan breaks all the rules to find the killer - but he finds there are men in the Flying Squad prepared to break him.
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Callan
Title: Callan
Character: George
Released: May 23, 1974
Type: Movie
David Callan, secret agent, is called back to the service after his retirement, to handle the assasination of a german businessman, but Callan refuses to co-operate until he finds out why this man is marked for death.
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Title: Warship
Released: June 7, 1973
Type: TV
Warship was a popular British television drama series produced by the BBC between 1973 and 1977. The series dealt with life on board a Royal Navy warship, the fictional HMS Hero.
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Title: Thriller
Character: Boz Bostyne
Released: April 14, 1973
Type: TV
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
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Title: The Protectors
Character: Walters
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Protectors is a British television series, an action thriller created by Gerry Anderson. It was Anderson's second TV series using live actors as opposed to electronic marionettes, and also his second to be firmly set in contemporary times. It was also the only Gerry Anderson produced television series that was not of the fantasy or science fiction genres. It was produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment production company. Despite not featuring marionettes or any real science fiction elements, The Protectors became one of Anderson's most popular productions, easily winning a renewal for a second season. A third season was in the planning stages when the show's major sponsor pulled out, forcing its cancellation. The Protectors first aired in 1972 and 1973, and ran to 52 episodes over two series, each 25 minutes long - making it one of the last series of this type to be produced in a half-hour format. It starred Robert Vaughn as Harry Rule, Nyree Dawn Porter as the Contessa Caroline di Contini, and Tony Anholt as Paul Buchet. Episodes often featured prominent guest actors.
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Title: Van der Valk
Character: Ullman
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: TV
Van der Valk is a British television series that was produced by Thames Television for the ITV network. It starred Barry Foster in the title role as Dutch detective Commissaris "Piet" van der Valk. Based on the characters and atmosphere of the novels of Nicolas Freeling, the first series was shown in 1972.
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Title: Play for Today
Released: October 15, 1970
Type: TV
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.
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Title: BBC Play of the Month
Character: Mercier
Released: October 19, 1965
Type: TV
Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were 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; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
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Title: Doctor Who
Character: Gavrok
Released: November 23, 1963
Type: TV
The adventures of The Doctor, a time-traveling humanoid alien known as a Time Lord. He explores the universe in his TARDIS, a sentient time-traveling spaceship. Its exterior appears as a blue British police box, which was a common sight in Britain in 1963 when the series first aired. Along with a succession of companions, The Doctor faces a variety of foes while working to save civilizations, help ordinary people, and right many wrongs.