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Rockliffe (TV Series)
''Rockliffe'' is a British television police procedural drama series, produced by the BBC, which ran for three series between 9 January 1987 and 14 December 1988. ''Rockliffe'' was devised by Richard O'Keeffe, and produced by Leonard Lewis. The first two series, entitled ''Rockliffe's Babies'', starred Ian Hogg as Alan Rockliffe, a detective sergeant assigned to train a team of inexperienced plain-clothed Crime Squad PCs in inner-city London, which include Steve Hood (Brett Fancy), Gerry O'Dowd (Joe McGann), David Adams (Bill Champion), Janice Hargreaves ( Alphonsia Emmanuel), Paul Georgiou (Martyn Ellis), Keith Chitty (John Blakely) and Karen Walsh (Susanna Shelling). The series featured writing contributions from Richard O`Keeffe, Don Webb, Charlie Humphreys and Nick Perry, and was directed by Derek Lister, Keith Washington, Clive Fleury and David Attwood. The third series, entitled ''Rockliffe's Folly'', followed Rockliffe through his relocation to Wessex Police, dealing ...
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Police Procedural
The police show, or police crime drama, is a subgenre of procedural drama and detective fiction that emphasizes the investigative procedure of a police officer or department as the protagonist(s), as contrasted with other genres that focus on either a private detective, an amateur investigator or the characters who are the targets of investigations. While many police procedurals conceal the criminal's identity until the crime is solved in the narrative climax (the so-called whodunit), others reveal the perpetrator's identity to the audience early in the narrative, making it an inverted detective story. Whatever the plot style, the defining element of a police procedural is the attempt to accurately depict the profession of law enforcement, including such police-related topics as forensic science, autopsies, gathering evidence, search warrants, interrogation and adherence to legal restrictions and procedure. Early history The roots of the police procedural have been traced to at l ...
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Edward Wilson (actor)
Edward William "Ed" Wilson, FRSA (13 July 1947 – 2 February 2008) was an English actor and the Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre from 1987–2003; he later moved to Los Angeles. Early life Born in South Shields, County Durham, the son of Thomasina (née Moore), and William James Wilson, a pitman, he attended the local grammar school.Obituary: Edward Wilson
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1980s British Crime Television Series
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1988 British Television Series Endings
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1987 British Television Series Debuts
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Alan Wareing
Alan Wareing (born 16 August 1943 in Chorley, Lancashire) is a British television director. He became interested in directing through amateur theatre. He directed many plays before he started working in BBC Television, firstly as an assistant floor manager and then as a production assistant, before training to be a director at the corporation. His early work as a director included three ''Doctor Who'' serials from Sylvester McCoy's era as the Seventh Doctor, and he has directed hundreds of episodes of the ITV soap operas ''Coronation Street'' and ''Emmerdale''. Filmography Director *'' London's Burning'' - 1988 *''Doctor Who'' **''The Greatest Show in the Galaxy'' - 1988 **'' Ghost Light'' - 1989 **''Survival'' - 1989 *'' Notaufnahme'' - 1995 *'' Wycliffe'' **Strangers - 1997 **Bad Blood - 1997 **Time Out - 1998 **Feeding the Rat - 1998 **Scope - 1998 **Land's End - 1998 *''Casualty'' **Cry for Help - 1987 **Cross Fingers - 1987 **Fun Night - 1987 **These Thi ...
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Tristan De Vere Cole
Tristan John de Vere Cole (born 16 March 1935) is an English television director, now retired. In his first career, he was a Royal Navy Officer for seven years. Life Cole is believed to be the last-surviving illegitimate son of the painter Augustus John (1878–1961). His mother, Mavis Cole, met John at the Café Royal in 1928, and agreed to model for him. In 1931 she married Horace de Vere Cole, a well-known Edwardian practical joker, then in 1932 became the mistress of Augustus John. Cole was brought up in the John household at Fryern Court, Fordingbridge, from the age of 18 months, partly by his mother, and then later by Dorelia McNeill. Cole was educated for three years at Kelly College, Tavistock Tavistock ( ) is an ancient stannary and market town within West Devon, England. It is situated on the River Tavy from which its name derives. At the 2011 census the three electoral wards (North, South and South West) had a population of 13,028 ..., from thirteen to sixteen, and ...
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Stephen Gallagher
Stephen Gallagher (born 13 October 1954) is an English screenwriter and novelist. Gallagher was born in Salford, Greater Manchester. Career Gallagher has written novels and television scripts, including for the BBC television series ''Doctor Who'' — for which he wrote two serials, ''Warriors' Gate'' (1981) and ''Terminus'' (1983)—as well as for the series ''Rosemary & Thyme'' and '' Bugs'', for two seasons of which he was script consultant along with Brian Clemens. He adapted his own novel ''Chimera'' as a 90 minute dramatized audio drama for BBC Radio 4 in 1985, and as a miniseries of the same name that was shown on ITV in 1991. He also directed the miniseries adaptation of '' Oktober'', as well as writing the feature-length episode ''The Kingdom of Bones'' for the BBC series ''Murder Rooms''. He created and wrote a science-based series for ITV, ''Eleventh Hour'', starring Patrick Stewart as a government science investigator and advisor. The programme was rumoured ...
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Ken Hannam
Ken Hannam (12 July 1929 – 16 November 2004) was an Australian film and television director who also worked in British television drama. Career Born in St Kilda, Melbourne, the eldest of three boys, Hannam lived in his youth in Sydney and was educated at Wollaroi College in Orange, New South Wales. He worked in Australian radio, theatre and television. He started in radio when 15 years of age. He was an announcer at 2SM. He appeared in theatre as an actor, and appeared in the first Philip Street Revue. In 1957 he took over the TV show '' Captain Fortune''. In 1968 he moved to England. He worked in English television, and returned to direct Australian feature films.David Stratton, ''The Last New Wave: The Australian Film Revival'', Angus & Robertson, 1980 p96-98 Feature Films His first feature '' Sunday Too Far Away'' (1975) marked the emergence of an internationally recognised Australian film industry. He went on to direct '' Summerfield'' (1977) and other films. His 19 ...
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Diarmuid Lawrence
Diarmuid Seton Lawrence (15 October 1947 – 20 September 2019) was an English television director. Born in Westcliff-on-Sea in Essex, Lawrence began his career in 1978 as a production assistant on the BBC television drama ''Pennies from Heaven (TV series), Pennies from Heaven''. Two years later he made his directorial debut with ''Play for Today''. Lawrence's credits include ''The Witches and the Grinnygog (TV series), The Witches and the Grinnygog'', ''Mapp and Lucia (2014 TV series), Mapp and Lucia'', ''Quirke (TV series), Quirke'', ''Grange Hill'', ''Anglo-Saxon Attitudes#Television adaptation, Anglo Saxon Attitudes'', ''Minder (TV series), Minder'', ''The Hanging Gale'', ''Casualty (TV series), Casualty'', ''Silent Witness'', ''Little Dorrit (TV serial), Little Dorrit'', ''Messiah (BBC series), Messiah'', and ''Desperate Romantics''. In 1990, his direction of ''Beyond the Pale'' won him the San Francisco International Film Festival, Golden Gate Award for Best Television Feat ...
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Don Webb (playwright)
Don Webb is a playwright and script writer based in the UK. He has written for British TV and the West End and is currently working on a novel for children. Biography Don Webb started writing fairly early in life. His first ventures were into radio plays produced in Manchester for BBC Radio 4 by Tony Cliff in the 1980s and he attracted comment and praise for the strong industrial plays drawing on his industrial background and experience. ''Centre Circle'' and ''Designing Alternatives'' were ahead of their time and illustrated property developers preying on small town centre football clubs. ''A Tentative Maybe'' exposed dubious industrial chemical manufacturing practices and ''The Chairman's Statement'' attacked the Thatcherite revolution and its effect on the industrial landscape, particularly in the North of England. A change of tone produced ''Witch Water Green'', an exploration of the Golden Bough legends and water shortages. ''September's here and I can't sing'' was a love ...
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