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Richard Harris (television writer)

Index Richard Harris (television writer)

Richard Harris (born 1934) is a British television writer, most active from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s. [1]

72 relations: A Touch of Frost, About Face (TV series), Adam Adamant Lives!, Amanda Award, Armchair Mystery Theatre, Armchair Theatre, Associated Television, BBC Two, Comedy Playhouse, Crime fiction, Dennis Spooner, Detective fiction, Dial M for Murder, Donald Cotton, Drama 61-67, Edgar Wallace, Edgar Wallace Mysteries, England, Foreign Affairs (1964 TV series), Ghost Squad (TV series), Giles Cooper Awards, Hazell (TV series), I Start Counting, ITV (TV network), Knock on Any Door (TV series), London, Love Story (UK TV series), Man in a Suitcase, Mark Lewisohn, Mark Twain, Mrs Thursday, New Scotland Yard (TV series), No Hiding Place, Orion's Belt (film), Outside Edge, Pardon the Expression, Play (theatre), Play for Today, Playwright, Police Surgeon (UK TV series), Public Eye (TV series), Radio drama, Redcap (TV series), Richard Harris, Screenwriting, Script editor, Sergeant Cork, Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series), Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series), Shoestring (TV series), ..., Spyder's Web, Stepping Out (1991 film), Stepping Out (play), Strongroom (film), Sydney Newman, Target (UK TV series), Television in the United Kingdom, The Adventure of Black Peter, The Avengers (TV series), The Darling Buds of May (TV series), The Informer (TV series), The Last Detective, The Main Chance, The Plane Makers, The Prince and the Pauper, The Saint (TV series), The Squirrels (TV series), The Sweeney, The Wednesday Play, Tony Hancock, United Kingdom, Writers' Guild of Great Britain. Expand index (22 more) »

A Touch of Frost

A Touch of Frost is a television detective series produced by Yorkshire Television (later ITV Studios) for ITV from 6 December 1992 until 5 April 2010, initially based on the Frost novels by R. D. Wingfield.

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About Face (TV series)

About Face is a British sitcom consisting of twelve unconnected half-hour episodes starring Maureen Lipman.

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Adam Adamant Lives!

Adam Adamant Lives! is a British television series that ran from 1966 to 1967 on BBC 1, starring Gerald Harper in the title role.

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Amanda Award

The Amanda Award (Amandaprisen) is an award given annually at the Norwegian International Film Festival in Haugesund, Norway, to promote and improve Norwegian film.

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Armchair Mystery Theatre

Armchair Mystery Theatre is a 60-minute UK television anthology mystery series.

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Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974.

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Associated Television

Associated Television (ATV), a former British television company, was awarded the franchise by the Independent Television Authority (ITA) to provide the Independent Television service at weekends for the London region.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is the second flagship television channel of the British Broadcasting Corporation in the United Kingdom, Isle of Man and Channel Islands.

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Comedy Playhouse

Comedy Playhouse is a long-running British anthology series of one-off unrelated sitcoms that aired for 120 episodes from 1961 to 1975.

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Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalises crimes, their detection, criminals, and their motives.

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Dennis Spooner

Dennis Spooner (1 December 1932 – 20 September 1986) was an English television writer and script editor, known primarily for his programmes about fictional spies and his work in children's television in the 1960s.

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Detective fiction

Detective fiction is a subgenre of crime fiction and mystery fiction in which an investigator or a detective—either professional, amateur or retired—investigates a crime, often murder.

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Dial M for Murder

Dial M for Murder is an American crime mystery film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings and John Williams.

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Donald Cotton

Donald Henry Cotton (26 April 1928 – 28 December 1999) was a writer for radio and television during the black and white era.

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Drama 61-67

Drama 61-67 is anthology drama series which took a different title, based on year of transmission, each year.

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Edgar Wallace

Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace (1 April 1875 – 10 February 1932) was an English writer.

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Edgar Wallace Mysteries

The Edgar Wallace Mysteries was a British second-feature film series, produced at Merton Park Studios for Anglo-Amalgamated.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Foreign Affairs (1964 TV series)

Foreign Affairs is a British sitcom that aired on ITV in 1964.

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Ghost Squad (TV series)

Ghost Squad, known as G.S.5 for its third series, was a crime drama series that ran between 1961 and 1964, about an elite division of Scotland Yard.

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Giles Cooper Awards

The Giles Cooper Awards were honours given to plays written for BBC Radio.

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Hazell (TV series)

Hazell is a British television series that ran from 1978–1979, about a fictional private detective named James Hazell.

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I Start Counting

I Start Counting is a British thriller film released in 1970, directed by David Greene and starring Jenny Agutter in one of her first major roles.

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ITV (TV network)

ITV is a British commercial TV network.

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Knock on Any Door (TV series)

Knock on Any Door is a British television anthology series which aired for two series in 1965-1966 (nine episodes in first series, eleven episodes in second series).

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Love Story (UK TV series)

Love Story is a 60-minute UK anthology television series produced by Associated Television (ATV).

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Man in a Suitcase

Man in a Suitcase is a British television series produced by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

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Mark Lewisohn

Mark Lewisohn (born 16 June 1958) is an English author and historian, regarded as one of the world's leading authorities on the English rock band the Beatles.

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Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer.

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Mrs Thursday

Mrs Thursday is a British television comedy-drama produced by Associated Television.

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New Scotland Yard (TV series)

New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television (LWT) for the ITV network between 1972 and 1974.

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No Hiding Place

No Hiding Place is a British television series that was produced at Wembley Studios by Associated-Rediffusion for the ITV network between 16 September 1959 and 22 June 1967.

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Orion's Belt (film)

Orion's Belt (Orions belte) is a 1985 Norwegian dual-language, political action thriller film, directed by Ola Solum and Tristan DeVere Cole.

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Outside Edge

Outside Edge is a play by Richard Harris about a cricket team trying to win a game of cricket whilst sorting out their various marital problems.

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Pardon the Expression

Pardon The Expression! is an ITV sitcom made by Granada Television, that was first broadcast from Wednesday 2 June 1965 to Monday 27 June 1966.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.

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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.

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Playwright

A playwright or dramatist (rarely dramaturge) is a person who writes plays.

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Police Surgeon (UK TV series)

Police Surgeon is a television series made by the Associated British Corporation and starring Ian Hendry as Dr Geoffrey Brent.

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Public Eye (TV series)

Public Eye is a British television drama series that ran from 1965 to 1975, for a total of seven series.

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Radio drama

Radio drama (or audio drama, audio play, radio play, radio theater, or audio theater) is a dramatized, purely acoustic performance.

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Redcap (TV series)

Redcap is a British television series produced by ABC Weekend Television and broadcast on the ITV network.

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Screenwriting

Screenwriting, also called scriptwriting, is the art and craft of writing scripts for mass media such as feature films, television productions or video games.

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Script editor

A script editor is a member of the production team of scripted television programmes, usually dramas and comedies.

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Sergeant Cork

Sergeant Cork is a British detective television series which first aired between 1963 and 1968 on ATV.

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Sherlock Holmes (1965 TV series)

Sherlock Holmes (alternatively Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes) is a British series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations for television produced by BBC between 1965 and 1968.

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Sherlock Holmes (1984 TV series)

Sherlock Holmes is the name given to the ITV TV series of Sherlock Holmes adaptations produced by British television company Granada Television between 1984 and 1994, with the first two series bearing the title The Adventures Of Sherlock Holmes on screen and being followed by subsequent sub-series bearing the titles of other short story collections by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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Shoestring (TV series)

Shoestring is a British detective fiction drama series, set in an unnamed city in the west of England and filmed in Bristol, featuring private detective Eddie Shoestring (Trevor Eve), who presents his own show on Radio West, a local radio station.

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Spyder's Web

Spyder's Web was a British crime drama television series aired in 1972.

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Stepping Out (1991 film)

Stepping Out is a 1991 American musical comedy film directed by Lewis Gilbert, written by Richard Harris (based on his 1984 play Stepping Out) and starring Liza Minnelli.

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Stepping Out (play)

Stepping Out is a play written by Richard Harris in 1984.

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Strongroom (film)

Strongroom is a 1962 British crime drama film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Derren Nesbitt, Colin Gordon and Ann Lynn.

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Sydney Newman

Sydney Cecil Newman, OC (April 1, 1917 – October 30, 1997) was a Canadian film and television producer, who played a pioneering role in British television drama from the late 1950s to the late 1960s.

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Target (UK TV series)

Target was a police drama series, which ran from 1977–78, on BBC1.

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Television in the United Kingdom

Television in the United Kingdom started in 1936 as a public service which was free of advertising.

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The Adventure of Black Peter

"The Adventure of Black Peter" is a Sherlock Holmes story by Arthur Conan Doyle.

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The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961.

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The Darling Buds of May (TV series)

The Darling Buds of May is an English comedy drama television series, produced by Yorkshire Television for the ITV network, first broadcast between 7 April 1991 and 4 April 1993.

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The Informer (TV series)

The Informer is a British drama series that starred Ian Hendry, it was broadcast in two series in 1966 and 1967.

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The Last Detective

The Last Detective is a British TV drama series, broadcast on ITV between 7 February 2003 and 31 May 2007, starring Peter Davison as the title character, Detective Constable "Dangerous Davies".

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The Main Chance

The Main Chance is a British television series first aired on ITV in four series between 1969 and 1975.

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The Plane Makers

The Plane Makers is a British television series created by Wilfred Greatorex and produced by Rex Firkin.

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The Prince and the Pauper

The Prince and the Pauper is a novel by American author Mark Twain.

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The Saint (TV series)

The Saint is an ITC mystery spy thriller television series that aired in the United Kingdom on ITV between 1962 and 1969.

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The Squirrels (TV series)

The Squirrels is a British television sitcom, written by Eric Chappell, who went on to create the Yorkshire Television sitcoms Rising Damp and Only When I Laugh.

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The Sweeney

The Sweeney is a 1970s British television police drama focusing on two members of the Flying Squad, a branch of the Metropolitan Police specialising in tackling armed robbery and violent crime in London.

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The Wednesday Play

The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970.

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Tony Hancock

Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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Writers' Guild of Great Britain

The Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB), established in 1959, is a trade union for professional writers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Harris_(television_writer)

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