Lynda La Plante
Popularity:0.4482
Known For:Writing
Birthday:1943-03-15
Place of Birth:Liverpool, England, UK
Homepage:https://lyndalaplante.com
Also Known As:Lynda Marchal
Goodbye Granadaland (2013)
As ITV's move from its iconic base on Quay Street to the Orange Tower at MediaCityUK nears completion, this tribute looks back at 56 years of Granada...
Beasts: Special Offer (1976)
A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come...
An Audience with Freddie Starr (1996)
A celebrity audience pays tribute to the inimitable Freddie Starr, one of Britain's zaniest comedians.
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
R. Neville, a brash young draftsman, is hired to make a dozen landscape illustrations at the estate of Mr Herbert and his wife Virginia. Aside from...
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the...
High Road to China (1983)
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a...
Coming Out (1979)
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't...
Our Young Mr. Wignall (1976)
Young Mr. Wignall is on a business trip to northern England. He is keen to pull some local girls while there. His unassuming boss, meanwhile, has...
1+1=1.5 (1969)
The population of the United Kingdom at the beginning of the 21st Century is static, thanks to computerised population control, but the wife of the...
Sheppey (1980)
Sheppey, an ordinary working-class waiter, wins a fortune in a sweep-stake, and elects to use the money to help the unfortunate.
This Morning (1988)
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and...
The Gentle Touch (1980)
Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes...
Z-Cars (1962)
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...
The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)
The Paul O'Grady Show is a British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada...
The Sweeney (1975)
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
Beasts (1976)
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United...
Play for Today (1970)
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...
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983)
Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
Educating Marmalade (1982)
Marmalade Atkins is the naughtiest girl in the world. In fact, she's so wicked that her parents and social worker decide that the only thing to do...
Rentaghost (1976)
Rentaghost was a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred...
Bergerac (1981)
Jim Bergerac is a detective sergeant in The Foreigners Office who likes to do things his own way. While dealing with his own personal demons...
Out (1978)
Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the...
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced...
The Professionals (1977)
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was...
Armchair Theatre (1956)
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally...
The Sunday Drama (1977)
Anthology of self-contained dramas that aired from 1977 to 1978.
The Doctors (1969)
The Doctors is a British television drama produced by the BBC. A twice-weekly broadcast from November 1969 to June 1971, it was a highly authentic,...
The Doctors (1970)
Armed robbers Harry, Terry, and Joe die when the security van that they're robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their...
The Doctors (1970)
Clare Blake, a high-ranking, ambitious officer in the Metropolitan Police's Serious Crimes Unit, leads complex murder investigations that often blur...
The Doctors (1970)
Devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police...
The Doctors (1970)
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
The Doctors (1970)
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
The Doctors (1970)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
The Doctors (1970)
Maximum security prison Barfield has recently nearly been destroyed by a riot. Helen Hewitt, the first woman put in charge of the prison, is...
The Doctors (1970)
Detective Jane Timoney finds that being a homicide detective in New York City is tough enough and having to contend with a male-dominated police...
The Doctors (1970)
Jane Tennison is a probationary WPC in 1973 London, where she faces sexism while working her first murder case. Follow her early career, her...
The Doctors (1970)
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of...
The Doctors (1970)
Dolly Rawlins is free again. She has served the eight year prison sentence for her husband's murder and is now set to collect the six million pounds...
The Doctors (1970)
Dolly Rawlins is free again. She has served the eight year prison sentence for her husband's murder and is now set to collect the six million pounds...
The Doctors (1970)
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of...
The Doctors (1970)
The lives and missions of the crew of a Welsh rescue boat.
The Doctors (1970)
The lives and missions of the crew of a Welsh rescue boat.
The Doctors (1970)
An anthology of seven psychological dramas, each with a different cast and crew, exploring deaths in unusual circumstances.
The Doctors (1970)
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
The Doctors (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the...
The Doctors (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the...
The Doctors (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the...
The Doctors (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the...
The Doctors (1970)
A by-the-rule police officer must team up with a streetwise cop and go undercover in an operation to bust a major drug ring in Manchester. This...
The Doctors (1970)
A by-the-rule police officer must team up with a streetwise cop and go undercover in an operation to bust a major drug ring in Manchester. This...
The Doctors (1970)
Devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police...
The Doctors (1970)
Clare Blake, a high-ranking, ambitious officer in the Metropolitan Police's Serious Crimes Unit, leads complex murder investigations that often blur...
The Doctors (1970)
Clare Blake, a high-ranking, ambitious officer in the Metropolitan Police's Serious Crimes Unit, leads complex murder investigations that often blur...
The Doctors (1970)
On holiday in Spain, London police officer Lawrence Jackson recognises absconded criminal turned informant Eddie Myers, now a wealthy art dealer...
The Doctors (1970)
Down-and-out American comedian Johnny Lazar tries to regain his status as an international superstar by embarking on a tour of working men's clubs...
The Doctors (1970)
Down-and-out American comedian Johnny Lazar tries to regain his status as an international superstar by embarking on a tour of working men's clubs...
The Doctors (1970)
Armed robbers Harry, Terry, and Joe die when the security van that they're robbing catches fire in the Kingsway Tunnel in London. Their...
The Doctors (1970)
Clare Blake, a high-ranking, ambitious officer in the Metropolitan Police's Serious Crimes Unit, leads complex murder investigations that often blur...
The Doctors (1970)
Devised and written by Lynda La Plante as a follow-on from her successful television series Prime Suspect, this vast police procedural follows police...
The Doctors (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British crime drama programme starring Kelly Reilly as Anna Travis, a rookie detective determined to prove herself in the...
The Doctors (1970)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
The Doctors (1970)
Detective Jane Timoney finds that being a homicide detective in New York City is tough enough and having to contend with a male-dominated police...
The Doctors (1970)
Anna Travis investigates a copycat killer in this three-part crime series from Lynda La Plante.
The Doctors (1970)
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
The Doctors (1970)
A by-the-rule police officer must team up with a streetwise cop and go undercover in an operation to bust a major drug ring in Manchester. This...
The Doctors (1970)
Jane Tennison is a probationary WPC in 1973 London, where she faces sexism while working her first murder case. Follow her early career, her...
The Doctors (1970)
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of...
The Doctors (1970)
Seekers is a four-part TV mini-series released in 1992 about a police officer who disappears, and when his wife tries to find him, she discovers......
The Doctors (1970)
The lives and missions of the crew of a Welsh rescue boat.
The Doctors (1970)
Maximum security prison Barfield has recently nearly been destroyed by a riot. Helen Hewitt, the first woman put in charge of the prison, is...
The Doctors (1970)
On holiday in Spain, London police officer Lawrence Jackson recognises absconded criminal turned informant Eddie Myers, now a wealthy art dealer...
The Doctors (1970)
Down-and-out American comedian Johnny Lazar tries to regain his status as an international superstar by embarking on a tour of working men's clubs...