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SECRET ARMY
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Has been re-released on DVD
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Beautifully presented box of 4 DVDs of the 3rd Series.
in
UK High Street shops such as HMV, Smiths
http://www.play.com
Prisoner of War
The last Run
Ring of Roses
Ambush
Light the Blue Touch Paper
Collaborator
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KESSLER
re-released on DVD
and is now available from high street
stores and Amazon
 Clifford Rose & Alison Glennie
 Alan Dobie
Nitza Saul & Nick Young
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Wonderful TV Film Drama Series.
Staring
Claire Higgins- Ken Hutchinson - Gabrielle Anwar
Being a crook isn't a very pleasant way of life. It
is particularly disagreeable to be married to someone in the underworld
and worse still to be a mobster's daughter.
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'There is little peace for a man who lives amongst hoodlums
and there may be no hiding place'.
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'There is certainly no honour
BLOOD
ROYAL
BECAME
BLOOD
MONEY
ONEDIN LINE
I directed several episodes over a couple of seasons of
this popular series.
eter was a delightful actor to work with and most of the success of the
series was down to his portrayal of James Onedin.
Worked again with him on One by One
One by One
Zoo Vet series about work with exotic
animals - lots of fun - very interesting working with Jimmy Clubb
&
Sally Chipperfields Circus.
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I direct a mean elephant!
I worked with all the
'Doctors' up to and including Tom
Baker.
Had the pleasure of directing Cybermen, Sea Devils, Daleks and my
favourite - the Robots from the space miner...
DR WHO
Sea Devils -
with interviews and commentary
Colony in Space
Revenge of the
Cybermen
Robots of Death
Death to the Daleks
The Sea Devils
TREASURE
ISLAND
We shot the West Indian island sequences on the southern
tip of Corsica - that was as far as the budget allowed us to go! The
Jungle was shot on the Mildmay estate near Plymouth which has been
home location to several previous versions of this 'Sea Story'.
A
Tale of Two Cities
BBC Sunday Classic Serial .
I wrote the
adaptation as well as Directing
Won an Emmy.
Tangier
Feature film produced byLinked Ring Productions
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set in Gibraltar, Tangier with
Billie Whitelaw & Ronnie Cox
Available from Amazon and eBay
Warship
A very good BBC 1 drama series about life in a Leander
Class Frigate
HMS HERO.
Created and mainly written by Ian Mackintosh a serving
RN officer. He was awarded a posthumous MBE for his work in Intelligence
- a real life James Bond!
Locations in Hong Kong, Plymouth & Portsmouth.
Blake's7 is available from the BBC shop/Amazon
etc
BLAKE'S 7
THE WAY BACK,
THE
WEB,
PROJECT AVALON
DELIVERANCE
I directed the first ever episode and then several more
from the first series. Great fun to do -
Bravely going where others had been before!
Howard's Way
From my original idea,
The series was
produced by the late
Gerry Glaister.
Very successful 'boating and between the
sheets' drama series
set on the Hamble River.
As well as directing I created the
sailing sequences that backed the end credits.
A really fun days shooting
with a helicopter, speed boats and some splendid craft to photograph!
The cast
Maurice Colbourne
as
all round good-guy Tom Howard,
Jan Harvey as the glamorous Jan Howard
and
Stephen Yardley as the manipulative Ken Masters.
DUTCH
TELEVISION
DRAMA
(My brief sojourn in Netherlands Television)
 SPIJKERHOEK
Had the pleasure of directing the first
& second series. My function was to bring UK TV production techniques to
Netherlands TV.
 Friends for
life/Vrienden voor het Leven
Found the Scripts, did the casting, created the
recording techniques and imported the UK system of Sit Com to the
Netherlands.
After
Henry/Zonder Ernst
 Found the script, Produced and Directed the Pilot
then
got fired by Joop v/d Ende!
Firsts are always interesting!
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working for the Vara I directed this clever sit com
based on Swedish Series. 3 series of it!
!
Won lots of awards for drama and got to live in Amsterdam!
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To
be a young television director in the 60's 70's & 80's was
wonderful.
I
was 24 when I did the (then 6 week) directors course at the BBC then directed my first broadcast
television drama production.
Television
was growing at a rate and the creative side was run by people from the theatre
or film industry. Directors in those days did the casting, were consulted
during the writing process and had a freedom impossible today.
Because
I was on the staff of the BBC, as a Production Assistant - production
manager/first assistant in film terms - I was allowed to direct shows
whilst still on the staff. (All drama directors are freelance in UK TV) Until 1970/1 I would direct a show then have to go
back to being a PA - Always a bit difficult but with a wife, children and a
mortgage, it had it's attractions but I hated the system and wanted to go
freelance.
In
1970 Ronnie Marsh, then head of drama, gave me a years contract worth of
freelance directing engagements. I left the staff and became freelance
television director.
What a nice man and
what a kind thing to do.
Television
has now grown up and on soaps the role of the director is primarily to point
cameras. The speed and instant acting required to-day has taken much of the fun
out the work and many - particularly BBC soaps - are run by committee.
Not
sure if this is good or bad, but for young directors it is very sad.
I
would have paid to do the directing work that came my way - certainly it was a
bit intimidating sometimes, very scary even, but it never was boring and I was allowed to
experiment and sometimes to fail - the most exciting thing I can imagine.
I was
so lucky.
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The
following is what I have been doing in the Film and Television part of my
life...
The
E in Michael E Briant came about because of the same problem I had as a child
actor and changed my name to Tennant - The actor Michael Bryant was/is
much more famous than me - He started to get phone calls about his directing
abilities! and I started to get letters and calls from his fans! Michael Byiant's
correspondence was much more interesting than mine but none the less I decided
to insert my E initial into my credits!
1966
Z Cars Film and Studio
1967
The Newcomers
4 episodes
1968/9
The Doctors
12 episodes
1970
Dr Who
Colony in Space
Freelance
Director
1970/1
Z Cars Old Bones, Bits
and Bats, The fighter etc etc
1971
Dr Who
Sea Devils + Christmas Spectacular – 6 episodes
1973
Dr Who
Death to the Daleks
1974
Z Cars First series shot all OB
1974
Southerland’s Law
A Murmur of Malice
1975
Dr Who
Revenge of the Cybermen
1975
Southerland’s Law
A Slight case of Matrimony
1975
Dixon of Dock Green
Black Monday – Hired Man
1976
Onedin Line
4 x 50’ episodes
1977
Dr Who
Robots of Death
1975
Angels Hospital Series about nurses
1975
Breakaway
Francis Durbridge
6 part mystery serial
1976 Dixon
of Dock Green
Alice - Jackpot
50’ Episodes
1977
Warship
And Wings of Gold - Knight Errant
1977
Treasure Island
6 part serial of Stevenson’s Classic novel
1977
Blake’s 7
First episode + 4 others
1978
Warship
Windsong - Girl from the Sea - A Matter of History
1977/8
Secret Army
Prisoner of War – the last Run – Ring of Roses
- Ambush –
Light the blue touchpaperPaper
– Collaborator
1979
Blood Money
6
part serial about kidnapping of royal child by terrorists-
written
by Arden Winch.
1980
Tale of Two Cities 6 part serial of Dickens Classic Novel – I also wrote the adaptation - It won an Emmy
1981
Kessler
Sequel to Secret Army about today's
Nazi party leaders
1981/2 Link
Ring Films Started my own production company
1982/3
Tangier
Feature film – Produced and Directed
1983
Emmerdale
Yorkshire
1983/4
One by One
Zoo Vets drama series
1985
Emmerdale
Yorkshire TV
1985/6
Hideaway
6 x 50
Film series all on
location in London and Derbyshire
1987/8
Howard’s Way Sailing Series - based on my original concept
1989
Eastenders
BBC
1990
Spikerhook/Nail Corner Netherlands
Drama series
1991/2
Emmerdale
Yorkshire
1993/4
Friends for Life
Netherlands
sit com Vrienden voor het Leven
UK title 'The Two of Us'
(First Netherlands
sitcom series made with UK production techniques)
1995
After Henry/Zonder Ernst Netherlands
sit com - produced & directed
1996
EastEnders BBC
1997/8
Jansen-Jansen Netherlands Sit Com
1999/0
Blue Water Cruising Produced and Directed in Caribbean
2000
Blue Water Destinations Trinidad to Panama
2001
Blue Water Destinations Panama to Galapagos
2002
Blue Water Destinations Marquises to Tahiti
2002
Blue Water Destinations Society Islands to Fiji and Tonga
2003
Blue Water Destinations Australia to Timor
2003/4
Blue Water Destinations Indonesia to Sri Lanka
http://uk.imdb.com/name/nm0108468/
This should go to my IMDb page
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