Lynda La Plante
Popularity:2.232
Known For:Writing
Birthday:1943-03-15
Place of Birth:Liverpool, England, UK
Homepage:http://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)
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
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...
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 One Show (2006)
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
The Gentle Touch (1980)
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing...
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)
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...
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...
The Professionals (1970)
Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway...
The Professionals (1970)
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.
The Professionals (1970)
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La...
The Professionals (1970)
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
The Professionals (1970)
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
The Professionals (1970)
The lives and missions of the crew of a Welsh rescue boat.
The Professionals (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars...
The Professionals (1970)
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
The Professionals (1970)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
The Professionals (1970)
Helen Hewitt is first woman put in charge of Barfield, a maximum security prison that had been nearly destroyed by a disastrous riot. Despite being...
The Professionals (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 Professionals (1970)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
The Professionals (1970)
Johnny Lazar, a down-and-out American comedian who tries to regain his status as an international superstar by embarking on a tour of working men's...
The Professionals (1970)
Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes.
The Professionals (1970)
Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being...
The Professionals (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 Professionals (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 Professionals (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 Professionals (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars...
The Professionals (1970)
Lawrence Jackson and Eddie Myers could not be more different. Jackson is an ambitious young police officer saddled with the responsibilities of a...
The Professionals (1970)
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
The Professionals (1970)
Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway...
The Professionals (1970)
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.
The Professionals (1970)
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La...
The Professionals (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars...
The Professionals (1970)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
The Professionals (1970)
Anna Travis investigates a copycat killer in this three-part crime series from Lynda La Plante.
The Professionals (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 Professionals (1970)
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
The Professionals (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 Professionals (1970)
Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being...
The Professionals (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 Professionals (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......