Alan Bridges

Adapted from the Beatrix Potter story tells the story of the pignap of Little Pig Robinson by Captain Barnabus Butcher who fools Robinson into believing he is being taken on a trip to visit the land of the Bong tree; the truth of the matter is more sinister.

Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy award winning drama based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection.

1913, shortly before the outbreak of WWI. A group of aristocrats gathers at the estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby for a weekend shoot. As the terminal decrepitude of a dying class is reflected in the social interactions and hypocrisy of its members, only world weary Sir Randolph seems to realise that the sun is setting.

Retrospective of the life and movie work of British actor James Mason. The documentary presents interview footage interspersed with some movie excerpts, mainly from his pre-hollywood period.

세 여인이 한 남자를 사랑한다. 교양있고 아름다운 그의 부인 키티(Kitty Baldry: 줄리 크리스티 분), 사촌지간인 제니(Jenny Baldry: 앤-마가렛 분), 그리고 젊은 날 사랑했던 마가렛(Margaret Grey: 글렌다 잭슨 분). 크리스 대위(Chris Baldry: 알란 베이츠 분)는 끔찍한 전쟁터에서 멀쩡히 살아 돌아오지만 지난 15년간의 모든 기억은 제로인 상태가 된다. 병원에 있다는 소식을 받고는 키티와 제니가 달려가지만 그는 부인을 전혀 알아보지 못하고 그의 사촌인 제니만을 알아본다. 제니가 그에게 그의 부인 키티를 상기시키려 하지만 오히려 그는 젊은 날의 애인 마가렛만을 찾는다. 이에 키티는 크게 상심하지만 그의 기억을 되찾게 해주려고 노력을 한다. 그러나 그러한 그녀의 노력에는 아랑곳없이 그의 사촌 제니에게 마가렛을 만나게 해달라고 부탁을 한다. 한편 제니도 마음속 깊이 그를 사랑하는 마음을 간직한 채 연민의 정으로 바라본다. 그리고 크리스가 마가렛을 만나도록 도와 준다. 크리스는 이제는 초라한 중녀의 여인이 되어 남의 아내가 되었지만 그녀에게 사랑을 느낀다. 또한 마가렛도 크리스에 대해 연민의 정을 느끼고 그의 기억을 되살려 주려고 노력한다. 비록 15년간의 기억은 상실되었지만 그 어느때보다도 행복한 모습으로 그의 생을 즐기는데... 제1차 세계대전을 겪으면서 지난 20여년간의 기억을 상실한 남자와 그를 둘러싼 세 여인(부인 사촌 여동생 젊은 날의 애인) 간의 미묘한 사랑의 심리를 다룬 영화. 잔잔한 영상 속에서 전개되는 심리 묘사와 섬세하게 그려지는 사랑의 여러 유형이 볼 만하고 출연 배우들의 연기가 뛰어나다.

Theme of a powerful and respected man tearing his life to bits.

Another of Dennis Potter's "visitation dramas": Adultery by John disturbs Janet, so she flirts with the simple, mistreated Billy during the middle of giving him a reading lesson. Unfortunately, it triggers aggressive behavior in Billy which he directs toward John.

An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.

An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.

One Saturday evening Rosa Priore is preparing a magnificent Sunday lunch for her family and their friends. By Sunday afternoon her life and marriage are in ruins.

A British schoolteacher finds trouble in a conservative Canadian town.

A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.

Middle-aged Ann and her teenage daughter Joanna manage a failing hotel on an island off the British coast. One day, the hotel receives an unexpected guest, a man named Joe...

Two strangers, both married to others, meet in a railway station and soon find themselves in a brief but intense affair.

The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the implacable presence of death itself."

Based on the novel by L. P. Hartley, The Hireling is a dissection of antiquated but hardly dormant British class distinctions as a lonely socialite and her chauffeur become more than friends.

TV Movie directed by Alan Bridges

Jack Black is a disturbed actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.

Western journalists visit Moscow to interview Adrian Harris, a former controller in British intelligence who was also a double agent for the USSR. Harris believes in both Communism and Englishness, believing himself to have betrayed his class, but not his country. The press find these beliefs incompatible, and want to find out why he became a ‘traitor’. Harris is plagued by anxieties over both his actions and his upper-class childhood, and drinks to a state of collapse

A devestating, yet bracing look at a family whose proximity to each other belies the decay of their relationships, The Wild Duck is just as modern today as it was when first staged. When Gregors Werle comes to stay with the Ekdals, his idealist nature refuses to tolerate the dreamworld of lies the family is living. However, in his bid to force the Ekdals to see the truth, the skeletons he unearths destroy the family that he wanted to redeem.

Ingmar Bergman play looking at the cool and brittle relationship between a successful architect (Frank Finlay) and his academic wife (Gemma Jones). Commissioned by the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation on behalf of European members participating in ‘The Largest Theatre in the World’. This, the Radio Times explained, was ‘a project which enabled a play to be broadcast simultaneously in several languages across Europe.’ This UK Play For Today version was directed by Alan Bridges, whilst an American version was put out on CBS, directed by Alex Segal

The Countess lives in her East European palace, oblivious to the new regime that has moved in. After the war Volubin, a Marxist writer, is instructed to obtain from her the keys to her wine-cellar, which are needed for a celebration dinner. First shown in 1970, this play charts the transition of dictatorial power in the 20th century.

The play by William Shakespeare.

TV play by David Mercer. First in a trilogy concerning Marxist novelist Robert Kelvin. The occasion is a dinner party, Kelvin is concerned with a summation of his life, addressed in his head to his lover, Emma.

The trustees of Midwestern University have forced three teachers out of their jobs for being suspected communists. Trustee Ed Keller has also threatened mild mannered English Professor Tommy Turner, because he plans to read a controversial piece of prose in class. Lost episode of BBC Play of the Month.

Two couples let tensions build between them in this 'Wednesday Play'.

Routine tests on a traffic accident victim lead to shocking discoveries when the man's blood is found to be unidentifiable and x-rays reveal a disc embedded in his brain. His fabulous tale of being an escaped prisoner from an alien spaceship takes a turn for the sinister when the hospital staff realise that they're under a state of siege...

A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.