Philip Latham

  • 1967
    The Scales of Justice

    The Scales of Justice

    The Scales of Justice

    7.0 1967 HD

    Not strictly TV productions, "The Scales of Justice" were cinema second features produced for Anglo Amalgamated running around 30 minutes and followed the "Scotland Yard" series of shorts also introduced by Edgar Lustgarten. Production was sporadic (presumably filling gaps in the Edgar Wallace schedule), the first three released Nov-Dec 1962, a second batch of three released Sept/Oct 1963, two more in Feb 1965, one in Dec 1965 and a final batch (in colour) Sept 1966 to March 1967. The usual Merton Park recipe of familiar British actors in tightly plotted screenplays (based on real cases) with better than usual B movies production standards. All thirteen have now (Oct 2012) been released on DVD by Network.

    The Scales of Justice
  • 1967
    ITV Play of the Week

    ITV Play of the Week

    ITV Play of the Week

    3.5 1967 HD

    A UK anthology series of single plays from major playwrights old and new. It ran from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television. Season 1 also incorporates the Plays from the 'H.M. Tennant Globe Theatre' series, some of which were incorporated and labelled in listings as official Play of the Week episodes and some of which were played in place of Play of the Week episodes in alternative ITV regions. All 8 plays have been incorporated into this entry for convenience.

    ITV Play of the Week
  • 1978
    Force 10 from Navarone

    Force 10 from Navarone

    Force 10 from Navarone

    6.2 1978 HD

    World War II, 1943. Mallory and Miller, the heroes who destroyed the guns of Navarone, are sent to Yugoslavia in search of a ghost from the past.

    Force 10 from Navarone
  • 1969
    Detective

    Detective

    Detective

    0.0 1969 HD

    A BBC anthology series featuring adaptations of detective stories over 45 episodes in three seasons that ran from 1964 to 1969. As with many BBC programmes made before the early 1970s, many of its episodes no longer exist. Of the eighteen episodes from the first season only twelve are currently known to exist; likewise six of the sixteen editions from the second run are considered lost, and just one of the final ten survives in the archives.

    Detective
  • 1972
    The Troubleshooters

    The Troubleshooters

    The Troubleshooters

    5.0 1972 HD

    The Troubleshooters is a British television series made by the BBC between 1965 and 1972, created by John Elliot. During its run, the series made the transition from black and white to colour transmissions. The series was based around an international oil company – the "Mogul" of the title. The first series was mostly concerned with the internal politics within the Mogul organisation, with episodes revolving around industrial espionage, internal fraud and negligence almost leading to an accident on a North Sea oil rig.

    The Troubleshooters
  • 1980
    Hammer House of Horror

    Hammer House of Horror

    Hammer House of Horror

    7.1 1980 HD

    Anthology series, in which each self-contained episode featured a different kind of horror. These varied from witches, werewolves, ghosts, devil worship and voodoo, but also included non-supernatural horror themes such as cannibalism, confinement and serial killers.

    Hammer House of Horror
  • 1960
    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    The Adventures of Robin Hood

    6.2 1960 HD

    The legendary character Robin Hood and his band of merry men in Sherwood Forest and the surrounding vicinity. While some episodes dramatised the traditional Robin Hood tales, most episodes were original dramas created by the show's writers and producers.

    The Adventures of Robin Hood
  • 1964
    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    The Human Jungle

    8.25 1964 HD

    The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Television by the small production company Independent Artists for transmission on ITV. Starring Herbert Lom, it ran for two series which were first transmitted during 1963 and 1965.

    The Human Jungle
  • 1966
    Dracula: Prince of Darkness

    Dracula: Prince of Darkness

    Dracula: Prince of Darkness

    6.8 1966 HD

    Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.

    Dracula: Prince of Darkness
  • 1970
    The Wednesday Play

    The Wednesday Play

    The Wednesday Play

    4.25 1970 HD

    The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.

    The Wednesday Play
  • 1968
    Danger Man

    Danger Man

    Danger Man

    7.3 1968 HD

    Danger Man is a British television series which was broadcast between 1960 and 1962, and again between 1964 and 1968. The series featured Patrick McGoohan as secret agent John Drake. Ralph Smart created the programme and wrote many of the scripts. Danger Man was financed by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

    Danger Man
  • 1969
    The Saint

    The Saint

    The Saint

    7.2 1969 HD

    Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.

    The Saint
  • 1983
    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    The Professionals

    7.303 1983 HD

    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 to fight terrorism and similar high-profile crimes. Cowley, a hard ex-MI5 operative, hand-picked each of his men. Bodie is a cynical ex-SAS paratrooper and mercenary whose nature ran to controlled violence, while his partner, Doyle, comes to CI5 from the regular police force, and is more of an open minded liberal. Their relationship is often contentious, but they are the top men in their field, and the ones to whom Cowley always assigned to the toughest cases.

    The Professionals
  • 1973
    UFO

    UFO

    UFO

    7.941 1973 HD

    A secret, high-technology international agency called SHADO defends Earth from alien invaders.

    UFO
  • 1967
    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    No Hiding Place

    3.7 1967 HD

    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. It was the sequel to the series Murder Bag and Crime Sheet, all starring Raymond Francis as Detective Superintendent, later Detective Chief Superintendent Tom Lockhart.

    No Hiding Place
  • 1984
    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    Play for Today

    5.8 1984 HD

    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 than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

    Play for Today
  • 1969
    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    The Avengers

    7.8 1969 HD

    The Avengers is a British television series created in the 1960s. It initially focused on Dr. David Keel and his assistant John Steed. Hendry left after the first series and Steed became the main character, partnered with a succession of assistants. His most famous assistants were intelligent, stylish and assertive women: Cathy Gale, Emma Peel and Tara King. Later episodes increasingly incorporated elements of science fiction and fantasy, parody and British eccentricity.

    The Avengers