Norman Bird Movies

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled. There was a luncheon voucher scheme, a pension...

A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the...

Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It...

'Alice's' attempts to help with house decorating result in disaster. She is banished to the tree-house but a violent storm drives her indoors, to the...

After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks -...

The Chiffy Kids go camping on a farm. Magpie causes a tent to collapse and as a punishment is tied to a large cooking pot. Freeing herself, she...

A lord returns to his manor with his new wife, to hear rumours that he had already secretly returned and had committed several murders. Has he lost...

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

The exploits of Judy, Joey and Josh and a chimpanzee called Alice.

Two journalists search for a rock band that was popular 20 years ago but just seemed to have vanished and was never heard from again. Their...

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young...

'Alice' and the children try to foil the attempt of thieves to steal the presents from a wedding reception, with hilarious results.

Alice's attempts to reach the children by climbing down the chimney of their grandmother's house result in various people being stranded on the roof....

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama...

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

British TV-Drama