Colin Cant
Directing
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Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Crown Court

Children's drama series following the lives of students and teachers at Grange Hill comprehensive school.
Grange Hill

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 Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Z-Cars

New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.
New Scotland Yard

Sam is a drama set in the coalfields of Yorkshire in the inter-war period.
Sam

Dark Season is a British teen science fiction television serial created and written by Russell T Davies, and broadcast on BBC One from 14 November to 19 December 1991. Comprising six 25-minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories follow three teenagers—Marcie, Thomas and Reet—and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the sinister Mr Eldritch.
Dark Season

Century Falls is a 1993 British television miniseries written by Russell T Davies. Teenager Tess Hunter moves with her mother to a strange, isolated village where a dark, supernatural event from 40 years prior haunts the community, threatening her mother's unborn baby.
Century Falls

A six-part BBC2 drama about the Honourable Greville Carnforth, an aristocratic solicitor based in a small village community in the Lake District.
The Carnforth Practice

The Legend of the lost keys is an educational BBC Look and Read production, which was first aired on BBC Two on 12 January 1998, and has been shown regularly ever since.
The Legend of the Lost Keys

During the Second World War, a group of youth in the Northeast England town of Garmouth regularly suffer from bomb attacks by the German forces. One of the children raids a crashed German aircraft and takes a fully operational machine gun, intending to set up their own fortress. Playing with it causes a German plane to crash-land; the kids befriend the pilot, who is unaware that they had caused him to crash.
The Machine Gunners

A young boy becomes involved in fighting environmental pollution by a chemical company.
The Country Boy
Form master Sam Sylvester inspires the proud non-achievers of Hawkwood Comprehensive to compete in a tetrathlon (running, swimming, shooting, riding) against the posh Greycoats School, challenging stereotypes and finding inner strength.
Who, Sir? Me, Sir?
Following his mother's death and a move to a new area, Ben Dyker secretly joins a hopeless local youth team. His father, a disillusioned former footballer, eventually discovers this but later agrees to coach the team. The series also highlights the struggle to include a talented local girl in a 'boys only' league.
Striker

A teenage girl discovers a portal through time, and tries to help two children of the past.
Moondial
A mission takes off for the moon. But this is a space probe with a difference. Its purpose is to stage the first-ever live variety show from the lunar surface.
The Eagle Has Landed

A young boy goes to live with his great-grandmother. While she tells him stories of his ancestors, he begins to see the spirits of children who lived in the house during the reign of Charles II.