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John Cooper

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Biography

John Cooper (1927 — 2017) was an English television producer and director, known for Thriller (1973), The Paper Lads (1977), and ITV Sunday Night Drama (1959).

Known For

Thriller
6.9

Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

Thriller

1973
The Power Game
10.0

The Power Game is an ITV drama spin-off from The Plane Makers (1963–65), created by Wilfred Greatorex. Broadcast for three 13-episode series, Patrick Wymark reprised his role as Sir John Wilder, who here ruthlessly pursues boardroom machinations and tangled relationships.

The Power Game

1965
Half Hour Story
7.5

18 short plays written especially for TV, an opportunity for up-and-coming directors such as floor manager Alan Clarke, who ended up doing 10 of the episodes. Some top ranking performers were attracted to the series.

Half Hour Story

1967
Hunters Walk
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Hunters Walk – devised by Dixon of Dock Green creator Ted Willis – was about crime on a smaller – but no less dramatic – scale, and featured a police force in the fictional Midlands town of Broadstone (the series was actually filmed in Rushden, Northants). Sharing several similarities with the classic 1950s police drama, in particular a small-town settingband storylines encompassing the more human aspects of police work, Hunters Walk offered a contrasting alternative to the 1970s more hard-hitting, action-led urban crime dramas. The small, idiosyncratic team of officers faced a typically broad spectrum of cases, from neighbours’ disputes and hooliganism to suspected murder.

Hunters Walk

1973
Unnatural Causes
6.3

An anthology of seven psychological dramas, each with a different cast and crew, exploring deaths in unusual circumstances.

Unnatural Causes

1986
Worlds Beyond
5.8

Worlds Beyond is a British television anthology broadcast on ITV from 1986 to 1988, based on real-life supernatural experiences described in archival documents from the Society for Psychical Research. A book was also released to accompany the series.

Worlds Beyond

1986
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Drama series about the Ettaswell Brass Band and its musical director H.G. Bestwick.

Sounding Brass

1980
A Killer with Two Faces
7.0

A crazed killer escapes from an asylum and assumes the identity of his twin brother, a famous and respected architect.

A Killer with Two Faces

1974
Screamer
7.4

A young American girl on her way to visit friends in rural England is brutally attacked and raped. After spending the next few months in a mental institution trying to recover from her ordeal, she is released into the care of her friends. The police assure her that they have the man responsible in custody, and she begins to rest easy. That is until she sees her attacker wandering the streets of the town. After planning her revenge she follows the man and kills him. This, she thinks, is the end of her ordeal. That is until the man she thinks she has killed arrives at the house she is staying in.

Screamer

1974
Murrain
7.5

When a mystery illness infects the pigs of a village farmer and a local boy is also taken ill, the villagers try to convince a veterinarian that it is caused by a curse from a woman they believe to be a witch.

Murrain

1975
Possession
8.0

With the exception of the poor central heating system, Ray and Penny Burns' newly-purchased country house seems ideal. While repairing the pipes, a handyman digs up the cellar and uncovers the body of the home's previous owner who was murdered twenty years earlier. A séance held in the home reveals something very disturbing.

Possession

1973
A Killer in Every Corner
8.0

A criminal psychologist invites three psychology students to his English countryside home to view some of his research on the criminal mind. Unbeknownst to the students, they are actually guinea pigs in a mind-control experiment he is conducting and the servants of the house are not what they appear to be.

A Killer in Every Corner

1974
Where the Action Is
8.0

A gambler is smuggled into a billionaire's house to undertake a gambling duel.

Where the Action Is

1975
Night Is the Time for Killing
6.0

Film starring Judy Geeson, James Smilie, Charles Gray, Alister Williamson

Night Is the Time for Killing

1975
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Documentary about big game fishing in New Zealand.

The Bait

1977