Patrick Downing
Art
Biography
Patrick worked for ABC television and Thames television at Teddington for his whole carreer, as a designer working up to Visual Controller. He retired in 1988. He was released by Thames to do the film Pulp (1972) directed by Mike Hodges. He died in 2005 so had nothing to do with titles accredited to him after this date.
Known For
Mystery and Imagination is a British television anthology of classic horror and supernatural dramas. Five series were broadcast from 1966 to 1970 on ITV and produced by ABC and Thames Television.
Mystery and Imagination
This ten episode program was based on ten short stories written by Agatha Christie but with wide-ranging themes. Some were romances, some had supernatural themes and a couple were adventures. The common link was that all came from the talented pen of Agatha Christie, all were entertaining and each drama was carefully crafted and well cast with many of Britain's best known actors of the time represented.
The Agatha Christie Hour
Napoleon and Love is a British television miniseries produced by Thames Television for ITV, lasting for nine episodes from 5 March to 30 April 1974. The series stars Ian Holm in the title role as Napoleon and depicts his relationships with the women who featured in his life as a backdrop to his rise and fall.
Napoleon and Love
A seedy writer of sleazy pulp novels is recruited by a quirky, reclusive ex-actor to help him write his biography at his house in Malta.
Pulp
A drug dealer who discovers his girlfriend and best friend are having an affair secretly doses them with a strange new street drug where they are hunted by a murderous monster from within the hallucinatory world of the drug trip.
Bad Dose
A scientist builds an android to reconnect with his amnesiac lover.
I Heart Doomsday
This poetic romantic comedy takes on the cringe-worthy and hilarious trials of love and career for a struggling writer in the Montreal theater scene.