Anthony Bate Movies

Writing for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series, Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit...

A high-ranking Polish politburo member is banished from the party, and must find out why. Set in 1979 Poland before the Solidarity events.

A drama unfolding in the business world where shrewd methods are adopted by a boss to select a suitable yes-man for the Board.

A boy tells his parents that a bus conductor turned him off the bus home for not having a ticket. The story gets out of control and the conductor, a...

A dangerous psychological game plays out between a man and the husband of the lover who spurned him.

A troublesome boy gets other children into danger while skin diving, but learns his lesson after a near-fatal accident.

An elderly homosexual and a married woman are both intrigued by the same man.

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and...

The flight attendant Sue Chambers becomes frightened for her life when she discovers that one of her coworkers was killed because the murderer...

1956/57 - This episode reflects the Kim Philby spy affair.

Young Col is not enjoying his Cornish holiday and wishes his father would not join the family. Events make him grow up rather fast.

BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.

Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik

People claim to know an amnesiac who finds herself in a hotel with a suitcase full of cash.

Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver have plans to take the...

A man, Harris, wakes up in a hotel on a small island after a shipwreck. He keeps recognising flashes of what he sees, until he realises his visions...

Several old college friends converge at a mansion, ostensibly for a pleasant reunion. Larry Dann, the most easygoing of the bunch, comes to the...

A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and...

What do Rose from Devon and Christina from Stuttgart have in common? And in what way is their fate linked to that of wealthy Fiona Dunkerley?

A play about bullying, asking whether anything can actually be done about it. A gang of boys engage David in a game of 'coins against the wall' every...