Anthony Bate Movies

Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On...

The apparition of a woman - muse or ghost - helps a depressed writer.

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...

A group of boys serving Community Service orders are working on the conversion of an old railway station, when a local magistrate comes to visit them.

A World War II farce that follows the antics of an ENSA (Entertainment National Service Association) group. Fresh from the music halls, they bumble...

After his best friend dies, Charlie hits the road and stumbles into Lighthouse Hill, a village where residents seem to know a lot more about him than...

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

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

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...

BBC television film starring Anthony Bate.

Political drama about the Gorbachev-Reagan summit at Reykjavik

A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to...

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

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...

Three British soldiers are caught and interrogated by terrorists, unaware that they're in fact being put through mind-unhinging training as part of a...

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

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 Scotland Yard ballistics expert is called into identify a murderer through a scientific analysis of the bullet that killed a man.

Arthur Payne, recently out of prison, meets a stranger, Theo Gaunt, on a train and explains his situation. A few days later another stranger makes a...