The Distant Echo
When a twenty-year-old murder enquiry is resurrected, four close friends are torn apart by suspicion, guilt and tragedy. Psychological crime drama from the novel by Val McDermid.
(60 mins)


Rebus: Resurrection Men
Contemporary Scottish crime drama from the novel by Ian Rankin.
(2 x 60 mins. Also on CD.)


Rebus: The Falls
Contemporary Scottish crime drama from the novel by Ian Rankin.
(2 x 60 mins. Also on CD and cassette.)


The Laughing Policeman
Swedish crime drama from the novel by Maj Sjöwall & Per Wahlöö.
(60 mins)


A Magician Amongst the Spirits
The life of master showman, escapologist and fake-spirit-medium buster Harry Houdini.
(90 minutes)


Wagner in Hell
Dramatised feature on the famous composer's disastrous visit to London.
(45 minutes)


The Passion Flower Hotel
Naughty goings-on in a sixties public school for the daughters of the disgustingly rich. From the novel by Rosalind Erskine.
(90 mins)


Fear on Four
Later-night horror series, hosted by The Man in Black.
Three episodes: Every Detail but One, The Journey Home, Green and Pleasant.
(30 minutes each)


Spaced Out
Drama documentary for kids: how to write science fiction.
(25 minutes)


Ray Bradbury
Feature for kids on the American fantasy writer.
(25 minutes)


Mutiny on the Bounty
High adventure from the trilogy of novels by Nordoff and Hall.
Starring Oliver Reed, Linus Roach, Lionel Jeffries and Roger Daltrey. A Mr Punch production.
(3 x 60 minutes. Also on cassette. Winner of a Talkie award)


Lost Empires
Coming-of-age drama from the novel by J B Priestley.
Starring Tom Baker, Stephen Frost, Brigit Forsyth and Bryan Pringle.
(3 x 60 minutes)


The Chronicles of Brother Cadfael
Mediaeval detective tales from the novels by Ellis Peters.
Three serials: Monk's-Hood, The Virgin in the Ice, Dead Man's Ransom.
Starring Philip Madoc, Sir Michael Hordern, Susannah York, Michael Kitchen, Ian Hogg and Douglas Hodge.
(Each 5 x 30 minutes. Also on CD and cassette.)


The Caves of Steel
Science fiction murder mystery from the novel by Isaac Asimov.
Starring Ed Bishop, Sam Dastor and Matt Zimmerman.
(90 minutes)


A Wizard of Earthsea
Science fantasy from the novel by Ursula Le Guin.
Starring Michael Maloney and Dame Judi Dench.
(120 minutes)


The Eyes of Max Carrados
Detective adventure from the short story by Ernest Bramah.
Starring Simon Callow and Lionel Jeffries. A Mr Punch production.
(30 minutes. Also on cassette.)


So Much Blood
Murder-mystery from the novel by Simon Brett.
Starring Bill Nighy as Charles Paris
(60 minutes)


The Thirty-Nine Steps
1914 action-adventure from the novel by John Buchan.
Starring David Robb and Tom Baker.
(2 x 60 minutes. Also on cassette)


The Three Hostages
1920s action-adventure from the novel by John Buchan.
Starring David Robb, Haydn Gwynne, Michael Malone and Clive Merrison.
(2 x 60 minutes)


Plymouth in War
Verse drama from the stage piece by Priscilla Napier.
(60 minutes. Nominated for the Writers' Guild Award)


Flowers for Algernon
Science fiction tragedy from the short story by Daniel Keyes.
Starring Tom Courteney (in his radio debut).
(60 minutes)


The BBC's complete Sherlock Holmes
I am the head writer on this unique BBC project, dramatising for the first time the entire canon of Doyle's novels and stories.
My contributions include all four novels: A Study in Scarlet, The Sign of the Four, The Valley of Fear and The Hound of the Baskervilles, and twenty-four of the short stories.
Starring Michael Williams, Clive Merrison, Brian Blessed, Andrew Sachs, Edward Petherbridge, Sarah Badel, Judi Dench, etc, etc...
(Short stories 45 minutes each, novels 2 x 60 minutes. Also on CD and cassette.)
For more information on this project and the follow-up series of original stories The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, please click here.


The Guns of Navarone
Wartime action-adventure from the bestseller by Alistair Maclean.
Starring Toby Stephens, David Rintoul and Michael Williams.
(5 x 30 minutes. Also on cassette.)


The Women in His Life
Family saga from the bestseller by Barbara Taylor Bradford.
Starring Robin Ellis, Sian Phillips, Alexandra Bastedo, Nicola Paget, Dorothy Tutin, Simon Williams, Susannah Corbett, David Kossoff. (8 x 30 minutes.)



Available for production


A Study in Scarlet
Screenplay based on the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. The story of the first meeting of Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson as impoverished young men, and their first case together: a bizarre series of murders which link 1880s London with the pioneering Old American West.


Arkship
Treatment and storylines for science fiction TV series. When a global experiment to melt the polar icecaps and bring life to the deserts goes catastrophically wrong, the last remaining human beings are trapped aboard the giant zoological space station Gaia One.


Green and Pleasant
TV script. Psychological horror: a fanatical greenfreak kidnaps and tortures his one-time rock-singer idol when she betrays her ecological stand. Or does he?


Every Detail but One
TV script. Psychological horror: the voice of her unborn baby drives a young woman into madness.



The scripts of many of these shows are available to purchase. Please contact Bert Coules for details.

If you are interested in producing or performing any of these shows, in any medium, please contact the author's agent.