Lynda La Plante
Popularity:4.602
Known For:Writing
Birthday:1943-03-15
Place of Birth:Liverpool, England, UK
Homepage:http://lyndalaplante.com/
Also Known As:Lynda Marchal
![Goodbye Granadaland (2013)](/dq-content/themes/movie/img/no-cover.jpg)
Goodbye Granadaland (2013)
As ITV's move from its iconic base on Quay Street to the Orange Tower at MediaCityUK nears completion, this tribute looks back at 56 years of Granada...
![Beasts: Special Offer (1976)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7owuwlFGTUGZf0plllKJaq9uTLX.jpg)
Beasts: Special Offer (1976)
A misfit teenage checkout operator has an unrequited crush on her supermarket manager. At the same shop's cuddly cartoon mascot seems to have come...
![An Audience with Freddie Starr (1996)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dPiOUbq4GHogmtJ7rQYv562papg.jpg)
An Audience with Freddie Starr (1996)
A celebrity audience pays tribute to the inimitable Freddie Starr, one of Britain's zaniest comedians.
![The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ljeTWR2kowGXijMc8LMuy72ULM3.jpg)
The Draughtsman's Contract (1982)
A young artist is commissioned by the wife of a wealthy landowner to make a series of drawings of the estate while her husband is away.
![Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rLgjQs1nnxhUQ8p1a72fBnLvLP6.jpg)
Why Didn't They Ask Evans? (1980)
This intriguing story is set in the 1930s at a country house, where two amateur sleuths, Bobby Jones and Lady Frankie Derwent, try to unravel the...
![High Road to China (1983)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/y8NK0t7EDWUMZayXmlfvPLMRay3.jpg)
High Road to China (1983)
A biplane pilot is saddled with a spoiled industrialist's daughter on a search for her missing father through Asia that eventually involves them in a...
![Coming Out (1979)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/s458bKikxrngd8Iurvgt9lD9EqZ.jpg)
Coming Out (1979)
Lewis, a gay writer of romantic novels, writes an article on gay issues under the pseudonym of "Zippy Grimes." The reason for this is that he hasn't...
![This Morning (1988)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/w5GkfjeBJkbrpdBOpwRh8cTa8Io.jpg)
This Morning (1988)
This Morning features a variety of news, as well as show business, fashion, beauty, lifestyle, home and garden, food, tech, live phone-ins, and...
![The One Show (2006)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7QpzCej3Lwrsnx5A8FePYsUCIzf.jpg)
The One Show (2006)
A topical magazine-style daily television programme broadcast live on BBC One.
![The Gentle Touch (1980)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uiTy0RD7J0OdqHl7GshB9zxmYAe.jpg)
The Gentle Touch (1980)
The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing...
![Z-Cars (1962)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xUcvEC9WLgRgvnmbsSnaB8Gf3xS.jpg)
Z-Cars (1962)
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on...
![The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fGoZnpbWxcrjKn8z7Auq47SvxST.jpg)
The Paul O'Grady Show (2004)
The Paul O'Grady Show is a British comedy chat show hosted by Birkenhead-born comedian Paul O'Grady. The format was originally devised by Granada...
![The Sweeney (1975)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bB7er5lQytNjsX3qGL9N4RwXfgt.jpg)
The Sweeney (1975)
Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
![Beasts (1976)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/f2XO7aIODBdtwPhmq4c2NXtdRmh.jpg)
Beasts (1976)
Beasts is a series of six television plays by Manx writer Nigel Kneale, unconnected but for a bestial horror theme, made by ATV for ITV in the United...
![Play for Today (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/aIgjKkazKMhqQjytljsofAEsp3q.jpg)
Play for Today (1970)
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more...
![Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/e5KQbdOsCsEHDh2NOCGIY7HCyM3.jpg)
Agatha Christie's Partners in Crime (1983)
Spirited dialogue, posh Roaring '20s style, and devious mysteries abound as Tommy and Tuppence Beresford mix marriage and mystery solving.
![Educating Marmalade (1982)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/sgz9klvJXSdIe29D5iKt7R4ANJC.jpg)
Educating Marmalade (1982)
Marmalade Atkins is the naughtiest girl in the world. In fact, she's so wicked that her parents and social worker decide that the only thing to do...
![Rentaghost (1976)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xeaeZFeh27CJmNdIv5NYoLX7xAx.jpg)
Rentaghost (1976)
Rentaghost was a British children's television comedy show, broadcast by the BBC between 6 January 1976 and 6 November 1984. The show's plot centred...
![Bergerac (1981)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1VOoFNd8M4sExxYQQITaJfL3XnJ.jpg)
Bergerac (1981)
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars...
![Out (1978)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9dTu0aAgy7BnLW383XJARZGxaHe.jpg)
Out (1978)
Frank Ross returns from an eight-year prison sentence for a robbery that was thwarted because somebody 'grassed' the gang. Nobody knows who put the...
![Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/45B22HE0HnQsHaupXKS7B3WBHYO.jpg)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years (1981)
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years is an 8-part 1981 drama serial based on the life of Winston Churchill, and particularly his years in enforced...
![The Professionals (1977)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dcWbH33uUGk8pKmIgqX3hRkBNeN.jpg)
The Professionals (1977)
The lives of Bodie and Doyle, top agents for Britain's CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their controller, George Cowley. The mandate of CI5 was...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4wN5a3LFXxd0GtZiGc0meVVymEd.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1pt5ye623ikWIr51F4dm4TT778t.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/k6jgpAh3sfUdL5wGsgDJNkKlsKL.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dkTwajGd46vR4vkLaiROvowDTNc.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dkTwajGd46vR4vkLaiROvowDTNc.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
![The Professionals (1970)](/dq-content/themes/movie/img/no-cover.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
The lives and missions of the crew of a Welsh rescue boat.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2ms6LrCx3RowpeGg2PWZq0XEY2Y.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/k8aBrq3O53nQYXcZchw6aC92N9P.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/pIWCi1s1kVSOS8bPEEopE3Evjl7.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1xPdtgnM3hDSkHrfFy7Uh3odSzA.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Helen Hewitt is first woman put in charge of Barfield, a maximum security prison that had been nearly destroyed by a disastrous riot. Despite being...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gT6CX14E83hd4JSR00iQOHukc0j.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Detective Jane Timoney finds that being a homicide detective in New York City is tough enough and having to contend with a male-dominated police...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/pIWCi1s1kVSOS8bPEEopE3Evjl7.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vsZiHlk5Lz9VoqL2LmMIL9rwTe9.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Johnny Lazar, a down-and-out American comedian who tries to regain his status as an international superstar by embarking on a tour of working men's...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gPWzNoIxCW0SqsYMJ8OjS3DIKxa.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Series of seven psychological dramas concerning death by unnatural causes.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/Awkvftc2IZJfa4xWlspZAZFBAWN.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rArOIQqfqQ5Fe5hEoYb21PINPpZ.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5QX27Y9A5LjkiX4maF4dDhkuJr8.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Dolly Rawlins is free again. She has served the eight year prison sentence for her husband's murder and is now set to collect the six million pounds...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5QX27Y9A5LjkiX4maF4dDhkuJr8.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Dolly Rawlins is free again. She has served the eight year prison sentence for her husband's murder and is now set to collect the six million pounds...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2ms6LrCx3RowpeGg2PWZq0XEY2Y.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yAAMdCHxO6zbPVto6EpJffSWsPz.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Lawrence Jackson and Eddie Myers could not be more different. Jackson is an ambitious young police officer saddled with the responsibilities of a...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dkTwajGd46vR4vkLaiROvowDTNc.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Highly skilled Detective Inspector Jane Tennison battles to prove herself in a male dominated world.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4wN5a3LFXxd0GtZiGc0meVVymEd.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Three armed robbers--Harry Rawlins, Terry Miller, and Joe Pirelli--die when the security van that they are robbing catches fire in the Kingsway...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1pt5ye623ikWIr51F4dm4TT778t.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Determined and ambitious detective, Commander Clare Blake takes charge of the Serious Crime Group within the Metropolitan Police.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/k6jgpAh3sfUdL5wGsgDJNkKlsKL.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Trial & Retribution is a feature-length ITV police procedural television drama series that began in 1997. It was devised and written by Lynda La...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2ms6LrCx3RowpeGg2PWZq0XEY2Y.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Above Suspicion is a British TV series based on Lynda La Plante's novels Above Suspicion, The Red Dahlia, Deadly Intent and Silent Scream. It stars...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/pIWCi1s1kVSOS8bPEEopE3Evjl7.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Students get involved in a violent Internet-based game, around the same time as a series of murders - is there a connection?
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/y12L8ZGu4wPezQfRMxAIGIpb1gq.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Anna Travis investigates a copycat killer in this three-part crime series from Lynda La Plante.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gT6CX14E83hd4JSR00iQOHukc0j.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Detective Jane Timoney finds that being a homicide detective in New York City is tough enough and having to contend with a male-dominated police...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/k8aBrq3O53nQYXcZchw6aC92N9P.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Former soldiers in Britain's elite Parachute Regiment struggle to come to terms with civilian life after leaving the army.
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/s4MCiaNdJA4C0W4cNiLJMVGw94M.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
A by-the-rule police officer must team up with a streetwise cop and go undercover in an operation to bust a major drug ring in Manchester. This...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/Awkvftc2IZJfa4xWlspZAZFBAWN.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Prime Suspect 1973 tells the story of 22-year-old Jane Tennison's first days in the police force, in which she endured flagrant sexism before being...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rArOIQqfqQ5Fe5hEoYb21PINPpZ.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
The widows of three men killed while trying to steal a famous painting, join forces to find their husband's killers and finish off the job of...
![The Professionals (1970)](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fvlKRatuKh6vOxieRkCg5rOgHrC.jpg)
The Professionals (1970)
Seekers is a four-part TV mini-series released in 1992 about a police officer who disappears, and when his wife tries to find him, she discovers......