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Agent: Edward Hughes

Stan Hey is a writer for numerous disciplines including radio, theatre, documentary and novels. Stan has written dozens of hours of television for shows such as Dalziel & Pascoe and eight episodes of Auf Weidersehen, Pet. Along with Andrew Nickolds, Stan created and wrote the comedy shows Hold The Back Page and Agony for the BBC and LWT respectively. Stan also created and wrote The Manageress for Channel 4 and the road movie Coast to Coast for BBC, which starred Lenny Henry.

Television:

AN ARM & FOUR LEGS Hat Trick Productions

Pilot for an original comedy drama series

DALZIEL & PASCOE – BBC

120’ episode

DALZIEL & PASCOE – BBC

Episode of popular police series starring Warren Clarke
Nominated for a ‘Brummie’ for Best Drama in the RTS Midlands Awards 2004

STALIN’S FRIDGE – Siriol Productions

Animation feature film

ELLINGTON – Yorkshire Television

One episode (written with Andrew Nickolds)

NO BANANAS – BBC

One episode

THE HURRICANES – Siriol Productions

Several animated episodes of a series about a football team

BILLY THE CAT – Siriol Productions

Animation, one episode

SPENDER – Initial Film & Television

Three episodes. Jimmy Nail’s hit series

ALL IN THE GAME – Central TV

Six episodes. A series very loosely based on the Gary Lineker story
(Writer and Creator)

THE MANAGERESS – Zed Productions/ Channel 4

Five episodes. Successful series about a football manageress surviving in a man’s world starring Cheri Lunghi
(Writer and Creator)

WHAT A COUNTRY – BBC / Producer: Geoff Posner

Lenny Henry as a 1950’s immigrant (written with Andrew Nickolds)

BLAT – BBC / Producer: Richard Broke

Russian businessmen exploiting the City of London (written with Andrew Nickolds)

COAST TO COAST – BBC / Producer: Graham Benson

An English “road movie” in which a young Liverpudlian (Lenny Henry) meets up with an American Air Force deserter (John Shea) in a comedy chase across England

AUF WIEDERSEHEN PET – Witzend Productions

Eight episodes. Comedy drama about Geordie bricklayers going to work in Germany

HOLD THE BACK PAGE – BBC / Producer: Evgeny Gridneff

Ten part hour long comedy/drama series about sports reporter starring David Warner (written and created with Andrew Nickolds)

A CUT ABOVE – Witzend Productions

Rise of London hairdresser in the swinging sixties starring Tracey Ulman and Gordon Kaye (created and written with Andrew Nickolds)

AGONY – LWT, Producer/ Director: John Reardon

Top rating sit-com about the private life of an agony columnist starring Maureen Lipman and Simon Williams (two series written and created with Andrew Nickolds)

CROWN COURT – Granada Television / Producer: June Roberts

Courtroom drama series (written with Andrew Nickolds)

BACK PAGE – BBC Birmingham/ Producer: Peter Ansorge

Comedy about a sports reporter at a football match (written and created with Andrew Nickolds)

HAZEL – Producer: June Roberts

A very successful thriller series (written with Andrew Nickolds)

Stage:

SUMMER SEASON – Carnival Films and Theatre

Stage musical set in the sixties

ROBINSON BARLEYWATER AND THE DESERT ISLAND DISCO SHOW – Unicorn Theatre

Loosely based on Robinson Crusoe – also performed in Hyde Park for The Year of The Child

Documentary:

GARY’S GOLDEN BOOTS – Worldmark/BBC

Football series with Gary Lineker

GREAT DANES

The official UEFA film of the 1992 European Football Championship

ITALIA ‘90

Narrated by Edward Woodward

G’OLE – Worldmark Productions

Narrated by Sean Connery
Official film of the 1982 football World Cup

Radio:

SHOOT OUT AT ST. DAVIDS – BBCRadio 3

90 minute drama

GAME OF THREE HALFS – BBCRadio 4

60 minute radio drama

DELBERT WILKIN’S NEW YEAR JAM – BBC Radio 1

(Written with Andrew Nickolds)

Novels:

SUDDEN UNPROVIDED DEATH

(Sequel to FILLING SPACES)

FILLING SPACES

 

LENNY’S WELL HARD PAPER BOOK – Virgin Books

Written with Andrew Nickolds

Film:

I.D.2 – Parallax Pictures/ Polygram

Unproduced screenplay for sequel to I.D.

ON THE ROAD TO MOSCOW – Comedy House

Comedy written with Andrew Nickolds set during the Cold War
(Unproduced)

CRY WOLF – Paramount Picture Partnership

Director: Leszek Burzynski
Very successful short about a scientist who turns into a dog and is rescued by his beautiful assistant