Moira Armstrong

Moira Armstrong

Born in Crieff in 1930  and raised in north-east Scotland, Moira Armstrong is a Scottish television director whose career has expanded over nearly fifty years. Her credits include episodes of Armchair Thriller (based on the novel Quiet as a Nun), The Onedin Line, Lark Rise to Candleford, Where the Heart Is, The Bill, Midsomer Murders, Something in Disguise, The Wednesday Play, and Adam Adamant Lives!, the biographical serial Freud (1984) as well as the television film The Countess Alice (1992). She also directed Sunset Song, the 1971 adaptation for television of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's novel, notable not only for being the first drama to be recorded in colour by BBC Scotland but also featuring its first nude scene. Armstrong (with Jonathan Powell) won the 1980 BAFTA Best Drama Series/Serial award for Testament of Youth (1979). In 2024 and 2025 many of her TV work was repeated as part of a retrospective of vintage drama on BBC4, with Armstrong invited to introduce several of the productions alongside fellow cast and crew.

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Moira Armstrong Movies

  • 1977
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    A Christmas Carol

    A Christmas Carol

    6.619 1977 HD

    Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his...

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  • 1995
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    A Village Affair

    A Village Affair

    4.792 1995 HD

    An apparently happy wife in an English village has a relationship with a local aristocrat's daughter.

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  • 1988
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    The Dunroamin' Rising

    The Dunroamin' Rising

    1 1988 HD

    Sixty years ago Ian Sinclair was a revolutionary leader. Today he is in an old folks' home, but has not lost his sense of humour, or his appetite for...

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  • 1993
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    The Countess Alice

    The Countess Alice

    1 1993 HD

    A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the widowed...

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  • 1984
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    C.Q.

    C.Q.

    1 1984 HD

    Life changes dramatically for radio amateur Norman when he gets in touch with a round-the-world yachtsman who introduces him to a different life -...

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  • 1989
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    The Mountain and the Molehill

    The Mountain and the Molehill

    1 1989 HD

    It is May 1944, two weeks before D-day. Britain stands poised for the long-awaited invasion of France - thousands of troops wait anxiously for the...

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  • 1982
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    How Many Miles to Babylon?

    How Many Miles to Babylon?

    1 1982 HD

    Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer...

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  • 2004
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    The Long Bank Holiday

    The Long Bank Holiday

    8 2004 HD

    A spate of computer thefts from government offices, a possible suicide under the wheels of a high-speed train, an absconded lifer on the loose, and a...

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  • 1983
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    To the Camp and Back

    To the Camp and Back

    1 1983 HD

    Christine, grieving for her fiancé who was shot down by the German Luftwaffe during the war, is persuaded by her cousin to meet a German...

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  • 1978
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    One of the Boys

    One of the Boys

    1 1978 HD

    An evening's drinking by rugby players after a match gets out of hand.

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  • 1978
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    We Never Do What They Want

    We Never Do What They Want

    1 1978 HD

    An everyday story of Alternative Society folk, beginning in 1969. It traced the developing relationship of three people from then until present 1978....

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  • 1983
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    Letting the Birds Go Free

    Letting the Birds Go Free

    1 1983 HD

    A farm family catch a young man stealing eggs from their barn. Seemingly homeless, the man stays with them. Daughter Grace is disgusted by the...

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  • 1990
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    A Safe House

    A Safe House

    1 1990 HD

    In the aftermath of the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, a large number of people of Irish descent were rounded up for questioning by the police...

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  • 1997
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    Breakout

    Breakout

    6 1997 HD

    A pair of scientists investigate a mysterious death.

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  • 1976
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    Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

    Clay, Smeddum and Greenden

    7 1976 HD

    Trilogy of one-act plays based on short stories by Lewis Grassic Gibbon. ‘Clay’ is the story of a men who neglects his wife in favour of...

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  • 1975
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    After the Solo

    After the Solo

    1 1975 HD

    "The voice will make its effect. And it will, undoubtedly, be very touching. But, tell me: after his voice has broken, can you make anything of him...

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  • 1974
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    The Bevellers

    The Bevellers

    1 1974 HD

    An ambitious apprentice glassmaker clashes with his new colleagues in a Glasgow workshop.

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  • 1980
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    Minor Complications

    Minor Complications

    1 1980 HD

    Kay Gilbert goes into hospital for a minor operation which goes badly wrong. Based on an actual case, this play tells the story of her fight for...

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  • 1981
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    No Visible Scar

    No Visible Scar

    1 1981 HD

    A wounded member of a rebel terrorist organisation is tended by an English nurse. She is imprisoned, interrogated, then released to face another form...

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  • 1978
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    Fairies

    Fairies

    1 1978 HD

    'I'd stake my reputation on it. These photographs are not faked.' But how could photographs, taken on a simple camera by two Yorkshire village girls,...

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  • 1976
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    For the Whales

    For the Whales

    1 1976 HD

    The maker of an anti-whaling video finds himself under pressure from all sides because of Japanese business interests.

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  • 1978
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    Quiet as a Nun

    Quiet as a Nun

    1 1978 HD

    A reporter is asked to look into the mysterious death of a nun who died in a locked room at a convent. She had recently inherited a fortune. The...

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  • 2005
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    Three Steps to Hendon

    Three Steps to Hendon

    1 2005 HD

    The lead singer of a defunct 70s rock band is found murdered with a whisky bottle stuffed down his throat

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Softly, Softly is a British television drama series, produced by the BBC and screened on BBC 1 from January 1966. It centred around the work of...

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  • 1970
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    8.4 1970 HD

    Set in the small hamlet of Lark Rise and the wealthier neighbouring market town, Candleford, the series chronicles the daily lives of farm-workers,...

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  • 1970
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    6 1970 HD

    Dr Finlay's Casebook is a television series that was broadcast on the BBC from 1962 until 1971. Based on A. J. Cronin's novella ‘Country...

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  • 1970
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    4.8 1970 HD

    Hazell is a British television drama based on the novel series by Terry Venables and Gordon Williams (collectively known as P.B. Yuill), and starring...

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  • 1970
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    7.5 1970 HD

    The peacefulness of the Midsomer community is shattered by violent crimes, suspects are placed under suspicion, and it is up to a veteran DCI and his...

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  • 1970
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    6.7 1970 HD

    The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and...

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  • 1970
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    4.5 1970 HD

    An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    5.5 1970 HD

    Boon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    The Borderers is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1970.

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  • 1970
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    6.3 1970 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Bluebell is a British television drama series produced by the BBC in 1986. The series was set before and during the Second World War and was based...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    The Shadow of the Tower is a historical drama that was broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It was a prequel to the earlier serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII...

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  • 1970
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    7.3 1970 HD

    A dramatization of Vera Brittain's 1933 autobiography Testament of Youth—a memorial to a generation devastated by WWI—chronicles her...

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  • 1970
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    7.7 1970 HD

    "Dangerous" Davies always gets the cases no one else wants, and no one notices when he eventually succeeds. But his old-fashioned decency and dogged...

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  • 1970
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    5.7 1970 HD

    Drama series about an ex-policeman, who now uses his detective skills while working for insurance companies.

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  • 1970
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    4.75 1970 HD

    A nun leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the convent...

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  • 1970
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    3 1970 HD

    Freud, also known as Freud: The Life of a Dream, is a 1984 six-part BBC television serial dramatised by Carey Harrison, and starring David Suchet as...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    A series of dramas featuring staged theatre plays.

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  • 1970
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    6.1 1970 HD

    Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the...

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  • 1970
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    7.759 1970 HD

    The adventures of Miss Jane Marple, an elderly spinster living in the quiet little village of St Mary Mead. During her many visits to friends and...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Chris Guthrie lives with her family on a bleak farm in North East Scotland at the beginning of the 20th century. On her mother's death, she assumes...

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  • 1970
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    6.8 1970 HD

    The Onedin Line is a BBC television drama series which ran from 1971 to 1980. The series was created by Cyril Abraham. The series is set in...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    The Girls of Slender Means is a 1975 BBC television mini-series based on Muriel Spark's novel. The drama, aired in three parts, follows a group of...

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    Shoulder to Shoulder is a 1974 BBC drama serial created through the collaboration of actress Georgia Brown, filmmaker Midge Mackenzie, and producer...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the BBC.

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  • 1970
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    5 1970 HD

    A BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a...

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    An anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length TV movies, broadcast on BBC2 from September 1977 to April 1979.

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  • 1970
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    7 1970 HD

    Budgie is a popular British television series starring former popstar Adam Faith which was produced by ITV company London Weekend Television and...

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  • 1970
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    1 1970 HD

    Astrologer Gladys Moon and her psychic son, Trevor, travel between Folkestone and Calais, conducting readings, selling occult wares and getting...

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