Norman Giller - Television

Television

  • This Is Your Life scriptwriter (1981–1995)
Including programmes featuring Sir Richard Branson, Sir Jimmy Savile, Frank Bruno, Paul Daniels, Simon Weston, Ruth Madoc, Dan Maskell, Cliff Morgan, Denis Compton, Billy Wright, Peter Shilton, John Surtees, Nigel Mansell, Peter Alliss, Henry Cotton, Terry Lawless, Joe Johnson, James Herbert, Jack 'Kid' Berg, Reg Gutteridge, Mike Reid, Stan Boardman, Benny Green, George Shearing, Helen Shapiro
  • Who's the Greatest, devisor and scriptwriter of an ITV series that involved celebrities such as:
Sir David Frost, Sir Michael Parkinson, Sir Jeffrey Archer, Tom Graveney, Gloria Hunniford, Eamonn Andrews, Tom O'Connor, Stan Boardman, Bernie Winters, Dennis Waterman, Willie Rushton and Henry Cooper.
  • Stunt Challenge for ITV (in the 1980s, scriptwriter with Derek Thompson.
  • Stand and Deliver for Sky TV (co-producer with Brian Klein of On the Box Productions)
63 comedy programmes featuring, among others, Mike Reid, Norman Collier, Frank Carson, Jim Bowen, Stan Boardman, Ted Rogers, Cannon and Ball and Bernard Manning.
  • The Games of 48 (ITV 1998, devisor and scriptwriter with Brian Moore)
Guests included Olympic legends Emil Zátopek, Fanny Blankers-Koen and Bob Mathias
  • Petrolheads (2006 for BBC2), devisor and scriptwriter
Regular panellists were Richard Hammond, Chris Barrie and presenter Neil Morrissey. Featured guests included Eamonn Holmes, Murray Walker, Ricky Tomlinson, Ronan Keating, James May, Philip Glenister.
  • Over the Moon, Brian (ITV), devisor and scriptwriter
Tribute series to Brian Moore, with guests including Brian Clough and Jack Charlton

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