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B1 - Babies of the Millennium to Blood on the Carpet

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BABIES OF THE MILLENIUM

BBC1 1 x 50 me 7 Apr Wed 8:00pm 1999

Producer Daniel Barry. Editor Saul Nasse.

An offshoot of Tomorrow's World. A program promising to be the first of an occasional series charting the progress of children born at the turn of the century.

 

BABITSKY'S WAR

UK / C4 (True Stories) 1 x 70 me 4 Sept Mon 9:05pm 2000

Producer Teresa Charles / Director Paul Yule.

Profile of Andrei Babitsky a journolist who infuriated the Russians when he was the only journo remaining inside Chechneya reporting on the conflict there.

 

THE BABY BUSINESS

BBC2 3 x 40 me 1998

Executive Producer Samir Shah

A look at what is a booming industry - the fertility business.

 

BABY BUSINESS

UK ? BBC1 1 x 40 me 27 Jul Thurs 10:20pm 2000

Producer Thea Guest. Executive Producer Clive Edwards.

A look at the big business in America that is the private adoption business with babies changing hands for large sums of money.

 

THE BABY MAKERS

C4 / 3x60 me 11 May Thurs 9:00pm 1999

Producer Eamonn Matthews.

A look at the highly controversial history of test tube babies. Elaine Brown being the first test tube baby, born in 1978.

 

BACKGROUND

USA / NBC / x 30 me B & W 16 Aug - 6 Sept Mon 8:30pm 1954

Series looking at items then in the news.

Host Joseph C Harsch

 

BACK PASSAGE TO INDIA

UK / BBC1 1 x 60 me 1 May Mon 10:05pm 2000

Producer Kenton Allen

Comedians Caroline Aherne and Craig Cash travel across India looking at different charity projects, especially Sight Savers.

 

BACK TO THE FLOOR

UK / BBC2 x 30 me 1998-continuing

Editor Robert Thirkell.

Various high ranking executives spend time back on the bottom rung of the ladder in their cmpanies, experiencing at first hand the problems their employees face.

 

BACK TO THE FUTURE

UK / BBC2 (Leviathan)1 x 40 me 1 Jan Sat 4:30pm 2000

A number of scientists make predictions about what the 21stt century has in store.

BAD BOYS

UK / C5 / HTV / United / Charm / 1 + 60 minute episode 1999 24 Oct Sun 11:35pm.

Producer / Director Kate Jones - Davies

Life for the young offenders of the Portland Institute, especially the ones in Rodney House. A special alcohol and drug addictions unit.

 

THE BAILIFFS ARE COMING

BBC 1 / 1+55 minute episode 1999 27Jun Wed 10:15pm (Inside Story)

Producers Ian Shuttard & Richard Taylor

Executive Producer Olivia Lichtenstien.

A look at the work of Corinne Landriscina and Mark Shobbings a pair of bailiffs who are also a couple.

 

BALD

BBC2 (Picture This) 1 x 30 me 7 Jul Wed 9:00pm 1999

Producer/Director: Katie Buchanan

Two less than hirsute up top gents attempt to find remedies for their baldness.

 

BANGKOK BOUND

UK / C4 / 6 x 30 me 2 Jun Wed 11:00pm 1999

Producer Peter Wyles. Editor Angela Smith.

Stories of Foreigners who have settled in Thailand's capital Bangkok. 

 

BARBARA WOODHOUSE GOES TO BEVERLY HILLS

UK / ITV Network-Yorkshire / 1x60 minute episode / Broadcast Wednesday 30 December 1981 @ 9.00pm

Producer: Nigel Turner / Executive Producers: Michael Deakin, Frank Smith / Director: David Gerrard  

Documentary. Dog training specialist Barbara Woodhouse meets the pampered pets of the Hollywood Hoi-Polloi. There were guest appearances from William Shatner, Britt Ekland, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Elke Sommer, Wilfred Hyde White, Stefanie Powers and Lorne Greene. 

 

BARBARIANS

UK / C4 / 3x60m / started 8 July

Director: Mark Elliot / Producer: David Wason

Series reassessing the contribution that the post-Roman barbarian invaders made to Britain.

 

BATTLE ACTS

UK / C4 4 x me 10 Apr Mon - Thurs 7:55pm 2000

Producer / Director Patricia Fitzsymons

Four short profiles of people who re-enact classic battles. A Roman enthusiast, a would be Viking and second world war addicts.

 

BATTLE FOR THE DESERT

ATV / 1 x 60 me 24 Oct Tues 9:00pm 1967

Writer / Producer Peter Batty

A look at the war in the Western Desert and specifically El Alamein tying in with its 25th aniversary.

Narrated by Bernard Archer

 

BATTLE GROUP

C4 / 1 + 60 minute episode 1999 26 Jun Sat 7pm

Producer Anthony Makin. Directo Kirk Wolfinger

Behind the scenes with the United States Battle Group - probably the strongest fighting force on the planet.

 

BATTLE OF BRITAIN

UK / ITV 2 x 60 me 22 Aug - 29 Aug Tues 10:00pm 2000

Editor Steven Clarke. Executive Producer Tom Archer.

Documentary with some dramatised segments looking at the summer of 1940 and the Battle of Britain tying in with the 60th anniversary of this very important turning point of the Second World War.

 

BATTLE OF THE SEXES

BBC2 6 x 30 me Wed 7:30pm 1999

Producer John Sparks.

A look at the sexual behavior of all manner of animals. Narrated by Samuel West.

 

BATTLE OF WILLS

UK / C4 3 x 60 me 7 sept - 21 Sept Thurs 8:00pm

Producer John Ward director Anne Symon.

Series about the often contentious issue of last wills and testaments.

 

BATTLE STATIONS

UK / C4 / 10x60m / started 15 January 2002

Producer: Taylor Downing

Documentary series showing how people and machines played crucial roles during the second world war.

BEACH PATROL

USA / Syndicated 26 x 60 me 1996

Series following the work of the various agencies ( The Coast Guard / The FBI / The US Marshals etc) who look after everything to do with American waterways.

 

BEASTLY BUSINESS: TACTICS OF TERROR

UK / BBC2 1 x 50 me 21 Oct Sat 10:30pm 2000

Producer Louise Norman Director Polly Williams

A look at some of the extremes animal rights activists go to, with contributions from animal rights activist themselves and the people who they target. 

 

BEATLES ON TOUR

UK / ITV ( Granada ) / 1x50minute episode  / 1964 Tuesday 23 June - 10.07pm . black and white

Producer: Dick Fontaine

Superb documentary following the then rising Beatles as they performed on tour. Presented by Bill Grundy.

 

BEAT THE CHEAT

Thames / x 30 me Mon 8:00pm 1991

Producer Alastair Pirrie.

A series attempting to show how to avoid getting conned.

Presented by John Staplton and Trish Williamson.

 

BEAUTY, BONNY, DAISY, VIOLET, GRACE AND GEOFFREY MORTON

Thames / 1 + 60 minute episode / 1974 1 Oct Tue 9:10pm

Producer Frank Citanovich. Camera Mike Fash

Yorkshire farmer Geoffrey Morton Carries on farming with traditional farming methods, especially through his use of shire horses ( those named in the title).

 

BECOMING ONE FLESH

UK / BBC2 (History Zone) 11 x 50 me 20 May Sat 8:05pm 2000

Producer Annie Paul. Editor Laurence Rees.

A look at the changing attitudes toward sex before marriage.

 

BEDROOM SECRETS

UK / ITV (Real Life) 1 x 60 me 11 Oct Mon 10:00pm 1999

Editor Stephen Lambert. Director Mia Clough.

Four couples talk frankly about their sex lives.

 

BEHIND BARS

UK / BBC2 6 x 50 me 8 May Mon 9:30pm 2000

Producr Jonathon Stamp. Executive Producer Lawrence Rees.

Behind the scenes in some of the worlds most notorious prisons in the world. Narrated by Bill Paterson. The prisons included:- Supermay in Illinois. Devils Island. Holloway. Penitentiary New Mexico. Grendon Underwood in Buckinghamshire.

 

BEFORE THE TITANIC

BC2 (Timewatch) 1 x 50 me 29 May Sat 8:15pm 1999

Editor Lawrence Rees. Producers Carol Sennet & Ben Loeterman

A look at how in 1909 two ships from Florida (carrying Italian immigrants to New York) used new wireless technology to save the lives of their passengers when the two ships collided.

 

BEHIND THE CRIME

UK / C4 4 x 60 me 11 Jan - 1 Feb Tues 9:00pm 2000

Producer / Director Alex Sutherland

Stories of people involved in crime. 

Thieves

Three former crooks discuss their criminal plot.

Car Crime

A pair of car thieves talk about the crimes they have commited.

Fakers

Varied scams ( the three were Terry Bradkey, Benedict Marsh & trevor Taylor).

Credit Crooks

Three ex cons and their experiences of credit card fraud. 

 

BEING VICTORIA BECKHAM

ITV1 / 1x80m / 4 March 2002

Director: Yasmin Pasher / Producer: Caroline Mandell / Executive Producer: Stewart Morris

An intimate insight into the life of Spice Girl Victoria Beckham.

 

BEST OF ENEMIES

UK / BBC2 2 x 30 me 5 Jan - 12 Jan wed 7:30pm 2000

Producer Alison Cahn. Editor Anne Tyerman.

Kenneth Baker (the former cabinet Minister) takes a look at how france and Germany see us, through the cartoons that have appeared over the years about Anglo french / German relations.

 

THE BEST THING

BBC2 (Glory Glory Man Utd) 1 x 50 me 15 May Sat 10:00pm 1999

Director Mike Wadding.

A profile of one of Man Utd's greatest hero's George Best, including interviews with friends,ex wives and girlfriends as well as fellow players.

 

BEWARE CAR THIEVES AT WORK

UK / ITV 1 x 60 me 30 Oct Sat 9:15pm 1999

Producer Sasha Jeffrie. Executive Producer James Allen.

Stories of car crime victims as well as those committing the crime.

BEWARE BAD DRIVERS

ITV 6 x 30 me 1 Jul - 5 Aug Thurs 8:00pm 1999

Producer Sasha Jeffrie. Executive Producer Will Smith.

Film footage of dangerous drivers at work (the words barrel and scraping spring o mind for some reason).

 

BEWARE….. CONMEN AT WORK

ITV / LWT 1 x 60 me 24 Mar Fri 9:00pm 2000

Producer Sasha Jeffray.

How to avoid the work of con-men by exposing some outrageous stories.

 

BEWARE: PICKPOCKETS AT WORK

ITV / 1 x 60 me 5 Jun Sat 9:00pm 1999

Producer Henry Hainult. Director Mike Toppin.

A look, using closed circuit TV and hidden camera footage. At the world of the pickpocket.

 

BEWARE: ROGUE TRADERS

UK / ITV 1 x 60 me 24 Aug Thurs 10:00pm 2000

Executive Producer Joe Houlihan. Director Kirby McNiel.

Hidden camera style footage of dodgy salesman, tradesmen and the like.

 

BEWARE: SHOPLIFTERS AT WORK

ITV / 1 x 60 me 9 Apr Fri 9:00pm 1999

Producer Michael Brennan. Executive Producer Joe Houlihan.

Looking at shoplifters and the people out to catch them in the act.

 

BEWARE THIEVES AT WORK

UK / 1 x 60 me7 Apr Fri 9:00pm 2000

Producer / Director Sasha Jeffrey.

The less than straight activities of the burglar.

 

BEWARE VANDALS ON THE RAMPAGE

UK / ITV 1 x 60 me 3 Oct Tues 10:00pm 2000

Executive Producer Will Smith. Producer Spencer Kelly.

Closed circuit TV footage of vandals at work in both the Uk and the US.

Narrated by Andrew Sachs.

 

BEYOND THE CLOUDS

UK / C4 6 x 60 me 1994

Director Phil Agland. Nmusic George Fenton.

Five years in the lives of the members of a smallish Chinese town giving a time portrait of China at the closing of the 20th Century.

 

THE BIG DEAL  

BBC2 / 4x30 minute episodes / 1997 (10 - 31 May / Saturdays @ 11.05am)

Documentary series profiling four men involved in business.
The four episodes were 1. In The Blood, a look at horse dealer Charlie Gordon; 2. Dr Mobius: The 8 Million Dollar Man, a look at Mark Morbius who was an emerging markets investor; 3. Headhunter - Jonathan Evans was a headhunter recruiting financial analysts in London; 4. A Norman Conquest focuses on architect Norman Foster who may be planning to make a bid on the design for a new airport terminal in Madrid.

 

THE BIG END

BBC1 6 x 30 me Sun 11:45pm 1999

DJ Simon Mayo looks at the build up to the new millenium.

 

THE BIGGEST WHEEL IN THE WORLD

UK / BBC2 1 x 50 me 18 Dec Sat 8:05pm 1999

Producer Desmond Wilcox. Director Andy Humphrey.

The story behind the London Eye - the 450 feet high 'Ferris Wheel' that is able to take 800 people in cable car kind of vehicles up in the air to take in the views of London. Narrated by Neil Pearson.

 

BILLION DOLLAR SECRET

C5 / 1 x 100 me 4 Jul Sun 5:50pm 1999

Producer Michael Griggby. Executive Producer George carey.

A look at American UFO Sightings and supposed Pentagon investigations / cover ups.

Presented by Nick Cook.

 

BILLY BUTLIN

C4 (Secret Lives) 1 x 60 me 1998

Producers Tony Cook & John Goddard. Director Nick Godwin.

A re-evaluation of the life of Britain's holiday camp king. 

 

BILLY CONNOLLY'S WORLD TOUR OF NEW ZEALAND

BBC1 / 8x60m / started 20 November 2004 

Director: Billy Sneddon / Series Producer: Steve Brown

Comedian Billy Connolly's tours New Zealand, seeing the sights, meeting locals and joining in with their customs.

 

BIRTH

UK / A-R / B&W 25 Jul Wed 9:45pm 1962

Camera Riley Briggs. Director Rollo Gamble.

Looking at a fathers role in childbirth.

 

BIRTH RACE 2000 - TONIGHTS THE NIGHT

ITV / 1 x 120 me 10 Apr Sat 9:00pm 1999

A themed evening from ITV, because April 10th is supposed to be the ideal time for couples to conceive a baby that would be born on the first day of the new millennium.

Hosted by Davina McCall the night consisted of.

  1. Tonights The Night - 9:10pm Davina McCall meets a group of couples trying for a baby.
  2. On The Job With Lisa Riley - 9:10pm Sitcom clips with a lust theme.
  3. Tonights The Night Update - 9:40pm
  4. A -Z Of Conception - 9:50pm
  5. Tonights The Night Update - 10:25pm
  6. Animal Passions - 10:35pm Clips of randy animals. Presented by John Thompson.
  7. Fancy An Early One - A recap of the important facts to put prospective parents in the mood.

 

A BIT OF AN EXPERIENCE

UK / BBC 7 Sept Thurs 9:05pm 1967

Producers Michael Latham & Gordon Thomas.

Profile of cancer sufferer Heather Kent.

 

BITTER INHERITANCE

UK / BBC2 / 5x40m-e / started 10 January 2002

Producer: Steve Greenwood / Executive Producer: Tessa Finch

Series following the lives of families with genetic diseases as they decide whether to undergo tests and try revolutionary new medical treatments

A BITTER PILL

UK / BBC1 1 x 30 me 13 Sept Mon 7.30pm 1999

Executive Producer Susan O'Keefe. Producer Sharon Keatley.

A look at the practice of giving children in hospital drugs that have not been specifically tested for them.

With Shelley Jofre and Steve Le Feure.

 

BLACK AND WHITE

BBC 1989 / 99

Producer David Henshaw.

Two undercover reporters, one black one white use hidden cameras to find evidence of racial discrimination. And ten years later to see weather times have changed.

 

BLACK, BENT AND BEAUTIFUL

UK / C5 1 x 60 me 15 Feb Tues 11:20pm 2000

Producer / Director Naomi Sesay.

The problems faced by four black homosexual men.

 

BLACK HISTORY

UK / C4 1999

A series of programs looking at black history and culture.

  1. Untold Britain's Slave Trade
  2. A Blaggers Guide To Black History
  3. Riot
  4. Brixton's Holy War.

 

BLACK MARRIES WHITE

UK / A-R B&W 29 Apr Wed 9:40pm 1964

Director Peter Morley.

Study of a number of mixed marriages.

 

A BLAGGERS GUIDE TO BLACK HISTORY

UK / C4 10 x 5 me 4 Oct 1999

Only semi serious shorts on black culture and history.

 

BLAIR'S THOUSAND DAYS

UK / BBC2 2 x 50 me 30 Jan - 6 Feb Sun 8:00pm 2000

Producers Dollan Cannell & Manishe Vadhic

A look at how Tony Blair has managed since becoming Prime Minister in May 97.

  1. What Makes Tony Tick - Inside the mind of the PM, with behind the scenes stuff and another interview with the PM.
  2. The Lady And The Lords - The story of Lady Jay (the first female labour leader of the lords) and her attempts to pass a bill through parliament abolishing the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the house of lords. (This was one of labours key manifesto pledges).

 

BLAIR'S WAY

C4 1 x 60 me 2 May Sun 8:00pm 1999

Producer Jane Bonham-Carter. Director Steve Connolly.

Political commentator Steve Richards takes a look at how the Prime Minister leads his cabinet.

 

BLAKE NIGHT

UK / BBC Knowledge 10 Nov Fri from 8:00pm 2000

An evening of programs dedicated to William Blake

 

BLAZE

C4 1 Jun Tues 9:00pm 1999

Producer / Director Vyr Simpson.

A look at four major fire disasters in Britain, Ireland, America and Hong Kong.

 

BLOKES

UK / BBC2 (Under The Sun) 1 x 50 me 6 Aug Sun 11:40pm 2000

Executive Producer David Pearson. Director Cassie Allward.

Program about the relationship between two close male friends Chris and Jack. Film maker Cassie Allward took the unusual step of falling for one of the men (Chris) and sleeping with him.

 

BLOOD AND FLOWERS: IN SEARCH OF THE AZTECS

UK / BBC2 / the Learning Channel / time Life 1 x 50 me 6 Jan Thurs 9:30pm 2000

Producer Liz Gray. Executive Producer Richard Denton.

A delve into the world of the bloodthirsty central American ancient race The Aztecs.

Presented by historian Tony Spawforth.

 

BLOOD ON THE CARPET

UK / BBC2  x40 me 1999-continuing

Producer Nick Mirsay

Series about famous boardroom battles.

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