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MACINTYRE
UNDERCOVER
UK / BBC1 5 x 60 me 10 Nov - 7
Dec Wed 9:30pm 1999
Producer Philip Clothier. Editor
Alex Holmes. Theme Music Cris Armstrong.
Investigative journalist David
McIntyre (uses hidden cameras) to infiltrate five dangerous worlds. 1. Football Hooliganism
/ 2Privatised Care Industry
(looking at the abuse of people with mental health problems). / 3. The Fashion Industry/
4. Con Artists/ 5. Looked at developments from
the previous shows. A second series called MACINTYRE INVESTIGATES (BBC1 / 3x60m)
started 25 April 2002
MAD
COWS AND ENGLISHMEN
UK /BBC2 4 x 50 me Sun 8:10pm
1998
Producer John
Bridcut.
An in-depth look at the
B.S.E.
crisis.
Presented by Michael Elliot.
MAGGIE - THE FIRST LADY
ITV1 / 4x60m / started 6 March 2003
Producer: Nick London / Executive Producer: Jane Bonham Carter
A profile of Margaret Thatcher revealing the roots of her political ambitions in her early years (as Margaret Roberts) and charts her rise within the conservative party, her elevation to Britain's first woman Prime Minister in the 1979 general election, her successful tenure as PM and her reputation as the "Iron Lady", and finally the reasons behind her eventual fall from power.
MAGIC
BBC2 / 6x60m / started 16 October 2004
Series Producer: Kerry Richardson
A look at the history of performance magic from its earliest roots to the present day.
THE
MAGIC MOUNTAIN
UK / C4 4 x 60 me 5 - 26 Feb sat
1:30pm 2000
Executive Producer Chris Lister.
Directors Mark Belderson & Dean Jones.
The story of Chris Bonnington and
his attempt to climb Tibet's Sepu Kangri a 23,000 foot high moutain.
THE
MAJOR YEARS
UK / BBC1 3 x 60 me 11 - 25 Oct
Mon 10:00pm 1999
Producer Denys
Blakeway.
Executive Producer Mark Danazer.
The story of John major's years
as leader of the Conservative Party ans as Prime Minister of Britain, with frank
recollections and insight from his fellow cabinet members. Narrated by Tim
Piggott-Smith.
MAKING
IT
BBC2 6 x 30 me 18 Mar Thurs
7:30pm 1999
Producer Tim Dunn. Editor Keith
Alexander.
Series following some of
Britain's most talented design graduates as they launch their careers.
MALIKA'S
HOTEL
UK / BBC2 (40 Minutes) 1 x 40 me
6 Dec Thurs 9:30pm 1990
Profile of Maline Shawa a
Palastinian who runs the only hotel on the Gaza Strip.
MANHUNT:
EVIL CALLING
UK / ITV 1 x 60 me 5 Sept Tues
10:00pm 2000
A look at the police
investigation into and subsequent conviction of murderer and kidnapper Michael
Sams.
MANHUNT:
THE SEARCH FOR THE YORKSHIRE RIPPER
UK / ITV 2 x 60 me 30 Sept - 5
Oct Thurs 10:00pm 1999
Producer Michael
Bilton. Director
Gwyneth Hughes.
How the police took five years to
finally capture (in 1980) the Yorkshire Ripper Peter Sutclifffe who was
responsible for the murder of 13 women.
MAN
IN THE SAND
BBC2 1 x 90 me 20 Feb sat 9:55pm
1999
Producers Juliet De Valero-Wills
& Cristopher Frederick. Director Kim Hopkins.
A profile of Billy Brag as he
toured America searching out the story of folk singer Woody Guthrie and
recording an album of recently discovered songs.
MARK
OWEN'S CELEBRITY SCOOTERS
UK / BBC Choice 6 x 30 me 2000
A travelogue style show in which
former member of Take That Mark Owen along with actor Rolf litter and presenter
/ actress Lisa Rogers visit various Euro countries tying in with the European
Football Championships.
MARILYN ON MARILYN
UK / BBC2 / 1x55m / 28 December 2001
Director: Paul Kerr / Editor: Dan Carey
A documentary using rare film footage telling the story of a screen legend. Includes Marilyn’s own voice from never before fully broadcast tapes of a magazine interview she gave just before she died in April 1960.
MARRIED
LIFE
UK / BBC / UK Horizons 28 Nov Sun
9:00pm
A three hour themed evening of
programmes of BBC repeats and looking at various aspects of marriage. The
programmes were Jewish Wedding, Holiday Reps Get Married, Vets In Practice, Vets
Get Married, Mail Order Brides.
MARRYING
OUT
UK / C4 3 x 60 me 23 sept - 7 Oct
Sat 8:00pm
Producer Emma Willis. Director
Catey Sexton.
A look at the problems faced by
married couples of differing religions - films such as Jewish Rusell and
Christian carol, Sikh Tessan and his Christian wife Nancy.
MASTERBLASTERS
UK /BBC2 6 x 30 me 13 Jul Thurs
8:30pm 2000
Producer Bill Grist. Executive
Robert Thirkell. Narrater Bill Paterson.
Series going inside the world of
the explosive expert.
- A Fistful Of Dynamite (Charles
Moran)
- Movie Mayhem (Peter Hutchinson
a special effects expert)
- Anne Chang & Eric Kelly (
American demolition experts)
- Ice Warrior - Kevin powell (
bomb designer)
- Bast Off - Bernard Schwartz
MATERNITY
HOSPITAL
UK / BBC1 x 60 me 4 Jan Weekdays
10:00pm 2000
Live, behind the scenes, from St
mary's maternity Hospital Presented by Sue cook.
MARTIAL
ARTS: THE REAL STORY
UK / ITV 2 x 60 me 2000
Producer Lloyd Miller.
A look at the difference
(ie
reality) between Martial Art the way it is portrayed on screen and the true
facts.
MASTERS OF DARKNESS
UK / C4 / 4x60m / started 12 February 2002 / 10:00pm
Series examining the lives and legacies of some of history’s most infamous individuals. Subjects covered were:-
Rasputin, Aleister Crowley, The Marquis de Sade and alchemist Dr John Dee
MATERNITY
BBC2 5 x 50 me 8 Jul - 5 Aug
Thurs 9:00pm 1999
Executive Producer Clare
Paterson. Director Peter Gorden.
Series following the staff and
patients of UCH Obstetrics Hospital in London.
MAYDAY
UK / C4 7 x 60 me 1999
Producer Greg Lanning. Director
Jonathon Jones.
A series looking at various
emergencies.
THE
MAYFAIR SET
UK / 4 x 60 me 18 Jul - 9 aug Sun
8:00pm 1999
Producer Adam Curtis.
Series looking at how Four
powerful businessmen all rose to prominence. The four featured Colonel David
Stirling,, Jim Slater, James Goldsmith, and Tiny Rowland were all members of the
same club, The Claremont in the 1960's.
MAZES
AND LABYRINTHS
BBC2 (The History Zone) 1 x 50 me
19 Jun Sat 7:20pm 1999
Producer Ron Johnston. Executive
Producer Richard Denton.
A look at mazes and labyrinths
and how fascination with them down the ages from the ancient greeks and Romans
to computer game Tomb Raider.
MEAN
STREETS
UK / BBC1 6 x 30 me First episode
shown 28 Mar Wed 8:35pm 2001
Director Kaye
Godleman. Executive
Producer Edwina Vardey.
Series looking at driving skills,
including drug driving and elderly driving.
MEERKATS
UNITED
BBC / 1x30m-e / 1987
Wildlife documentary following a
family of mongooses in their Kalahari habitat. Voted by BBC Viewers as the most
popular Natural History Unit film ever.
MEET
THE MAYORS
UK / BBC2 1 x 40 me 28 Mar Tues
11:20pm 2000
The mayors of Rome and Chicago
offer advice to the would be new mayor of London.
ME
FIRST
UK / BBC2 1 x 90 me 21 Sept Tues
9:00pm 1999
Executive Producer Claire
Paterson. Director Mick Canefray
An examination of the potential
that many middle children seem to have for being communicators or leaders. John
F Kennedy, Tony Blair, and Yasser Arrafat are all middle children.
MEGA-TSUNAMI:
WAVE OF DISTRUCTION
UK / BBC2 ( Horizon) 1 x 50 me 12
Oct Thurs 9:30pm 2000
Producer Mark
hedgcoe. Editor
Bethanie Lerner.
A study of the notorious hundreds
of metres high tidal waves called mega tsunami.
MELANIE
SYKES - SOUTHALL STORIES
BBC2 1 x 50 me 20 Mar Sat 6:25pm
1999
Producer / Director Fatima
Saleria.
Part Asian (on her mothers side)
model turned presenter Melanie Sykes looks at Southall in West London. The area
is home to the largest Asian community outside the Idian sub continent.
MEN
DOWN UNDER
UK / AUS / BBC1 / ABC 3 x 50 me
31 Aug - 14 Sept Thurs 9:30pm 2000
Executive Producer Philippa
Braithwaite. Director Ian Stuttard.
TV's archetypal men behaving
badly, Neil Morrisey and Martin Clunes travel to Australia following the route
taken by the Olympic Torch - prior to the September games - meeting interesting
people on the way.
MENINGITIS
- THE SEARCH FOR A CURE
UK / C4 (Equinox) 1 x 60 me 3 Apr
Mon 9:00pm 2000
Producer Emma Bowman. Director
Jeremy Llewellyn Jones.
A look at the work being done in
the war against Meningitis, following a team at st Mary's Hospital in London.
THE
MEN WHO CHANGED FOOTBALL
UK / BBC2 3 x 50 me First episode shown 13
mar Tues 9:00pm 2001
Director Annabel
Hobley. Executive
producer Alex Holmes.
Series examining the reversal of fortune
in the history of football from the nightmare of the eighties to the present day
billion dollar business looking at some of the personalities and companies
involved.
A
MESSAGE FOR THE MILLENNIUM
UK / ITV 1 x 30 me 1 Jan Sat
12:35am 2000
Various people from all over
Britain give messages for the New Year
Presented by Carolyn Ashton.
MEXICAN
SEX HOTEL
UK / C5 / Lion 1 x 30 me 5 Oct
Tues 11:05pm 1999
Producer Bill Locke. Executive
Producer Paul Wooding.
Behind the scenes at a holiday
resort where the attendees (mostly men) gt to watch and take part in various
porn films that are made there. Narrated by Richard Fairbrass.
MICHAEL JACKSON'S FACE
Channel Five-RDF / 1x60m-e / 2002
Executive Producers: Stephen Lambert/Damon Thomas/Teresa Watkins.
Producer/Director: Liam Humphreys.
Using interviews with family and friends, plastic surgeons and face experts, this fascinating documentary, narrated by Fay Ripley, charts the ups and downs of the
megastar’s career through the alterations made to his famous face, and outlines possible reasons for his obsession.
Former agent Michael Levine says: “I do think that Michael has made some very serious
miscalculations of focusing way too much on his personal peculiarities and not nearly enough on his
music, and what we have seen is the dismantlement of one of the greatest entertainment careers in the
history of the world.”
MICHAEL
PALIN'S HEMINGWAY ADVENTURE
UK / BBC1 / Prominent 17 Oct - 7
Nov Sun 9:00pm 1999
Producer Martha
Wailes. Director
David F Turnbull Music Howard Davidson. Executive Producers Anne James.&
Edward Mirzoff.
Michael Palin follows in the
footsteps of his favourite writer Ernest Hemingway that sees him traveling into
Europe America and Africa. Palin as well as watching a bullfight in Spain, was
forced to partake of a meal of bulls testicles. Episode two saw Palin journeying
to Hemingways birthplace in Chicago as well as Italy, where Hemingway served as
a red cross volunteer during WW One.
MIDDLE
CLASSES: THEIR RISE AND SPRAWL
UK / BBC2 / x 50 me / 2001
Director Claire
Hughues. Producer
Rachel Bell.
A look at the way the middle
classes have taken over the world. Narrated by Geoffrey Palmer.
MILLIONAIRE: A MAJOR FRAUD
ITV1 / 1x90m / 21 April 2003
Producer: Ingrid Kelly
The story of how Major Charles Ingram managed to cheat on the quiz show WHO WANTS TO BE A MILLIONAIRE and "win" the million pound top prize in 2001. Using extensive footage from the infamous and previously unbroadcast edition of the programme it shows how the scam worked with his accomplice in the contestants row using a system of coughs. Interviews were interspersed with technical staff and other potential contestants who became suspicious of the major during the filming. A trial finished a few weeks earlier had found Charles Ingram and his wife, and their accomplice, Tecwen Whittock guilty.
MONARCHY
C4 / 20x60m / started 18 October 2004
Executive Producer: Mark Fielder
David Starkey presents a history of the British monarchy from AD 400 to the present day. It started with a 6-part series in October 2004 and will run its proposed course of 20 episodes over 4 separate series.
MONSTERS WE MET
BBC2 / 3x50m / started 8 April 2003
Producer/Director: Andrew Graham-Brown
A Walking With Beasts type programme using computer graphics to re-create the real creatures that early man would have encountered across three continents.
MOSES
BBC1 / 1x60m / 1 December 2002 / 8:00pm
Producer: Jean-Claude Bragard / Executive Producer: Alan Bookbinder
Jeremy Bowen chronicles the life of Moses using the latest scientific evidence to find explanations for the miraculous events that surrounded his life.
THE MUMMY ROADSHOW
C4 / 6x30 / started 28 June 2002
Series Producer: Mary Olive Smith / Executive Producer: Larry Engel
Archaeologists Ron Beckett and Jerry Conlogue search for unusual mummies.
MY
FAIR LADY
UK / BBC2 (Omnibus) 1 x 60 me 10
Mar Sat 7:05pm 2001
Director Kate Schofield. Series
Editor Basil Comely.
Looking at the best known musical
in the world from its root as a Bernard Shaw play to the restaging of the
musical at the Royal National Theatre starring Martine McCutcheon, Jonathan
Pryce and Dennis Waterman.
MY WORST WEEK
UK / BBC1 / 5x40m / started 16 July 2002 / 10:35pm
Series Producer: Virginia Hill / Executive Producers: Remy
Blumenfeld, Gavin Hay, May Miller
Series revealing what went on when the private lives of various public figures were suddenly exposed to media scrutiny. Subjects included:- George Michael, Hugh Grant, Chris Evans, Sophie Wessex and Robin Cook.
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