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OBSESSIONS

BBC1 / 2x60m / started 7 August 2002 / 9:00pm

Director: Dinah Lord / Executive Producer: Michael Mosley

Documentary looking at unusual obsessions and delving into their origins in the brain's chemistry. Narrated by Jenni Murray.

 

OF ALL THE GIN JOINTS

UK / BBC2 (Correspondent) 1 x 45 me 4 Dec Sat 6:50pm 1999

Editor Fiona Murch. Director David Akerman.

Life at the Foreign Correspondents Club in Hong Kong, with journalists talking about their time there and the stories they covered.

 

OFFICE WARS

UK / C5 1 x 30 me 1 May Mon 8:00pm 2000

A look at what happens when office workers fell out.

 

THE OJ SIMPSON STORY

UK / BBC1 1 x 75 me 4 Oct Wed 10:25pm 2000

Producer Malcom Brinkworth. Executive Producer Richard Klein.

A Look at the infamous O J Simpson murder trial and what has happened in his life since he walked free from court. The program also looked once again at the evidence from the case.

 

OKLAHOMA FURY: DAY OF THE TORNADOES

C4 1 x 60 me 5 Jun Sat 7:00pm 1999

Producer Bob Strange

A look at the ferocious tornadoes that occurred in Oklahoma, America in May 1999

 

THE OLDEST TREE ON EARTH: THE CURSE OF METHUSALA

UK / C4 1 x 60 me 3 Jan Mon 7:30pm 2000

Producer / Director Ian Duncan.

The story of the worlds oldest tree, a 4,643 year old pine in California, nicknamed Methuselah, with special poems by Roger McGough.

 

OLD GOLD

UK / BBC1 1 x 50 me 16 Jan Sun 11:15pm 2000

Producer Jane D'Abuka. Executive Producer Sue Davidson.

A portrait of the World Veterans Athletic Championships which took place in Augast 1999, over 6,000 competitors took part and the programme focused on 6 UK athletes.

Narrated by James Bolam.

OLGA KORBUT: THE GYMNAST, HER COACH, HER RIVAL AND THE PRESIDENT

UK / BBC2 (Reputations) 1 x 50 me 16 May Tues 9:00pm 2000

Editor Jenny Abbott. Producer Clare Beavan.

The story behind Olga Korbut and her success, at great personal cost to Korbut thanks to the machinations of her coach Rendl Vlynsh. 

 

OLIVER CROMWELL - WARTS AND ALL

BBC1 / 1x60m / 24 November 2003

Writer: Ronald Frame / Producer: Andrew Thompson

Documentary with dramatised sequences showing the rise of Oliver Cromwell from a humble farmer to that of Lord Protector of England. The phrase "Warts and All" was coined by Cromwell when giving instructions to his portrait painter. This documentary was a tie-in to the concurrent BBC drama "Charles II - The Power and The Passion" - Charles I, who had a cameo in episode 1 of the drama was played by the same actor in this documentary.

With:- JIM CARTER as Cromwell / MARTIN TURNER as Charles I / HAZEL ELLERBY as Elizabeth Cromwell

 

ON CUE

BBC2 12 x 35 me 2 Nov Mon 2 :50pm 1998

Steve Davis looks back at memorable snooker matches covered by BBC TV.

 

ONE FOOT IN THE PAST

BBC2  / X 30 ME 1996-continuing

Editor Basil Comely.

A look at interesting places and buildings from the recent past, a regular item features celebrities visiting important places from their past.

Presented by Kirsty Wark. 

 

ONE PROM SHORT OF A SEASON

BBC1 (Omnibus) / 1x60mins / 11 September 1995

Documentary. Celebration of 100 years of Promenade concerts, using music, archive and anecdote. Contributions from Colin Davis, Georg Solti, Pierre Boulez, Andrew Davis, Gwyneth Jones, Moura Lympany, Terry Waite, Prunella Scales, Jane Asher, David Puttnam, Edward Heath. 

 

100 PERCENT WHITE

UK / C4 (True Stories) 1 x 85 me 17 Jul Mon 10:00pm

Executive Producer Roy Ackerman. Director Les Regan.

One year in the lives of three neo-nazis, film maker Regan had 10 years previously written a book about the men and their fellow neo-nazis, his documentary saw how their lives had changed.

 

100 YEARS YOUNG

UK / BBBC1 1 x 50 me 7 Sept Tues 10:00pm 1999

Producer Lucy Jags. Executive Producer Debbie Christie.

A look at the rising number of people living to a hundred and over.

 

ONE MAN, SIX WIVES AND 29 CHILDREN

UK / ITV 1 x 60 me 9 Dec Thurs 10:00pm 1999

Producer / Director Jane Treays.

A look into the world of 51 year old Mormon Tom Green, a polygamist with six wives who is on the lookout for a seventh.

 

ONE NIGHT STANDS

UK / C5 / 1 x 60 me / 31 Aug Thur 10:40pm 2000

Self explanatory title. 

 

ON SET WITH RANDALL AND HOPKIRK (DECEASED)

BBC1 / 1x30 minute episode / 2000 (Saturday 15 April @ 9.45pm)

Producer: Barney Reisz / Director: Roger Goldby

Documentary. Behind the scenes of the revival of the sixties hit with contributions from Martin Clunes, Charles Dance and Peter Bowles as well as the regular cast themselves. First seen on digital channel BBC Choice. 

 

ON THE BINGE: ALCOHOL

UK / BBC1 1 x 30 me 13 Dec Mon 7:30pm 1999

Producer Jim Booth. Director Dave Stamford

A look into the harmfull effects of binge drinking ( apparently more than 5.1/2 pints in a week classifies you as a binge drinker.

ON THE LINE

UK / C4 1999-2000

A season of programmes looking at the lives of people living on the Greenwich Meridian. See individual entries for each.

  1. Living On The Line (30 Dec)
  2. A Night Of TV On The Line (30 Dec)
  3. Brookie On The Gold Coast (30 Dec)
  4. Flava On The Line
  5. Time Team On The Line
  6. Film On The Line
  7. Voices On The Line

 

ON THE SPOT - THE 12 YARD CLUB

BBC2 1 x 50 me 19 May Wed 6:45pm 1999

Producer / Director Jo McCusky

Looking at the pressure faced by footballers involved in taking penalties.

Presented by Gary Lineker and Chris Waddle.

 

ON THE THRONE

UK / BBC2 (Forty Minutes) 1 x 40 me 29 Nov Thurs 9:30pm 1984

Producer Richard Lightbody. Executive Producer Roger Mills.

The idiosyncratic Lucinda Lambton conducts a guided tour of some of the UK's most lovely Lavatories.

 

THE OPIUM TRAIL

UK / ATV 1 x 50 me 14 Sept 9:40pm 1966

Writer / Producer / Narrater Adrian Cowell. Camera Chris Menges.

Travelling with opium from the poppy fields of Burma and Thailands through Bangkok and onto Hong Kong by sea where the market is huge.

 

AN ORDINARY MARRIAGE

UK / BBC1 (Everyman) 1 x 55 me 24 Oct sun 10:40pm 1999

Producer Rakha Singh. Director Ben Fox.

Christians Dave and Janeen Willis found they were unable to get married in the UK - because Janeen was born a man and David a woman.

 

ORIGINS

C4 / 6x60m / started 2 September 2002

Producer: Dan Gluckman

Documentary series blending dramatised scenes and expert narrative showing how human beings survived under harsh conditions before recorded history. The first edition dealt with the Ice Age.

OUR MANICS IN HAVANA

UK / C4 1 x 65 me 24 Mar Sat 11:35pm 2001

Producer Jo Pilkington. Executive Producer Nav Raman.

The Manic Street Preachers entertain Castro in the Karl Marx Theatre in Havana, the first western pop band ever to play in Cuba.

 

OUT OF AFRICA

UK / C4 1 x 90 me 13 Jan Thurs 11:35pm 2000

Producer / Director Ron McCullagh.

Harrowing footage of the civil war in Sierra Leone, including details of the many atrocities committed by both sides.

 

OUT ON A LIMB

UK / BBC2 (Horizon) 1 x 50 me 17 Feb Thurs 9:30pm 2000

Producer David Goodale. Executive Producer Andre Singer.

The controversial condition of dysmorphia - sufferers of which are worried that they can never be normal unless part of their body is removed - usually a limb. The film followed such sufferers over a six month period.

 

OVERKILL

BBC2 (Horizon) 1 x 50 me 1998

Editor John Lynch. Producer Philip Martin.

Archaeologists use the latest forensic science techniques to look at Iron Age peat bog studies.

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