BBC1 1 x 30 me 20 Jul Tues 8:50pm 1999

Producer Rebecca Sabdiford. Executive Producers Olivia Lichtenstein & Neil Grant

A look at the first day of the Harrods winter sale.

UK / ITV 1 x 60 m 26 Apr Wed 8:00pm 2000

Executive Producer Helen Scott. Producer Sarah Dearden.

The shady practices used by salesmen to persuade (or coerce) people to buy their products.

Narrated by Leslie Grantham.

UK / C4 (Dispatches) 1 x 60 me 27 Apr Thurs 9:00pm 2000

Producer TimPritchard. Executive Producer Steve Phelps.

An investigation into the facts surrounding the conviction of Sally Clark a Cheshire solicitor imprisoned for murdering her baby sons. Presented by David Jessel 

C4 / started12 January 2003

Executive Producer: Phil Edgar-Jones

Reality series set in a South London hairdressers and beauty salon. The staff are selected industry professionals. Viewers have the chance to phone up and book appointments. Daily update programmes showed how things were getting on.

UK / FMTV (Pay TV) / 6 x 30 me 1998

Editor Denise White. Executive Producer Eric Mitchell.

Nick sanders attempts to ride a motor cycle around the world in only 27 days. 

UK / BBC2 / 1x90m / 25 July 2002 / 9:00pm

Presenter: Peter Taylor / Director: Bruce Goodison / Producer: Louise Norman

SAS soldiers and hostages tell the inside story of the six-day Iranian embassy siege and the military assault by the SAS which ended it, that was watched live around the world in 1980.

ITV 8 x 30 me 13 Mar Mon 10:30pm 2000

Producer / Director Chris Malone.

Series looking at terrible natural phenomenon and other vicious events such as meteor strikes etc.

UK / ITV 4 x 60 me 16 Nov tues 10:00pm 1999

Producer Liz McLeod

Series looking at how brutal the sea can be, from tidal waves to ship wrecks & ferry disasters.

UK / BBC1 x 30 me 1990

Executive Producers Cristopher Morris & Eric Rowan.

Philip Schofield takes a light hearted journey around Europe, meeting interesting people along the way.

UK / C4 x 60 me 26 Mar Mon 9:0pm 2001

Producer Saskia Baron. Series Producer Dunja Noack.

German doctors abandoning Hippocrates in favour of Hitler.

Narrated by Sebastian Faulks.

UK / C5 2 x 60 me 20 Jul Thurs 8:00pm 2000

A look at the way people lie and the changes that occur in our bodies when we lie.

Uk / C4 5 x 30 me 5 - 29 Oct Thurs 9:30pm 2000

Producer Paul Sen. Executive Producer Narinder Minhas.

Presenter Simon Singh looks at the history of codes, cyphers and code breakers beginning with Babington in the 16^th century.

UK / C4 (Equinox) 1 x 60 me 30 Oct Mon 9:00pm 2000

Producer Michael Samuels. Executive Producer Bridget Sneyd.

A look at the effects of stress on an average couple over a period of 24 hours, the couple were actually actors.

UK / BBC1 2 x 50 me 27 - 28 Oct Tues Wed 8:00pm 1999

Producer Nick handel. Executive Producer Seetha Kumar.

2 live shows in a kind of Crimewatch type format, that attempted to reunite missing people and objects with their relatives and owners.

Presented by Nick Ross and Fiona Bruce

UK / C4 / On The Bus / Some Films / Fox Lorber 1 x 65 me 2 sept sat 11:05pm 2000

Producers David Herman Aran Kumar. Director Derek Jones. Music BAM Music.

A profile of the man Tony Poe, who is allegedly the inspiration for Marlon Brando's role of Kurtz in Apocalypse Now. Poe was a CIA member based in Laos during the Vietnam War and his antics led to him becoming an enemy of state. 

BBC1 / 3x30m / started 9 November 2003

Director/Producer: Jasper James

Zoologist Nigel Marvin explores the prehistoric creatures that lived in the sea using 'Walking With Dinosaurs' type computer graphics to bring the creatures to life.

UK / C4 (The Monster Files) 1 x 60 me 1998

Investigators look at numerous sightings of a serpent lurking in a small lake (Selidord Lake) in Norway.

UK / LWT 13 Apr Fri 8:00pm 1990

Director Sue McMahon. Producer Linda Beadle.

Originally a short segment of Surprise Surprise offering audiences help in finding relatives and friends that was given its own show.

Presented by Andy Craig, Cilla Black, & Gordon Burns.

UK / BBC2 (Omnibus) 1 60 me 24 Mar 7:20pm 2001

Diretor Sam Hobkinson. Series Editor Basil Comely.

Cate Blanchett, who is starring in the film version of his novel Charlotte Gray, joins the man himself in this highly personal program.

UK / C4 (Cutting Edge) 1 x 60 me 14 Nov Tues 9:00pm 2000

Producer / Director Lol Lovett

Following a group of people hurling themselves off tall buildings and other high structures both man made and natural. Base jumping as the practitioners like to call it is banned in some countries this program aims to find out what is the motivation.

UK / BBC2 4 x 50 me 7 - 28 Sept thurs 9:00pm 2000

Producer David Darlow. Director Jonathon Hacker.

The inside story of the SOE - Special Operations Executive - said to have been the inspiration for Ian Fleming's James Bond. With former 'secret agents' telling tales of their 'daring do' during the second world war. 

UK / C4 / x60 / 2000-continuing

Documentary series focussing on little known but interesting moments of history.

UK / BBC2 (Reputations) 2 x 50 me 4 - 11 Sept Mon 9:00pm 2000

Producer William Cran. Editor jenny Abbott.

A re-evaluation of the life of tricky dickie himself claiming that for much of his time in the oval office he was allegedly heavily into drink and drugs.

BBC2 4 x 50 me 22 Apr - 13 May 1987

Producer Brian Barr. Director Dennis Cosgrove.

Highly controversial look at military and political secrecy in Britain, in fact 2 of the planned six editions were pulled from the schedules after parliamentary pressure. One of the two The Zircon Affair was finally shown on 30 sept 1998 the other has never been seen.

BBC2 / 4x50m / started 7 March 2003

Producer: Detlef Siebert / Executive Producer: Laurence Rees

Each week historian Andrew Roberts focused on one leader from recent history and shows how they were successful in their leadership (or where they went wrong) and draws comparisons with more recent figures showing how certain leadership traits are replicated. The subjects were:- Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill, John F Kennedy and Martin Luther King.

C4 1 x 30 me 8 Apr Thurs 9:00pm 1999

Producer Remy Blumenfield. Director Kate Snell.

A look at the treatment of animals within the circus industry. 

C4 / 1x60m / 15 June 2002 / 8:00pm

Director: Tim Pritchard / Executive Producer: Samir Shah

Jon Snow investigates the British honours system and discovers how people got nominated. Jon Snow himself was nominated for an OBE in 2000 but declined to accept claiming it could compromise his journalistic independence.

UK / BBC2 (Horizon) 1 x 50 me 9 Nov Thurs 9:00pm 2000

Producer Becky Jones. Series EditorBettina Lerner.

Archaeologists uncover the incredibly well preserved city of Zeuigma in eastern Turkey which has lain buried for a thousand years. In the shadow of a hydro-electric project on the Euphrates the team race against time to rescue some of the Roman Empires greatest treasures.

UK / ITV 3 x 60 me 9 - 23 Sept Thurs 10:00pm 1999

Producer Stewart Bring

Series featuring previously unseen amazing colour footage from World War II, really bringing things to life. The series was also seen concurrently on (non terrestrial) The Discovery Channel.

Narrated by John Thaw.

UK / BBC2 5 x 50 me 2 - 30 Nov tues 8:00pm 1999

Producer Cynthia Page.

A look into the lives of ancient races and how they achieved some of their greatest feats.

Narrated by Robert Lindsey

1. Viking Voyage

   Top seaman Sir Robin Knox Johnston attempts to sail a replica Viking Ship across the North Sea.

2. Caesers Bridge

   A team attempt to emulate Caesars army and build a timber bridge across the Rhine in only 10 days.

3. The claw

   An engineer and a circus owner attempt to build a war machine invented by Archimedes.

4. Olmer Heads

   A team of experts attempt to make and transport the huge stone head shaped stones of ?

5. The hanging Gardens of Babylon

Experts try to discover in the Jordanian desert the irrigation secrets of the famed Hanging Gardens.  

Channel 4-Speakeasy-Fulcrum / 1x65m-e / 1996

Producer/Director: Jim Adamson

Profile of erotic actress Mary Millington who became a big player in the British sex industry during the 1970's but later committed suicide at the age of 33. Narrated by Hilary Neville.

UK / C4 / 1x60m / 29 July 2002 / 9:00pm

UK / BBC1 3 x 50 me First episode shown 1 Apr Sun 9:10pm 2001

Series recreating the life of Jesus of Nazareth using special computer generated effects to recreate what life would have been like around the time of Jesus and what he would have really looked like. Presented by Jeremy Bowen.

UK /  ITV / 1x60 Minutes / 1969

UK / Tyne Tees1 x 60 me 28 Mar Wed 9:00pm 2001

Director Southan Morris. Producer Judith Holder. Associate Producer Mark Allen.

An after they were famous special reuniting the actors who played the Von Trapp children. 

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C4 / 4x60m / started 12 January 2004

Directors: Chris Sykes, Nick Watts / Series Producer: Nick Watts

Four pilots undergo the same training that spitfire pilots went through during the Second World War.

UK / C4 1 x 65 me 20 Mar Tues 10:00pm 2001

Producer / Director Mick Grogan.

The points of view of the victim and the perpetrator are examined in this program.

UK / C4 1 x 60 me 20 Mar Tues 11:05pm 2001

Director John Akomfrah. Producer Fergus O'Brien.

An examination of the obsessive behaviour of stalkers. Six real cases are dramatised in this program with analysis from eminent doctors such as forensic psychiatrist Dr David James. 

C4 / 4x60m / started 12 July 2003

Producer: Tim Kirby

Telling the story of the origins and development of the English language novel which began with Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe in 1719.