A Matter of Conscience was a one off drama based on the novel Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy. It featured a rare straight role for Harry H....
The Withered Arm: In the early 19th century, a young married woman is stricken with a mysterious malady and searching for a cure leads her in...
Crime drama series Dixon of Dock Green featured an ageing Jack Warner as Constable George Dixon (later to be a sergeant earning his stripes on 19...
Gerhardt Schulz (Michael Elphick) is a petty fraudster who after a couple of spells in prison finds himself, when the second world war breaks out, the...
In comedy drama Last Of The Blonde Bombshells, written by Alan Plater, when the now ageing Elizabeth (Judi Dench) thinks back to her time playing in...
In four part BBC Drama Shooting The Past US property developer Christopher Anderson (Liam Cunningham) has problems when he finds the staff of a huge picture...
In Armchair Theatre drama The Pity of it All, widowed Nancy Harper (Billie Whitelaw) begins a friendship with Walter Daymer (Nigel Stock) who happens to be...
Armchair Mystery Theatre was a summer season anthology series, a companion to the long running Armchair Theatre series, with the emphasis on mystery. The plays were...
First Night was an anthology of dramas specially written for television. The series attracted some high profile names. The first one broadcast was The Strain written...
In comedy drama series Firm Friends, middle aged Rose Gutteridge teams up with her house cleaner Jayshree Kapoor to start their own chain of fast food...
Period drama The Fifteen Streets was the first entry in ITV’s reasonably high budget adaptations of Catherine Cookson novels. Set in 1910 in the North of...
Festival was a BBC anthology of single plays offering up adaptations of either of prominent stage plays or novels. The first production was Noel Coward’s Fallen...
Wessex Tales was a six part anthology of plays based on the short stories of Thomas Hardy. This was a high profile series attracting prominent names...
James Ivory and producer Ismail Merchant followed up the success of A Room with a View with this adaptation of E M Forster’s most personal novel...
Chris Menges’ film stars Daniel Auteil as Lombard, a low-rent private eye who agrees to track down his friend Carlos’s (Ciaran Hinds) missing brother-in-law, a seedy...