One off entry in the Comedy Playhouse series Don’t Ring Us…We’ll Ring You detailed the exploits of Jimmy Duffy (Norman Rossington) and Ernie Babcock (John Junkin),...
Incredibly powerful BBC drama United Kingdom (an entry in the Play For Today strand) takes us into a crisis in the North East when a local...
Sitcom Cowboys detailed the exploits of a trio of well dodgy builders. The three were Geyser (Colin Welland), Eric (James Wardoper) and Wobby Ron (David Kelly)....
Saturday Night Theatre was an anthology series with no real defining factor other than that the productions were all first broadcast on Saturday evening in a...
A short run anthology series of dramas in which ordinary people faced difficult situations. The casts were pretty high profile and included the likes of Colin...
Hugh Hudson’s Oscar-winning film Chariots Of Fire goes back to Paris and the 1924 Olympics, where Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross) and Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) represented...
The team of director Ken Loach and producer Tony Garnett, whose highly-regarded television collaborations included such seminal plays as Up the Junction, Cathy Come Home and...
Drama Farmer’s Arms told of the struggles faced by a hard pressed farmer. production details UK / BBC One / 1×60 minute episode / Broadcast Friday 9...
Period drama The Fix was based on a true story. In 1963 muck raking journalist Mike Gabbart joins forces with football reporter to uncover the truth...
In Faces a gang of villains pull off a wages snatch at an engineering firm. Armed with “shooters” they badly injure one of the guards and...
Drama Bangelstein’s Boys follows a rugby team’s annual tour that looks like descending into chaos when three of the players have a falling out; Tommy and...
In Two Kinds of Crash taxi driver Arthur New is involved in a crash whilst carrying a passenger, elderly Miss Spriggs. Her brother is determined to claim...
In one off thriller Machinegunner a Bristol debt collector finds himself mixed up with crooks. cast Leonard Rossiter as Cyril Dugdale Nina Baden-Semper as Felicity Rae...
Tales of Piccadilly was a short run anthology series set in the same area of London. Writers included Colin Welland, Alexander Baron, John Kershaw and Julian...
In A Very Desirable Property Joe is once again out of work but he is back with Susan, he is scheming though to get back at...