In The Wednesday Play entry The Navigators Alicia (Andree Melly) and her mother Enid (Patience Collier) become involved with two burly navvies who are working close...
Waiting in the Wings: Livia, wife of Emperor Augustus plots against his daughter Julia and manages to convince him to bring her son Tiberius back from...
What Shall We Do About Claudius?: Livia has engineered the downfall of Julia, who has been banished. Tiberius is recalled to Rome and is joint heir...
Some Justice: As Augustus learned of Livia’s plot against Postumus, she took action which resulted in Tiberius becoming emperor. The situation in the East now threatens...
Queen of Heaven: Germanicus has been murdered in Antioch and his wife Agrippina is convinced Tiberius ordered the killing. Livia has discovered that Caligula helped to...
Reign of Terror: With Tiberius retired to Capri, Sejanus plans to tighten his grip on Rome and divorces his wife so he can marry Livilla. But...
Hail Who?: Caligula’s erratic behaviour continues, as he makes his horse a senator and turns the palace into a brothel. Many in the Praetorian Guard grow...
O Happy Isle: Jeff and Jeannie are hired to investigate the apparent suicide of a young gay man on the remote island of Strait Isle in...
BBC drama Alice, an entry in The Wednesday Play strand and written by Dennis Potter, is the story of how the Reverend Hodgson aka Lewis Carroll...
Period drama serial A Woman of Substance was a massive hit for Channel 4 in it’s earliest years and was set at the turn of the...
In ITV sitcom Marjorie and Men, newly divorced Marjorie Bolton (Patricia Routledge) sets out to find herself a new man. Marjorie has returned home to live...
BBC drama series The Man Outside was an anthology of individual thriller stories that were introduced by Rupert Davies in character as a man called Baker....
In family scifi drama The Master a pair of teens, Nicky (Paul Guess) and Judy (Adrienne Posta) get marooned on an island that has fallen under...
Ladykillers was an anthology of period murder trials hosted by Robert Morley. The first season focused on women who killed whilst the second on murderers in...
The Ruth Rendell Mysteries was a long running anthology type mix of thrillers and a continuing series featuring Chief Inspector Wexford (played by George Baker). Initially...