Resolutely downbeat in the best BBC scifi tradition The Day of the Triffids, based on John Wyndham’s post apocalyptic novel of the 1950’s, is superb stuff,...
In very well cast six part ITV thriller A Killing On The Exchange American Dan Maitland (Gavin O’Herlihy) is transferred to the London stock exchange and...
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...
Period crime drama serial. The story behind Assistant Chief Constable George Oldfield’s tracking down of the evil incarnate that is murderer Peter Sutcliffe. production details cast...
In thriller Talking To Strange Men, after his wife walks out on him John Creevey finds himself caught up in a bizarre mystery. A very young...
Ten From The Twenties was an anthology series that adapted well known short stories from writers such as Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Hugh Walpole and Elizabeth...
In Psychological drama Psy Warriors, an entry for Play For Today, a group of terrorists are interrogated by the army, but are things as they really...
Sitcom Lame Ducks focuses on Brian Drake (hence the somewhat punning title) who has to start his life over when he is injured in a collision...
In Clever Dick Bulman is put out by the arrival of Detective Inspector Dick Barrington. Bulman has worked with him before in London and he thinks...
In episode two of the intriguing Paranoid German cop Linda Felber is asked to interview the victims ex-husband Reuben Lacarna only to find him dead in...
With it’s script from Andrew Davies, To Serve Them All My Days was a big success on its broadcast in 1980, making the name of John...
In Paranoid a vicious murder takes place in full view of a group of children and parents playing at a park. The police investigate and it...
True story Spend Spend Spend is set in the early 1960’s and tells the story of Vivien Nicholson who wins a fortune on the pools and...
Afternoon drama series Rooms told stories of the tenants of 35 Mafeking Terrace, a large Victorian house converted into bed sitters. The “bedsit” factor allowed for...
Period drama serial Holding On told of the life and times of the East End Wheelwright family over much of the 20th century from 1903 right...