Magical drama series Merlin brings us the King Arthur story in the same style as the BBC’s successful revamp of Robin Hood. The story begins with...
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...
A Tragedy of Two Ambitions: Like a ghost from the past, the Halborough brothers’ drunken father reappears to destroy their image of respectability. Cast: Paul Rogers...
In two part thriller serial Red Fox, based on the novel by Gerald Seymour, British defence Industries businessman Harrison (Brian Cox) is kidnapped in Paris, it’s...
BBC drama The Alan Clark Diaries offered up the dramatised memoirs of MP Alan Clark (John Hurt) as he works as a government minister during the...
Period drama Acquit or Hang tells the story behind a court martial case which attempted to reveal the true facts surrounding the mutiny on the bounty....
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...
Anthology series of single plays Sunday Night Theatre was a continuation of Saturday Night Theatre just moved to a different day. Towards the end of SNT...
This sharp adaptation of Orwell’s novel by director Michael Radford and Jonathan Gelns wisely avoids the temptation to decorate the story with modish science fiction trimmings...
Having experienced redemption by exorcism, Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder) becomes an assistant to her mentor, Father Lareaux (John Hurt). The pair attempt to ‘save’ murderer Henry...
Nicolas Cage stars as the eponymous Corelli, leader of the Italian invasion force that control the Greek island of Cephalonia. Billeted with the local doctor (John...
Blessed — if that is the word — with thumbs the size of … um, well, a baby’s forearms, Sissy Hankshaw makes good by hitching all...
First broadcast in 1975, the Naked Civil Servant, one of the top plays of the 1970’s. tells the true story of flamboyant homosexual Quentin Crisp from...
When Ridley Scott was chosen for Alien, he was on a roll from The Duellists and Blade Runner and delivered a slick sci-fi whose look and...
Paul Scofield stars in this exquisitely filmed historical drama that swept the 1966 Academy Awards for its artful portrayal of the battle of wills between King...