In Channel 4 comedy drama Porterhouse Blue, when his job comes attack and Porterhouse College of Cambridge University is itself under threat of extinction, elderly head...
In one off drama The Place of Peace, Jean (Jane Lapotaire) fulfils a long held ambition to visit her Aunt Clare (Beatrix Lehmann) in India. Clare...
Period comedy drama. During World War II an innocent Geordie girl is wooed by a soldier. production details UK | ITV – Tyne Tees | 1×95...
In Home and Away Madge Reading is convinced her husband Don might be using his obsession with running his works soccer club as cover for an...
Period drama Black Velvet Band takes us back to Victorian times when a gang of petty crooks find themselves sentenced to transportation to Australia, their ship,...
Period drama serial Tender is the Night, based on the novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald, was one of the few non original pieces Dennis Potter was...
The After Dinner Game, made for the Play For Today strand was a typical Malcolm Bradbury piece set in the Academic environs of a modern university....
In The Ebony Tower an ageing Laurence Olivier plays Breasley, a celebrated and now elderly painter who has his solitary life (save for the presence of...
The Glittering Prizes was a sextet of linked plays following 20 years in the lives of a group of Cambridge university graduates from 1953 to 1976....
In fabulous drama serial The History Man Howard Kirk, a trendy left wing sociology university lecturer, has a complicated love and home life. Kirk is supremely...
Drama serial Demob scored highly on the period detail in this tale of a pair of demobbed soldiers, Captain Ian Deasey and Lance Corporal Dick Dobson,...