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In the black and white days of post-war British television, Fanny Cradock, with her painted-on eyebrows and excessive make-up, is a colourful figure in every sense, even dyeing the food to make it show up on monochrome sets. But she is also something of a tyrant, disowning her son Chris because she disapproves of his wife, so that even her long-suffering husband and co-presenter Johnnie is powerless to intervene. Fanny's comeuppance comes about when she belittles a competition winner over her choice of menu in a television reality show. Audience disgust at Fanny's over-bearing treatment of Devon housewife Gwen provokes such a backlash that the television company sacks her. After Johnnie's death, she ends up as a resident, still trying to order the cooking, in a retirement home. |
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Germany, March 2000: Detective Alex Fischer investigates the murder of a young Danish woman, whose body has been slashed from head to foot. On the ground beside her are the words in Arabic: "We are crossing". As the threat grows of a mass exodus of refugees caused by civil war in Russia, Fischer sets out on a hazardous search for the truth with refugee Anna. |
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With the Occupation of Brussels by the Nazis, Helene could forget her ideas of a university degree. Her energy turned towards the hidden fight against the occupiers and gradually... Cast:
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A well-remembered and much loved one-off drama from the 'Screen One' strand. Nick, a Greek Cypriot living in London, hits on the idea of marriage to raise some cash - the bride, according to custom, coming complete with dowry. He is forced to enlist the help of a childhood adversary, Maria. Soon realising she is giving him the runaround, Nick retaliates by wooing her. |
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What would happen if you could clone yourself? Two ordinary friends decide to try this with a new machine at work.Thinking this experiment has not worked the friends go home dejected.But further events prevail and a serious dose of mistaken identity ensues. Can the imposters be caught?
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This is the wonderfully funny television adaptation of the stage play by David Lodge about a creative writing course set in the wilds, the writers teaching that course, and the comedy of manners in which the students are involved. |
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A Taste of Honey is set in Salford in North West England in the 1950s. It tells the story of Jo, a seventeen-year-old working class girl, and her mother, Helen, who is presented as crude and sexually indiscriminate. Helen leaves Jo alone in their new flat after she begins a relationship with Peter, a rich lover who is younger than her. At the same time Jo begins a romantic relationship with Jimmy, a black sailor. He proposes marriage but then goes to sea, leaving Jo pregnant and alone. She finds lodgings with a homosexual acquaintance, Geoffrey, who assumes the role of surrogate father. Helen returns after leaving her lover and the future of Jo's new home is put into question |
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A fondly-remembered television one-off drama. Twenty year-old student Peter Fraiman falls asleep in 1975 a happy man, having asked his girlfriend to marry him. But when he wakes up it's 1995 he has a wife he doesn't recognise and two children. Unable to remember anything of the intervening twenty years, he feels he has jumped forwards in time. He goes in search of his former girlfriend and is forced to face the fact that he has become a person he never expected to be. |
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A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work at night and sends out false homing signals to ships at sea; the ships then crash on the shore, where they are looted by the gang.
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Adaptation of Russell Hoban's novel about two mechanical toy mice, and their quest to become "self-winding".
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After minister Sam Whitehead (Andy Griffith) moves to his new post in a small Kansas town, he finds that the place is in total gridlock because of a feud between the families of Mayor Will Sinclair (Henry Jones) and his rival Axel Gresham (Edgar Buchanan). Meanwhile, Sam's reckless brother-in-law, Bubba (Jerry Van Dyke), turns the church boiler into an alcohol still. Sam is ready to quit when his friend Art (Gary Collins) decides to enter politics in order to change the town for the better. |
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Drew Barrymore was 11 when she played 11-year-old Lisa who has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. Starring: |
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A young boy travels back in time to 1927 using his elderly neighbour's time machine to try to stop his grandfather's planned flight across the Atlantic. |
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Brink! is a 1998 set in the backdrop of aggressive inline skating. The film was written by Jeff Schechter and directed by Greg Beeman. The film stars Erik von Detten as Andy "Brink" Brinker, a high school inline skater who joins a group of sponsored aggressive inline skaters to earn money to help his financially troubled family. The film is considered a modern and loosely based adaptation of Mary Mapes Dodge's 1865 novel Hans Brinker, or The Silver Skates. |
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A well-remembered and impressive drama serial set in the world of medicine. Edgar Pascoe is a highly successful and charismatic cardiac surgeon. Pre-eminent in his field, he is the embodiment of the upper echelons of medicine: urbane, assured, supremely confident in his own abilities. But he is not infallible - either in the operating theatre or in his private life with his divided family.
A well-remembered and impressive drama serial set in the world of medicine.
Edgar Pascoe is a highly successful and charismatic cardiac surgeon. Pre-eminent in his field, he is the embodiment of the upper echelons of medicine: urbane, assured, supremely confident in his own abilities. But he is not infallible - either in the operating theatre or in his private life with his divided family. |
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The great John Gielgud takes the role of the ghost in Oscar Wilde's story. A young American couple inherits an English castle, only to find that it is haunted by the spirit of a disgraced ancestor, doomed to stay on the estate because of his cowardice. The only way he can escape is if one of his descendants performs an heroic act. Starring: |
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Blacksmith Charley (Dan Blocker - Hoss from Bonanza) invests in a mail-order bride, and townsfolk of Calico County talk Sadie (Nanette Fabray) into posing as the bride-to-be when the real bride fails to appear. Starring: |
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Hearts and Minds is a British television series created by Jimmy McGovern and first aired on Channel 4 from 16 February to 9 March 1995. The series won the Royal Television Society award for Best Serial Drama. The series is about a young teacher at a tough Liverpool high school. After working in a factory, Drew Mackenzie (Christopher Eccleston) manages to educate himself to become a teacher. He wants to share his idealistic approach to rising above his circumstances with his Liverpool students, but soon finds himself caught in the crossfire of racial tensions, homophobia, and the difficult home lives of the teenagers. According to series creator Jimmy McGovern, the series was based in part on the three years he spent as an English teacher at the Quarry Bank school in Liverpool. The series was well reviewed by British critics, who praised its realism as compared to other well known school dramas. |
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RAW is an Irish drama television series which was broadcast on RTÉ. The show focuses on the staff at a Dublin restaurant.
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A Man Called Intrepid is based on the best-selling book by William Stevenson, this 3-Part mini series begins in 1939, just before the outbreak of WWII. With his warnings of Hitler's treachery going ignored, out-of-power politician Winston Churchill (Nigel Stock) approaches patriotic Canadian industrialist Sir William Stephenson (David Niven) with an unusual request. Sir William is asked to use his own funds to secretly organize an Allied espionage network, to be set in motion the moment Hitler shows his hand. Joining in this covert operation is American president Franklin D. Roosevelt, who, risking possible impeachment, encourages Sir William to establish a training base for spies in Ontario. Other concerned parties include the courageous French expatriate Madelaine (Barbara Hershey) and Sir Willi.am's right-hand man Evan Michaelain (Michael York). |
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In 1945, the Carlions assemble at an English country house for a family gathering. During the event, they must determine who is to take over the family brewing empire, since the present head of the business, Sir Frederick, is getting old. The results of the 1945 general election causes a major stir, and some angry farmers occupy a barn. Stars: Frederick Alexander, Jill Bennett, Eliza Buckingham |
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A rebellious local authority fights the Government when faced with enormous spending cuts. Chief Constable McBride must make a crucial decision. Runtime: 90 min |
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Through a series of real and imagined encounters with angels, demons, and England's pagan past, a pastor's son begins to question his religion and politics, and comes to terms with his sexuality. Country: UK |
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Three suspected terrorists are arrested after a bomb explosion. Various techniques of psychological torture are used upon them, resulting in revelations about the interrogators as well as the interrogated Country: UK |
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Three men at three different times in history come to Mow Cop Hill in search of sanctuary from their troubles: a Roman soldier, an English Civil War rebel and a 1970s teenager. Somehow they seem to be linked through an energy within the hill and an axe. Is history doomed to repeat itself or can loving another person free them? Country: UK |
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The working day of nurse Alan Welbeck at a psychiatric ward. Points out the conditions in UK mental hospitals - understaffing, overwork, bad pay, old inadequate buildings and unsatisfactory patient treatment and cure. Country: UK |
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When Denis Midgley's father is rushed to hospital, Midgley drops everything to be by his side. They've never really got on, so Midgley wants to be sure he's there if his father ever regains consciousness. As he hates his job as a schoolteacher, and his home-life with his wife, her senile mother and their insolent teenage son, he has no qualms about lingering around the hospital. But as days turn into weeks, his father obstinately refuses to 'slip away', and Denis' motivation for staying by his father's bedside has more and more to do with Valery, a young nurse Country: UK |
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Made as part of the BBC series Play For Today, Licking Hitler deals with the propaganda campaign by the Allies in WW2. Country: UK in |
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Playwright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production. Country: UK
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Charismatic detective wise-cracks his way through murder mysteries. Mayo and the team investigate the apparent murder of Marian Dove, the matriarch of a family-owned glass business. Working late one night, Marian is lured onto the shop floor where someone arranges ... |
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