A Haunting Harmony
Dec 30, 1993A young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.
Tim Wylton
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Marion and Geoff: A Small Summer Party
Sep 03, 2001A prequel to Marion and Geoff, which captures on camcorder the fateful events at a garden party when mini-cab driver Keith's life fell apart. Friends and family have gathered for a barbecue to celebrate the career of Keith's wife Marion, who is at the party with her boss, Mr Sushimoto, and her colleague, Geoff. However, Keith's father-in-law uncovers the true extent of Marion's naked ambition, with humiliating results for Keith.
Comedy
Mirrorball
Dec 22, 2000Vivienne Keill and Jackie Riviera are a couple of aging stage actresses who live in vertically adjacent flats. The two are of questionable talent, and their careers seem to be at a standstill. During the course of the pilot, Vivienne has the opportunity to be cast in a new show but delivers a horrifying rendition of the standard "Send in the Clowns", thanks in part to Jackie's off-kilter advice.
Comedy
A Fatal Inversion
May 10, 1992Adaptation of the Barbara Vine (aka Ruth Rendell) novel. After Adam inherits a country house from his great uncle, he and his friend Rufus decide to spend the summer there instead of abroad. An odd assortment of 'house guests' turns up through different means and it's an uneasy mix at best. A decade afterwards, the bodies of a young woman and an infant are discovered in the woods behind the house. As the police investigate, they naturally look to Adam as former owner of the house, and what happened all those years before starts to catch up with him.
Thriller
Blue Blood
Nov 01, 1974Un majordome d'une rare méchanceté s'empare des biens de son maître dégénéré par la sorcellerie.
Drama
Love at First Sight
Nov 16, 2010A day in the life of 70-year-old Arthur, who falls in love with Ruth, a new resident at his retirement home.
Drama
The Treaty
Dec 05, 1991How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.
Drama
Flying Into the Wind
Jun 26, 1983The Wyatts wish to educate their children at home, but the education authorities have other ideas. Moving between 1969 and 1980, we see how this affects the various individuals and attitudes.
TV Movie
Lucky Jim
Apr 11, 2003A rollicking adaptation of Kingsley Amis's first novel, Lucky Jim stars Stephen Tompkinson as Jim Dixon, a luckless lecturer at a provincial British university, trying to make a splash with his pompous boss, Professor Neddy Welch (Robert Hardy). Jim is also trying to make it with the woman of his dreams, Christine Callaghan (Keeley Hawes, Othello and Wives and Daughters), while simultaneously being pursued by the woman of his nightmares, fellow lecturer Margaret Peel (Helen McCrory, Anna Karenina). One (of many) complications is that Christine is the girlfriend of Professor Welch's egotistical artist son, Bertrand. Another is that Margaret keeps attempting suicide to get Jim's attention. But despite his misadventures, Jim keeps his eyes on the prize: a leg up on the ladder to a professorship in medieval history.
Comedy
Anna Lee: Headcase
Jan 10, 1993A bright, pretty and determined young lady named Anna Lee quits the police department in search of adventure, and joins a small and somewhat stuffy detective agency, whose members don't look particularly kindly on her short skirts, somewhat cavalier attitude toward agency rules--like showing up for work on time--and her overall demeanor. However, the agency's owner takes a shine to her and assigns her to what seems to be a relatively straightforward case: finding a young girl who's gone missing and whose family is worried about her. As it turns out, the case involves quite a bit more than just a missing girl.
Crime
Melody
Mar 28, 1971Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible.
Comedy
On Giant's Shoulders
Mar 28, 1979The true story of Terry Wiles, born with no limbs in 1962 as a result of his mother's use of the drug thalidomide. This film tells the story of his childhood and adoption by the couple Len and Hazel Wiles who live on a remote farm, and the subsequent challenges and resistance to give Terry a 'normal' life.
Drama
Henry V
Dec 23, 1979
Under Milk Wood
Jan 27, 1972The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.
Comedy
Hamlet
May 25, 1980Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Drama
Instant Enlightenment Including VAT
Nov 22, 1979BBC Play for Today. Maximillian Schreiber runs a series of gruelling motivational courses - all coming at a cost to the participants - including VAT.
Drama
Her Majesty's Pleasure
Oct 25, 1973They are all 'in' for life so the pleasures are sparse, and strictly of their own making.Their really big event is the Christmas pantomime, only this year they have lost their star. Mother Bear has escaped. Still, there is some consolation. The new arrival looks a likely Goldilocks. "There's one or two who'll be after him", says Woodbine - and he knows all their weaknesses.
Drama
The Cause
Feb 03, 1981"I wish I could write ... about what Spain was like - a real cause. Not just Cornford, Hemingway and Orwell, but the ordinary blokes who went." A confused industrial dispute at a London hospital triggers off in trade unionist George Harley 's mind memories of his days fighting in the Spanish Civil War, when the issues seemed so much clearer.
Drama
The Colour of Blood
May 12, 1973A young girl on a train finds out that her companion is a serial killer.
TV Movie
Bugs
Aug 28, 1999Nick Beckett est un officier travaillant pour un département de surveillance du gouvernement. Ses chefs l'empêchent de mener l'enquête sur la disparition d'un de ses amis officies, il décide de faire appel à de l'aide extérieur. Il va faire équipe avec Ros Henderson, une experte en surveillance et Ed un pilote d'hélicoptère casse-cou. Formant une bonne équipe, ils décident de créer l'agence BUGS spécialisée dans le renseignement, l'espionnage et employant des technologies high-techs.
Drama
Thriller
May 22, 1976Cette série est une anthologie d'histoires dans le registre de l’horreur, sur des thèmes très divers comme la sorcellerie, la maladie mentale, la possession, la télépathie...
Drama
Wycliffe
Jul 06, 1998Cette série met en scène les enquêtes policières du surintendant Charles Wycliffe et son équipe en Cornouailles.
Wycliffe se heurte souvent à son supérieur, le commissaire Stevens, qui lui reproche de ne pas participer davantage à la gestion du service et « d’être trop sur le terrain ». En effet, Wycliffe déteste la routine et aime fouiller la vie et la psychologie des victimes de ses enquêtes.
Crime
My Hero
Sep 10, 2006My Hero is a BBC sitcom created by Paul Mendelson. The programme ran for six series, first broadcast in February 2000, and concluding in September 2006. The series follows the antics of the dim-witted superhero "Thermoman", portrayed by Ardal O'Hanlon in series one to five and by James Dreyfus in the final series. The series was regularly directed by John Stroud. In the UK, the digital channel Gold regularly re-runs the programme, although the last series has yet to appear on the channel. In the United States it was shown on PBS and, briefly, BBC America. In Australia, UKTV offered re-runs of the first three series, while BBC Entertainment provided repeats for Scandinavia.
Comedy
Orgueil et Préjugés
Oct 29, 1995Dans la campagne anglaise du 19e siècle, le rêve de toute jeune femme est d'épouser un homme fortuné pour assurer son avenir. C'est bien ce que souhaiterait Mrs Bennet pour ses cinq filles, d'autant que la situation financière de la famille s'en trouverait grandement améliorée. Mais ce rêve est loin d'être partagé par la cadette, Elisabeth, en âge de se marier et bien déterminée à faire un mariage d'amour. Elle rencontre au cours d'un bal l'élégant Monsieur Darcy, riche célibataire qu'elle juge prétentieux. Les relations pour le moins tendues entre l'orgueilleux Darcy et la jeune femme, fougueuse et indépendante, sont au coeur de cette intrigue aux multiples rebondissements Ces deux êtres que tout sépare devront passer outre leurs préjugés pour pouvoir s'accorder.
Drama
The Sweeney
Dec 28, 1978Jack Regan, an unethical officer of the Flying Squad, uses unorthodox methods to pursue criminals with the help of his partner, George Carter.
Action & Adventure
Inspecteur Frost
Apr 05, 2010Cette série met en scène les enquêtes de l'inspecteur William Frost, plus connu sous le nom de Jack, dans la ville imaginaire de Denton. Ce veuf quinquagénaire, brillant policier de l'ancienne école, n'a pas son pareil pour résoudre les affaires les plus complexes.
Il a reçu la plus haute distinction civile, la croix de Georges, pour avoir été imprudemment blessé par un homme armé alors qu'il sortait d'un bar et était ivre, le jour où il a appris que sa femme, qu'il comptait quitter, était atteinte d'un cancer en phase terminale.
Souvent en conflit avec ses supérieurs, désordonné et allergique à la paperasse, il est réputé pour son fichu caractère. Bourru et prenant parfois quelque liberté avec les règlements ou les procédures, il fait toutefois preuve d'empathie avec les victimes et a bon cœur.
Il est assisté dans ses enquêtes par différents sergents détectives qui apportent leur point de vue particulier à la résolution de l'affaire.
L'humour anglais et le ressort comique de la série sont inscrits dans les relations entre Frost et le bureaucratique Superintendant Mullett.
Drama
Heartbeat
Sep 05, 2010Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Crime
Minder
Mar 10, 1994This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
Comedy
Rumpole of the Bailey
Dec 03, 1992Rumpole of the Bailey is a British television series created and written by the British writer and barrister John Mortimer. It stars Leo McKern as Horace Rumpole, an aging London barrister who defends any and all clients, and has been spun off into a series of short stories, novels, and radio programmes.
Drama
Absolutely Fabulous
Jul 23, 2012Cette série met en scène les mésaventures d’Edina et Patsy, deux Londoniennes quadragénaires, grandes consommatrices d’alcool et de drogues diverses. Edina, qui dirige sa propre société de relations publiques, entretient des rapports difficiles avec sa fille, Saffron, qu’elle juge trop sérieuse. Patsy, journaliste de mode anorexique (« elle n’a rien avalé de solide depuis 1973 »), tabagique et nymphomane, vit plus ou moins aux crochets d’Edina, sa seule amie.
Comedy
A Bit of a Do
Dec 01, 1989A Bit of a Do is a British comedy drama series based on the books by David Nobbs. The show starred David Jason and was aired on ITV in 1989. It was made for the ITV network by Yorkshire Television.
The show was set in a fictional Yorkshire town. Each episode took place at a different social function and followed the changing lives of two families, the working-class Simcocks and the middle-class Rodenhursts, together with their respective friends, Rodney and Betty Sillitoe, and Neville Badger. The series begins with the wedding of Ted and Rita Simcock's son Paul to Laurence and Liz Rodenhurst's daughter Jenny; an event at which Ted and Liz begin an affair. The subsequent fallout from this affair forms the basis for most of the first series.
Comedy
The Dustbinmen
Aug 31, 1970The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred Bryan Pringle, Trevor Bannister, Graham Haberfield, and Tim Wylton. The show was a spin-off from a one-off 90-minute TV film "There's a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah" written by Jack Rosenthal and directed by Michael Apted. This led to the sitcom which ran for three series between 1969 and 1970. Rosenthal wrote all of the episodes of the first two series.
Comedy
Mog
Aug 16, 1986Mog was a British television comedy from 1985 and 1986 about a cat burglar living in a psychiatric hospital. It starred Enn Reitel as the title character, who is only faking insanity. It was based on Peter Tinniswood's 1970 novel of the same name. It was made for the ITV network by Central.
Comedy
Terry and Julian
Oct 16, 1992Terry and Julian is a British sitcom that aired on Channel 4 in 1992. Starring Julian Clary, it was written by Clary, Paul Merton and John Henderson. The title is a spoof the title of the long-running BBC sitcom Terry and June, whose star June Whitfield made a guest appearance in one episode of Terry and Julian.
Comedy
BBC Play of the Month
Sep 12, 1983Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina.
Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.
Drama
Lovejoy
Dec 04, 1994The adventures of the eponymous Lovejoy, a likeable but roguish antiques dealer based in East Anglia. Within the trade, he has a reputation as a “divvie”, a person with an almost supernatural powers for recognising exceptional items as well as distinguishing genuine antique from clever fakes or forgeries.
Comedy
BBC Television Shakespeare
Apr 27, 1985La BBC Television Shakespeare est une série d'adaptations télévisées britanniques des pièces de théâtre de William Shakespeare. Elle a été créée par Cedric Messina et produite par la BBC Television. Elle a été diffusée au Royaume-Uni du 3 décembre 1978 au 27 avril 1985 et s'est étendue sur sept saisons. Le développement de la série a commencé en 1975 lorsque Messina a remarqué que le château de Glamis serait un lieu parfait pour une adaptation de la pièce de Shakespeare "Comme il vous plaira". De retour à Londres, il a imaginé une série entière consacrée exclusivement aux œuvres dramatiques de Shakespeare. Après avoir rencontré de nombreux problèmes pour produire la série, Messina a finalement présenté l'idée aux responsables de la BBC et la série a été approuvée. Dans l'ensemble, la série a reçu des critiques généralement négatives de la part des critiques.
Drama
Cadfael
Dec 28, 1998Frère Cadfael se repose en s'occupant des jardins de l'abbaye de Shrewsbury en Angleterre. Mais il est souvent appelé pour résoudre meurtres et autres crimes.
Cadfael est le nom donné à la série télévisée des adaptations de Cadfael Chronicles, produites par la chaîne de télévision britannique ITV Central, entre 1994 et 1998. La série a été diffusée sur le réseau ITV au Royaume-Uni et mettait en vedette Sir Derek Jacobi.
Drama
The Lifeboat
Jun 29, 1994
Peak Practice
Jan 31, 2002Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series.
Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.
Drama
Hercule Poirot
Nov 13, 2013Hercule Poirot (David Suchet), policier belge retraité, à la moustache parfaite dont il est si fier. Il s'est exilé en Angleterre suite aux ravages de la Première Guerre mondiale. Désormais, il vit à Londres et exerce en tant que détective privé. Sa réputation d'enquêteur hors pair est internationale et de nombreuses personnes font appel à lui pour percer des mystères que la police ne pourra pas résoudre ou n'a pas su résoudre.
Crime
Campion
Mar 16, 1990Campion is a television show made by the BBC, adapting the Albert Campion mystery novels written by Margery Allingham. Two series were made, in 1989 and 1990, starring Peter Davison as Campion, Brian Glover as his manservant Magersfontein Lugg and Andrew Burt as his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates.
A total of eight novels were adapted, four in each series, each of which was originally broadcast as two separate hour-long episodes. Peter Davison sang the title music for the first series himself; in the second series, it was replaced with an instrumental version.
Mystery
The Bell
Feb 03, 1982
Super Gran
May 31, 1987Adapted from Forrest Wilson's books, the children's programme revolves around a grandmother with super powers and her arch nemesis, The Scunner Campbell.
Comedy
The Royal
Jul 31, 2011Follows the staff and patients of a Yorkshire cottage hospital in the 60s, embroiled in tangled love lives and bitter power struggles.
Drama
Dodgem
Mar 27, 1991Simon Leighton is sent to an assessment centre because he is unable to cope with school due to problems in his life – his mother is dead and his father cannot overcome his grief. However Simon is determined to leave the centre to live with his father.
Bergerac
Dec 26, 1991Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
Drama
All Creatures Great and Small
Nov 17, 1990Les aventures de James Herriot, un jeune vétérinaire de campagne, dans les années 1930, qui a quitté Glasgow pour le Yorkshire Dales, pour devenir l’assistant de Siegfried Farnon.
Adaptation des récits autobiographiques de James Herriot, des classiques de la littérature britannique.
Comedy
Heartbeat
Sep 05, 2010Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Crime
As Time Goes By
Dec 30, 2005Two lovers are reunited after decades apart following a mutual misunderstanding.
Comedy
Heartbeat
Sep 05, 2010Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.
Crime
Inspecteur Barnaby
Apr 14, 2024L'inspecteur Barnaby, accompagné de son adjoint, enquêtent sur les crimes commis dans la région anglaise fictive du Midsomer...
Crime
Cockles
Feb 08, 1984Sitcom set in the seaside town of Cocklesea where Arthur Dumpton is trying to revive the glory days.
Comedy
A Dance to the Music of Time
Oct 30, 1997A Dance to the Music of Time is a four-part adaptation of Anthony Powell's 12-volume novel sequence that aired on Channel 4 in 1997. The series is a sharp, comic portrait of upper-class and bohemian England, spanning almost a century, from the early 1920s to modern times.
Comedy
