Trevor Ray
Recently added
Six Characters in Search of An Author
Dec 12, 1992
George Eliot: A Scandalous Life
Nov 01, 2002Born Mary Ann Evans in 1819, the novelist George Eliot was a woman ahead of her time: a proud and determined individual who continually broke the sexual, religious and social rules of Victorian society. George Eliot: A Scandalous Life explores how the scandals and rumours that plagued her life, never defeated her will or her literary genius; and how, against all odds, she went on to write some of the world's greatest novels including Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, and Silas Marner.
TV Movie
Rogue Male
Sep 22, 1976Au début de 1939, Sir Robert Thorndyke vise Adolf Hitler avec un fusil de grande puissance, mais le tir rate sa cible. Capturé et torturé par la Gestapo et laissé pour mort, Sir Robert retourne en Angleterre où il découvre que la Gestapo l'a suivi. Sachant que son gouvernement le livrerait aux autorités allemandes, Sir Robert entre dans la clandestinité dans sa bataille avec ses poursuivants.
Drama
The Flipside of Dominick Hide
Dec 09, 1980Dominick Hide, a time traveller from the year 2130, is studying the London transport system of 1980. Time travellers are supposed to be observers, and are strictly forbidden to land their flying saucers. One time traveller who broke this rule accidentally killed a dog, changing history and causing many future people to disappear. Inspired by his Great Aunt Mavis, Dominick decides to find his great great grandfather. He begins to land in 1980, where his strange clothes and speech make him seem an eccentric oddball. His quest brings him into contact with beautiful boutique owner Jane, and they fall in love. As Dominick's visits become more frequent and more prolonged, he increasingly risks his indiscretion being discovered by his boss, Caleb Line, and every moment he spends in the past increases the danger that he will catastrophically change the future
Science Fiction
Le Sicilien
Oct 07, 1987Appréhendé par les carabiniers en 1943 alors qu'il transporte du blé de contrebande, Salvatore Giuliano abat l'un d'eux et se réfugie dans les montagnes. Sa tête est mise à prix, des centaines de policiers sont à ses trousses mais il réussit à défier la loi pendant 7 ans, entouré d'une petite armée. Idéaliste, émule de Robin des bois, rançonnant les riches pour donner aux pauvres, il est abattu en Juillet 1950, victime d'une traitrise…
Drama
Les dames de Cornouailles
Nov 12, 2004Deux sœurs d'un certain âge, Janet et Ursula Widdington, vivent dans une petite ville tranquille sur la côte de Cornouailles. Un matin, après une violente tempête, elles découvrent Andrea, un jeune homme échoué sur la plage et gravement blessé. Sa présence dans le foyer des deux dames réveille des désirs enfouis chez Ursula, et l'instinct maternel de Janet. Elle provoque également la suspicion et la peur dans la région, en cette époque d'avant-guerre en Europe. Mais lors de son séjour, les sœurs découvrent ses véritables origines, ses talents de violoniste virtuose, et s'embarquent dans une aventure jusque-là inimaginable.
Drama
An Affair in Mind
Jan 05, 1988A young novelist falls for a married blond beauty. She's too afraid to leave her thuggish husband and the idea of "accidental" death comes up. The writer doesn't go through with it and they break off. However, she's not done with him yet.
Crime
Rentadick
Dec 31, 1972Armitage runs a chemical company that is on the verge of producing a gas that causes temporary disability. Clearly the military want it but it is also sought by a group of Japanese. Both Armitage and Madam Greenfly hire different people in the same detective agency to guard the gas and steal it respectively... confusion, double crosses and hilarity ensue...
Comedy
Buddy
Jan 01, 1986Buddy (1986) is a BBC schools drama, based on the novel of the same name by Nigel Hinton. It was shown as part of the social studies strand. It starred Wayne Goddard as Buddy Clark, a teenager dealing with various life problems, Roger Daltrey as his father Terry and pupils from the Cavendish School in Eastbourne. Daltrey reprised his role in the 1991 film Buddy's Song with Chesney Hawkes as Buddy.
Drama
Mission casse-cou
Nov 01, 1986Véritable tête brûlée de la police de New York, le lieutenant James Dempsey voit son coéquipier Joey mourir lors d'une opération contre des trafiquants de drogue et découvre que sa hiérarchie est complètement corrompue. En danger, il décide de partir en Angleterre et intègre une unité spéciale de la police britannique. Sa collaboration avec sa nouvelle partenaire, la très noble et un peu snob Harriet Makepeace, fait très vite des étincelles...
Action & Adventure
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
Raffles
May 13, 1977Raffles was a 1977 television adaptation of the A. J. Raffles stories by Ernest William Hornung. The series was produced by Yorkshire Television and written by Philip Mackie. The episodes were largely faithful adaptations of the stories in the books, though occasionally two stories would be merged to create one episode such as "The Gold Cup" which featured elements from both "A Jubilee Present" and "The Criminologist's Club".
Drama
Edward and Mrs Simpson
Dec 20, 1978While still the Prince of Wales, the future Edward VIII meets the married American socialite, Wallis Simpson. Their relationship causes furor in the palace and in parliament, especially when King George V dies, Mrs. Simpson gets divorced, and King Edward announces his intention to marry her.
Drama
Sky
May 17, 1975Sky is a mystically-oriented children's science fantasy television serial made for ITV by HTV and broadcast in seven parts from April 7 to May 14, 1975.
A mysterious alien boy with strange solid blue eyes, the eponymous Sky, finds himself on Earth. He uses his psychic powers for achieve his goal of ensuring a way back home. Sky finds the very world soul of Earth in the form of nature, only to reject him the way an immune system might an infection. In his quest to return home, he joins his destiny with that of three human children. The serial was written by Bob Baker and Dave Martin, also known for their scripts for Doctor Who and a fantasy television series for children, Into the Labyrinth.
Although the series was kept on 2" videotape into the 1990s, during a transfer to film stock episodes 3 and 7 were damaged beyond repair.
The series was finally released by Network DVD in May 2009, with the damaged segments replaced by inferior, but watchable, VHS copies of the episodes.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Play for Today
Aug 28, 1984Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Drama
The Mysteries
Jan 05, 1986
Maîtres et Valets
Dec 21, 1975A l'étage : les riches et aristocratiques Bellamys. En bas : leurs fidèles et vifs serviteurs. Pendant près de 30 ans, ils partagent une maison de ville à la mode au 165 Eaton Place dans le quartier chic de Belgravia à Londres, survivant aux changements sociaux, aux bouleversements politiques, aux scandales et aux horreurs de la Première Guerre mondiale.
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
Heartbeat
Dec 06, 1989Les aventures du Docteur, un extraterrestre, un Seigneur du Temps originaire de la planète Gallifrey, qui voyage à bord d'un TARDIS (Temps À Relativité Dimensionnelle Inter-Spatiale), une machine pouvant voyager dans l'espace et dans le temps. Le TARDIS a l'apparence d'une cabine de police (construction typiquement britannique ressemblant à une cabine téléphonique), le système de camouflage étant resté bloqué. Comme tous les Seigneur du Temps, le Docteur possède treize vies, ce qui explique sa capacité à changer de corps lorsqu'il est proche de la mort.
Drama
Heartbeat
Feb 21, 1977In a sleepy English village surrounded by a megalithic stone circle, an astrophysicist and his teenage son arrive to research the standing stones, but end up delving into the past in ways they never expected.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Heartbeat
Oct 24, 1977Raven is released on probation to live with Professor Young, an archaeologist immersed in research into Arthurian legend. He is compelled to fight a plan to build a nuclear plant on the research site, which holds many mysteries.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Heartbeat
Feb 21, 1977In a sleepy English village surrounded by a megalithic stone circle, an astrophysicist and his teenage son arrive to research the standing stones, but end up delving into the past in ways they never expected.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
