Alter Egos
Jul 20, 2012At a time when superheroes have lost government funding and public support, a superhero meets a girl who can help him overcome his own emotional crisis.
Comedy
Tim Barker
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The Bridge
Jan 10, 1992When Isobel Hetherington and her three young daughters take up their seaside residence in the hot summer of 1887, life seems idyllic. But the arrival of Phillip Wilson Steer for his annual painting visit launches a chain of events that will change their lives forever.
Drama
Home Sweet Home
Mar 16, 1982Three postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
Drama
Night Voice
Jul 25, 1990Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.
Drama
La douzième nuit, ou ce que vous voudrez
Dec 30, 1988Adaptation télévisée de Kenneth Branagh, en théâtre filmé.
Drama
Calendar girls
Sep 02, 200312 femmes d'âge mûr, lassées de faire des gâteaux pour les ventes de charité, décident de poser nues pour un calendrier. Ce projet fou et génial va déclencher une révolution dans le Yorkshire avant de les rendre célèbres dans le monde entier. Leur engagement bénévole contre la leucémie va prendre un tournant très particulier, jusque dans leur vie personnelle...
Drama
Doctor Who: The Happiness Patrol
Nov 16, 1988The TARDIS arrives on the planet Terra Alpha, where the Seventh Doctor and Ace discover a society in which sadness is against the law - a law enforced zealously by the brightly uniformed Happiness Patrol. The planet is ruled by Helen A with the aid of her companion, Joseph C, and her carnivorous pet Stigorax, Fifi.
Science Fiction
A Month in the Country
Dec 04, 1987A destitute WWI veteran is hired to help carry out restoration work on a medieval mural in a rural Yorkshire church. While living in the quiet village, he forms a close friendship with an archaeologist and begins to come to terms with his trauma.
History
Les Débiles de l'espace
Mar 29, 1985L'histoire de quatre imbéciles venant d'une autre planète. Trois d'entre eux s'écrasent sur notre planète tandis que le dernier se retrouve perdu au milieu du vide intersidéral.
Comedy
Peterloo
Nov 01, 2018Le tristement célèbre massacre de Peterloo eut lieu en 1819, lorsqu’un rassemblement pacifique en faveur de la démocratie à St. Peter’s Field à Manchester. Il reste l’un des épisodes les plus sanglants de l’histoire britannique. Ce jour-là, la police chargea une foule de plus de 60 000 personnes réunies pour exiger des réformes politiques et protester contre la montée de la pauvreté. De nombreux manifestants furent tués et des centaines d’autres blessés, provoquant des manifestations dans tout le pays, mais aussi de nouvelles répressions du gouvernement. Ce moment déterminant de l’histoire britannique mena à la création du journal The Guardian.
History
Pack of Lies
Apr 26, 1987A British couple are shocked out of their suburban malaise when British intelligence agent Stewart shows up at their door and wants to use their house for a stakeout. Stewart reveals that their neighbors are undercover Russian KGB spies, part of a Soviet espionage network.
Thriller
L'Ami retrouvé
May 17, 1989Henry Strauss, avocat d'affaires new-yorkais, se rend à Stuttgart, ville qu'il a quittée en 1932 à l'age de seize ans. Il s'appelait alors Hans Strauss, il était juif. Son meilleur ami, Konrad, était le fils d'un grand aristocrate. La venue au pouvoir d'Hitler devait les séparer. Après cinquante ans d'exil, Henry cherche a savoir ce qu'est devenu son ami.
Drama
Flying in the Branches
Jan 22, 1989Sue hasn't seen her family in Prague since she became a refugee in London in 1968. When her younger sister, Dana, is allowed to visit the West for the first time, Sue is reminded of things she had tried to forget. Amid the tensions of the sisters' less than joyful reunion, Dana announces that she wants to find a husband.
Drama
Coast to Coast
Jan 04, 1987Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police.
Comedy
'Allo 'Allo!
Dec 14, 1992Cette série comique met en scène René Artois, propriétaire d'un café dans un village (Nouvion, Picardie) de la France occupée. Engagé malgré lui dans la Résistance, il doit faire face à deux officiers allemands avec lesquels il traficote pour obtenir quelques denrées (et qui en contrepartie détournent des objets de valeur qu'ils lui confient en éveillant les soupçons d'un officier zélé de la Gestapo), à son épouse Édith (qui s'obstine à imposer ses concerts en chantant faux au grand désespoir de la clientèle du café), à sa belle-mère acariâtre et sourde (chez qui il a caché l'émetteur de radio) et enfin à ses deux serveuses et à un lieutenant allemand qui tous trois le trouvent irrésistible !
Comedy
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
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
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
Dark Season
Dec 19, 1991Dark Season is a British science-fiction television serial for adolescents, screened on BBC1 in late 1991. Comprising six twenty-five minute episodes, the two linked three-part stories tell the adventures of three teenagers and their battle to save their school and their classmates from the actions of the sinister Mr Eldritch. It was the first television drama to be written by Russell T Davies, and is also noteworthy for co-starring a young Kate Winslet in her first major television role.
Action & Adventure
Jeeves and Wooster
Jun 20, 1993Jeeves and Wooster is a British comedy-drama series adapted by Clive Exton from P.G. Wodehouse's "Jeeves" stories.
It aired on the ITV network from 1990 to 1993, starring Hugh Laurie as Bertie Wooster, a young gentleman with a "distinctive blend of airy nonchalance and refined gormlessness", and Stephen Fry as Jeeves, his improbably well-informed and talented valet. Wooster is a bachelor, a minor aristocrat and member of the idle rich. He and his friends, who are mainly members of The Drones Club, are extricated from all manner of societal misadventures by the indispensable valet, Jeeves. The stories are set in the United Kingdom and the United States in the 1930s.
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
Once Upon A Time In The North
Jun 07, 1994Whimsical tales of the Tollit family, who live in the picturesque Northern town of Sutton Moor. The husband, Len, is a soft-hearted, well-meaning chap who holds strong views on certain subjects and is fiercely proud of his working-class roots. But his determination to prove himself the equal of those who may consider themselves his betters often leads to confrontation and infuriates his wife, Pat. They have two children, the pre-teen Sean and the sexually-maturing Siobhan, who, at 15, is at that 'awkward age'. Living in the granny flat in their yard is Mr Bebbington, who had been Len's late mother's boyfriend but has remained with them for six months since her death. Pat constantly cajoles Len into getting Bebbington out but he is quite content to let him stay and treats him as one of the family. Len's brother, Morris, who lives nearby, is a spiritual man who comes across as half-hippy and half-witted.
Comedy
Doctor Who
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
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
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
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.
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