A new teacher at a highly problematic comprehensive school feels that corporal punishment may just be inflaming the problems, and so begins to campaign against it.
Buddy (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.
Rumpole 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.
Cette série met en scène les aventures délirantes de quatre jeunes londoniens partageant un appartement : Vvyan, le punk violent et accessoirement étudiant en médecine ; Neil, le hippie ; Rick, l'anarchiste, étudiant en sociologie et Mike, la personne cool, riche et désœuvré.
Play 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.
À sa sortie de prison, Mickey Stone réunit une équipe d'arnaqueurs de choc : la séduisante Stacie, Albert, qui excelle dans le maniement des cartes, Ash, le spécialiste de l'arnaque, et Danny, le génie du groupe. Ensemble, ils échafaudent les plans les plus diaboliques pour dépouiller leurs victimes. Et pour justifier leurs actes, ils ont pour règle d'or de ne jamais s'attaquer aux gens honnêtes !
The Upper Hand is a British television sitcom, produced by Central Independent Television and Columbia Pictures Television and broadcast by ITV from 1990 to 1996. The programme was adapted from the American sitcom Who's the Boss?.
As in the former series, an affluent single woman, raising a son with the help of her mother, hires a housekeeper only to have a man apply for the job.
A young and idealistic Doctor Stephen Daker arrives at Lowlands University to work at the Health Centre, but has to cope with an eccentric set of colleagues.
L'inspecteur Morse est un policier bien particulier de la ville d'Oxford. Amateur de bière et amoureux des mots, il entretient des relations plutôt tendues avec ses supérieurs. Mais avec son adjoint, l'inspecteur Lewis, ils résolvent toutes les enquêtes qui leurs sont confiées.
Millie Inbetween is a children's comedy series broadcast on CBBC. Millie’s parents have just broken up and she and her sister Lauren are spending time at both their Mum’s house and Dad’s flat. Millie soon sees the advantage to this family set-up as she has two chances to celebrate Christmas, two birthdays and two bedrooms. Problems arise though after her parents find new partners.