Joby Blanshard

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Alerte Satellite 02
5

Alerte Satellite 02

Oct 20, 1969
En l'an 2021, à Moon City, première colonie terrestre sur la Lune. A bord de leur astronef privé, l'aventurier Bill Kemp et son ami Korminski débarquent au centre spatial, bien décidés à mettre la main sur un petit astéroïde, composé de saphir d'une grande pureté, qui vient de s'écraser sur le satellite. Bill y fait la rencontre de la belle Clémentine, qui lui fait part de son inquiétude à propos de la disparition de son frère. Il apprend que le disparu travaillait dans la mine à proximité de laquelle l'astéroïde s'est abattu. Bill propose de l'emmener sur place et de l'aider à retrouver son frère, ignorant encore les nombreux dangers qui l'attendent...
Science Fiction
80,000 Suspects
6.5

80,000 Suspects

Aug 15, 1963
A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.
Drama
Brand
1

Brand

Aug 11, 1959
Brand's a bleak and desolate play that challenges the notion of a stern and stoic faith in the will of God. The title character is a pastor who returns to his ancestral home to find the villagers on the verge of starvation. He believes ministering to these poor people to be his calling. Over the course of the play, however, he faces many difficult choices. The decisions he makes, based on his stark and idealistic view of morality, have dire consequences for all the people he touches and, ultimately, for his own embattled soul.
Drama
Double Bill
1

Double Bill

Sep 26, 1969
In the first part, The Compartment, an insane man boards a quiet railway coach and starts to annoy a patient man trying to read a paper with incessant small talk in an increasingly menacing manner until he finally pulls out a gun and screaming class hatred bile, humiliates the man until his stop is reached. In part two, Playmates, he breaks into a lonely house and proceeds to terrorise a spinster woman who lives there.
Drama
The Big Deal
1

The Big Deal

Mar 03, 1961
Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.
Doomwatch
5.9

Doomwatch

Mar 01, 1972
Le laboratoire britannique Doomwatch repère des anomalies biologiques sur la côte ouest du pays. Del Shaw, l’un des meilleurs éléments, est envoyé sur l’île de Balfe pour mener l’enquête. À son arrivée, il remarque qu’il est surveillé de près par les insulaires. La nuit venue, il distingue des mouvements dans l’obscurité et tente de suivre ces passants inconnus. En chemin, attiré par des aboiements de chien, il découvre dans la forêt le corps d’un enfant enterré à la va-vite. Pendant ce temps, au laboratoire, les analyses des algues récoltées sur l’île corroborent la thèse d’une pollution et d’une contamination chimique...
Horror
The Lump
1

The Lump

Feb 01, 1967
The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
Drama
The Reckoning
7.1

The Reckoning

Jan 31, 1970
Michael Marler, a successful businessman in London, is about to make his way to the top. After 37 years, the death of his father brings him back to his hometown of Liverpool, where he’s confronted with his lost Irish roots. He finds out that his father died in a fight with some Anglo-Saxon teddy boys. It becomes a matter of honour for him to take his revenge without involving the police.
Drama
Praying Mantis
5

Praying Mantis

Jan 01, 1982
A middle-aged professor's young bride and his assistant plan to commit a double murder disguised as a "Crime Passionel", but discover too late that one of their intended victims has become a fellow conspirator.
Romance
L'enfer est une ville
6.7

L'enfer est une ville

Apr 10, 1960
Situé à Manchester, au nord du cœur industriel de l'Angleterre, Don Starling échappe de prison devenant homme le plus recherché de l'Angleterre. Méchant sans pitié Starling avec ses acolytes conçu un vol qui a entraîné la mort violente d'une jeune fille. L'inspecteur-détective Martineau a été affecté à le traquer et le faire entrer. De barrooms miteux, par tripots le sentier mène à un climax explosif sur les toits de la ville.
Thriller
West 11
6.818

West 11

Oct 08, 1963
Fils renégat de gens de classe moyenne, Joe Beckett, 22 ans environ, se décrit lui-même comme 'un lépreux émotif'. Solitaire, il tue son ennui en se promenant dans les rues de Notting Hill. Jusqu'au jour où, dans un café, il rencontre un vétéran, Richard Dyce, qui lui propose de tuer sa tante afin de lui dérober son héritage. Beckett y voit l'occasion de donner un sens à sa vie moribonde et ennuyeuse. Mais ce dernier perd ses nerfs et, dans une lutte, la pousse accidentellement dans les escaliers de son domicile, la tuant sur le coup. Un témoin a vu la scène et il dénonce aussitôt Beckett. Alors que Richard Dyce nie le connaître et qu'il est aussitôt arrêté par la police, Beckett est désormais seul contre tous...
Drama
Crooks Anonymous
6.3

Crooks Anonymous

Mar 31, 1962
A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.
Comedy
Hamlet at Elsinore
7.8

Hamlet at Elsinore

Apr 15, 1964
The ghost of the King of Denmark tells his son Hamlet to avenge his murder by killing the new king, Hamlet's uncle. Hamlet feigns madness, contemplates life and death, and seeks revenge. His uncle, fearing for his life, also devises plots to kill Hamlet. An historic BBC production taped on location in and around Kronborg castle in Elsinore (Denmark), in which the play is set.
Drama
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
1
Serjeant Musgrave and his small band of men arrive in an impoverished northern coal town, ostensibly on a recruiting drive.....but their intentions are very different, and will have repercussion's on the town for years to come.
Lay Down Your Arms
6

Lay Down Your Arms

May 23, 1970
Dennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.
Drama
Frenzy
7.093

Frenzy

May 25, 1972
Pendant le discours d'un ministre se flattant du succès d'une campagne antipollution, le corps d'une femme est découvert dans la Tamise. Le fleuve vient de charrier la nouvelle victime d'un meurtrier sadique, qui étrangle des femmes avec une cravate après les avoir violées. Dans le même temps, Richard Blaney, misanthrope solitaire d'une trentaine d'années, est renvoyé du café où il officiait en qualité de barman. Il demande assistance à son ancienne épouse, directrice d'une agence matrimoniale. Le lendemain, la malheureuse est retrouvée étranglée. Tous les soupçons se concentrent sur Richard Blaney...
Crime
The Expert
9.5

The Expert

Nov 26, 1976
The Expert is a British television series produced by the BBC between 1968 and 1976. The series starred Marius Goring as Dr. John Hardy, a pathologist working for the Home Office and was essentially a police procedural drama, with Hardy bringing his forensic knowledge to solve various cases. The Expert was created and produced by Gerard Glaister. The series was also one of the first BBC dramas to be made in colour, and throughout its four series had numerous high quality guest appearances by actors such as John Carson, Peter Copley, Rachel Kempson, Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Geoffrey Palmer, Peter Barkworth, Jean Marsh, Ray Brooks, George Sewell, Anthony Valentine, Bernard Lee, Lee Montague, Geoffrey Bayldon, Mike Pratt, Edward Fox, André Morell, Brian Blessed, Nigel Stock, Philip Madoc and Warren Clarke.
Drama
Sunday-Night Play
1

Sunday-Night Play

Sep 15, 1963
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
Doomwatch
5.7

Doomwatch

Dec 16, 1999
Doomwatch is a British science fiction television programme produced by the BBC, which ran on BBC 1 between 1970 and 1972. The series was set in the then present-day, and dealt with a scientific government agency led by Doctor Spencer Quist, responsible for investigating and combating various ecological and technological dangers. The series was followed by a film adaptation produced by Tigon British Film Productions and released in 1972, and a revival TV film was broadcast on Channel 5 in 1999.
Drama
Le Saint
7.3

Le Saint

Feb 09, 1969
Surnommé « le Saint » en raison de ses initiales, Simon Templar est un détective amateur au charme irrésistible qui traque les criminels à travers le monde.
Action & Adventure
Gideon's Way
6.8

Gideon's Way

Jul 09, 1967
Les enquêtes du commandant George Gideon de Scotland Yard d'après les romans de John Creasey.
Drama
All Creatures Great and Small
7.7
Les 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
All Creatures Great and Small
7.7
Les 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
Le Saint
7.3

Le Saint

Feb 09, 1969
Surnommé « le Saint » en raison de ses initiales, Simon Templar est un détective amateur au charme irrésistible qui traque les criminels à travers le monde.
Action & Adventure