Trotsky is Dead
Mar 13, 1976'It's as if the revolution was here again. They are storming the Winter Palace on my own doorstep.' In Palmerston Road, Reading, there is a crisis ...
Gerard Ryder
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Summer School
Jan 31, 1983A motley band of suburbanites arrives at a summer school to simulate life in an Iron Age village. However, the village is right in the middle of a modern university campus which somewhat detracts from its air of authenticity.
Comedy
Venin
Nov 28, 1981Londres. Philippe, 10 ans, héritier d'une riche famille se trouve seul avec son grand-père Howard, dans la demeure familiale, tandis que ses parents sont à Rome. Louise, la gourvernante, et Dave, chauffeur de la maison, saisissent cette opportunité pour tenter d'enlever l'enfant. Or, ce dernier, passionné par les animaux, ramène ce jour-là un mamba noir, serpent très dangereux qu'on lui a vendu par erreur. La police, prévenue par la boutique, est dépèchée sur les lieux, mais le reptile a déjà mordu Louise et erre à présent dans la villa...
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A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square
Mar 16, 1980À sa sortie de prison, Pinky est décidé à mener une vie rangée. Il obtient un poste de confiance dans une grande banque de Londres, où il est employé comme électricien. Lorsque le très flegmatique Ivan le Terrible et ses hommes apprennent que Pinky s'est métamorphosé en virtuose de la prise électrique dans un établissement financier, ils ne tardent pas à le contacter. Malgré toutes ses bonnes résolutions, Pinky trouve une astuce pour découvrir les numéros de code de l'immense coffre-fort. Ivan le Terrible et sa bande sont prêts à passer à l'action, chalumeaux en bandoulières...
Crime
Jack Point
Nov 01, 1973Rivalry at a local Gilbert and Sullivan Society over who will play Jack Point in the Silver Jubilee production. Rowland Matthews has always been the main star, but he is getting on, and the young Clive Bates is a strong rival.
Drama
Love on a Gunboat
Jan 04, 1977In 1956 Britain staggers through crises in Suez and Cyprus while Leslie Potter pursues and marries Monica Dobbs. Twenty years later the nation has still not recovered. Neither has Leslie.
Drama
Sweet Wine of Youth
Dec 12, 1979
The Happy Autumn Fields
Nov 21, 1980Time is playing tricks on Mary. Around her the walls are crumbling- all the houses are being pulled down. Why does she insist on staying, caught in a dream about a family, years ago, out walking in the fields after the harvest? And who was Sarah, that beautiful young girl, whose sister couldn't bear that she was in love?
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
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.
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Playhouse
May 20, 1983BBC2 Playhouse is a one hour UK anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas created by Sara Pia Anderson and produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Among its many notable guest stars were Helen Mirren, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Liam Neeson, Paul Scofield, Deborah Kerr, Ben Kingsley, Donald Pleasence, Brenda Blethyn, and Peggy Ashcroft.
It premiered in the UK on March 13, 1974 and ran through May 20, 1983.
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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.
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The Gentle Touch
Nov 24, 1984The Gentle Touch is a British police drama television series made by London Weekend Television for ITV which ran from 1980-1984. Commencing transmission on 11 April 1980, the series is notable for being the first British series to feature a female police detective as its leading character, ahead of the similarly themed BBC series Juliet Bravo by four months.
Crime
The Comic Strip Presents...
Jan 20, 2016The Comic Strip is a group of British comedians, who came to prominence in the 1980s. They are known for their television series The Comic Strip Presents... which was labelled as an example of alternative comedy. The core members are Adrian Edmondson, Dawn French, Rik Mayall, Nigel Planer, Peter Richardson, Jennifer Saunders and Alexei Sayle with frequent appearances by Keith Allen, Robbie Coltrane and others.
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