Dear Brutus
Jan 27, 1981"They say that in the wood you get what nearly everybody here is longing for – a second chance." J. M. Barrie's fantasy play, depicting alternative realities for its characters and their eventual return to real life.
Angharad Rees
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Under Milk Wood
Jan 27, 1972The delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" in which we meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat.
Comedy
La Fille de Jack l'Éventreur
Oct 17, 1971Jack l'Éventreur qui vient de commettre un crime parvient à semer ses poursuivants et rentre chez lui. Sa femme comprend qu'il est un assassin en remarquant ses mains ensanglantées. Jack l'Éventreur la poignarde devant les yeux de sa fillette qui en sera traumatisé à vie...
Horror
Dylan on Dylan
Jan 01, 2002The life of the greatest poet of his age is unraveled by biographer and filmmaker Andrew Sinclair – the visionary who transformed Thomas’ Under Milk Wood into a motion picture in 1972. Dylan on Dylan traces Thomas’ journey from fascinated child to fêted, weary adult via classic acting performances from Burton, Hemmings et al, all the while analysed by Sinclair in his own unique, microscopic style. A major addition to the Thomas canon. Cambridge Film Festival 2014: http://www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk/films/2014/dylan-on-dylan
Documentary
Moments
Nov 21, 1974A depressed middle-aged man, revisiting the seaside resort he often vacationed at as a child, encounters a highly optimistic and carefree young woman who attempts to reason him out of following through on his suicidal thoughts.
Drama
The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
Apr 03, 1988The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London ...
Drama
Les Loups-Garous de Kromer
Oct 30, 1998Seth et Gabriel sont deux loups vivants aux alentours du village de Kromer. Mais les habitants du village ont peur. Suite à la mort d'une femme, menés par le prêtre, ils partent à la chasse.
Comedy
La Petite Fille en velours bleu
Aug 23, 1978An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Drama
Once the Killing Starts
Jan 07, 1974Married college professor Michael Lane falls in love with one of his students and hatches an elaborate scheme to dispose of his wife, Elizabeth. His murder plot goes as planned. However, he soon receives an anonymous note: "I know what you did, murderer!" Prof. Lane frantically tries to discover who knows his secret...
TV Movie
Pygmalion
Feb 08, 1948
The Love Ban
Jan 01, 1973In this 1970s comedy, a Catholic man contemplates going against his priest's guidance on contraceptives when his wife wants to stop having children.
Comedy
Joe's Ark
Feb 14, 1974The religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the implacable presence of death itself."
Drama
Les doigts croisés
Sep 06, 1971Fabienne, jeune institutrice française, vit à Londres chez son oncle, Sit Trevor Dawson, politicien particulièrement respecté au sein des milieux diplomatique. Fabienne est amoureuse de John, un beau garçon qu'elle épouse bientôt sans se douter que ce dernier est un espion à la solde de l'Union Soviétique.
Comedy
The Curse of King Tut's Tomb
May 08, 1980Egyptologist Robin Ellis and American reporter Eva Marie Saint uncover King Tut's burial site but wealthy profiteer Raymond Burr tries to make sure that the valuable artifacts in its chambers never leave the country.
Horror
Awkward Customers
Nov 09, 1975Shows John Cleese learning how to deal with "difficult customers" in a professional yet friendly manner and turn them into clients.
Comedy
More Awkward Customers
Nov 10, 1975Emphasises the importance of professional knowledge of an organisation’s stocks or services in dealing with difficult customers. Highlights the customer who parades their knowledge, the silent customer who cannot communicate his needs and the finicky customer who requires every detail. Features John Cleese, Anghared Rees, Patricia Routledge, Bernard Cribbins and Lynn Redgrave.
Comedy
Baffled!
Apr 11, 1973Tom Kovack is a hard-nosed race car driver until a sudden supernatural vision causes a near-fatal crash while he's hurtling down the backstretch at 140 miles per hour. Michele Brent is the woman who convinces Kovack that his visions are significant. She leads him to the manor house that appeared in his vision, which in turn leads him into a world of revenge and murder from beyond the grave. Kovack must tap into his newfound power to conquer the evil forces at work.
Science Fiction
As You Like It
Dec 17, 1978Orlando is forced to work like a servant for his brother Oliver, so he goes to win his fortune in a wrestling contest, where he meets a lady of the court, Rosalind. Rosalind (daughter of the deposed duke) is companion to Celia, niece of the deposed Duke, and when the current duke banishes Rosalind from the kingdom, she, Celia, the court jester (and incidentally Orlando) all end up in the forest or Arden, where the deposed Duke holds court. Romantic mixups, cross-dressing, love poems nailed to trees, and a lion await them all.
Comedy
Hell's Angel
Jan 21, 1971Dick Foster is adopted as a child, but has grown into a youth who causes problems and upsets.
Drama
Jane Eyre
Dec 01, 1970Jane Eyre est orpheline, envoyée à l'école Lowood, et devient finalement gouvernante à Thornfield Hall pour une fille nommée Adele. Pendant qu'elle est là-bas, de nombreuses choses étranges se produisent et finalement elle et Edward Rochester, propriétaire de Thornfeild et le tuteur d'Adele, tombent amoureux. Soudainement, alors que Jane est sur le point de gagner le bonheur qu'elle mérite, un sombre secret se révèle et il lui faudra tout son courage, son amour et sa compréhension pour triompher.
Drama
Office Party
Aug 17, 1971Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.
Drama
Les Enquêtes de Remington Steele
Feb 17, 1987Laura Holt est détective privé mais le fait d'être une femme lui fait perdre un certain nombre de clients. Elle a donc l'idée de s'inventer un patron : Remington Steele. Mais un jour, elle rencontre un charmant voleur qui a endossé l'identité de Remington Steele afin d'échapper à des meurtriers. Pourquoi ne pas conserver cette identité et s'associer ? Pendant quatre ans Laura et Steele vont affronter dangers et mystères. De disputes en flirts, finiront-ils par franchir le pas ?
Drama
Poigne de fer et séduction
Mar 15, 1974Cette série met en scène les aventures de trois détectives internationaux (un Anglais, une Italienne et un Français) appartenant à une organisation appelée The Protectors. Leur mission : traquer le crime aux quatre coins du monde...
Action & Adventure
Crown Court
Feb 02, 1984Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Drama
Robin of Sherwood
Jun 28, 1986Robin of Sherwood was a British television series, based on the legend of Robin Hood. Created by Richard Carpenter, it was produced by HTV in association with Goldcrest, and ran from 1984 to 1986 on the ITV network. In America it was retitled Robin Hood and shown on the premium cable TV channel Showtime and on PBS. The show starred Michael Praed and Jason Connery as two different incarnations of the title character. Unlike previous adaptations of the Robin Hood legend, Robin of Sherwood combined a gritty, authentic production design with elements of real-life history, 20th century fiction, and pagan myth. The series is also notable for its haunting title music by Clannad, which won a BAFTA award.
Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Nov 27, 2011Hallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark Cards, a Kansas City based greeting card company. The longest-running primetime series in the history of television, it has a historically long run, beginning during 1951 and continuing into 2013. From 1954 onward, all of its productions have been shown in color, although color television video productions were extremely rare in 1954. Many television movies have been shown on the program since its debut, though the program began with live telecasts of dramas and then changed to videotaped productions before finally changing to filmed ones.
The series has received eighty Emmy Awards, twenty-four Christopher Awards, eleven Peabody Awards, nine Golden Globes, and four Humanitas Prizes. Once a common practice in American television, it is the last remaining television program such that the title includes the name of the sponsor. Unlike other long-running TV series still on the air, it differs in that it broadcasts only occasionally and not on a weekly broadcast programming schedule.
Drama
Within These Walls
Apr 15, 1978Within These Walls is a British television drama programme made by London Weekend Television for ITV and shown between 1974 and 1978. It portrayed life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison TV series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the prison staff rather than the inmates.
The lead character was the well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell, and episodes revolved around her attempts to liberalise the prison regime while managing her personal life at home. Another prominent character was her Chief Officer, Mrs. Armitage. Googie Withers left after three series; in Series Four her character was replaced as governor by Helen Forrester, who in turn left to be replaced in the final Series Five by Susan Marshall.
The creator and writer of the programme, David Butler, played the prison chaplain, the Rev Henry Prentice, in some episodes.
As of November 2011 Network DVD have released all five series in the UK, with the exception of "Nowhere for the Kids", an episode from Series Two which appears to have been wiped from the archives.
Drama
The BBC Television Shakespeare
Apr 27, 1985La BBC Television Shakespeare est une série d'adaptations télévisées britanniques des pièces de théâtre de William Shakespeare. Elle a été créée par Cedric Messina et produite par la BBC Television. Elle a été diffusée au Royaume-Uni du 3 décembre 1978 au 27 avril 1985 et s'est étendue sur sept saisons. Le développement de la série a commencé en 1975 lorsque Messina a remarqué que le château de Glamis serait un lieu parfait pour une adaptation de la pièce de Shakespeare "Comme il vous plaira". De retour à Londres, il a imaginé une série entière consacrée exclusivement aux œuvres dramatiques de Shakespeare. Après avoir rencontré de nombreux problèmes pour produire la série, Messina a finalement présenté l'idée aux responsables de la BBC et la série a été approuvée. Dans l'ensemble, la série a reçu des critiques généralement négatives de la part des critiques.
Drama
Poldark
Dec 04, 1977Period drama series about the brooding rivalry between former soldier Ross Poldark and local industrialist George Warleggan, and the two women in their lives. Based on the books by Winston Graham.
Drama
Thriller
May 22, 1976Cette série est une anthologie d'histoires dans le registre de l’horreur, sur des thèmes très divers comme la sorcellerie, la maladie mentale, la possession, la télépathie...
Drama
Crown Court
Feb 02, 1984Crown Court is an afternoon television courtroom drama produced by Granada Television for the ITV network that ran from 1972, when the Crown Court system replaced Assize courts and Quarter sessions in the legal system of England and Wales, to 1984.
Drama
Close to Home
Nov 18, 1990A situation comedy about divorcee James Shepherd, a charismatic vet, who struggles to run both a successful surgery and a home for his two teenage children.
Comedy
Maitresse du jeu
Feb 19, 19841883. James McGregor quitte son Ecosse natale pour l'Afrique du Sud décidé à faire fortune dans les mines de diamants. Des débuts difficiles marquent son aventure. Mais l'ambitieux jeune homme va s'accrocher à son rêve. Ainsi commence la formidable histoire de la dynastie McGregor...
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.
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.
Drama
Doctor in the House
Jun 26, 1970
Chapeau melon et Bottes de cuir
May 21, 1969John Steed, un agent des services secrets britanniques, flanqué d'accortes acolytes nommées Cathy Gale, Emma Peel ou Tara King, combat le crime et résout des mystères souvent mâtinés d'énigmes surnaturelles. Sans se départir de son flegme et ponctuant ses actions de citations tirées de Shakespeare ou Wilde, il affronte des criminels plus flamboyants et mégalomaniaques les uns que les autres...
Action & Adventure
