Match of the Day
Mar 18, 1974Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it
Neville Smith
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Sling Your Hook
Apr 02, 1969A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
TV Movie
Wear a Very Big Hat
Feb 17, 1965A young couple celebrate their wedding anniversary with a night on the town.
Romance
Too Much !
Jul 24, 1987Dans une petite station balnéaire anglaise des années cinquante, une jolie blonde passe comme une flèche sur sa bicyclette, laissant le vent découvrir ses jambes deliees. C'est Lynda dont la beauté juvénile renverse les cœurs des jeunes gens. Seulement Lynda est une révoltée dont les gros mots et la vie qu'elle dissipe contre l'ennui choquent profondément l'Angleterre pudibonde des "fifties".
Comedy
Me! I'm Afraid of Virginia Woolf
Dec 02, 1978A repressed night-school teacher, secretly homosexual, struggles to cope with his demanding, eccentric mother.
Drama
Afternoon Off
Feb 03, 1979Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on his afternoon off work he buys a box of chocolates and sets off to find her.
Drama
Praise Marx and Pass the Ammunition
Jan 01, 1970A Marxist-Leninist expelled from the British Communist Party joins the Revolutionary Party of the Third World, sleeps around, and attempts to rethink his place within the revolution after the events of the 1968 May uprising in Paris.
Drama
The End of Arthur's Marriage
Nov 17, 1965In this off-beat musical – a satire that combines fantasy, social observation and songs – a working class man goes to put a deposit on a new house only to find he prefers spending to saving and is happy to spend his money on a few hours of happiness rather than a lifetime's conventionality.
Music
The Big Flame
Feb 19, 1969After a prolonged industrial dispute in the Liverpool Docks, the striking workers reject management demands of a return to work and decide instead to occupy the docks and run the operation themselves.
Drama
The Rank and File
May 20, 1971Wilkinsons glass-works dominates a Staffordshire town. After a small walkout over pay discrepancies, the workers of the factory vote to go on strike, but they are denied support by their trade union.
Drama
The Golden Vision
Apr 17, 1968The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations.
Comedy
Gumshoe
Dec 01, 1971
Long Distance Information
Oct 11, 1979Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.
Drama
Prick Up Your Ears
Apr 17, 1987Lorsque la police découvre les corps du célèbre dramaturge Joe Orton et de son amant, l'agent littéraire d’Orton récupère le journal de l’écrivain. Plusieurs années après, un homme qui souhaite écrire la biographie d’Orton met la main sur le journal. Il y découvre le récit tourmenté des débuts difficiles du dramaturge et de sa relation passionnelle avec son amant, puis des années de gloire…
Drama
Long Shot
Nov 17, 1978Against the backdrop of the 1977 Edinburgh Film Festival, two low-budget filmmakers attempt to talk up some finance as they hunt for cash, cast and ‘name director’ Sam Fuller to shoot their Aberdeen-set oil-boom adventure ‘Gulf and Western’. Along the way, they encounter a plethora of filmmaking luminaries including Wim Wenders, Stephen Frears, John Boorman, Bill Forsyth and Alan Bennett.
Comedy
In Two Minds
Mar 01, 1967Kate, a young girl under psychiatric examination, suffers from a lack of confidence, self-esteem and self-control – telling of the “bad Kate” who commits immoral acts. Could the hypocrisy, selfishness and weakness of those around her have led to this state of mind or can Kate simply be diagnosed and dismissed as a schizophrenic?
Drama
Bag of Yeast
Feb 22, 1976When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wide ranging effects on his family and loved ones.
Drama
After a Lifetime
Jul 18, 1971Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.
Drama
The Lump
Feb 01, 1967The Lump is an uncompromising exploration of exploitation and resistance within the building trade.
Drama
Bad News
Jan 24, 1983A documentary crew films heavy metal band Bad News as they have trouble starting their van, pick up a schoolgirl groupie, and meet up with rock journalist Sally at a motorway service station where they argue about the cost of sausage and chips.
Comedy
Completely Bad News
Nov 29, 2019
Billy le menteur
Aug 15, 1963Dans une petite ville anglaise terne et ennuyeuse, un jeune mythomane mène une vie imaginaire et trompe tout son entourage.
Comedy
There Is Also Tomorrow
Nov 19, 1969The commanding officer of a regiment handling nuclear missiles is shocked to see his daughter Sally on television taking part in a student demonstration.
Drama
Doctor Who: The Reign of Terror
Sep 12, 1964The TARDIS materialises not far from Paris in 1794 — one of the bloodiest years following the French Revolution of 1789. The travellers become involved with an escape chain rescuing prisoners from the guillotine and get caught up in the machinations of an English undercover spy, James Stirling — alias Lemaitre, governor of the Conciergerie prison.
Science Fiction
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
Gumshoe
Dec 01, 1971Drama
Apaches
Feb 01, 1977On an English farm, six reckless children play at being a fierce band of Apache warriors, unaware of the many dangers to which they are exposed. (Public information short film produced on behalf of the British Government to warn children living in rural areas about the risks of playing near farm machinery.)
Drama
Match of the Day
Mar 18, 1974Chance has missed the match, but the girls at his sister's wedding might make up for it
Some of My Best Friends...
Jan 01, 1969Jewish people - and a few Gentiles - muse on what it means to be Jewish in 1960s Britain. The challenges of maintaining faith and culture outside Israel, and in a society where ‘Jewish’ and ‘English’ are seen as mutually exclusive identities are perceptively explored in this astute documentary. Some secular Jews are keen to distance themselves from traditional Judaism and especially Zionism (one defines himself simply as a Marxist). Gentiles are on hand to cheerfully perpetuate some of the old stereotypes, and we’re treated to colourful snapshots of the Jewish community in London: the rag trade, a kosher butcher and restaurant.
Documentary
The World Cup: A Captain's Tale
Jun 13, 1982The true story of the First world football competition, won by a team comprised of miners from Durham.
Action
After a Lifetime
Jul 18, 1971Ken Loach's first production for ITV, shown under the 'Sunday Night Theatre' strand (originally broadcast 18th July 1971). After a Lifetime is something of a neglected, social realist masterpiece that focuses on two brothers, brought together by the death of their father, reflecting on his life of militancy and political activism. At the time critic Nancy Banks Smith called it ‘brilliantly funny, and moving with a sort of subterranean rage’. Smith himself plays the older brother with a brilliant, raw emotion.
Drama
Long Distance Information
Oct 11, 1979Play For Today written by and starring Neville Smith. Christian Harvey , a local radio DJ and ageing rocker, is an obsessive fan of Elvis and the news of Elvis's death is for him a personal tragedy as well as the end of an era.
Drama
Bag of Yeast
Feb 22, 1976When teacher Tony Scannell decides he wants to be ordained as a Catholic Priest his decision has wide ranging effects on his family and loved ones.
Drama
The Golden Vision
Apr 17, 1968The obsessive supporters of Everton FC forsake wives, families and God to follow their beloved team. Meanwhile, the club and its players try to live up to their expectations.
Comedy
The Wednesday Play
May 27, 1970The Wednesday Play is an anthology series of British television plays which ran on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured. The series gained a reputation for presenting contemporary social dramas, and for bringing issues to the attention of a mass audience that would not otherwise have been discussed on screen.
Drama
Thirty-Minute Theatre
May 17, 1973Thirty-Minute Theatre is an anthology drama series of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, which was used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short running length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known. Thirty-Minute Theatre followed on from a similarly named ITV series, beginning on BBC2 in 1965 with an adaptation of the black comedy Parsons Pleasure. In 1967 BBC2 launched the UK's first colour service, with the consequence that Thirty-Minute Theatre became the first drama series in the country to be shown in colour.
Drama
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.
Comedy
