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1. The Ghost Sonata (1962 TV Movie)
A young student makes the acquaintance of the mysterious man who helps him to find his way into the apartment of betrayal and sickness.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Robert Helpmann, Beatrix Lehmann, William Mervyn
Votes: 9
2.
BBC Play of the Month (1965–1983)
Episode:
The School for Scandal
(1975)
Drama
Scandalmonger Lady Sneerwell controls a nest of gossipy vipers, and young Lady Teazle, bored by her elderly husband Sir Peter, has been lured into the circle too.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Arthur Lowe, Edward Fox, Jeremy Brett, Bernard Lee
Votes: 17
3.
Talking Heads 2 (1998)
Episode:
Waiting for the Telegram
(1998)
30 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Violet is a confused, elderly woman in a nursing home who has been told by the excited staff she will soon be receiving a congratulatory telegram from the Queen in honour of her one ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Star: Thora Hird
Votes: 38
4. Luther (1968 TV Movie)
90 min | Drama
An epic drama of the 16th Century Catholic monk Martin Luther who started the Reformation.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Robert Shaw, Robert Morley, Max Adrian, Ronald Fraser
Votes: 15
5. Television Playwright (1958–1959)
Drama
Stars: Brian Peck, Peter Copley, Jack Allen, Helen Shingler
Votes: 14
6.
Talking Heads (1988)
Episode:
A Cream Cracker Under the Settee
(1988)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Doris, aged seventy-five, is a tidy woman - and when she suffers a fall after trying to clear up after her considerably less thorough home help, Zulema, it becomes apparent that her ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Thora Hird, Steven Beard
Votes: 50
7. BBC Sunday-Night Play (1960–1963)
60 min | Drama
BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
Stars: Brian Rix, Joby Blanshard, Cyril Luckham, John Bennett
Votes: 131
8.
Talking Heads (1988)
Episode:
A Lady of Letters
(1988)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
A lonely woman fills her days by putting her many complaints in writing. Then the complaints evolve into harassment, and she may land in prison.
Directors: Stuart Burge, Giles Foster | Star: Patricia Routledge
Votes: 57
9. Theatre Night (1957–1961)
45 min | Drama
A BBC television series of forty-five-minute excerpts from stage plays running in London.
Stars: Cicely Courtneidge, Evelyn Laye, Dora Bryan, Hugh Williams
Votes: 69
10.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
The Secret War
(1974)
Drama, History, War
In 1917, the Russian Revolution breaks out in earnest and Lenin and Krupskaya - now living in exile in Zurich - are both thrilled as the news finally reach them in Switzerland. They long to... See full summary »
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Lynn Farleigh, Gayle Hunnicutt, Charles Kay
Votes: 36
11.
The Third Man (1959–1965)
Episode:
A Question of Libel
(1962)
30 min | Crime, Drama
A British magazine which Harry owns prints libelous stories about 3 villagers. Now, Harry is on the hook for a £300,000 libel judgment.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Michael Rennie, Jonathan Harris, Barbara Shelley, Sydney Tafler
Votes: 8
12.
Talking Heads 2 (1998)
Episode:
The Hand of God
(1998)
45 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Celia is a covetous antiques dealer who brazenly aids elderly neighbours for the sole purpose of being in a good position to buy their treasures on the cheap when they die. She's ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Star: Eileen Atkins
Votes: 28
13. Seaforth (1994)
500 min | Drama, Romance
An epic love story in nine parts, following the progress of handsome rogue Bob Longman , an ambitious working-class Yorkshire lad. The series begins with a feature-length episode by ... See full summary »
Stars: Linus Roache, Lia Williams, Raymond Pickard, Gary Lydon
Votes: 52
14. Talking Heads (1988)
Comedy, Drama
Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman, and an elderly shut-in.
Stars: Maggie Smith, Julie Walters, Patricia Routledge, Stephanie Cole
Votes: 375
15. Talking Heads 2 (1998)
230 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Six monologues: a lonely store clerk, a covetous antiques dealer, a reformed pedophile, a wife of a dangerous criminal, a murderer's friend, and a confused older woman.
Stars: Julie Walters, Penelope Wilton, Eileen Atkins, Patricia Routledge
Votes: 205
16. David Copperfield (1956)
30 min | Drama
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
Stars: Robert Hardy, Sonia Dresdel, Edna Morris, Richard Goolden
Votes: 11
17.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
The Honest Broker
(1974)
Drama, History, War
In 1887, under the iron fist of Bismarck, the Prussian empire thrives. In Willy, the young son of the heir to the Prussian throne Prince Frederick William, Bismarck sees a leader more fit ... See full summary »
Director: David Cunliffe | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Barry Foster, Maurice Denham, Gemma Jones
Votes: 46
18.
Talking Heads (1988)
Episode:
Soldiering On
(1988)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Muriel is a strong woman, and always has been - a pillar of the community, a regular charity worker, and a volunteer for Meals on Wheels; and looking after her mentally ill daughter, ... See full summary »
Directors: Stuart Burge, Tristram Powell | Star: Stephanie Cole
Votes: 29
19.
Talking Heads (1988)
Episode:
A Chip in the Sugar
(1988)
Comedy, Drama
Mild, middle-aged Graham Whittaker (who we learn is a repressed homosexual with a history of mild mental health problems) finds life becoming complicated as his mother, with whom he still ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Star: Alan Bennett
Votes: 45
20. Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Not Rated | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
The cases of a portly and eccentric criminal law barrister.
Stars: Leo McKern, Jonathan Coy, Julian Curry, Marion Mathie
Votes: 1,720
21. Poor Beast in the Rain (1993 TV Movie)
Drama
"Poor Beast in the Rain" is one of the three plays in Billy Roche's Wexford Trilogy. In 1993, the BBC filmed the stageplay with the cast from the 1993 Bush Theatre (London) production. The ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Ingrid Craigie, Liam Cunningham, Dervla Kirwan, Gary Lydon
Votes: 8
22.
Screen Two (1985–1998)
Episode:
Naming the Names
(1987)
TV-14 | Drama
Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Sylvestra Le Touzel, Michael Maloney, Mick Ford, James Ellis
Votes: 19
23.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
Dearest Nicky
(1974)
Drama, History, War
The opposition against Tsarism is spreading throughout Russia, but Tsar Nicholas II prefers to disregard and stay blind to the rising discontent. The Tsar's mind is instead mainly consumed by the ill health of his firstborn son, Alexis.
Director: Bill Hays | Stars: Gayle Hunnicutt, Charles Kay, Barry Foster, Bruce Purchase
Votes: 33
24.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
The Appointment
(1974)
Drama, History, War
The Grand Duke Serge is assassinated by terrorist in Moscow in 1905 and the Tsar sees the need to dismiss his Police Chief and appoint a new one in order to heighten security in St ... See full summary »
Director: David Cunliffe | Stars: Michael Bryant, Gayle Hunnicutt, Charles Kay, Freddie Jones
Votes: 33
25.
Bill Brand (1976)
Episode:
Anybody's
(1976)
Drama
Director: Roland Joffé | Stars: Jack Shepherd, Alan Badel, Geoffrey Palmer, Stephanie Cole
Votes: 7
26.
Bill Brand (1976)
Episode:
Revisions
(1976)
Drama
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Jack Shepherd, Rosemary Martin, Douglas Campbell, James Giles
Votes: 7
27.
Talking Heads (1988)
Episode:
Bed Among the Lentils
(1988)
Comedy, Drama
Susan, an alcoholic, nervous vicar's wife who has to travel into Leeds to go to the off-licence because of her debts with the local shop keeper, distracts herself from her ambitious, and, ... See full summary »
Directors: Alan Bennett, Stuart Burge | Star: Maggie Smith
Votes: 86
28. The Old Men at the Zoo (1983– )
275 min | Comedy
Satirical piece set in a zoo, which is plunged into a crisis when a giraffe escapes.
Stars: Stuart Wilson, Marius Goring, Andrew Cruickshank, Barry Stanton
Votes: 23
29.
ITV Play of the Week (1955–1974)
Episode:
Serjeant Musgrave's Dance
(1961)
78 min | Comedy, Drama
In Victorian England a Puritan sergeant and his three men (who are all deserters and tired of fighting) return from a bloody colonial war, to their colliery hometown. They have with them ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Freda Jackson, Donal Donnelly, Jeanne Hepple
Votes: 17
30.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
Requiem for a Crown Prince
(1974)
Drama, History, War
On the morning of the 30th January 1889, the 30-year-old Crown Prince Rudolph of Austria-Hungary is found dead at the imperial hunting lodge at Mayerling in what looks like a suicide pact ... See full summary »
Director: James Ferman | Stars: Rachel Gurney, Laurence Naismith, Emrys James, Anthony Newlands
Votes: 47
31.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
The Last Tsar
(1974)
Drama, History, War
The young Tsarevich Nicholas of Russia finds the idea of succeeding his father an absolute nightmare and spends most of his time trying to forget the matter by amusing himself with his ... See full summary »
Director: Bill Hays | Stars: Gayle Hunnicutt, Charles Kay, Barry Foster, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 41
32.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
Dress Rehearsal
(1974)
Drama, History, War
In 1908, the Russian Foreign Minister Isvolsky has his mind set on conquering the Dardanelles from the Turks, as the Dardanelles is the only way for the Russian fleet to pass from the Black... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Gayle Hunnicutt, Charles Kay, Laurence Naismith, Barry Foster
Votes: 33
33.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
End Game
(1974)
Drama, History, War
In Russia, Lenin and the Bolsheviks have seized power and the Russians choose to make peace with Germany and withdraw from the war. To Germany's great disadvantage, however, America has ... See full summary »
Director: Rudolph Cartier | Stars: Barry Foster, Marius Goring, Michael Bates, Griffith Jones
Votes: 26
34. Secret Agent (1964–1967)
TV-PG | 49 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
John Drake is a special operative for M9, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element that threatens world peace.
Stars: Patrick McGoohan, Peter Madden, Frank Maher, Peter Brayham
Votes: 1,539
35. ITV Television Playhouse (1955–1967)
60 min | Drama
Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
Stars: Campbell Singer, Thomas Heathcote, Richard Caldicot, June Brown
Votes: 66
36.
ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969–1974)
Episode:
Married Alive
(1970)
60 min | Drama
"Married Alive was a television play written by John Mortimer, that was broadcast on NBC in 1970. "The Colonel" (Robert Culp) is a man claiming to be Liz Jardine's (Diana Rigg) long lost ... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Diana Rigg, Robert Culp, Tyler Butterworth, Mark Elwes
Votes: 11
37.
Rumpole of the Bailey (1978–1992)
Episode:
Rumpole and the Last Resort
(1983)
Not Rated | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
Rumpole tries to collect an old debt from an elusive deadbeat solicitor while defending a vacation planner on fraud charges.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Leo McKern, Peggy Thorpe-Bates, Bill Fraser, Peter Blythe
Votes: 96
38.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
Absolute Beginners
(1974)
Drama, History, War
In Russia in 1903, Nicholas II has been Tsar for nine years and nobody no longer doubts that revolution soon will come. The important questions at the moment are how, when, and led by whom.... See full summary »
Director: Gareth Davies | Stars: Charles Kay, Bruce Purchase, Patrick Stewart, Lynn Farleigh
Votes: 43
39.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
Indian Summer of an Emperor
(1974)
Drama, History, War
After the murder of his wife and the suicide of his son, the increasingly aging Emperor Franz-Josef of Austria-Hungary has become more and more distanced from his people and his empire. ... See full summary »
Director: Donald McWhinnie | Stars: Laurence Naismith, Barry Foster, Nora Swinburne, Peter Woodthorpe
Votes: 30
40.
Bill Brand (1976)
Episode:
Now and in England
(1976)
Drama
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: Jack Shepherd, Lynn Farleigh, Bernard Atha, Allan Surtees
Votes: 7
41. Fall of Eagles (1974)
50 min | Drama, History, War
The collapse of three great European dynasties: the Romanovs, the Habsburgs, and the Hohenzollerns.
Stars: Michael Hordern, Charles Kay, Barry Foster, Gayle Hunnicutt
Votes: 667
42. The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)
BBC adaptations of all 37 plays wholly and authoritatively credited to William Shakespeare.
Stars: Brenda Bruce, Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards
Votes: 52
43.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
The English Princess
(1974)
53 min | Drama, History, War
On a cold winter's day in London in 1858, the Princess Victoria of England, the daughter of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert, marries Prince Frederick William, the heir to the Prussian ... See full summary »
Director: David Cunliffe | Stars: Curd Jürgens, Gemma Jones, Maurice Denham, Denis Lill
Votes: 48
44.
Talking Heads (1988)
Episode:
Her Big Chance
(1988)
30 min | Comedy, Drama
Lesley is an aspiring actress, who, after a series of unpromising extra roles on television programmes such as Crossroads, finds what she believes to be her big break as the adventurous ... See full summary »
Directors: Stuart Burge, Giles Foster | Star: Julie Walters
Votes: 32
45. Much Ado About Nothing (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 148 min | Comedy, Romance
Benedick and Beatrice fight their merry war of words. But when Beatrice's friend, Hero, is humiliatingly jilted by Benedick's best friend, Claudio, Benedick has to choose which side he's on... See full summary »
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Lee Montague, Tim Faulkner, Cherie Lunghi, Katharine Levy
Votes: 275
46. Blackmail (1965–1966)
Drama
Blackmail, in all its meanings and forms, was the central theme of the episodes comprising this series.
Stars: Ray Marioni, Derrick Sherwin, Aubrey Richards, Ian Hendry
Votes: 21
47.
Maigret (1992–1993)
Episode:
Maigret and the Maid
(1993)
TV-PG | 52 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
When a provincial middle-aged retiree is found shot to death in his bedroom, his relationship with his irascible young maid comes under Maigret's scrutiny.
Director: Stuart Burge | Stars: Michael Gambon, Geoffrey Hutchings, Jack Galloway, James Larkin
Votes: 103
48.
Fall of Eagles (1974)
Episode:
Tell the King the Sky Is Falling
(1974)
Drama, History, War
World War I reigns in Europe and in the Spring of 1915, Russia suffers terrible losses on the Eastern Front. At the Russian court, Tsar Nicholas and the Tsarina have become increasingly ... See full summary »
Director: David Sullivan Proudfoot | Stars: Charles Kay, Gayle Hunnicutt, Charles Gray, John Phillips
Votes: 31
49. Robert Montgomery Presents (1950–1957)
60 min | Drama
Actor, Producer, and Director Robert Montgomery introduced each telecast, sometimes interviewing one of the stars, and sometimes appearing in the play.
Stars: Robert Montgomery, John Newland, Vaughn Taylor, Elizabeth Montgomery
Votes: 136
50. Masterpiece Theatre: Sons and Lovers (1981– )
Drama
BBC adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's novel about a sensitive young man growing up in a Nottinghamshire mining community.
Stars: Eileen Atkins, Tom Bell, Karl Johnson, Amanda Parfitt
Votes: 31