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1. Play for Today (1970–1984)

75 min | Comedy, Drama

A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.

Stars: Alison Steadman, Nigel Hawthorne, Tony Caunter, David Daker

Votes: 395

2. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)

60 min | Drama

BBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.

Stars: Ralph G. Morse, Gawn Grainger, John Bluthal, Trevor Laird

Votes: 139

3. Shades of Darkness (1983–1986)

60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

"Shades of Darkness" was an anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.

Stars: Norma West, Annette Wilkie-Miller, Francesca Annis, Eileen Atkins

Votes: 332

4. The Death of the Heart (1987 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 109 min | Drama, Family

A young orphan girl, Portia, goes to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle. As she is groomed to become a lady, she is confused by the young man who seems to be courting her. Surrounded ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: Phyllis Calvert, Daniel Chatto, JoJo Cole, Judith Davis

Votes: 53

5. Summer Lightning (1985)

Drama, Romance

Sir Robert Clarke looks back on his life and the summer when as a 16-year-old he first fell in love with Louise St. Leger.

Director: Paul Joyce | Stars: Edward Rawle-Hicks, Paul Scofield, Tom Bell, Dearbhla Molloy

Votes: 11

6. Derek Mahon: The Poetry Nonsense (2009)

57 min | Documentary

Mahon retraces his steps as an only child growing up in Belfast through to senior school in the Belfast Academical Institution and on to Trinity College, Dublin and his formative years as a poet.

Director: Roger Greene | Stars: Terence Brown, Patricia Craig, Gerald Dawe, Peter Fallon

7. BBC2 Playhouse (1973–1983)
Episode: How Many Miles to Babylon? (1982)

111 min | Drama

Wealthy Alexander Moore and working-class Jerry Crowe are childhood friends and in 1914 find themselves in the same Army unit - Alex as an officer and Jerry as a private. They still remain ... See full summary »

Director: Moira Armstrong | Stars: Siân Phillips, Barry Foster, Alan MacNaughtan, Daniel Day-Lewis

Votes: 129

8. Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode: The Cry (1984)

54 min | Comedy, Drama

In Ulster in 1959, a journalist witnesses the beating of a youth.

Director: Christopher Menaul | Stars: Adrian Dunbar, Michael Duffy, Doreen Keogh, Breffni McKenna

Votes: 8

9. Shades of Darkness (1983–1986)
Episode: The Demon Lover (1986)

60 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Kathleen Drover and her family have closed their London house and relocated to the countryside for the duration of the war. It's 1941 and relatively speaking, all is well. She is happily ... See full summary »

Director: Peter Hammond | Stars: Dorothy Tutin, Hugh Grant, Arabella Weir, Amanda Waring

Votes: 226

10. Play for Today (1970–1984)
Episode: Shadows on Our Skin (1980)

79 min | Comedy, Drama

Joe is an 11-year-old boy growing up on the Bogside of Derry, Northern Ireland. A chance meeting with a girl on his way home from school promises to open up his life in an unexpected and exciting way.

Director: Jim O'Brien | Stars: Macrae Clarke, May Friel, Joe McPartland, Lise Ann McLaughlin

Votes: 14