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- Spencer Savage, newly released from his Malaysian duties, takes a position with the American embassy in London. He runs into several unusual diplomatic situations both within the embassy (and the "spooks" on the third floor and the Coach), and outside (with beautiful women, Honorables, tourists, spies, defectors, a tomb-desecrater, and co-worker dinners).
- A series about life on a London daily newspaper.
- As Stern's management plots a marketing strategy, skeptical British historian David Irving gets wind of Hitler's recently "rediscovered" documents.
- Murdoch gets cagey during negotiations, his expert gets cold feet, and Stern's big press conference turns nasty.
- The story of an Irish doctor in an English seaside town in the 1950s who was accused of murdering many of his elderly patients.
- An ex-SAS officer and an ex member of the Special Boat Services, team up to search for £ 2 million worth of diamonds which go missing when an aircraft is hijacked. Ruthless terrorists seize a London embassy residence. The SAS are called in. There's intense political pressure for a quick resolution. The worst fears of David Barber, the officer in command, are tragically realised. With a brilliant career in ruins, the prospects for ex-Major Barber seem grim until he meets Colonel Patrick Ansell, Managing director of Saracen systems Ltd.
- Harry arrives in Rio, looking for Dolly, unaware that she has quietly returned to England. Bella enjoys a new life with a wealthy love interest. Linda gets drunk and puts their safety and the money in jeopardy.
- Adaptation of Aldous Huxley's 'novel of ideas' in which the author Philip Quarles, withdrawn and uncomfortable with the world around him, considers his friends and family as models for the characters in his writing.
- Anthology series of one-off thrillers about the covert activities of Allied agents and resistance operatives in occupied Europe during the Second World War.
- Part one of two. Trapped in a Berlin asylum in 1920, enigmatic Anna Anderson (Amy Irving) turns heads with her claims to be the daughter of Russia's Nicholas II.
- Conclusion. In 1928, Anna Anderson (Amy Irving) visits New York to convince survivors of the Romanov family that she is truly Anastasia.
- Two super cop detectives operating from Scotland Yard's infamous 'fourth floor' follow a crooked accountant, leading to a trail of blackmail, heroin shipments,contract killers, extortion, Mr Big and their efforts to prevent 'the crime of the century'.
- Drama anthology series transmitted on BBC Two.
- Three part BBC series regarding four Welsh wife/husband couples, old university friends now tumultuosly reunited in (mostly) retirement. A dark comedy about aging, Welsh nationalism, & memory & friendship.
- Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
- Set in Oxbridge General Hospital, this soap opera focused equally on the lives and loves of its medical staff and the pressure of their work.
- Documentary celebrating 10 years of the popular BBC sitcom 'One Foot in the Grave', which ran from 1990 to 2000. Cast members and writer David Renwick discuss the series and a selection of memorable clips illustrate the show's huge appeal.
- An anthology series from the U.K., from 1955 to 1974, producing about five hundred ninety-minute episodes from Granada Television.
- Crime-novelist Paul Temple solves mysteries with the help of his wife Steve.
- Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of halfway house between "Dixon of Dock Green" and "'Z' Cars." The detectives are still 1950s-style with good elocution and authoritative manner. A range of classic cases but gritty it isn't. Each case centres on one crime and one criminal.
- BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
- Series of one-off plays made by BBC television, which gave breaks to a wide range of writers and directors in the late 1960s, such as Dennis Potter, Ken Loach, David Mercer, and John Hopkins. Famous plays include "Up the Junction", "Cathy Come Home" , "Stand Up Nigel Barton", "Vote, Vote, Vote For Nigel Barton", "On the Eve of Publication", and "Son of Man". The series often addressed controversial issues, such as homelessness and abortion.
- 1992–1993TV-G7.3 (133)TV EpisodePosing as neutral Swedish journalist 'Nils Anderson', Indiana Jones is trying to convince Turkish general Mustafa Kemal to form a separate piece with the allies instead of the Germans. His mission becomes jeopardized when he learns there is a traitor codenamed 'The Wolf' in his spy network. To complicate matters, Indy himself has fallen for Molly, a young American working at a Turkish orphanage, despite lying to her about his identity.
- Simon is framed for the murder of a young sculptor named Loudon.
- Margaret's annoyance at Victor's incessant grumbling lures her into considering an affair with Ben, a holiday acquaintance. She meets him for drinks and returns home to find another woman in her bed.
- The true story of the biggest fraud in publishing history - the Hitler diaries.
- Annie Sullivan Macy accompanies her student Helen Keller to Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1898 and supports her as she attends Radcliffe College.
- Poland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England, enthusiastically preparing an abstract play which will criticize the authoritarian Polish government. His sons might not share his political views, though.
- An undercover private detective investigates a suspicious death at a shady health clinic.
- Linda Perelli and Dolly Rawlins have one thing in common, their husbands are in the same gang robbing security vans. A terrible accident is about to bring them closer.
- The "Ladies Who Do" are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
- George Trent (James Willis), a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.
- An incompetent barrister is assigned to defend an accused wife murderer.
- Istanbul, September 1918. Posing as neutral Swedish journalist 'Nils Anderson', Indiana Jones is trying to convince Turkish general Mustafa Kemal to form a separate peace with the allies instead of the Germans. His mission becomes jeopardized when he learns there is a traitor, codenamed 'The Wolf' in his spy network. Afterwards, as part of a small team of special agents, Indy is sent to Transylvania to find out why the mysterious General Targo has raided a German P.O.W. camp. They soon found out the General had taken up impaling his enemies, just like Vlad Tepes used to in the 15th century.
- A British satire on the beginning of WWIII.
- Story of Anna Anderson, who claimed to be Anastasia Romanov, the only "surviving" child of the last Czar and Czarina of Russia.
- A trio of moronic aliens crash-land on Earth and become celebrities, while a fourth alien, who arrives separately, finds himself ignored.
- The wife's affair and a death in the family hasten the demise of an upper-class English marriage.
- A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.
- In 1940s Kenya, a married couple join other affluent British expatriates in a lifestyle of recklessness and excess, but soon find themselves in a troubling situation.
- A young Englishwoman spends twenty years to make whatever kind of life for herself, at the expense of others around her, in post-World War II England.
- Six impossibly intelligent children from all over the world with dangerous psychic powers hide in a church in England after the military tries to experiment on them. Besieged, they warn the military to back off before carnage ensues.
- Simon "The Saint" Templar, a wealthy adventurer and 20th-century Robin Hood, travels the world in his white Volvo P1800S, solving unsolvable problems and righting wrongs.
- Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.
- Victor Meldrew is a retiree who attracts bad luck. If he's not driving his long suffering wife Margaret crazy with his constant moaning, he's fighting with neighbours.
- A trapper and his young son get pulled into the American revolution early as unwilling participants and remain involved through to the end.
- The adventures of the archaeological treasure hunter in his youth as related by an elderly Indiana Jones.
- In 1960s China, French diplomat Rene Gallimard falls in love with an opera singer, Song Liling - but Song is not at all who Gallimard thinks.
- A missing heir of respected Scottish family, raised in African jungles by animals, finally returns to his estate only to realize that difference between the two worlds is really significant.
- An American rock and roll singer is invited to a cultural festival in East Germany in order to distract from a plot to destroy NATO submarines, but he accidentally becomes involved in a resistance plot to rescue an imprisoned scientist.
- In 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.
- The life and loves of a big department store in the West End of London.
- Rudolf Rassendyll returns to Ruritania, to play the King once more.
- Drama series about a satellite television news company and the people who work for it.
- Prison psychologist John Fairling heads a secretive research project, aimed at controlling the inmates' minds but instead encouraging their evil urges. After three warders are murdered, Fairling disappears and all records of him are wiped.
- A rich man arranges for his daughter to meet an aristocrat, hoping that they'll eventually marry. The young man, however, is uncomfortable with high-society women. To win him over, the daughter pretends to be a poor barmaid.
- Anthology of 70-minute UK dramatic productions.
- A country squire and his late friend's nephew argue over the dead man's artistic legacy.
- The Colonel is running a resistance in a small village near Paris. His major problem is Anatole, who runs a group in the hills, and takes what he wants regardless. When a female radio operator is dropped in he palms her off to Anatole.
- 1964–1968TV EpisodeGordon Comstock dreams of being a great poet and giving up his dreary career in advertising. But advertising pays and poetry doesn't.
- One of the students at a boys' school becomes deranged as a result of his obsession with a sluttish young woman.
- Queen Flavia is reunited with her true love Rudolf Rassendyll but the circumstances are less than ideal.
- Rudolf Rassendyll sets a trap and Rupert of Hentzau receives an eagerly-awaited summons.
- Rudolf Rassendyll is again forced to imitate his cousin Rudolf V after Rupert of Hentzau fatally shoots the King in a remote hunting lodge.
- Rupert of Hentzau meets the play-actor face to face and the future of the kingdom is resolved.
- Exiled from Ruritanta for treason, Rupert of Hentzau returns secretly, determined to discover what takes Fritz von Tarlenheim to Wintenberg.
- Rudolf Rassendyll goes on a journey with surprising results, and the King receives an unexpected visitor.