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- 1955–196025mApproved7.5 (69)TV EpisodeMaid Marian's absent father has arranged her marriage with the knight who saved her father's life. When Robin learns that the man to be Marian's husband cares only for her hefty dowry, he plans to break up the wedding by posing as a German knight who had earlier been promised her hand in marriage long ago, but never arrived to take the marriage vows.
- After £3,000 is stolen in an house burglary, D.C.I. Barlow decides it's time action. When PC's Lynch and Graham find dynamite hidden in Ma Tansfield's shed he arrests her, deciding to force her son Josh to trade the money for her freedom.
- 1960–19631h 5m7.6 (48)TV EpisodeA dramatized account of a Victorian cause celebre, written by John Osborne and concerning the true story of the last person in England to be tried for blasphemy. Richard Burton plays John George Holyoake, a social reformer who goes on trial for speaking in public about his atheist views. Rachel Roberts plays his wife, and the programme is introduced by Face to Face inquisitor John Freeman.
- Weekly religious show.
- Luis a university student, has been sent on a covert mission during a revolution, his troubles start when he meets a beautiful girl called Maria.
- Six student nurses start training in the NHS, facing challenges working with colleagues and patients while adapting to the hierarchy and procedures.
- This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
- Monthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
- BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
- A lawyer arrives at the colony looking for the last reaming heir to the Gresham fortune. A lad appears that everyone assumes is lying, but doubts begin to rise over the lad's true origins.
- In 1943, an Italian-administered P.O.W. camp for captured Allies goes through a series of failed escapes only to culminate in a daring plan for a dramatic mass escape.
- The Lord Abbott calls for Ivanhoe for help. Sir Rupert, who covets the monastery lands, collects taxes for Prince John. When the taxes are sent the carriers are robbed. They must stop the robberies or forfeit their lands.
- Adaptation of Chaucer's tales, told by pilgrims on their journey from London to Canterbury.
- After a ten-year voyage full of perils, a famous sea captain returns to his family in Florence. He is not aware of the dalliance between his wife and Captain Rodrigo, nor that his wife has entrusted his fortune to De Medici's care. Meanwhile the Duke is taking steps to eliminate the Captain and everyone who has come into contact with him since his arrival.
- 1955–196025mApproved7.0 (48)TV EpisodeWhen free man A'Bland flees from a false accusation of murder that means imprisonment and death, his children, Alice and Oswald, are seized by the men-at-arms who serve Lord FitzUrse. In the great castle they are treated harshly at the hands of FitzUrse and his menials. A'Bland joins ta band of outlaws, and together embark on a rescue.
- De Medici challenges Marco to a duel, but substitutes de Foix, the best swordsman in Europe, on a flimsy pretext. Marco turns the tables on the swordfighter and the Duke.
- Unbeknownst to him, a soldier is sent on a doomed mission because of the high likelihood of him divulging secrets if captured and tortured.
- Pat Rutherford tries to arrange a wedding ceremony for Mrs. Sheppard who is terminally ill but her well-intentioned plan meets a number of obstacles. Jo and Sita have their work cut out dealing with the prickly Keith Aldiss, a very well-informed but awkward patient. Sister Bodinetz gives Jo a run as nurse in charge but being in authority has its pitfalls as well as its benefits.
- Ellen Colman finds herself alone in Paris. Charles Kleber offers to show her the sights. When Kleber visits. the pair they plan to murder her husband and marry. Back in Paris she learns she is his next victim so needs to kill him first.
- During the French Revolution, a French nobleman saves the 10-year-old son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette from the guillotine with the help of an English woman.
- Mike Billings decides to give gambling a go and it happens he's good at it. His instant fortune attracts quite a number of characters including a con artist, a hired killer, and the requisite attractive woman.
- Constable George Dixon and his colleagues at the Dock Green police station in the East End of London deal with petty crime, successfully controlling it through common sense and human understanding.
- The adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.
- 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.
- Decades after World War II, investigative journalist Hugo Van Eyck makes a documentary exposing the powerful industrialist Manfred Dorf as being Standartenführer Ludwig Kessler living under an alias.
- The file on Johnny Treherne's father's last case, investigating a protection racket in Sidwell, is stolen from his office. He later discovers a dog track owner is also caught up in it but Candy Hassett is attacked after talking to him.
- Jim Hawkins comes of age on board the schooner, Hispaniola, as he successfully steers to reach Treasure Island. Finding a confidante in the shady John Silver, Jim embarks on a life-changing adventure that is ripe with adjusting loyalties and life-threatening betrayals, and displays the persistence of human courage. Welcome aboard this wonderful retelling of the R.L. Stevenson classic!
- 1955–196025mApproved7.2 (52)TV EpisodeRobin encounters a herbalist searching the forest for plants to be used against a sickness in the nearby castle. The man dies before he collects enough material and robin and his men agree to complete his mission.
- George Moore's story of the kitchen-maid who was dismissed from a late-Victorian horse-racing household because she was going to have a baby by the footman.
- Police investigating a routine pedestrian fatality call in Scotland Yard when they make a surprising discovery.
- Tempest finds two children stowed away on his ship. They tell a story of their father, an indentured slave, being thrown in jail for his refusal to work until the local land owner agrees to educate the children.
- Follows Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard and his family life.
- A member of Parliament is accused of perpetrating a swindle.
- Richard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
- Follows inspector Paul Duval as he tracks his targets and risks his life in a global race against time.
- The adventures of Sir Wilfred of Ivanhoe, a noble knight and champion of justice during the rule of the evil Prince John.
- Simon becomes interested in an oriental diplomat's pearl necklace.
- Cases of a female barrister.
- In the years after World War II, the tables have turned: ambitious, cruel Gestapo-officer Ludwig Kessler, the most implacable hunter of every opponent to the Third Reich, can no longer deny its rule is militarily annihilated by the Allies. He must now flee himself as he is a war criminal accused of the torture and execution of numerous victims. He manages to get away with a fortune and starts a new life as a businessman, still hoping for another rise of the master race to power, in which his part should be even more prominent, from a (neo-)fascist colony in Paraguay. Meanwhile, Albert Foiret and some of his former Lifeline colleagues play a part in the hunt for the former master-hunter.
- 1955–196025mApproved7.5 (45)TV EpisodeThe Sheriff is going to hang Arthur of Tetsbury for raising a levy in the shire for King Richard. To prevent Robin Hood from saving him, it is declared that only women will be allowed to enter the city to bring in the daily food.
- A disillusioned, angry university graduate comes to terms with his grudge against middle-class life and values.
- Chief Inspector Rose, previously seen in 'The Odd Man' and 'It's Dark Outside', has retired from the police and intends to write his memoirs - but is constantly distracted by intriguing mysteries.
- Teenager Jimmy's life begins to unravel after the death of his father. With his mother promiscuous and his new stepfather and stepbrother difficult to get along with, he begins to fall into a cycle of petty crime and self harm.
- 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.
- Frank Hawthorne is an agent in World War II's Office of Strategic Services (O. S. S.), the U. S.'s spy agency. He operates behind German lines in France with the assistance of the French Resistance and his assistant, Sergeant O'Brien.
- A series of real trials from British history, famous and notorious, dramatised from the court records.
- Frank Hawthorn heads to North Africa where he must extract a downed pilot of dangerous conditions.
- The Doctor escapes from the spiders' larder only to encounter the Great One, while Sarah makes a deal with the Queen Spider.
- Sarah is captured by the spiders' guards while the Doctor tries to help Arak and the others strike back against the spiders.
- While the Doctor carries out an investigation into ESP, Mike Yates asks Sarah to look into some strange goings on at a meditation centre he's attending.
- K'Anpo persuades the Doctor he must face his fear and return the crystal to the Great One.But first they need to get past Barnes and his men.
- The Doctor and Sarah head to the meditation centre to try and get the crystal back while Lupton prepares to return it to Metebelis Three.But all their plans are disrupted when it is stolen by Tommy.
- Lupton forms an alliance with the spider to steal the Doctor's blue crystal, while Sarah and Mike attempt to alert people to what they've seen.
- A British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
- Six of Britain's top television playwrights were given the opportunity to write the plays they had always wanted to write.
- Mary Dixon's forthcoming wedding to Andy Crawford looks doomed when she starts receiving anonymous letters describing how he is having an affair with his ex-girlfriend Cora, who has recently returned to the Dock Green area.
- Steed and Cathy travel to Marseilles to pick up a flask of a secret new rocket fuel. When they arrive at the airport, they find the bottle gone and their contact dead. The pair battle foreign agents to regain the propellant.
- 1955–196025mApproved7.3 (21)TV EpisodeThe tournament over, three Knights decide to earn some money by claiming the reward for Robin's capture. Disguised as strolling players, they enter the outlaws' camp and await their opportunity to strike.
- The daughter of a man convicted of treason in 1942 approaches Charlie to try and prove the original conviction of her father was wrong.
- 1955–196025mApproved7.5 (56)TV EpisodeKing Richard has arrived back in England and is traveling in disguise to establish which Lords and Barons are loyal to John and who Richard can count on. He instructs Marion to undertake a dangerous mission.