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- 1964–19681h 30m9.2 (22)TV EpisodeTodays theme: Talking to a Stranger 4: The Innocent Must Suffer.
- A grown-up brother and sister's visit to their parents home culminates in a shocking tragedy. The events of the weekend are told over four episodes, each focusing on the point of view of one family member: the daughter Terry; the father, Ted; the son, Alan and finally the mother, Sarah. The full story of the dysfunctional family plays out through the use of repeating scenes, flashback, and monologue.
- 1964–19681h 30m8.5 (16)TV Episode
- 1964–19681h 30m8.3 (16)TV Episode
- A uneducated Norfolk girl matures into a confident woman.
- 1964–19681h 30m7.8 (28)TV EpisodeFocuses on Terry and the events over the course of one weekend that will change her family's life forever.
- Albert, a shy and repressed young man who lives with his mother, is persuaded to go for "a night out" with his workmates; it turns nightmarish.
- An uneasy friendship between an introspective loner and a more gregarious man is renewed when the latter turns up at the former's basement flat one rainy night accompanied by an enigmatic, beautiful, mostly silent, girlfriend.
- In 1984, love is outlawed, freedom does not exist and those who defy Big Brother may lose more than their lives.
- Set in a future when the world is dominated and run by television, where language has become almost redundant and all "tensions" - love, war, hate, loyalty - have been removed. Overpopulation is a problem, so there are gluttony programmes to put people off food and pornography programmes to put them off sex. There is artsex and sportsex, and now this - the year of the Sex Olympics. Audience attention begins to wane, however, until TV executive Ugo Priest works on a new concept - a reality-based programme in which a couple is stranded on a bleak island, without the aid of any modern technology, and their efforts to survive filmed twenty-four hours a day. A concept which may sound familiar in the age of reality TV...
- John Ebony begins a new career as a schoolteacher - and begins to suspect certain of his pupils of murder.
- BBC adaptation of Harold Pinter's 1958 play about a married couple's fears and desires.
- The affairs and experiences of an aristocratic Englishman before and during the First World War.
- The affairs and experiences of a British aristocrat before and during the First World War.
- With war looming, a middle-aged man reminisces about the lost world of his village upbringing.
- Miss Julie has a torrid, strange relationship with her servant, Jean.
- The young and liberated Rebekka West wants Pastor Rosmer. Will his pondering and his wife's suicide ruin their relationship?
- A German mercenary is hired to defend the small township of Manchester during the English Civil War.
- After a minor scandal involving a servant-girl, young Karl is packed off to America, a land he finds distinctly strange.
- A Jewish family from in London strive to maintain their Communist beliefs from1936, through the war and the rise of Stalin to the Hungarian revolution of 1956.
- After meeting the nefarious Dr. Knock, a number of respectable citizens in a French town become convinced that they are very ill.
- Dark secrets emerge when a family gathers for a birthday party at their country house.
- Towards the end of World War 2, a Brooklyn man is mistaken for a Jew by anti-Semitic neighbours and he considers the nature of prejudice.
- During the American Civil War, a Southern patriarch finds his house occupied by enemy soldiers.
- The story of Queen Katherine, widow of Henry V, and her affair with Welsh hero of Agincourt, Sir Owen Tudor.
- In twentieth-century Italy, a man insists that he is Enrico Quattro, an Italian monarch from centuries before. Obviously, he's a madman - isn't he?
- An account of the famous "Calas case", in which Voltaire managed, at great personal risk, to set right an injustice.
- Fantasy about a world where anyone who does not conform to bourgeois norms is ritually executed.
- When Councillor Ogidi and Mr Madu come to Chief Ozuomba's court, both wanting to marry Elina, the Chief sees his chance to oppose the new anti-polygamy law.
- 1964–1968TV Episode
- A couple from London move to an isolated Norfolk cottage and try to live off the land.
- A German businessman develops an obsessive passion for a girl he picks up in an East End pub. But she, and her brother, are playing their own game.
- An argumentative theatrical couple are persuaded to appear as harmonious versions of themselves in a television series filmed in their own home.
- 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.
- In this rendering of the Turgenev play, a woman toys with the affections of a young admirer while spending a month at a country estate.
- The events leading up to the assassination of Julius Caesar.
- The story of the Norman Conquest of England, to coincide with the 900th anniversary.
- King Harold before th Battle of Hastings. 900th anniversary production.
- A landowner invites his aristocratic friends to a party in order to humiliate a man he hated at school.
- Hardcastle, a man of substance, looks forward yo acquainting his daughter with his old pal's son with a view to marriage. But thanks to playboy Lumpkin, he's mistaken by his prospective son-in-law Marlow for an innkeeper, his daughter for the local barmaid. The good news is, while Marlow can barely speak to a woman of quality he's a charmer with those of a different stamp. And so, as Hardcastle's indignation intensifies, Miss Hardcastle's appreciation for her misguided suitor soars. Misdemeanours multiply, love blossoms, mayhem ensues. One of the great, generous-hearted and ingenious comedies of the English language, Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer offers a celebration of chaos, courtship and the dysfunctional family.
- A group of revolutionaries plot a political assassination.
- At the end of the war, Crouchback ponders his future.
- Prevented by his strict Roman Catholicism from divorcing his faithless wife, Guy Crouchback prepares for war in 1939.
- As he journeys through the Second World War, Guy Crouchback undergoes many grotesque adventures, both comic and tragic.
- This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.
- A husband clashes with his wife over his membership to the Irish citizen army.
- Three patients in a lunatic asylum all claim to be famous physicists. One of them - but which? - actually is a famous physicist, and the agents of a foreign power want his knowledge.