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- Michael Hordern and Denholm Elliot are perfectly cast and are ideal foils for each other.
- In 1935 Sir Malcolm Campbell's obsession is to win the World's Land Speed Record in his car Bluebird. Speed King is about the man, the car, and the ruthless, but irresistible, public ambition of a world hero.
- A dissident, Alexander, has been pronounced insane by the authorities (although he isn't), and finds himself sharing a cell with a genuine mental patient, Ivanov.
- A play about the horrors of life at an English public school - with all the schoolboys played by adults.
- Cpl. George Hunn's sentry post is knocked over and he wakes to find he is suffering from frost bite of the face. Sent to hospital he is put on a ward with aircrew who have mental issues. He is trapped reenacting their missions at night.
- Two men in their 60s sharing a hospital room after their diagnoses of terminal cancer struggle with fear, physical pain, the difficulties of being in hospital, family members unable to cope, loneliness, and their unusual friendship.
- Peter boards a train to attend an important business meeting across Europe. His train trip is made more complicated by two women also assigned to his train compartment. One is an independent American whom Peter finds attractive. The other is Frau Messner - an extremely particular and demanding older European woman. Between the two of them, they try different aspects of Peter's patience...
- 1973–19831h7.7 (21)TV EpisodeLivingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomena!?
- Dick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
- A famous writer finds that a long-suppressed secret is about to be revealed by his former mistress.
- Teenager Diane Weaver lives with her abusive single father. A religious local boy is the only who wants to be her friend, but she doesn't like him as much as he does her. What no one realizes is how far the abuse goes.
- Alison has suffered Autism since childhood. Now aged 17, her parents take her to see Dr. Mallam for psychotherapy. Alison is tested with Zener cards and he suspects she is a telepathic. Along with Dr. Raeburn they attempt to discover more.
- An isolated woman is haunted by the ghosts of her dead siblings.
- An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at French hotel.
- A henpecked American visiting Europe is able to throw off his ghastly wife and find love.
- 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 close, however, until Jerry is court-martialed for desertion, and Alex is put in charge of the firing squad.
- Stones and curses go together. A series of strange events connected with Stonehenge lead Professor Reeve, an Oxford historian, to wonder if this superstition is true.
- On a remote Cornish coast, a small group of scientists at an out of the way research laboratory delve into the mystery of what happens at the moment of death.
- 1973–19831h6.1 (17)TV EpisodeDuring a séance, a medium writes down complex equations which seem to be the final work of a recently deceased physicist revealing the secret of cold fusion, to the consternation of a rationalistic scientist.
- A play about the brilliant, shocking Victorian artist Aubrey Beardsley, who died in his twenties.
- 1973–19831h5.6 (12)TV EpisodeAn ordinary man suddenly finds that he has psychic powers.
- An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparently delusional young woman and her invalid father.
- A pair of childhood sweethearts have their peaceful life interrupted when a vulgar woman from her dreams show up in reality.
- A young man volunteers to work with a children's play group in a deprived London area.
- BBC Playhouse (1980) "Gentle Folk" set in the Edwardian Era.
- A teenager learns about life and death while staying with his aunt during the school holidays.
- An Irishwoman married to a German in pre-WW1 Liverpool prepares to meet her brother-in-law, a young man named Adolf Hitler.
- Colin Jeavons is the German composer Anton Webern who survives Naziism only to be shot by an American GI in the closing days of WW2. Daniel Gerroll plays his son Stephen who, against his father's wishes, joined the Wehrmacht and was killed in a railway accident in 1943.
- Set in a north country synagogue, a group of Jewish men have to organise a 'shiva', however, not having the required number of their faith, resort to recruiting George, a 'non-Jew', to make up the numbers. I only saw the play once, but there were a number of memorable lines, including, when Kugleman comes out of the 'gents', he says to Liftchick, "George won't pass as Jewish, he's got a foreskin as long as my nose!" Another line was, when asked his occupation, George replied that he was an electrician. "If anyone askes", said Liftchick, " tell them you're an electrical contractor!" A great play with an excellent cast.
- John Fothergill, aesthete and scholar, becomes the proprietor of the Spread Eagle, in Thame, Oxfordshire, with the intent of turning it into the most celebrated Inn in England, catering to the brightest lights in London's literati.
- A boy feels restless during a hot summer in prewar Cornwall.
- In 1920, a trio of British soldiers have to guard an unexploded mine that has washed up on a beach.
- Shorty, an academic scavenger, believes he has tracked down some letters revealing an unexpected side to Miss Jane Austen's nature.
- Period Drama. The true story of Unity Mitford who in the 1930's went to live in Germany and was friends with Adolf Hitler.
- A physicist has visions of his unborn baby - it turns out that the child will grow up to become a Hitler-like dictator responsible for World War III.
- In prison the night before his execution, republican preacher Hugh Peter prepares to be hanged, drawn and quartered for treason.
- A talented, independent artist lives by the sea with her daughter. As summer approaches, she faces two threats to her way of life: the local doctor who is in love with her and her unhappy sister who comes to stay.
- Our gamble is over, Dalhousie. You'll walk at dawn tomorrow as agreed, but in case you've no mind to return, there's one fact might persuade you. On what you do hangs not only your life but hers .
- Nobody goes to Amsterdam to wander about. It's either the Rijksmuseum or the red-light district. On the boat going home Clive and Stewart admit to not having spent long in the museums - so what did they get up to in Amsterdam?
- Cousin, W. Clifford Mill, ran a dirty postcard business; which brings Paul to the country in search of a profitable afternoon. Hesther knows the value of most things and, when evening falls, she turns his visit to her own advantage.
- Lawrence Hastings , retired prep school headmaster, has few pleasures in life. One is flying a kite, until this too is spoilt by the intrusions of an irritating small boy.
- A television play about a comprehensive school is praised for its authenticity, but the lead schoolboy actor does not agree with this assessment.
- A married transvestite comes to terms with their true gender identity.
- Two black South Africans discover what it means to lose their passbooks, which they must carry to prove their identity during the apartheid era.
- A play about the (celibate) relationship between the unknown writer George Bernard Shaw and a famous, but drug-addicted, actress.
- Joe, the chauffeur to an unnamed South American embassy, enjoys the small perks of privilege his job provides him. When a coup in the country results in the ambassador's recall, his halcyon life is upended.
- An upper-class young man has rejected his affluent background, but, when a crisis comes, reverts to type pretty quickly.
- A darts tournament is put in peril when the players' wives stage a sit-in in the pub.
- At an advertising agency in Nottingham, young graphic designer Graham is recruited as a temporary replacement for the iconic Henry. The agency are desperate to be part of the Swinging Sixties but not without Henry. Can Graham replace him?
- A young music journalist dreams of meeting his idol, Bob Dylan.
- Albie Warren and girlfriend Carla are second on the bill of variety artists and musicians performing to half empty venues. Albie impersonates wartime comic Rob Wilton to people who don't know him. Will he take the chance to top the bill?
- A once-famous writer, now long out of fashion, is interviewed by a disconcerting young woman.
- A woman with an apparently happy and privileged life begins shoplifting.
- A keen ballroom dancer begins to drink heavily when she discovers she's infertile.
- At a concert, Marcia picked Terry out of the crowd. So he no longer feels alone. Until he learns about her secret life and dare not tell his friends.
- Two women meet for lunch every two weeks to swap news. But this week is different.
- A school lecturer,(BRIAN COX) is possessed by the spirit of Othello during the teaching of Classics.
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