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- DirectorPatrick GarlandStarsClaire BloomAnthony HopkinsRalph RichardsonYears ago, Nora Helmer (Claire Bloom) committed a forgery in order to save the life of her authoritarian husband Torvald (Sir Anthony Hopkins). Now she is being blackmailed and lives in fear of her husband finding out, and of the shame such a revelation would bring to his career. But when the truth comes out, Nora is shocked to learn where she really stands in her husband's esteem.
- StarsDeborah MakepeaceLesley DunlopRuth DunningA young girl is relegated to servitude at a boarding school when her father goes missing and is presumed dead.
- StarsFrancesca AnnisBernard HeptonMary ChesterA young woman and her lover are charged with the murder of her husband.
- DirectorRalph ThomasStarsHywel BennettNanette NewmanRussell LewisSatirical sex comedy about a young mother of six who doesn't want any more children so she refuses her husband sex. When he gets desperate, she suggests contraception but his Catholic faith and priest friend complicate things.
- StarsGeraldine McEwanGayle HunnicuttGeorge ColeAnthology series of plays about people's experiences when they are away from home for various reasons.
- DirectorPeter CraneStarsIan HendryEdward JuddFrank WindsorA government assassin is sent to kill a government official who might be leaking its secrets.
- DirectorJames Cellan JonesStarsGlenda JacksonPeter FinchMichael JaystonYoung George Matcham visits his uncle Lord Nelson and the vulgar Lady Hamilton. With the clear eyes of youth, he measures Nelson's stature and notes his feet of clay. And yet, Nelson is a hero, a great man. How can this be resolved? Meanwhile, the combined French and Spanish fleet puts out to sea.
- StarsCarmel McSharryAnnie LeakeTony CaunterBeryl Humphries, a milkman's wife, works as a charlady and is content with her life--until her 40th birthday looms inescapably large and forces her to wonder if there is more to life than just being a mother of three and running the family home.
- StarsRobert HardyRichard BriersGeorge BakerSix plays adapted from English short stories written in the nineteen-twenties and thirties.
- StarsGeorge ToveyWarren MitchellClifford RoseAnthology series of plays based on the theme of "things turning black and the air turning blue."
- StarsJohn BarrettWill KnightleyDavid DakerAnthology series of half hour plays produced in BBC's Television Centre's studios.
- DirectorNiki De Saint PhallePeter WhiteheadStarsNiki De Saint PhalleRainer von DietzMia MartinA fantasy about a woman's attempts to exorcise the influence of her sexually domineering father.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsChristopher LeeJoan CollinsHerbert LomAfter the original owner dies in a mental asylum, a man moves into an abandoned mansion with a sordid history. Meanwhile, a few locals conspire to steal a large amount of money, said to be hidden somewhere on the premises.
- StarsFelicity KendalDaniel MasseyGuy SlaterTrilogy of plays based on 'The Dolly Dialogues' by Anthony Hope.
- DirectorBob KellettStarsLeslie PhillipsBrian RixJoan SimsBased on the hit play. A British Government Minister puts forward a bill to battle filth in the UK but that doesn't stop him having an affair with both his secretary, Miss Parkyn and Wendy, the wife of a high-up reporter. Opponents to the bill - mainly some hippy girls, lead by Johnny, kidnap the Minister's best friend and co-founder of the bill, Barry Ovis just as he was getting married to his fiancee, Joan. Barry escapes, just before the police raid the hippies hiding place - to claim that Ovis was in a orgy and get the bill defeated - and dashes back to his and Joan's flat followed by Inspector Ruff, who is investigating the kidnap and Damina, one of the hippies. Meanwhile, the Minister is also trying to use the flat to carry on his affairs with both Wendy and Miss Parkyn. The Minister, Barry & Joan tries to keep the truth from Ruft, Wilfred Potts, an old and honest MP, Birdie, the Minister's wife and stop the hippies, and this causes no end of trouble.
- DirectorStephen DwoskinStarsJenny RunacrePat FordCatherine KesslerThe film follows a series of striptease acts performed for an imaginary audience in a seedy club. This mesmerising and challenging film offers no hand to hold as we, the viewers, journey into its landscape of sexuality and personal confrontation.
- StarsEsrom JayasingheUwe FriedrichsenIsobel BlackThe story of 12 year old, Toumai, his younger brother Ranjit, and their great friend the elephant Kala Nag.
- DirectorPeter DuffellStarsPeter FinchMichael YorkHildegard NeilA story about an English businessman in 1930s Germany who encounters a financier who has forged his career on greed, corruption, and opportunism, rather than the traditional British principles of decency and fair play.
- DirectorArnold L. MillerStarsHilary FarrKim AlexanderAmber KammerA pair of frustrated housewives who are bored and neglected by their husbands decide to go to a 'sex clinic' in the country.
- DirectorAntonio CalendaStarsOliver ReedJohn McEneryCarole AndréBased on Lermontov's novel Vadim, this costume drama, set in Russia during the 1700s, chronicles the battle between a vengeful, anarchic peasant and the tyrannical landowner who killed his mother and father.
- DirectorStephen WeeksStarsMurray HeadCiaran MaddenNigel GreenThe medieval legend of a supernatural knight who challenges the king's men to kill him.
- DirectorPeter MedakSpike MilliganPeter SellersStarsPeter SellersAnthony FranciosaSpike MilliganIn the 17th century, a pirate captain is murdered by his cook after he buries his treasure and marks it on a map but the poor-memory cook must rely on the captain's ghost to re-track the loot, since the map was drawn in disappearing ink.
- StarsOrson WellesChristopher LeeDean Stockwell"Orson Welles' Great Mysteries" was a United Kingdom hosted anthology mystery and supernatural series, hosted by Orson Welles.
- StarsJohn StrideAnthony BateAngela ThorneThe growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.
- StarsAlison FiskeChristopher BallantyneDiana HutchinsonAhead of its time drama deals with the decision cheated wife Helen Tulley makes to move on even when remorseful husband Frank Tulley attempts to make things right. Each episide deals with the fallout as she attempts to rebuild her life despite opposition from friends and family.
- DirectorEnnio De ConciniStarsAlec GuinnessSimon WardAdolfo CeliA dramatization based on eyewitness accounts of Hitler's final days in an underground bunker, his military henchmen, and his stormy relationship with Eva Braun.
- DirectorRobert BoltStarsSarah MilesJon FinchRichard ChamberlainA noblewoman doomed to a loveless marriage falls into a scandalous affair with the dashing Lord Byron.
- StarsColin WilsonLinda BlandfordGordon SnellAnthology series of supernatural tales.
- StarsTina HeathBarbara MitchellGeoffrey MatthewsThe adventures of a girl and an imaginary witch unsure if she is real or not.
- CreatorCharles DennisStarsHeather ChasenStephanie BeachamFrankie JordanAfternoon show about the dramas that enfold around the human resources department of a large organization.
- DirectorJohn LindStarsLalla WardMichael DeaconRobert AldousIn the turmoil of the Russian Civil War of 1917-1921 a peasant girl Matushka wanders, as if mesmerized, into an abandoned country palace where her fate awaits her.
- DirectorGordon HesslerStarsGeorge HamiltonLuciana PaluzziCameron MitchellIn Greece, a stewardess is murdered by a masked maniac. Suspicion falls on a drunken American playboy (George Hamilton) and a murderous gangster (Cameron Mitchell).
- StarsBrian RixWarren MitchellJoan SimsBarry Ovis (Brian Rix) is Parliamentary Private Secretary to Minister for European Affairs Sir William Mainwaring-Brown (Warren Mitchell). Sir William has a very active libido and gets up to non=portfolio activities. Ovis has to cover for him (usually very badly) and misunderstanding pile on top of misunderstanding.
- DirectorRonnie BaxterStarsJohn BluthalJoe LynchYootha JoyceThe trials and tribulations of a tailor-shop partnership owned by a Jewish man and an Irish Catholic man.
- DirectorBrian G. HuttonStarsElizabeth TaylorLaurence HarveyBillie WhitelawElizabeth Taylor plays a woman who is a witness to murder...but whose?
- StarsRay BrooksDennis WatermanTony Melody'Oranges & Lemons' is the name of a well-known rhyme about the city of London. This is a handful of plays with England's capital the common theme.
- StarsBarrie RutterKen PlattSylvia BrayshayThe daily escapades of Bob and Ben Buslingthorpe of Halifax, West Yorkshire.
- DirectorGerry O'HaraStarsPhilip BlissAndrew BowenSimon ThompsonMade by the Children's Film Foundation, this is the story of a group of young musicians who are able to bust a gang of robbers.
- DirectorDon SharpStarsGeorge SandersBeryl ReidNicky HensonAn amiable, psychopathic leader of a violent teen motorbike gang is spurred by his mother, a Satan-worshiping spiritual medium, into committing suicide and returning to life as an "undead".
- StarsMaria AitkenMaurice RoëvesJohn CairneyTwo undercover army operatives infiltrate an activist group working towards an independent Scotland by illegal means.
- StarsKen KitsonJean HeywoodIvor RobertsThis was a BBC drama anthology series of short plays, written largely by first-time writers, which were transmitted between 1973 and 1978.
- StarsAnouska HempelFaith BrookScott AntonyTrilogy of plays set in London and Paris over a three-year period, exploring some of the far-reaching effects that relationships can have.
- DirectorFreddie FrancisStarsJack HawkinsDonald PleasenceGeorgia BrownA psychiatrist tells stories of four special cases to a colleague.
- DirectorJohn GoldschmidtUnemployed teenagers dramatise their future.
- StarsAnthony ValentineMichael AldridgeJanet KeyContemporary thriller series set in a parallel Britain where the country is ruled by a fascist dictatorship.
- StarsRonald PickupAnton DarbyVirginia McKenna4-part miniseries dramatising the true-life adventures of Charles "Mad Jack" Howard, 20th Earl of Suffolk, whose daring wartime exploits included rescuing dozens of refugee European nuclear scientists, a large supply of heavy water and millions of pounds in diamonds just before the Germans captured Paris, and then became a self-taught bomb disposal expert who successfully defused dozens of large German bombs during the London Blitz.
- DirectorHarry BoothStarsKim BurfieldDebbie RussJohn BluthalTime-travel tale about a boy who gets transported to the Middle Ages who battles a dragon.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsLynn RedgraveColin BlakelyEleanor BronThe British National Health System is skewered in this comedy set in a rundown London hospital. The hospital is filled with wacky staff members and patients, and the film strives to get all it can from their humorous escapades. The movie also includes a satire-within-a-satire, with "Nurse Norton's Affair" providing a send-up of TV hospital soap operas.
- DirectorAnthony SimmonsStarsPeter SellersDonna MullaneJohn ChaffeyA retired entertainer makes his living as a street musician on the streets of London. Two young children befriend the old musician, brightening his otherwise colorless life.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsChristopher LeePeter CushingMichael ColesIn 1974, Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing investigates a satanic cult on behalf of Scotland Yard, only to discover a plot by Count Dracula to commit global genocide.
- StarsKristine HowarthGodfrey JamesLindy HowardA young British girl, whose family have emigrated to Morocco, finds an ornamental horse that may provide the key to a lost treasure.
- StarsMargaret LeightonCharles GrayLalla WardAn aristocratic family falls on hard times and lives in a council house.
- DirectorJohn BlackMatt McCarthyStarsPaul GyngellDenise GyngellKaren LucasWhen the world's only yeti in captivity is kidnapped from London Zoo, a group of children succeed in rescuing it.
- StarsJudy ParfittHermione BaddeleyCaroline BlakistonSix new plays showcasing female writers, three set in the 1930s and three in the 1970s.
- DirectorPete WalkerStarsAnouska HempelRay BrooksSusan SheersLight-hearted and occasionally unclothed adaptation of a British comic strip in the over-the-top, on-beyond-Bond spy fantasy vein.
- StarsMark ChapmanJoanna LumleyHenry McGeeUps and downs of a group of factory workers at Cocker's Components Ltd in the Midlands, most of whom seem hell bent on strike action.
- DirectorKevin BillingtonStarsDavid HemmingsGayle HunnicuttLynn FarleighA woman released from a mental hospital questions her sanity after she hears strange voices in the country manor she has moved into with her husband.
- StarsTom FlemingDavid RintoulPaul YoungThe old Lord Adam Weir of the Hermiston estate on the Scots borders is a gruff, boozy, hanging judge - the terror of Edinburgh law courts. His wife is a tremulous and pious Christian. Weir spends his time putting his wife down, even in the company of her only son, Archie. His mother dead of depression and stress, Archie grow to hate his father, but then goes into law studies, though his more modern and tolerant values clash with those of his father. Attending the hanging of yet another of his father's victims, Archie can no longer stand it and denounces his father publicly. As punishment he is rusticated to manage the family estate, Hermiston. There he meets Christina Elliott and falls in love. Frank Innes, a dissolute friend of his from law school visits, then seduces and rapes Christina. Archie kills him. Arrested, he comes up before his father, who pronounces the death sentence. But just before the day of the hanging, Christina's brothers break him out of prison and put him and Christina on a boat bound for America.
- StarsAlan Whicker
- StarsAlan Whicker