By Common Consent 1975
In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Youth.
In a foreign port two boys come to a fisherman saying they are refugees from a country where a military take-over has organised a gigantic League of Youth.
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus.
BBC TV movie about the life of the late Francesco Forgione, widely known as Padre Pio.
A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
Britain in the mid-1990s: a divided, violent nation where civil disorder and urban terrorism are on the increase. Scotland Yard detective Commander Jack Bentham is seconded to Wales to look into a series of shootings by police officers, and uncovers a complex web of deceit and corruption
On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. It then begins the long return journey to Earth.
Dame Maggie Smith stars in the 1967 screen version of Franco Zeffirelli's exuberant National Theatre production of Shakespeare's romantic comedy, in which young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other.
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov, is intertwined with the "Great Patriotic War" of 1812 against the invading Napoleon's Armies. People of Russia from all classes of society stand up united against the enemy. Both sides suffer tremendous losses during the war, and Russian society is left irrevocably changed.
The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But if the Machine stops, what then?
Drama documentary which takes the form of an up-dated version of Pygmalion. With a special music score by jazz group Working Week, with real "society" characters and locations from 1984.
A court had to decide what to do about Ellen, an elderly lady living on her own in a deteriorating rented property.
A British businessman whose family company has been taken over by a multinational corporation clashes with his new American manager while they both vacation with their families at an Italian villa at their employer's expense. The manager's son fantasizes a murderous outcome.
Members of a shadowy group demonstrate techniques of enhanced Interrogation of terrorist suspects. However, the demonstration causes consternation that such techniques were approved.
What if it became possible for the personality to pass at the moment of death into the mind of someone still alive? Then the big new problem would be, into whom?
After 30 years apart, a man is reunited with his mother, who resides on a psychiatric ward.
A married couple go to stay at a remote cottage. Once there, they discover there is no running water for tea. Then, a stranger appears, accompanied by his stick insect.
Angie, Tony and their son Farnley go to stay with Uncle Edward. The routine of Edward and his companion servant, Blades, becomes unsettled when Edward and Angie develop a close bond.
A student commits murder. He inherits his victim's estate. For a while, he is content, but finally his conscience starts to trouble him.
A stop-motion adaptation of the 1981 novel by geologist Dougal Dixon of the same name, which explores the speculative paths of evolution of modern animals into the far future.
BBC TV documentary