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.
A TV adaptation of Roald Dahl's classic book.
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 boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.
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.
A striptease artist is prosecuted for indecency. Meanwhile, his aunt wants him to visit her, before she dies.
BBC version of Brecht's epic account of Galileo's persecution for his 'heretical' idea that the earth moved around the sun.
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
"There's always a sale to be made if you're willing to work hard enough." Richard is a top salesman and is content. His wife, however, has had enough.
A film tycoon hires the wrong writer. Instead of getting the writer of Lawrence of Arabia, he guess someone whose only credits are two episodes of Coronation Street.
A baby is snatched from outside a launderette. The manageress and customers try to work out who was responsible.
BBC TV movie about the life of the late Francesco Forgione, widely known as Padre Pio.
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.
The future. The TAU-mode shuttle carries passengers to Australia through the earth's crust. When a routine TAU-shuttle becomes entombed in solid rock miles under the earth, the only means of rescue is the experimental LAMBDA-mode shuttle; which its creator is unsure about.
A disillusioned antiques dealer takes tap dancing lessons.
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.
A team of soldiers breaks into an enemy missile base. Such is the secrecy of their mission, they have been hypnotically programmed with their orders and will only remember each stage of the operation when they hear a pre-arranged signal. That's the plan, at least
A deadly virus threatens the population, but a vaccine has been developed. However, it has a devastating side-effect. All is not well in the family of the government's chief scientific adviser. But the mood at the vaccine manufacturer is more upbeat, at the prospect of a lucrative government contract.
British soldiers are captured and interrogated in post-World War 2 Palestine.
BBC TV documentary