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Set in a timeless mythical forest inhabited by fairies, goblins, unicorns and mortals, this fantastic story follows a mystical forest dweller, chosen by fate, to undertake a heroic quest. He must save the beautiful Princess Lili and defeat the demonic Lord of Darkness, or the world will be plunged into a never-ending ice age.
Classic sitcom starring Eric Sykes and Hattie Jacques as brother and sister twins who have to tackle the trials and tribulations of suburban life.
Centred on the cases of P. D. James' gentleman detective Adam Dalgliesh. In addition to his career as a policeman, Dalgliesh is also a published poet and an intensely private man.
Clayhanger is a British television drama based on Arnold Bennett's novel series of the same name, published between 1910 and 1918, dramatised by Douglas Livingstone for ITV. Produced by Associated Television, the 26-episode programme is a coming-of-age story set in 19th century England. Edwin Clayhanger aspires to be an architect but is expected to join his father's printing business. His personal growth, eventual acceptance of the family business, and his romantic entanglement with Hilda Lessways are explored. Clayhanger was ITV's longest-ever drama at the time. While some found the pacing slow, it was nonetheless praised for its faithful adaptation, excellent acting, and atmospheric sets.
The Old Curiosity Shop is a 1979 BBC miniseries based on the novel by Charles Dickens. It was directed by Julian Amyes, and adapted by William Trevor. A kindly shop owner whose overwhelming gambling debts allow a greedy landlord to seize his shop of dusty treasures. Evicted and with no way to pay his debts, he and his granddaughter flee.
Medical student Melissa Knowles and her reluctant colleague Eric are making routine house calls to administer flu vaccines. When they step into Fred Hunt’s decaying, junk-crammed home, something immediately feels wrong. Fred seems like a harmless old recluse, but when Eric vanishes, Melissa’s search pulls her deeper into the house’s chaotic mess, revealing a labyrinth of tunnels carved through the piles of junk, twisting into suffocating darkness. And beneath it all, below the creaking floorboards, something stirs. Watching. Waiting.
Nancy Astor was the American-born socialite and politician who became the first woman to take her seat in the House of Commons. This miniseries produced for BBC2 follows her journey from her early life in Virginia to her political career in Britain, including her marriage to Waldorf Astor and her struggles and triumphs as a Member of Parliament.
In the near future, a now-elderly Bernard Quatermass investigates the disappearance of his granddaughter and a mysterious cult.
As her marriage to decorated war hero Oliver draws near, well-heeled Diana moves into an apartment within an otherwise unoccupied, sprawling London house where she starts to experience strange and terrifying nightmares. But are these troubling night terrors merely the symptom of an unsettled mind, or the sign of something far more sinister at work? Hounded by a pair of sleazy journalists, Diana soon crosses paths with American tourist Jenny, who appears to have a strange connection to the foreboding house and its dark past.
A precursor to the later Dramarama series, Spooky explores the supernatural, and ventures into the dark corners of the imagination.
When Dr. Edwin Lorrimer, a forensic scientist working at a private laboratory is found killed, Detective Superintendent Adam Dalgliesh is sent to investigate. Dalgliesh had been in the area a few months previously investigating the murder of a young woman found in an abandoned car. There are several suspects: Lorrimer's subordinate, Clifford Bradley, who despises him; the new head of the laboratory, Maxim Howarth, who is jealous of his sister's relationship with him; a colleague, Paul Middlemass, who had a fight with Lorrimer. There is also a gruff and likely unethical policeman who was on the grounds of the laboratory at the time of the killing and a local pathologist who is raising his two young children after his wife leaves him for another man. When one of the suspects is also murdered, Dalgliesh learns a key piece of information.
After a ferocious crime, Fiona, a charismatic woman, becomes the prime suspect. Detective Myers is, for some reason, the only one she wants to speak with. Their unusual connection leads them to a dark forest known for clandestine rituals.
Nobody's House is a 1976 British children's fantasy-drama programme produced by Tyne Tees Television for ITV. The seven-episode series follows a mischievous ghost named Nobody, a teenage Victorian orphan who haunts a house, visible only to the two children of the newly arrived Sinclair family.
Gulliver washes ashore on Lilliput and attempts to prevent war between that tiny kingdom and its equally minuscule rival Blefuscu.
The story of two lovers, a woman and a Young Republican, who meet in hotel rooms over the 1990s to explore their sexual prowess. Only when they venture out of 'the box' does reality start to tear at the fabric of their private, existential affair. Nothing stays the same. They marry. Guess what happens next?
In Germany at the height of World War II, a ragtag group of American soldiers discover Doctor Mengele's diabolical plan to create an unstoppable army of Nazi werewolves.
Influenced by the social and geopolitical situation of the early nineteen-seventies and the hippie youth movement of the late nineteen-sixties, Quatermass is set in a near future in which large numbers of young people are joining a cult, the “Planet People”, and gathering at ancient sites, believing they will be transported to a better life on another planet.
An eight part anthology centered on unethical behavior in a hyper-contemporary society.
As a little girl is daydreaming out the window, her wicked father comes home. It's Christmas Eve. She tells her father that she was thinking about her Grandmother and of how nice Christmas was when she was alive. The father, angry and bitter, tells the girl that she must be out early to sell the matches or she can think about a beating. He tells her she needs to keep her mind on selling the matches and that she cannot come home until every one of them is sold. Then he laments about how, since her momma died, she is more than pain and trouble and is always in the way.
The nightmare experience of a young American housewife, confronted by a dark secret from her childhood.
