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The police are after Jack Barrett. He has stolen several thousand pounds to pay off a blackmailer and is now on the run. He tries desperately to get in touch with Melville Farr, a prosperous young barrister with a beautiful wife but, cornered and arrested

Little Toomai longs to be a great hunter like his father, who he accompanies on a government expedition to hunt for wild elephants. The other hunters teasingly tell him that he must first see the legendary Elephant's Dance. Then tragedy strikes - Toomai's

A television institution that lasted for over a decade, Crown Court was a much-loved courtroom drama which, although the cases were fictional, used 'real' jurors chosen from member of the public. Multiple endings were prepared for each story, dependent on

An eternal dreamer, Billy Fisher is a likeable North Country lad with a habit of becoming lost in his own wild imagination. His flights of fancy do him no favours at the funeral parlour where he works and earn him continuous scorn from his boss, Mr.Shadra

Regularly turned down for the promotion on the grounds that his college lacks cash and he lacks drive, teacher Henry Wilt spends his evenings walking his dog and fantasising about murdering his domineering wife, Eva. Whilst incredibly drunk at a friend's

De Zingende Bellenboom is een surrealistisch sprookje met 's werelds eerste communistische prinses, een bizarre vis en de meest sinistere dwerg uit de geschiedenis van het dwergengeslacht. The Singing Ringing Tree, een legendarische Europese klassieker, h

The 21 shows that feature in this Christmas cracker of a package are:The Dustbinmen Christmas SpecialPlease Sir!On The BusesAll This and Christmas, TooNearest And DearestBilly LiarTwo's CompanyStanley Baxter's Christmas BoxThe Rag TradeBless me FatherThe

A classic tale of cowardice and bravery, Alexander Korda's Oscar-nominated adaptation of A.E.W. Mason's iconic adventure novel was a hit with both critics and viewers. With sweeping battle scenes and a tightly constructed script by Oscar-nominated R.C. Sh

Episodes Include:Moving In - Shelley and Fran go looking for a flat of their own. But their new landlady could pose problems.The Nelson Touch - With Shelley having been 74 weeks on the dole, the 'granite faces' at the labour exchange bring out 'the big gu

An eternal dreamer, Billy Fisher is a likeable North Country lad with a habit of becoming lost in his own wild imagination. His flights of fancy do him no favours at the funeral parlour where he works and earn him continuous scorn from his boss, Mr. Shadr

Burt Lancaster (Local Hero) stars in Moses the Lawgiver, the first-ever large-scale Biblical series to be made especially for television. Filmed largely on or near the actual terrain where, some 33 centuries ago, the Children of Israel were led by Moses o

Op een hete avond in 1952 ontmoeten een professor (Michael Emil), een actrice (Theresa Russell), een senator (Tony Curtis) en een voetballer (Gary Busey) elkaar in een hotel in New York. De personages worden in de film niet bij hun echte naam genoemd, maa

In London's East End the high, blank walls of warehouses tower on either side, giving the street an air of menace. But from one warehouse comes the cool sounds of jazz, the clink of glasses and the buzz of intelligent conversation. It's a party and the oc

Trio is een zeldzaam drama uit de pen van de gevierde romanschrijver W. Somerset Maugham. Het combineert drie eigenzinnige verhalen tot een meeslepende productie van Gainsborough Films, die bij de eerste bioscooprelease werd genomineerd voor een Oscar.De

Based on Jean Anouilh's successful West End play, Waltz of the Toreadors is a rumbustious comedy with strong romatic theme concerning the life and loves of an ageing General. Peter Sellers gives a skilfully-drawn performance as the woudl-be libertine Gene

On an island in the Far East, Dr Alec Windom (Peter Finch) cares for the population. He feels a great responsibility in general for the locals, who are exploited by rich plantation owners. Tensions are rising as his estranged wife (Mary Ure) arrives for a

Ruth clings to a boat in a stormy sea while her father (Michael Craig) swims out in a desperate attempt to save her. He is too late and she is flung from the boat onto the nearby rocks, bleeding and unconscious. Arriving at the hospital, he and his wife a

The man trapped by his brother, King Louis XIV of France, in a brutal iron mask is Philippe (Richard Chamberlain - The Count of Monte Cristo). He is the assumed dead twin to the King who, though the rightful heir to the throne, was spirited into obscurity

In the Council Chambers of the South Riding new forces are at work. For Robert Carne hope and tradition die hard. Meanwhile, Sarah Burton returns to her native county for a fateful interview, full of ambition and high ideals. The winds of change are blowi

Arguably one of the most memorable legal dramas in the history of British television, Crown Court was originally broadcast on ITV and was water cooler TV. The show used fictional cases but the jurors were actually members of the public. Different endings

Widely regarded as one of the hit comedy shows the seventies alongside Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Goodies made household names of its cast. Episodes in this set are:Snow White 2:When the audience gets bored with The Goodies pantomime production...R

Bradley Hardacre has risen from poverty to become the wealthy owner of mine, mill and munitions works in the Lancashire town of Utterly. The Fairchild family live in a poor home, so what is their connection to Bradley and why does he wants to destroy the

Meet James Shelley. A highly educated student and bone-idle skiver, he spends his days pondering the philosophical implications of life whilst railing against the bureaucratic machinery which has the gall to insist that he actually work for a living. Afte

Shelly falls victim to Thatcher's Britain once more and ends up back on the dole. Normally he like nothing better than a good skive, but with a baby on the way he tries his best to become gainfully employed once more. After a string of failures, Fran is c

A demonstration for an important event involves the raising of a balloon barrage. However, one balloon does not move, and when it is discovered that it belongs to 'The Crazy Gang', they are instructed to release it at once. This they do, but a sudden gust

In the second half of the 19th Century, the crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec finds friendship amongst the dancers of the Moulin Rouge, the hottest night haunt in Paris. There he meets Marie, a young girl in desperate need of help, and eagerly becomes her

Nominated for the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival in 1952, Encore consists of three engaging portrayals of everyday life that rise above the merely ordinary through the evergreen writing talents of W. Somerset Maugham, the master of the short story

Een ex-CIA agent probeert de architect van de grootste misdaden in de geschiedenis, Madame Sin, te stoppen met het uitvoeren van haar volgende kwaadaardige plan...Madame Sin is een uitstekend voorbeeld van het camp spionagegenre dat zo goed uit de verf kw

Met in de hoofdrol de BAFTA-winnende comédienne Caroline Aherne (The Royle Family), staat in deze zeer succesvolle en meervoudig bekroonde show een groot aantal beroemdheden in de rij om geïnterviewd te worden door Aherne (met uitgebreide make-up) als de

BAFTA-nominated actress Maureen Lipman stars as Jane Lucas, author of a problem page in a glossy magazine and radio Agony Aunt. A huge hit for ITV in the late 70's and early 80's , Agony lasted for three series, with a sequel made fifteen years later, Bas

Nick Mullen and Vernon Bayliss are reporters who receive an anonymous tip-off that a political scandal is about to break. MP Dennis Markham, a friend of Vernon's, is photographed leaving a call girl's flat and two hours later an East German military attac

In 1964 wijdde de populaire ITV-serie Play Of The Week vier afleveringen aan het werk van een van de meest gerespecteerde hedendaagse toneelschrijvers van Groot-Brittannië, Noel Coward. Deze collectie bundelt de toneelstukken 'Present Laughter', 'Blithe

A television institution that lasted for over a decade, Crown Court was a much-loved courtroom drama which, although the cases were fictional, used 'real' jurors chosen from members of the public. Multiple endings were prepared for each story, dependent o

De voor een BAFTA genomineerde komedie After Henry volgt het comfortabele leven van drie vrouwen uit de middenklasse - behalve dat voor één van hen het leven niet zo comfortabel is... Sarah is goed verzorgd achtergelaten door haar overleden echtgenoot, ma

From the star of Nearest and Dearest comes Not On Your Nellie - one of the major comedy successes of the 1970s. When blunt Northern 'lass' Nellie Pickersgill (Hylda Baker) comes to London to look after her ailing father she isn't expecting to have to look

Husband and wife team and Royal Shakespeare Company players Dame Judi Dench and Michael Williams star in this BAFTA award-winning ITV series, originally broadcast between November 1981 and February 1984. She plays Laura, who is 37 and unmarried. He plays