By Roger Mulner. Richard Briers plays a commander on the merchant navy Russian convoy of WWII who purposely disobeys an order to...
By Jim Allen. More social(ist) comment from Allen, this time centering on a breakaway local council in the North-East headed by a...
By Vaclav Havel. Autobiographical account of the Czech playwright’s hounding by the authorities, with Nigel Hawthorne as the man himself.
By Stewart Parker. Simple but effective study of two girls on a winter’s day in Belfast, coping with separate yet similar tragedies....
By Rosemary Davies. Nurse Barbara Flynn is mercilessly interrogated by the authorities for helping a wounded terrorist.
By Rose Tremain. Exiled white South African writer Jack Shephard clashes with his Jamaican landlady in London. Michael Kitchen plays his gay...
By Graham Williams. A dramatisation of a hot topic of the time – the flooding of the Thames. Done in almost exactly...
July 1945, shortly after the election, and aristocratic Kentish brewing dynasty the Carlions are gathering for a christening...
By David Leland. Prisoners of war apparently being brutally tortured by terrorists in Northern Ireland are eventually revealed to be soldiers from...
By John Bill. Bernard Hill plays a scouse talent scout who discovers unemployed alternative comedian Max Hafler in a working men’s club...
By Nigel Williams. Pregnant career woman Susan Littler seeks advice from her neighbour Pauline Quirke.
By Alan Clews. The wives of absentee North Sea oil rig workers start playing away.
By Andrew Davies. An eponymous parent’s fund-raising social gathering after hours at a primary school brings out a few home truths for...
By Robert Marshall. William ‘Porkins’ Hootkins is an American Academic obsessed with Monet. John ‘Boycie’ Challis also stars.
By Tony Parker. Gruelling tale of a group therapy session for six ostensibly hopeless men variously sentenced to life imprisonment, and the...
By HO Nazareth and Horace Ove. Patricia Garwood derides Bollywood romantic films as sentimental fluff until her life, including her 17 year...
By Carol Bunyan. Cheeky office post boy Nicholas Ball invites co-worker Meg Davies round to his place during the lunch hour, but...
By Tony Perrin. Story of the 1961 ballot rigging by the Electrician’s union to get a communist candidate elected General President. Perrin...
Stewart Parker’s raucous, wry satire of the macho, infantile depths a gang of men can drag themselves down to, the fictional old...
By Charles Levinson and David Leland. Dramatisation of a real-life business deal between Britain and the USSR in which the UK exchanged...
By Derek Lister. Trade union secretary Jimmy Jewel, caught up in an industrial dispute at a London hospital, has flashbacks to his...
Adaptation of the melancholc fantasy from author of Peter Pan JM Barrie, with a group of guests (including Frank Finlay and Stratford...
By Don Haworth. A pleasant hotel restaurant is disrupted by “nice, affable gobblers” the Porters, who proceed to gorge themselves on everything...
First of Alan Bleasdale’s post-Black Stuff (qv) character studies. Pete Postlethwaite runs a failing building contractor’s, and resorts to sub-gangster thuggery to...
By Les Blair. Dramatisation of the British Brothers march into the East End Jewish quarter of Bethnal Green in 1902. Michael Maynard...
In the late-’70s Liverpool of fast-rising unemployment, a gang of tar layers strike out in an old transit for a job laying...
By Bryan Forbes. Nanny Nanette Newman looks after the mute male child of a Victorian household. Written and directed by Forbes, and...
By Colin Haydn Evans. Richard O’Callaghan suddenly decides to go mad – much to the consternation of wife Elizabeth Sladen. With Simon...
Curly-haired nut goes trainspotting
By Lesley Brice. James Laurenson engineers an awkward afternoon reunion with his 12 year old son Dorian Ford.
By Gordon Flemyng. On the eve of a conference of African leaders in Brussels, documentary maker Nick ‘Space 1999’ Tate uncovers an...
By Peter Ransley. A woman’s fight for compensation after a botched operation. With David ‘Science Workshop’ Hargreaves.
Highly experimental two-parter from The Cheviot… writer-director and head of the 7:84 theatre company John McGrath, partially adapted from his stage play...
By David Turner. Thinly-veiled autobiographical story of playwright David Purser’s alcohol-fuelled personal hell, with Dinsdale Landen.
Philip Jackson has an affair with Penelope Wilton, and undergoes a protracted nervous breakdown as wife Alison Steadman and dad Jimmy Jewel...
By Jeremy Paul. John Alderton is a writer who befriends a dissident from the USSR. With John Bird and Paul Freeman
By Ian McEwan. In late 1940, 19-year-old Cathy Raine (Harriet Walter), lives a dull, stifling lower middle class existence in Frinton with...
By Lionel Goldstein. Polish army officer Paul Rogers kills a Nazi in WWII, then finds himself on trail in present-day West Germany,...
By Gilly Fraser. Pam St Clement chews the furniture as only she can, as the weary matriarch of a large working class...
By Robert Holles. Career army man Bill Patterson faces discharge in this examination of the harsh treatment of British NCOs. With Timothy...
By Carol Bunyan. Female factory workers (including Patsy Rowlands and June Brown) celebrate one of their number’s wedding in a lunch break,...
By Derek Mahon and Jennifer Johnston. Harsh and unsentimental study of the Troubles through the eyes of an eleven year old boy...
By Geoffrey Case. The romance of running a private bus company in 1920s Yorkshire is compared to the romance of the fictional...
By William McIlvanney and Bill Craig. When a salesman terminates his long-term affair, the woman in question commits suicide. Turning to drink,...
By David Hopkins. Zena Walker stars as Dr Barbara Moore in a dramatised account of her famed Land’s End to John O’Groats...
By Chris Kewbank. Judge Patrick Troughton presides over a complex rape case.
By Michael Hastings. Elderly caretaker Arthur Lovegrove defends his house from ‘invasion’ by black and underprivileged council tenants. Featuring Liz Smith and...
Raucous goings-on and underhand gamesmanship aplenty in Brian Glover’s tale of a victory-hungry English team at the Europen Black Pudding Festival in...
In 1971, eager, slightly gauche twentysomething journo William (Bill Nighy) leaves Nottingham for a tenure on a Fleet Street tabloid. After a...
By Paul Joyce. Stephen Moore and Morag Hood’s idyllic county picnic triggers off paranoid delusions in Moore of being bugged, followed and...
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