Willis Hall’s Golden Gordon-ish tale of defiant football manager Colin Blakely (who ‘once played for England’) in terminal decline. Also with Peter...
Gwen Taylor goes to Hull.
John Collin fights the council when they plan to demolish his home to make way for a bypass in Michael O’Neill and...
Bill Maynard has it away
Glover and pals go boating.
One in the oven for Patricia Brake.
Peter McD lifts off!
Joss Ackland gost bust in style.
William Trevor serves up another fine comedy of manners in this battle of wills between ageing general Alastair Sim and cantankerous charlady...
The discrepancy between media fantasy and mundane reality is made plain to Bryan Marshall on his birthday. By John Elliot.
Odd tale by David Halliwell of a hippyish youth breaking into a middle-aged couple’s house and their subsequent relationship with him, niftily...
Robinson Crusoe reversed.
By Dominic Behan. Working class protestant life in Ulster circa 1920, during the formation of Home Rule. With Sam Kydd and Harry...
Prison is grim.
Grizzled reporters grizzle.
Brian Glover and pals go fishing, throw up, leg it.
Tessa Wyatt goes moo.
Thora Goes Tunisian.
'Meh' of a salesman.
Black Power reggae in the Play School studio.
Er, there's this house, right...
Gareth Thomas is a good, if Cornish, cop.
Record player-based argument spoils picnic.
Four senile old duffers drive each other mad.
Retired mine-worker Philip Jackson tends to his pigeons. With Geoffrey Hughes, Anna Carteret and Martin Shaw. By Peter Hankin.
By Alun Owen. Two mutual enemies, one black, one white, are forced together by circumstance and confront their prejudices.
Semi-comic look by Michael O’Neill and Jeremy Seabrook at the effects of American-style corporate culture on a lower-middle-class provincial family. In the...
Irish builder takes off coat - chaos ensues.
NF Simpson, unsurprisingly, 'does' absurd.
Public school beatings cause hands-on visual tomfoolery.
Patricia Hayes is homeless in Hackney.
Le Mesurier - busted!
Roy Kinnear has a long lens for the ladies.
A very middle class threesome.
St Helens goes on strike, Ken Loach gets out the camera.
Triumvirate of crofting tales.
Edward Woodward shags around.
Fiftysomething marital dalliances.
Social services on the case.
Colonial soul-searching with Rudolph Walker.
Left-wing vicar Donald Harron rubs the local community up the wrong way
We've got, as Kenneth Tynan might say, a right one here, Alan...
First PFT outing for Kes author Barry Hines, a weird, minimalist story of young Billy, a self-sufficient coal-shoveller, who falls in with...
Taut tragicomic tale by Julia Jones, of progress and its opposition across the generations in a small Northern town...
Upper-crust Katherine Blake and Richard Morant are pressured by the behaviour of their fast-growing adopted son (Michael Kitchen) when he joins a...
W. Stephen Gilbert’s first broadcast work was the winner of a BBC playwriting competition, but it’s a play far from the sort...
Civil servant Ian Carmichael returns home after a long period working abroad, to visit his old school’s sports day, and old school...
A social misfit gets the friendship and affection he craves by deceitfully insinuating himself into various church congregations. Directed by Alan Clarke,...
Recently-separated thirtysomething metropolitan script editor Norah (Anna Cropper) moves into a remote Vale of Evesham cottage reluctantly inherited from her ex. Various...
Thirtysomething, Bristolian, married-two-kids municipal architect Bob (Anthony Hopkins) has trouble getting wife Jean interested in a round of saucy bedtime ‘treats’. She...
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