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- StarsPeter BarkworthJoanna DunhamArthur PentelowAfter a shock discovery, David Walker picks up a young hitchhiker, Judy Clayton. After breaking down, she disappears, and soon after David is questioned when Judy is found, strangled.
- StarsGeoffrey WhiteheadDonald PickeringPatrick NewellShot in Polish-British co-production series of short stories based on themes of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - "father" of the world's most famous detective: Sherlock Holmes. Each episode is a separate entity, revealing another riddle crime that quickly and reliably solve Sherlock Holmes. Have the reputation of an excellent detective Sherlock Holmes is an apartment in the house on Baker Street. He would like to take a roommate. When winter 1881. Dr. John Watson returns from the war in Afghanistan and is looking for an apartment in London, a friend advised him to Holmes took advantage of the offer. Both men quickly became friends and since Watson accompanied Holmes in his remarkable work, admiring his ability to deduction and clear facts. Full of praise for the insight and perception Holmes is also Inspector Lestrade of Scotland Yard.
- StarsJudi DenchRichard O'CallaghanFrederick TrevesAnthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.
- StarsCharles GrayEric PorterJeremy BrettMonthly anthology series featuring televised versions of plays.
- CreatorSarah Pia AndersonStarsRalph G. MorseGawn GraingerJohn BluthalBBC2 Playhouse was a British one-hour episode anthology television series produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation.
- StarsRosemary HarrisMarina McConnellLewis FianderThe incredible life of novelist George Sand is explored, with a particular focus on her romance with famed musician Frédéric Chopin.
- StarsRobert LindsayMike GradyHilda BraidWolfie Smith is an unemployed dreamer from Tooting. He leads a small group called the Tooting Popular Front with aspirations to create a communist Britain. However, as a result of being disorganised, his chances range from slim to none.
- CreatorGeoff McQueenStarsGraham ColeJeff StewartTrudie GoodwinLong-running police drama series featuring officers and detectives from the fictional Sun Hill suburb in East London.
- StarsPeter WheelerJoseph BerryRichard ColsonA courtroom drama in which each case is usually presented in three episodes. At the end of the third episode, a jury of "ordinary people" comes to a verdict on the evidence presented.
- CreatorRex FirkinStarsAlfred LynchCyd HaymanPeter BarkworthIn 1942, British pilot Jimmy Briggs crashes his aeroplane in occupied France and immediately finds himself on the run from the Nazis.
- CreatorJames MitchellStarsEdward WoodwardRussell HunterLisa LangdonDavid Callan is the top agent/assassin for the Security Service (British counterintelligence), but he is an embittered man who performs his duties "for Queen and country" under duress. This bleak, "Spy who Came in from the Cold"-style espionage drama concentrates on the seamy underside of covert operations: assassinations, blackmail and dirty dealing.
- StarsRaymond FrancisEric LanderJohnny BriggsTales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of halfway house between "Dixon of Dock Green" and "'Z' Cars." The detectives are still 1950s-style with good elocution and authoritative manner. A range of classic cases but gritty it isn't. Each case centres on one crime and one criminal.
- DirectorHenry CassStarsDerek BondReed De RouenBryan ColemanA Police Inspector follows the trail and circumstances of the murder of a one-handed man back to a prisoner-of-war camp in Burma in 1946.
- CreatorBrian ClemensAnthony SkeneMichael ZagorStarsDonna MillsGary CollinsDerek Francis"Thriller" was an anthology series of self-contained episodes, with genres ranging from murder mystery to suspense to psychological and supernatural horror.
- CreatorRex FirkinVincent TilsleyStarsGwyneth PowellCyril LuckhamDavid BurkeIn a declining England of the 1980s, the UK has broken up and England is ruled by a fascist military force called "The Guardians."
- StarsDonald HoustonRalph BatesFiona GauntScientists and technicians of five European powers gather 250,000 miles from Earth to probe secrets of the universe.
- CreatorTerry NationStarsLucy FlemingIan McCullochDenis LillA community of survivors struggle to stay alive in the wake of a global pandemic known as the Death that wiped out 99.98% of humanity.
- CreatorMonty BermanDennis SpoonerStarsPeter WyngardeAnne SharpRonald LaceyA playboy novelist, who has had a spell of work with an intelligence agency as a sideline, leaves, but finds himself performing new missions around the world.
- StarsTom WilkinsonPeter EyreLesley NightingaleSuspicions are aroused when a British trawler goes missing... Tom Wilkinson leads the astonishing BBC Cold War drama inspired by real events. Enter a nightmarish world of political cover-ups of international consequence in the last decade of the Cold War in this six-part BBC drama. When an ordinary British fishing vessel and its 36-man crew mysteriously disappears off the coast of Norway, journalist Martin Taylor (Tom Wilkinson) is determined to find out why. His father was on board, and is now missing. His investigations soon lead him to run up against the twin barriers of Royal Navy stonewalling and an impenetrable Soviet Politburo. The notorious finale shocked audiences when it was first aired in 1983. The haunting theme 'A Cold Wind', sung by June Tabor, was so popular it was released as a single. Spyship is based on the fictional novel by Brian Haynes and Tom Keene, former reporters who researched the real life sinking of the FV Gaul in 1974 which was shrouded in mystery.
- StarsBoris KarloffPiers KeelanRaymond Adamson"Out of This World" was a hosted science fiction anthology television series with Boris Karloff as host, screening on ITV - Independent Television (UK).
- StarsJohn GabrielCharles 'Bud' TingwellErik ChittyA classic anthology science fiction series which features adaptations of stories by famous authors including Isaac Asimov, J.G. Ballard, Frederik Pohl and John Wyndham.
- StarsStefanie PowersVera MilesJulie Harris"Journey to the Unknown" was a British anthology series about everyday people finding themselves put into unusual circumstances...many of them supernatural in nature.
- StarsDavid McCallumDavid CarradineDean Stockwell"Fox Mystery Theater" was an anthology series of chilling tales with a twist.
- StarsAnthony QuayleDarren McGavinJack Thompson"The Evil Touch" was an anthology horror, science fiction and mystery series hosted by Anthony Quayle between 1973-74..
- StarsDavid BuckMark MossFreddie Jones"Mystery and Imagination" was a UK hosted horror anthology series running from 1966 until 1970 with host David Buck as "Richard Beckett". who was a romantic young Victorian adventurer always had a tale to tell.
- StarsAnna MasseyJohn CastleAnna Cropper"Dead of Night" was a non-hosted UK television anthology series of supernatural fiction, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in 1972.
- StarsRay SmithMichael CraigIan BannenAnthology series in which characters find themselves in weird and scary situations. Not evoked by the supernatural but by other people.
- StarsPeter CushingDenholm ElliottAnna Calder-MarshallThis British anthology series, which was produced by England's leading exporters of horror films, told tales of haunted houses, demons, ghosts, and other supernatural wonders.
- StarsJude NorthRoger BrierleyGeoffrey ChaterIn 1984 Kenith Trodd joined BBC team responding to Channel 4 releases, leading to transition from BBC studio plays to Screen One/Two anthology series. Trodd oversaw first group of titles in these series in 1985.
- StarsTom AdamsDuggie BrownSharon MaughanDetective Chief Inspector Nick Lewis is tasked with investigating unsolved crimes.
- StarsRoald DahlAndrew RayForbes CollinsShort dramas each with a twist of some kind; across the first four seasons most of these are from short stories by Roald Dahl.
- Palm-reading doctors, the evolutionary benefits of cheating, and toxic breasts Tales of the Unexpected is an exciting new series of documentaries that shines its light into some of the stranger corners of science.
- CreatorBrian ClemensStarsGordon JacksonMartin ShawLewis CollinsBodie and Doyle, senior agents of the British intelligence service CI5 (Criminal Intelligence 5), and their handler George Cowley fight terrorism and similar high-level crimes.
- StarsMartin LandauBarbara BainNick TateThe crew of Moonbase Alpha must struggle to survive when a massive explosion throws the Moon from Earths orbit and into deep space.
- StarsCampbell SingerThomas HeathcoteRichard CaldicotRichard O. Sullivan as a child genius in the play "Honour Bright".
- CreatorA.J. CroninStarsBill SimpsonAndrew CruickshankBarbara MullenDr. Finlay is a member of a medical practice in the Scottish town of Tannochbrae during the late 1920s.
- CreatorA.J. BaconNeil MunroJilly CooperStarsFrank ThorntonJohn Le MesurierRobert DorningAnthology series of one-off, unrelated situation comedies.
- StarsHarry H. CorbettPaul Whitsun-JonesBillie WhitelawThis show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.
- StarsSiân PhillipsIan BannenGeorge ColeA series of plays revolving around the ever-intriguing subject of sex.
- StarsOrson WellesChristopher LeeDean Stockwell"Orson Welles' Great Mysteries" was a United Kingdom hosted anthology mystery and supernatural series, hosted by Orson Welles.
- CreatorDavid NobbsStarsMichael BryantWilliam SimonsKatherine BarkerAnthology series of dramatic works.
- StarsRobert PowellOlivia HusseyLaurence OlivierBeginning before the Nativity and extending through the Crucifixion and Resurrection, this mini-series brings to life all of the sweeping drama in the life of Jesus, as told by the Gospels.
- StarsPeter CleallJohn LyonsPatricia HayesComedy series set in a small corrupt Police Station.
- StarsAnne-Louise LambertDominic GuardTim WoodwardAdaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's novel. Paul Manning visits his uncle in the country, expecting a severely religious household, and is delighted to meet his lively young cousin Phyllis.
- StarsJohn KavanaghTony DoyleMichael LiebmannAn anthology drama series.
- StarsIan HolmElizabeth McGovernRonald PickupAn anthology series of various plays and dramatic performances.
- StarsRoy MarsdenIan BannenCathryn HarrisonCenters on takeover of Peverell Press by new CEO Gerard Etienne. Etienne wants big changes, but is killed mysteriously. Commander Adam Dalgliesh investigates, believing the motive lies in Peverell's dark history.
- StarsDonald GrayColin TapleyRon RandellThis British production featured lesser-known actors in filmed plays showing people caught in "the vise" of fate created by their own deeds.
- StarsTim TurnerLisa DanielyDeborah WatlingWhile working on an invisibility formula, British scientist Dr. Peter Brady (Tim Turner) suffers a tragic accident which turns him invisible. Unfortunately, there is no antidote, so while working on a method to regain his visibility, he undertakes missions for his government stopping bad guys.
- StarsCharles KorvinEdwin RichfieldRoland BartropFollows inspector Paul Duval as he tracks his targets and risks his life in a global race against time.
- StarsWilliam FranklynPatrick CargillAlan RothwellA British agent starts work in South America.
- StarsAnthony MarloweClaire NielsonMichael QuinnThe adventures of the agents of Scotland Yard's secret undercover crime unit, dubbed "The Ghost Squad".
- StarsPatrick McGoohanRichard WattisLionel MurtonJohn Drake is a special operative for NATO, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element which threatened world peace.
- StarsJohn IrelandRobert AyresAnn HanslipCases of an Insurance Claims Investigator.
- StarsCraig StevensTracy ReedPaul MaxwellMichael Strait is a high-flying photo-journalist and a real Man of the World. His business takes him to every corner of the world and every corner of society and with his eye for trouble it proves to be an irresistible combination.
- StarsAndrew FauldsMichael AtkinsonAnn MorrishEx-insurance investigator Ian Souter sets up his own security agency - the SIS (Specialists in Security) - along with ex-cop Robert Shoesmith & secretary Heather Keys - and fight crime.
- StarsT.P. McKennaFrances CukaKeith BarronBritish anthology series of short plays on the theme of romance.
- StarsAndré MorellVictor PlattAnthony MayneITV Sunday Night Drama is a UK television anthology series produced by ABC Weekend Television, Associated Television (ATV), Associated-Rediffusion Television, and Granada Television.
- StarsBrian SpinkNoel TrevarthenFrank LiebermanCrime drama series Riviera Police told cases of four policemen working on France's Cote d'Azor. Glamorous locations made this a somewhat glossier series than was the norm in the UK at the time.
- CreatorTony WilliamsonStarsEdward JuddCaroline MortimerWanda VenthamAn industrial espionage drama in which an agent investigated the world of big business
- CreatorRichard HarrisDonald CottonStarsGerald HarperJuliet HarmerJack MayIn 1902, Edwardian adventurer Adam Adamant is frozen alive in a block of ice by his archnemesis, the Face. In 1966, workmen discover him and he is revived, perfectly preserved but completely bewildered by his new environment, "swinging '60s" London, until he meets beautiful Georgina Jones, who helps him adapt. Before long, he is back to adventuring, solving crime, and fighting evil wherever it lurks.
- StarsSteve ForrestSue LloydPaul FerrisStories of an antique dealer who is really an undercover agent.
- StarsRoger MooreIvor DeanLeslie CrawfordSimon (the Saint) Templar's an adventurer, and friend to those in need. Where his money comes from isn't mentioned, but, he travels europe in his white Volvo P1800S righting wrongs.
- CreatorRichard HarrisDennis SpoonerStarsRichard BradfordRicardo MontezWarren StanhopeMac, an ex-intelligence agent wrongfully dismissed, takes on private investigations across Europe while seeking to clear his name. His notorious reputation follows him as he solves intriguing cases, navigating his way back to redemption.
- CreatorMonty BermanDennis SpoonerStarsPeter WyngardeJoel FabianiRosemary NicolsAn elite department within Interpol, Department S inherits those cases which the other member groups have failed to solve.
- StarsTony CurtisRoger MooreLaurence NaismithTwo worlds collide when Lord Brett Sinclair, a titled British man, and Danny Wilde, a Bronx-raised, self-made American, reluctantly join forces to right wrongs and protect the innocent.
- StarsPatrick McGoohanPeter MaddenFrank MaherJohn Drake is a special operative for M9, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element that threatens world peace.
- CreatorMonty BermanDennis SpoonerStarsStuart DamonAlexandra BastedoWilliam GauntAfter a plane carrying three Agents crashes in the Himalayas, they are rescued by an advanced civilisation secretly living in Tibet who grant them enhanced versions of the ordinary five senses, and intellectual and physical abilities.
- CreatorDennis SpoonerStarsMike PrattKenneth CopeAnnette AndreWhen Hopkirk gets killed, he reappears as a ghost - pretty handy to have around in this line of work.
- CreatorSydney NewmanStarsPatrick MacneeDiana RiggHonor BlackmanA quirky spy show of the adventures of eccentrically suave British Agent John Steed and his predominantly female partners.
- CreatorMonty BermanDennis SpoonerStarsGene BarryBarry MorseCatherine SchellBasically an updating of Gene Barry's "Amos Burke, Secret Agent" character, Gene Bradley is a wealthy government agent, who, posing as an American movie star, travels the globe in search of adventure, intrigue and danger.
- StarsJohn ThawPaul EddingtonBarbara Leigh-HuntAnthology series of plays about the tensions caused by doubt and mistrust.
- CreatorBrian ClemensRichard WaringStarsJohn AldertonHannah GordonTim BarrettDivorced ex-couple George and Suzy Bassett separately move to the country for separate fresh starts, then find out that they have moved into adjoining cottages. One 1973 episode won a British Academy TV Award.
- StarsRobert VaughnNyree Dawn PorterTony AnholtChallenges abound for worldwide crime-fighting team The Protectors. Organised into a global secret society, their mission is to protect the innocent and apprehend the guilty. Starring Emmy winner Robert Vaughn "The Man From U.N.C.L.E.".
- StarsMichael JaystonMoray WatsonSinéad CusackThe exploits of British Agent Quiller as he carries out his various assignments for the secret agency known only as "The Bureau".
- CreatorN.J. CrispGerard GlaisterStarsMarius GoringAnn MorrishVictor WindingProfessor John Hardy is a forensic scientist who works not only for the police but also for other interested parties.
- CreatorRobert Banks StewartStarsJohn NettlesTerence AlexanderSean ArnoldRecovering alcoholic and divorced father of a young daughter, DS Jim Bergerac is a true maverick who prefers doing things his own way, and consequently doesn't always carry out his investigations the way his boss would like.
- CreatorBrian DegasTudor GatesStarsNeil McCallumStelio CandelliKieron MooreIntrigue from the Mediterranean Islands as Danny Scipio dispenses his own brand of revenge against organized crime outfits around Europe.
- StarsPatrick MacneeGareth HuntJoanna LumleySecret agent Steed, working for an unnamed branch of British intelligence, is teamed up with two partners to fight evil plots for world domination, dealing with suspended animation, biological warfare, robotics, and other threats.
- StarsKathy BurkeMark KermodeSheila HancockShowcase for short films by a variety of filmmakers, but linked by a common theme.
- StarsBurt KwoukClemence BettanyCarlos ThompsonArgentinian shipping agent Carlos Varela (Carlos Thompson) finds that the people using his services often need a lot more of his help than purely shipping goods.
- StarsColin BlakelyMichael WilliamsGary WatsonAfter surviving a series of attempts on his life, successful businessman Lew Burnett decides to remain "dead" after the most recent one so he can go undercover and find out which of his close friends and business associates want him dead.
- StarsJeff RawleGeorge A. CooperPamela VezeyBilly is an idealistic young man who is trapped in a boring life. He works in a tedious job in an undertaker's office with a permanently uptight employer, dates a soppy girl who fails to satisfy him emotionally or physically and lives with his parents and grandmother who stifle his personality. To forget about all of this, Billy escapes into his imagination and fantasizes his life away.
- StarsDonald SindenAnton RodgersPeter EganJunior executive Richard Pershore joins the Greatrick Organization, whose overriding focus is profits.
- StarsFrank WindsorNorman BowlerDavid Lloyd Meredith1970s BBC police drama with experienced cops DCS Charlie Barlow and DS John Watt who lead a task force charged with tackling the toughest cases Thamesford has to offer.
- DirectorMartyn FriendStarsSinéad CusackJan NiklasGeraldine ChaplinElfrida Phibbs thought she was retiring from her London life to a "geriatric bolthole" in the country. She soon finds herself compassionately tending to her neighbor Oscar, who has suffered a tragic loss. Together, they agree to depart to Scotland for the holidays, in order to avoid Christmas and the painful memories of what they have lost; they will just skip Christmas. But Elfrida has a young relative desperate to get her own teenage niece, Lucy Marchmont, away from ugly family drama in London, and asks to join Elfrida in Scotland. Soon, Christmas of the heart creeps in, and this group of random people finds that a different kind of Christmas might be the best kind.
- StarsDarren RedmayneHannah GordonBrian BlessedYoung Gerald explored his passion for the animal kingdom with his inspirational tutor, Dr Theodore Stephanides. The backdrop was sunshine, happiness and the love and laughter of a doting, slightly eccentric family,
- CreatorDonald WilsonSydney NewmanStarsWilliam HartnellPatrick TroughtonJon PertweeThe adventures in time and space of the Doctor, a Time Lord who changes appearance and personality by regenerating when near death, and is joined by companions in battles against aliens and other megalomaniacs.
- CreatorRobert S. BakerStarsBrian BlessedChristopher GuardKenneth ColleyIn this continuation of the classic "Treasure Island" tale that takes place ten years later, Jim Hawkins meets up again with an older, but not necessarily wiser, Long John Silver.
- StarsIan HolmTom BellRudolph WalkerThe Frighteners was a British psychological suspense anthology series that ran for 1 series consisting of 13 self contained episodes.
- StarsNorma WestAnnette Wilkie-MillerFrancesca Annis"Shades of Darkness" was an anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.
- StarsDavid WoodJohn WentworthSheila HancockThis is a series of thrillers designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.
- StarsAndre Van GyseghemBillie WhitelawIan HendryChilling anthology series where membership to the secret society, The Club of the Damned, is granted through telling horror stories.
- StarsKeith BarronJack WatsonBrian JenningsWest Country Tales was an early 1980s supernatural drama series based on real-life experiences sent in by viewers in response to a BBC appeal. Of the hundreds of letters received, 13 stories were selected and turned into TV scripts.
- CreatorJohn HawkesworthStarsPeter DavisonBrian GloverAndrew BurtIn 1930s England, a man from an aristocratic family takes up the pseudonym Albert Campion and, with the help of his ex-burglar manservant, solves mysteries.
- StarsNeil DudgeonDiana RiggPeter DavisonPaired with her reliable and devoted chauffeur, Mrs Bradley's finely honed skills of investigation seek out the truth behind the mysteries surrounding a death at the opera, crimes of passion at a circus, poisoning and family secrets.
- CreatorAnthony MarriottRoger MarshallStarsAlfred BurkeRay SmithPauline DelaneyCynical, dour and world-weary, private eye Frank Marker is frequently the unwitting stooge in bigger criminal wheels in his attempts to make a tenuous living on the outskirts of London.