Halliwell's Television Companion (1986) - UK TV Movies

Arguably the most famous edition of Play For Today, and one of the most beloved, as Mike Leigh directs a comedy of manners. Middle-class suburbia gets to reveal its darker side over the course of an increasingly uncomfortable drinks party.

The efforts of a widowed Scots family to keep the farmer's estate going after his death fail through poor accountancy.

Mr. Norton asks the Jackson's to let someone watch out for a mystery man. When Gordon Lonsdale is seen visiting Canadian couple, the Kroger's across the road. MI5 decide to use the Jackson's home as a base to trap the Portland spy ring.

A self-proclaimed "knight" and his hapless squire travel the Spanish countryside, attacking "giants" that are really windmills in his attempt to win the love of the fair Dulcinea.

In the future England is ruled by a fascist government, and one day the leaders begin the construction of a heavily guarded, mysterious airport.

A young fellow of a Cambridge college is accused of fraud and dismissed. Based on the eighth novel in C.P. Snow's "Strangers and Brothers" series.

Written for THE WEDNESDAY PLAY (1964-70), which the BBC retitled PLAY FOR TODAY in 1970, ALICE has the earliest airdate (10/13/65) of the Potter productions to survive on tape. After THE CONFIDENCE COURSE (1965), it's the second of the nine Potter plays seen on THE WEDNESDAY PLAY. In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.

A girl named Alice falls down a rabbit-hole and wanders into the strange Wonderland.

The story of a young veterinarian's apprenticeship to a somewhat eccentric older vet in the English countryside, and the young man's hesitating courtship of the daughter of a local farmer.

The burning end of an unhappy relationship.

A beautiful and talented editor of a successful women's magazine discovers that she is pregnant. She decides to have the baby and raise it as a single parent.

TV Sci-fi drama/documentary, which caused world-wide headlines when first broadcast as it purported to show a link between Britain's 'brain-drain', climate change and a human colony on Mars.

The story of Amy Johnson who disappeared while piloting a RAF Wellington bomber on January 5 1941.

Lord Fountain hates his illegitimate twin boys as he does not seem to be able to produce legitimate heirs.