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- Hotel owner Basil Fawlty's incompetence, short fuse, and arrogance form a combination that ensures accidents and trouble are never far away.
- The vampire count leaves his Transylvanian home to wreak havoc across the world.
- Lighthearted detective series set in the West Country, about radio-phone-in detective Eddie Shoestring.
- A team of scientists search for the origin and purpose of a mysterious capsule found on a building site.
- In the Russia of the 1880s, Anna Karenina sacrifices her marriage when she has a passionate affair with an army officer.
- Set in Noel Edmonds' fictitious grand house in the equally fictitious town of Crinkley Bottom, the show centres around games involving the studio audience and special guest celebrities. Contestants can "grab a grand", home viewers can be caught out live in their own homes, and celebrities get their just deserts in the gunge tank.
- An orphan who practices hypnosis faces off against a bank robber who wants her book on the art form.
- Thie West Country police force solving local crime. its a spin-off from another BBC drama series, Z Cars (1962).
- Follows the first manned space flight from Australia. In its return to Earth, from the crew of 3, only Victor Carroon, is still aboard. Examinations reveal that something attacked the crew as they were on course back to Earth.
- A humorous and fantastic look at the world in the year 2001 as computed for the screen by those visionaries Graeme Garden and Bill Oddie
- In Hackney in 1977, Johnny Jarvis and Alan Lipton become unlikely friends in their final year at school: Jarvis is the class clown, a popular lad with a talent for welding, while Lipton is a bookish dreamer who spends his time fabricating impressive exploits, pondering the future and fantasising about the father he's never met. As they leave school and anxiously embark on an uncertain future, can their friendship survive?
- Long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter Aubrey Judd discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
- BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.
- The Tragedy of King Richard II, by William Shakespeare. The actions and repercussions of a proud King, whose vanity and selfishness lead to his downfall.
- Can Schalcken save his love, Rose, from the clutches of a ghastly suitor before it is too late?
- An informative and humourous take on the world of current affairs.
- Dr. Henry Jekyll, a respectable Victorian scientist, concocts a drug which releases another side to his personality: a brutal, murderous alter-ego.
- Jasper Carrott takes a comedic look at the week's news and ponders the absurdities of life in general, with topical sketch comedy from Steve Punt and Hugh Dennis.
- Every day, television presenter Rufus Hound saves the world from domination by the evil Doctor Muhahaha, before time is rewound and he tries again.
- In 1959, a group of aspiring actors and playwrights navigate love, ambition, and artistic challenges in the world of theater.
- In a mythical Japan, Ko-Ko, a cheap tailor, has been appointed Lord High Executioner and must find someone to execute before the arrival of the ruling Mikado. He lights upon Nanki-Poo, a strolling minstrel who loves the beautiful Yum-Yum. But Yum-Yum is also loved by Ko-Ko, and Nanki-Poo, seeing no hope for his love, considers suicide. Ko-Ko offers to solve both their problems by executing Nanki-Poo, and an agreement is reached whereby Ko-Ko will allow Nanki-Poo to marry Yum-Yum for one month, at the end of which Nanki-Poo will be executed, in time for the arrival of the Mikado. But what Ko-Ko doesn't know is that Nanki-Poo is the son of the Mikado and has run away to avoid a betrothal to an old harridan named Katisha. The arrival of the Mikado brings all the threads of the tale together.
- Alan Titchmarsh presents a mix of celebrity interviews, music, topical discussions and gardening features.
- Set in England in 1828, the story centres on wealthy Samuel Pickwick and his valet Sam Weller, who are in a debtors' prison where they recall the misadventures that led to their imprisonment. On the previous Christmas Eve, Pickwick introduced his friend Wardle, Wardle's daughters, Emily and Isabella, and their Aunt Rachael to Nathaniel Winkle, Augustus Snodgrass, and Tracy Tupman, three members of the Pickwick Club. They were soon joined by Alfred Jingle, who tricked Tupman into paying for his ticket to a ball that evening. Upon learning Rachael is an heiress, Jingle set out to win her hand and eventually succeeded. Pickwick engages Sam Weller as his valet and, through a series of misunderstandings, he inadvertently leads his landlady, Mrs. Bardell, to believe he has proposed marriage to her. Pickwick is charged with breach of promise and hauled into court, where he is found guilty as charged and sentenced to prison when he stubbornly refuses to pay her compensation.
- Rock musical retelling of the legend of the Trojan Horse.
- Satire on the life of the Bright Young Things of the British aristocracy in the 1920s, where Adam tries to marry Nina, but finds himself constantly thwarted in his attempts due to a lack of money.
- Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
- An English-language version of Wagner's opera.
- An American millionaire searches for a magic potion that will grant him eternal life.
- The search for the laws of creation written and presented by Nigel Calder. Researchers describe how the wonderful variety in nature all comes out of a single primeval Big Bang.
- In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
- A live, early television version of the play
- Television production of a Nativity play for children which sees Gabby (the angel Gabriel) and his fellow angels help Mary, Joseph and the Wiseman to follow their destiny.
- In this film, specially taken for the BBC, viewers are given an idea of the growth of the television installation at Alexandra Palace and an insight into production routine. There will be many shots behind the scenes. One sequence, for instance, will show Adele Dixon as she appears to viewers in the Variety at 3.30 this afternoon, and will then reveal the technical staff and equipment in the studio that made this transmission possible.
- Science-fiction musical, telling of the journey of a group of people leaving Earth to find a new world on which to live.
- A TV documentary on the trial of the Chicago 8, a group of anti-Vietnam War protesters charged with conspiracy and intent to cause riots.
- Live from Broadcasting House in London, an in-depth look back at the day's national and international news, sport and weather with Huw Edwards and Clive Myrie.