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The doctors, nurses and patients at the frenetic Accident and Emergency department in the fictional Holby City Hospital, located in the fictional county of Wyvern in the southwest of England.

Police drama series following the professional and personal lives of officers and detectives from the fictional Sun Hill suburb in East London, England.

Jack Regan and George Carter are hard-edged detectives in the Flying Squad of London's Metropolitan Police. They pursue villains by methods which are underhanded and often illegal, frequently violent and - more often than not - successful.

BBC anthology series featuring original plays, theatrical and literary adaptations from 1970-1984. Over 300 episodes aired, each 50 mins to 1 hr 40 mins long. Some were later developed into series, like Rumpole of the Bailey.

William Tell and his son Matthew are imprisoned by the tyrannical Gessler. After splitting the apple of his son's head with his crossbow, much to Gessler's chagrin, there's nothing to stop William Tell's legendary strength and ability.

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Suspicions 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.

Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.

It's Christmas in Holby; a runaway teenager denied a bed runs out in front of Jane's ambulance causing her to crash - they are carrying a patient who has been stabbed by his wife. Duffy is surprised to receive a gift from Andrew for Peter.

After a high-powered lawyer gets three petty thugs off on a murder charge, Regan is authorized to use whatever means necessary to bring the hoodlums in.

A horrid boy from a posh school takes revenge on another pupil. A salesman threatened with redundancy collapses while taking steps to keep his job. Matt has competition for Jude's favours. Rachel's admirer pays her another visit and is looking for a job. Daniel listens in on a conversation where he learns he's a rubbish doctor.

A couple receives a photograph in the mail of two girls sitting in front of a caravan and neither can identify the people or the place.

Malcolm is a GP wrestling with ideas of retirement, while his wife Jo is a frustrated, would-be novelist. Together they dream of a more contented life, but are hampered by the arrested development of their children who won't leave home.

Sgt Cryer's exemplary record is threatened when a professional litigant brings a complaint against him for swearing.

Jilted by a fickle former pupil Rachel sometime ago, school teacher Nick had yearned someday she would return to him as predicted in the Tarot Cards he had read at the time. To his joy, Rachel does return .but the world has moved on since.

There is a death in suspicious circumstances, the inquiry hears allegations of spying. The journalist begins to think the ship was spying. He has a photograph that might prove it. London gets more worried about his activities.

The journalist and his girlfriend survive an attempt on their lives and go on the run from the renegade London operative. The journalist goes into hiding, his girlfriend investigates the NATO exercise taking place when the Caistor vanished.

The girlfriend gets the first major clue of what happened to Caistor that night and the journalist skips his hiding place and heads to Norway. Meanwhile the renegade London agent is pursuing the journalist abroad.