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- 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.
- DirectorDave UnwinDennis AbeyStarsAlan BennettMichael PalinMichael GambonMole disappears while answering what he thinks is an urgent summons from Rat, forcing Badger to enlist Toad and his new airplane in a frantic search party.
- DirectorJules DassinStarsMelina MercouriPeter UstinovMaximilian SchellA conman gets mixed up with a group of thieves who plan to rob an Istanbul museum to steal a jewelled dagger.
- DirectorBurt KennedyStarsDonald SutherlandNed BeattyRuth GordonGeorge Trent (James Willis), a British spy, has gone incommunicado in Ibiza. Appleton Porter (Donald Sutherland) is sent to find out what happened to Trent. Porter settles into a small hotel with several busybody guests. He probes them for information about Trent, their former neighbor. Meanwhile, the spy survives several attempts on his life as he attempts to solve the mystery.
- DirectorNico MastorakisStarsMeg FosterWings HauserDavid McCallumA popular crime novelist moves to a historic Greek village during the off-season in order to write her next book, but gets more than she bargained for when she strongly suspects a man of committing murder.
- DirectorAnthony KimminsStarsRonald ShinerMargaret RutherfordA.E. MatthewsA wealthy old man dies and leaves his holdings--including a brothel, a gambling den, racing greyhounds, and a sleazy bar--to his eccentric niece Clara Hilton (Dame Margaret Rutherford). Clara vows to "clean up" her new establishments, but complications ensue when she visits the crooked gambling den just when it's being raided by the Police.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsColin BakerPeter DavisonNicola BryantChellak and his men attack Jek's base. The Dr. crash-lands the ship, and must escape from his captors to find the antidote to the Spectrox poisoning and save Peri. He does so, but at a staggering cost.
- StarsNigel HaversPhyllis LoganKevin McNallyA British horror/fantasy anthology series where each story involves, to some extent, the supernatural and features lead actors from UK television.
- StarsAnthony PerkinsDoug RollinsAssumpta Serna"Chillers" was a 1990 series based on Patricia Highsmith's short stories: displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving in to the darkest depths of human nature.
- DirectorSamuel FullerStarsVéronique JannotBobby Di CiccoVictor LanouxA couple goes on the run after being accused for a crime they didn't commit.
- StarsColin WilsonLinda BlandfordGordon SnellAnthology series of supernatural tales.
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsMichael BrandonDavid CarradineArielle DombasleAn insurance investigator is looking for a stolen priceless medieval Russian icon.
- StarsPenelope KeithHarry DitsonElizabeth CounsellCaroline Fairchild returns to work as an Editorial Director for Oasis Publishing after spending the last 25 years raising her five children. Her husband, Donald Fairchild works for Gingsberg, also a publishing house. Oasis buys out Ginsberg and now Caroline and Donald are working for the same company. But, Oasis has a rule that doesn't allow married couples to work together. Since Caroline applied for the job under her maiden name Fielding, she decides not to quit her new job. Instead Donald and Caroline must pretend not to know one another in order for them to continue on with their careers.
- CreatorPeter BowlesPhilip BroadleyStarsPeter BowlesHolly de JongAdam NortonAs portrayed by Peter Bowles (The Irish R.M., To the Manor Born), London gossip columnist Neville Lytton exudes a sophisticated charm that masks a tenacious commitment to his job. Whether consorting with banking tycoons and ex-dictators or investigating a gang of skinheads, Lytton strives to expose the high and mighty, the corrupt and the crooked--and to make sure "God" (his editor at the Daily News) is happy with his work. All the while, Lytton struggles to keep his love life in order, write the one novel he feels he has in him, and fend off constant machinations and maneuvers of an old rival at the Daily Post. It's all part of the daily grind for Neville Lytton--and grist for the scandalous news mill.
- CreatorEric ChappellStarsPeter BowlesGeorge ColeIsla BlairUpon being released from prison, ex-con Howard Booth comes to live with his sister Mary disrupting her calm life with her cynical, uptight husband, Trevor.
- StarsJames BolamPeter BowlesChristopher StrauliA rather naive, middle-class man is admitted to a hospital ward and finds that he is sharing it with a working-class layabout and an upper-class hypochondriac. All three of them cause headaches for the hospital staff.
- DirectorLawrence Gordon ClarkStarsKate BinchyPeter BowlesMaxine GordonA young couple move into a remote country house in the middle of a stone circle. They employ workmen who disturb an ancient menhir, unleashing a supernatural force.
- StarsJoss AcklandElspet GrayHugh BurdenInterlinked stories telling of the lives of the residents of a rather select housing estate, the Crescent - known to these residents as "the Crezz".
- 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.
- StarsOliver TobiasMichael GothardJack WatsonCelts fighting among themselves and the Saxons in 5th century Briton after the Roman pullout.
- StarsRalph BatesPeter BlakePeter DenyerJohn Lacey comes home one evening to discover a letter from his wife, starting with "Dear John" and informing him that she is leaving him. Lonely and now divorced, John joins a club where lonely divorced people can meet.
- StarsRichard ChamberlainJaclyn SmithAnthony QuayleAn injured, unconscious man washes ashore in a small French town. As he recovers, it becomes quite clear, someone is trying to kill him.
- CreatorGerard GlaisterAllan PriorStarsJan HarveyStephen YardleyGlyn OwenTom Howard is made redundant from his job as a senior aircraft designer and decides to invest his skill, time and redundancy money in a run-down local boat-building yard. The decision puts a great strain on his marriage.
- DirectorJeremy SummersCyril FrankelStarsEd BishopWanda VenthamVladek SheybalTen years earlier Straker accidentally knocked Catherine Frazer down in his car as she was running away from something which frightened her and she has been unconscious ever since.Now Catherine awakes from her coma and explains that she and a boy named Tim whom she had not long met went to a derelict farm-house to take recreational drugs. There they saw two aliens planting a bomb. The couple ran off - Catherine into the path of Straker's car, Tim, she understood to have fallen off a roof and died. However, he was taken by the aliens who took him over and is now back, looking no older than he did ten years ago and about to set off the bomb.
- StarsTony BillJack GingJessica WalterSam Ashley, a graduate of 1965 class of Bret Harte High School, who was now a teacher at the school, served as the narrator describing what had happened to his fellow graduates in the decade since they had graduated.
- StarsPeter CushingDenholm ElliottKathryn Leigh ScottThis 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.
- DirectorNorman JewisonStarsMichael CaineTilda SwintonAlan BatesTale of a former Nazi executioner who becomes a target of hitmen and police investigators.
- DirectorLenny AbrahamsonStarsDomhnall GleesonWill PoulterRuth WilsonAfter a doctor is called to visit a crumbling manor, strange things begin to occur.
- DirectorFrancis LawrenceStarsJennifer LawrenceJoel EdgertonMatthias SchoenaertsBallerina Dominika Egorova is recruited to 'Sparrow School,' a Russian intelligence service where she is forced to use her body as a weapon. Her first mission, targeting a C.I.A. agent, threatens to unravel the security of both nations.
- CreatorFrank SpotnitzStarsMelissa GeorgeAdam RaynerPatrick MalahideMeet Sam. A spy. A hunter. And herself hunted by an enemy more ruthless and determined than any she's ever known.
- StarsLiam WilliamsOscar KennedySamuel BottomleyA coming-of-age comedy from BAFTA-nominated comedian Liam Williams, who explores the roots of modern-day masculinity by delving into the memories of his own misspent adolescence.
- DirectorDerek BanhamStarsAnnette BadlandGraham McGrathJames GaddasA young woman moves into a hippy commune and spends an idyllic summer with the young brother of one of the residents.
- DirectorGavin MillarStarsRonald PickupPrunella ScalesPolly GrantWhen Bess Throckmorton encounters Sir Walter Raleigh's ghost, she is persuaded to help the spirit. Upon learning that Bess' family farm is endangered, Sir Walter devises a scheme to help her family keep the farm and avenge his cruel fate.
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsDonald PleasenceGary BondChips RaffertyAfter a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent.
- DirectorAnatole LitvakStarsPeter O'TooleOmar SharifTom CourtenayIn 1942, a Polish prostitute and German Agent is murdered in Warsaw. Suspicion falls on three Generals, and Major Grau of German Intelligence seeks justice which ends up taking decades.
- StarsRobin NedwellDiane KeenJack DouglasClassic ITV comedy-drama, set in the fictional village of Shillingbury in Hertfordshire. Londoners Peter (Robin Nedwell) and Sally Higgins (Diane Keen) move to the idyllic English countryside to enjoy the ambiance of fine thatched-roofed cottages, strawberry cream teas, oak-timbered pubs and a collection of eccentric locals, including grumpy farmer Jake (Jack Douglas), his sexy daughter Mandy (Linda Hayden), crafty tramp Cuffy (Bernard Cribbins), old busybody Mrs. Simpkins (Diana King), nosy postman Harvey (Joe Black), and the twittering Reverend Norris (Nigel Lambert).
- StarsNeville BarberGwyneth StrongGeorge WaringAnthology series of scary stories for children.
- DirectorDan IrelandStarsJoan PlowrightRupert FriendZoë TapperAll but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
- DirectorChristopher HodsonStarsAlec McCowenTim Pigott-SmithAntony BrownA seemingly standard interview turns into something very confusing.
- DirectorJon EastStarsOlly AlexanderAnnette BadlandHolly BodimeadeSummerhill, whose headmistress is Zoe Redhead, is a seventy year old progressive school, run on cooperative lines with pupils having an equal say in its constitution. However officious OFSTED inspector Wharton regards it as a waste of money and a means of teaching children disrespect - though his assistant Myrtle is charmed by its ambience. In a court hearing to decide the school's future barrister Geoffrey Robertson points to the many alumni from the school but also, thanks to a tip-off from a pupil, is able to reveal that Wharton had told Myrtle that the school was virtually due for closure and the inspection was purely a formality. Consequently Summerhill is saved, Myrtle gets to teach there and the children launch a pirate ship with the banner 'Freedom' to celebrate the victory. Two children whose future at the school looked uncertain are also given cause to celebrate.
- 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.
- DirectorTony MaylamStarsMichael YorkJenny AgutterSimon MacCorkindaleIn 1901, two British yachtsmen visiting Germany's Frisian Islands accidentally discover a German plot to invade England.
- StarsAlison SteadmanNigel HawthorneTony CaunterA British television anthology drama series that aired on BBC1 between 1970 and 1984.
- DirectorJames MacTaggartStarsAnna CropperAmanda WalkerJulian HollowayAfter a long-term relationship ends, Norah moves to a remote house in the country. The locals are friendly., if eccentric. She starts a flirtatious relationship with young gamekeeper, Rob. But events at a festival have her feeling manipulated. Only later, do the consequences of that relationship leave her trapped in a nightmare.
- StarsTom BellMark EdenVivienne RitchieMetropolitan Police Commander Ken Crocker investigates corruption in high places.
- CreatorEwart AlexanderStarsPeter McEneryMichael BillingtonLois ButlinHarry Caines is the new Customs Surveyor, or district head, at Wrelling, a small port on the Dorset Coast. His job as 'the new broom' is to shake up the office and keep one step ahead of the smugglers and criminals. He must land 'the big fish' behind the small-timers who ply back and forth across the English Channel.
- StarsTom BakerStephen MooreAlun ArmstrongNew and classic books are discussed, passages read by well-known actors and authors, and short dramatisations are used to bring the stories to life.
- CreatorJohnnie MortimerStarsDonald SindenWindsor DaviesDerek DeadmanComedy about two rival antique dealers.
- DirectorDavid HareStarsCharlotte RamplingMichael GambonIain GlenClara Paige (Charlotte Rampling) is a busy Euro Member of Parliament with a husband and child at home and a high powered career, but on a trip to Paris, her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.