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In 1978, after three series, two Christmas specials and a full-length feature film of Porridge, writers Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais finally released Fletcher from prison. Going Straight went on to win a BAFTA and attract an audience of over 15 million. Fletch is out. After spending three years, eight months and four days at Her Majesty's pleasure, the old lag is out of Slade Prison on parole. However, life on the outside is not going to be easy - he even finds Mr McKay in the buffet car of his train home. Will his carefully buried nest egg still be there? Will he be able to manipulate his family (including a 17-year-old son - played be Nicholas Lyndhurst) as easily as the gullible Slade Prison lags? Will he welcome old cell-mate, Lenny Godber, now a long-distance lorry driver dating his daughter Ingrid? Or will the delights of freedom make him yearn for the company of thieves, fraudsters and even screws?
The award-winning crime drama returns for a landmark 20th season, starring Emilia Fox. Each story follows the dedicated team of forensic pathologists who try to work out how and why the victim died, often risking their own lives in the process. In this season: an apparent suicide that starts to look a lot more like murder, a young woman is dragged from a river in the same spot where her best friend mysteriously disappeared three years before and, in the final explosive story set in Mexico, Nikki finds herself in danger when she searches for the truth about the death of a former colleague.
Sally Wainwright's multi-BAFTA award winning gritty crime drama returns for its final instalment, with Sarah Lancashire, James Norton and Siobhan Finneran reprising their roles. When Catherine discovers the remains of a gangland murder victim in a drained reservoir, it sparks a chain of events that unwittingly leads her straight back to Tommy Lee Royce. Her grandson Ryan is now 16 and still living with Catherine, but he has ideas of his own about what kind of relationship he wants to have with the man Catherine refuses to acknowledge as his father. Still battling the seemingly never-ending problem of drugs in the valley and those who supply them, Catherine is on the cusp of retirement.
All 14 episodes from the British comedy series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant as they deal with the global pandemic and attempt to continue their acting work through online video calls. Michael Sheen and David Tennant (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of "Six Characters In Search Of An Author in the West End". The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans - also playing himself) is determined not to let the opportunity pass him by. He knows how big a chance this is for him and turns his attention to cajoling his stars into rehearsing over the internet with the help of some other famous faces.
The smash-hit whodunnit returns to BBC One for its tenth anniversary series, with DI Neville Parker and the team attempting to solve a slew of mysterious murders in the sun-soaked Caribbean. There are some huge surprises in store - starting with the shock return of DS Florence Cassell. Can she help Neville embrace life on the island? New arrival Marlon Pryce, a former petty criminal and now trainee police officer, is the least of JP’s challenges as he prepares for the arrival of twins whilst facing a life-changing decision. Meanwhile Selwyn finds himself in the firing line and Catherine faces grave danger following the death of a friend. And as if that wasn’t enough, DS Camille Bordey is back to assist with a particularly baffling and highly personal case - and DI Richard Poole makes his presence felt too … With its usual combination of intriguing puzzles, famous guest stars and beautiful locations, the show is stronger than ever as it celebrates a decade as one of TV’s most popular programmes.
The Doctor and Clara face their Last Christmas. Trapped on an arctic base and under attack from terrifying creatures, who are you going to call? Santa Claus!
In 1965 The BBC harnessed the talents of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore for a new show Not Only But Also. Building scripts from improvised recordings (although ad-libs and corpsing remained irresistible features of the final recordings), the young partnership created their own style of comedy including the memorable Dagenham Dialogues of the cloth-capped Pete and Dud, and Peter Cook's magnificent old duffer Sir Arthur Greeb-Strebling. The series continued until 1970 and remains a seminal landmark in TV comedy.
Charles Dickens' famous 'Christmas Carol' story told in the celebrated 'Blackadder' style. Ebeneezer Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson) is the loveliest, kindest man in all of Christendom, until the Ghost of Christmas (Robbie Coltrane) pays him a visit and shows him the wicked ways of his ancestors. Among the many miscreants encountered in this parade of festive infamy, we meet Blackadder II, who plays a Christmas death warrant trick on Lord Melchett, and butler Edmund Blackadder, who attempts to con Prince George into giving him all his Christmas presents.
Line of Duty returns for a second season, featuring a new police corruption story told over six one-hour episodes. The series opens explosively with the ambush of a police convoy in which three police officers are killed and a protected witness seriously injured. The sole surviving police officer is Detective Inspector Lindsay Denton. Deputy Chief Constable Mike Dryden takes personal charge, assigning AC-12 to the case. In doing so, Detective Sergeant Steve Arnott, Detective Constable Kate Fleming and Superintendent Ted Hastings are joined by newly-appointed Detective Constable Georgia Trotman to investigate a complex case rich in unexpected twists and turns.
Lavish BBC adaptation of the much-loved Charlotte Bronte novel, starring Ruth Wilson as Jane Eyre and Toby Stephens as Rochester. Orphaned at a young age, Jane is placed in the care of her wealthy aunt Mrs Reed (Tara Fitzgerald), who neglects her in favour of her own three spoiled children. Jane is branded a liar, and Mrs Reed sends her to the grim and joyless Lowood School where she stays until she is 19. Determined to make the best of her life, Jane takes a position as a governess at Thornfield Hall, the home of the alluring and unpredictable Edward Rochester - where Jane's journey into the world, and as a woman, begins.
High Court Judge, John Deed has a sharp intellect, raffish charm and a passionate belief in justice. All attributes he'll desperately need as he continues to take on the establishment as well as facing the consequences of his stormy and impulsive love life. Seasons 3 and 4 find the Judge battling against Sir Monty Everard, Sir lan Rochester and others, while his uneasy relationship with Jo Mills continues to torment both of them.
A year has elapsed, and Sam and Wyn have buried their mother. Sam's professional and emotional life is further complicated by the arrival of Detective Superintendent Peter Ross, an ambitious man with whom she shares a troubled past and a potentially exciting future. This series tackles a double-dealing in the boxing world; suspicious deaths in a community devastated by AIDS; an office affair which leads to murder; and the mysterious death of an elderly lady, where Sam's theory does not tie up with the police's view of events.
Every episode of the BBC crime drama based on the novels by J.K. Rowling. The show follows struggling private detective Cormoran Strike as he uses his skills as a former Royal Military Special Investigation Branch investigator to examine a number of murder mysteries from his small London office.
The Cuckoo's Calling
The Silkworm
Career Of Evil
Jane Eyre:
The Tenant Of Wildfell Hall:
Wuthering Heights:
All twelve episodes from Series 1 and 2 of the anarchic 1980s comedy series starring Adrian Edmondson, Nigel Planer, Rik Mayall and Christopher Ryan. In 'Demolition' the council want to knock the boys' house down. 'Oil' sees the foursome move into their new house just as the workers' revolution begins. 'Interesting' finds Rick, Vyv, Neil and Mike playing host to the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. 'Bomb' has a bomb land on the house just as the TV licence man arrives. 'Flood' sees Rick initiate a desperate game of hide-and-seek, while Mike's room is taken over by lions. 'Boring' finds the foursome so incredibly bored that Neil digs himself a grave and Vyv chops his finger off. In 'Bambi', the boys get to go on 'University Challenge', while 'Nasty' sees Neil taking to wearing a dress. In 'Time', it looks like Rik has finally scored with a member of the opposite sex. In 'Cash', plates keep disappearing in the house. Must be a poltergeist. 'Interesting' sees a visit from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, while in 'Summer Holiday', the boys finish college and head off on a big red bus.
All ten two-part episodes from series 13 and 14 of the BBC crime thriller. Forensic experts Dr Leo Dalton (William Gaminara), Dr Harry Cunningham (Tom Ward) and Dr Nikki Alexander (Emilia Fox) investigate various cases including the suicide of a bullying victim which leads to a shooting attack and the discovery of a girl's body who disappeared in the 1980s. Episodes comprise: 'Intent', 'Voids', 'Run', 'Shadows', 'Home', 'A Guilty Mind', 'Lost', 'First Casualty', 'Bloodlines' and 'The Prodigal'.
The Quatermass Experiment: (1953) The plan was to pilot a manned rocket some 1500 miles above the earth for observation purposes and then to return. The project looked very reasonable in theory, but in practice...
Quatermass 2: (1955) Professor Quatermass is testing prototypes of a second space rocket but has a crushing setback. With his research at a standstill, there is a curious interruption.
Quatermass And The Pit: (1958) Professor Quatermass is resisting the planners of a rocket-project known as the Dead Man's Deterrent. Meanwhile excavation is going on at Hobbs Lane, long the site of reported imps and devils... Includes:
A mysterious light in the sky, an unnatural glow in the ocean and a thick fog bring terror to the lighthouse keepers of Fang Rock. When the Doctor and Leela arrive, the first death has already cast doubt on the safety of the lighthouse. But the Doctor discovers something more terrifying and evil than even he could have imagined. This story was originally broadcast on BBC1 between 3rd- 24th September 1977.
Detective Inspector Jack Mooney has now settled in to life on the beautiful Caribbean island of Saint Marie and is starting to really get to know the people and places – to a degree that surprises some of his colleagues. But there’s little time for sightseeing, as there are some fiendishly clever murders to solve. From a popular local radio DJ shot dead live on air to a killing during a horseback trek into the rainforest, Jack and his team have their work cut out. To add to the chaos there’s a new face on the team, as uniform officer Ruby Jones arrives with energy to spare and her own unique take on crime fighting. And the team are delighted to discover that Florence has got a boyfriend - until a shocking turn of events makes them all question their judgement. Jack must lead them through personal ups and downs while using his unconventional methods to solve some of their most challenging cases yet.
All nine episodes from the fourth season of the British comedy drama in which private detectives Luella Shakespeare (Jo Joyner) and Frank Hathaway (Mark Benton) set about investigating an array of strange cases in Stratford-upon-Avon. In this season, the team investigate a cursed dance school and the death of a woman called Ophelia at a river party.
All 12 episodes from the first four season of the BBC's fast-paced modernised crime drama based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle. Laptops, mobile phones and the internet are the new tools for crime in a modern London under threat from serial killers, bombings and gang warfare. Sherlock Holmes, the most brilliant intellect of his generation, has a unique analytical brain unlike anyone else's, and staves off the ever-present threat of boredom by solving crimes, the more intricate and baffling the better. Meanwhile, his friend and flatmate, John Watson, is an army doctor invalided home from the battlefields of Afghanistan.
When a young woman walks back into the town she was abducted from 11 years previously, it is revealed that she holds vital clues about another missing girl. French detective, Julien Baptiste, becomes embroiled in the mystery when he races across Europe to pursue a 12 year-old case. The Missing: Season 2 dramatizes a thrilling chase for a missing girl, whilst exploring the truth of what happens when a missing child returns.
Killing Eve is a story of two women, bound by a mutual obsession and one brutal act: Eve, an MI6 operative, and Villanelle, the beautiful, psychopathic assassin that she has been tasked to find. Season 2 begins 30 seconds after the final episode of the first season, Eve is reeling and Villanelle has disappeared. Eve has no idea if the woman she stabbed is alive or dead, and now both of them are in deep trouble. Eve has to find Villanelle before someone else does, but unfortunately she’s not the only person looking for her. (Golden Globe nominations for: Best TV Series - Drama; Best Actress)
The sci-fi series dips its toe into Agatha Christie waters when the Doctor (Peter Davison) arrives in 1920s England and becomes embroiled in a murder mystery. When the TARDIS arrives at Cranleigh Halt railway station on a summer afternoon in 1925, the Doctor and his pals are surprised to be met by a chauffeur (Timothy Block) and whisked off to a cricket match. Lord Cranleigh (Michael Cochrane) has assumed that the Doctor has come from Guy's Hospital for the charity event to be held later that night in aid of a sick kids' hospital. There then follows a masked ball, a case of mistaken identity and mysterious, murderous goings on in this two-part homage to the golden age of English whodunnits.
As Jane Austen approaches her forties, her success as a writer is assured and her witty and sharply observed romantic novels are widely admired. To her niece, Fanny Knight - a young, pretty girl desperate to fall in love - Jane is a favourite aunt who offers the wisdom and knowledge to help her in her own search for a happy marriage. Yet, when asked by Fanny to help her vet potential husbands, Jane's usual confident composure is threatened. Surely the woman so capable of writing love on the page must have experienced love herself, so why did she never marry? Protected by her wit, Jane has presented a front as dazzling as many of her novels young heroines, but as she reflects on her own romantic encounters and affairs, we are drawn into the passions, suitors and choices of her life - the cruel flirting, the proposals spurned and the love that seemed to arrive too late. As she recalls missed opportunities, the doubts arise. Did she make the right choice for herself and her family? Could the great romantic expert have been mistaken? And, could her principles about love and marriage possibly have been ill-judged? |
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