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All ten episodes from the seventh and final season of the offbeat vampire drama adapted from Charlaine Harris's 'The Southern Vampire Mysteries' book series by writer Alan Ball. In this season, the vampire and human population of Bon Temps is in danger with the spread of the Hep V infection. Sookie (Anna Paquin) asks Bill (Stephen Moyer) to help her save the town but they soon have to face a shocking realisation.
Helen Thornhill and Rosemary Leach star in this classic BBC drama, based on novel by Laurie Lee. Set in post-war Gloucestershire in a sleepy Cotswold village, dreamy days spent sampling Granny Wallon (Mary Merrall)'s homebrew gives way to a darker vision of country life. As a young boy suffers at the hands of a sadistic teacher, happiness soon arrives as he then experiences his first love with the precocious Rosie (Thornhill).
British miniseries starring Ian McDiarmid, covering the 37 days between the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Britain's declaration of war against Germany in 1914. The episodes comprise: 'One Month in Summer', 'One Week in July' and 'One Long Weekend'.
Created from the novels by award winning crime writer Ann Cleeves, Shetland follows Detective Inspector Jimmy Perez and his team as they investigate crime within the close knit island community. In this isolated and sometimes inhospitable environment, the team have to rely on a uniquely resourceful style of policing. Set against a hauntingly beautiful landscape, Shetland is based on the best selling books Red Bones, Raven Black, Dead Water and Blue Lightning.
The complete first series of the 1970s US detective drama starring George Peppard as the eponymous Boston private eye. Thomas Banacek (Peppard) prides himself on his Polish heritage and ability to get to the bottom of even the most complex cases. But with his occasional lover and perennial rival Carlie Kirkland (Christine Belford) also vying for cases, Banacek will have to be on his toes if he is to remain the go-to P.I. in the city. The episodes are: 'Detour to Nowhere', 'Let's Hear It for a Living Legend', 'Project Phoenix', 'No Sign of the Cross', 'A Million the Hard Way', 'To Steal a King', 'Ten Thousand Dollars a Page', 'The Greatest Collection of Them All' and 'The Two Million Clams of Cap'n Jack'.
All three episodes from the sixth series of the ITV crime drama, adapted from the novels by Agatha Christie. Julia McKenzie stars as Miss Marple, the elderly woman who investigates crime in her local village. The series also stars Robert Webb, MyAnna Buring, Fiona Shaw, Julia Sawalha, Robert Glenister and Joanna Vanderham. The episodes comprise: 'A Caribbean Mystery', 'Greenshaw's Folly' and 'Endless Night'.
Celebrated actress Julia McKenzie and BAFTA award-winning actress Geraldine McEwan take on the role of Agatha Christie's shrewd and inquisitive Miss Jane Marple in this spectacular set of murder mysteries.
Season 1: The Body In The Library, Murder At The Vicarage, 4.50 From Paddington, A Murder Is Announced
Robert Powell reads a selection of ghost stories by M.R. James which have been partially dramatised. The stories comprise: 'The Mezzotint', 'The Ash Tree', 'Wailing Well', 'The Rose Garden' and 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad'.
The pilot episode and the complete first series of the spin-off of ITV's long-running crime drama 'Inspector Morse'. The show follows Endeavour Morse (Shaun Evans) in his younger years as a police constable during the 1960s. In the pilot 'Endeavour', after dropping out of Oxford University, Morse looks into the disappearance of a schoolgirl - a case which will shape his future. Finding himself ostracised from what becomes a murder investigation, Morse sets out on his own to seek justice. The first series continues to follow Morse as he works alongside his senior partner Detective Inspector Fred Thursday (Roger Allam) and PC James Strange (Sean Rigby) on a number of investigations around Oxford, England. The episodes are: 'Girl', 'Fugue', 'Rocket' and 'Home'.
All episodes from the first and second series of the gritty British crime drama following a gang of drug dealers in Hackney, London. In the first series, after receiving a loan from Bobby Raikes (Geoff Bell), Dushane (Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kane Robinson)'s drugs business thrives, enabling them to lead a rich lifestyle. Their situation takes a dark turn, however, when their rival, Kamale (Scorcher), steals their stash and violence breaks out amongst the gangs. Meanwhile, 13-year-old Ra'Nell (Malcolm Kamulete) becomes inadvertently involved in the drugs circle after his mother is taken into hospital. In the second series, Dushane has worked his way to the top but finds he has an enemy in his one-time associate Sully who now has a new ruthless crime partner. When their common nemesis Kamale is found dead both Dushane and Sully fall under suspicion. Meanwhile, 15-year-old Ra'Nell is lying low with the district youth squad trials fast approaching but his friend Gem (Giacomo Mancini) is unable to do the same.
Matthew Goode and MyAnna Buring star in this two-part ITV drama adapted from the novel by Erin Kelly. Having been released from prison early after serving time for murder, Rex (Goode) is welcomed home by his girlfriend Karen (Buring) and their young daughter. Their dark past is gradually pieced together in flashbacks which show how Karen was first beguiled by Rex and his eccentric sister Biba (Ophelia Lovibond) and how the close bond between the three eventually led to murder.
All 22 episodes from the first series starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former government agent who offers his services to real people who have problems that are too big for them to solve on their own. Episodes comprise: 'Pilot', 'China Rain', 'The Defector', 'The Lock Box', 'Lady Cop', 'The Confirmation Day', 'The Children's Song', 'The Distant Fire', 'Mama's Boy', 'Bump and Run', 'Desperately', 'Reign of Terror', 'Back Home', 'Out of the Past', 'Dead Drop', 'Wash-Up', 'Torn', 'Unnatural Causes', 'Breakpoint', 'No Conscience', 'Unpunished Crimes' and 'Pretenders'.
Tense, disturbing drama starring Penelope Wilton. Facing imminent forced retirement, Jean (Wilton), a house-sitter on her final job in a beautiful country house, begins to live in the place as though she owns it. When fate brings two strangers to the house - Michael (Daniel Mays), a petty thief, and Steph (Sinead Matthews), a pregnant girl on the run from her abusive boyfriend - Jean discovers the family she has always wanted. Inevitably the past starts catching up with them, threatening to destroy the delusional yet idyllic, isolated life they have created.
The complete eighth season of the popular US drama following detectives Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) and Bobby Simone (Jimmy Smits) as they help police the streets of the Big Apple. The episodes comprise: 'Daveless in New York', 'Waking Up Is Hard to Do', 'Franco, My Dear, I Don't Give a Damn', 'Family Ties', 'Fools Russian', 'Writing Wrongs', 'In-Laws, Outlaws', 'Russellmania', 'Oh Golly Goth', 'In the Still of Night', 'Peeping Tommy', 'Thumb Enchanted Evening', 'Flight of Fancy', 'Nariz a Nariz', 'Love Hurts', 'Everyone Into the Pool', 'Dying to Testify', 'Lost Time', 'Under Covers' and 'In the Wind'.
Ken Loach's television play, made for the BBC's Wednesday Play series, is probably the most famous British television play ever, watched by a quarter of the population both on its first broadcast in November 1966 and on its repeat in January 1967. Carol White stars as the bright young bride Cathy, who is driven to despair by the social and economic forces pitted against her as she struggles to keep her children in a housing system that is constantly working against her. Loach used voice-overs of actual people caught up in the system and managed to get the unfairness of the system into the debating arena at the time.
Joe Ahearne writes and directs this three-part TV adaptation of James Herbert's ghostly novel. A year after their young son Cabe goes missing without trace, Eve (Suranne Jones) and Gabe (Tom Ellis) Caleigh decide a change of scene would help, and set out with their daughters for what they hope will be the rustic delights of Crickley Hall. Shortly after arriving in the Devonshire village of Devil's Cleave, however, the family start to experience strange paranormal events, which somehow seem to be linked to the disappearance of their son. As the story continues to unfold, both in the past and the present day, the Caleigh's soon come to realise that the darkly gothic mansion possesses a secret evil from which they can't escape.
Lawrence Gordon Clark directs this triple bill of BBC adaptations of the ghost stories by M.R. James. In 'Lost Hearts' (1973) young orphan Stephen (Simon Gipps-Kent) goes to stay at the generous Mr. Abney (Joseph O'Connor)'s estate where he is haunted by two children who previously lived in the house. It turns out the children have come to warn Stephen that Abney is not all that he seems. In 'The Ash Tree' (1975) Sir Richard Fell (Edward Petherbridge) inherits his uncle's manor and grounds. He moves in and decides to cut down an ash tree that could prove harmful to the property but before he gets the chance he begins to hear strange sounds and sees supernatural figures coming from the tree... In 'The Treasure of Abbot Thomas' (1974) cynical Reverend Somerton (Michael Bryant) is completely close-minded when it comes to paranormal activity. His steadfast beliefs falter, however, when his and Lord Peter Dattering (Paul Lavers)'s search for the treasure of alchemist Abbot Thomas (John Herrington) unleashes a terrifying spectre.
Double bill of BBC adaptations of M.R. James's ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', written in 1904. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (1968) Michael Hordern plays Professor Parkin who heads to a hotel on the east coast of England where he comes across a bone whistle while out on a walk. He takes it back to the hotel with him but that night hears strange noises in his room and, despite his dismissal of the supernatural, he is soon faced with more mysterious goings-on. In 'Whistle and I'll Come to You' (2010) John Hurt stars as James Parkin who, in this version, is a retired astronomer taking a much needed break from caring for his ailing wife. After finding a ring while wandering through the coastal resort he finds himself experiencing increasingly frightening and seemingly paranormal activity.
Five-part drama series based on the life of Charmian Biggs, the wife of criminal Ronnie Biggs who played a significant part in the Great Train Robbery of 1963. Charmian (Sheridan Smith) first encounters Ronnie (Daniel Mays) on a train and they soon fall in love. When she becomes pregnant the two marry but Ronnie's involvement in the robbery results in his imprisonment. He escapes from jail less than two years later and, wanting to keep her family together, Charmian goes to Paris with their children to meet up with Ronnie. They flee to Australia but are unable to evade the constant threat of capture...
All episodes from the first series of the BBC crime drama starring Ben Miller. Attempting to solve a murder case on the tropical Caribbean island of Saint-Marie, DI Richard Poole (Miller) would rather swap the sun for his home in rainy London. As his investigations get underway, however, more killings occur and it seems that his boss has reasons for keeping him on the island.
Collection of three feature-length episodes from the TV series based on Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery novels. In 'Murder On the Orient Express' the Belgian moustache-twirling detective, Hercule Poirot (David Suchet), is travelling from Istanbul to England aboard the Orient Express when a man, who appears to be a stranger to the other passengers, is killed. While the train is caught in a snowdrift Poirot attempts to reveal who is responsible. In 'Death On the Nile' (2004) young heiress Linnet Doyle (Emily Blunt) is murdered while enjoying a pleasure cruise down the Nile with her new husband, Simon Doyle (J.J. Feild), aboard a luxury liner occupied by a diverse set of extremely wealthy passengers. Widely disliked and envied, the young woman is soon discovered by Poirot to have had plenty of enemies, many of whom turn out to be on board... In 'The ABC Murders' an anonymous serial killer has been taking his victims in alphabetical order. The police believe the murders to be the work of a lunatic but Poirot soon realises the killer is much more methodical than they first thought...
All 22 episodes from the second season of the 1980s crime drama starring Edward Woodward as Robert McCall, a former government agent who offers his specialist services to those in need. Guest stars appearing in this series include Christian Slater, Kevin Spacey, Steve Buscemi, William H. Macy and Quentin Crisp. The episodes comprise: 'Prelude', 'Nocturne', 'A Community of Civilised Men', 'Joyride', 'Shades of Darkness', 'Nightscape', 'Counterfire', 'The Line', 'Tip On a Sure Thing', 'The Cup', 'Heartstrings', 'High Performance', 'Beyond Control', 'Carnal Persuasion', 'Memories of Manon: Part 1', 'Memories of Manon: Part 2', 'Solo', 'A Place to Stay', 'Coal Black Soul', 'First Light', 'Hand and Glove' and 'Re-Entry'.
All eight episodes from season 14 of the crime drama set in the picturesque county of Midsomer. In this season, a new detective, DCI John Barnaby, arrives in Midsomer to try and get to grips with the murder cases that arise in the area. Like his predecessor, Barnaby will need the help of his assistant, DS Ben Jones, to get to the bottom of the cases.
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All episodes from the second series of the British medical drama set in the 1960s at the fictional St Aidan's Royal Free Hospital. The show follows Matron (Wendy Craig) and the other hospital staff as they tend to the sick and face challenges both in and out of the workplace. Episodes comprise: 'All at Sea', 'Snake and Ladders', 'Thicker Than Water', 'Wishing and Hoping', 'One of Those Days' and 'The Last Waltz'. |
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