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On arrival at British Albion, Mr Gryce felt that his lack of ambition would be completely fulfilled. There was a luncheon voucher scheme, a pension...

After a lock-keeper entrusts his daughter to a canal Casanova, he is shocked to learn that she is pregnant. He then refuses to open his locks -...

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the...

Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into...

A Bristol typist joins the world of beauty contests.

A doctor's already-shaky marriage is tested to an even greater extent when he has to contend with a smallpox epidemic.

A pretty young woman will do anything to escape her deadly dull existence in the backlots of Wales. But when she reaches the bright lights of London...

Christmas is coming to Ten Acre Field and Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) is determined to enjoy it in style. He goes searching for Aunt Sally (Una...

A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires contempt in almost everyone around him,...

Film adaptation from the novel by D.H. Lawrence, discovered after the celebrated author's death in 1930, a romantic love story tells of a prim young...

Two journalists search for a rock band that was popular 20 years ago but just seemed to have vanished and was never heard from again. Their...

Alice's attempts to reach the children by climbing down the chimney of their grandmother's house result in various people being stranded on the roof....

A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apartment.

John Cleese stars as Sherlock Holmes in this Comedy Playhouse pilot episode from 1973.

British TV-Drama

The Limbo Line tells a story of Cold War double-crossing with British secret agent Manston trying to break up a group of Russian agents who return...

In 1977, after a fourteen year dry spell, the novelist Barbara Pym was nominated for a Booker Award for her novel, Quartet in Autumn. This drama...

'Alice's' attempts to help with house decorating result in disaster. She is banished to the tree-house but a violent storm drives her indoors, to the...