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- The last installment of Sherlock Holmes' investigations.
- Fitz returns to Manchester after living 10 years in Australia with his wife and youngest son. He is soon drawn into the investigation of a British soldier who may have been traumatized by his years serving in Northern Ireland.
- Series looking at the end of British imperial rule in various states.
- Born in the USSR: Up follows the lives of people who grew up in the Soviet Union. They give an insight into Russian life.
- A medical student is desperate to solve a murder to prove that she's not having a psychological breakdown, as her family and friends believe her to be.
- Comedy thriller notable for the remarkably un-manic and restrained performance by Rik Mayall as single parent and part-time minicab driver Toby. Trying to juggle being Dad to seven -year old daughter Annie and study whilst also working at night for taxi controller Pete is hard enough. But when one night he crosses paths with mysterious femme fatal Clair, he finds himself plunged into a wild and hazardous adventure involving exploding manor houses, vengeful lovers and a magic medieval tournament.
- Boris Pasternak, creator of the immortal Dr Zhivago, discredited by Stalin and denied the Nobel Literature Prize by Khrushev, Pasternak's Dr Zhivago was banned in the USSR until 1988. Only now in the new spirit of freedom and reconciliation that exists the story of Pasternak can be told. The words of Pasternak are spoken by Robert Powell, with Imogen Stubbs as Lara and Olga.
- The events leading up to Margaret Thatcher's resignation as Prime Minister in 1990.
- The Queen of Rock at the height of her career. During her 1987-88 Break Every Rule World Tour, Tina Turner, as a solo performer accomplished 2 things on the night of January 16, 1988 at the Maracana Stadium, in Rio de Janeiro; broke an attendance record that landed her in the Guinness Book of World Records (beating Frank Sinatra's record), and fulfilling her dream of filling a stadium. This is Tina Turner at her best!
- A British TV documentary that originally aired in 1968. The Doors are Open focuses on the bands performance at London's Roundhouse with rare backstage footage and interviews.
- On the occasion of Beethoven's 200th birthday, Daniel Barenboim, at the piano and with help from Adrian Boult, the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Jacqueline du Pré, takes an affectionate look at some of the composer's most important works.
- A series of ten programs which looks at historical events from a contemporary viewpoint rather than with the benefit of hindsight. Looks back on key events of the 20th century. Uses original material, including newspaper headlines, photographs, archive films, cartoons and music-hall songs.
- Strange, bizarre, and for children of all ages, The Island Of Inis Cool is a unique digital animation series that could only be set on an isolated island off an unknown coast of Ireland. Three dim-witted schoolboys Biff, Boff and Ben O'Malley, amuse and annoy with their cheeky attitudes and outrageous antics.
- This is an update of 1999's powerful award winning documentary Malcolm and Barbara- a love story, which follows the couple Malcolm and Barbara Pointon as they deal with Malcolm's onset of Alzheimers disease. Malcolm was a talented composer and musician before his illness and the film follows Barbara as she attempts to care for Malcolm in their home whilst struggling with the health service as the disease takes hold.
- Documentary following seven years in the life of Amanda Roocroft, following her musical career from her student days to the launch of her recording career.
- Peter Moon and Michael Veitch present some of the most popular sketches from the Australian sketch comedy show "Fast Forward". It also includes a few never-before-seen sketches, as well as outtakes from some episodes.
- The People Show began in 1966 considered Britain's first experimental theatre company. Their early word and performances presented deeply weird avant garde happenings, bizarre imagery, and with prominent use of sound tapes.
- Documentary about the life of football manager Ally McLeod.
- Examines the careers of style-forming British pop and rock groups.
- Art students revolt and occupy their colleges.
- Documentary which follows Michael Tippett in his 84th year giving a series of workshops at the Royal Northern College of Music and Chetham's School.
- A British woman falls for a German prisoner of war, despite the fact that her fiancee was killed by Germans during the war.
- A working class man, distraught at the recent death of his father, impulsively becomes a skinhead and murders a Pakistani shopkeeper over a perceived insult.
- When a man disinherits his sole beneficiary and bequeaths his wealth to others just prior to his death, Poirot is called in to investigate.
- The Beresfords investigate the murder of Gilda Glenn, a well-known stage actress, but everyone involved has an alibi.
- The members of a church who attended a particular service start to die one by one.
- A serial killer is murdering young women in Paris. Maigret sets a trap using a policewoman as a decoy in the murder location. The killer attacks her but when the police come he runs away, leaving a sartorial clue which links to Marcel Moncin, a married mother's boy. Maigret arrests Moncin but whilst he is in custody there is another killing. Has Maigret got the wrong man or does Moncin have an accomplice?
- Maigret's sneaking affection for a paralyzed criminal Manuel Palmari propels him to pursue his murderer despite the mastermind's involvement in a current jewel robbery.
- Charting a day in the life of Redmere Lodge, St. Leonards-on- Sea, a residential home for elderly people.
- The uproar in Pemberley is increased with the announcement of Darcy's engagement to Caroline Bingley. At the same time the news that Lydia has gone off with Bingley causes distress in the Bennet family. After Amanda's fervent words, Mr Bennet feels obliged to duel Bingley and is hurt in the event of it. In an effort to get help and find Elizabeth, Amanda unexpectedly returns to her twenty-first century. Darcy, on following Amanda into the present-day London, feels at a lost and face to face with his alleged wife-to-be. Elizabeth now works as a nanny is quite familiar with the technological inventions of our time and even the Mr Darcy-Colin Firth phenomenon - and thus realizes that she has just met her intended husband-to-be. Elizabeth is informed of her father's injury and with Amanda and Darcy she sets of to Georgian England to enter the Bennet home once again.
- Realiazing he has lost Irene (Gina McKee), a vengeful Soames (Damian Lewis) sets out to ruin Bosinney's (Ioan Gruffudd) architectural career by charging him with mismanagement.
- A biographical drama based on the writings of Boris Pasternak and the recollections of those close to him.