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- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsPeter CushingAndré MorellYvonne MitchellIn a totalitarian future society, Winston Smith, whose daily work is re-writing history, tries to rebel by falling in love.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsJohn Le MesurierJack HedleyVincent BallDishillusioned by his rich, aristocratic upbringing in Britain, top foreign office diplomat Adrian Harris became a spy for the Russians. He escaped to Moscow after being found out and it is there that, a few years later, a group of Western journalists come in search of his story. He disgusts them with his drunken ranting, but, unknown to them, he has good reason to conceal his true feelings.
- DirectorBarry DavisStarsAnna CropperJohn CarsonTim CurryWhen a stranger, Glen, appears at the door of middle-aged Elizabeth Carter, he claims to be the illegitimate son she gave away at birth, and she accepts his story.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsColin BlakelyRobert HardyBernard HeptonDennis Potter's controversial reading of the life of Christ, with Jesus portrayed as a hearty, fiery, well-meaning carpenter who believes that people should try to love their enemies rather than fight all the time, but who is racked by self doubt as to whether or not he is the popularly anticipated Messiah.
- DirectorJames Cellan JonesStarsWarren MitchellClifford RoseJulian HollowaySecrets Chocolates receive an unexpected sales boost when three maintenance workers fall into the chocolate vat and are fed through the production line.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsKeith BarronJack WoolgarKatherine ParrSemi-autobiographical TV play by Dennis Potter, from the BBC's 'Wednesday Play' series. It deals with the experiences of Nigel Barton, a young man from a poor mining community who wins a scholarship to Oxford University. The villagers accuse him of snobbery, while the rich University students treat him like a peasant. Uncertain of which sphere he should be moving in, Nigel tries to reconcile himself with his proud but stubborn father, and also succeed at University, despite its pretentions which apall him.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsAlan DobieKika MarkhamMalcolm TerrisDennis Potter's meta commentary on scriptwriting, as Helen meets writer Martin Ellis in a hotel bar to help with his writer's block. Also there is Carol, an escort girl with her client. But are they real, or merely Martin's imaginings?
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsStan ShawRosemary LeachRicco Ross
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsGabrielle DayeHarry MarkhamBob PeckA married couple, after a life time of work and bringing up a family, retire and awaken to the fast changing world around them, the habitual nature of their relationship, and what they have left.
- DirectorJohn SchlesingerStarsJames FoxGregory FloyDavid CalderSir Anthony Blunt, who was a Soviet agent for 25 years, is routinely questioned and gives no answers, but is knighted and works as Director of the Courtauld Institute, and presents his interrogator with a puzzle in the shape of a doubtful Titian painting. He also does art restoration work in Buckingham Palace, where he gets into an interesting conversation with HMQ.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsRobert MacNaughtonMichael BrandonGlynis BarberThis production for the BBC-2's "Screen Two" series was the last of Dennis Potter's "one-shot, one-slot" plays for television. It had its origins in Potter's 1983 play "Sufficient Carbohydrate," about two middle-aged executives, one English, one American, who both work for the same multinational food company. Together, they vacation with their wives on a Greek island. In the TV adaptation, British businessman Jack becomes bitter as he faces the prospect of seeing his family company taken over by an American corporation. On a holiday at an Italian villa with his new manager, Eddie, he begins to stir up antagonism prompting Eddie's son Clayton to fantasize a murderous outcome.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsGeorge BakerDeborah WatlingRosalie CrutchleyWritten for THE WEDNESDAY PLAY (1964-70), which the BBC retitled PLAY FOR TODAY in 1970, ALICE has the earliest airdate (10/13/65) of the Potter productions to survive on tape. After THE CONFIDENCE COURSE (1965), it's the second of the nine Potter plays seen on THE WEDNESDAY PLAY. In this look at Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), aka Lewis Carroll, Potter mixed biographical drama with a psychological profile to explore the roots of Dodgson's creativity. Dodgson tells stories to ten-year-old Alice Liddell, leading to recreations of scenes adapted from ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND (1865), designed to resemble the original Sir John Tenniel illustrations.
- 1964–19701h 20m7.9 (80)TV EpisodeDirectorGareth DaviesStarsKeith BarronValerie GearonJohn BaileyCandidate Nigel Barton goes from idealism to cynicism as he becomes disillusioned and suspicious of hollow campaign promises.
- 1980–19941h 55mNot Rated7.3 (304)TV EpisodeDirectorGordon ParksStarsAvery BrooksRhetta GreeneMason AdamsThis is based on a true story. Solomon Northrop is a black man in the mid 19th century before slavery was abolished. He's a born freeman who works as a carpenter and is also a part time musician. One day he is approached by some men who want him to play for them. However, that is not their intention; they have kidnapped him and sold him into slavery. Now he has to endure the hardships that he has been spared because of his status as a freeman. And his family who don't know what happened to him is searching for him but where do they go? And Solomon also wishes to let them know where he is so that they could get him but unfortunately no one believes his story or is willing to help him.
- DirectorChris BernardStarsSam HickmanBilly HartmanBilly McElhaneyTwo brothers growing up in a small Scottish mining town become convinced the albino man living in their street is an alien. Influenced by science fiction films and the religious bigotry around them, they begin to persecute him, until one day actually get to know him.
- DirectorRodney BennettStarsAlec GuinnessLeo McKernIan RichardsonIn this modern adaptation of the Don Quixote theme based on a novel by Graham Greene, Quixote is an old Spanish village priest who travels through Spain with his friend, Sancho, the village's mayor and his car called Rocinante. On their way he has to master the same adventures as his ancestor.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsKen JonesBill DeanNeville SmithStory of a group of manual workers who live and breath watching Everton FC. The gang travel to London, to watch the team play Arsenal, at Highbury. Vince discovers his wife has gone into labour and has to consider returning home early.
- DirectorJames OrmerodStarsHerbert LomJames GriffithsAnthony ValentineGuests at a small hotel are disquieted by the insistence of a mysterious doctor that he has been there before.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsGary OldmanLesley ManvillePhil DavisThis is the story of rival "Firms" of football supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the European Championships of 1988. However, when this is discussed, the opposing leaders are not happy, as they believe this is a challenge to their authority. This Film shows how football violence has progressed from pure violence to a form of organized crime, to the extent that all the leaders know each others home phone / mobile phone numbers.
- DirectorKarl FrancisStarsHelen McCroryRhys IfansDonna EdwardsThe rough urban life in a Welsh valley that focuses on Jo, a single mother who has just become pregnant by her married boyfriend Kevin.
- DirectorPedr JamesStarsAlun ArmstrongJean HeywoodElizabeth EstensenWhen a teacher takes a group of troubled school children on a school trip to Conwy in Wales, the children understand life outside of Liverpool.
- DirectorRoy BattersbyStarsLynne PerrieElizabeth SpriggsLori WellsThe true story of a strike in 1970 by female textile-factory workers in Leeds who wanted to be paid the same as their male colleagues, but whose efforts were undermined by the trade union that they belonged to.
- DirectorTed KotcheffStarsPatricia HayesBarbara JeffordGeraldine ShermanEdna is a drunk, and a homeless one. The play follows her through the streets, the police station, the psychiatric ward and a hostel, which for a while looks like it may become somewhere she can stay.
- DirectorLindsay AndersonStarsJohn GielgudRalph RichardsonDandy NicholsIn a mental home, two elderly men become unlikely friends.
- DirectorBrian ParkerStarsGwen TaylorJohn FlanaganJean HeywoodFaced with the prospect of being sent to work abroad, Sally Brown returns home from London to Hull, to see if she still feels the same attachment for her home town - and for her old boyfriend Mike Thurlow. Will she decide to take the job abroad or return to live with Mike in Hull?
- DirectorRichard EyreStarsBill FraserJonathan PryceDavid BurkeSix wannabe stand-up comedians attend an evening class run by Eddie Waters. Eddie is a professional comic and he's determined to teach them that comedy is much more than just jokes.
- DirectorRoland JofféStarsVal McLaneRicky TomlinsonAnthony HebronTodays theme is the United Kingdom.
- DirectorMichael SimpsonStarsBrian GloverRay MortDouglas LivingstoneThree miners plan a weekend fishing.
- DirectorJohn GoldschmidtStarsSusan LittlerJohn DuttineHelene PalmerAutobiographical tale about Viv Nicholson who had a large Football Pools win in the early 1960s, and the ultimately destructive effect it had on her and her family.
- DirectorGuy JenkinStarsTom WilkinsonNeil PearsonClive RussellPolitical satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat.
- DirectorCharles GormleyStarsBilly ConnollyJohn MurtaghEwan StewartSet in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo (Connolly), a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise. JoJo learns of his peril and begins an exercise in risk management.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsPhil DavisLesley ManvilleBrenda BlethynDick and Mandy, a young working class couple, move into a council house in Canterbury, and find Mr. Butcher, one of their former teachers, living next door. Mandy's unmarried sister, Gloria, is constantly dropping in, and will not take any hints that the couple would prefer to be left alone, until her presence finally goads them to action.
- 1969–197452m7.5 (79)TV EpisodeDirectorMichael AptedStarsDavid SwiftGordon McGraeFreddie FletcherMr. Armistead is the referee for an amateur league Sunday Football match. Disliked and abused by all the players he tries to play fair and ensure they follow the rules. By the end of the match he's had enough and really uses his head to show them that he's not as useless as they all think.
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsColm MeaneyTina KellegherRuth McCabe20 year old Irish girl Sharon Curly lives at home with her large family. But notoriety in her neighbourhood suddenly arrives when, after a night out on the town, she becomes pregnant and refuses to divulge the identity of the baby's father.
- 1970–19841h 30m8.6 (42)TV EpisodeDirectorJohn MackenzieStarsJohn BettDavid MacLennanDolina MacLennanDrama documentary adaptation of John McGrath's play staged by the 7:84 theatre company dealing with the exploitation of the Scottish people throughout history, from the brutal evictions of the Highland crofters by landowners to make way for the more economically viable Cheviot sheep in the 18th century, the development of stag hunts in Highland game parks in the 19th century and finally the exploitation of resources during the oil boom of the 1970's.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsCarol WhiteRay BrooksWinifred DennisA wedding. Happy and promising. A young couple, new to the ways of life. The joys of parenthood: A dream comes true. Then the first incident in a long, spiraling chain of events, and down they go. No job, no money. Moving from house to house, each smaller than the last. Hope is briefly found, But fate strikes again under a cruel word: Eviction. The family flees. A caravan is their shelter. But little did they know what was to come. Fire, destruction. Rage. Discrimination towards the poor. Hope is lost. The last straw is pulled. Distress. Separation. The family torn apart. Mother and children, father all alone. The ship can sink no lower. Or so they thought. Broke. Crushed. Chased from their last shelter. A mother clings to her children. And the final blow: children ripped from her loving arms.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsNorman RossingtonGodfrey QuigleyPeter KerriganDock workers under the threat of redundancy, work day and night in an attempt to keep employed by running the workforce themselves.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsTony SelbyRita WebbFinnuala O'ShannonA dull witted young labourer from a criminal family is sent to gaol for a minor crime, leaving his pregnant girlfriend unmarried. But while there he is talked into attacking a guard, who later dies, so he's then sentenced to hang for his crime, despite a protest and newspaper campaign for leniency.
- 1970–19841h 17m7.8 (98)TV EpisodeDirectorKen LoachStarsBobby KnuttRita MayPaul ChappellThe workers of Milton Colliery prepare for a royal visit by Prince Charles.
- 1970–19841h 31m7.6 (77)TV EpisodeDirectorKen LoachStarsRita MayBobby KnuttPaul ChappellA month after the royal visit, the workers at Milton Colliery are brought crashing back down to earth by an underground explosion.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsCarol WhiteGeraldine ShermanVickery TurnerFragments of the life of three working-class women, and the people around them, in South London in the 1960s. Scenes in homes, streets, pubs, prison and their workplace cover family, friendship, romance, sex, and abortion.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsMichele DotriceAndrew KeirIan HolmEmma, who lived with an author for the last two years of his life, is involved in a television film about him.
- DirectorBill HaysStarsDudley FosterAlan BrowningColin DouglasThe history of the mining industry in the northeast of England is told through family drama, comedy sketches and song.
- DirectorPiers HaggardStarsRosemary NicolsAnthony MayPaul GreenwoodThree young merchant seamen from Liverpool take shore leave in their home city after three years away.
- DirectorLionel HarrisStarsPatrick BarrTerence SewardsRoger GartlandPart of the BBC's celebrated 'Wednesday Play' series of the 1960s, this early work by Dennis Potter is set in an isolated New Forest community in 19th Century Britain. A young local girl is murdered by a mentally disturbed youth, but the villagers blame a stranger, an Italian traveling showman and his bear, rather than see the rot in their own camp.
- DirectorClaude WhathamStarsClifford EvansRachel KempsonJoseph O'ConorGarry committed suicide to escape disgrace and imprisonment. Does he now have the chance to change the circumstances leading to his downfall?
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsBilly HamonConstance ChapmanReg LyeA teenage boy reluctantly accompanies his ghastly family on a coarse bank-holiday day out to local beauty spot and tourist trap, the Cheddar Gorge.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsPatrick MageeJoseph O'ConorPatricia LawrenceAn elderly painter, once radical and confrontational, is given a final commission - to paint the portrait of the former Conservative Prime Minister who represented a totally opposing set of values when they were both young. Both men are now old and of little consequence to the modern generation, but the painter sees his opportunity to make an artistic statement by means of the portrait.
- DirectorKen LoachStarsAnna CropperBrian PhelanGeorge A. CooperIn a series of small vignettes, we follow the course of a manic-depressive girl through high and low instances, slowly following her disintegration as she deals with her doctors and family, especially her hot headed, unimaginative father. Eventually she is brought back to a mental asylum where she'd been committed before.
- DirectorJack GoldStarsRoy MintonNeville SmithJoe GladwinYorky is considered a troublemaker by the building site manager. When they sack him a strike is called but lost after the police intervene. He wants nationalise the building industry but forced to go the lump - tax free and off the books.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsHywel BennettMegs JenkinsAubrey RichardsA mentally disturbed Welsh teenager is obsessed with Westerns. His volatile temperament loses him the few people who might have been sympathetic, and helped him. Instead, he spirals down to inevitable destruction.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsTom BellChristine HargreavesSusan RichardsFor the BBC's WEDNESDAY PLAY series, Dennis Potter offered one of his "visitation dramas": Housewife Cynthia Nicholls is married to prudish Richard Nicholls. One day, her mundane household chores are interrupted by the arrival on her front step of scruffy, coarse Michael Biddle. He claims to be an angel, but on the face of it, he could simply be a deranged street person. She challenges the angel Michael by pointing out that he has no wings.
- DirectorRobert KnightsStarsKeith BarronGeorgina HaleRowena CooperPlaywright Christopher Hudson finds his medical problem hinders his writing. He employs secretary Sandra George and dictates his new play to her, but tensions soon develop between the two. As Hudson creates, scenes from his play are dramatized and interpolated. The play being created is Dennis Potter's Angels Are So Few, seen with a totally different cast from the 1970 BBC production.
- DirectorBarry DavisStarsBill MaynardJohn CarsonDesmond PerryFacing retirement, elderly journalist Clarence Hubbard reflects on the pointlessness of a life wasted writing banal tabloid human interest, animal, and crime stories. Rather than go quietly to tend roses in a garden, Hubbard begins a series of violent actions not unlike those described in tabloids, and this is heightened by inter cutting tabloid headlines between scenes. Throughout, there are occasional shots of a television critic who watches this very play as it unfolds, and he writes a negative review filled with cleverly phrased but bitter invective.
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsNikolas SimmondsLeonard TrolleyPeter CellierDennis Potter used his own background as a Russian language clerk in the War Office when writing this play for ITV's SATURDAY NIGHT THEATRE series. At the time of the 1956 Suez Crisis and the Russian invasion of Hungary, Private Bob Hawk reports to the London Intelligence Office where the strength of Soviet troops is under scrutiny.
- DirectorGilchrist CalderStarsGeoffrey MatthewsDennis PriceStanley BaxterThree swindlers advertise a self-assertiveness seminar, lure a dozen victims to a hotel and attempt to persuade them to enroll in their course. However, a man claiming to be the critic-essayist William Hazlitt (1778-1830) attacks the consumerist values outlined by the motivational speaker.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsTerence de MarneyTenniel EvansDan JacksonIn this medical drama for the BBC's THIRTY MINUTE THEATER series, a doctor is helpless as an old man dies in pain. In the same ward, three other patients of different backgrounds attempt to deal with the old man's death.
- DirectorJames MacTaggartStarsIan HolmAnthony BateDeborah GrantWriting for ITV Saturday Night Theatre (1969), Dennis Potter introduced the notion that popular music expresses the yearning of the human spirit for a better world. A troubled young man, David Peters (Ian Holm), claims, "Once dreams were possible, that's what the popular songs told us." Rejecting rock music of the day, Peters is immersed in the tunes of Thirties crooner Al Bowlly (killed during the London blitz). He collects Bowlly memorabilia, publishes the Bowlly fan-club newsletter, and finds pleasure in lip-synching Bowlly records but his obsession with Bowlly masks certain darker events in his past.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsFreddie JonesAngharad ReesDennis WatermanThe religious beliefs of pet shop owner Joe (Freddie Jones) are shaken by the terminal illness of his daughter Lucy (Angharad Rees). For Potter, this play "makes more than a wry nod at possibilities which can comprehend pain, or disgust, or the implacable presence of death itself."
- DirectorJoan Kemp-WelchStarsGeorge BakerMargaret TyzackWeston GavinThis was Dennis Potter's first play for independent TV in Great Britain. It aired on ITV's PLAYHOUSE series. Potter contrasted the fading heritage of the British empire with new American values, embodying national traits in his central characters proper British businessman George King, a London suburbanite, who encounters loud and crass sailor Sam Adams, an American who is disrespectful of British culture and traditions.
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsDenholm ElliottBillie WhitelawRichard VernonA disturbed actor takes refuge in drugs and therapy.
- DirectorMichael TuchnerStarsJeremy SteynMaria CharlesBernard SpearOn the eve of his Bar Mitzvah, young Elliot finds that all the grown men in his life are somewhat wanting.
- DirectorDavid TuckerStarsPeter DavisonJoanna KanskaAdam PrzedrzymirskiDr. Stephen Daker feels finally settled in his life in Poland with his new wife Grete Grotowska and son Tomasz but he soon find things to be just as tumultuous, not least because Bob Buzzard is still around. And is that those nuns again?
- DirectorJames FermanStarsThora HirdRon MoodyRonald LaceyBilly Oates meets a lady in a market and, taken by his kindness, she invites him to lodge with her and her husband. A rivalry soon develops between the young man and his landlord.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsHarold PinterJane ArdenKatherine WoodvilleIn this adaptation of a Jean-Paul Sartre play, three people find themselves sharing a room together with no way out. As they talk, the nature of the room and how they came to be there is gradually revealed.
- DirectorBrian GibsonStarsJohn ThawBilly McCollPatrick DurkinJohn Duncan is a 22-year-old boxer with three losses in a row but world title dreams. His manager is an idealist with scruples in a business full of immoral corporate sponsorship. John is given a chance he shouldn't take, but can't refuse.
- 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.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsJon MorrisonEileen McCallumBill HendersonIt's the day of the Orange Parade in Glasgow, but for Jon, the thrill of leading the parade and swinging the mace soon turns to horror as he learns the truth behind the costumes and songs.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsBilly ConnollyJon MorrisonBunny spends all his day hiding in the woods, too frightened to tell his wife he's not really going to work and is actually unemployed. While there he meets Jody, a man with a frighteningly similar outlook on life.
- DirectorJohn MackenzieStarsFrankie MillerKen HutchisonJean Taylor SmithJake lives in the shadow of his dying grandfather, who was once the town's toughest hard man. Despite their hatred of each other, Jake's sole aim is to be as tough as the old man was. One day in Jake's life, as he drifts, drinks and fights, leads to a bleak realisation.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsLesley MackieDavid HaymanMary RiggansA pregnant teenager sets about wooing a sailor in a sectarian council estate in Greenock.
- DirectorIan KnoxStarsHarvey KeitelAndrew ByattStella GonetDown Where The Buffalo Go is a drama made for television by BBC Scotland. It follows the life of a US Marine (played by Keitel) based at the Holy Loch naval base and the local girl he married. Their relationship is at straining point - she wants to leave Scotland and settle in America while he wants to remain in Scotland.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsPeter FirthCaroline LangrishePippa GuardDominick Hide has a mission to study and report on the transport systems of the past, but only as an observer. Yet when his Great Aunt Mavis talks about one of his ancestors, Dominick begins to bend the rules and become involved.
- DirectorAlan GibsonStarsPeter FirthCaroline LangrishePippa GuardNow a respected teacher of temporal observers, Dominick has not visited the past for several years. He is content with his lot, resigned to the idea that he will never again see Jane, the lover he left in 1980, or their son. Then his boss gives him a new mission: to find out what has become of one of Dominick's students, Pyrus Bonnington, who has gone missing in 1982. Pyrus, who idolises Dominick, is attempting to emulate his exploits in the past. Dominick's search reunites him with Jane who now lives with a musician (conveniently on a six-month stint in Brazil) and allows him to meet his son for the first time. Pyrus is attempting to rescue a foreign princess being held to ransom by terrorists, which might have a disastrous affect on future history if he succeeds. Matters become even more complicated when Dominick and Jane quarrel, and he decides to use his time machine to revisit the previous day, and try to repair the rift. Meanwhile, in Dominick's own time, his wife becomes increasingly disenchanted with his dalliance in the past, and runs off with their baby-sitter.
- DirectorAlan ClarkeStarsSpencer BanksJohn AtkinsonGeorgine AndersonSummer 1955, and pastor's son Stephen must come to terms with his own identity amid societal pressure, religious guilt and his own imaginings.
- DirectorTristram PowellStarsJohn NettletonPat HeywoodEdward Rawle-HicksSeventeen-year-old Richard and his parents take their annual seaside holiday in a guesthouse on England's east coast in the 1950s. Julia, a teenage girl holidaying with her parents in a nearby guesthouse, catches Richard's eye, but her Dutch friend Anna is intent on causing trouble.
- DirectorJohn FrankauStarsJulia FosterMichael BryantLally BowersTodays theme is Mr. Axelford's Angel.
- DirectorDonald McWhinnieStarsAnthony AndrewsLeslie SaronyPhil DanielsPinchwife brings his simple young wife to London for his sister's wedding. Lest she falls prey to the town's temptations, he keeps her under lock and key.
- DirectorCharles SturridgeStarsIan HolmHelen MirrenNigel HaversA Russian in London finds himself targeted by British Intelligence.
- DirectorTerry JohnsonStarsAmanda RedmanMichael MaloneyEllie HaddingtonA lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague.
- DirectorDavid HareStarsGary OldmanJoely RichardsonStephen DillaneA story of a woman who is torn between two men in post World War II London.
- DirectorCarl PrechezerStarsPaul ReynoldsRachel WeiszBernard HillThe story of a couple who are new age travellers but get sucked into suburban life.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsRay DaviesLois DaineNorman RossingtonPlay For Today began with Alan Sharp's script about a man whose marriage is under strain when he undertakes a piano-playing marathon over four days. Starring Ray Davies, it remains in the BBC archives only as a black and white copy.
- DirectorDavid HareStarsKate NelliganBill PatersonHugh Fraser1941 and Anna Seaton (Kate Nelligan) is hired as part of a radio propaganda project, creating disinformation about the Nazi war effort. But tensions between her and writer Archie MacLean (Bill Paterson) threaten to undermine the work.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsMaurice ColbournePhilip MartinTania RogersBirmingham is a melting pot of races and every community has a stake in the city's underworld. When John Kline is released from prison after serving a sentence for murder, he becomes the unwilling catalyst in a gang war.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsEric RichardLorraine BrunningKay StonhamThree postal workers and their dysfunctional families interact over cups of tea and Sunday dinner.
- DirectorMike LeighStarsLiz SmithClifford KershawPolly HemingwayA quiet and put-upon house cleaner breaks her silence.
- DirectorBrian ParkerStarsBrian GloverRay MortDouglas LivingstoneThree miners take a boat trip to Stratford-on-Avon.
- DirectorNicholas RentonStarsRobert GlenisterSusan FleetwoodRoger AllamBrian Jessel, a civil servant in the Cabinet Office, is asked to investigate the mysterious death of the civil servant Stephen Summerchild twenty years earlier. Summerchild was working on a Cabinet project, under the Oxford philosophy don Elizabeth Serafin, to find the "quality of life" in Britain. Jessel finds a box of audio tapes from the project containing all the discussions up to the time Summerchild fell off the Admiralty Building.
- DirectorClaude WhathamStarsMark DignamIan RichardsonArthur LoweA son recalls his eccentric father, who pursued an active career as a barrister despite being blind.
- DirectorRichard SpenceStarsMarc O'SheaBronagh GallagherMichael LiebmannA group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean (Marc O'Shea), is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley (Michael Liebmann), in an effort to end the mayhem.
- DirectorBeeban KidronStarsSaskia ReevesImelda StauntonPatricia LeventonPlain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?
- DirectorJane HowellStarsDavid JasonRowena CooperAnne CarrollTwo teenage boys, Ralph and Bryan, are in a jail in Malaysia, awaiting death. They have been found guilty of smuggling drugs. 48 hours before their execution, their parents arrive to visit them.
- DirectorPedr JamesStarsDonald SumpterJuliet StevensonSimon ChandlerA white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers has run away from a career as a fabulously successful rock promoter and an anguished private life. Now he's facing the hardest of all moral choices - a life or death decision which is to have a shattering impact on the lives of new friends who offer shelter, and on the new arrival on the seemingly tranquil scene.
- DirectorCharles CrichtonStarsEmlyn WilliamsDorothy TutinAngela Baddeley"It takes two people to tell the truth - one to speak and one to listen". But is Gregers Werle speaking the truth, and who will listen?
- DirectorAndrea ArnoldAndrew ArnoldStarsAmber SealeyDominic CarterBen HomewoodA young man runs away from his pregnant fiancée. He meets and falls in love Max. will he tell his girlfriend and come to terms with his homosexuality?
- DirectorKenneth IvesStarsJoan PlowrightHarold PinterKenneth CranhamStanley, a pianist, lives in a cheap boarding-house near the sea and never talks about himself. But the past catches up with him when Mr. Goldberg and Mr. McCann arrive - clearly, they don't wish him well.
- DirectorFrank PerryStarsGeraldine PageDonnie MelvinLavinia CasselsIts the last Christmas together in Depression era Alabama of a sensitive boy and his elderly cousin who was his closest friend. The two raise enough money to buy the ingredients for 30 fruit cakes, sent mostly to strangers like FDR. They spend Christmas day flying the kites the made for each while Capote's voice over explains their separation, followed by their dog's passing, and a few years later her's.
- DirectorMike NewellStarsJoe BlackBarbara Moore-BlackDiana DaviesA film extra has won a chance for the big break in his career. He has two crucial lines in a television film, but nothing goes according to plan.
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsJohn NevilleAnn BellCyril LuckhamA no-nonsense businessman, Mr. Wilkie, is interviewed for a position with a top-of-the-line hotel chain corporation. During the interview, Wilkie attempts to complete a shaggy-dog story. His frustrations lead to a total breakdown. He suddenly snaps and pulls a gun on the interviewers.