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- Two American college students on a walking tour of Britain are attacked by a werewolf that none of the locals will admit exists.
- A successful cocaine dealer gets two tough assignments from his boss on the eve of his planned early retirement.
- A humble businessman with a buried past seeks justice when his daughter is killed in an act of terrorism. A cat-and-mouse conflict ensues with a government official, whose past may hold clues to the killers' identities.
- An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
- Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
- In 1974, Professor Lorrimer Van Helsing investigates a satanic cult on behalf of Scotland Yard, only to discover a plot by Count Dracula to commit global genocide.
- Twenty years after the murder of Alice Barlow, her house is finally occupied again. However, the husband from the couple who have moved in has a secret which he will do anything to keep hidden.
- A closeted lawyer risks his career to bring a blackmailer to justice.
- An aging hypnotist creates a device that allows the user to control the mind of another person, but his wife abuses its power by manipulating a younger man to commit evil acts.
- Imprisoned Harry Lomart is a vicious, brute of a man and yet he is prepared to do his long jail term as he is confident that on his release his beautiful wife Pat will be waiting for him, but a visit from Pat brings him his worst nightmare.
- An insane couple take over the operation of an old jail and seek out young women who they believe have escaped justice. A beautiful young French model becomes their latest victim and must attempt escape or face an almost certain death.
- A stormy relationship, complicated by the strictures of 1950s social class and gender roles, ends in death. Based on the life of Ruth Ellis, the last woman hanged in Britain.
- Hennessy is an Irishman who believes in peace, but who has had connections to the I.R.A. After his family is killed he plots revenge, setting out to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.
- A married theatre lighting technician with two small children has an affair with a teenage actress.
- A collector of ancient battle helmets spends his days as an insurance adjustor. He pursues a woman in an unhappy marriage.
- A married movie studio executive's life starts to unravel when he is stalked by a seductively beautiful woman he claims he does not know.
- Gerald Otley, wannabe antiques dealer, is kicked out of his flat for failing to pay rent, sleeps at a friend's house for the night, wakes up two days later in an airport field, and finds himself entangled in international espionage.
- A violent fugitive and a mistreated small boy team up to flee from authority.
- Three short stories by W. Somerset Maugham, "The Verger", "Mr. Know-All", and "The Sanatorium" are introduced by the author.
- Children's series putting an unusual comical slant on the problem of children left to fend for themselves after school as their parents are at work.
- Documentary examining one of the most baffling unexplained deaths of recent years. In August 2010, Gareth Williams, a GCHQ employee on a 3-year secondment to MI6, was found dead inside a padlocked bag in the bath of his London flat.
- A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
- A pseudo-documentary in style with an emphasis on the daily work and routine of women police built around three different story lines. The first involves eighteen-year-old Bridget Foster (Peggy Cummins) who is picked up for shoplifting, but let off lightly. She has a small child, an often-absent husband and mother-in-law trouble. To compound that, she takes up with a petty hoodlum who commits a jewel robbery. The second story tells of a young girl who deserts the Army to marry a boy who needs her and commits bigamy in the process, but it all works out. The third story is about a baby who is mistreated by its father and stepmother, but is reunited, through police work, with its real mother.
- A passerby witnesses a murder through the windows of a passing train, then tries to track down the killer.
- Far from her homeland of Cuba, Dido Belle now has to make a life for herself in 18th century London with no family or friends.
- Carol Bailey is buckling under the weight of financial pressure, family responsibilities and his own ambition and desires. After endless parties, too many dead end jobs and family arguments, Bailey becomes Self-Destructive. Resorting to violence and severing all ties of friendship and love, Bailey enters a world where his friends are unable to follow. After a self-imposed exile Bailey returns to London to apologise, things have changed. Not everyone is sympathetic to his sudden re-appearance and there are others who will stop at nothing to make Bailey's life a living hell. Faced with a relationship lost amongst affluence and drug fueled parties, Bailey must accept his own limitations and confront the demons of his past.
- From the days when he still had red hair and was rising to the peak of his career, this is one of Billy's legendary early performances. The culmination of a marathon British tour that started in 1980, Billy Bites Yer Bum Live was filmed at London's Apollo Victoria over two nights in February 1981.
- Sebastian (James Poole) runs a ring of young men who steal dogs in order to ransom them back to their wealthy owners. Marco (Edward Elgood), Tringle (Benjamin Gould) and Chip (Ntonga Mwanza) are his lackeys who steal the dogs. The next day, however, things go from bad to worse as two thugs (Adrian Bouchet and Ashley Plummer-Cambridge) turn up at Sebastian's door and demand that he returns the missing dog. Time is running out for Sebastian and his associates. Will they make it out alive?
- Anwar has just arrived in London from Malaysia and can't wait to be an Englishman. He wants to speak English, eat greasy street food and start drinking alcohol. Din is visiting London from a small town in Wales and couldn't be more concerned with maintaining his Malay heritage. When the two have a chance encounter we enter an exploration of what defines identity, nationality and how the two are intertwined.
- Edgar Allan Poe meets Rod Serling's Night Gallery. Ricardo Beldini is invaded, not by the muggers on the streets, but by the hospitality of polite society. Because the muggers see him as a greenhorn from overseas they simply rob him of his possessions. The middle classes who see him as a threat to their society take him in, learn about him, and then systematically annihilate him without any trace of his existence.
- Dempsey and Makepeace are shadowing Frank Egan, who has just got off Scott free on a murder charge. His next big job seems to involve 'a bird man' and 'haggis'. It leads to Makepeace posing as a floozy and Dempsey as a pilot.
- The Protectors are asked to keep a watch on the body of recently deceased robber Ralph Corder, in the hopes that the news of his death will flush out his former associates. Indeed two of them, Robard and Mason, turn up, to convince themselves that Corder is actually dead, Robard actually approaching Harry for the news. Mason is photographed with a hidden camera, entering Corder's house and both men are trailed by the Protectors to lead them to the loot.
- Some years earlier Billy Medhurst was one of a gang of thieves, one of whom shot and crippled police sergeant Eddie Jackson before escaping to Spain. Now he is back and Regan is determined to nail him. Haskins advises against making it seem personal since Medhurst has a sharp lawyer to back him up. However, when a meat lorry is robbed, all the evidence points to Medhurst, despite his supposedly being dead, and Regan is eventually justified.
- A documentary on the London district of Pimlico, narrated by Dewyne Lindsay. It forms part of the 'London Districts' series which dissects the different boroughs of London to explore both historical and modern life within its constituent areas through an assortment of facts, advice and local anecdotes.
- Geoff Marshall travels the length of London's Victoria Line, picking out some of the more unusual features in the stations.
- First up, is on the Victoria Line, at Pimlico station. I can probably do all other tube lines [ except the W&C ] as well the Overground, DLR, and Crossrail/PurpleTrain too.
- As the net draws in, DI Kip Glaspie enters a dangerous power play with MI5. But is it too late to save everyone involved?