The daily lives of the men and women at Sun Hill Police Station as they fight crime on the streets of London. From bomb threats to armed robbery and drug raids to the routine demands of policing this ground-breaking series focuses as much on crime as it does on the personal lives of its characters.
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire Dales. They spend their days speculating about their fellow townsfolk and thinking up adventures not usually favored by the elderly. Last of the Summer Wine premiered as an episode of Comedy Playhouse in 1973. The show ran for 295 episodes until 2010. It is the longest running comedy Britain has produced and the longest running sitcom in the world.
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Martin Bohm, a widower and single father, is haunted by an inability to connect to his autistic, mute 11-year-old son, Jake. Their relationship and their lives take an extraordinary turn when he discovers his gifted son has the ability to see things that no one else can and the patterns that connect seemingly unrelated events.
The profound story of husband and wife Raynor and Moth Winn, who embark on a 630-mile trek after being forcibly removed from their home. Hoping that in nature they will find solace and a sense of acceptance, they walk through the beautiful but rugged coastlines of South West England - a journey that is exhilarating, challenging, and liberating in equal measure. THE SALT PATH is a powerful portrayal of home, and how it can be lost and rediscovered in the most unexpected ways.
Anthology drama series.
Bugs was a British television drama series which ran for four series from April 1995 to August 1999. The programme, a mixture of action/adventure and science-fiction, involved a team of specialist independent crime-fighting technology experts, who faced a variety of threats based around computers and other modern technology. It was originally broadcast on Saturday evenings on BBC One, and was produced for the BBC by the independent production company Carnival Films.
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.
During a murder hunt game at a country house, to which Hercule Poirot is invited as an "expert", a real murder occurs.
Lee, a teenager from Manchester, goes to stay with his uncle Morgan on his remote farm in Wales. Lee struggles to build a relationship with his uncle and make friends with a local boy as Morgan struggles to hold on to his farm.
Haunted by relentless nightmares foretelling his untimely demise, former President Robert Wainwright summons his past psychiatrist to his upstate residence, who discovers the threat may be more real than imagined.
Holly hates Christmas and has made a getaway from husband, family and cooking on Christmas Eve, but after a strange encounter with a store security guard she receives the best, and most cosmic, Xmas present ever. A darkly comic tale with a touch of magic realism.
Summer, a phone sex operator, is at the end of her emotional rope. She begins recording her callers as proof of how normal, professional men can also be pedophiles and rapists. When no one will believe or listen to the taped phone conversations with these otherwise ordinary men, Summer take matters into her own hands and drives her vintage Plymouth Barracuda across the country, surprising and exposing these deviants in their homes.
A zany twist on the conspiracy-laden world of X-Files, Route 30, Too! picks up as two members of New York State's Unusual Occurrence and Paranormal Society arrive to investigate the mysterious goings on. When the local color includes the likes of overzealous Deer Hunter Bob, money-hungry huckster Rotten Egg, and a Spanish candy store clerk named Chicky, spotting the alien will be no easy task.
The murder of an actress prompts an illogical, circular phone conversation between a detective in Cape Town and a movie director in Los Angeles. 'Century City' is shown in galleries as a dual-screen installation. It is a circular narrative, running on a continuous loop.
The star of a TV crime reenactment show becomes caught up in the mind of the killer he is playing.
Comedy drama about the trials and tribulations of three sets of parents as they finally realise that their children have grown up and reluctantly they have to let them enroll at Cambridge University.
Biopic purporting to tell the real story behind the marriage of Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson from their initial courtship through their eventual separation.
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
Laura Simms has an exciting job as a top magazine editor, but her love life's a disaster. Her luck seems to change when she meets Gabriel, a handsome but mysterious man who believes in old-fashioned love and marriage.
Set in working class Newcastle, the Stott family fight their private battles against the backdrop of the conflict of World War II. Helen Stott, over thirty and with a limp, is resigned to being left on the shelf until she meets and falls in love with Norman, a serviceman from London. In contrast, her younger sister Joyce has quite a way with men, and finds herself a little too popular with the troops, especially when her husband pops up on leave from his regiment.
In England during World War II, a repressed dressmaker and her sister struggle looking after their 17-year-old niece, who is having a delusional affair with an American soldier.
'I left home about six weeks ago. Came home from school, washed, changed and went. I had enough of being grateful. When I said we ought to shoot the horse and make it into hamburgers for Africa, Dad laughed. Mum thought it was an ungrateful thing to say' Janna leaves home, but is life on the streets better than life at home?
Seventeen-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.
Lee, a teenager from Manchester, goes to stay with his uncle Morgan on his remote farm in Wales. Lee struggles to build a relationship with his uncle and make friends with a local boy as Morgan struggles to hold on to his farm
Thanks to a nuclear holocaust, the world Ann Burden knew and everyone she ever loved is gone. But her solitude is about to change, and maybe there are worse things than being the last person on earth.
