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'I'm an expert on pigs now. How many people can claim they've castrated 1.000 baby pigs? Not many.' Brian is enthusiastic about his new job, but Thomas has seen it all before.

Ticker

Act like Howard

Howard drives his partner Joseph from their farm to hospital to undergo high risk surgery. The unexpected discovery of an old mix tape in the glove compartment sees the masculinity of their forty-year relationship start to yield.

Hornblower: The Examination for Lieutenant

Act like Mathews

event1998 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower attempts to study for his promotion examination, but becomes distracted by the serious supply problems that face his crew.

Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

Act like Mathews

event1999 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

Lieutenant Hornblower and his shipmates are sent to accompany a doomed royalist invasion of revolutionary France.

Hornblower: Mutiny

Act like Mathews

event2001 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Hornblower and his comrades come under the command of a revered but mentally unstable captain and are forced to mutiny in order to save their ship, the HMS Renown.

Hornblower: The Duchess and the Devil

event1999 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Acting Lieutenant Hornblower and his crew are captured by the enemy while escorting a Duchess who has secrets of her own.

Marian, Again

Act like Phillip Walsh

event2005 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

School teacher Chris Bevan is a dutiful husband to his dull wife, Josie, and ingrate daughters. His best friend knows Chris' heart always belonged to Marian, his vibrant, flippant fiancée, who mysteriously disappeared years ago. Suddenly he sees her in a shop and can't help following her. He gives up as she has a new identity, as wife of plumber Bernie Sullivan. Bernie's real passion is Houdini-era 'real' magic, while in fact she's his terrified captive, forced to replace his late assistant. Furthermore one of Bevan's daughters has a phone-relationship he forbids, deeming it dangerous on principle, ignoring this is real and ties in to Marian's plight.

Bird Fancier

Act like Roy Pearson

event1985 top_panel_open

There's big money in pigeon racing if you've got a fast flyer, and Joe Desmond's blue-pied hen is a natural winner. But Joe's lucky streak with the birds has gone on a bit too long for the comfort of his competitors. It's time someone else had a turn. Mal Middleton's comedy was filmed on location in his home town of Sheffield.

A Christmas Carol

Act like Fred (Scrooge's Nephew)

event1977 star_border 6.6 top_panel_open

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.

Hornblower: Loyalty

event2003 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Hornblower must deliver a French nobleman to a secret rendezvous near Brest, all while coping with enemy agents in his own ranks.

Ghost in the Water

Act like Mr. Reed

event1982 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Judith Allchurch and Ian Stevens star in this drama based on the story by Edward Chitham. When young historians Teresa (Allchurch) and David (Stevens) discover that the name on a piece of embroidered cloth belonging to Teresa's family matches that of a strange gravestone in the local churchyard, their intrique is piqued and they set out to find out what happened to the mysterious Abigail Parkes.

Black Jack

Act like Narrator

event1979 star_border 7 top_panel_open

When honest young Tolly is forced on the run with ‘Black Jack’, a villainous ruffian, adventure and mishap are never far away. As the two enter a world of body-snatchers, private lunatic asylums, and traveling fairs they find friendship in the most unlikely places.

Hornblower: The Even Chance

event1998 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Portsmouth, 1794. Under thundery skies and in lashing rain, 17-year-old midshipman Horatio Hornblower takes the first tentative steps of his naval career, but a feud with a shipmate causes complications.

Father Dear Father

Act like Dumbo

event1973 star_border 4.8 top_panel_open

After divorcing his wife, Patrick Glover decides it is time to remarry, and chooses his literary agent, only to then mistakenly propose to the cleaning lady. Part of his reason for wanting to remarry is to regain some control over his wayward daughters, but they and their lovers continue to complicate his home and his life... A farcical comedy full of hilarious confusions, this feature-length version of the popular sitcom Father, Dear Father is a real gem of British humour at its best.

Downton Abbey: A New Era

Act like Mason

event2022 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa. Meanwhile, a Hollywood director seeks to film his latest production at Downton.

The Remains of the Day

Act like Harry Smith

event1993 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

Death of a Princess

Act like Steve Jackson

event1980 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

A journalist investigates a newspaper story of the execution of an Arab princess.

Ends and Means

event1983 top_panel_open

Documentary drama.

Destiny

Act like Paul McShane

First Encounter: King Lear

A small town shopkeeper is conned into standing for an extreme right-wing party at a by-election, and later discovers that it's financed by the corporation that has dispossessed him of his business.

Act like King Lear

event2012 top_panel_open

In the summer of 2012, a company of nine actors and director Tim Crouch came together to create a production of King Lear specifically for young audiences. It toured to schools across England before touring to New York's Park Avenue Armory, where the production was filmed.

Jude

Act like Mr. Willis

event1996 star_border 6.3 top_panel_open

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage to a farmer's daughter named Arabella. But when his wife leaves him, Jude sees an opportunity to improve himself. He moves to the city and begins an affair with his married cousin, Sue, courting tragedy every step of the way.

Dangerous Journey

Act like Narrator

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A VICTORIOUS JOURNEY OF FAITH AND PILGRIMAGE. Written while in prison by John Bunyan in 1676, The Pilgrim's Progress has for centuries captured the hearts of children and adults alike. The abiding message of The Pilgrim's Progress is so compelling that the book is said to be history's all-time best seller next to the Bible. Especially suitable for children ages six and older, these programs are a faithful adaptation of the original book. Beautiful illustrations and a compelling dramatic sound track make for story-telling at its best! Dangerous Journey will introduce children to the basic themes of the Christian life and pilgrimage. Colorful characters and gripping situations, depicting the challenges of a life committed to Jesus Christ, will make a vital and lasting impression.

Zulu Dawn

Act like Cpl. Storey

event1979 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

In 1879, the British suffer a great loss at the Battle of Isandlwana due to incompetent leadership.

Some Enchanted Evening

Act like Peter

event1989 top_panel_open

Comedy in which a young Geordie, Peter, is put under pressure by his fiancee who wants him to name the wedding day. Enough pressure to make him consider jumping off the Tyne Bridge. Peter tells the story to a lass he meets at a club.

Testimony of a Child

Act like Gerry

Being accused of child abuse is a nightmare every family dreads. The Taylors are an ordinary happy family, but Paul and Jill are worried about their 11-year-old son Mark, who is not eating. The family GP has diagnosed 'failure to thrive', and Mark is sent to the hospital for a check-up.

Written in Blood

Act like Brian Chappel

event1998 star_border 9 top_panel_open

A best selling author finds his horror novels coming to life.

On a Paving Stone Mounted

event1975 star_border 4 top_panel_open

An impressionistic look at Irish emigrants in London, representing the emigrant's journey, a confusion of anticipation, memories and experience.

Diane

Act like Jim

Teenager Diane Weaver lives in a small council flat with her brooding father, the groundskeeper of a local church. What no one realises, is how close Diane and her father are.

The Key

event2003 top_panel_open

The story of three generations told against the backdrop of the 20th century. The drama focuses on the life of Mary Corrigan, from her days as a rebellious mill worker in 1915 and her doomed love affair for a man who must fight for his country, through to her final days in the run up to the British General Election of 1997.

Hornblower: Duty

event2003 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Admiral Pellew interrupts Hornblower's wedding reception and tasks him to locate a British ship which has disappeared off the French coast, where Napoleon's troops are engaged in covert activities.

Reg

event2016 star_border 5 top_panel_open

In June 2003, Reg Keys and his wife Sally return to their home in the Welsh countryside. As they switch on the TV to hear six military policemen have been murdered in Iraq, two men arrive bearing the terrible news that their son, Tom, was among them.

Blow Dry

Act like Ken

event2001 star_border 5.9 top_panel_open

The annual British Hairdressing Championship comes to Keighley, a town where Phil and son Brian run a barbershop and Phil's ex-wife Shelly and her lover Sandra run a beauty salon.

Downton Abbey 3

Act like Albert Mason

new_releases Release: September 10, 2025

Plot details under wraps.

The Sound of Music Live!

Act like Franz

event2015 star_border 7.7 top_panel_open

The popular musical is brought to life on soundstages at London's Three Mills Studio, in a live TV dramatisation of the timeless story of Maria and the Von Trapp Family singers, one of the world's best-known concert groups in the era immediately preceding World War II.

The Shadow in the North

Act like Paton

event2007 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Sally Lockhart crosses paths with the nefarious industrialist Axel Bellman, the richest and most powerful man in Europe. She's determined to prove him guilty of corruption and fraud, whilst Bellman will stop at nothing to destroy her case.

Silas Marner

Act like William Dane

event1985 star_border 5.6 top_panel_open

Adaption of George Eliot's novel. When a respectable weaver is wrongfully accused of theft, he becomes a virtual hermit until his own fortune is stolen and an orphaned child is found on his doorstep.

Hornblower: Retribution

event2001 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Hornblower and the other officers of the Renown must return to Jamaica to face a court-martial and possible execution for their actions in relieving their unstable captain.

Speech Day

Act like Woodwork Master

event1973 top_panel_open

Speech Day is a bit of a laugh if you are not one of nature's prize-winners. But now that they've finished with school and school with them, what comes next for Ronnie, Wally and Rob?

Alfie Darling

Act like Bakey

event1975 star_border 4.4 top_panel_open

Alfie meets his romantic match when the modern-day Casanova falls in love with a career woman. Alfie soon realises that Abby, a magazine editor, is just as romantically ruthless as he is.

A Bridge Too Far

Act like Pvt. Wicks

event1977 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.

The Many Lives of Albert Walker

Act like Danny Peck

event2002 top_panel_open

After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.

How's Business

Act like Jack

event1991 top_panel_open

During World War II a young city boy is evacuated to the country.

A Pinch of Snuff

Act like Charlie Heppelwhite

event1994 top_panel_open

Receiving a tip from his dentist Jack Shorter, policeman Peter Pascoe takes a closer look at the Calliope Kinema Club, a film club notorious for showing adult entertainment movies. Shorter is convinced that one particular scene in a movie he recently saw was too realistic to have been staged with fake blood, but when Pascoe and his bluff superior Andy Dalziel starts investigating, they soon comes across the actress in question, Linda Abbott, who obviously didn't suffer from any harm and assures Pascoe that the concerns are unnecessary.

Theban Plays: Oedipus at Colonus

Act like Local Man

event1986 top_panel_open

Oedipus's wanderings come to an end when he finds his final resting place, as foretold by the gods. But his brother-in-law and his son each try to take him away.

Which Side Are You On?

Act like Narrator (voice)

event1985 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

The documentary features the British miners and their family experiences told through songs, poems, pictures and words.

Arnhem: The Story of an Escape

Act like Finnegan

event1976 star_border 4 top_panel_open

Graeme Warrack was Divisional Chief Doctor of the 1st Airborne Division at the Battle of Arnhem in September 1944. With other doctors, medical personnel and padres, he stayed behind with the wounded. The first improvised hospital was a German-occupied Dutch military barracks at Apeldoorn. From here, the wounded were transported to prisoner of war camps in Germany. As the last of the wounded left, Colonel Warrack escaped.

Cries from a Watchtower

Act like Andy

event1979 top_panel_open

A watchmaker finds his livelihood is threatened by cheaply imported digital watches.

Doll’s Eye

Act like Social Worker

event1983 star_border 1 top_panel_open

Examines contradictory male attitudes towards women in 1980's Britain

Enola Holmes

Act like Station Master

event2020 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

While searching for her missing mother, intrepid teen Enola Holmes uses her sleuthing skills to outsmart big brother Sherlock and help a runaway lord.

A Brush with Mr. Porter on the Road to El Dorado

Act like Tom

event1981 top_panel_open

A black comedy about excessive consumption. A young couple are determined to make a break with a predictable future as servants of a large corporation and sink their savings into a restaurant. All is disaster until the appearance of the Porters, whose enthusiastic patronage soon has trade booming.

A Room for the Winter

Act like Robert

event1981 star_border 1 top_panel_open

James van Santen, a white South African writer facing imminent arrest for acts of sabotage, has escaped to England. He leaves behind him not only a violent political life but also his handsome lover, Stephen. With little money or inclination to work, he fights a battle of wills with his Jamaican landlady, Katherine.

P.Q. 17

Act like PO Jordan

event1981 top_panel_open

"That order to scatter was as good as a death sentence to those merchant ships. And there isn't one officer or rating who doesn't agree with me." A British Allied convoy designated for the Soviet Union comes under attack from German forces during World War II.

Ropeless

Act like Larry Windsor

event2020 star_border 6 top_panel_open

A veteran washerman hangs thousands of wet clothes under the scorching sun: one oddity, he doesn't want them dry.

The Nest Egg

event2016 star_border 7 top_panel_open

The Nest Egg: the story of a chicken suit, benevolence and eggs.

Travellers

Act like Young William/Middle William/Sales Rep

event1980 top_panel_open

As Old William stands in an autumnal Yorkshire graveyard at his wife's funeral, a young man's face strikes an uncanny chord and brings back memories of his past

Happy

Act like Vernon

They train people to look after lads like Gary at the centre. So why does Vernon persist in keeping his brother at home?

The Turkey Who Lives on the Hill

Act like Bill

Act like Matthews (8 ep.)

Married life starts out full of bright hopes for Alex and Lynda - but soon they are trapped in a nightmare with their friend Bill.

Hornblower

event1998 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Set during the 18th century Napoleonic Wars, Horatio Hornblower, a young and shy midshipman, rises through the ranks to become an admiral.

Torchwood

Act like Clement McDonald (4 ep.)

event2006 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

The exploits a team of people whose job is to investigate the unusual, the strange and the extraterrestrial.

The Bill

event1984 star_border 6.7 top_panel_open

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.

Silent Witness

(3 ep.)

event1996 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Silent Witness is a British crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes.

Heartbeat

Act like Dick Radcliffe (1 ep.)

event1992 star_border 7 top_panel_open

Set during the 1960s in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Aidensfield, this enduringly popular series interweaves crime and medical storylines.

Dalziel & Pascoe

event1996 star_border 6.4 top_panel_open

British crime drama based on the "Dalziel and Pascoe" series of books by Reginald Hill, set in the fictional Yorkshire town of Wetherton. The unlikely duo of politically incorrect elephant-in-a-china-shop-copper Detective Superintendent Andrew Dalziel (pronounced Dee-ell) and his more sensitive and university educated sidekick Detective Sargent, later Detective Inspector, Peter Pascoe is always on hand to solve the classic murder mystery, while maintaining a down to earth wit and humour.

Life on Mars

Act like Reg Cole (1 ep.)

event2006 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

A detective chief inspector from 2006 is investigating a serial killer when he is knocked over by a speeding car. Waking up, he finds himself mysteriously transported back in time to 1973. Initially struggling to come to terms with his situation, he has to come to terms with the old-fashioned technology and attitude of the day, while figuring out how he came to be trapped in the past.

No Angels

event2004 star_border 6 top_panel_open

No Angels is a critically acclaimed British television comedy drama series, produced by the independent production company World Productions for Channel 4, which ran for three series from 2004 to 2006. It was devised by Toby Whithouse.

The Lakes

Act like Peter Quinlan (14 ep.)

event1997 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

Compelling BBC1 drama series embracing sex, death and Catholic guilt, set in a small community in the Lake District. The first four-part series centred on newcomer Danny Kavanagh; the second 10-part series featured other characters in the community.

Waking the Dead

event2001 star_border 7.3 top_panel_open

A detective team apply new techniques to old crimes as they solve cold cases.

Survivors

Act like Ted (1 ep.)

event2008 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

When a deadly virus wipes out most of the world's population, a handful of survivors struggle to stay alive.

Messiah

Act like Ian Fleet (2 ep.)

event2001 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Crime drama series following the investigations of DCI Red Metcalfe.

Inspector George Gently

event2008 star_border 7.9 top_panel_open

Crime drama set in the 1960s about an old-school detective trying to come to terms with a time when the lines between the police and criminals have become blurred.

New Tricks

event2004 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Play for Today

(2 ep.)

event1970 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.

How Clean Is Your House?

(2 ep.)

event2003 star_border 5.3 top_panel_open

How Clean Is Your House? is a British entertainment/lifestyle television programme in which expert cleaners Kim Woodburn and Aggie MacKenzie visit filthy homes and then clean them. The thirty-minute show is produced by Talkback Thames, the UK production arm of FremantleMedia, and airs on Channel 4 and many of its subsidiary channels. It was first broadcast in 2003 and was an immediate ratings success.

Treasure Island

(4 ep.)

event1977 star_border 6 top_panel_open

Treasure Island is a 1977 television adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson’s famous 1883 novel. It was filmed in 1977 on location in Plymouth and Dartford, and in Corsica, and also at BBC Television Centre at Wood Lane, London. Jim Hawkins discovers a treasure map and embarks on a journey to find the treasure, but pirates led by Long John Silver have plans to take the treasure for themselves by way of mutiny. This four-episode adaptation by John Lucarotti, while particularly faithful to the original, adds an expanded narrative concerning the declining Daniel Hawkins, as well as clarifying Squire Trelawney's naiveté in trusting Blandly and Silver. This takes place in the first episode; Billy Bones tempts Jim's father into arranging a two-man treasure voyage, the corrupt shipping agent Ezra Blandly guesses their intentions and tips off Silver, who hoodwinks and then cruelly tortures the information out of a hapless alcoholic Mr Arrow. Billy Bones plans founder, and Hawkins snr catches pneumonia in the rain, which finishes him. Lucarotti's additions to the original provide useful backstory, and the pirate idiom is sufficiently well captured for these additions not to be too obvious.

Roughnecks

Act like Ian (13 ep.)

event1994 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

Roughnecks is a BBC comedy-drama series that ran over two series between 1994 and 1995 on BBC One. The show centred on the working and personal lives of those who worked on the fictional oil rig "The Osprey Explorer" in the North Sea.

BBC Play of the Month

event1965 star_border 5 top_panel_open

Play of the Month is a BBC television anthology series featuring productions of classic and contemporary stage plays which were usually broadcast on BBC1. Each production featured a different work, often using prominent British stage actors in the leading roles. The series was transmitted from October 1965 to September 1983; the producer most associated with the Play of the Month was Cedric Messina. Some of the 121 episodes are missing from the archives, having been junked in the 1960s and 1970s. Unless stated otherwise, the indication that the play is "lost" is taken from the lostshows.com website page as of 25 May 2013.

The Street

event2006 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

Anthology drama following the lives and passions of neighbors on a northern English street.

The Bright Side

(6 ep.)

event1985 star_border 5

Act like Mr. Mason (12 ep.)

event2010 star_border 8.1 top_panel_open

A chronicle of the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their servants in the post-Edwardian era—with great events in history having an effect on their lives and on the British social hierarchy.

Young Charlie Chaplin

Act like Chimnery Sweep (1 ep.)

event1989 top_panel_open

The challenging and spirited early life of cinema's first great comedic artist, Charlie Chaplin, is portrayed. The innately talented young Charlie must overcome a wayward life of poverty and familial chaos to reach the pinnacle of stardom.

Cracker

Act like Pathologist (5 ep.)

event1993 star_border 6.5 top_panel_open

The wise-cracking Fitz is a brilliant but flawed criminal psychologist with a remarkable insight into the criminal mind.

Johnny and the Bomb

Act like Sgt. Bourke (3 ep.)

event2006 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

Johnny Maxwell stumbles upon a time machine when he helps an old woman, but little does he know that his journeys back to 1941 cause a chain of events which alter history. Johnny and his friends must go back in time to reverse the changes and save his own existence.

This Life

Act like Jerry Cook (6 ep.)

event1996 star_border 7.8 top_panel_open

Cult drama series about a group of aspiring young lawyers sharing a shabby house in London, charting their careers and personal lives.

Carved with Love: The Genius of British Woodwork

Act like Narrator (3 ep.)

event2013 top_panel_open

Series looking at the British genius for woodwork over the centuries.

Peak Practice

Act like Tim Shardlow (1 ep.)

event1993 star_border 6.1 top_panel_open

Peak Practice is a British drama series about a GP surgery in Cardale — a small fictional town in the Derbyshire Peak District — and the doctors who worked there. It ran on ITV from 10 May 1993 to 30 January 2002 and was one of their most successful series at the time. It originally starred Kevin Whately as Dr Jack Kerruish, Amanda Burton as Dr Beth Glover and Simon Shepherd as Dr Will Preston, though the roster of doctors would change many times over the course of the series. Cardale was based on the Staffordshire village of Longnor for the final series, but was previously based in the Derbyshire village of Crich, although certain scenes were filmed at other nearby Derbyshire towns and villages, most notably Matlock, Belper and Ashover.

Last Tango in Halifax

(7 ep.)

event2012 star_border 7.2 top_panel_open

Celia and Alan are both widowed and in their seventies. When their respective grandsons put their details on Facebook, they rediscover a passionate relationship that started over sixty years ago.

Minder

Act like Palmer (1 ep.)

event1979 star_border 6.8 top_panel_open

This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.

Inside No. 9

Act like Ernie (1 ep.)

event2014 star_border 8 top_panel_open

An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.

Father Brown

Act like Mr Feste (1 ep.)

event2013 star_border 7.5 top_panel_open

Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.

Queer as Folk

Act like Roy Maloney (2 ep.)

event1999 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Stuart Jones has got it all. He's rich, drop-dead gorgeous and always the centre of attention. He can be forgiven the arrogance because he's pretty close to perfection. His best mate Vince Tyler is funny, adorable and definitely a babe but, unlike his friend, has zero confidence in himself. Since time began, Vince has carried a torch for Stuart but his love remains firmly unrequited. They're both 29, hitting Canal Street every night, stalwarts of the scene but just starting to wonder where else their lives may be going. Then along comes Nathan Maloney. Young, wild and coming out with a vengeance, he crowbars his way into their world and once he arrives, nothing is ever the same again.

Tenko

Act like POW (1 ep.)

event1981 star_border 8 top_panel_open

Based on real-life experiences, Tenko remains one of the most fondly remembered and acclaimed BBC dramas of the early 1980s. It follows a group of women, formerly comfortably well-off ex-pats living in Singapore, as they are captured by the Japanese during World War II.

Secret Army

Act like Eric Finch (1 ep.)

event1977 star_border 7.6 top_panel_open

World War II drama about covert organisation Lifeline helping allied airmen escape after being shot down in occupied Europe, working with the Resistance and hiding from the Gestapo.

Harry

Act like Thomas Thomas (1 ep.)

event1993 star_border 3.5 top_panel_open

Harry is a television drama series that was made by Union Pictures for the BBC, and shown on BBC One between 1993 and 1995. Harry Salter is the ruthless owner of a news agency in Darlington who will resort to any under-hand means or exploit anyone in order to get a story that he can sell to a newspaper. He is assisted at his agency by Alice, his secretary/PA, and Snappy, his photographer.

Kingdom

Act like Vincent Straker (1 ep.)

event2007 star_border 7.1 top_panel_open

Kingdom is a British television series produced by Parallel Film and Television Productions for the ITV network. It was created by Simon Wheeler and stars Stephen Fry as Peter Kingdom, a Norfolk solicitor who is coping with family, colleagues, and the strange locals who come to him for legal assistance. The series also starred Hermione Norris, Celia Imrie, Karl Davies, Phyllida Law and Tony Slattery. The first series of six one-hour episodes was aired in 2007 and averaged six million viewers per week. Despite a mid-series ratings dip, the executive chairman of ITV praised the programme and ordered a second series, which was filmed in 2007 and broadcast in January and February 2008. Filming on the third series ran from July to September 2008 for broadcast from 7 June 2009. Stephen Fry announced on his blog in October 2009 that ITV was cancelling the series, which was later confirmed by the channel, which said that given tighter budgets, more expensive productions were being cut.

Clocking Off

event2000 star_border 7.4 top_panel_open

How much do you know about the person working next to you? From the outside, life at Mackintosh Textiles appears to run smoothly, but in a community with so many secrets to hide, things are far from straightforward. In six powerful, self-contained dramas, everyday life is fractured by tumultuous marriages, snatched passions, disappearing husbands and gang harassment.

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