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- Drama examining the politics and change across Britain from the Sixties to the Nineties seen through the varying fortunes of four friends.
- A humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.
- A young, compassionate man struggles to save his family and friends from the abusive exploitation of his cold-hearted, grasping uncle.
- The continuing adventures of the magic scarecrow, only this time he's in New Zealand.
- Two Australian orphans undertake a dangerous overland journey towards a ship bound for England-and their only surviving relatives. They are helped along the way by an Aboriginal man who helps them live off the land and avoid detection.
- In this continuation of the classic "Treasure Island" tale that takes place ten years later, Jim Hawkins meets up again with an older, but not necessarily wiser, Long John Silver.
- When young Nell Trent's grandfather loses the investment money of wharf owner Daniel Quilp with cards, Quilp develops an everlasting urge to get him put in the madhouse. Nell and her grandfather flee the city.
- Maud Ruthyn, a lovely and sensitive girl, is sent to stay with her Uncle Silas Ruthyn, a charismatic rogue who stands to inherit the family fortune... should anything untoward happen to young Maud. With the tyrannical Madame De La Rougierre as her governess, Maud finds that the estate holds terrors beyond her imaginings.
- At the funeral of Mr. Halpern's wife he meets Mr. Johnson who confides in him that he fell in love with Mrs. Halpern even before she met her husband and has been seeing her regularly during all the years of her marriage.
- Retired Lawyers amuse themselves by prosecuting, defending and judging a hapless traveler.
- TV adaptation of the classic children's novel by 'BB' - three young brothers run away from their aunt and live in the forest of Brendon Chase.
- An orphaned girl and her lonely aunt living in 1930s England attract the attention of a handsome naturalist when they decide to raise an abandoned seal.
- The wife of a British army officer discovers his affair with a Polish countess in Germany circa 1918.
- Four businessmen on a team-building exercise in the Lake District succeed in being the first people ever to get castaway on an island in Derwentwater.
- A collection of selected scenes from some of the most popular plays produced by Cameron Mackintosh.
- The story of the 17-year-old orphaned daughter of a mixed marriage caught up in the turmoil of Northern Ireland in the early 1980s.
- The two children of parkranger Maggie Dean who live at the base in the Australian "Koondamoornda National park" decide to start "The bush patrol" with a couple of friends in order to help save the bush. The children learn about their Australian heritage and have a lot of fun.
- A televised version of the popular board game Scrabble played by two teams, each consisting of a member of the public partnered by a celebrity.
- This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.
- The story of a disabled beggar in Charleston, S.C. who falls in love with a prostitute, this is the first filmed version of Gershwin's opera which uses Gershwin's own orchestrations and practically all of the music, with only one major cut.
- A slightly updated version of Othello set in the 19th century Cyprus, where all characters wear uniforms and dresses from the American Civil War era. Othello, a heroic aging Moroccan mercenary marries beautiful and loving Desdemona, daughter of a general. Their love has no match, but their doom is spelled by non other than Othello's personal confidant Iago, a master manipulator, who believes that a trained loyal soldier like him is more deserving of a good life than a foreign mercenary.
- September 1939. War breaks out as newly-married Guy and Harriet Pringle set out on a journey across Europe and into the heart of the Balkans - to Romania where an uneasy neutrality reigns.
- April 1941. As German troops advance into Greece and the Allied forces mobilise, Harriet's brief encounter with a young army officer comes to an end. As the English community prepares to leave Athens, Prince Yakimov is tragically killed, and Guy and Harriet escape in the nick of time on a derelict cargo boat.
- September 1942. After fighting his first battle in the Western desert, Simon Boulderstone sets out in search of his brother, only to learn that he was killed in action. Guy returns from Alexandria to take charge of the Institute in Cairo. Harriet feels that she could play no part in his ambitious plans for reorganisation.
- January 1940. The Romanian Prime Minister has been assassinated by the fascist Iron Guard and Bucharest is rife with rumour and counter-rumour. Guy, gregarious as ever, is at the centre of the city's intellectual life, popular alike with his students and with the ex-patriate community of diplomats, agents, refugees, spies and politicians. Harriet is beginning to wonder when he will find time for her.
- January 1943. Neglected by Guy and weakened by illness, Harriet decides to return to England. Unbeknownst to Guy, she changes her mind and on a last-minute impulse sets off for Damascus instead. Meanwhile in Cairo, news came that the ship Harriet was to have sailed on has been torpedoed - with no survivors.
- June 1940. To Harriet's intense annoyance, Prince Yakimov has taken up permanent residence in the Pringle flat while they secretly shelter Sasha Drucker who is in hiding from the Iron Guard. France has fallen and Romania is forging an alliance with the Germans.
- October 1940. Unwittingly betrayed by Prince Yakimov, Guy's name has appeared on a Gestapo "death list." The Pringle flat has been ransacked and the Jewish refugee, Sasha Drucker, has disappeared. Bucharest is overrun by Germans and it is time for the English to move on. Harriet, alone, waits anxiously for Guy to join her in Athens.
- Arriving in Mexico, Jim Hawins takes his leave from Van der Brecken and former slave Abed. But Conchita from the Crow's Nest follows Jim as he makes travels further on his own.
- Hawkins, Van der Brecken, Abed and Silver all find themselves prisoners in Mexico but help comes from an old acquaintance.
- After surviving a mutiny on the Saracen, Hawkins, Silver, Gunn and several others find themselves on the mysterious island of Santa Anna. Apparently, in the past, only lunatics and undesirables were marooned by the Spaniards there.
- Having finally arrived at his post in Jamaica, Jim Hawkins soon finds the bookkeeping at Trelawney's plantation to be out of order. He befriends a young slave named Abed but makes an enemy out of plantation manager Joshua Hallows.
- Long John proposes to help Jim expose the corruption on the plantation in exchange for Flint's map. But when Hallows learns about the diamonds left on Treasure Island, he seeks out the map himself.
- Silver leads Jim and his friend Van der Brecken to a pirate hideout known as The Crow's Nest. There Long John plans to muster up a new crew for the trip to Treasure Island.
- It is 10 years after the events of Treasure Island and Jim Hawkins return home from the University of Oxford. Long John Silver also visits the Admiral Benbow Inn. He has his mind set on Flint's map because he knows the old pirate's diamonds are still on the island.
- Hawkins and Silver finally return to Treasure Island with their new compatriots. But Joshua Hallows is already there, forcing his men to dig feverishly.
- Jim is back in prison facing a murder charge, while Long John is planning his own escape - and to take the gold stored in the jail with him.
- Jim Hawkins has been assigned to Squire Trelawney's plantation in Jamaica so he and his servant Ben Gunn set sail aboard the Saracen for the colonies. Amongst the prisoners in the ships hold is Long John Silver, who soon works his way up to ship's cook.
- Maud, the young heiress to a fortune, is romantically obsessed by the youthful Byronic painting of her uncle Silas. The arrival of a drunken, drug-addicted governess and an encounter with a brutish young man in a churchyard are the beginnings of a web of deception and terror.
- After the death of her father, Maud goes to live with her guardian Uncle Silas but she refuses to believe the horrifying allegations about his involvement in a brutal murder. With the reappearance of two sinister figures from the past, fear and doubts begin.
- With the reappearance of Madame de la Rougierre, Maud is torn between trust in Uncle Silas and mounting suspicion about a plot on her life. Alone and virtually a prisoner in the grim house, Maud realises too late that she is caught in a lethal trap.