Series★ 9.02002Born and BredIn the 1950s at the fictional Lancashire village of Ormston, a father and son, both doctors, navigate the challenges of running a cottage hospital under the newly established National Health Service.Open details →
Series★ 9.51999Always and EveryoneA team of doctors are committed to working on the frontline at the Accident and Emergency Department of St Victor's in Manchester. Young, dedicated, and idealistic, they're driven by the desire to give the best service possible. Their reward is neither money nor prestige, but in making a difference.Open details →
Series★ 7.71997Where the Heart IsIn the small, fictional Yorkshire town of Skelthwaite is an engaging story of life, love, family and people’s ever-changing fortunes in rural England. Set against the rugged landscape of Yorkshire, it follows the busy professional and family lives of District Nurses, as they bring nursing and emotional care to young and old alike. The first four series concentrates on the lives of district health nurses Peggy Snow and Ruth Goddard. The story expands to focus on the lives of more Skelthwhaite residents, particularly those related to the nurses as well as those employed in a local toilet tissue factory.Open details →
Series★ 6.51993Peak PracticePeak 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.Open details →
Not Mozart: WAM! LimitedFilm1991Not Mozart: WAM! LimitedComposer Misha Mengelberg collaborates with director Anthony Garner on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart.Open details →
Series★ 6.91991Soldier SoldierThe daily lives of a group of soldiers in 'B' Company, 1st Battalion The King's Fusiliers.Open details →
KinseySeries1991KinseyNeil Kinsey, a maverick Midlands lawyer, takes on Tricia Mabbott, a new partner, navigating his estranged wife Judy, rivals, and potential romance with Tricia, despite his unconventional approach to client cases.Open details →
Series★ 6.01990MedicsMedics was a British medical drama series first broadcast on ITV on 14 November 1990. The show ran for five series with a total of 40 episodes. The show came to end on 24 November 1995. It follows the everyday lives and loves, trials and tribulations of the doctors, nurses, patients and administrative staff of a large teaching hospital in the north-west of England near the city of Manchester.Open details →
Series★ 5.71989The Ginger TreeIn 1903, a young Scotswoman goes to join her diplomat fiancé in Manchuria. She marries him, and finds herself in a war zone. Disenchanted with her husband, she falls in love with a married Japanese nobleman, Count Kentaro Kurihama, and bears him a son. She carves out a life for herself in Japanese society, despite the hardships and ostracism she faces as both a Westerner and a woman.Open details →
Film1989The AttractionsWhen Danny, 'one of Maggie's wandering minstrels', visits a seaside horror museum, he is rather disappointed. 'It's all about victims. Now people are interested in who done it, not who it got done to ...' So begins a process of disintegration which culminates in a new type of exhibit, 'an attraction' for the modern age.Open details →
Hard CasesSeries1988Hard CasesDrama series about probation officers and the tough situations that they have to tackle.Open details →
Series★ 6.21986CasualtyDrama series about the staff and patients at Holby City Hospital's emergency department, charting the ups and downs in their personal and professional lives.Open details →
Film★ 1.01986The Marlowe InquestIn an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what really happened to the playwright and poet, Christopher Marlowe.Open details →
Film1986The Mozart InquestMozart's death is surrounded by mystery. 200 years later, an inquest examines the original and new evidence.Open details →
Series★ 6.01986ScreenPlayScreenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.Open details →
Series★ 5.81986BoonBoon is a British television drama and modern-day western series starring Michael Elphick, David Daker, and later Neil Morrissey. It was created by Jim Hill and Bill Stair and filmed by Central Television for ITV. It revolved around the life of a modern-day Lone Ranger and ex-firefighter, Ken Boon.Open details →
Series★ 6.01985My Brother JonathanChronicles the lives of brothers Jonathan and Harold Dakers, in the Black Country, focusing on their close bond and the challenges they face, particularly during World War I.Open details →
Film1985A Crack in the IceA comedy about injustice set in St Petersburg in 1839. The Tsar has tightened up security and mounted a round-the-clock guard at his palace - the Peter and Paul Fortress. Unfortunately for Private Postnikov, he hears the cries of a drowning man and goes to his rescue. The rest follows.Open details →
Film★ 7.01984Moving on the EdgeA woman in a state of personal crisis finds it hard to communicate with her husband and family.Open details →
Film★ 4.61984Z for ZachariahThanks 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.Open details →
Series★ 7.91983Auf Wiedersehen, PetSeven British construction workers escape Britain's ever growing dole queues and travel to Germany to work on a site in Dusseldorf. We follow their trials and tribulations of working away from home and away from the women they left behind.Open details →
Series★ 6.21982BrooksideThe ground-breaking soap set in a housing estate on the outskirts of Liverpool.Open details →
Film1975The RacerThe protagonist spends his time in tunnels and caverns chased by Fascist thugs and having dream-like encounters with strange solitary women of different ages. Allegorical story of a prisoner, his attempts to escape and his hallucinations.Open details →
Series★ 6.61970Play for TodayPlay 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.Open details →
Film★ 7.21977A Bridge Too FarThe 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.Open details →
Series★ 7.41975The Legend of Robin HoodThe Legend of Robin Hood was a 1975 BBC television serial that told the story of the life of Robin Hood.Open details →
Series★ 7.01974NOVAPBS' premier science series helps viewers of all ages explore the science behind the headlines. Along the way, NOVA demystifies science and technology, and highlights the people involved in scientific pursuits.Open details →
Not Mozart: WAM! LimitedFilm1991Not Mozart: WAM! LimitedComposer Misha Mengelberg collaborates with director Anthony Garner on a commissioned short film to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the death of Mozart.Open details →
Film★ 4.61984Z for ZachariahThanks 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.Open details →
Film1975The RacerThe protagonist spends his time in tunnels and caverns chased by Fascist thugs and having dream-like encounters with strange solitary women of different ages. Allegorical story of a prisoner, his attempts to escape and his hallucinations.Open details →
Series★ 6.61970Play for TodayPlay 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.Open details →