Peter Moffatt

In 17th century England, the Doctor and itinerant thespian Richard Mace uncover a plot by a crew of criminal Terileptils to wipe out humanity.

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Still trapped in E-Space, the Doctor, Romana, Adric and K9 encounter a medieval civilisation dominated by the Three Who Rule, vampires who govern from their mighty castle.

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Juliet Bravo was a drama that focused on two female police inspectors, neither of whom were called Juliet Bravo! These two inspectors worked in the small fictional town of Hartley, Lancashire. Jean Darblay was on the scene first and had trouble with her sexist colleagues. However she soon managed to gain their trust and prove a woman could be a successful police officer and housewife. Jean's call sign was Juliet Bravo. When she was promoted and moved on she was replaced by Kate Longton who not only took over the patch but also the headaches that went with it.

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Compelling crime anthology looks at some of Britain's most notorious murder trials, in which both male and female defendants stood accused of the murder of women. Presented by Robert Morley, seven hour-long dramas reconstruct sensational trials which shocked Britain, offering in-depth analyses of individuals' motives and methods.

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Notable as the first British series to feature a female police officer (predating Juliet Bravo by four months), Detective Inspector Maggie Forbes raises her teenage son while navigating a male-dominated police force following the murder of her police commissioner husband.

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The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.

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1977: Edgar Parker is about to emigrate to Canada. His wife wants him to stay in London for the Jubilee celebrations.

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A well-to-do family moves from the city to a country farmhouse, determined to make a go of things on their own, but the existence of an already present third generation housekeeper rather changes things somewhat. Set in 1973-76.

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With the coming of television, a cinema owner finds her patrons rapidly diminishing.

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Jubilee 1977 is a thirteen-part 1977 BBC One television limited series produced by Pieter Rogers, an anthology centred around the Silver Jubilee of Elizabeth II marked the twenty-fifth anniversary of the accession on Elizabeth II on 6 February 1952. It was celebrated with large-scale parties and parades in the United Kingdom and the Commonwealth throughout 1977, culminating in June with the official 'Jubilee Days', held to coincide with the Queen's Official Birthday.

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The year is 1952. Dilemma of a Southend family when marriage promises to take the eldest daughter to Mau Mau-racked Kenya.

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A series of short plays, all originally published as short stories in the 1920s.

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Three-part thriller serial by Francis Durbridge. BBC. BAFTA winner Peter Barkworth stars in this captivating BBC murder mystery as Guy Foster, a journalist turned wannabe novelist who finds himself ensnared in a puzzling homicide case when he's framed for the brutal murder of his wife. Facing a life sentence, Guy races against the clock and launches his own investigation into the slaying, only to discover that he's at the center of a twisted web of intrigue and deceit.

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Anthology of crime stories in which the telephone plays a key role.

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A husband and wife team are hired to protect an eccentric millionaire from an assassin but a series of murders follows.

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Within These Walls is a British television drama programme created and written by David Butler. Produced by London Weekend Television for ITV, broadcast between 1974 and 1978, the series portrays life in HMP Stone Park, a fictional women's prison. Unlike the later women-in-prison series Prisoner and Bad Girls, Within These Walls tended to centre its storylines around the staff rather than the inmates. Plots typically revolve around well-groomed, genteel governor Faye Boswell's attempts to liberalise the regime while managing her private life.

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A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to the stark realization that their son is showing symptoms of a looming brain tumour.

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Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.

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Daniel is about to marry a woman 30 years his senior. The woman begins to suspect that he is after her money.

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New Scotland Yard is a police drama series produced by London Weekend Television for ITV from 1972 and 1974. It features the activities of two officers from the Criminal Investigations Department in the Metropolitan Police force headquarters at New Scotland Yard, as they dealt with the assorted villains of the day.

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The Shadow of the Tower is a historical drama that was broadcast on BBC2 in 1972. It was a prequel to the earlier serials The Six Wives of Henry VIII and Elizabeth R. Consisting of thirteen episodes, it focused on the reign of Henry VII of England and the creation of the Tudor dynasty.

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This is a series of thrillers designed to keep the audience on the edge of their seats.

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A series of plays which examine if 1970s society is heading towards the dystopian world predicted in the book '1984'.

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An anthology of eleven dramas using confessions as a central theme.

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Anthology of detective dramas set in the 1930s, conceived as puzzles for the viewers, who were given the same clues as the television detectives and challenged to solve the mysteries for themselves.

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Anthology series of dramatic works.

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An anthology series of TV plays with a monetary theme.

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Mr. Sloane is a murderer. But, as both his middle-aged landlady and her homosexual brother quickly notice, he's very handsome.

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ITV Playhouse is a British comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a format that would inspire Dramarama. Actors appearing in the series included Leslie Anderson, Gwen Nelson, Ricky Alleyne, Pat Heywood, Michael Elphick, Ian Hendry, Edward Woodward, Margaret Lockwood, Jessie Matthews and Lloyd Peters.

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An estate agent arranges to meet a couple for a viewing at a flat.

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The Power Game is an ITV drama spin-off from The Plane Makers (1963–65), created by Wilfred Greatorex. Broadcast for three 13-episode series, Patrick Wymark reprised his role as Sir John Wilder, who here ruthlessly pursues boardroom machinations and tangled relationships.

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