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A bustling department store closes for the night, but now amongst the silence and the mannequins, there is an intruder.

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

A young white couple visiting a friend's flat in Harlem NY find themselves marooned there just as race riots start. The empty flat could be their only sanctuary during the mayhem... but then the flat has more visitors.

Potter contrasted the fading heritage of the British empire with new American values, embodying national traits in his central characters proper British businessman George King, a London suburbanite, who encounters loud and crass sailor Sam Adams, an American who is disrespectful of British culture and traditions.

Parents struggle over the future of their child, resulting in the mother, using her cunning manipulative skills, subduing and finally destroying the father.

Jack Sheppard is a working-class thief, whilst Jonathan Wild is thief-taker to the crown, the country's most senior law-enforcement officer. But which one is the greater criminal?

A simple country girl arrives in London and finds herself being accused of murder and the threat of extradition to the USA.

Two couples try to discover if they can live together (platonically) and life gets very complicated.

A director has to provide an explanation to a public committee on how his firm made such a huge profit on a government contract.

A group of school children arriving at their holiday camp hostel find themselves being challenged by strangers there for leadership of their group.

A couple buy a house cheap unbeknown it has a sitting tenant in the form of Daniel Bloch, the wife is soon aware of an evil atmosphere.

Elizabeth Cane arrives in Mexico and starts to take an interest in a bull fighter, but he can find only contempt for this refined American woman and what she represents.

Lord Windermere appears to all - including to his young wife Margaret - as the perfect husband. But their happy marriage is placed at risk when Lord Windermere starts spending his afternoons with an adventuress who is working her way through London's high society, Mrs. Erlynne. Worse, Windermere gives her big sums of money. To crown it all he asks his wife to invite the detestable woman to her own birthday party. Upset and outraged, the puritan Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband and goes to Lord Robert Darlington, who has been courting her for some time. Unfortunately she leaves her fan - the one Robert offered her for her birthday - in Robert's house...

A young woman experiences a mental breakdown.

A man is suffering memory loss after slowly recovering from a car crash. Does fate offer a chance to re-invent himself and forget the past? - or is he doomed to make the same mistakes and have the same disappointments as he has always had?

This drama inspired long running series Justice about a successful lady barrister.Here Julia Stafford is asked to defend a posh youth,an outsider in a conservative Scottish town, who is accused of murdering a girl.

The history of an old four poster bed and its various occupants.

May and John had met years earlier by an act of fate. They had gone their separate ways but then bump into each other again by another act of fate. John seems to have forgotten much of the earlier encounter but May remembers every detail and reminds him that the young John had been alarmed about a premonition he had of a tragic event that would happen to him in later life.

A delegation from the planet Taran is made welcome by almost everyone in Britain. They talk of their planet as a promised land and a new beginning...but not everyone is convinced and decides to investigate further.

Inspector Parker's instinct in trying to nail Pritchard for the horrific murder of a young girl becomes an obsession which puts pressure on both his health and marriage.

Camille is living in London, working as a prostitute with her friend Nanine. Her life has no happiness until she meets the son of one her customers 'Armand' a Cambridge undergraduate .

Edgar Lunt lives his life by scientific principles, that is, for every action there is a reaction. He believes that any pleasure he might have, will mean, somebody will suffer somewhere else. The result is he is not very happy at all, until Trevor, a young student,tries to show him a fresh outlook on life.

An allied agent is sent out into an obscure country to find a Russian Agent who has been thrown out of Russia for defection. He finds a broken man who drowns his days in drink, and feels sympathy for him.

Religious cult leader, Pringle, calls in a private investigator, Caulfield, after receiving letters saying that his wife is having an affair. But Caulfield learns that the wife has more than love on her mind.

An aspiring playwright is delighted when a famous star agrees to appear in his new play. At first, that is.

While hitchhiking towards the coast, two young men find themselves trapped at an inn by its strange landlord and his beautiful wife.

A crumbling marriage with a child in the middle of it all.

A buffoon is mistaken for an important official.

A hard-bitten newspaper reporter is drawn back into the world of sleaze he had hoped to have left behind, and this time it goes right to the top.

Drama around the 1916 Easter uprising in Ireland.

A reconstruction of an event in 1968 when a converted cargo ship the USS Pueblo was seized by the North Korean Navy as a spy ship. It was supposed to be protected by the US Pacific Fleet but they are out of range at this time. The play concerns Captain Bucher and his crew left on their own to deal with duty, their own lives and preventing another Korean War.

An Orwellian world in which a Socialist Public School is opened,despite the good intentions and efforts from staff to produce a school of equal opportunity and excellence, the school ends up like all the others.

A proud woman coldly concentrates on keeping up appearances when her 50-year old husband and a young schoolgirl go missing at the same time.

Doreen's rather odd beauty shop gives it's women customers a unique opportunity to act out their fantasies.

Old boys' reunion is an excuse for high spirits for some of the school's former pupils.

A young man who likes to cause a stir meets an older woman who refuses to rise to his bait.

A man makes an unexpected appearance at his younger brother's house in the middle of the night. He needs somewhere to stay and convinces his brother and his wife that he is trouble. Or is he?

Tom and Phyl travel down to Wales to stay with friends Huw and Teg, a couple they hung around with in London some years back. Culturally the couples have their differences, and after a spell of unease, passions come to the surface.

A large gathering of the Randolph clan leads to reflections on the importance of family.

Frank is elected mayor of a northern town, but wonders whether he's made the right decision.

Two mountaineers stumble into the safe haven of a hut after being caught in a blizzard, seemingly unconcerned about the other two of their team still on the mountain.

A lonely elderly woman strikes up a friendship with a driving instructor.

Elaine and Max are lovers, but is Elaine's psychiatrist too involved in their relationship?

Life does not get boring for the Harrises living at the top of a 24 floor tower block, they have a moody teenage son Enoch, a lodger called Corrie and an irritating caller called Ponce which leads to a series of strange events.

Todays theme is Mr. Axelford's Angel.

A man arrives at a couple's home with news about their estranged son. They welcome him at first as a guest, but become suspicious of who he actually is. He in turn becomes uneasy and disturbed by the whole atmosphere in the home.

Set in Liverpool in the early 70s, the film tells the story of Samuel 'lucky' Ubooto, a half African, half Irish man in his 20s whose decidedly unlucky career as a criminal has resulted in a series of stretches in prison for theft. The story follows Lucky on the day of his release from his latest sentence. As he wanders around Liverpool, not really belonging anywhere, it becomes clear that he is still waiting for his father, a man who has long since abandoned Lucky and his family, to return and take him back 'home' to Africa.

Mrs Alving is preparing a memorial for her late husband with Pastor Manders, but years of anger and frustration are exposed, as she confesses a life she kept hidden.

A sixteen-year-old boy living in Occupied France develops an uneasy friendship with a Nazi officer billeted in his grandmother's house.

A rock star is kidnapped at the end of a concert. The record company ask the question is he worth more dead than alive?

A school leaver is teamed up with experienced professional car thief (Beckinsale). The novice ends up going it alone hence car park ending.

A disillusioned husband and wife take a trip across the Channel, hoping to find themselves. In fact they find the French are not what they expected.

Graham, an executive, is ordered by his boss to look after a couple of out-of-town buyers - who make it clear they would like to visit a brothel.

A beautiful Chilean exile called Tina is stranded in a new country.

John Osborne play about a world-weary actress, her dresser and various visitors to her dressing room.

A couple are drawn into a campaign to save their cathedral city from a new motorway.

Like Curse of the Demon (1957), this adaptation is only very loosely based on the original ghost story by M.R. James. However, it does feature eerie scenic views and is directed by Lawrence "Ghost Story For Christmas" Gordon Clark

Jilted by a fickle former pupil Rachel sometime ago, school teacher Nick had yearned someday she would return to him as predicted in the Tarot Cards he had read at the time. To his joy, Rachel does return but the world has moved on since.

A librarian hides from the harsh realities of life in Belfast by embracing a night-time career as a showband singer.

Art critic Peter visits a pair of married artists in Brazil for Christmas, leading to romantic complications between him and the male half of the couple.

The story concerns the relationship between Peter, a 15 year old boy, and Mr Faulkner, an old man whom he befriends. Mr Faulkner used to be a school teacher but had retired after allegations were made about him by a pupil. There was still gossip about him in the town. Mr Faulkner teaches Peter a lot about literature and introduces him to poetry and when Peter returns to school the two of them correspond. The friendship between them is threatened when Peter starts going out with Sue who disapproves of him spending time with the old man. In the end Peter confronts Mr Faulkner with the gossip but he refuses to discuss it. Peter later writes to Mr Faulkner but for the first time does not receive a reply.

Professor Rex Thornton summons a meeting of fellow UFO-nuts, "The Friends in Space Society", to unveil a wonderful surprise...

Follows the life of Anna, who leaves school to become a prostitute. Three years later she becomes involved with a lecturer at a college in Oxford.

Mild-mannered janitor Arthur Washbrook has been a trusted and respected employee of a City institution for many years. Despite his menial position the white-collar staff that he serves are always courteous and considerate. But this is the 1980s and things are changing in Britain. An arrogant new financial dealer joins the staff and his rudeness soon puts Arthur's nose out-of-joint, leaving him no option but to show the upstart who's really in charge. From his lair in the basement of the office block, surrounded by his pet lizards, and using all the tools at a janitors disposal, he sets about his enemies ruin.

Set in the future about a new town that is under constant surveillance and also where a daily TV soap opera provides solutions to problems in the town.

A woman's new house hides a sinister secret.

Two girls, Sheryl (Toyah Willcox) and Abbey (Rosalyn Landor), have been inseparable friends since childhood. Then Billy (Robert Glenister) arrives on the scene.

Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy was a tale of two long-distance dogfood-carrying lorry drivers who, to the other's ignorance, are each having affairs with the other's wife. Although the men meet up on the road, exchange stories of their sexual escapades, and often talk to their wives about their travelling friend, the lies they spin and the false names they invent mean that neither the husbands nor the wives cotton on to the convoluted situation. Aubrey Owen likes to pass himself off as an MP, 'Aneurin', during his visits with Helen, while Dan claims he is carrying top secret 'abnormal' loads when pursuing the passionate Myfanwy.

A gay couple get disturbed by the new boy they hire to work in their hotel.

A straight-laced young businessman finds his life is changed when he literally bumps into a clumsy but attractive female while at the library.

Dogfood Dan And The Carmarthen Cowboy was a tale of two long-distance dogfood-carrying lorry drivers who, to the other's ignorance, are each having affairs with the other's wife. Although the men meet up on the road, exchange stories of their sexual escapades, and often talk to their wives about their travelling friend, the lies they spin and the false names they invent mean that neither the husbands nor the wives cotton on to the convoluted situation. Aubrey Owen likes to pass himself off as an MP, 'Aneurin', during his visits with Helen, while Dan claims he is carrying top secret 'abnormal' loads when pursuing the passionate Myfanwy. Made by Yorkshire Television for the ITV Network.