Cast: Alec Clunes

Direction Laurence Olivier

Cast Laurence Olivier · Ralph Richardson · John Gielgud · Claire Bloom

Synopsis The third and final entry in Laurence Olivier's Shakespeare triptych, Richard III (1954) is an audacious portrait of a man determined to prove himself a villain. As the personification of evil impudence, Olivier portrays the Duke of Gloucester with such...

Direction Richard Thorpe

Cast Robert Taylor · Kay Kendall · Robert Morley · George Cole

Synopsis In 1465 Quentin Durwood travels to France to meet Isabelle, Countess of Marcroy, on behalf of his elderly Scottish uncle whom, for political reasons, the Duke of Burgundy intends she marry. A man of honour who may have sworn too...

Direction Lance Comfort

Cast John Gregson · Robert Shaw · Alec Clunes · Alan Wheatley

Synopsis It's a race against time for the police when they have to find a kidnapped boy imprisoned with a time bomb, after his abductor dies without revealing the child's whereabouts.

Direction Roy Ward Baker

Cast Donald Sinden · Muriel Pavlow · Tony Wright · Bernard Miles

Synopsis An escaped killer heads for the French coast to find a mysterious treasure reportedly buried in a widow's mansion. The lonely widow is preparing to marry a man she doesn't love. Suddenly she begins receiving mysterious photos of her late...

Direction Philip Saville

Cast Christopher Plummer · Robert Shaw · Alec Clunes · Michael Caine

Synopsis Broadcast a few days before Shakespeare's 400th birthday, Hamlet at Elsinore was the BBC's major contribution to the quarter centenary celebrations, as well as being a technical milestone. Up to then, television Shakespeare broadcasts were exclusively studio reconstructions or relays...

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Gordon Harker · Elizabeth Allan · Mervyn Johns · Joyce Barbour

Synopsis Against a background of Christmas and the pending arrival of another baby for the landlord, a group of pub locals lead by bookie Joe Harris set out to prove that former customer Eddie Graves is not guilty of the murder...

Direction Walter Forde

Cast Tommy Trinder · Claude Hulbert · Carla Lehmann · Michael Wilding

Synopsis Three British sailors find they've accidentally strayed on board a Nazi ship during WWII. They then proceed to take it over and requisition it for the Royal Navy.

Direction Gordon Parry

Cast Richard Greene · Cedric Hardwicke · Kathleen Harrison · Ronald Howard

Direction Lewis Milestone

Cast Patrice Munsel · Robert Morley · John McCallum · John Justin

Synopsis The highly fictionalized story of Nellie Melba, Australian-born soprano who rose to operatic fame in the latter part of the 19th century and who had a dessert and form of dry toast (true) named after her. In her film debut,...