Cast: Edward Petherbridge

Direction Sönke Wortmann

Cast Johanna Wokalek · David Wenham · John Goodman · Iain Glen

Plot The story focuses on the legend of the only female pope. Originally released as Die Papstin, Pope Joan explores the life of a girl driven by love of knowledge and...

Direction Mike Newell

Cast Hugh Grant · Alan Rickman · Georgina Cates · Alun Armstrong

Direction Paul Annett · Simon Langton · Don Taylor · Rodney Bennett

Cast Peter Barkworth · Anna Cropper · Bernard Brown · Sylvia Kay

Direction Robert Knights · Moira Armstrong · John Irvin · Jack Gold

Cast Maggie Smith · Jean Simmons · Rupert Graves · Joan Plowright

Direction Don Taylor

Cast Anna Cropper · Sylvia Kay · Edward Petherbridge · Clive Swift

Plot Four friends gather for Christmas dinner at an old cottage. Suddenly, there's a power failure and the phone goes dead. Then their wine turns to blood and the turkey makes...

Direction Jim Goddard

Cast Alun Armstrong · Suzanne Bertish · Janet Dale · Jane Downs

Plot Young Nicholas Nickleby sets out to make his fortune in order to prevent his mother and sister from depending upon his uncle, Ralph Nicklby.

Direction David Hugh Jones

Cast Mike Gwilym · Amanda Redman · John Woodvine · Annette Crosbie

Plot When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and...

Direction Lawrence Gordon Clark

Cast Edward Petherbridge · Lalla Ward · Preston Lockwood · Barbara Ewing

Plot An episode in the BBC's annual A Ghost Story for Christmas strand. After taking up his inheritance, Sir Richard Dickin is haunted by dreams of his ancestor Sir Matthew Dickin...

Direction John Braine

Cast Kenneth Haigh · Zena Walker · Paul Hardwick · Avice Landone

Plot TV Series (1970-1972). 2 Seasons. TV Series about the rise of an ambitious young man of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war...