Direction: David Giles

Direction David Giles

Cast Joan Hickson · Ursula Howells · Renée Asherson · Samantha Bond

Synopsis A murder is announced in the Chipping Cleghorne Gazette to take place on October 5th, 7 PM at Little Paddocks cottage. The people living there, retired secretary Miss Blacklock, her companion Miss Bunner, Miss Blacklock's two distant cousins, Patrick and...

Direction David Giles

Cast John Abineri · Robert Ashby · Trevor Baxter · Rod Beacham

Synopsis Insulted by the Dauphin, the newly crowned King Henry V gathers his troops for war. But Henry must convince his men that he has left his wild days behind and prove himself as a leader...

Direction David Giles

Cast John Neville · Susan Hampshire · John Standing · Robert Robinson

Direction David Giles

Cast Laurence Olivier · Geraldine McEwan · Robert Lang · Janina Faye

Synopsis An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military...

Direction David Giles

Cast Anthony Quayle · Jon Finch · David Gwillim · Tim Pigott-Smith

Synopsis Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour...

Direction David Giles

Cast Anna Massey · Angela Pleasence · Sylvestra Le Touzel · Nicholas Farrell

Direction David Giles

Cast Leonard Rossiter · George Costigan · John Thaw · Claire Bloom

Synopsis The reign of England’s King John is threatened by Phillip of France who demands that John’s nephew Arthur be placed on the throne. Pragmatic and decisive, King John moves to placate the French, but there are others who seek to...

Direction Donald McWhinnie · Barry Davis · David Giles · Peter Wood

Cast Peter Firth · Ian McKellen · Prunella Ransome · Stephan Chase

Synopsis TV Series (1972-1973). 2 Seasons, 13 Episodes. Country Matters portrays several romance stories, set in rural England just after the first World War. Each episode provides accurate and fascinating costume and set design to illustrate the class differences, living habits,...

Direction David Giles · Peter Potter · David Reid

Cast Stuart Wilson · Anne Stallybrass · Barbara Ferris · Christopher Benjamin

Synopsis TV Mini-Series (1972). 7 episodes. A seven-part mini-series produced in England about Vienna's Strauss family in the 19th-century. Members of the London Symphony Orchestra provided the music.

Direction David Giles

Cast Susan Hampshire · Dyson Lovell · Bryan Marshall · Marilyn Taylerson

Direction David Giles

Cast Jon Finch · David Gwillim · Rob Edwards · Martin Neil

Direction David Giles · James Cellan Jones

Cast Eric Porter · Margaret Tyzack · Nyree Dawn Porter · June Barry

Synopsis The extended Forsyte family live a more than pleasant upper middle class life in Victorian and later Edwardian England. The two central characters are Soames Forsyte and his cousin Jolyon Forsyte. Soames is a solicitor, all proper and straight-laced. His...

Direction David Giles

Cast Donald Pleasence · Alan Rickman · Geraldine McEwan · Nigel Hawthorne

Synopsis TV Mini-Series. 7 episodes. The cozy community of Barchester is rocked from its complacency when a newspaper's crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires. Overnight, Rev. Harding becomes a pawn in a public battle between his younger...

Direction David Giles

Cast Alan Bates · Anna Massey · Jack Galloway · Janet Maw

Synopsis In a drunken and disheartened state, Michael Henchard sells his wife at a fair. When he becomes sober again he realises what he has done, and though unable to find his wife and child, changes his ways. He becomes the...

Direction David Giles · Robert Tronson · Rodney Bennett · Steve Goldie

Cast David Jason · Pam Ferris · Stephanie Ralph · Philip Franks

Synopsis TV Series (1991-1993). 3 seasons. 20 episodes. The life of the Larkin family, farmers in Kent.

Direction David Giles

Cast Derek Jacobi · John Gielgud · Jon Finch · Wendy Hiller