Screenplay: Alexander Baron

Direction Paul Annett · Kenneth Ives · Christopher Barry · Philip Dudley

Cast Angharad Rees · Robin Ellis · Jill Townsend · Paul Curran

Direction Antony Kearey · Viktors Ritelis · Max Varnel · Bill Bain

Cast Peter Cushing · Douglas Wilmer · Nigel Stock · Peter Madden

Plot TV Series (1964-1968). 2 seasons. The 1960s BBC series Sherlock Holmes has all the virtues of Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective--shrewd and efficient, with flashes of visual panache but never...

Direction Julian Amyes

Cast Zelah Clarke · Timothy Dalton · Carol Gillies · James Marcus

Plot TV Series. until she arrives at Thornfield Hall to tutor the young Adele. She finds herself intrigued by and attracted to Thornfield's owner, the dark, sardonic (natch) Mr. Rochester. But...

Direction Carl Foreman

Cast Vince Edwards · Albert Finney · George Hamilton · Melina Mercouri

Plot Intelligent, sprawling saga of a squad of American soldiers, following them through Europe during World War II.

Direction Rodney Bennett

Cast Irene Richard · Tracey Childs · Annie Leon · Robert Swann

Plot Two sisters of opposing temperaments find love and some heartbreak in Jane Austen's 18th century classic.

Direction Gareth Davies

Cast Ben Rodska · Lysette Anthony · Eric Porter · Michael Attwell

Plot In a storm, in a workhouse, to a nameless woman, young Oliver Twist is born into parish care where he's overworked and underfed. As he grows older his adventures take...

Direction Harry Watt

Cast Aldo Ray · Heather Sears · Neil McCallum · Victor Maddern

Plot Sydney. Matt Kirk (Aldo Ray) is a prisoner intent on clearing his name. Together with fellow prisoners Bert (Victor Maddern) and Luke (Carlo Justini) and Matt's brother Johnny (Neil McCallum),...

Direction David Maloney

Cast Eric Flynn · Anthony Bate · Vivian Brooks · Clare Jenkins

Plot 10 Episodes. This adaptation of Sir Walter Scott's novel is set in 1192 AD and depicts a disinherited knight who is accused of treachery. He returns anonymously to his home...

Direction Diarmuid Lawrence · Michael Owen Morris

Cast Eve Matheson · Rebecca Saire · Simon Dormandy · Jack Klaff

Plot In the time of Napoleon, Becky Sharp, a poor orphan girl, schemes for money and position. Her most-used stepladder is her old school friend, Amelia Sedley. Both women marry soldiers,...

Direction Jonathan Alwyn · Alan Cooke · Jim Goddard · Derek Bennett

Cast Peter Barkworth · Peter Vaughan · Douglas Wilmer · Ronald Hines

Plot This British TV series, shot almost entirely on videotape, dramatized short mystery fiction by authors who were contemporaries of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Many of these authors were virtually unknown...

Direction Peter Duguid

Cast Tom Baker · Terence Rigby · Will Knightley · Nicholas Woodeson

Plot TV miniseries (1982). 4 episodes. Tom Baker, the Fourth Doctor, stars as Sherlock Holmes in this four part adaptation of the the Baskerville adventure. Returning to his family's manor house...

Direction Robert S. Baker · Monty Berman

Cast Donald Sinden · Nicole Berger · Kieron Moore · Peter Wyngarde

Plot As armed police surround a house in the East End of London, a young lady under medical supervision nearby thinks back to the events that lead her and a group...

Direction Philip Saville · Charles Jarrott · Guy Verney · Ted Kotcheff

Cast Billie Whitelaw · Harry H. Corbett · Neil McCallum · Paul Whitsun-Jones

Plot "Armchair Theatre" is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation,...

Direction Jack Lee

Cast Peter Finch · Ronald Lewis · Laurence Naismith · Maureen Swanson

Direction Marc Miller · Peter Moffatt · Joan Kemp-Welch · Peter Collinson

Cast Diane Cilento · Ian Hendry · Derrick Sherwin · Ray Marioni

Plot Blackmail, in all its meanings and forms, was the central theme of the 27 episodes comprising this series.