Soundtrack: Jim Parker

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Diane Fletcher · Susannah Harker · Miles Anderson

Plot Francis Urquhart, Chief Whip, manipulates things and people to achieve his ambitions in the Houses of Parliament, all the while keeping his hand carefully hidden behind the scenes. But Mattie...

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Michael Kitchen · Kitty Aldridge · Colin Jeavons

Plot In 'To Play The King', the second installment of this political satire, Francis Urquhart has managed to become the British prime minister and crush all significant opposition. Everyone who knows...

Direction Jeremy Silberston · Gavin Millar · Tristram Powell · Giles Foster

Cast Michael Kitchen · Honeysuckle Weeks · Anthony Howell · Julian Ovenden

Direction Mike Vardy

Cast Ian Richardson · Diane Fletcher · Paul Freeman · Isla Blair

Plot Francis Urquhart is too experienced a politician not to know that everything must end, even his long career as British prime minister. In order to secure his retirement and establish...

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Ian Richardson · Sean Wightman · Robin Laing · Dolly Wells

Plot In the tumult that follows his killing off his fictional character Sherlock Holmes, Arthur Conan Doyle reflects on the man who influenced and provided the prototype for the great detective,...

Direction Graham Evans · John Gorrie · Alan Gibson · Herbert Wise

Cast Roald Dahl · John Houseman · Andrew Ray · Joan Collins

Plot TV Series (1979-1988). 9 seasons. 112 episodes. A British anthology of mystery, suspense, horror and black comedy, highlighted by plot twists and surprise endings (in the early seasons, all by...

Direction Caroline Graham · Renny Rye · Peter Smith · Richard Holthouse

Cast John Nettles · Jane Wymark · Barry Jackson · Jason Hughes

Plot TV Series (1997-). 21 Seasons. 128 Episodes. The British detective drama revolves around DCI Barnaby's efforts to solve numerous murders that take place in the fictional English county of Midsomer....

Direction David Attwood

Cast Alex Kingston · James Bowers · Nicola Kingston · Geoffrey Beevers

Direction Simon Curtis

Cast Neil Morrissey · Rachel Weisz · Graeme Garden · John Gordon Sinclair

Direction Richard Stroud

Cast John Hurt · Imogen Stubbs · Robert McBain · Greg Hicks

Plot In a small (fictional) emirate of the Persian Gulf, a world-weary journalist is caught up in a coup where the Emir's son, under the influence of a political renegade, attempts...

Direction Paul Seed

Cast Albert Finney · Tom Courtenay · Joanna Lumley · John Light

Plot When their wives die on the same day in the same hospital room, two aging British World War II vets -- upper-crust Reggie (Albert Finney) and retired milkman Roy (Tom...

Direction Ken Hannam · Graeme Harper · Alister Hallum · Jeremy Silberston

Cast Stella Gonet · Louise Lombard · Aden Gillett · Cathy Murphy

Plot (1991-1994). 3 seasons. House of Eliott is a story of passionate romance, unlikely coincidences, extraordinaryaccomplishments, society in evolution, and a marvelous revelation of life.

Direction Sarah Hellings

Cast John Nettles · Jason Hughes · Jane Wymark · Laura Howard

Plot A 90-year-old battle of the sexes comes to a head in Midsomer Broughton, with casualties on both sides.

Direction Donald McWhinnie

Cast Geraldine McEwan · Prunella Scales · Nigel Hawthorne · Denis Lill

Plot Mrs Emmeline Lucas (Lucia) has just moved to the small English town of Tilling where she comes into conflict with the social ambitions of Miss Elizabeth Mapp. Until now, Miss...

Direction Lucy Gannon · Michael Brayshaw · Laurence Moody · Nick Hamm

Cast Ben Nealon · Robson Green · Jerome Flynn · Rosie Rowell

Direction Cedric Messina

Cast Penelope Keith · Paul Eddington · Patricia Hodge · Benjamin Whitrow

Plot It is a warm Saturday afternoon in Cookham. The Bliss family is settling down to a quiet weekend. It is a weekend which turns out to be anything but quiet.

Direction Renny Rye

Cast John Nettles · Jason Hughes · Jane Wymark · Laura Howard

Plot Expert blackmailer Martin Barret is murdered and there is no shortage of suspects.

Direction Moira Armstrong

Cast Kristin Scott Thomas · Sandra Voe · Anthony Valentine · Amanda Redman

Plot 6 episodes. A nun, played by Kristin Scott Thomas, leaves the convent temporarily to help save her family knitting mill from bankruptcy following the death of her brother. Outside the...

Direction Neville Green · Steve Goldie · Paul Cole · Iain McLean

Cast Tim Whitnall · Shelley Thompson · Michael Benz · Katy Murphy

Plot A series about an alien living with an American boy in Britain.

Direction Peter Smith

Cast John Nettles · Jason Hughes · Jane Wymark · Laura Howard

Plot A young man's murder touches off a search for his girlfriend and partner in ballroom dancing classes.