Soundtrack: George Fenton

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Derrick O'Connor · Gary Holton · Richard Thomas · Peter Clark

Plot The slender premise springs from the actions of two listless 11-year-old boys, the cold, manipulative Leo, and his weaker, more impressionable friend, Mike. Contemptuous of the fallible police force (Mike...

Direction Lindsay Anderson

Cast John Moffatt · Isabel Dean · Philip Stone · Frank Grimes

Direction Jim Goddard

Cast Tom Bell · Brian Croucher · John Junkin · Norman Rodway

Plot TV Mini-Series (1978). 6 episodes.

Direction Roger Michell

Cast Queen Elizabeth II

Plot A documentary on the life of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-lived, longest reigning British monarch and longest serving female head of state in history.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Neville Smith · Julie Walters · Thora Hird · Carol MacReady

Direction Richard Eyre

Cast Judi Dench · David Bradley · Jennifer Saunders · Derek Jacobi

Plot The story of a geriatric ward in a small Yorkshire hospital threatened with closure.

Direction Stuart Burge · Giles Foster

Cast Steven Beard · Alan Bennett · Stephanie Cole · Thora Hird

Plot Six monologues tell the stories of six different repressed souls: a man dominated by his mother, a vicar's wife, an inveterate letter writer, a hopeful actress, a recently widowed woman,...

Direction Alan Bridges

Cast Cheryl Campbell · Malcolm Stoddard · Michael Culver · Madeleine Hinde

Plot Another of Dennis Potter's "visitation dramas": Adultery by John disturbs Janet, so she flirts with the simple, mistreated Billy during the middle of giving him a reading lesson. Unfortunately, it...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Henry Man · Benjamin Whitrow · Neville Smith · Angela Morant

Plot Lee, a Chinese man, works as a waiter in a hotel in England, despite speaking very little English. Told that a girl called Iris might be interested in him, on...

Direction Robert Knights

Cast Antony Sher · Geraldine James · Isla Blair · Laura Davenport

Plot TV Mini-Series (1981). 4 episodes.

Direction John Downer

Plot The story of Suki, a lioness cub, who rebels against her mother and her Pride to mate with an unsuitable lion from the other side of the river. Her journey...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Judi Dench · Frederic Forrest · Chic Murray · Yim Hoontrakul

Plot Two Westerners - Barbara, bank employee, and Bob, CIA analyst within the U.S. Embassy - meet a short time before the fall of Saigon.

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Ian McKellen · Sarah Miles · John Gordon Sinclair · Tony Doyle

Direction Jim Goddard

Cast Bernard Hill · Derrick O'Connor · Larry Lamb · Ray Winstone

Plot TV Series (1980- ). 13 episodes.

Direction Stuart Burge

Cast Thora Hird · Eileen Atkins · David Haig · Patricia Routledge

Plot 6 Episodes. Talking Heads is a series of dramatic monologues written for BBC television and first broadcasted in 1988. Its episodes are: "A Cream Cracker under the Settee", "The Hand...

Direction Phil Agland

Cast Rufus Sewell · Emily Woof · Cal Macaninch · Tony Haygarth

Plot The story is set in late 19th century rural corner of South England. The daughter of timber merchant Melbury, Grace, returns to the town after finishing school. Her father now...

Direction Stephen Frears

Cast Patricia Routledge · Prunella Scales · Pete Postlethwaite · Joan Sanderson

Direction Alan Clarke

Cast Phil Daniels · Alun Armstrong · Bruce Payne · Louise Gold

Plot Cocky cockney snooker player Billy Kid accepts the challenge of a grudge match from Maxwell Randall (the Green Baize Vampire), six times world champion; the loser will never play professional...

Direction John Jacobs · Michael Apted · David Cunliffe · Barry Davis

Cast Michael Bryant · William Simons · Katherine Barker · Gwen Nelson