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- DirectorAlan CookeStarsAlec McCowenPatrick MageeGeoffrey BayldonDuring the early 16th Century idealistic German monk Martin Luther, disgusted by the materialism in the church, begins the dialogue that will lead to the Protestant Reformation.John Osborne
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsSybil ThorndikeVirginia McKennaCyril CusackCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.E.M. Forster
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsMartin BensonNorman BowlerAnnette CarellAlex Weissberg
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsAlan BadelCharles CarsonPeter AshmoreThe story of General Charles "Chinese" Gordon, a brilliant but eccentric military commander, and his death defending Khartoum in 1885.
- DirectorNaomi CaponStarsAnna MasseyWendy HillerAlec McCowenAfter a rich Edwardian widow impulsively marries a handsome but poor Tuscan dentist and dies in childbirth, her English in-laws try to gain custody of the baby.E.M. Forster
- DirectorRudolph CartierStarsTony BillDora ReisserRobert AyresThe story of the man accused of killing President Kennedy.
- DirectorBill HaysStarsDiana CouplandPeter GilmoreJudith BruceAntique dealer Charlie yearns to own a beautiful Portland vase.
- DirectorAlan CookeStarsRod SteigerBetsy BlairJoss AcklandWilly Loman is an over-the-hill salesman who faces a personal turning point when he loses his job and attempts to make peace with his family: Willy's long-suffering wife Linda, and Biff and Happy, his troubled sons and his life.Arthur Miller
- DirectorGareth DaviesStarsLeonard RossiterKeith BarronDavid LangtonThe discovery of mysterious egg-shaped objects at the sites of a series of disasters lead people to believe that we are being attacked by alien beings, but it is revealed to be a conspiracy hatched by a team of scientists intent on using an alien menace to unite the world. But their scheme backfires with fatal consequences...
- 1965–19837.7 (11)TV EpisodeDirectorBill HaysStarsLee MontagueNigel StockMadge Ryan
- DirectorAlan BridgesStarsJudi DenchDinsdale LandenBernard ArchardSet in the future where people live in peace in a sealed bubble, they are divided into four levels - Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and deviants who cannot conform to the society. Elizabeth is from a Beta family and her father wants to pair her off with Bindon a civil servant with prospects. Elizabeth however is in love with Jon a modest rocket pad official. When Elizabeth's father decides to have her mind altered to remove feelings for Jon, the lovers escape the city and discover fresh air and the beauty and cruelness of nature for the first time.
- DirectorRaymond MenmuirStarsPatrick AllenAlec ClunesWilliam MervynC.P. Snow
- DirectorBill HaysStarsJohn ThawNeville SmithPauline Collins
- DirectorWaris HusseinStarsMaxine AudleyGriffith JonesRichard LeechMaurice Edelman
- DirectorDonald McWhinnieStarsCharles GrayRonald HinesBarry JusticeLoosely inspired from Gauguin's life, the story of Charles Strickland, a middle-aged stockbroker who abandons his middle-classed life, his family, his duties to start painting, what he has always wanted to do. He is from now on a awful human being, wholly devoted to his ideal: beauty.W. Somerset Maugham
- DirectorAlan CookeStarsKika MarkhamHywel BennettJohn GielgudIn Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have hated each other for years, but the son of one family and the daughter of the other fall desperately in love and secretly marry.William Shakespeare
- DirectorAnthony PageStarsAlan BadelJill BennettJohn OsborneAs the Nazis grow ever more powerful in Germany, Werner grows up in an aristocratic household, hating his domineering father and making enemies in high places.
- DirectorJames MacTaggartStarsEric PorterPeter JeffreySuzanne NeveLong-nosed Cyrano de Bergerac helps an army officer woo Roxanne, the woman he loves.Edmond Rostand
- DirectorMichael ElliottStarsCelia JohnsonTom CourtenayDonald WolfitA young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.Henrik Ibsen
- DirectorPhilip DudleyStarsWendy HillerRonald FraserStephanie BidmeadA schoolteacher becomes the mentor of a talented young miner and seeks to get him into a university.Emlyn Williams
- DirectorBasil ColemanStarsMichael RedgraveKeith MichellJonathan DennisThe magician Prospero, once Duke of Milan, now rules a small, enchanted island - but a storm brings visitors from the past.William Shakespeare
- DirectorWilliam SlaterStarsFlora RobsonAthene SeylerKatina PaxinouThree women over 50, Agatha, May and Lucy, set up housekeeping together.Rodney Ackland
- DirectorJames MacTaggartStarsEric PorterMaggie SmithAdrienne CorriJohn Tanner is determined not to lose his independence - which comes under threat when he falls in love with an ardent feminist.George Bernard Shaw
- DirectorJohn GorrieStarsCelia JohnsonJane MerrowRichard BriersWeekend guests of the Bliss family finds their hosts distinctly eccentric.