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- Claire Beauchamp Randall, a nurse in World War II, mysteriously goes back in time to Scotland in 1743. There, she meets a dashing Highland warrior and gets drawn into an epic rebellion.
- A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
- A lonely American boy living in Scotland makes a new best friend, a fellow nine year-old who happens to be a vampire.
- To escape a scandal, a bestselling author journeys to Scotland, where she falls in love with a castle - and faces off with the grumpy duke who owns it.
- In London, a diplomat accidentally becomes involved in the death of a British agent who's after a spy ring that covets British military secrets.
- When a priceless relic is stolen, Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy enlist the help of Margaret's cousin Fiona teams with a man from her past to retrieve it, with romance and resulting in a very unexpected switch.
- When Duchess Margaret unexpectedly inherits the throne to Montenaro and hits a rough patch with Kevin, it's up to her double Stacy to save the day before a new lookalike, party girl Fiona foils their plans.
- The Helping Hands agency employs some very strange people to perform some very strange jobs. Even the simplest of tasks get bungled by the incompetent but lovable staff.
- Mean, gritty, dirty, and low - and that's just Policeman Gary Keltie (Ken Stott) out for retribution for the horrendous crimes against the helpless people of Edinburgh, Scotland during the 1970s by notorious, torturous, and killer debt collector Nickie Dryden (Sir Billy Connolly). This is as hard as they come; giants of their professions, one with a trade that needs to be kept secret, and the other holding a grudge. Shot around the City of Edinburgh, with its coarse language and criminal underclass, we see the wrath of spite, hate, jealousy, and violent vengeance all in the final showdown of justice, and with it, its uncompromising final debt to society.
- A young woman joins a group of protesters trying to stop the construction of highway through a forest, but when the protests are broken up and the young woman hits a man with a log, she and the protest's leader must dodge the authorities.
- An aristocratic Scottish family is torn apart after the death of its wayward male heir in a horse riding accident. Mourning the loss of her younger brother, Lady Elizabeth "Liz" Dewhurst's (Suzanne von Borsody's) marriage collapses and she is left to run the financially precarious estate alone. Can the arrival of a charming classics professor to research his book in the family's historic library remind Liz how to love again?
- An American salesman pursues an heiress from Vermont, who is in turn being wooed by a Scottish lord in financial need.
- Two undercover army operatives infiltrate an activist group working towards an independent Scotland by illegal means.
- A story of the betrayal in one generation affecting the lives of the next, peppered with romance, music and the most beautiful scenery the big screen has to offer. A must see - subtitled too.
- Jonathan Meades explores the architectural legacy of Queen Victoria's reign.
- A lonely young man learns that suicide is not the answer.
- Two female friends go in search of the missing brother of one of them in the Scottish Highlands, but get more than they bargained for when they find themselves deeply involved in some shady business.
- Shawn quits his job with the mysterious "Miss Scarlett" and passes the torch to a newcomer.
- Antonio Dyaz is a bankrupt movie maker, who receives a mysterious box from a distant relative. Inside is a plastic doll, a little wolf that Dyaz recognized as his first toy, and a letter with an offer: save his career in exchange for making a horror movie.
- A history of the Scottish accent on television and film.
- ShortA man consumed by anger is haunted by regret and a quickly failing heart.
- Documentary series which sees Fred Dibnah touring Britain's great building feats.
- A bored young man sets off in pursuit of a hidden stash of treasure.
- A picnicking idiot follows a mysterious string to his death.
- Shawn spends Xmas day disposing of a dead body and marches across the land to receive a present.
- A layabout cannot decide whether or not to spend the day at the beach.
- This film is the first to document the life and work of the Scottish painter, illustrator and decorative artist, William McLaren. From humble beginnings in the 1920s in Cardenden, a mining town in Fife, McLaren went on to produce work in some of the finest houses in the UK. His illustrations appeared regularly in the 1950s and 1960s in the BBC's Radio Times. He became a prolific book illustrator and designer of dust jackets for over 150 books. In 1966 a commission to create a series of paintings for Hopetoun House near Edinburgh was the breakthrough for McLaren, leading to decorative commissions in private houses and public buildings where he developed his trompe l'oeil style. The filmmakers have traced hundreds of works by McLaren and many of these are included in this documentary, together with testimony from those who knew him. He died in 1987, aged 64, leaving behind a range of work that will surprise and delight many people.
- Shawn must race to a meeting with a mystery woman who has been pulling his strings in previous adventures.
- James Fitzpatrick heads to Edinburgh, Scotland, to see various historic sites including Edinburgh Castle and sites related to poet Robert Burns, including fields he walked through and his burial spot.
- Shawn is sent to find a colleague who might be critically injured.
- An idiot learns that he should not pull the hidden strings out of society.
- A man returns, from holiday, to find a pile of earth in his garden. What is under the earth and how did it get there?
- Rebus is called to an investment bank after a man shoots himself in front of the bank's owner. In his wallet the dead man has a photo of a young child along with the words Alto Chicampa. At the man's funeral, Rebus finds out that he was working for a chemical company, about to set up a new plant at a local estate to manufacture a new pesticide for the third world. Investigations lead Rebus to Amanda Morrison, a former employee of the bank about to sue the firm for sexual discrimination, but who soon turns up dead. Can Rebus prove that the suicide shooter and Amanda both died because of what they knew? Will the rich and powerful go to any lengths to protect their investments?
- Victoria Wood travels by train through Northern England and Scotland.
- The Age of Materialism and its Age of Inhumanity of Colonial Slavery and Industrial Revolution (18th to 20th Century).
- 1792 brought France and soon the continent its socio-political revolution, Scotland new sheep breeds which made the greedy Highland chiefs, by now London-based aristocrats, expel the farming clansmen to coastal crofts, which thrive on the new crop potatoes until the blight. Sir Walter Scott's novels revived Scotland's romantic feudal past now it was truly over. Hoping to stop class struggle, which failed as Radicals's attempted revolution, Scott invented the 'tartan traditions' for king George IV's royal visit to Scotland. But the emancipatory ideas would still win the crucial aspiration, electoral reform.
- Fiona and the team greet over 4,000 visitors, who flocked to Hopetoun House on the banks of the Forth in Scotland for one of the busiest Roadshows on record. Objects under scrutiny include a rare illustration of Queen Victoria visiting Balmoral for the first time, a valuable pottery pig kept in a cat basket, and some of the earliest records in the story of British broadcasting.
- The team investigate the death of a recently released prisoner whose body is pulled out of the Forth River.
- 1815, Brussels on the brink of conflict. Eighteen-year-old Sophia Trenchard secures her humble family invitations to the now legendary Duchess of Richmond's ball, on the eve of The Battle of Waterloo. She hopes for a secret assignation with her forbidden lover, the aristocratic Edmund Bellasis. As war dawns, the young pair are torn apart and Sophia is left to conceal a devastating secret from her family. Twenty six years later in the newly built luxury of London's Belgravia, a chance encounter between the two families reignites a long-buried connection. Sophia's parents, Anne and James Trenchard, find themselves in the social circle of Edmund's mother, Lady Caroline Brockenhurst. Long forgotten history now comes back to haunt the Trenchards. They must reconcile their guilt over secrets they have kept hidden for years, as they are faced with a revelation that may spell ruin for their family name.