Family life with Andy, a professional chef who buys a decrepit hamburger van, his wife Wendy, a part-time waitress, and their daughters Nicola, sex and Marx-obsessed and a secret bullimic, and Natalie ...

A portrait of pop artists Peter Blake, Derek Boshier, Pauline Boty, and Peter Phillips. If Pop Goes the Easel looks dated to present-day eyes, that's both understandable and unavoidable, but in 1962 ...

Intended for broadcast in 1965, writer / director Peter Watkins' nuclear war drama was withheld by the BBC - possibly as a result of political pressure - and remained unshown for nearly twenty years, ...

There was so much more to Ealing Studios than its famous comedies. But there's one category of Ealing films that's really obscure. The 30-odd documentaries and propaganda shorts released by the studio ...

A young Liverpudlian man joins an international brigade in the Spanish Civil War, fighting in support of the Republican struggle against fascism. Like most films dealing with historical events, Land ...

Two young lovers are caught on either side of a dispute over the territorial ambitions of the monolithic Ironside brewery against an 'olde-worlde', traditional family-run concern, Greenleaf. This ...

A naive, hot-headed young market trader finds himself in prison for a minor assault, beginning a spiral of events that will lead him into the hangman's noose. In 1965, the BBC's Wednesday Play ...

During a Sicilian fiesta, young lovers Hero and Claudio conspire to make sharp-tongued rivals Beatrice and Benedick fall in love with each other. While Cedric Messina and Alan Cooke (who adapted the ...

As an actor, John Hurt is drawn to misfit roles, outsiders and mavericks, victims and - occasionally - oppressors, sometimes pathetic (the Elephant Man), sometimes defiant (Emperor Caligula, or the ...

Factory worker and lad-about-town Arthur Seaton is having an affair with the wife of a workmate. She becomes pregnant and he starts to go out with a younger woman, Doreen. Eventually he decides to ...

Associated Rediffusion for ITV, tx. (London) 16/9/1959-12/6/1967 236 x 60 min episodes in 10 series, black & white ...

British agents in WWII Crete hatch a daring and ambitious plan to capture the Commander of the island's occupying German forces.