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- Children's series about the adventures of Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee), a scarecrow who comes to life.
- Sonny and his kangaroo Skippy live in Waratah National Park in New South Wales. Matt Hammond, Sonny's father is the park ranger. Skippy saves the day in many adventures.
- Emma Harte, a bright and ambitious servant girl, overcomes her impoverished beginnings in her quest to become a retailing magnate and one of the world's richest women.
- Modern adaptation of Enid Blyton's adventure stories about Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog.
- Four-part, four-hour follow-up to A Woman of Substance (1984) with Deborah Kerr, now playing Emma Harte at age eighty in the last winter of her life and dealing with her granddaughter Paula.
- Tales of Scotland Yard centering on a detective team. A sort of halfway house between "Dixon of Dock Green" and "'Z' Cars." The detectives are still 1950s-style with good elocution and authoritative manner. A range of classic cases but gritty it isn't. Each case centres on one crime and one criminal.
- The adventures of Richard Crane, cafe owner & part-time smuggler, around the coast of Morocco, aided (and sometimes abetted) by his ex-Foreign Legion sidekick Orlando, waitress Halina, and local cop Colonel Mahmoud.
- Based on Ethel Turner's classic children's novel, this award-winning miniseries is about a family of seven children set in 1890s Australia.
- Confessions of impostor Felix Krull.
- Charlie Cole and his grandson Pete Jarrett travel around outback Australia in a beaten-up ute, finding itinerant work along the way. In each place they befriend locals and become involved in an adventure, culminating in their solving a mystery, crime or local conflict.
- A high ranking Roman Catholic priest, Monsignor Blaise Meredith (Sir John Mills), finds out he has terminal cancer. His faith is tested when faced with imminent death. At the same time, he is asked to travel to a remote village in the south of Italy to investigate a mysterious individual, Giacomo Nerone (Leigh Lawson), who has been named as a possible "saint" because he is said to have performed miracles. Before the Roman Catholic Church proclaims him to be a saint, someone has to play the "devil's advocate", investigate his life and make a case why he should not be a saint. Monsignor Meredith begins his investigations by talking to several people who have met him. He discovers his real name was "James Black". He was a British soldier who had become detached from the British Army (during World War II) and was hiding in this village in war-torn Italy. He began a relationship with a local woman.
- A disgraced ex-lawyer, now released from prison, uses his accumulated knowledge to earn a living from both sides of the law.
- A highly secret British Intelligence Unit is set up to deal with enemy menaces, staffed by three tough & capable operatives - the flamboyant Peregrine Smith, cold & logical Davidson, and tough ex-cop Richard Hurst. All licensed to kill - and pledged to protect the nation!
- Adventures of a crime-fighting ex-smuggler.
- The intricate stories of the Whiteoak family
- In the 1880s, Jack Grant, a young Englishman, has been sent by his parents to make a new life in the pioneering colony of Western Australia.
- Paul Gerrard is a man in search of his missing father - a wayward archaeologist who has disappeared from Greece.
- Richard the First, king, soldier, poet and political intriguer - and one of the most romantic figures in history - was the hero of 'Richard the Lionheart', a series that first aired in February 1962. The series, was firmly set in that short period in 1194 and follows the king as he tries to thwart Prince John's attempt to hold onto power by joining forces with Richard's enemies. This results in a series of swashbuckling adventures as Richard is constantly in fear for his life from the likes of Leopold, Philip of France and the Saracen, Saladin.
- An Englishman becomes involved with a mysterious Australian goldmine.
- Crime drama series Riviera Police told cases of four policemen working on France's Cote d'Azor. Glamorous locations made this a somewhat glossier series than was the norm in the UK at the time.
- A barrister named Richard Boyd Q.C. is involved in a variety of cases in London.
- Inspector Bollinger pursues criminals and scoundrels on the mean streets of London with the aid of his trusty German Shepherd dog.
- A mysterious object is sighted heading towards Earth and causes panic. But what is the nature & origin of the object, and how can it be stopped?
- Caribbean adventure series on board the "Sea Hawk", a 100-foot schooner floating electronics lab.
- Major Scobie is a British official in a West African colony during WWII. Both he and his wife are devout Catholics, and thoroughly unhappy. After he starts an affair with a young girl and breaks the law to hide it, he's consumed by guilt.
- The last years in the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, when he left Great Britain for Sydney and west Samoa.
- A documentary that uses the experiences of four people to pinpoint the attitudes that have contributed to the phenomenon of 'Swinging London'. The chosen four: Simon Napier-Bell, David Cammell, John Dunbar and Pauline Fordham.
- A strange youth impresses the women at a remote Irish pub spot by claiming to have murdered his father.
- Anthology series, hosted by Noël Coward and consisting of four productions of his plays: Blithe Spirit, Design for Living, The Vortex, and Present Laughter.
- About Donovan, the Scottish singer/songwriter Donovan Philips Leitch's lifestyle: his friends, his haunts and his music.
- Theseus, Duke of Athens, is going to marry Hyppolyta, Queen of the Amazons. Demetrius is engaged with Hermia, but Hermia loves Lysander. Helena loves Demetrius. Oberon and Titania, of the kingdom of fairies have a slight quarrel about whether or not the boy Titania is raising will join Titania's band or Oberon's, so Oberon tries to get him from her by using some magic. But they're not alone in that forest. Lysander and Hermina have there a rendezvous, Helena and Demetrius are there, too as well as some actors, who are practicing a play for the ongoing wedding of Theseus and Hippolyta. Due to some misunderstandings by Puck, the whole thing becomes a little bit confused...
- 1955–19741h 13m7.5 (9)TV EpisodeAdapted from a play by Noel Coward, Charles and his second wife Ruth, are haunted by the ghost of his first wife, Elvira. Medium Madame Arcati tries to help things out by contacting the ghost.
- 1955–19741h 10m7.3 (11)TV EpisodeAn aging and self-obsessed actor finds himself in a situation bordering on farce when he is besieged by the demands of his estranged wife, women who want to seduce him, and a crazed playwright.
- 1955–19741h 10m6.5 (9)TV EpisodeNicky Lancaster must deal with the problem of his drug-addicted mother.
- 1978–197925m7.8 (24)TV EpisodeMr and Mrs Kirrin are quarantined with possible Scarlet fever so the children are packed off to stay with genius professor Hayling. On arrival they are delighted to find that a circus has set up in the professor's field. All goes well until some light fingered Fred breaks in and makes off with the prof's secret papers. How unsporting.
- 1978–197925m7.8 (22)TV EpisodeThe children have their favourite burglary suspects but are puzzled when incriminating evidence is found in Charlie the chimp's circus cage. Is Charlie financing a banana laundering racket or has he been set up ? One thing is certain, there's some monkey business going on.
- The adult Kirrins are off on holiday to Malaga leaving affable Rogers in charge of the children, poor chap. It's not long before the chaos starts, first with a break in, then George goes missing in Raven's Wood.
- With the help of a young girl called Jo and a rowing boat the gang are soon hot on the trail of missing cousin George. Will they all be back in time for tea and crumpets ? Will Rogers regret not going to Malaga ?
- The children are also captured and held as prisoners at the mansion by snappy dresser crime kingpin, Mr Perton. So, just what are all these crooks up to? Julian aims to stay one step ahead and find out.
- The children set off on yet another push-bike camping expedition. They pitch their tents, but trouble soon starts when two villains kidnap Dick. The children trace the kidnappers to their hideout at Owls Dene mansion and attempt a rescue.
- Something odd is happening at Old Towers. What are those ominous rumbling noises and strange lights at night, and who is the figure seen at an upstairs window ? Luckily the Kirrin kids just happen to be in Wales to sort it all out.