British telefantasy of the 1990s
Mostly based on the now defunct Telefantasy List website plus a few bonus ones I've found that weren't listed on there.
Missing: Assignment - Europe on the Brink 3: War with America (BBC2, 1993) and Present Spirits (C4, 1994)
Missing: Assignment - Europe on the Brink 3: War with America (BBC2, 1993) and Present Spirits (C4, 1994)
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- DirectorDerek DoddStarsOscar QuitakJames VaughanAn original spin on Robert Louis Stevenson's supernatural story examining the theme of good and evil in one personality, and a human mind distorted by sin and guilt.
- DirectorGeoffrey SaxStarsJohn NettlesTerence AlexanderSusan WooldridgeLocals are hostile when a party of archaeologists embark on a dig with eccentric blacksmith predicting doom at disturbing a supposedly sacred site. Then one of the group is mysteriously attacked and another falls to her death from a cliff. Charlie also succumbs to the myth when he collapses at home but Jim is cynical. However, even he is taken by the surprise when the dig's leader Carol unearths what she is looking for.
- StarsDavid ThwaitesCamilla PowerTom BakerEustace, along with a new companion named Jill Pole, is brought back to Narnia. The pair are told by Aslan they must search for King Caspian's missing son, Prince Rilian.
- DirectorBob BlagdenStarsDavid HargreavesPete PostlethwaiteLaurance RudicKeef owns a small seaside café. His comfortable routine with regular customer Wayne is disrupted by a confrontational punk girl who has seen something extraordinary on the beach.
- StarsSiân PhillipsGareth ThomasLucy DonovanGwyn and Nia are intrigued by Emlyn Llewelyn, who believes his mother lives on the moon. Despite warnings, they are drawn to him by a mysterious magic. With the help of Arianwen, the Snow Spider, they aim to unravel the mystery.
- StarsTat WhalleyJeff RawleJacqueline TongA young boy discovers that he has the power to read other people's thoughts.
- CreatorAnthony MinghellaStarsMichael GambonBrian HensonSteve VarnomA storyteller in a labyrinth tells his dog the stories of Perseus and Medusa, Icarus and Daedalus, Theseus and the Minotaur, and Orpheus and Euridyce.
- StarsAlbert FinneyLinda MarloweSarah BergerAn alcoholic pub landlord has visions of a 17th-century doctor of the occult, beginning a monumental clash between good and evil. Adapted from the novel by Kingsley Amis.
- DirectorDavid WickesStarsMichael CaineCheryl LaddJoss AcklandDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- StarsCharlotte MartinAnna PernicciPhil WillmottIlea is an old space craft cruising around the Jupiter system, and functioning as a university. This is the story of its crew and students.
- CreatorBen SteedStarsSimon NashAndrew O'ConnorGraeme HawleyKappatoo, a 23rd century kid, time-swaps with his 20th century counterpart, Simon Cashmere. A children's sci-fi comedy that tries to offer observations on what we are doing to this planet as well as what life might be like in the 23rd century.
- StarsRonald PickupStephen ReaMike GradyAll people in the world have been eliminated except this small group of people ... which include only one woman!
- DirectorRoy BattersbyStarsJanet McTeerRoy MarsdenTim RothBritain in the very near future. In an abandoned hotel, a young female doctor and a middle-aged male scientist are interrogated separately. The question they are both asked is 'Where is Martin Pitt?'
- DirectorRobert BiermanStarsNigel PlanerKate BufferyYvonne BrycelandPaul quarrels with his girlfriend Jane about when to start a family and Dr Eva Frankenstein comes to his aid by helping him to become the world's first pregnant man!
- DirectorTerry JohnsonStarsAmanda RedmanMichael MaloneyEllie HaddingtonA lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague.
- CreatorMick GarrisTom McLoughlinStarsNeil DicksonKate HodgeScott FultsA female American graduate student in London is bitten by a werewolf, then teams up with an English professor to investigate supernatural occurrences.
- CreatorJim EldridgeStarsPaul JonesHelen LambertGiuseppe PelusoUncle Jack gets hold of a secret formula, and has to stop it from falling into the hands of the notorious criminal known as the Vixen.
- DirectorHerbert WiseStarsLisa OrgoliniJeremy NorthamMatyelok GibbsA young couple inherit a stately home in the English countryside, but soon find the otherworldly occupants don't approve of the American wife.
- DirectorPaul WeilandStarsLenny HenryJohn GabrielAlan CummingAfter mild-mannered art-buyer Bernard Bottle is fired by his greedy boss and abandoned by his girlfriend, he discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
- StarsSiân PhillipsCal MacAninchOsian RobertsGwyn senses danger from a toy horse with an evil prince's spirit seeking revenge. With friends Emlyn and Nia, they aim to save a mysterious soldier. Can the Snow Spider help recapture the prince's soul without harm?
- StarsJohn LynchChristine KavanaghKenneth CranhamA journalist investigates the death of his girlfriend at a fertility clinic where she worked and uncovers a plot to create a new breed of human based on crossing the genetics of a man and an ape.
- StarsBen ChandlerBrigit ForsythVictoria LambertThree children investigate strange goings-on in their school and protect it from such threats as a computer scientist with dreams of world domination and a mysterious group of archaeologists hoping to bring about the end of the century.
- StarsSimon GodwinNicole MowatCharles RichardsA group of children discovers a mysterious creature in the local sand pit who agrees to grant them one wish each day.
- DirectorGeorge PavlouStarsMeg DaviesRichard GrahamRobert Hines
- StarsGeorge WinterTrevor PeacockRoger AlboroughA star-studded TV production of the classic tale by Mary Stewart which follows Merlin down through history to the days of King Arthur.
- DirectorJames HendrieStarsDawn FrenchJim BroadbentKathy BurkeA scientist brings her equipment home to start working on the time machine. But this causes friction at home with disastrous results.
- DirectorNeil GrantStarsBernard ArchardPetra MarkhamGhost story about a female sound recordist who becomes personally involved with figures from Arthurian legend one Midsummer's Eve when she is near Cadbury Hill and Glastonbury Tor in Somerset.
- DirectorNicholas RentonStarsFrances BarberPeter CapaldiÉva DarlanWhen Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story writer Eleanor Mont other forces start to stir.
- StarsHaydn GwynneKenneth HallIan McNeiceBB Miller, accidental time-traveller and Ben Hardy, a street urchin from Victorian England, arrive back in the middle of the English Civil War on BB's motorbike time machine. Before their hectic and hilarious adventures are over, they are practically blown up, nearly dissected by mad scientists, almost axed to death and then meet their worst nightmare in the evil Witchfinder General.
- CreatorJim EldridgeStarsPaul JonesHelen LambertGiuseppe PelusoUncle Jack's cousin disappears near Loch Ness. A marine base is hiding something and the Vixen has a new evil scheme.
- StarsGarth Napier JonesTom BrodieJessica SimpsonAn alien named Watt is on the run from his uncle. He is helped by his human friend Sean and hunted by fellow alien Jemadah. Both Watt and Jemadah can alter their looks, a process Watt calls transanimateobjectification. Jemadah changes into various people and Watt changes into various objects.
- DirectorPhilip SavilleStarsTom BellDavid BirrellDavid BoyceThree guardian angels help three souls evaluate their past lives.
- StarsIan HolmPenelope WiltonRebecca CallardThe Borrowers, a family of tiny people, are forced to find a new home after being displaced. They get help from a human boy as they try to survive by borrowing what they need.
- StarsPatricia HodgeBrian CoxBillie WhitelawJoanna once was married to Carl May, a very rich and powerful nuclear energy magnate. They love each other, but had to divorce after Joanna was caught on an incidental love affair. Since then Carl has made Joanna's life impossible. 10 years later she's fed up with the situation and decides to visit him, only to find that once he made three copies of her.
- StarsMartin KempJohn StrideRosalind BennettFor school leavers Laura, Annie and Carmen, life in East Anglia is as dull as it gets. The only options are marriage to the boy next door...or work in the local poultry factory. How are they going to find love and riches...?
- CreatorRobert Banks StewartStarsMillicent MartinJohn MichieLaure KillingAstrologer Gladys Moon and her psychic son, Trevor, travel between Folkestone and Calais, conducting readings, selling occult wares and getting involved in various crimes and mysteries.
- StarsKarl HowmanGeraldine McEwanTony SelbyThe son of Death and Springtime is sent to collect the acerbic and reclusive Miss Farnaby. He joins the staff in her manor house, becomes her personal servant, and endeavors to help her enjoy life during her three month extension.
- DirectorGavin MillarStarsRonald PickupPrunella ScalesPolly GrantWhen Bess Throckmorton encounters Sir Walter Raleigh's ghost, she is persuaded to help the spirit. Upon learning that Bess' family farm is endangered, Sir Walter devises a scheme to help her family keep the farm and avenge his cruel fate.
- DirectorLesley ManningStarsMichael ParkinsonSarah GreeneMike SmithIn a "live" broadcast on Halloween night, a BBC team investigate a reported poltergeist in an ordinary London home.
- DirectorAndy WilsonStarsBenjamin ZephaniahTimothy SpallAlex JenningsBenjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman played by Timothy Spall; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues.
- CreatorPaul MendelsonStarsMiriam KarlinGeorge CostiganTessa Peake-JonesA suburban family find their new home is still occupied by the ghost of its previous owner, a middle-aged Jewish woman.
- CreatorStephen EdmondsonJerome VincentStarsMark Alexander ToddAnn BrysonWilliam ManneringSpace Vets was a 39-episode children's science fiction show about a motley crew of misfit intergalactic space vets.
- CreatorRoger Damon PriceStarsKristian SchmidChristian TessierNaomie HarrisThe Tomorrow People are the next stage of human evolution. They can teleport, communicate by telepathy, heal with the power of thought and they are unable to kill or harm any living creature. Aided by a mysterious and ancient spacecraft buried in the sand of a Pacific island, the Tomorrow People use their powers to protect the world, while trying to keep their own existence a secret for fear of exploitation.
- StarsJudi DenchAltay LawrenceGraham McGrathIn the future, when the world has reverted to a more rural way of life, five children help a dying man by embarking on a quest to discover the torch of the Olympic Games.
- CreatorJim EldridgeStarsPaul JonesElaine TanRoger HammondThe evil Vixen has concocted a plan to control the world's weather. Will Uncle Jack and friends be able to stop her before it's too late?
- DirectorNigel FinchRobert ChevaraStarsOmar EbrahimPhilip SalmonWinstonRipley the vampire, revived and flourishing after being entombed beneath the streets of London for two centuries, must murder three women at the command of his master, Satan, to ensure his continued existence. A modern updating of a 19th century operetta.
- CreatorBrian DegasHarry RobertsonStarsNicholas ClayKim ThomsonStephen YardleyPsychology lecturer Dr John Cornelius and his partner Samantha Valentine solve offbeat mysteries
- StarsPeter McEneryLisa HarrowAlan HowardDrama series about a crew making a film about witchcraft. The director gets rather carried away and endangers the lives of his cast.
- DirectorPaul BartelStarsRobbie ColtraneJennifer SaundersMiriam MargolyesMusic producer Arnold Silverstein is desperate for a song hit so when the Devil - a woman - supplies him with the answer to his dreams,a piece called 'Demonella' he is anxious to fulfill his part of the deal,to give the Devil his mother's secret recipe for chicken soup to serve her celebrity guests in Hell.
- DirectorMike StephensStarsJohn InmanFleur BennettFrank ThorntonParanormal activity runs rampant in Millstone Manor when Captain Peacock removes a petrified pussycat from the attic wall.
- DirectorKeith AllenPeter RichardsonStarsSara StockbridgeJennifer SaundersDawn FrenchA craft full of Space Rats,glamorous extra-terrestrials from the planet Sex,arrive on Earth desperate to find men with whom they can procreate in order to ensure the continuity of their race and whom they imprison in their sex factory. Fortunately for the world the secret agent James Blond,a decidedly non-feminist secret agent,sets out to rescue the men and see off the Space Rats in his own inimitable way.
- StarsCatherine SandersonMary WimbushTatiana StraussLocal teenager Tess Hunter tries to stop her small town from making the repeated decision to conjure a demonic entity.
- StarsBill NighyJudy ParfittMichael FeastA father and daughter's search for a covered-up threat to the environment collides with a malevolent old local woman, her disturbed young boy, and the evil legacy of his seventeenth century alchemist ancestor in a fantastical eco-thriller.
- CreatorMaurice GranLaurence MarksStarsNicholas LyndhurstVictor McGuireChristopher EttridgeBritish sitcom in which an unhappily married man discovers he can time travel back to 1940s war-torn London where he masquerades as an MI5 agent and part-time songwriter whilst courting the local barmaid.
- DirectorAlvin RakoffStarsTim WyltonJean-Marc PerretJohn HallamA young member of a choir becomes friends with a ghost in a school of English cathedral.
- CreatorNorman LovettStarsNorman LovettDicken AshworthGeoffrey HughesThis series revolves around main character Norman, an inventor whose inventions land him in a series of comedic situations.
- StarsIan HolmPenelope WiltonRebecca CallardThe Borrowers leave their new home and find a model village just the right size for them. They find George (Paul Cross), but the village's owner also finds out about the Borrowers.
- StarsToby Ufindell-PhillipsLaura ClarkeLeonard KirbyFour children encounter the magic powers of Psammead, the sand fairy.
- StarsColin FrielsBen EltonDerrick O'ConnorIn the near future, the greenhouse effect has plunged the world into recession, and the unscrupulous Stark Corporation is making as much money as it can from the crisis.
- CreatorJim EldridgeStarsPaul JonesCatherine BaileyRoger HammondUncle Jack and Helen travels to Egypt on a quest to find Cleopatra's treasure.
- StarsChris DownsPaul NichollsDavid HargreavesBased on the children's book by William Mayne, school friends Keith and David investigate sounds coming from a hill on a moor near their home. During their investigation, the hillside opens up and an 18th Century drummer boy marches out.
- DirectorMike HodgesStarsPaul RhysGeraldine JamesJulie CovingtonJohn Lassiter, an Irish doctor working in an English hospital, finds that he has a mysterious gift of healing. This makes him popular with patients but sets him at odds with the hospital authorities.
- StarsRichard O'BrienJoyce SpringerRichard RidingsThe Ink Thief steals the power of children's imaginations by taking the ink from drawings and pulling two young children into his world inhabited by Oobs and other creatures of imagination.
- 1967–20048.0 (6)TV EpisodeStarsMark Chapman
- DirectorChristopher MorahanStarsPaul BhattacharjeeJohn GielgudRosemary HarrisIn 1975, after a nuclear war, the nations have combined to set up a World Government. An old man who lives quietly in the country finds his peace threatened by a visit from three World Government figures.
- DirectorElijah MoshinskyA Jewish comedian and ventriloquist, Genghis Cohn, is killed at the Dachau concentration camp by Nazi officer Shatz. Seventeen years later Shatz is a policeman and Cohn returns to haunt him.
- CreatorIngrid LewisFrances-Anne SolomonStarsArchie PanjabiJon FinchRoshan Seth"Siren Spirits" is a wonderful feature comprising four short dramas directed by women of color, produced by Leda Serene for the British Film Institute and BBC Television.
- CreatorGerry AndersonStarsTed ShackelfordRob YoungbloodSimone BendixThe alien adventures of former NYPD detective Patrick Brogan, now a lieutenant in the Demeter City Police Department on the planet Altor.
- DirectorGerry PoulsonStarsJudd TrichterMia FothergillMilton JohnsExploring a cavern, Stanley loses his friends but finds an old egg. He is excited when it hatches and a dragon comes out of it, but the authorities don't agree and put the dragon in the zoo. Stanley sets out to free his new discovery.
- CreatorRoy ClarkeStarsBryan BrownKim ThomsonOtto TausigTwo immortal twin knights, one standing for all that's good, the other evil incarnate, must face each other at the end of the 2nd millennium to fight for one last time and determine the fate of all mankind.
- DirectorMarc EvansCrispin ReeceSimon ShoreStarsSimon ShepherdJonathan HydeReece DinsdaleDr. Sam Bliss, a medical research scientist based at Cambridge University, investigates bizarre and unexplained deaths, with the help of his assistant, Dr. Melanie Kilpatrick.
- DirectorPaul MurtonStarsEmma ThompsonAdrian DunbarEleanor BronMarie Bonnar (Dame Emma Thompson) is an insecure housewife whose husband, Joe (Adrian Dunbar), is having an affair. The two of them take a vacation to rural Scotland, but by sheer bad luck, end up at the hotel Joe uses for his "getaways". There, Marie is told the story of a young boy who drowned in a nearby lake long ago, and finds herself becoming more and more obsessed with his ghost.
- CreatorBrian ClemensStarsJaye GriffithsJesse BirdsallCraig McLachlanEd, Ros, Alex and Beckett form the high-tech crime fighting team who work for the mysterious, secretive Bureau 2 chief, Jan, and are only assigned the most difficult and dangerous cases.
- StarsNigel HaversPhyllis LoganKevin McNallyA British horror/fantasy anthology series where each story involves, to some extent, the supernatural and features lead actors from UK television.
- StarsDamian ZukSuzanne ShawAlexander TrippierFour children discover a ruined church is the gateway to the fantastic and dangerous world of Elidor.
- StarsWesley MooreAmy MooreSamantha BondBritish anthology series of ghost stories.
- DirectorGraeme HarperStarsNick BerryDerek FowldsBill MaynardDuring a terrible thunderstorm several people claim to have seen an UFO flying over Aidensfield, and sergeant Blaketon cannot just dismiss the matter because PC Ventress is one of them. Ventress even thinks he was abducted. Bernard and Lily Conway have trouble with their neighbour Ted Halliwell and suspect him of knocking over their milk cans and letting his sheep lose during the storm. Then Conway disappears after an argument with Halliwell. Aunt Eileen has been collecting money for charity on behalf of Hester Jarvis, but when the money gets stolen Jarvis does not want the theft investigated.
- StarsBrian BlessedGeorge BakerJane LapotaireAfter the dead hear their cemetery is going to be sold as a building site, they ask Johnny to stop it.
- CreatorJeremy SwanStarsOlivia HallinanJohn AsquithSimon GreenJulia Jekyll mistakenly takes an ancient elixir that gives her an alter ego, the frightening Harriet Hyde. Follows her escapades through school as she tries to keep Harriet away from her classmates and teachers.
- DirectorSteve ShillStarsRenée AshersonRobin BaileyJune BrownSurreal drama about seven old people living in the same bed.
- DirectorJonathan LewisStarsValentine PelkaTamio OkadaYasuko OkadaStrange tale of an alien who moves to a leafy London suburb.
- StarsHeather-Jay JonesVictoria ShaletPaula WilcoxChildren's series about a magic coin that can grant wishes.
- DirectorBen BoltStarsTrevor EveAmanda OomsBruce MyersGermany, March 2000: Detective Alex Fischer investigates the murder of a young Danish woman, whose body has been slashed from head to foot. On the ground beside her are the words in Arabic: "We are crossing." As the threat grows of a mass exodus of refugees caused by civil war in Russia, Fischer sets out on a hazardous search for the truth with refugee Anna.
- StarsAlbert FinneyCiarán HindsFrances de la TourWriter Daniel Feeld, first seen in Dennis Potter's "Karaoke," returns three centuries later as a disembodied head.
- StarsAnia SowinskiRobin McCaffreyJason StraceyScientist Dr Ruby Munro takes two children with very strong psychic powers into her Department for Experimentation into Linked Thought Activity (the Delta of the title) and the trio have adventures that sees them travelling back in time as well as tangling with gangsters.
- StarsTerrence HardimanFrances AmeyGunnar CautheryDinah Glass moves in with a new foster family and begins to attend the same school as her new foster brothers. But there is something very strange going on at the school. BBC adaptation of the children's novels by Gillian Cross.
- DirectorGeoffrey SaxStarsPaul McGannEric RobertsDaphne AshbrookThe newly-regenerated Doctor takes on the Master on the turn of the millennium, 31 December 1999.
- StarsChristopher LongmanJohn LightLucy RobinsonAnthology series of stories with a supernatural theme for children.
- StarsTed DansonMary SteenburgenJames FoxAn Englishman returns after nine years abroad and tells strange stories of the tiny people of Lilliput, the giants of Brobdingnag, the flying island Laputa and the Houyhnhnms, a race of intelligent horses.
- DirectorDominic BrigstockeSimon DelaneyStarsRoger BlakeMelanie HudsonPauline McLynnA one-off BBC2 sketch show, supposedly a newscast broadcast from one year in the future, in this case 1997.
- DirectorFerdinand FairfaxStarsDawn FrenchDanny WebbRegina FreedmanThese days, Death drives a Mini Cooper and wields a garden trimmer instead of a scythe. And to make matters worse, her latest 'client' is proving extremely difficult to terminate.
- StarsGary BakewellLaura FraserHywel BennettA man in London encounters an injured young woman, and instantly exists only to those in London Below. As he helps the woman escape from assassins, he must try to find his way back to London Above.