Episodes

A portrayal of the last years in the life of the comedian Tony Hancock. His refusal to accept the limitations of his own genius destroys his two marriages and, eventually, himself.

Five men from Wales book a package tour to the Philippines, hoping for romance and possible marriage with Filipina women.

A black comedy which takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Smudger is a dealer and Liam is a counsellor who tries to break him.

A drama about the double life led by Sir Anthony Blunt, Soviet agent and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.

This first film adaptation of George Eliot 's classic novel was written by Maggie Wadey , who wrote the much-praised adaptation of Precious Bane. Two young men, the carpenter Adam Bede and the squire Arthur Donnithorne , find themselves competing for the love of the beautiful dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. It is a triangle which eventually leads to tragedy for all of them. When Adam Bede was published in 1859 it was greeted as the work of a major new talent. Charles Dickens was sure the author was a woman. He was right, for George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans , a country girl who told her publisher that Adam Bede would be full of "the breath of cows and the scent of hay".