Original title
Screen One
Released
9/10/1989
Origin country
GB
Genre
Drama
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
6
Number of episodes
52
Anthology drama series.
A live TV gardening show descends on Brown Gardens with surprising results. Connie, the researcher, starts an affair with Max, and gardeners dig up more than they bargained for.
A tale of passion, deceit and betrayal emerges from a seemingly innocent university reunion, as Lorna Johnston lets herself be lured back into the recklessness of her student days.
When his son is killed in a hit-and-run, everyone grieves—but Woody's pain has no limits. Searching for a way to react, his life and sanity slowly falls apart.
James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.
Alfred Molina stars as accountant Lionel Ellerman, baffled by the mafia's interest in his son's barmitzvah.
An unexpected pact develops between two women, one of whom has been away in a 'home' since she was a rebellious girl half a century ago.
Comedy drama set on a camp site in southern France, featuring a diverse assortment of characters.
When Danny, the adolescent son of Kevin and Anne Harris, first shows signs of disturbance, no one seems too concerned. But the situation gets dramatically out of control.
A political thriller written by David Lan , is inspired by events in the townships of South Africa. At the same time as protesters weave through the shanty town of 'Dark City', the mayor's home is burgled. These two apparently unconnected events lead to the death of a councillor. Seven people are put on trial and only one person can prove their innocence.
The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.
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".
Spin-off film from the series A Very Peculiar Practice set in a Polish hospital. Dr Dakar and his wife are happy in Warsaw until two figures from the past complicate matters.
When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.
George Grant is a television interviewer renowned for his ability to get the truth. Now he must find the truth about his wife's disappearance.
Special drama for Hallowe'en by Stephen Volk, starring Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith, Craig Charles. Ghosts no longer inhabit stately homes and rattle chains. They live in ordinary council houses like that of Mrs Pamela Early. For months she's suffered strange noises, awful smells and bent cutlery, but is hers really the most haunted house in Britain? BBC TV turns the cameras on ghoulies, ghosties and things that go bump in the night.
Alan, a 12-year-old white boy, is facing disapproval from his parents over his friendship with Jaillin, their Indian kitchen girl. But their concern turns to alarm when the relationship threatens to become more than a childhood crush. With the island's first free elections looming, the children find themselves trapped in a conflict of class, caste and prejudice.
Two veterans of the Normandy landings return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy, sparking memories of an old girlfriend.
Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo, a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise.
Drama about a street party held to mark the 1981 royal wedding. The spirit of rejoicing fires already-high emotions, and passions spill over changing lives forever.
A woman's fight to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive.
A Lancashire-born American soap star who, returning to Britain, is reunited on live television with her sister Margaret—a motorway cafeteria waitress.
Charlie Dyce, an ex-young offender, works in a seedy London café and meets Myra, a prostitute. Her pimp begins to cause trouble when she becomes pregnant.
The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previously.
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