Known for
NRA child chess prodigy from Liverpool plays the Russian world champion, at a time of crisis in both their lives.
Time Trouble
1985
5.0A dysfunctional couple remember a better time.
Landscape
1983
7.0What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
Punters
1984
NRMartin, an ex-public school boy, takes a room above a greengrocer's shop and starts working in the shop. Despite Martin's diligent and successful efforts to save and improve the business, he constantly comes into conflict with Terry, the greengrocer's son, who it turns out is longing to get away from the shop.
A First Class Friend
1974
NRJane, an English journalist goes to Israel to write on the Palestinian situation and meets and falls in love with an Israeli professor of English. As their love affair develops, they realize they have opposing views on Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.
A Dinner of Herbs
1988
NRBrian idolises his older brother Steve, who has left school and joined the army. The two brothers go for an evening out and end up in a local coffee shop, where Steve's faults become painfully obvious to Brian
I Want to Be Like You
1976
Behind the camera
NRA child chess prodigy from Liverpool plays the Russian world champion, at a time of crisis in both their lives.
Time Trouble
1985
5.0A dysfunctional couple remember a better time.
Landscape
1983
7.0What is the secret of Joey and Spansky's success at the races?
Punters
1984
NRMartin, an ex-public school boy, takes a room above a greengrocer's shop and starts working in the shop. Despite Martin's diligent and successful efforts to save and improve the business, he constantly comes into conflict with Terry, the greengrocer's son, who it turns out is longing to get away from the shop.
A First Class Friend
1974
NRJane, an English journalist goes to Israel to write on the Palestinian situation and meets and falls in love with an Israeli professor of English. As their love affair develops, they realize they have opposing views on Israel’s treatment of the Palestinians.
A Dinner of Herbs
1988
NRBrian idolises his older brother Steve, who has left school and joined the army. The two brothers go for an evening out and end up in a local coffee shop, where Steve's faults become painfully obvious to Brian
I Want to Be Like You
1976
NRWritten by Willy Russell, Lies tells the story of a young lad, blessed with enterprise and a dream of living in Cornwall, trying to make something of himself. But, finding himself constantly let down by adults, can he realise that dream?
Lies
1978
NRWritten by Willy Russell, Lies tells the story of a young lad, blessed with enterprise and a dream of living in Cornwall, trying to make something of himself. But, finding himself constantly let down by adults, can he realise that dream?
Lies
1978
NRSharm's dog attacks a hostile neighbour, and has to make a decision for which he has no guide lines.
Justice - Uncle Sangi
1979
10.0Two brothers who have not seen each other for years take a boating holiday, during which they come across a mysterious young woman.
Three Miles Up
1995
6.1Northern Irishwoman Helen Cuffe (Julie Christie) is overwhelmed with sadness when her husband is killed by the Irish Republican Army. She and her teen son, Jack (Frank MacCusker), then move to a tiny town and start life anew. There, Helen meets a mysterious American man named Roger Hawthorne (Donald Sutherland), who is in the area to refurbish an old train station. A romance slowly blossoms between Roger and Helen, but Jack then gets involved with a violent political group, and tragedy looms.
The Railway Station Man
1992
7.2A view of the inhabitants of a derelict road in Manchester, unsatisfied with their lives and routines. A young man locks himself away from the world. An older woman flirts with a soldier on leave. Two men invite two girls into an empty house.
Road
1987
7.4Linda is out on her hen night while her fiance Dave is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married. Both groups end up at the same club, only to discover that its band is fronted by her ex-boyfriend - and the love of her life - Peter. Linda has to decide: does she stay and settle down with Dave, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter?
Dancin' Thru the Dark
1990
6.0Transmitted as part of BBC Schools series Scene, 8 March 1973. Actor improvisations around the theme of gambling devised by Mike Leigh.
A Mug's Game?
1973
7.0Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?
Lucky Sunil
1988
NRA shy, awkward Scottish lad secretly carries a torch for a local lass.
Jackie McCafferty's Romance
1978
NRQuiet Devonshire school girl Joanna's claim that she saw a tiger in Barrow Woods soon takes hold, in her home, at school and in the national press.
Newsworthy - The Girl Who Saw a Tiger
1976
NRA glimpse into the home life of a coal miner and his family. Frustrated with their lot in life, the family quarrel and squabble incessantly with one another in this adaptation of a DH Lawrence short story.
A Collier's Friday Night
1976
NRSam, a quiet West Indian working as a London Transport ticket collector, strikes up an unlikely, but warm, friendship with Joe, an old man who has a room in the same house.
The Hope and the Glory
1984
NRA look at stand-up comedian Bobby Knutt's work at seaside clubs, and his plans for the following year. Bobby details how he got into the business by accident, his inspirations and working practices, and the boredom and tensions involved.
The Life of a Stand-up Comic
1979
7.0The story of an ambitious schoolboy, Gary Worrall (played by Christien Anholt), who sets out to make £1M during his half term school break! He is aided and abetted in this adventure by his school mate Brian Thurrock (Paul Reynolds). All goes smoothly until he meets the beautiful Lisa (Jayne Ashbourne) and he realises that life in the 'real' world is much more complicated than the theory in the classroom!
Money For Nothing
1993
NREverybody tells Onnie to steer clear of Patsy Gallaher, that he's bad news, but Onnie doesn't see it. Gallaher is Onnie's friend, and he believes friends should be loyal to one another.
Loyalties
1978
NRWho has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look hopeless. But the tenants begin to fight back...
Sitting Targets
1989
Liam is a south London teenager, out of a job, living for Saturday afternoon, for the excitement of the match and the hope of a fight after it. A beautiful girl and a meeting with a priest give him a glimpse of a different life - but his violent brother won't let him go so easily. TV adaptation of the play by Jonathan Moore.
The Treatment
1984
7.0Play by Maurice Leitch set in Country Antrim. Two evangelists are touring the area, stirring up religious fervour in the quiet Presbyterian backwaters. The year is 1959.
Gates of Gold
1983
NRLiza, a schoolgirl, meets and falls in love with her classmate's brother, Paul. When she discovers she is pregnant, they each must consider the consequences as outlined by their respective parents.
Consequences
1977
NRWritten by Willy Russell, Break In tells the story of three boys who break in to their school during the holidays to retrieve a confiscated football.
Break In
1975
7.0Nick, a Greek Cypriot living in London, hits on the idea of marriage to raise some cash - the bride, according to custom, coming complete with dowry. He is forced to enlist the help of a childhood adversary, Maria. Soon realising she is giving him the runaround, Nick retaliates by wooing her.
One Last Chance
1990
NRBBC Schools documentary about the successful British rock band The Sweet, their riches and the price of fame. Charting 24 hours in the life of a rock band that asks the question: "Is the music business really that glamorous?" The show contains live material shot on the 21st December 1973 during their legendary concert in the Rainbow Theatre, London.
All That Glitters
1974
