Writers include Peter Whalley, Joe Turner, Mark Wadlow, David Lane, Martin Allen, Jayne Hollinson, Jonathan Harvey, Daran Little, Chris Fewtrell, Catherine Hayes, Debbie Oates, John Stevenson, John ...

The lives of various people in a town in the North of England. The staple diet of births, ill-fated marriages and violent deaths continued. Storylines included the birth, in 1977, of Tracy Langton, ...

A retiring sergeant sees his last platoon of National Service conscripts through basic training, betting that they will win the Star Squad award. Although the film was a big box office hit, it is in ...

Cast: Kim Stanley (Myra Savage); Richard Attenborough (Billy Savage); Mark Eden (Charles Clayton); Nanette Newman (Mrs Clayton); Margaret Lacey (woman at first seance) The film's opening is slowly and ...

The chat show king of British television throughout the 1970s, Michael Parkinson outdistanced rivals Russell Harty and David Frost and became a Saturday night fixture on BBC1 with his long-running ...

A man, irritated by the presence of a photographer, solves his dilemma by swallowing him and his camera whole.

Following a mysterious white rabbit, Alice falls down a hole in the ground and finds herself in a strange topsy-turvy universe populated by wondrous creatures. Miller digs deep into the roots of ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

A few months into World War Two, the GPO Film Unit was transferred to the Films Division of the Ministry of Information. Its new name - the Crown Film Unit - reflected its special status as film ...

The bizarre adventures of a frustrated actor, who walks off a tired family sitcom into a world of talking dogs, and dancing advertisements. Unusually, the series was shot on film, marking it out from ...

Lumping together filmmakers of any kind within a single cultural grouping is fraught with difficulty, so the term 'British-Asian' may, for example, fail to recognise individual artistic voices (such ...

A sceptical American psychologist visits England and investigates a fellow scientist's mysterious death. In so doing he encounters a black magician who has the power to invoke an ancient fire demon to ...