The Sextet
1972 · 1 season · 8 eps · ★ 10.0 · Drama
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An anthology series of BBC television dramas on sexual themes. The same cast are featured in each production.
Created by Roderick Graham
Network: BBC One
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Andrina · 1981Andrina
★ 8.01981
MovieDramaTV Movie
Captain Bill Torvald has retired to his quiet home in Orkney after fifty years at sea. When a young woman, Andrina, begins visiting him through the dark winter, he is grateful for her kindness and company. But as she starts to enquire about his past, he worries about the long-held secret he'll have to reveal to her.
All Creatures Great and Small · 1978All Creatures Great and Small
★ 7.81978
SeriesComedyDrama
The trials and misadventures of the staff at a country veterinary office in Yorkshire. James Herriot, a young animal surgeon, moves to a small Yorkshire town to begin his first job.
Elizabeth R · 1971Elizabeth R
★ 7.51971
SeriesDrama
This historical mini-series documents the reign of Elizabeth I with each episode focusing on one dramatic period in the lengthy reign of the Virgin Queen, including her ascension to the throne, her various marital intrigues, her problems with her cousin Mary, Queen of Scots, and the threatened invasion of the Spanish Armada.
Z-Cars · 1962Z-Cars
★ 7.31962
SeriesDrama
Z-Cars or Z Cars is a British television drama series centred on the work of mobile uniformed police in the fictional town of Newtown, based on Kirkby, Merseyside. Produced by the BBC, it debuted in January 1962 and ran until September 1978.
Theatre 625 · 1964Theatre 625
★ 7.21964
SeriesDrama
Theatre 625 is a British television drama anthology series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC2 from 1964 to 1968. It was one of the first regular programmes in the line-up of the channel, and the title referred to its production and transmission being in the higher-definition 625-line format, which only BBC2 used at the time.
Play for Today · 1970Play for Today
★ 6.61970
SeriesDrama
Play for Today is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 from 1970 to 1984. During the run, more than three hundred programmes, featuring original television plays, and adaptations of stage plays and novels, were transmitted. The individual episodes were between fifty and a hundred minutes in duration.
Juliet Bravo · 1980Juliet Bravo
★ 6.51980
SeriesCrimeDrama
Juliet Bravo was a drama that focused on two female police inspectors, neither of whom were called Juliet Bravo! These two inspectors worked in the small fictional town of Hartley, Lancashire. Jean Darblay was on the scene first and had trouble with her sexist colleagues. However she soon managed to gain their trust and prove a woman could be a successful police officer and housewife. Jean's call sign was Juliet Bravo. When she was promoted and moved on she was replaced by Kate Longton who not only took over the patch but also the headaches that went with it.
Softly Softly: Task Force · 1969Softly Softly: Task Force
★ 6.01969
SeriesCrimeDrama
Softly, Softly: Task Force is a police based drama series which ran on BBC 1 from 1969 to 1976. It was a revamp of Softly, Softly, itself a spin-off from Z-Cars. The change was made partly to coincide with the coming of colour broadcasting to the BBC's main channel BBC1. The programme was due to be called simply Task Force, but reluctant to sacrifice a much-loved brand the BBC compromised this so it became Softly, Softly: Task Force.
The Wednesday Play · 1964The Wednesday Play
★ 5.21964
SeriesDrama
An anthology series of television plays which aired on BBC1 from October 1964 to May 1970. The plays were usually written for television, although adaptations from other sources also featured.
Thirty-Minute Theatre · 1965Thirty-Minute Theatre
★ 4.21965
SeriesDrama
An anthology of short plays shown on BBC Television between 1965 and 1973, used in part at least as a training ground for new writers, on account of its short length, and which therefore attracted many writers who later became well known.
The Brothers · 1972The Brothers
★ 4.01972
SeriesDrama
The Brothers is a British television series, produced and shown by the BBC between 1972 and 1976.
Follow the Yellow Brick Road · 1972Follow the Yellow Brick Road
1972
MovieDramaTV Movie
Jack Black is a disturbed commercial actor who believes himself to be trapped in a television play, followed around by an invisible camera.
Charades · 1977Charades
1977
MovieDramaTV Movie
An innocent game during an opulent weekend at a Scottish castle annoys the sinister housekeeper and causes several family skeletons to rattle in their cupboards.
The Walls of Jericho · 1981The Walls of Jericho
1981
SeriesDrama
A seven-part miniseries following Sophia Jex-Blake's experiences in Edinburgh's medical establishment.
The View from Daniel Pike · 1971The View from Daniel Pike
1971
SeriesCrimeDrama
The View from Daniel Pike is a 1971–73 Scottish TV drama series created and written by Edward Boyd, and starring Roddy McMillan as Daniel Pike, a hard-boiled private detective based in Glasgow. A few of the stories were later adapted into book form.
Cloud Howe · 1982Cloud Howe
1982
Series
Dramatisation of the second part of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's 'Scots Quair' trilogy, in which Chris is now married to the minister of a small industrial town.
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