Alan Plater

On their way to London for the Rugby League final, a group of northerners start telling each other stories, in the manner of Chaucer's pilgrims in "The Canterbury Tales".

Mini series about a Northumberland mining village - the daily lives of the inhabitants and the tragedies and disasters that befell them. It's a lovely story-line and very well portrayed in this series.

Bio-pic of two British stars of variety.

Stories of a local councillor and her various projects

Thie West Country police force solving local crime. its a spin-off from another BBC drama series, Z Cars (1962).

Eric, the owner of a night-club in Nottingham, is obsessed by the film Casablanca (1942) and dreams of being Rick Blaine.

BBC Sunday-Night Play is the anthology drama series which replaced Sunday Night Theatre in 1960.

Celebrated actor and actress Sir Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet) and Dame Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect) star in this movie by award-winning playwright Alan Plater about one of the great love affairs and greatest scandals of the twentieth century, D.H. Lawrence's passionate relationship with Frieda Weekley.

The struggles of white intellectuals and their black activist friends in the apartheid of South Africa during the 1950s.

Frank Stubbs (Timothy Spall) is a down-at-heel ticket tout with grand ideas. He has an ambition to become a 'high class' promoter of famous and talented performers. In reality, his ambitions tend to outstrip his capabilities.

The adventures of a Yorkshire vet and his colleague in their everyday life.

Selwyn Froggitt, a well read clumsy buffoon smashes his way through his sleepy Yorkshire village of Scarsdale.

Chronicles the pivotal moments in the lives of 9 influential figures during Britain's Edwardian era, including Rolls-Royce founders, authors and royalty's confidants, offering a glimpse into the era's cultural and political landscape.

Anthology series of dramatic works.

Middle-aged Jess Copplestone is left to look after the elderly relatives of her husband Jacob and to make a new life for herself, after he leaves her for a younger woman.

In the early 1900's in England, young Christina is orphaned and goes to live with her Uncle Russell, and two cousins. Christina finds herself struggling with classicism and during War must keep the Flambards afloat by herself.

"Shades of Darkness" was an anthology of short mysterious dramas, each with a supernatural twist.

A musical adaptation of J. B. Priestley's novel about a British concert party.

When a crusade against the Church of England's practice of self-enrichment misfires, scandal taints the cozy community of Barchester when their local church becomes the object of a scathing, investigative report.

This show was a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and from mid-1968 by Thames Television.

School teachers Judy Threadgold and Neville Keaton turn amateur detectives to find out how and why Judy's husband has disappeared.

The Victorian era cases of Detective Sergeant Cribb of Scotland Yard's newly formed Criminal Investigation Department.

Anthology of plays and novels adapted into feature length movies.

From Montmartre to the remote French countryside, Maigret encounters the dark side of the human psyche. Yet, he manages to maintain both compassion and a sense of humor as he explores the complex motives that lie behind every crime.