Episode list

Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want the Duke, but finds that she likes the new messenger the Duke's sending. Then, of course, Viola's brother shows up, and merry hell breaks loose. Meanwhile, Olivia's uncle and his cohorts are trying to find some way to get back at Olivia's officious majordomo, Malvolio.

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

This quintessential Chekhov drama--his first success--is both comic and tragic. A group of friends and relations gather at a country estate to see the first performance of an experimental play written and staged by the young man of the house, Konstantin, an aspiring writer who dreams of bringing new forms to the theatre.

A war and world weary soldier tries to talk a witch-hunting cleric into hanging him; he is shaken from his quest for death when the beautiful Jennet is also committed for hanging as a witch.

Henry Hobson runs a successful boot-maker's shop in nineteenth-century Salford. A widower with a weakness for the pub opposite, he tries forcefully to run the lives of his three unruly daughters. When he decrees 'no marriages' to avoid the expensive matter of settlements, eldest daughter Maggie rebels and sets her sights on Will Mossop, Hobson's star boot-maker. Maggie and Will leave to start up in competition, and she then turns her mind to helping her sisters marry their chosen partners.

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.

A live studio performance of Mary Danvers Stocks' play "Hail Nero : A reinterpretation of history in three acts" - a comedy set in Ancient Rome.

A tramp falls asleep in the woods and dreams of observing a range of insects - each representing various human characteristics. Based on Karel and Josef Capek's satirical, allegorical play.

Gerald didn't mean to kill his wife - but he really shouldn't have tried a cover-up.

A group of people are shipwrecked when their yacht runs around on a South Pacific island. The usable hierarchy in a upper-class British family breaks down quickly when it becomes apparent that only the servant Crichton is capable of surviving on his own and he becomes the communities leader.

A clerk is jailed for forging a check to help a drunkard's wife.

The story of Alexander the Great, a compulsive conqueror.

Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia.

A pair of Millionaires argue the value of money, and make a wager. Give a homeless man an ultra rare $1,000,000 bill (pounds in Britain version). Tell him that if he spends it, it's his. But, if after 1month, he can return the Note intact, he gets $5 million (?). He tries to spend it. He tries to buy a suit, meals, rent a hotel room. Everyone assumes he is an eccentric millionaire, and refuses his money. Until the Note is misplaced (stolen?), then everyone insists on getting paid.

The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.

In rural 1840's Scotland, Gavin Dishart arrives to become the new "little minister" of Thrums's Auld Licht church. He meets a mysterious young gypsy girl in the dens and to his horror Babbie draws him into her escape from the soldiers after she incites a Luddite riot. But unknown to Gavin, Babbie is more than she seems. And they must overcome her secret, the villagers' fears of her, and worst of all, Gavin's devotion to his mother's sensibilities, before they can openly declare their love.

The story of Robert Louis Stevenson, who lived in the South Seas and was known locally as "Tusitala" - the teller of tales.

A ship's captain must conceal a stowaway from his crew.

A scientist stands against an entire town when he discovers their medicinal spa is polluted.