Double-dealing, assassination, bribery on a massive scale, incredibly high living, mistresses and illegitimate children. That is only to be expected of a successful politician in 15th century Italy...unless he is meant to be the Pope.
Two British TV writers - Sean and Beverly, played by Stephen Mangan and Tamsin Greig, move to Hollywood to remake their successful British sitcom. But when the network wants to change the format and cast Matt LeBlanc in the lead role, Beverly is less than impressed.
The first science fiction programme made by the BBC, R.U.R. prophetically imagined how technological progress would come to dominate the world and, in its extreme, how it would ultimately threaten humankind with extinction.
David Jason was among the many stars in the television realisation of Tom Sharpe's satirical and punchy novel which tells the story of Skullion, the Head Porter of Porterhouse, a fictional college of Cambridge University.
Leonard Rossiter starred as a hapless supermarket manager trying to control his hopeless staff. When the star passed away after just one series Bruce Forsyth took over the running of the store for his only sitcom role.
Dennis Potter's remarkably innovative series about a sheet music salesman whose imagination often bursts into full song, building musical numbers around the greatest frustrations in his life.
Either trying to book a holiday or a doctor appointment, life seems to hand Peter Barnes more than his fair share of frustration.
A masterpiece of craftsmanship and the product of immense comedic literacy, Miranda showed a genuine feminist sensibility without using the f-word, maintaining its quality over 20 episodes and never getting stale.
Mr Palfrey is a mild, middle-aged man—the epitome of a middle-ranking British Civil Servant. He works in the shadowy halls of Government. Mr Palfrey is a very dangerous man.
Louis XIV, King of France, decides to construct the greatest palace in the world - Versailles. However budget problems and political affairs become a hindrance to his plans.
Guests invited for the weekend by the irresponsible Bliss family find themselves involved in a series of embarrassing and comic situations in what has been described as Noël Coward’s best play.
Doctor Who meets Mr Benn? Jamie discovers a magic carpet which takes him back in time. But who is the mysterious Mr Zed and where does he come from?
What would happen if you could clone yourself? Two ordinary friends decide to try this with a new machine at work. Thinking this experiment has not worked the friends go home...
Sitcom in which Peggy Mount is the scourge of Paradise Lodge and Pat Coombs is her dim-witted sidekick, both resident in a home for retired gentle - and not so gentle-folk.
Henry Fonda starred - well occasionally, in this 1950s Western series that also gave a television debut to Robert Redford.
Diana and Tom are two cantankerous residents at a retirement home who keep the staff, especially slimy manager Harvey, very much on their toes.
George C. Scott starred in this gritty drama series about a social worker based round the slums of New York in the 1960s. It was a little too gritty for CBS president James Aubrey, "a champion of light, fluffy programmes."
Steve Bochco produced police drama that followed 'Hill Street Blues' and 'NYPD Blue.' With such a good pedigree it should have been another smash hit. But it wasn't.
Chris and Fliss are living on the bread-line. Aside from the dining room table, a council-owned deckchair represents their finest piece of living space furniture. The last thing they need is someone turning up on their doorstep needing somewhere to stay.
Television's first private eye was broadcast live from 1 September 1949 and was also heard on radio for several years.
Beginning in September 1950, The Colgate Comedy Hour gave a number of performers, destined to become famous, their first opportunity to appear before a large television audience.
The earliest complete surviving BBC television play of the 1950s.
Adapted from R.C. Sheriff's successful play, Journey's End is set against the background of life in the trenches during World War One and concentrates on a group of officers behind British lines at St. Quentin, France.
After broadcast in 1952 the BBC was bombarded with letters of enthusiastic appreciation and gratitude for this simple yet moving piece of drama...
The Troubled Air was Irwin Shaw's novel chronicling the rise of McCarthyism in the USA and in particular the anti-Communist witch-hunt among radio-programme workers.
Albert Stokes finds himself perpetually fighting the dominance of women, not least of all his possessive widowed mother.
It is 1915. Young Annie Hudd, in spite of her family's jeers, is determined to go to France to help the wounded soldiers. She is to suffer many setbacks before her ambition to become a nurse is realised.
Frederick James Parsons is fanatical, dedicated, sincere; with his willing but slow-witted accomplice, Harry Warblow, he has planned a crime so sensational that it will surely call world-wide attention to his aims.
Noel Coward's short story starring Lynn Redgrave as an ugly duckling who only later turns into a most possessing young swan.
The rich and attractive Lady Pruella writes to a marriage bureau for a husband and a most surprising candidate turns up...